Tuesday Night Jam: The Algorithm, “Pointers”
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This wild instrumental track reminds me of experimental rock group Battles, mixing electronic elements with powerful drums and electric guitar.
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What’s with the new sound-on autoplay ad for some WB movie?
.@DavidGregory got thrown off of TV by NBC, fired like a dog! Now he is on @CNN being nasty to me. Not nice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 30, 2016
GOP’s leading candidate. Sensitive like a dog! Not sane!
This fucking guy.
A WINNING SLOGAN FOR BERNIE: “I may be stupid but at least I’m not an adopted member of the Corleone family” pic.twitter.com/GtC5u2qL1W
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) March 30, 2016
re: #4 jaunte
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GOP’s leading candidate. Sensitive like a dog! Not sane!
HE’S BEING NASTY TO ME!!
re: #5 teleskiguy
This fucking guy.
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@DineshDSouza Just because you’re a convicted felon doesn’t mean everyone else is evil.
— Lonnie Mask (@LonnieMask) March 30, 2016
GOP choice comes down to (1) a raging misogynist (2) a xenophobe & (3) a man who says women get their hair done on Saturdays. #GOPTownHall
— Mike Gibbs (@Mikeggibbs) March 30, 2016
I would have liked to have heard more guitar - he seems to have a pretty good touch.
Still. Pretty intense track. The Battles comparison is apt, although these guys are a bit more aggressive.
Actual exchange between a presidential frontrunner and a TV journalist tonight, per CNN’s own transcript. pic.twitter.com/KLTB5DMSjO
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 30, 2016
Oh yummy! Wait, I meant hundreds of thousands will die
ARBYS EXEC: So I hear u have a new sandwich idea?ADVERTISING GUY: Yes, it’s…*blanks on the word fish* It’s uhh… pic.twitter.com/unBMnhBg8K
— pat tobin (@tastefactory) March 28, 2016
re: #11 De Kolta Chair
Can you call it ocean meat when it’s really pond meat?
The heights of Conservative intellectualism are dwarfed by speed bumps https://t.co/1OQq7uOhmL
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 30, 2016
re: #7 Belafon
You hurt his feels!
@LonnieMask Not everyone—just the Obama-Clinton cartel
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) March 30, 2016
re: #5 teleskiguy
You’re a very weird guy @DineshDSouza
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) March 30, 2016
re: #8 Lidane
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GOP choice comes down to (1) a raging misogynist (2) a xenophobe & (3) a man who says women get their hair done on Saturdays.
Which one is which? (the descriptions kind of fit all of them)
All 3 GOP candidates backed away from their pledge to support GOP nominee in #GOPTownHall https://t.co/8lT7KkvB65 pic.twitter.com/dCt8ivwJOL
— CNN (@CNN) March 30, 2016
re: #15 teleskiguy
You hurt his feels!
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You’re talking about your delusion, not something in the real world. Help is a phone call away. @DineshDSouza @LonnieMask
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) March 30, 2016
re: #18 Lidane
They’re making the waters safe for Bernie.
re: #18 Lidane
Related:
I’m proBernie but would vote Hillary as I am a one issue voter and that issue is not opening the seventh seal and ushering in the apocalypse
— Ivan Hernandez (@ivan_hernandez) February 2, 2016
re: #21 jaunte
I’ve said I’m going to wait for about two weeks after Clinton wins, and then I’m going to start saying it’s time to make sure she wins. That tweet will probably figure into a lot of conversations.
If Sanders wins, then we’ll just have to make sure he wins.
re: #12 jaunte
Can you call it ocean meat when it’s really pond meat?
lol I’ve been a bit obsessed this week with the 1964 British horror flick The Earth Dies Screaming. But I guess if the world is going to end, we might as well go out on a small budget and in black and white. Maggie Thatcher would appreciate that.
re: #16 No Country For Old Haters
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I don’t think Hillary looks like Robert Duvall much Dinesh. Really it’s funny for you of all people to call someone a criminal.
re: #23 De Kolta Chair
I’ve been a bit obsessed this week with the 1964 British horror flick The Earth Dies Screaming. But I guess if the world is going to end, we might as well go out on a small budget and in black and white. Maggie Thatcher would appreciate that.
I just added a YouTube search extension to Chrome today, now whenever someone mentions an old movie that looks interesting, I hit that search, and it almost always finds multiple copies to watch for free. Bookmarked to watch tomorrow.
re: #26 teleskiguy
I’m seeing a piece of toast.
It’s been a crazy past couple days. I reconnected with an old friend that I haven’t spoken to in close to eleven years.
re: #30 HappyWarrior
It’s been a crazy past couple days. I reconnected with an old friend that I haven’t spoken to in close to eleven years.
Is she hot?
Only two days left to get your Hugo nominations in! Vote what you love, don’t worry about anything else.
— Catherynne Valente (@catvalente) March 29, 2016
re: #32 No Country For Old Haters
Is she hot?
Blush ha, she was a cute kid. Doesn’t have a current photo up yet though. It’s nice though because we had a lot in common both being on the spectrum.
re: #26 teleskiguy
I see a fountain.
re: #34 HappyWarrior
Blush ha, she was a cute kid. Doesn’t have a current photo up yet though. It’s nice though because we had a lot in common both being on the spectrum.
I was just guessing, and hoping for the best for you.
re: #40 No Country For Old Haters
I was just guessing, and hoping for the best for you.
It’s just nice to reconnect after all these years. To be honest, I was kind of an immature dick to her when we were in grade school but as we got older, I realized she was one of the best friends I had since we could talk to each other.
re: #42 HappyWarrior
It’s just nice to reconnect after all these years. To be honest, I was kind of an immature dick to her when we were in grade school but as we got older, I realized she was one of the best friends I had since we could talk to each other.
We make bad choices when we’re kids. Perspective changes a lot over the years, so there’s a lot of potential in reconnecting.
Past my bed time. Goodnight all…
Whoa nelly, Halle Berry’s very first tweet.
Hi everyone… pic.twitter.com/jufpp658E7
— Halle Berry (@halleberry) March 29, 2016
re: #26 teleskiguy
I made out with the pro-Nixon editor of my high school newspaper in this very spot back in ‘72. Politics aside, she was a very nice and sharp young lady, and a very good kisser. Four more years!
Just found this, entitled “ghost egg scared of its own tits” so I’m done with today pic.twitter.com/FLDeFb9q2F
— blursten (@emotionalpedant) March 28, 2016
re: #45 teleskiguy
Whoa nelly, Halle Berry’s very first tweet.
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Hi, Halle. You want to uh hang out?
re: #45 teleskiguy
My first tweet is so silly.
Just got a Twitter account. So far, I am following 0, have 0 followers, and 0 are listed. Isn’t that funny?
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) June 28, 2010
re: #51 HappyWarrior
MB doesn’t like the UN-brokered Unity Government trying to come in. They attempted to close the airspace earlier.
Will have to keep watching.
Calling John Kasich the moderate candidate in the GOP is like calling someone the most sober member of Guns N Roses. #GOPTownHall
— ¡Gabe! Ortíz (@TUSK81) March 30, 2016
re: #52 Ziggy_TARDIS
MB doesn’t like the UN-brokered Unity Government trying to come in. They attempted to close the airspace earlier.
Will have to keep watching.
Need to read more about the situation. Whole situation sounds awful. I feel for people caught in the middle of the gunfire and explosions.
re: #53 Jenner7
Friendly reminder that the GOP candidates don’t even want to vote for the GOP candidates.
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) March 30, 2016
re: #55 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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I enjoy his tweets. He seems to be enjoying his much earned retirement making fun of the GOP candidates.
re: #28 No Country For Old Haters
I just added a YouTube search extension to Chrome today, now whenever someone mentions an old movie that looks interesting, I hit that search, and it almost always finds multiple copies to watch for free. Bookmarked to watch tomorrow.
Good for you, and I’ll attempt to emulate you. In lieu of smoking cancer sticks — nary a one in two weeks, if I may brag — I’ve been trying to watch every low budget British 1950 and 60s sci-flick I can find. Granted they were all low budget, and nothing wrong with that. ;-)
re: #54 HappyWarrior
I can give a summary in the morning. I have been watching Libya since the 1st Civil War.
A summary is that this is the MBs fault.
re: #59 Ziggy_TARDIS
I can give a summary in the morning. I have been watching Libya since the 1st Civil War.
A summary is that this is the MBs fault.
Appreciate that. I may miss it though. Got a busy day tomorrow.
re: #60 HappyWarrior
Appreciate that. I may miss it though. Got a busy day tomorrow.
If he tosses an empty private tag addressed to you on the bottom of the summary, it’ll e-mail you a link to the comment.
re: #58 De Kolta Chair
Congrats on the quitting. My wife has been quitting a lot - she’s probably quit about four times in the last month or so.
re: #62 Jebediah, RBG
Congrats on the quitting. My wife has been quitting a lot - she’s probably quit about four times in the last month or so.
This is my second time quitting, but the first time I was serious. I’m hitting sixty in a few months and it’s no fun anymore.
I wish your mate all the best! It ain’t easy.
re: #58 De Kolta Chair
Good for you. In lieu of smoking cancer sticks — nary a one in two weeks, if I may brag — I’ve been trying to watch every low budget British 1950 and 60s sci-flick I can find. ;-)
What’s tragic is that there are only a few fragments of A for Andromeda extant.
(Yes, I know they made a new version a few years ago, but was it Julie Christie’s first part? I think not!)
re: #61 klys (maker of Silmarils)
If he tosses an empty private tag addressed to you on the bottom of the summary, it’ll e-mail you a link to the comment.
Yeah I did notice that when I got private tagged the other day. That’s a great addition.
re: #66 HappyWarrior
Yeah I did notice that when I got private tagged the other day. That’s a great addition.
It only works on a private tag specific to you (and maybe a few other people), but it’s a really nice way to draw someone’s attention to a post if you need to - and they check the e-mail address they used to register here. :)
re: #67 klys (maker of Silmarils)
It only works on a private tag specific to you (and maybe a few other people), but it’s a really nice way to draw someone’s attention to a post if you need to - and they check the e-mail address they used to register here. :)
I was really glad to see that because I had honestly forgotten what email address I used to register here. I thought it was my own school email address that I never use anymore but turns out it was one I still use.
re: #65 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
What’s tragic is that there are only a few fragments of A for Andromeda extant.
(Yes, I know they made a new version a few years ago, but was it Julie Christie’s first part? I think not!)
Kate Reid kicked arse in the original. Didn’t catch the tv version / didn’t see the point. I saw her in an off Broadway play years ago and she was spellbinding.
On second thought, everybody in Andromeda Strain kicked arse.
re: #71 HappyWarrior
And to think old Dinesh was once an university president.
It wasn’t a real university, so there’s that.
re: #71 HappyWarrior
And to think old Dinesh was once an university president.
The sheer inanity of Dinesh’s comment is only matched by its utter childishness.
Heh, Rachel Maddow calls CCJ the creepiest blogger on the internet.
Cartoon by David Sipress at the New Yorker. Night all.
The crowd goes crazy when I mention waterboarding. So what about the rack? The rack is terrific. Or that thing where they squeeze you into a tiny cage filled with spikes? That’s also terrific.”re: #75 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Heh, Rachel Maddow calls CCJ the creepiest blogger on the internet.
Does she mention him by name? I can’t watch it, because I don’t have an American cable sub.
re: #77 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Does she mention him by name? I can’t watch it, because I don’t have an American cable sub.
You know I didn’t catch it. I caught his photo out of the corner of my eye and walked up to the tv to hear her say that the Trump campaign was trying to rehabilitate the creepiest blooger on the internet… She also referred to him as the nursing home photo guy and had a display of various GoatNews stuff, so maybe she didn’t use his name.
She had an interesting segment at the beginning about the DC Madam lawyer petitioning to release data relevant to the Presidential campaign.
Tonight, for the first time, I gave money to a Kickstarter in hopes it gets fully funded.
I hope @alxwinter can do this! Take my $50, please! I just backed Who the F*@% is Frank Zappa? on @Kickstarter https://t.co/3fJdkm2uEj
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 30, 2016
re: #81 teleskiguy
Seems like a good day to remind you how Frank was once the voice of the Pope on Ren & Stimpy—https://t.co/ZRyz78MTFj pic.twitter.com/BuEVkkvAPx
— The Zappa Movie (@ZappaMovie) March 27, 2016
re: #69 De Kolta Chair
Kate Reid kicked arse in the original. Didn’t catch the tv version / didn’t see the point. I saw her in an off Broadway play years ago and she was spellbinding.
On second thought, everybody in Andromeda Strain kicked arse.
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Not Andromeda Strain. A for Andromeda was a BBC teleplay by Fred Hoyle and John Elliott from 1961. I only read Hoyle’s novel version when I was a kid—I don’t think I even knew its origin as a BBC production. Apparently they didn’t have video tape yet and threw most of the kinescopes away.
re: #79 klys (maker of Silmarils)
GDF talked about it here and here. No name used, apparently, but enough specifics to be clear.
Chuck’s blog has been very quiet. He has no love for Rachel Maddow, and her ripping into him on air while not mentioning his name is sure to prompt some venomous response. Eventually. For a “news” blog, its concept of timeliness is a bit off.
Worth a read. An Indonesian woman tells of her ordeal as a sex worker in NYC, after she was lured by human traffickers promising her a job with a Chicago hotel.
She had a college degree and her English was quite good, but she was still duped into falling for their lies. After she finally escaped from the brothel, she met a Navy sailor who contacted the NYPD and FBI, who shut down the brothel, arrested the traffickers and helped the women settle in the USA.
1. A heads-up to my followers: there’s a small group of obsessed right wing psychos who’ve been stalking me on Twitter for years.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2016
2. If any of these people tweet at you, they’re doing it to get at me - so please block and report them for targeted harassment.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2016
3. The current names used by these creeps:
Barbie_Sandwich
dolphin_catcher
Lucy_Dynamite— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2016
4. If you do report them I thank you very much. These freaks have been suspended multiple times but keep re-registering to continue stalking
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2016
And look who else has returned to Twitter: @kincannon_show
#NowPlaying Lake Trout > Not Them, You > Street Fighting Man https://t.co/43DFOWqHdH
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 30, 2016
@DineshDSouza Compared to you, Hillary is Mary Poppins!
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) March 30, 2016
re: #77 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Does she mention him by name? I can’t watch it, because I don’t have an American cable sub.
She never says his name, but there are images of articles about him with his name in them, and at one point she shows one of his Peter Duke portrait head shots.
@nochillposts @bignadz_ Holy Shit! Merv Griffin rose from the dead!
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) March 30, 2016
re: #88 Charles Johnson
And look who else has returned to Twitter: @kincannon_show
And as idiotic as he ever was:
I can’t say I’m surprised at this. Twitter is leftist, not liberal. Leftist = fascist. https://t.co/8bFgapj7Dt
— J. Todd Kincannon (@kincannon_show) March 30, 2016
Isn’t he supposed to be in jail or something? I’ll check with some local peeps…
re: #92 Charles Johnson
She never says his name, but there are images of articles about him with his name in them, and at one point she shows one of his Peter Duke portrait head shots.
Ah, then I expect Duke will fire off one of his boilerplate DMCA messages, complaining that the head shot was used without proper attribution or compensation.
Rage Furby will be positively volcanic at Maddow not uttering his name on air. LOL
I’ll have to wait till tomorrow to see the segment on the MSNBC YouTube channel, I reckon.
Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colorado.
One last snowflake before spring starts tomorrow. Climbed Crestone Needle today. Gorgeous. #14ers #optoutside pic.twitter.com/fIbo98zrPm
— Brad McQueen (@bradrmcqueen) March 20, 2016
just in time for a dead thread…
re: #85 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Worth a read. An Indonesian woman tells of her ordeal as a sex worker in NYC, after she was lured by human traffickers promising her a job with a Chicago hotel.
All of which is further argument that prostitution should be legalized, taxed, and run by the women who do the work…
re: #101 Ming5000
signs of life!
re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Wait. You are right. This thread is dead.
No it’s not, it feels HAPPY!!!
New information is starting to surface about the latest violent incident that occurred at the Donald Trump rally in Wisconsin today. First of all, the 15-year-old girl who was pepper-sprayed did lunge at someone who had groped her and possibly struck him. A second person who was not previously involved in the incident then sprayed her in the face and quickly left the area (story below has photos including one of the assailant, and one video angle of the incident).
Teen girl groped, pepper sprayed in face during protest outside Donald Trump event in Wisconsin
The teen victim — identified on social media as “Alex” — was waiting in line for the campaign event when a man touched her inappropriately, Janesville Police Chief David Moore told WKOK-TV.
“She reacted by pushing this male back and as she pushed the male back,” Moore explained. “Another person presented some pepper spray and sprayed her in the face.”
Multiple angles captured on cell phone video show the girl facing off with an older man with graying hair as the pepper spray-toting Trump supporter weaved through the crowd towards them.
There is a second video that has surfaced that has audio of the blatantly racist taunts that were directed toward her as she was escorted away from the area for treatment.
Relevant audio starts about 8 seconds into the video.
re: #105 Bill and Opus for 2016!
It has been clearly and incontrovertibly established that SHE STARTED IT!!!
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re: #105 Bill and Opus for 2016!
Somebody is going to get killed or hospitalized as the result of violence surrounding a Trump rally, and the only sure thing that we can say is that it will only enhance DT’s standing in the polls…
re: #10 jaunte
What I heard while reading that transcript.
A strange world when comedy sketches from forty years ago reflect today’s reality.
re: #108 Romantic Heretic
What I heard while reading that transcript.
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A strange world when comedy sketches from forty years ago reflect today’s reality.
Trump is freaking out because he is not used to anyone in the press having the nerve to call him out on his lies, contrivances and contradictions.
Finally got to see that Rachel Maddow report from last night.
BREAKING: Rachel Maddow calls Chuck Johnson ‘world’s creepiest blogger in exile’While never speaking his name out loud, Rachel Maddow devoted several minutes of her Tuesday night MSNBC program slamming Award Winning JournalistTM Chuck C. Johnson as “the world’s creepiest blogger in exile.”
Maddow was reporting on the arrest of Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, on charges of assaulting now-former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields at a campaign event. Lewandowski had earlier tried to discredit Fields, by tweeting links to Johnson’s articles characterizing her as a “serial liar,” an “attention seeker” and a fraud.
Johnson quickly responded by publishing no less than three articles at GotNewsDotCom (which is not us!) about the Fields incident and Maddow’s report, once again calling Fields a liar and saying Maddow “made up a bunch of stuff about yours truly.”
To provide some context to the Lewandowski-Johnson connection, Maddow led off with the May 2014 media scandal involving the late wife of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS). A man had been arrested trying to sneak into Rose Cochran’s nursing home in order to take photos of her dying in bed.
The man had been attempting to earn a bounty offered by “a fringey figure in the far right corner of the very far right media, a man who offered a thousand dollars for a photo of Cochran’s wife in the nursing home,” Maddow explained, while behind her flashed a photo of Chuck Johnson (see above).
More at GotNwes.com
Rage Furby, BTW, has indeed published three posts at his blog about Maddow’s report and Fields. He was burning the midnight oil, it seems.
re: #110 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
And shots of Everclear too, I expect.
re: #110 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
A man had been arrested trying to sneak into Rose Cochran’s nursing home in order to take photos of her dying in bed.
The man had been attempting to earn a bounty offered by “a fringey figure in the far right corner of the very far right media, a man who offered a thousand dollars for a photo of Cochran’s wife in the nursing home,” Maddow explained, while behind her flashed a photo of Chuck Johnson (see above).
Correction, Johnson offered the bounty for the pics after news got out that Clayton Thomas Kelly had been arrested for entering Rose Cochran’s nursing home and taking the photos. Since the photos predated the bounty the bounty was never the motive for taking them, and I’m fairly sure Maddow never said otherwise.
re: #112 goddamnedfrank
Correction, Johnson offered the bounty for the pics after news got out that Clayton Thomas Kelly had been arrested for entering Rose Cochran’s nursing home and taking the photos. Since the photos predated the bounty the bounty was never the motive for taking them, and I’m fairly sure Maddow never said otherwise.
Ah, thanks for catching that.
Look what I found in my timeline this morning! Somebody tryna “GOPsplain” MLK
@viciousbabushka Funny that you use the hashtag “uniteblue” when MLK was a registered Republican.
— Olio Studios (@myolio) March 30, 2016
So I sent him this==>
MLK was NOT a Republican @myolio #tcot #UniteBlue https://t.co/QzAsH0po09 pic.twitter.com/s0nFlROtN7
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 30, 2016
Anderson Cooper to Donald Trump: ‘That’s the argument of a 5-year-old’
https://t.co/LZ8UC7jJU6 #p2 #tcot pic.twitter.com/zm3rfCCcWh— R.Saddler (@Politics_PR) March 30, 2016
She seems nice…
The tiara-obsessed art curator charged with biting a woman on a trans-Atlantic flight is appalled that her case is not getting the royal treatment by the US attorney — who is allowing a law student to prosecute.
“It’s like I’m a student science experiment or something,” whined gallery maven Stacy Engman, as she stood outside Brooklyn court in a fairy skirt and a top on Tuesday.
The new norm, the negative interest rate.
Negative yields mean that if an investor places a deposit with a bank, at maturity the investor receives an amount less than the original investment. In effect, the depositor pays to place money with the bank. In the case of bonds, negative yields mean that investors accept an economic loss, as the price paid by the investor is greater than the present value of the interest payments and principal repayment for a security.
The lack of impact on the real economy reflects the failure of these policies to materially increase consumption and investment. Heavily indebted or increasingly cautious households are reluctant to borrow to fund spending. Low business investment reflects lack of demand, over-capacity, and a reluctance to increase debt in a potentially deflationary environment.
Negative rates also may create deflationary pressures. Artificial reduction in the cost of capital may encourage investment in excess capacity, which in turn drives down prices for goods and services. Lower cost of capital may encourage substitution of labor with capital goods, which curtails both hiring and demand, which in turn adversely affects growth and inflation.
Somebody put a lot of work into answering a question no one cares about:
Why you’re not looking at Europe when you stare out from an Atlantic beach https://t.co/piSMY7a0YF
— Vox (@voxdotcom) March 30, 2016
re: #120 Kent Dorfman
The new norm, the negative interest rate.
Negative yields mean that if an investor places a deposit with a bank, at maturity the investor receives an amount less than the original investment.
I have heard in Europe that this is leading a lot of companies to simply keep their money stashed in cash in a safe rather than lose part of it by depositing it. This, in turn, could lead to a shortage of cash for every day transactions.
Hello.
I know this is a fresco, but it’s so fourth-wall aware.
Jesus:”table for 26 please”
Waiter: “but there are 13 of you”
J: “yes but we’re all going to sit on the same side” pic.twitter.com/ZkFYY7wSSJ— Medieval Reactions (@MedievalReacts) March 30, 2016
Goodnight.
Isn’t technology great. Last night my 8yo and 5yo watched an @Deray live periscope of a Meet and Greet in Baltimore (Federal Hill). We aren’t even in the same state (let alone city) but they were enthralled.
Freudien Slip?
Marco Rubio misspelled United States in his letter. pic.twitter.com/PooTeoilw1
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 30, 2016
re: #31 Not a Sparkly Vampire
I see a Jedi.
I see Darth Vader. In the shadow. Or is it the toast.
BTW, I’ve been to Fountain Hills. The fountain really is a cool sight to see. One of the world’s largest when they get it cranking.
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I have heard in Europe that this is leading a lot of companies to simply keep their money stashed in cash in a safe rather than lose part of it by depositing it. This, in turn, could lead to a shortage of cash for every day transactions.
My American bank is offering 1% interest on a term deposit. I’m old enough to remember when banks offered 5.75% interest on a regular passbook account, and up to 7% on term deposits.
Also, they didn’t close your account without warning if it lay dormant for a long time. The money was, like, yours forever.
SMH
This series of tweets is just utterly unhinged… pic.twitter.com/j4yJFsa5QY
— Jeff Mayers (@TimeLordJeff) March 30, 2016
re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
An Untied intern.
That’s Rubio’s problem right there. He was running to be president of the Untied States. /
The “medical expert” Chuck is quoting in his blog was sticking needles in arms back in the 1990s. Then he went into sales, and now he’s some kind of consultant. Chuckie had the audacity to link to the guy’s LinkedIn page, which somewhat undermines his qualifications as a “medical expert”
BREAKING: Medical expert??, latest video, our imagination proves Michelle Fields faked bruises??
GotNwes has incontrovertible proofs that this whole Michelle Fields assault case is all a fake.
* An expert in the field of veins and biology and stuff and newly released video footage contradicts Michelle Fields’s early claims of assault by Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
* An analysisis of the video proves that Fields was assaulted on her upper arm, not the bruised lower arm she shared photos of (see above).
* Her eyewitness is a long-time friend of her and her boyfriend, and not of us, so obviously he’s biased, and we’re not.We reached out to a medical expert, who has a lot of letters after his name, so you know he’s an expert in something. And this is what he said:
“I was inserting IV lines in arms way back in the ’90s and I can tell you this is not her arm,” writes Matu Biles CNMA MBA IRT BMT. “It look like an arm some medical student took from the morgue, from some obese, dead female. No veins. Active people have them popping out everywhere. Just look at these weightlifting magazines I have here.”
More at GotNwes.com
re: #132 lawhawk
An Untied intern.
That’s Rubio’s problem right there. He was running to be president of the Untied States. /
Even multi-million-dollar corporations use unpaid interns. It is a universal problem.
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re: #132 lawhawk
An Untied intern.
That’s Rubio’s problem right there. He was running to be president of the Untied States. /
The Untied Sattes of Amercia
re: #135 lawhawk
Musical break:
Genesis’ Watcher of the Skies:
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Loved Genesis with Peter Gabriel, gave up on them them shortly after he left.
Really wish they would get back together some day…
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Got Nwes
Parody site
I’m parodying a parody of a new site. It’s so meta!
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
There was a Showtime Special on the band - Sum of the Parts, and I think it touched on possibility of reunion, but think that Collins’ health wont let that happen. There’s also a question of what/how much material would be involved in any kind of reunion show.
I’d pay good money to see it happen. Two of my favorite acts of all time.
re: #131 Dr. Matt
You asked:
Check his timeline. Is he a right-winger trying to be an agitator?
I recall from past things that guy has posted that he is unlikely to be much left of Pinochet. But, I could be misrecalling.
re: #142 lawhawk
There was a Showtime Special on the band - Sum of the Parts, and I think it touched on possibility of reunion, but think that Collins’ health wont let that happen. There’s also a question of what/how much material would be involved in any kind of reunion show.
I’d pay good money to see it happen. Two of my favorite acts of all time.
I heard that it was Peter Gabriel who nixed any thought of a reunion during their last tour.
This was the same girl that was pepper sprayed by a Trump Nazi.
Underage Girl Reportedly Sexually Groped At Trump Rally (VIDEO) https://t.co/8gBkHqahUh
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 30, 2016
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I heard that it was Peter Gabriel who nixed any thought of a reunion during their last tour.
I think I read in Rolling Stones a couple months ago that Phil was saying he was going to start doing some new things soon also.
re: #145 Dr. Matt
This was the same girl that was pepper sprayed by a Trump Nazi.
Underage Girl Reportedly Sexually Groped At Trump Rally
Obviously asking for it, just look at how she was dressed!!!
Glenn Beck’s lie could blow up Ted Cruz: https://t.co/ux2QSK2C0y pic.twitter.com/HPeq5n9x6V
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 30, 2016
re: #141 Dr. Matt
Wow. Rage Furby found a new low to sink to. How utterly embarrassing. BTW, the mole is clearly seen on Michelle:
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He’s also devoted another post to a lengthy screed, claiming Fields is a liar. He’s mentioned the same incident about her LinkedIn account at least twice already, and this latest one is really over the top. I’m not touching it.
re: #146 Eventual Carrion
I think I read in Rolling Stones a couple months ago that Phil was saying he was going to start doing some new things soon also.
musically or with a new mistress?
(just being snarky, really never liked PC solo stuff at all)
Chucky got mentions on Rachel last nite.
Linkage…
on.msnbc.com
re: #148 lawhawk
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Heh, reminds me, need to set up my DVR to catch the season premiere tomorrow night.
re: #151 Dave In Austin
Chucky got mentions on Rachel last nite.
Linkage…
on.msnbc.com
Oh yeah. We noticed.
re: #135 lawhawk
Musical break:
Genesis’ Watcher of the Skies:
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That opening keyboard, the Mellotron. An interesting keyboard, which actually used lengths of recording tape with individual notes of real instruments to produce its sound. A weird melding of electronics and mechanics, they were notoriously cranky instruments and did not travel well. You can actually hear it go out of tune on the final chord.
The Beatles, King Crimson and Yes also all used them quite a bit.
An electronics company is now making a pedal for guitar that emulates the Mellotron and does a pretty good job of it. I’m currently trying to deal out a couple of pieces of gear in order to get one.
That’s today’s episode of Basically Useless Musical Instrument Information. Back to your regularly scheduled content.
Also, Good Morning!
What drugs was Donald Trump on last night?
re: #155 The Vicious Babushka
What drugs was Donald Trump on last night?
I missed last night’s debate. Just how bad of a shitstorm was it this time?
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
#Benghazi #13Hours #USMC #tcot #ccot #wakeupamerica #foxnews #cnn #veterans pic.twitter.com/MxOuMK05kc
— Thetacitvoice (@TheTacitVoice) March 30, 2016
re: #155 The Vicious Babushka
Since, no watchy or listeny, how was it worse than usual, of just different cra-cra?
re: #156 Targetpractice
I missed last night’s debate. Just how bad of a shitstorm was it this time?
Like this, only continent-wide==>
This is the #GOPTownHall right now #tcot #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/scDQ4GTBp8
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 30, 2016
If you haven’t read Stonekettle’s most recent essay, you should. He starts with the responses to this tweet:
and goes on to dissect glibertarian maroons. Excellent as usual
re: #160 Le Lapin Tueur
If you haven’t read Stonekettle’s most recent essay, you should. He starts with the responses to this tweet:
and goes on to dissect glibertarian maroons. Excellent as usual
Stonekettle is firewalled here :(
Has there been some font changey going on since last night?
re: #157 The Vicious Babushka
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
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In today’s America, we don’t spend every day obsessing over tragedies that happened 4 years ago. Oh wait, I forgot, we’re talking wingnuts who still fetishize the presidency of a man who left office over 30 years ago and has been dead for 12 years.
re: #154 makeitstop
That opening keyboard, the Mellotron. An interesting keyboard, which actually used lengths of recording tape with individual notes of real instruments to produce its sound. A weird melding of electronics and mechanics, they were notoriously cranky instruments and did not travel well. You can actually hear it go out of tune on the final chord.
I heard that some bands got in trouble for using the Mellotron on stage, as it comprised using playback music rather than live (back at a time when such details mattered).
re: #160 Le Lapin Tueur
If you haven’t read Stonekettle’s most recent essay, you should. He starts with the responses to this tweet:
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and goes on to dissect glibertarian maroons. Excellent as usual
I’m only just a little bit in, but:
Those numbers do not include the interactions where people clipped my words and attributed them to Bernie Sanders - Dread Cthulhu only knows what the stats are on that
I’ve often wondered who could be the person who decides this is a good idea.
re: #164 Targetpractice
In today’s America, we don’t spend every day obsessing over tragedies that happened 4 years ago. Oh wait, I forgot, we’re talking wingnuts who still fetishize the idealized and selective memories of a presidency of a man who left office over 30 years ago and has been dead for 12 years.
re: #164 Targetpractice
In today’s America, we don’t spend every day obsessing over tragedies that happened 4 years ago. Oh wait, I forgot, we’re talking wingnuts who still fetishize the presidency of a man who left office over 30 years ago and has been dead for 12 years.
Last night while Trump was accusing Michelle Fields of everything from assassinating JFK to sinking the Titanic he was also all like
WHY ARE WE MAKING SUCH A BIG DEAL OUT THIS SILLY TOUCHING WHEN THEY ARE DROWNING PEOPLE IN BIG CAGES!!!!1!!!!
re: #127 lawhawk
I see Darth Vader. In the shadow. Or is it the toast.
BTW, I’ve been to Fountain Hills. The fountain really is a cool sight to see. One of the world’s largest when they get it cranking.
And surrounded by a very nice disc golf course!
Trump also played the THEIR DROWNING PEOPLE IN BIG CAGES, OK!!! THEY DROWNED THEM IN A CAGE!!!!! when Anderson Cooper told him to stop acting like a 5-year-old.
re: #168 The Vicious Babushka
Last night while Trump was accusing Michelle Fields of everything from assassinating JFK to sinking the Titanic he was also all like
WHY ARE WE MAKING SUCH A BIG DEAL OUT THIS SILLY TOUCHING WHEN THEY ARE DROWNING PEOPLE IN BIG CAGES!!!!1!!!!
Fallacies of relative privation (“not as bad as”) are always popular amongst wingnuts. No matter how bad something they do or approve of is, there’s always some group somewhere who is doing something “worse” and thus we should focus on that and not on them.
What in the utter fuck
BREAKING>>> MORE LIES=> @MichelleFields Said @CLewandowski_ Used “TEETH” and “FIST” in Police Report https://t.co/emA8fVIJos @gatewaypundit
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) March 30, 2016
re: #160 Le Lapin Tueur
If you haven’t read Stonekettle’s most recent essay, you should. He starts with the responses to this tweet:
and goes on to dissect glibertarian maroons. Excellent as usual
Thanks for postng this, great read.
Love this part:
Noted writer and futurist Karl Schroeder responded that while universal healthcare and education are certainly not free, ultimately such programs cost far less than the cost of not having them.
This is true.
Provably so. As many times as you’d care to run the experiment.
Gotta love this.
Scottish rabbi hawks ‘kosher’ tartan celebrating Scottish, Jewish heritage https://t.co/ooqUMHoRse pic.twitter.com/TBFfIwmqNi
— JTA | Jewish news (@JTAnews) March 29, 2016
re: #172 The Vicious Babushka
Every word he utters is a lie or smear. SMOTI isn’t stupid. He’s maliciously lying.
Because the video shows Corey didn’t brush up against her (or vice versa). Corey grabbed her - nearly yanking her down according to contemporaneous reporting at the time of the incident. No word was said about how she touched Trump (or whether she was warned by USSS detail).
re: #175 Great White Snark
Gotta love this.
Scottish rabbi hawks ‘kosher’ tartan celebrating Scottish, Jewish heritage
Is there kosher haggis?
Herr Trump should have been reminded that one of the popular lines of attack of Hillary, in fact the one he is likely to use again and again after the conventions, is about her emails. Yet not only did her immediate predecessors (Powell and Rice) use public servers to send work emails and then delete such after leaving office, but the Bush admin was using private GOP servers to handle emails in direct contravention of federal law and then “lost” 20 million emails just in time for Congress to seek them in connection to an official investigation. So what she did was wrong, but what the GOP did was far worse.
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It’s essentially kishke. /
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I heard that some bands got in trouble for using the Mellotron on stage, as it comprised using playback music rather than live (back at a time when such details mattered).
Yes, musician’s union locals at the time were upset that it replaced breathing musicians with bits of tape. That’s a fight that’s been going on ever since, as electronics get better.
A friend of mine had one, and it could be a nightmare. There were literal ‘racks’ of tape inside, each holding tapes for three instruments - the most popular set was Strings, Flutes, and Choir (you could get custom sets made - a lot of people don’t know it, but that bit of flamenco guitar at the top of The Beatles’ ‘Bungalow Bill’ is actually a Mellotron!), and you’d switch between instruments with a mechanical switch that actually moved the tape rack from one set of tapes to another. Often, the switch failed. Or it would get hung up and you’d get weak signals of two instruments at once. Some Mellotron hot shots would intentionally do this to expand the sonic palette.
Oh, and each note was on a strip of tape rather than a loop - which meant you could only hold a note for 8 seconds before the tape ran out, or else the note would just stop or in the worst case, the tape for a given note would snap.
But when they worked, they sounded glorious.
Rightwing Loons Dana Loesch And Jim Hoft All Out Of Love After Lewandowski Arrest https://t.co/FwSYqM2B5M pic.twitter.com/a96p6BVvzH
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) March 30, 2016
re: #178 Targetpractice
So what she did was wrong, but what the GOP did was far worse.
It was not wrong at the time she did it. There were no laws broken except for her being Hillary Clinton.
re: #160 Le Lapin Tueur
If you haven’t read Stonekettle’s most recent essay, you should. He starts with the responses to this tweet:
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and goes on to dissect glibertarian maroons. Excellent as usual
One of the things that drives me nuts is the idea that “I” don’t benefit from “your” education. If my car is broke down, having educated mechanics means that my car will get fixed, and having lots of educated mechanics means the price will be cheaper than if there was just one. If I’m having a heart attack, educated paramedics and doctors may just save my life. An aircraft carrier - or the military as a whole - does not work by itself. It takes knowledge to run it, some of which you have to have before you join the military.
re: #182 Belafon
It was not wrong at the time she did it. There were no laws broken except for her being Hillary Clinton.
True, but it was wrong if only because she should have known such a set-up would be an issue if she ever chose to run for higher office after her stint as SecState. And I’ll go ahead and concede that they would have attacked her regardless, and totally understand what I believe to be her reasons for using a private server, but sometimes it’s better not to make your enemy’s job easier.
The pivot from NO ONE TOUCHED MICHELLE FIELDS, SHE’S DELUSIONAL to MAYBE SHE WAS A HIGHLY TRAINED ASSASSIN happened pretty fast yesterday.
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) March 30, 2016
re: #184 lawhawk
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If he were trailing in the polls, I’d consider this a sign of total desperation. But he’s leading the pack, so it just seems like utter lunacy that only fuels the perception that he’s a man out to sabotage his own campaign. I rather think he’s found himself in the same position Ted Cruz did after 2010: He never expected to lead, let alone win, but instead just wanted the publicity and something he could use to buff up his resume. Now that he’s found himself winning, he just doesn’t know how to handle it.
re: #181 The Vicious Babushka
Loesch and fellow rightwing numpty Katie Pavlich
Another Wonkette jewel
re: #186 Targetpractice
True, but it was wrong if only because she should have known such a set-up would be an issue if she ever chose to run for higher office after her stint as SecState. And I’ll go ahead and concede that they would have attacked her regardless, and totally understand what I believe to be her reasons for using a private server, but sometimes it’s better not to make your enemy’s job easier.
That sort of strikes me as being equivalent to being called stupid for walking out of your house to go to work and getting killed by an airplane panel.
re: #181 The Vicious Babushka
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There really are few things in life as glorious to watch as the blood feud between Trump supporters and Cruz supporters. I again reiterate that if Bill Clinton did in fact put Trump up to running this year, then the man deserves a spot on Mt. Rushmore.
re: #189 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Another Wonkette jewel
From Urban Dictionary:
A player who couldn’t hit a cow’s arse with a shovel would be a f***ing numpty.
Heh.
re: #191 Targetpractice
There really are few things in life as glorious to watch as the blood feud between Trump supporters and Cruz supporters. I again reiterate that if Bill Clinton did in fact put Trump up to running this year, then the man deserves a spot on Mt. Rushmore.
The funniest thing has been seeing Cruz and Trump turn on each other.
re: #188 Targetpractice
Is anyone wondering if @realDonaldTrump will announce his campaign was one yuge April fool’s joke? Don’t hold breath. But ~he~ is a joke.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 30, 2016
re: #190 Belafon
That sort of strikes me as being equivalent to being called stupid for walking out of your house to go to work and getting killed by an airplane panel.
There are some things you have no control over and there are some that you do. Being attacked by wingnuts for simply existing is something that Hillary has no control over. Being attacked for whatever the contents of her emails were was also something that would have been unavoidable. Putting those emails on a private server in the hopes of either controlling the release of those emails or hiding questionable ones was something within her power and a gamble that she has lost in a big way.
re: #193 HappyWarrior
The funniest thing has been seeing Cruz and Trump turn on each other.
It was only a matter of time. The modern GOP is not about accommodating and compromising, even with people who are supposed to be on the same side: it is about damning and condemning everyone who does not live up to your standards of ideological purity.
re: #94 BeachDem
@kincannon_show Even if that were true, it would still be a better outcome for the GOP than if Trump had been nominated! #NeverTrump
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) March 30, 2016
Reince must be curled up in hiding somewhat. There is no rah rah GOP tweet about how great his candidates were last night.
No tweets for two days, as a matter of fact.
re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It was only a matter of time. The modern GOP is not about accommodating and compromising, even with people who are supposed to be on the same side: it is about damning and condemning everyone who does not live up to your standards of ideological purity.
Oh I agree it was inevitable. It’s just so funny ot watch Cruz who stood silent when Trump mocked McCain’s POW experience and called Mexican-Americans rapists suddenly take outrage.
re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It was only a matter of time. The modern GOP is not about accommodating and compromising, even with people who are supposed to be on the same side: it is about damning and condemning everyone who does not live up to your standards of ideological purity.
Right, they were always fated to turn their knives on each other the moment one or the other became the front runner. Havana Ted buttered up Trump out of the assumption that when The Donald bombed in the primaries, he could be seen as “the next best thing” and reap the benefits.
re: #186 Targetpractice
True, but it was wrong if only because she should have known such a set-up would be an issue if she ever chose to run for higher office after her stint as SecState. And I’ll go ahead and concede that they would have attacked her regardless, and totally understand what I believe to be her reasons for using a private server, but sometimes it’s better not to make your enemy’s job easier.
Why should she have known? As has been established ad nauseam, it was a pretty common practice, as well as being entirely legal.
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
Reince must be curled up in hiding somewhat. There is no rah rah GOP tweet about how great his candidates were last night.
No tweets for two days, as a matter of fact.
We have video footage of Rinsed during the debate:
re: #202 Targetpractice
That was favorite movie growing up.
re: #201 Snarknado!
Why should she have known? As has been established ad nauseam, it was a pretty common practice, as well as being entirely legal.
My understanding is that it was a common practice to use a non-government email account, not that it was a common practice to build your own private email server.
re: #187 lawhawk
The pivot from NO ONE TOUCHED MICHELLE FIELDS, SHE’S DELUSIONAL to MAYBE SHE WAS A HIGHLY TRAINED ASSASSIN to TRUMP IS THE REAL VICTIM BECAUSE HE WAS NEARLY KILLED happened pretty fast yesterday.
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) March 30, 2016
Tweaked it a bit.
I did a new rendition of CCJ’s mug on MSNBC. Feel free to share it.
He who must not be namedre: #205 Dr. Matt
The concealed pen is mightier than the brandished sword?
re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
The concealed pen is mightier than the brandished sword?
It is if this man hands you the pen:
re: #205 Dr. Matt
Tweaked it a bit.
Fields is actually a member of the Hand. Trump should be worried, very worried.
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re: #204 Targetpractice
My understanding is that it was a common practice to use a non-government email account, not that it was a common practice to build your own private email server.
From a “security” standpoint, there is no difference between the two. But I believe both Powell and Rice had their own servers.
re: #210 Belafon
From a “security” standpoint, there is no difference between the two. But I believe both Powell and Rice had their own servers.
But they weren’t BENGHAZI!!!
I also kind of laugh at the idea that having a government email address suddenly makes you “secure.” The only way to send a secure email is to be hard wired into a system that is not connected to the internet. There are so many points of failure on a system going through the internet, from the keyboard and screen on your computer down, that no sensitive communications could ever be done on that route.
re: #210 Belafon
From a “security” standpoint, there is no difference between the two. But I believe both Powell and Rice had their own servers.
The thing is that if you own your own server, you should encrypt it and Hillary didn’t. Her main priority was not actual security, nor convenience, it was preventing FOIA disclosures that would otherwise be fodder for Republican attacks. That may have been legal, but there’s no way it looks good.
re: #213 Dark_Falcon
The thing is that if you own your own server, you should encrypt it and Hillary didn’t. Her main priority was not actual security, nor convenience, it was preventing FOIA disclosures that would otherwise be fodder for Republican attacks. That may have been legal, but there’s no way it looks good.
I love it when you put ideas in people’s heads.
re: #208 Dr. Matt
It is if this man hands you the pen:
There’s a scene in Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief where his teacher, played by Pierce Brosnan, hands him a pen. He tells Percy it is a powerful weapon, and must only be used in the most extreme situations.
I’d like to think Brosnan had fun with that scene, if only for the pen connection.
re: #213 Dark_Falcon
The thing is that if you own your own server, you should encrypt it and Hillary didn’t. Her main priority was not actual security, nor convenience, it was preventing FOIA disclosures that would otherwise be fodder for Republican attacks. That may have been legal, but there’s no way it looks good.
You’re a telepath now? Good, now you know what I think of this rather stupid post.
re: #210 Belafon
From a “security” standpoint, there is no difference between the two. But I believe both Powell and Rice had their own servers.
IIRC, Powell used a public email service (want to say Hotmail, but probably wrong) to conduct official business, then deleted the emails and closed the account once he left office.
re: #214 Belafon
I love it when you put ideas in people’s heads.
I hear the indictment is being handed down any minute now.
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I really only brought up the whole email business as an example of how much of a hypocritical dickbag Trump (and by extension all wingnuts) is for wanting to change the subject to something “worse” when called on their own shit. Trump and the GOP are going to harp endlessly on about “Emailgate,” but they set the tone for this shit by destroying millions of emails that could have proven vital evidence to any number of questionable/illegal actions by the Bush admin.
“I think she would have pressed charges anyway because I think she likes it,” Trump says on NBC if Lewandowski had initially apologized.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 30, 2016
re: #217 Targetpractice
IIRC, Powell used a public email service (want to say Hotmail, but probably wrong) to conduct official business, then deleted the emails and closed the account once he left office.
I shudder. But hindsight is 20-20, whether you’re using a public service or a private server — and both of those practices were legal, and as far as I recall, not even questioned, at the time.
re: #215 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
For one of my middle son’s classes, he had to list a significant event for every year of his life. for his 10th year, we listed Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief, and declared it to be the most significant event since he was born.
I make my kids read, but I like to find something they they’ll enjoy because I think it will eventually open them up to other stuff. It took us a while with him, but once he read the first of that series, he really hasn’t stopped reading. He also basically became a mythology expert. He’s absorbed books on lots of different religions and mythologies around the world. Every so often, someone at school will challenge my son, and my son’s friends just laugh at the person.
re: #217 Targetpractice
It was AOL for Powell.
To give an idea of how insecure these communications could be, Powell’s personal email is an AOL account, and he used it on a laptop when he communicated with foreign officials and ambassadors, unless the information qualified for a SCIF. (Clinton sent only one email to a foreign dignitary through her personal account, and her communications with ambassadors were, for the most part, by phone.)So did Powell and the aides to Rice violate rules governing classified information, since the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) staff has recently determined that some of their years-old personal emails contain top-secret material? No. The rules regarding the handling of classified information apply to communications designated as secret at that time . If documents that aren’t deemed classified, and aren’t handled through a SCIF when they are created or initially transmitted, are later, in retrospect, deemed secret, the classification is new—and however the record was handled in the past is irrelevant.
The worst thing I remember hearing was about Palin’s email having an absurdly simplistic password that allowed someone to hack into her email.
re: #225 HappyWarrior
The worst thing I remember hearing was about Palin’s email having an absurdly simplistic password that allowed someone to hack into her email.
Too bad they didn’t have the CBS (?) check-your-password-online tweet when she set it up.
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re: #224 lawhawk
It was AOL for Powell.
Yeah, I wanted to say AOL, but the geek in me said “Who the hell still uses AOL?”
re: #222 Belafon
For one of my middle son’s classes, he had to list a significant event for every year of his life. for his 10th year, we listed Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief, and declared it to be the most significant event since he was born.
I make my kids read, but I like to find something they they’ll enjoy because I think it will eventually open them up to other stuff. It took us a while with him, but once he read the first of that series, he really hasn’t stopped reading. He also basically became a mythology expert. He’s absorbed books on lots of different religions and mythologies around the world. Every so often, someone at school will challenge my son, and my son’s friends just laugh at the person.
I think my brother read some of those books. I need to read more mythology. We had a story lats night in creative writing class very loosely based off of the myth of Cassandra. It was pretty interesting.
re: #225 HappyWarrior
The worst thing I remember hearing was about Palin’s email having an absurdly simplistic password that allowed someone to hack into her email.
Was it “Guest”?
re: #219 Targetpractice
Understood. I just wanted to get rid of the idea that it was somehow illegal, especially from our side. It wasn’t. Everything else in your statement I completely agree with. And while I also agree that you should try to watch what you do if you want to run for president, there’s only so far that you can go because, as you said, Republicans will go after you anyway. At some point, they’ll probably get onto Hillary for not using whole grain spaghetti when Bill was younger to help with his cholesterol.
re: #228 Targetpractice
Yeah, I wanted to say AOL, but the geek in me said “Who the hell still uses AOL?”
My aunt heh and I still have my hotmail account that I created for my first ever email address when I was 14 years old or so.
re: #225 HappyWarrior
The worst thing I remember hearing was about Palin’s email having an absurdly simplistic password that allowed someone to hack into her email.
I think it was a hacked yahoo account which at one time allowed people to access their accounts using prompts, e.g., what elementary school did you attend? Where was your mother born? etc., etc.,
re: #225 HappyWarrior
The worst thing I remember hearing was about Palin’s email having an absurdly simplistic password that allowed someone to hack into her email.
Actually, it was the guy correctly guessing the answer to her email account’s security question (where she met her spouse). That gave him access to change the password and enter her Yahoo account.
re: #230 Targetpractice
Was it “Guest”?
I’m not sure but it may have in fact been password. In any case, it was really easy to breach.
re: #222 Belafon
For one of my middle son’s classes, he had to list a significant event for every year of his life. for his 10th year, we listed Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief, and declared it to be the most significant event since he was born.
I make my kids read, but I like to find something they they’ll enjoy because I think it will eventually open them up to other stuff. It took us a while with him, but once he read the first of that series, he really hasn’t stopped reading. He also basically became a mythology expert. He’s absorbed books on lots of different religions and mythologies around the world. Every so often, someone at school will challenge my son, and my son’s friends just laugh at the person.
That’s a cool story. I haven’t read all the Percy books myself, and only half of the first one, but they’re well done and really open Greek myth up for young readers. I’ve even encouraged my Chinese students to read them, because their knowledge of Western mythology is very limited. To fully understand literature and many idioms and metaphors, you need a good grasp of Greek and Roman mythology, and also the Bible.
re: #222 Belafon
For one of my middle son’s classes, he had to list a significant event for every year of his life. for his 10th year, we listed Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief, and declared it to be the most significant event since he was born.
I make my kids read, but I like to find something they they’ll enjoy because I think it will eventually open them up to other stuff. It took us a while with him, but once he read the first of that series, he really hasn’t stopped reading. He also basically became a mythology expert. He’s absorbed books on lots of different religions and mythologies around the world. Every so often, someone at school will challenge my son, and my son’s friends just laugh at the person.
A friend of mine who was teaching middle school at the time the Harry Potter books came out said the same thing about them (I was mentioning that I never understood why they were so celebrated, since there’s so much good fantasy around.)
re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth
Actually, it was the guy correctly guessing the answer to her email account’s security question (where she met her spouse). That gave him access to change the password and enter her Yahoo account.
Ah okay. Faulty memory. That’s not so bad.
re: #235 HappyWarrior
I’m not sure but it may have in fact been password. In any case, it was really easy to breach.
Heh, I can see you’re not an Archer fan.
re: #237 Snarknado!
A friend of mine who was teaching middle school at the time the Harry Potter books came out said the same thing about them (I was mentioning that I never understood why they were so celebrated, since there’s so much good fantasy around.)
I remember the Harry Porter phenomenon quite well actually. TP probably remembers this as a fellow student of Virginia’s public schools but every summer before school started, we had to read a book and I just remeber seventh grade a bunch of kids had chosen this new book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. I never read any of the books honestly. Fantasy as a genre just isn’t for me. I ended up being one of the few if any kids to do a book report on All Quiet on the Western Front.
re: #239 Targetpractice
Heh, I can see you’re not an Archer fan.
Need to start watching. More of an It’s Always Sunny fan.
re: #241 HappyWarrior
I remember the Harry Porter phenomenon quite well actually. TP probably remembers this as a fellow student of Virginia’s public schools but every summer before school started, we had to read a book and I just remeber seventh grade a bunch of kids had chosen this new book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. I never read any of the books honestly. Fantasy as a genre just isn’t for me. I ended up being one of the few if any kids to do a book report on All Quiet on the Western Front.
I do remember that well, but I more remember the Harry Potter series because my sister was a major fan when the books were being published. Though not to the point that she’s one of those “ZOMG, it’s ruined!” when the final book came out.
Moral high ground?
Love how the #Cruzers defend stealing delegates - More evidence they’ve lost all moral high ground in 2016 #GetMeOffThisTrain
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) March 30, 2016
The GOP has been gutter diving for the better part of the past decade (I’ll limit to that for brevity sake). Moral high ground? Seriously Jim? Give it up. Your fanboy delusions about Trump are hard to swallow even for your fellow right wingers, and there are no candidates at the national level who can take the moral high ground - not when they’re constantly attacking each other, women, minorities, the safety net, and health care.
Trump, however, is a special case since he’s never had the moral high ground since entering. Everything he’s done is from the sewer, and his fans love him for it.
re: #213 Dark_Falcon
The thing is that if you own your own server, you should encrypt it and Hillary didn’t. Her main priority was not actual security, nor convenience, it was preventing FOIA disclosures that would otherwise be fodder for Republican attacks. That may have been legal, but there’s no way it looks good.
Well, Hillary could have put the server inside Paul Ryan’s head, with full access only to the Republican Caucus, and the Republicans would still find something to bitch about.
Besides, Lawhawk points this:
re: #224 lawhawk
It was AOL for Powell.
[snip] So did Powell and the aides to Rice violate rules governing classified information, since the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) staff has recently determined that some of their years-old personal emails contain top-secret material? No. The rules regarding the handling of classified information apply to communications designated as secret at that time . If documents that aren’t deemed classified, and aren’t handled through a SCIF when they are created or initially transmitted, are later, in retrospect, deemed secret, the classification is new—and however the record was handled in the past is irrelevant.
re: #242 HappyWarrior
Need to start watching. More of an It’s Always Sunny fan.
I ended up bing-watching the entire season the other day for two reasons: A) I wanted to finally get all the memes and B) I was bored out of my skull at work because we’re still closed due to renovations.
re: #243 Targetpractice
I do remember that well, but I more remember the Harry Potter series because my sister was a major fan when the books were being published. Though not to the point that she’s one of those “ZOMG, it’s ruined!” when the final book came out.
It’s crazy to remember fads in their genesis like that. I’ve never read the books but I do appreciate that they got a lot of kids into reading that otherwise weren’t into reading. I just personally prefer realism in my reading. I know, I’m boring.
re: #213 Dark_Falcon
Her main priority was not actual security, nor convenience, it was preventing FOIA disclosures that would otherwise be fodder for Republican attacks. That may have been legal, but there’s no way it looks good.
I beg to differ. I am guessing that your knowledge of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a tad, uh, informal. The law does not differentiate any documents storage mechanism. If you have generated a document under any mode, it is FOIAable. Failure to disclose that document is a violation of the law. All the records kept on her server that were generated by her as SoS are FOIAable, whether or not those documents would be released, or redacted and released, or refused to be released are dictated by the law, not the mechanism of storage. Her freakin’ meeting notes are FOIAable and also subject to release under congressional order. So, no, it was not to avoid the FOIA.
re: #237 Snarknado!
A friend of mine who was teaching middle school at the time the Harry Potter books came out said the same thing about them (I was mentioning that I never understood why they were so celebrated, since there’s so much good fantasy around.)
My oldest son got hooked because of the Harry Potter books. I think they’re well written. The central character has a history that both he and you have to figure out. I love how developed the world is. Almost everyone has a story. There are very few characters that you couldn’t write a book or two about just them. Plus, she’s very good at Checkov’s gun (I know some think she goes too far, but they are books for kids): A name shows up in the first few pages of book one that doesn’t return until the third, for instance. And as Harry has gotten older, the world has gotten more complex.
I’m still working on my youngest.
re: #244 lawhawk
Moral high ground?
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The GOP has been gutter diving for the better part of the past decade (I’ll limit to that for brevity sake). Moral high ground? Seriously Jim? Give it up. Your fanboy delusions about Trump are hard to swallow even for your fellow right wingers, and there are no candidates at the national level who can take the moral high ground - not when they’re constantly attacking each other, women, minorities, the safety net, and health care.
Trump, however, is a special case since he’s never had the moral high ground since entering. Everything he’s done is from the sewer, and his fans love him for it.
Don’t you just hate it when Mommy and Daddy Wingnut fight? //
re: #245 The Engineer Lobuno
The rules regarding the handling of classified information apply to communications designated as secret at that time . If documents that aren’t deemed classified, and aren’t handled through a SCIF when they are created or initially transmitted, are later, in retrospect, deemed secret, the classification is new—and however the record was handled in the past is irrelevant.
It is all about making it sound like H did something illegal and/or is hiding something.
Remember, the impeachment proceedings will commence the moment she is nominated.
re: #248 Le Lapin Tueur
I beg to differ. I am guessing that your knowledge of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a tad, uh, informal. The law does not differentiate any documents storage mechanism. If you have generated a document under any mode, it is FOIAable. Failure to disclose that document is a violation of the law. All the records kept on her server that were generated by her as SoS are FOIAable, whether or not those documents would be released, or redacted and released, or refused to be released are dictated by the law, not the mechanism of storage. Her freakin’ meeting notes are FOIAable and also subject to release under congressional order. So, no, it was not to avoid the FOIA.
Well, that’s arguable on the grounds that in order to file an FOIA request, you first have to know or strongly suspect that the information being sought actually exists. If nobody knew about the server, then it’s unlikely they would have filed FOIA requests for the contents of it.
re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It is all about making it sound like H did something illegal and/or is hiding something.
Remember, the impeachment proceedings will commence the moment she is nominated.
Unless Trump’s candidacy results in GOP voters staying home and the Dems take back the house and senate.
re: #237 Snarknado!
A friend of mine who was teaching middle school at the time the Harry Potter books came out said the same thing about them (I was mentioning that I never understood why they were so celebrated, since there’s so much good fantasy around.)
The Potter books brings fantasy down to a more accessible level for a wider readership. That was the brilliance of the series, because every British kid can identify with learning at a boarding school, even if he or she has never attended one. Rowling combined a very mundane setting — entering form 1 at boarding school — with a well thought out landscape of magic and myth. In a similar fashion, Riordan’s Percy is a troubled high school student, who thinks he’s dyslexic — actually he sees Greek letters just fine — and a missing father, who happens to be Poseidon.
There’s great fantasy, for sure, but some kids (and adults) have trouble relating to the quasi-medieval settings of a lot of fantasy novels.
re: #249 Belafon
My oldest son got hooked because of the Harry Potter books. I think they’re well written. The central character has a history that both he and you have to figure out. I love how developed the world is.
Two oldest daughters (17 and 13) have already read their weight in books several times over. Younger daughter and son (12 and 9) have yet to show any great interest in reading.
I was also impressed by young German schoolkids who did not want to wait for the official Harry Potter translations to come out and produced their own German versions.
re: #247 HappyWarrior
It’s crazy to remember fads in their genesis like that. I’ve never read the books but I do appreciate that they got a lot of kids into reading that otherwise weren’t into reading. I just personally prefer realism in my reading. I know, I’m boring.
I think part of growing old is watching all the stuff from when you were a kid become “new” again.
Fun on twitter this am
Now we know why Corey & Trump were freaked out over the pen. This is Michelle Fields pen supplier pic.twitter.com/9KbJ3SgzJm
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 30, 2016
Jane Blond, intrepid reporter. Mini series elevator pitch. Faster than a tweet, leaps tall egos. https://t.co/KI6YcuXIB4
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) March 30, 2016
re: #256 Targetpractice
I’m waiting for the inevitable Tom Swift movies.
re: #254 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
The Potter books brings fantasy down to a more accessible level for a wider readership. That was the brilliance of the series, because every British kid can identify with learning at a boarding school, even if he or she has never attended one. Rowling combined a very mundane setting — entering form 1 at boarding school — with a well thought out landscape of magic and myth. In a similar fashion, Riordan’s Percy is a troubled high school student, who thinks he’s dyslexic — actually he sees Greek letters just fine — and a missing father, who happens to be Poseidon.
There’s great fantasy, for sure, but some kids (and adults) have trouble relating to the quasi-medieval settings of a lot of fantasy novels.
You describe my experience with that genre perfectly there. The short stories I remember reading in school that i really enjoyed were realistic ones like Liam O’Flaherty’s The Sniper. Not that I can relate to an IRA Sniper in 1920’s Dublin but the setting felt more real to me. I just never have gotten into scii-fi or fantasy because the settings are yes difficult to relate to.
re: #256 Targetpractice
I think part of growing old is watching all the stuff from when you were a kid become “new” again.
Yep.
re: #258 lawhawk
I’m waiting for the inevitable Tom Swift movies.
Oh god, the list of franchises that I heard at one time would get a live-action film is probably longer than War & Peace. I remember when Peter Jackson was at one time teased as working on a film adaptation of the Halo series.
re: #252 Targetpractice
Well, that’s arguable on the grounds that in order to file an FOIA request, you first have to know or strongly suspect that the information being sought actually exists. If nobody knew about the server, then it’s unlikely they would have filed FOIA requests for the contents of it.
Hah. And, I am not laughing at you. Have you ever actually seen incoming FOI requests? Again, the mechanism of storage is irrelevant. If an FOI request came through her office, the knowledge of the existence of the server is irrelevant. If the data exists, it MUST be acknowledged.
re: #262 Le Lapin Tueur
Hah. And, I am not laughing at you. Have you ever actually seen incoming FOI requests? Again, the mechanism of storage is irrelevant. If an FOI request came through her office, the knowledge of the existence of the server is irrelevant. If the data exists, it MUST be acknowledged.
Fair enough, I admit I’m only arguing from a layman’s perspective.
re: #105 Bill and Opus for 2016!
New information is starting to surface about the latest violent incident that occurred at the Donald Trump rally in Wisconsin today. First of all, the 15-year-old girl who was pepper-sprayed did lunge at someone who had groped her and possibly struck him. A second person who was not previously involved in the incident then sprayed her in the face and quickly left the area (story below has photos including one of the assailant, and one video angle of the incident).
Teen girl groped, pepper sprayed in face during protest outside Donald Trump event in Wisconsin
There is a second video that has surfaced that has audio of the blatantly racist taunts that were directed toward her as she was escorted away from the area for treatment.
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Disgusting Wisconsin White folk being assholes…go figure they are Trump supporters. And of course one fat bubba has to yell “bitch” and “N**** Lover” at her and the others. Yeah race problems are over in America.
I guess this is Trump making America Great.
This is why all the BS about GOP against Trump wont matter come November. They will fall in line to try and prevent Hillary from being President:
I m not in the Republican Party, although I will vote republican vs Hillary. U can have your party tonight!! Cheers! https://t.co/B8ydL57ig1
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 30, 2016
re: #259 HappyWarrior
You describe my experience with that genre perfectly there. The short stories I remember reading in school that i really enjoyed were realistic ones like Liam O’Flaherty’s The Sniper. Not that I can relate to an IRA Sniper in 1920’s Dublin but the setting felt more real to me. I just never have gotten into scii-fi or fantasy because the settings are yes difficult to relate to.
I’m not much into fantasy, but SF I’ll read until the cows come home. I read Tolkien and loved it, but the fantasy epics written since the 1970s just do not hold my attention past the first or second installment. The main problem, I suspect, is that authors and publishers expect a fanbase that wants a looonnnng story spanning many volumes, and the pacing of the novel suffers. Game of Thrones is a prime example. On one hand, I can appreciate the efforts Martin makes in constructing his Westeros universe so vividly. On the other hand, I find the detailed descriptions of food, clothing, heraldry, relationships, etc., mind numbingly dull. I gave up reading the books, but I like the TV series.
re: #265 lawhawk
This is why all the BS about GOP against Trump wont matter come November. They will fall in line to try and prevent Hillary from being President:
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Right, it’s all just talk for now. They hate Clinton and the Democrats much more than they do Trump. Some won’t be happy with him as the nominee but they’ll back him.
I refuse to take part in the circular firing squad that is forming. I will support the winner of the primary. https://t.co/iYUDAErw98
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 30, 2016
Too Latere: #265 lawhawk
This is why all the BS about GOP against Trump wont matter come November. They will fall in line to try and prevent Hillary from being President:
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Ayep, the #NeverTrump BS is not in the least bit believable. Between now and November, the pressure to fall in line and vote against Hillary is going to break down all those insisting that they’d never vote for Trump.
re: #252 Targetpractice
Well, that’s arguable on the grounds that in order to file an FOIA request, you first have to know or strongly suspect that the information being sought actually exists. If nobody knew about the server, then it’s unlikely they would have filed FOIA requests for the contents of it.
Thank you. Sorry I stepped back but I’m out the door in ten minutes and did not want to get into an argument only to have to post ‘BBL’ as I have sometimes done.
re: #266 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I’m not much into fantasy, but SF I’ll read until the cows come home. I read Tolkien and loved it, but the fantasy epics written since the 1970s just do not hold my attention past the first or second installment. The main problem, I suspect, is that authors and publishers expect a fanbase that wants a looonnnng story spanning many volumes, and the pacing of the novel suffers. Game of Thrones is a prime example. On one hand, I can appreciate the efforts Martin makes in constructing his Westeros universe so vividly. On the other hand, I find the detailed descriptions of food, clothing, heraldry, relationships, etc., mind numbingly dull. I gave up reading the books, but I like the TV series.
I haven’t read any of the GOT books. I do like th show though. I think a story like that probably comes out better on screen than on pages. Honestly, what I like outside of realistic fiction is folklore and legend. I came very close to taking a folklore class for my final English credits. Ended up doing post WWII American lit instead but folklore interests me. I love ghost stories, urban legends, and stories passed down through the generations.
re: #265 lawhawk
This is why all the BS about GOP against Trump wont matter come November. They will fall in line to try and prevent Hillary from being President:
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Your post reminds me - we went out for Easter dinner with my wife’s family on Sunday, to some chi-chi Italian joint on the North Shore. As we were being walked to our table, I looked ahead to some guy who was blocking the aisle, having words with a waiter about something, and he seemed to be making an emphatic point.
It was Sean Hannity. I always seem to run into those Fox News mooks while out to dinner in Nassau County.
(BTW, his hair is a lot grayer than they make it look on TV.)
re: #135 lawhawk
Musical break:
Genesis’ Watcher of the Skies:
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Hey…thanks for that lawhawk. I saw that very show on that tour when it started out in America here in Columbus at the great ol’ Agora Theater (Now the Newport).
re: #195 Targetpractice
There are some things you have no control over and there are some that you do. Being attacked by wingnuts for simply existing is something that Hillary has no control over. Being attacked for whatever the contents of her emails were was also something that would have been unavoidable. Putting those emails on a private server in the hopes of either controlling the release of those emails or hiding questionable ones was something within her power and a gamble that she has lost in a big way.
You are making quite an assumption here.
BREAKING: President Obama is commuting the prison sentences of 61 people serving time for drug-related offenses: https://t.co/AWOooi8HFX
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 30, 2016
This is a good step by the President, and follows his statement the other about drug offenses being a public health issue, not merely a criminal justice one.
re: #266 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I’m not much into fantasy, but SF I’ll read until the cows come home. I read Tolkien and loved it, but the fantasy epics written since the 1970s just do not hold my attention past the first or second installment. The main problem, I suspect, is that authors and publishers expect a fanbase that wants a looonnnng story spanning many volumes, and the pacing of the novel suffers. Game of Thrones is a prime example. On one hand, I can appreciate the efforts Martin makes in constructing his Westeros universe so vividly. On the other hand, I find the detailed descriptions of food, clothing, heraldry, relationships, etc., mind numbingly dull. I gave up reading the books, but I like the TV series.
That is indeed part of my problem with fantasy series, so much of the first book being used to build up the universe in anticipation of a long series of books. But that might be partially because I’ve just never been a big fan of swords and sorcery, even though I do like items like TLOR films. SF generally tends to hold my attention because it is dealing with the real world or something similar enough that you can get a grip on it.
re: #268 lawhawk
Sean Hannity:
I refuse to take part in the circular firing squad that is forming. I will support the winner of the primary.
He forgets that the motto of his party’s candidates is “If you are not with me unreservedly, you are scum of the Earth and deserve to be annihilated!”
@TheTacitVoice He should have rushed back to D.C. and insulted Cruz’s wife and accused Ted of sleeping around like a real American
— gocart mozart (@gocartmozart1) March 30, 2016
re: #274 EmmaAnne
You are making quite an assumption here.
It is one largely based upon observation of past trends. Not hers, but rather that of her enemies. If she had used a government server for all emails, official as well as private, then the latter category no doubt would have ended up in the public domain as part of the data-mining process by the GOP in anticipation of her presidential campaign. Consider such an assumption in the context of the officials emails that have entered the public domain, with all the obsession over inanities like the number of emails sent to her for security requests. Not the contents of said emails, but just the number sent.
re: #266 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Game of Thrones is a prime example. On one hand, I can appreciate the efforts Martin makes in constructing his Westeros universe so vividly. On the other hand, I find the detailed descriptions of food, clothing, heraldry, relationships, etc., mind numbingly dull. I gave up reading the books, but I like the TV series.
Martin lost track of end point and didn’t properly map out what was going on. I had read the first five novel before the show ever came out and had given up hope by the end of the third. I swear he had to make some of the plot machinations (that are really bad) because he had killed off too many of the main characters. The Daenerys plot line became completely interminably dull. You end up hating everyone except Tyrion and Brand, and the Brand plot line just become interminable, too. He’s pulling a Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time) with his written series, all he needs to do is die now before he finishes.
re: #271 HappyWarrior
I haven’t read any of the GOT books. I do like th show though. I think a story like that probably comes out better on screen than on pages. Honestly, what I like outside of realistic fiction is folklore and legend. I came very close to taking a folklore class for my final English credits. Ended up doing post WWII American lit instead but folklore interests me. I love ghost stories, urban legends, and stories passed down through the generations.
I like “Alternative Future” fiction like Dune, Phillip K Dick or Heinlein, but am not big into the SF genre.
I like Tolkien for but the problem I have with his fantasy world is that his people got no religion. Not that I am upset that Hobbits don’t worship a three-foot-five-inch Jesus, but every single (human) culture bases its rituals, calendar and most of its laws on some sort of religious or supernatural beliefs and mythology.
re: #271 HappyWarrior
I haven’t read any of the GOT books. I do like th show though. I think a story like that probably comes out better on screen than on pages. Honestly, what I like outside of realistic fiction is folklore and legend. I came very close to taking a folklore class for my final English credits. Ended up doing post WWII American lit instead but folklore interests me. I love ghost stories, urban legends, and stories passed down through the generations.
Who did you read for the post WWII Am lit class?
re: #268 lawhawk
‘I don’t wanna be Mr Pink’
re: #154 makeitstop
That opening keyboard, the Mellotron. An interesting keyboard, which actually used lengths of recording tape with individual notes of real instruments to produce its sound. A weird melding of electronics and mechanics, they were notoriously cranky instruments and did not travel well. You can actually hear it go out of tune on the final chord.
The Beatles, King Crimson and Yes also all used them quite a bit.
An electronics company is now making a pedal for guitar that emulates the Mellotron and does a pretty good job of it. I’m currently trying to deal out a couple of pieces of gear in order to get one.
That’s today’s episode of Basically Useless Musical Instrument Information. Back to your regularly scheduled content.
Also, Good Morning!
Ooooo! What is the name of the pedal and the company making it?
I got to mess with a couple Mellotrons at a music store in Cleveland back in the day. Damn spooky sounding, especially the choir voices model.
I still hope my buddy buys that Electro-Harmonix B9 Organ Machine Guitar Effects Pedal.
re: #264 ObserverArt
Disgusting Wisconsin White folk being assholes…go figure they are Trump supporters. And of course one fat bubba has to yell “bitch” and “N**** Lover” at her and the others. Yeah race problems are over in America.
I guess this is Trump making America Great.
Cliched as it is the truth is he makes America hate again. More than anything else about him, that thing is why what political time and effort I have is pretty much summed up in two words.
Not him.
re: #280 Le Lapin Tueur
He’s pulling a Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time) with his written series, all he needs to do is die now before he finishes.
Well if that’s the case at least A) we’ll get a finish to the series and B) the remaining books will be better than the preceding books. :)
re: #283 SoundGuy 2016
‘I don’t wanna be Mr Pink’
Mr. Purple is on another job. You’re Mr. Pink.
I want to be Mr. Pink (he’s the only one who appears to have survived the events of that day and got the diamonds they were after).
re: #280 Le Lapin Tueur
Martin lost track of end point and didn’t properly map out what was going on. I had read the first five novel before the show ever came out and had given up hope by the end of the third. I swear he had to make some of the plot machinations (that are really bad) because he had killed off too many of the main characters. The Daenerys plot line became complete interminably dull. You end up hating everyone except Tyrion and Brand, and the Brand plot line just become interminable, too. He’s pulling a Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time) with his written series, all he needs to do is die now before he finishes.
Martin has fallen victim to the Chris Carter effect: He probably had a set ending at one point in the process, but then the series became wildly popular and he realized that not only was it his only meal ticket, but if he ceased writing the books then the publisher would just get somebody else to write books under his name.
Time for a late breakfast. :)
re: #266 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I’m not much into fantasy, but SF I’ll read until the cows come home. I read Tolkien and loved it, but the fantasy epics written since the 1970s just do not hold my attention past the first or second installment. The main problem, I suspect, is that authors and publishers expect a fanbase that wants a looonnnng story spanning many volumes, and the pacing of the novel suffers. Game of Thrones is a prime example. On one hand, I can appreciate the efforts Martin makes in constructing his Westeros universe so vividly. On the other hand, I find the detailed descriptions of food, clothing, heraldry, relationships, etc., mind numbingly dull. I gave up reading the books, but I like the TV series.
Like you, I loved Tolkien, but lost interest in fantasy as more and more of these series came out. Maybe it’s the length, but no book is too long if you like it. I think it’s just that with a world of mythologies to choose from, all the Celtic crapola gets really tiresome. Nobody seems to have emulated (the late) Barry Hughart in seeking other sources, but I loved his novels.
re: #178 Targetpractice
Herr Trump should have been reminded that one of the popular lines of attack of Hillary, in fact the one he is likely to use again and again after the conventions, is about her emails. Yet not only did her immediate predecessors (Powell and Rice) use public servers to send work emails and then delete such after leaving office, but the Bush admin was using private GOP servers to handle emails in direct contravention of federal law and then “lost” 20 million emails just in time for Congress to seek them in connection to an official investigation. So what she did was wrong, but what the GOP did was far worse.
Yahbutt…this is Hillary and that was Bush. All the differences in RWNJ world. Just because.
re: #287 rhuarc
Well if that’s the case at least A) we’ll get a finish to the series and B) the remaining books will be better than the preceding books. :)
Jordan’s first six (?, definitely five) books were awesome. By Eight is had plumbed the depths of all description, no plot, no action, snooze fest.
re: #284 ObserverArt
Ooooo! What is the name of the pedal and the company making it?
Electro Harmonix, of course! It sounds amazing. Demo below - they even play the intro to ‘Watcher’ in the demo.
I still hope my buddy buys that Electro-Harmonix B9 Organ Machine Guitar Effects Pedal.
I’ve got the B9. When I got it, I thought ‘If they ever make one of these that does a Mellotron, I’m so in.’ Welp…here it is.
re: #280 Le Lapin Tueur
Martin lost track of end point and didn’t properly map out what was going on. I had read the first five novel before the show ever came out and had given up hope by the end of the third. I swear he had to make some of the plot machinations (that are really bad) because he had killed off too many of the main characters. The Daenerys plot line became complete interminably dull. You end up hating everyone except Tyrion and Brand, and the Brand plot line just become interminable, too. He’s pulling a Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time) with his written series, all he needs to do is die now before he finishes.
Total agreement here. I find the Daenerys subplot one of the more interesting ones — she’s got those dragons after all — but Martin has stranded her in one godforsaken place after another, with no clear path to reclaim the throne of Westeros. In the TV series, she even penned the critters up in the dungeon. Not sure about the books, ‘cause I never got that far.
Bernie Bros are all up in Nate’s face like - Challenge Accepted!
Does this look feasible to you? Then you can say with a straight face Sanders has a chance. https://t.co/XNxWHQrEML pic.twitter.com/xfyJ0it3Fr
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 30, 2016
Reality is that it’s impossible for Bernie to get to 2,383. He can’t do it. No way or how. Hillary’s coming NY blowout will expose Bernie for what he was - a worthy challenger, but one who simply didn’t have the support of the party, or the voters.
re: #282 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Who did you read for the post WWII Am lit class?
John Cheever, John Updike, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Anne Tyler, Don DeLillo, Ralph Ellison, Ann Beatie. Trying to think if there were others. My favorite story that we had to read in that class was The Swimmer.
Donald Trump is the man Rush Limbaugh always wanted to be https://t.co/WdfXPUyxsJ pic.twitter.com/l3DwTFj8uK
re: #296 lawhawk
Bernie Bros are all up in Nate’s face like - Challenge Accepted!
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Reality is that it’s impossible for Bernie to get to 2,383. He can’t do it. No way or how. Hillary’s coming NY blowout will expose Bernie for what he was - a worthy challenger, but one who simply didn’t have the support of the party, or the voters.
I think it’s impossible by this point that he can reach 2,383. I think by this point his mission has become like that of Cruz and Kasich: Win enough delegates to keep Hillary from reaching 2,383, then campaign for the superdelegates on his “I’ve got the indie vote!” argument.
re: #296 lawhawk
Bernie Bros are all up in Nate’s face like - Challenge Accepted!
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Reality is that it’s impossible for Bernie to get to 2,383. He can’t do it. No way or how. Hillary’s coming NY blowout will expose Bernie for what he was - a worthy challenger, but one who simply didn’t have the support of the party, or the voters.
Yeah it’s not happening.
re: #295 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I like the Arya plotline, though, in the series. She’s at least got some pluckiness, unlike her insipid older sister. Martin could have done a book series just with Arya’s story.
re: #301 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
My bad. Arya is the bestest. And, my favorite character of all. But, Martin left her out of the books for sooooo long. She has the best overall potential.
re: #297 HappyWarrior
John Cheever, John Updike, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Anne Tyler, Don DeLillo, Ralph Ellison, Ann Beatie. Trying to think if there were others. My favorite story that we had to read in that class was The Swimmer.
My course was the “20th century American Novel,” so we read Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Bellow, Updike, Barth — it’s been too long to remember all of them. IIRC, we did not read any AA novelists, though I read Ellison in high school, nor any female writers, though the prof was a woman. I wish I still had the reading list handy, so I could re-read the books I’ve forgotten about.
re: #302 Le Lapin Tueur
My bad. Arya is the bestest. And, my favorite character of all. But, Martin left her out of the books for sooooo long. She has the best overall potential.
She may even survive to the end of the series, unlike most of her family.
re: #213 Dark_Falcon
The thing is that if you own your own server, you should encrypt it and Hillary didn’t. Her main priority was not actual security, nor convenience, it was preventing FOIA disclosures that would otherwise be fodder for Republican attacks. That may have been legal, but there’s no way it looks good.
You know this for sure…about the encryption. I thought the encryption was only done in transit over the net not actually on the server.
I still would love a real knowledgeable IT guy discuss if her using a private server was safer than being on a big government server. There would be less entry points into a private server than a huge server with all kinds of files and directory structures. IF a private server is properly firewalled and monitored it should be safe…especially if no one knows the actual addressing. A good hacker may find ways into a Government server through other emails and find the addressing to the server.
I’m not sure, but it would be interesting to get to the truth instead of RWNJ speculation by a bunch of people (not you Dark)that are lucky to login to their own home computer.
I ran three ecommerce stores and was the first guy that understood the company I worked for need to do professional scans for credit card processing security. No one had bothered to check the rules. The first scan we did showed so many ways into our server it was embarrassing. I learned a good deal about entry points. So many entry points that make backdoors, etc.
WaPo 3/27: 147 FBI agents are investigating Clinton’s email use
Correx on 3/29: Actually, total # is less than 50 https://t.co/QGAaiXL96G— Allegra Kirkland (@allegrakirkland) March 30, 2016
re: #303 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
My course was the “20th century American Novel,” so we read Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Bellow, Updike, Barth — it’s been too long to remember all of them. IIRC, we did not read any AA novelists, though I read Ellison in high school, nor any female writers, though the prof was a woman. I wish I still had the reading list handy, so I could re-read the books I’ve forgotten about.
I remember starting “Lonesome Dove” when it first came out and not being interested in it at all. Then I revisited it, over 25 years later, and was totally enthralled by the theme of the two old geezers who had remained best friends for life…
Oh, well, I have morning classes, so it’s time to hang it up for the night here. See you all later.
re: #304 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
She may even survive to the end of the series, unlike most of her family.
I started reading the books, and then quit after he was busy killing character after character. One per chapter.
re: #303 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
My course was the “20th century American Novel,” so we read Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Bellow, Updike, Barth — it’s been too long to remember all of them. IIRC, we did not read any AA novelists, though I read Ellison in high school, nor any female writers, though the prof was a woman. I wish I still had the reading list handy, so I could re-read the books I’ve forgotten about.
I had to read Sula by Toni Morrison in my college English class in 2004 (my second attempt at college). I read it twice, and I’m making my kids read it.
Trump vows to appoint Supreme Court justices who will investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails
And this is Susan Sarandon’s second favorite candidate.
re: #307 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I remember starting “Lonesome Dove” when it first came out and not being interested in it at all. Then I revisited it, over 25 years later, and was totally enthralled by the theme of the two old geezers who had remained best friends for life…
Funny how age affects how you relate to a novel.
I read the Lonesome Dove books after seeing the TV series. I liked the books, too. I was less of a geezer then, even.
re: #311 Dr. Matt
Trump vows to appoint Supreme Court justices who will investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails
And this is Susan Sarandon’s second favorite candidate.
Anything to bring about the apocalypse.
I hate religious fanatics.
re: #309 lawhawk
I started reading the books, and then quit after he was busy killing character after character. One per chapter.
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re: #311 Dr. Matt
Trump vows to appoint Supreme Court justices who will investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails
And this is Susan Sarandon’s second favorite candidate.
He can’t even name the 3 branches of government.
re: #314 Targetpractice
That’s the problem with a “Kill’em All” story: You eventually run out of major characters to kill and readers don’t have the emotional investment in minor characters to make their deaths shocking enough.
HAMLET
re: #306 lawhawk
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re: #268 lawhawk
Sean Hannity ✔ @seanhannity
I refuse to take part in the circular firing squad that is forming. I will support the winner of the primary.
Sean, don’t worry about these idiots. They don’t understand you’re giving people equal time and they’ll never get it https://t.co/psWqw800oL
— Jeff Mitchell (@dr_gonzo1968) March 30, 2016
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Isn’t this Sean starting a raging fire then running home and calling the fire department?
Oh how I hate that smarmy ass. I know everyone says Cruz has a most punchable face, but I always think of Hannity first when I think of faces calling to be smacked.
re: #310 Belafon
I had to read Sula by Toni Morrison in my college English class in 2004 (my second attempt at college). I read it twice, and I’m making my kids read it.
My mom read Beloved, and she said she cried over some sections. Even as a white woman, she said she could identify with the character’s life. She told me to read it, too. But I never did. It’s still on my reading list, though.
re: #314 Targetpractice
That’s the problem with a “Kill’em All” story: You eventually run out of major characters to kill and readers don’t have the emotional investment in minor characters to make their deaths shocking enough.
I am getting that way with Walking Dead, have they bumped off too many interesting and sympathetic characters for my taste and left the assholes.
re: #315 The Vicious Babushka
He can’t even name the 3 branches of government.
huge huger and hugest
re: #315 The Vicious Babushka
He can’t even name the 3 branches of government.
The Nina, The Pinta, and the Mayflower.
re: #317 Targetpractice
Another day, another indication that when this whole thing finally reaches its endpoint, it will be in a way that sends the GOP into a frothing rage.
Sounds like our discussion of Game of Thrones.
OK, I really need to go. The lit major in me wants to talk books, but I also need to be awake for classes tomorrow.
re: #294 makeitstop
Electro Harmonix, of course! It sounds amazing. Demo below - they even play the intro to ‘Watcher’ in the demo.
I’ve got the B9. When I got it, I thought ‘If they ever make one of these that does a Mellotron, I’m so in.’ Welp…here it is.
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I’m very jealous! : )
Twitter not loading. I’m not going to cry.
re: #318 ObserverArt
It’s a tie?
re: #303 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
My course was the “20th century American Novel,” so we read Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Bellow, Updike, Barth — it’s been too long to remember all of them. IIRC, we did not read any AA novelists, though I read Ellison in high school, nor any female writers, though the prof was a woman. I wish I still had the reading list handy, so I could re-read the books I’ve forgotten about.
My first choice would have been American lit from 1918=45. I enjoy Hemingway and Fitzgerald’s works a lot but it wasn’t available and it was my final semester. I really lliked that we read a variety of men and women of various cultural backgrounds and also sexual orientations since Cheever was bi as is Walker and Baldwin was gay.
Oh snap! Clinton just bought time on NY TV and she’s going after Trump! Check it out: https://t.co/89fuqq14hf
— AlGiordano (@AlGiordano) March 30, 2016
re: #305 ObserverArt
You know this for sure…about the encryption. I thought the encryption was only done in transit over the net not actually on the server.
I still would love a real knowledgeable IT guy discuss if her using a private server was safer than being on a big government server. There would be less entry points into a private server than a huge server with all kinds of files and directory structures. IF a private server is properly firewalled and monitored it should be safe…especially if no one knows the actual addressing. A good hacker may find ways into a Government server through other emails and find the addressing to the server.
I’m not sure, but it would be interesting to get to the truth instead of RWNJ speculation by a bunch of people (not you Dark)that are lucky to login to their own home computer.
I ran three ecommerce stores and was the first guy that understood the company I worked for need to do professional scans for credit card processing security. No one had bothered to check the rules. The first scan we did showed so many ways into our server it was embarrassing. I learned a good deal about entry points. So many entry points that make backdoors, etc.
It all boils down to the sysadmin. If she had a really good sysadmin, that server would look like Fort Knox.
“Emailgate” seems to be going the way of “Monicagate”: A long period of the media pushing the “scandal” with half-truths and outright lies to boost sales, followed by the letdown when the official investigation winds up going nowhere and the anticipated legal doomsday fails to happen. The Gray Lady is acting in the way of all yellow journalism: Leading with utter bullshit and then “correcting the record” long after the damage is done.
re: #328 Jenner7
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Could we have a little gun control.
Double-barreled handgun that looks like a smartphone is ‘virtually undetectable’ https://t.co/Ln8G5IWhOo pic.twitter.com/fOKhhBZbW1
— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) March 30, 2016
makeitstop…just listened to that Mellotron pedal. Damn! His playing the beginning to “In The Court of the Crimson King” sent shivers down my spine. That is one fine pedal. I tell you a four piece band (2 guitars, bass, drums) with the one guitarist good with those Electro-Harmonix keyboard pedals could do some serious sonic damage.
Time to get something done…lurk mode.
re: #332 Tigger2
Could we have a little gun control.
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re: #324 ObserverArt
I’m very jealous! : )
It was a gift from my band for my birthday. Maybe I should drop a couple of hints at rehearsal….heh.
re: #330 Targetpractice
“Emailgate” seems to be going the way of “Monicagate”: A long period of the media pushing the “scandal” with half-truths and outright lies to boost sales, followed by the letdown when the official investigation winds up going nowhere and the anticipated legal doomsday fails to happen. The Gray Lady is acting in the way of all yellow journalism: Leading with utter bullshit and then “correcting the record” long after the damage is done.
This is what I was talking about yesterday: stupid travels faster because it travels light.
So everyone not Dark Falcon, realize if you criticize Clinton on her emails while acknowledging it was both common practice and legal, you have just had 20 years of smear campaign run itself right inside your head. I deal with this at work all the time, with people with actual TS clearances who somehow forget about declassification authorities and aggregate classifications. As well as the fact that EVERY SINGLE EMAIL SHE SENT IS ALSO STORED ON THE RECIPIENT’S SERVER. Y’know, cuz Hillary is corrupt and a war monger and a feminist and a bitch, right?
Dark, we know you’re just going to be you, so keep arguing optics about an email server and ignore Cruz’s religious advisory council and plan to establish Christians as a privileged class, and Trump being Trump. And Kasich being just as bad a Cruz but getting a pass because nobody knows who he is. I mean, her totally legal email server is a flaw like white supremacy and Islamophobia, right?
re: #329 The Engineer Lobuno
It all boils down to the sysadmin. If she had a really good sysadmin, that server would look like Fort Knox.
And I bet the dude she used was pretty good, but we will never hear that. What is odd, people have always said the Clintons are secretive and scheming and all that. Then why wouldn’t she have had a Fort Knox email server?
Thanks for confirming my thinking. It is sad so many people get to argue over stuff they really have no clue about. But that IS politics in Americ.
Two squirrels in the clouds pic.twitter.com/qkzdKtiOo4
— Christina Wallis (@xtinewallis) March 30, 2016
re: #333 ObserverArt
makeitstop…just listened to that Mellotron pedal. Damn! His playing the beginning to “In The Court of the Crimson King” sent shivers down my spine. That is one fine pedal. I tell you a four piece band (2 guitars, bass, drums) with the one guitarist good with those Electro-Harmonix keyboard pedals could do some serious sonic damage.
Time to get something done…lurk mode.
I was sending the B9 through a clean amp while putting my guitar through my usual rig. It even made our little 3-piece band sound yooge.
I gotta sell off a couple of guitars to order the Mel9, because I promised my wife that any gear purchases would stay revenue-neutral - if something came in, something else must go out. Good thing I’ve got a few guitars that I don’t play too much. I can put them out there and move them down the road without shedding a tear. :)
re: #332 Tigger2
Could we have a little gun control.
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That is precisely why gun control is needed.
Better idea: sponsor a bill so religious zealots can “receive treatment for unhealthy religious addiction”. #LGBT
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 30, 2016
re: #332 Tigger2
Could we have a little gun control.
All guns should be required to look like guns, or the alien weapons from Halo.
re: #293 Le Lapin Tueur
Jordan’s first six (?, definitely five) books were awesome. By Eight is had plumbed the depths of all description, no plot, no action, snooze fest.
That’s what I meant by preceding books. :) His first 6 books I’ve probably read half a dozen times. The last 7? Once each.
re: #299 Targetpractice
I think it’s impossible by this point that he can reach 2,383. I think by this point his mission has become like that of Cruz and Kasich: Win enough delegates to keep Hillary from reaching 2,383, then campaign for the superdelegates on his “I’ve got the indie vote!” argument.
I don’t see Bernie swaying many of the Senators, Representatives, Governors, and other Democratic Party officials to his side. He has no vision toward succeeding in any of his goals.
re: #343 Kragar
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Ugh. What a surprise, a rep from outstate pandering to his homophobic base.
I know a Gruenhagen; I hope they aren’t related…
Calling the airline right now to cancel. //
“Please Cancel Your Vacation to North Korea” https://t.co/cP4TJAoq9d and our travel warning: https://t.co/gVPoXCWr1k
— Travel - State Dept (@TravelGov) March 30, 2016
re: #346 Ming5000
I don’t see Bernie swaying many of the Senators, Representatives, Governors, and other Democratic Party officials to his side. He has no vision toward succeeding in any of his goals.
I have no doubt hundreds of Democratic superdelegates will be eager to embrace a 74 year old socialist as the party’s presidential nominee.//
re: #348 CuriousLurker
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I’ll miss the Pyongyang pup crawl, pity.
re: #348 CuriousLurker
Calling the airline right now to cancel. //
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What I’m wondering is what special kind of idiot you have to be to book a vacation to North Korea in the first place.
re: #351 Big Beautiful Door
What I’m wondering is what special kind of idiot you have to be to book a vacation to North Korea in the first place.
Libertarian, looking for paradise.
Donald Trump: Born on third base, thinks he hit a grandslam.
re: #351 Big Beautiful Door
What I’m wondering is what special kind of idiot you have to be to book a vacation to North Korea in the first place.
Along with a few people who have personal reasons (Korean war vets, or whatever,) there is a certain amount of “competitive tourism” out there. After Antarctica, and home stays in remote villages, what else is there?
re: #351 Big Beautiful Door
What I’m wondering is what special kind of idiot you have to be to book a vacation to North Korea in the first place.
There is this idiot who apparently thought he would win a prize for carrying out a prank.
re: #354 calochortus
Along with a few people who have personal reasons (Korean war vets, or whatever,) there is a certain amount of “competitive tourism” out there. After Antarctica, and home stays in remote villages, what else is there?
I guess you can always go try to kill yourself climbing Mt. Everest, or is that too cliché now?
re: #346 Ming5000
re: #349 Big Beautiful Door
Berners have a database they are passing around that lists every superdelegate’s name, address, phone number, email, etc.
The SDs are being inundated with berners demanding that they switch to Sanders, and some of the berners have been outright hateful and threatening.
re: #237 Snarknado!
A friend of mine who was teaching middle school at the time the Harry Potter books came out said the same thing about them (I was mentioning that I never understood why they were so celebrated, since there’s so much good fantasy around.)
Late reply, but my sister is a children’s librarian (and a Potter fan) who says she loved the books in part because once her library kids read one or two of the series, they weren’t afraid to pick up any fiction book, no matter how thick. The kids were also hungry for more fantasy/SF books to read while waiting for the next book to come out, so she could steer them to other authors and other subjects. Long, engaging, well-written kids’ books were much appreciated by the teachers and librarians she knew.
re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth
Berners have a database they are passing around that lists every superdelegate’s name, address, phone number, email, etc.
The SDs are being inundated with berners demanding that they switch to Sanders, and some of the berners have been outright hateful and threatening.
Being harassed by fanatics is sure to win many of them over./
re: #351 Big Beautiful Door
What I’m wondering is what special kind of idiot you have to be to book a vacation to North Korea in the first place.
From Wiki: about 1,500 Western tourists visit North Korea each year.
I could not find details on who travels to NK. Judging by the number of Christians who run afoul of the authorities there, it seems like a large proportion of tourists to NK want to turn them on to Jesus.
re: #354 calochortus
After Antarctica, and home stays in remote villages, what else is there?
The North Pole, if you can afford it? There aren’t that many nuclear-powered cruise ships in service which gives you real boasting rights at the country club bar.
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re: #361 Nojay UK
The North Pole, if you can afford it? There aren’t that many nuclear-powered cruise ships in service which gives you real boasting rights at the country club bar.
I guess I’m a glutton for punishment planning to traipse around Disney Resorts in Orlando several days next week, but at least there is a bar next to the pool at the resort to relax at in the evenings.
re: #332 Tigger2
Could we have a little gun control.
Double-barreled handgun that looks like a smartphone is ‘virtually undetectable’
It takes a good guy with a double-barreled handgun that looks like a smartphone to stop a bad guy with a double-barreled handgun that looks like a smartphone!
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re: #105 Bill and Opus for 2016!
I don’t plan on debating this with Trump loving men. Just don’t. Breast grabbing in any situation gets you a swift knee to the balls.
— julie…dame (@vintagegoddess) March 30, 2016
^^THIS^^
There is no question about it.
None.
re: #353 Dr. Matt
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re: #356 Big Beautiful Door
I guess you can always go try to kill yourself climbing Mt. Everest, or is that too cliché now?
Well, yeah, but it does require you be in pretty good shape. And even then it’s uncomfortable.
re: #361 Nojay UK
The North Pole, if you can afford it? There aren’t that many nuclear-powered cruise ships in service which gives you real boasting rights at the country club bar.
Ack. Please do not tell my neighbor about this…
Missouri anti-abortion lawmaker thinks being a ‘former embryo’ makes him a reproductive health expert https://t.co/vcQdZz5DFO
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 30, 2016
re: #356 Big Beautiful Door
I guess you can always go try to kill yourself climbing Mt. Everest, or is that too cliché now?
I understand the pile of corpses of those who failed to reach the summit is a tourist attraction by itself.
re: #332 Tigger2
Could we have a little gun control.
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Husband saw that yesterday — new version of the derringer.
We are both appalled.
re: #370 The Vicious Babushka
I understand the pile of corpses of those who failed to reach the summit is a tourist attraction by itself.
OMG, I bet people are literally taking selfies with the dead.
re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth
Berners have a database they are passing around that lists every superdelegate’s name, address, phone number, email, etc.
The SDs are being inundated with berners demanding that they switch to Sanders, and some of the berners have been outright hateful and threatening.
How to (not) win friends and influence people…to be against you.
re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth
Berners have a database they are passing around that lists every superdelegate’s name, address, phone number, email, etc.
The SDs are being inundated with berners demanding that they switch to Sanders, and some of the berners have been outright hateful and threatening.
Yeah…that’s going to work.
Damn Bernie…you have no control over your backers. And you want a bunch of us to consider you for President and you can control congress to get your rather large and ambitious policies through.
re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth
Berners have a database they are passing around that lists every superdelegate’s name, address, phone number, email, etc.
The SDs are being inundated with berners demanding that they switch to Sanders, and some of the berners have been outright hateful and threatening.
That shit’s not right. That kind of action is another reason why Bernie’s supporters are his own worst enemy. I get strong and passionate support but I do not condone harassing people because they choose to support a different candidate than you. If they think that kind of action is going to get people to consider Bernie, it’s going ot do the total opposite so great job assholes, your revolution makes you look like children who can’t handle disagreement.
Police Say Teenage Girl Was Pepper Sprayed and Sexually Assaulted at Wisconsin Trump Rally
“You were touching my breast,” she says. “You fucking touched my chest.”
She shoves him and someone else sprays orange pepper spray directly in her face and into the eye of a girl standing next to her. As she pushes her way out of the crowd, people yell that she’s a “bitch” and a “goddamn communist ni**er-lover.”
Conservatism on proud display.
re: #376 Dr. Matt
Police Say Teenage Girl Was Pepper Sprayed and Sexually Assaulted at Wisconsin Trump Rally
Conservatism on proud display.
Yeah but Trump’s a creation of the left. //
re: #377 HappyWarrior
Yeah but Trump’s a creation of the left. //
But Limbo and Dim Jim love him so he’s really a true conservative….until he loses the election.
re: #309 lawhawk
I started reading the books, and then quit after he was busy killing character after character. One per chapter.
I saw the show first, and dumped it when Eddard Stark was offed.
I like fantasy because it is fantasy. The good guys might be a little damaged. The bad guys might not be all bad. Victory might not be total.
But eventually the good guys win. When one of the few people in a series with actual moral character get murdered near the beginning I’m gone. If I want to read about power mad families fucking each other over I’ll read European history.
Once again I’ll recommend the Dresden Files for fantasy. The main character is quite flaws, in a human way. He’s done some horrible things, not that he had a lot of choice. But he’s a good man and quite likeable.
The scope of the world building is amazing also.
re: #377 HappyWarrior
Yeah but Trump’s a creation of the left. //
“We’re not communist ni**er-lovers.”
~Trump 2016
THIS ARTICLE HAS TYPOS IN IT AND I THINK IT’S ON PURPOSE GOD DAMN IT:
Study: People Who Point Out Typos Are Jerks https://t.co/LVk286S0Ue— John Scalzi (@scalzi) March 30, 2016
re: #380 Romantic Heretic
I won’t even go that far. I just need a little hope at the end.
Game of Thrones is heading in a direction where I don’t think there will be one.
re: #380 Romantic Heretic
I will absolutely second the Dresden Files, but I didn’t mind Ed Stark dying. The only person I’m certain is safe atm is Daenerys, but that’s because I’m certain the whole series is a metaphor for the pointlessness of it all. Like, all the war and murder and death leading right back to the original ruling family back in charge because dragons.
Trump supporter rationale:
Trump is the only quasi isolationist candidate. The rest are CIA war mongers and sneaky back stabbers.
You know, because isolationism makes sense in 2016. I mean, it’s not like we’re connected to the rest of the world through social media, or technology, or trade. Let’s put our heads in the sand and become North Korea. ///////
BURRITO LADY!
I asked her what kind she had, and she rattled off a bunch of things, and it was ALL ONE KIND! I said, ‘I’ll take one.’
re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth
Berners have a database they are passing around that lists every superdelegate’s name, address, phone number, email, etc.
The SDs are being inundated with berners demanding that they switch to Sanders, and some of the berners have been outright hateful and threatening.
Is this happening already? I know that was the worry when the news of the database came out. Stupid, stupid strategy, which they will probably try to blame on right-wing ratlovers when it inevitably misfires (possibly with some justification). Or try to blame on Hillary supporters (with no justification whatsoever).
head, desk, usual juxtaposition…
re: #380 Romantic Heretic
Butcher’s other completed series is also fantastic, by the way: Codex Alera.
He has also started a new steampunk-ish series called Cinder Spires. I bought the first e-book; it hasn’t “grabbed” me yet, but I haven’t had a lot of time lately for leisure reading.
(Edit: I just realized I made “Dresden” the author instead of “Butcher”… need more coffee)
And, as far as Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire is concerned, I think I’ll just be happy with the Cliff’s Notes version once it’s all done. I want to know how the plot plays out, but I don’t want to suffer through reading or watching it all to get there.
re: #372 Big Beautiful Door
OMG, I bet people are literally taking selfies with the dead.
And between the vision that statement engenders and the GoT discussion I’m now imagining said corpses suddenly opening sapphire blue eyes and tearing the selfie taker to pieces.
re: #391 withak
I want to know how the plot plays out, but I don’t want to suffer through reading or watching it all to get there.
All die. The last book in the series will consist entirely of loving descriptions of snow blowing over the corpses of everyone you loved and hated and were engaged with in the story. Then there will be a sequel.
re: #391 withak
I managed to get thru all 14 Wheel of Time books, but Game of Thrones lost me in 3.
re: #391 withak
And, as far as Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire is concerned, I think I’ll just be happy with the Cliff’s Notes version once it’s all done. I want to know how the plot plays out, but I don’t want to suffer through reading or watching it all to get there.
If you want to do that with the Bible, read this: God is Disappointed in You.
Getting tired of these Bernie or Bust Sarandon fans.
.@Massvwatches A trite simplistic clichéd non-thought. Evil is sitting by & condoning promised ethnic cleansing. @Only4RM @SusanSarandon
— UnprintableHandleGuy (@goddamnedfrank) March 30, 2016
re: #385 Big Beautiful Door
If only Obama hadn’t made the critical error of being black.//
He set back race relations in this country by 100 years. White folk may never recover.
(heh)
re: #394 Kragar
I managed to get thru all 14 Wheel of Time books, but Game of Thrones lost me in 3.
I started reading GOT, gave up before 100 pages.
re: #396 goddamnedfrank
Getting tired of these Bernie or Bust Sarandon fans.
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These idiots. Exactly what kind of evil does Hillary even stand for? Ugh.
O. M. G.
“She’s got a pen in her hand, which she’s not supposed to have. I will tell you, Secret Service can tell you that.” https://t.co/YiGnAHtk9F
— POLITICO (@politico) March 30, 2016
“Well, he’s following me and she’s grabbing me,” Trump said on “Fox and Friends,” referring to Lewandowski and Fields, respectively. “Take a look at her hand — she’s grabbing me. She’s got a pen in her hand, which she’s not supposed to have. I will tell you, Secret Service can tell you that.”
When queried by POLITICO on that specific claim, a spokesman for the Secret Service declined to comment.
“She had a pen in her hand, and you know, that could have been a knife, that could have been — even a pen, it’s dangerous,” Trump said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “Secret Service doesn’t want people running up to me and grabbing me with a pen in her hand.”
re: #396 goddamnedfrank
That made me think of the Hannah Arendt quote I read recently.
“The sad fact is that most evil is done by people who never decide to be good or evil.”
re: #399 GlutenFreeJesus
These idiots. Exactly what kind of evil does Hillary even stand for? Ugh.
Duh, it’s right there in her name: Hitlary.
//////
So, if I’m reading correctly: Hillary is the only currently running candidate willing to support her party’s nominee unreservedly?
re: #403 BlackPearl
So, if I’m reading correctly: Hillary is the only currently running candidate willing to support her party’s nominee unreservedly?
pretty much, yep
re: #356 Big Beautiful Door
I guess you can always go try to kill yourself climbing Mt. Everest, or is that too cliché now?
It’s expensive, too. Clicky
The headline for 2016 is that the high-end went higher and the low-end went lower. The price range for a standard climb, i.e. non-custom, ranges from $30,000 to $85,000. This is driven by low cost Nepali operators getting a foothold in the market and the traditional western operators adding more services to differentiate their product. In other words, climbing Everest has become a mature market just like cars or airplane flights.
re: #396 goddamnedfrank
Getting tired of these Bernie or Bust Sarandon fans.
I couldn’t sleep Monday night, so around 3 am I was on my iPad looking at my twitter TL. I thought my account was hijacked by right-wingers with all the anti-Hillary screeching from Bernadinistas.
re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth
pretty much, yep
Wait, has Bernie backed away from endorsing the eventual nominee? Or did he never make that pronouncement?
re: #402 withak
Duh, it’s right there in her name: Hitlary.
//////
Gah. I am so disgusted with people who can’t mention Hillary’s name without changing it to HELLARY/HITLERY/KILLARY like that’s OOOH SO CLEVER.
It’s the Rushification of America.
re: #309 lawhawk
I started reading the books, and then quit after he was busy killing character after character. One per chapter.
I read the first three books, but stopped. When I found out that the fourth and fifth books run parallel to each other I figured I’d let the TV show take over and save me the effort of slogging through two books to get an entire story.
re: #408 The Vicious Babushka
Gah. I am so disgusted with people who can’t mention Hillary’s name without changing it to HELLARY/HITLERY/KILLARY like that’s OOOH SO CLEVER.
It’s the Rushification of America.
Lot’s of people say Drumpf.
re: #407 withak
Wait, has Bernie backed away from endorsing the eventual nominee? Or did he never make that pronouncement?
When asked, his response was “we’ll see”.
Sorry I can’t remember the article where I read that.
re: #403 BlackPearl
So, if I’m reading correctly: Hillary is the only currently running candidate willing to support her party’s nominee unreservedly?
And she is the meanie that can’t be trusted.
Strange times…strange times indeed.
NO AND I’D VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN IF I COULD.
Well are you? #tcot #wakeupAmerica pic.twitter.com/tbtBQT40C8
— Pat (@peb93s) March 30, 2016
“I run for my late sister, a victim of the Chapel Hill shooting” https://t.co/6yTqAozc4t pic.twitter.com/itcynxAvVY
— Sara Yasin (@missyasin) March 30, 2016
re: #411 Backwoods_Sleuth
When asked, his response was “we’ll see”.
Sorry I can’t remember the article where I read that.
And he also had some qualifications that she would need to meet. What a Democrat!
Oh, wait. He’s of the you help me and then you help me school.
re: #413 The Vicious Babushka
NO AND I’D VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN IF I COULD.
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“Paid for by, E. M. — Citizen”
As a private citizen, I wish I had the kind of money E. M. apparently does to blow it on stupid billboards. Of course, I’d spend it on useful things, like a new PC and a VR system.
OMG THAT PEN IS AIMED RIGHT AT TRUMP! pic.twitter.com/45XNwYrxbE
— Ian Tuttle (@iptuttle) March 30, 2016
re: #413 The Vicious Babushka
NO AND I’D VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN IF I COULD.
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Fuckin’ A!
re: #380 Romantic Heretic
Once again I’ll recommend the Dresden Files for fantasy. The main character is quite flaws, in a human way. He’s done some horrible things, not that he had a lot of choice. But he’s a good man and quite likeable..
Thanks, seeing what’s in the store on my iPad - yikes - the list goes on forever. Gonna buy one and see how it goes.
COREY PROSECUTOR OUTED AS HILLARY SUPPORTER https://t.co/WRqmoJoNWX
— Drudge Report Feed (@drudgefeed) March 30, 2016
Oh, this they’ll headline, not that Trump’s campaign thug assaulted a reporter.*
*Drudge has gone out of his way to avoid Trump’s name in the headlines relating to the assault on Fields.
Well, who expected the pepper-sprayer to look like this!
NEW: Janesville Police release photo of the man they think pepper sprayed teen yesterday outside of Trump rally. pic.twitter.com/nPiWTyCSuM
— Candace Smith (@CandaceSmith_) March 30, 2016
re: #421 lawhawk
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Oh, this they’ll headline, not that Trump’s campaign thug assaulted a reporter.
But did the prosecutor bite a stripper?
re: #384 Ziggy_TARDIS
I won’t even go that far. I just need a little hope at the end.
Game of Thrones is heading in a direction where I don’t think there will be one.
Without some form of magikal intervention causing mass personality change in all the characters, Abandon Hope, all ye Who Enter.
re: #421 lawhawk
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Oh, this they’ll headline, not that Trump’s campaign thug assaulted a reporter.*
*Drudge has gone out of his way to avoid Trump’s name in the headlines relating to the assault on Fields.
Not only that, but he refers to Lewandowski (sp?) by his first name, for some reason?
Or maybe he really means Corey Haim, or Corey Feldman…
re: #421 lawhawk
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Oh, this they’ll headline, not that Trump’s campaign thug assaulted a reporter.*
*Drudge has gone out of his way to avoid Trump’s name in the headlines relating to the assault on Fields.
And the link is to Whirled Nut Daily. Shocker./////
In summary, the uber non-politically correct candidate is outraged that a conservative female reporter brushed against his arm.
Bernie has a four point lead in the latest Wisconsin poll, but as Nate Silver explains, Bernie has to win a state like Wisconsin by a big margin to have any hope of actually winning the nomination.
fivethirtyeight.com
Just got a quarterly royalty statement for a book I wrote back in 2005.
After publisher’s expenses, my net is $1.48.
I’ll try not to spend it all in one place…
Unconfirmed, but FYI for now.
wHxGF+UvjpghtCTGtrqMCFxPfUP3HpIF3pgOJXPXupSFxp8Tlw47USxs1ieyLGIO7NtkFRmCa1DeJUkjC0KnNYONqFPHFFSwc7r+Q+NlP7sDPYZpLXPHRrGY0o+HZ+NPoDsGDH04bNSzEF7ikSI9hbttGdOqsNDJocs7AlrmXPNUjBHpW/Txa+lvmn0m5BqHJ4Thy6jV7vWdHBnzbguOILv2tSl257ylupuKsvQS5f/pp83nTk3q32vOCtOgsHW0ncqbxMtY/k97KTNAXtwH6BTdsFPIBiuwiDb1ehA4P5rFSblOLyNMXDJbIJ9GpOECSQ/nzWqEeMKBoTKFwcjSIjXxc43iggtJfV8tdtkDl1ijKcH8TVn9vhakUkD35QiHqLKW7MV/Hc4=
Corey Lewandowski: Trump Camp Doesn’t Attack Its Opponents https://t.co/Bs74yzXJPY (AUDIO) pic.twitter.com/Jxv0l3BnnW
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 30, 2016
re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just got a quarterly royalty statement for a book I wrote back in 2005.
After publisher’s expenses, my net is $1.48.I’ll try not to spend it all in one place…
Stephen King, I’m gunning for you!/
re: #430 Big Beautiful Door
Bernie has a four point lead in the latest Wisconsin poll, but as Nate Silver explains, Bernie has to win a state like Wisconsin by a big margin to have any hope of actually winning the nomination.
fivethirtyeight.com
Bernie has to basically dominate the rest of the calendar in order to have any hope of winning the nomination outright. That includes NY, PA, and CA, all closed/semi-closed primaries in states with populations that are not as white as a Klansman’s sheets.
A few other pro-life leaders, including David Daleidan of the Center for Medical Progress, Dr. Theresa Deisher, a leading biotechnology developer of “moral” stem cell treatments, and Professor Robert George were also honored during the Summit.
David Daleidan receiving Legatus award from Legatus founder Tom Monaghanre: #437 Ming5000
More horrible antivaccine “science” from Theresa Deisher
While reading news stories about Daleiden and CMP, I came across a familiar name, a name that many of us who discuss antivaccine misinformation are familiar with. I’m referring to Theresa Deisher, founder of the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute. It turns out that Deisher helped to prepare Daleiden for his role as a biomedical representative that he assumed in order to deceive representatives of Planned Parenthood. She taught him how to talk the talk and walk the walk, so to speak, so that he was convincing as a representative of a biomedical research firm, as I discussed at the time. What I missed at the time, even though it had been published, was an utterly crappy new paper that Deisher published recently and that’s making its way around the antivaccine Twitterverse and Facebook world like a bird turd across a windshield by windshield wipers.
I now rectify my oversight.
re: #430 Big Beautiful Door
Bleh. I just wish this would all be over already. Any “win” for Bernie, even if he has a net delegate loss will just prolong the berniebro talking.
Heh.
#NotACult pic.twitter.com/14tfB6wGdl
— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) March 30, 2016
That Howe is at RedState adds to the circular firing squad nature of all things GOP these days.
“Hillarys needs Bernie’s endorsement and his supporters because she can’t inspire enthusiasm! Nobody is enthusiastic about voting for her! She needs to kiss Bernie’s ass if she wants to win us over!”
Gallup: “Hillary Clinton’s supporters are more enthusiastic than Sen. Bernie Sanders’ supporters, 54% vs. 44%.” https://t.co/scbwnPjzq7
— Ian Sams (@IanSams) March 28, 2016
When a Berniebro tells me Trump is preferable to Clinton: pic.twitter.com/1wxR95u3Qy
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 30, 2016
wingnut heads esploding…
Today, at @Refugees meeting, the U.S. announced additional pledges in support of Syrian #refugees: https://t.co/wNnMpe6Qcv
— Department of State (@StateDept) March 30, 2016
Today, at a high-level meeting convened by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on “Global Responsibility Sharing through Pathways for Admission of Syrian Refugees” held in Geneva, Switzerland, Deputy Secretary of State Heather Higginbottom announced additional steps the United States is taking to help Syrian refugees. First, the United States pledged an additional $10 million to UNHCR to strengthen its efforts to identify and refer vulnerable refugees, including Syrians, for resettlement. The United States also reaffirmed its commitment to resettle at least 10,000 Syrians in FY 2016 and increase the total number of resettled refugees from around the world to 100,000 by the end of FY 2017 - an increase of over 40 percent since FY 2015 - while maintaining a robust security screening protocol. Additionally, the United States has created a program to allow U.S. citizens and permanent residents to file refugee applications for their Syrian family members.
I have a feeling lots of Bernie supporters will just write him in where they can in November. Or vote for Jill Stein.
NEW: Janesville Police release photo of the man they think pepper sprayed teen yesterday outside of Trump rally. pic.twitter.com/nPiWTyCSuM
— Candace Smith (@CandaceSmith_) March 30, 2016
re: #445 GlutenFreeJesus
I have a feeling lots of Bernie supporters will just write him in where they can in November. Or vote for Jill Stein.
Based on his enthusiasm numbers, I expect most who vote will vote for Hillary. The Berniebros on social media are just a small group of his most vocal supporters.
re: #445 GlutenFreeJesus
I have a feeling lots of Bernie supporters will just write him in where they can in November. Or vote for Jill Stein.
Most of them will do what Clinton supporters did in 2008. Remember, Clinton was a pretty radical candidate in 2008 being the first woman to really challenge for the nomination, and there were those who had rather bad feelings because Obama was beating her. Yeah, he is black, but he is a man.
re: #447 Big Beautiful Door
Bernie did say himself (early on though) that Hillary would be worlds better than any of the Reliblicans. Hopefully he holds true to this and still believes it, and actually stumps for her nationally. I would very much like to see this vs. him tacitly lending support to her with just words, and disappearing back to Vermont.
re: #447 Big Beautiful Door
Based on his enthusiasm numbers, I expect most who vote will vote for Hillary. The Berniebros on social media are just a small group of his most vocal supporters.
The Sandbaggers are a vanishingly small minority, amplified by the internet. They’re minuscule in number even compared with the PUMAs from 2008.
I don’t know how many registered Republicans or R-leaning “Independents” will vote for Hillary over Trump—maybe only a small percentage—but they will absolutely swamp these Berniebo bittereinders.
re: #448 Belafon
Most of them will do what Clinton supporters did in 2008. Remember, Clinton was a pretty radical candidate in 2008 being the first woman to really challenge for the nomination, and there were those who had rather bad feelings because Obama was beating her. Yeah, he is black, but he is a man.
“Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.”
—Shirley Chisholm
re: #401 Romantic Heretic
That made me think of the Hannah Arendt quote I read recently.
“The sad fact is that most evil is done by people who never decide to be good or evil.”
And children.
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