Wunderkind Jacob Collier’s First Video From His Debut Album Is Insanely Great

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I’m pretty sure Jacob Collier is some kind of alien being, because I can’t believe any normal human can be this insanely talented. This is the first single from his upcoming debut album, and man is it ever a stunner. Go ahead, Jacob.

Overjoyed to share this song with you – the first single from my debut album, ‘In My Room’, which is out July 1st 2016. Written, arranged, recorded, produced and performed by me, Jacob, in my music room at home.

PREORDER ‘IN MY ROOM’ on iTunes ➪ apple.co
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© Jacob Collier 2016

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410 comments
1
Great White Snark  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:16:41pm

How did you find him anyway? Amazing new style going for him. And what is that percussion instrument?

2
Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:19:29pm

re: #1 Great White Snark

This was the first time I was amazed by Jacob: littlegreenfootballs.com

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Reality Based Steve  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:20:47pm

Damn. That’s why I can’t play any instrument (or sing for that matter). That damn kid got like a dozen+ peoples allocation of talent. I’m sure that mine just got misdirected, sat on a shelf for about 20 30 40+ years, and then ended up getting delivered to him.

Yea, that’s it. Now give me my share of the royalities.

Seriously, that’s just freaking incredible. I can’t even imagine how someone can do that.

RBS

4
Great White Snark  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:25:57pm

re: #3 Reality Based Steve

Long ways from the usual music around here but I can’t take my eyes and ears off him until it’s over.

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jaunte  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:28:13pm

“…When it comes to comments left on most YouTube videos, there’s a tendency towards the puerile, inane or insane. Yet few self-produced videos get messages like; “The most talented kid on earth today,” from Grammy-winning singer-songwriter k.d. lang, or “blown away” from guitar icon Steve Vai. But these are attributed to the extraordinary work of Jacob Collier, a 19-year-old Londoner currently studying jazz piano at the Royal Academy of Music who has clocked over a million views since he began uploading his own distinctive self-produced videos just two years ago.”
….
“The seeds for his adventurously wideangle harmonies were sown through formative experiences performing both Britten’s ‘The Turn Of The Screw’ and Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ in Spain, Italy and London when still a school boy”
jazzwisemagazine.com

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:29:41pm
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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:32:14pm

If this is true, I am thoroughly disgusted.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:34:54pm

Holy crap, he’s just a kid. Texture and richness beyond his years.

When I was that age I was trying to crunch Slayer and slap like Primus.

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:38:42pm

Seriously amazing song and video.

I can explain him. In Naruto, one of the abilities a ninja can learn is shadow cloning. It makes fully realized copies of the original, which are linked to the ninja. When they learn something, and are released as entities, the original learns what the clone learned. This is the only explanation for how the videos and how he learned so many instruments.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:38:59pm

‘In My Room’ – Out July 1st!

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:40:46pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

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My middle son asked when Father’s Day was, and said “You’re going to get a late present. I called it. No one else can get it for him.”

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:42:10pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

I can only handle one minute of that video.

I’m coming around to your side… space alien. No other explanation.

13
SoundGuy 2016  Apr 2, 2016 • 6:45:20pm

He gives lessons. If you’d be so rich. LOL

14
Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:00:04pm

I’m pretty sure Microsoft Windows is an evil plot to prevent people from doing productive work. The endless updates and restarts. And if you need to stop one of these updaters be prepared to wait a long time before it deigns to notice your poignant request.

I don’t know how so many people put up with this.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:02:41pm

It’s been stuck at this screen for more than an hour.

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retired cynic  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:04:48pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

It’s been stuck at this screen for more than an hour.

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This strikes terror in my heart, seeing as I am facing it soon. Bleah!

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stpaulbear  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:05:03pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

I’m pretty sure Microsoft Windows is an evil plot to prevent people from doing productive work. The endless updates and restarts. And if you need to stop one of these updaters be prepared to wait a long time before it deigns to notice your poignant request.

I don’t know how so many people put up with this.

Have you ever worked with AutoCAD? Every day I want to smash things.

18
BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:05:06pm

Nah, Berners aren’t sanctimonious. (comment from a kos diary entitled: Democrats should Embrace the “Bernie or Bust” Crowd

Right now Sanders voters are trying to save the soul of the Democratic Party which should be the equivalent of saving the soul of this great nation.

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Kragar  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:09:28pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

I’m pretty sure Microsoft Windows is an evil plot to prevent people from doing productive work. The endless updates and restarts. And if you need to stop one of these updaters be prepared to wait a long time before it deigns to notice your poignant request.

I don’t know how so many people put up with this.

“Can I at least set it so the system doesn’t try to update until I’m ready to let it?”

“HAHAHAHA! *ahem* Fuck you. No.”

“…’kay”

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Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:12:21pm

Oh hai!

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Timothy Watson  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:14:32pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

It’s been stuck at this screen for more than an hour.

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You’ll take Windows 7 from my cold, dead hands.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:16:04pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

It’s been stuck at this screen for more than an hour.

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Deep Blue Screen of Ennui.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:17:19pm

re: #22 Decatur Deb

I thought it was the blue screen of death?

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:17:33pm

So, here’s the explanation for this tweet:

The Clark County, Nevada convention was today, and:

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won more delegates than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an upset at the Clark County Democratic Convention today, after Sanders lost the Nevada caucuses a little more than a month ago.

Almost 600 more people showed up to support the Vermont senator than did those to support former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Of the almost 9,000 delegates elected on caucus day in February, 3,825 showed up to the convention at Cashman Center today.

An additional 915 alternates and 604 unelected alternates also showed up to the convention.

The final vote count, after two 10-minute realignment periods, was 2,964 for Sanders and 2,386 for Clinton. Each will now send a number of delegates proportional with those totals to the state convention, for a total of 2,911 delegates from Clark County.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:17:59pm

re: #23 PhillyPretzel

I thought it was the blue screen of death?

Upgraded without notification.

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stpaulbear  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:18:01pm

re: #21 Timothy Watson

You’ll take Windows 7 from my cold, dead hands.

I only gave up on my computer with XP a couple months ago. The new computer had 10 already installed.

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:18:29pm

re: #22 Decatur Deb

Deep Blue Screen of Ennui.

When those things happen, I always wonder if the computer has frozen.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:19:23pm

re: #27 Sionainn

When those things happen, I always wonder if the computer has frozen.

Let it go.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:21:07pm

Big winds coming to Philly. forecast.weather.gov

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Viscous Obama  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:21:29pm

I, uh, what?

Bernie Sanders Once Blamed Cervical Cancer on a Lack of Orgasms

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Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:23:16pm
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Stanley Sea  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:25:04pm

re: #27 Sionainn

I was just in your neighborhood, kinda. My Aunt is in Henderson & I went & met with her every day. Otherwise I was at the Rio. I made a point to enjoy myself.

Thought about reaching out, but time…I was only there 3 days.

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KingKenrod  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:26:52pm

Upgrading to Windows 10 (from 7) took forever. Yes, there were periods where it would sit there for hours. I did it overnight.

It seems pretty stable, and runs OK. But there are a few annoyances.

It will force you to patch fairly often - you either have to schedule the patch and reboot, or Windows will simply reboot itself to install the patch - regardless of what you are working on. You definitely want to keep an eye on that. There is a way to disable it, but I forget how, and it’s complicated.

The notifications are another annoyance - stuff like “You’re not running the latest version of Office!”. Also the start menu search includes web searches (from Bing! I’m assuming.)

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stpaulbear  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:27:10pm

re: #31 Charles Johnson

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So is he planning on forcing Scott Walker out of office? That’s when WI really started to tank.

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:27:26pm

re: #24 Belafon

And because of these totals, there’s now two diaries at DK claiming that Sanders won Nevada.

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:28:35pm

re: #28 Decatur Deb

Let it go.

I have two daughters, ages 9 and 11, who have watched Frozen a whole bunch of times. I’m proud of the fact that I’ve never seen it. LOL.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:28:42pm

re: #31 Charles Johnson

Wisconsin has suffered a great loss of jobs and trade, but if I win, all of the bad things happening in the U.S. will be rapidly reversed!

“Can I hear an ‘Halleluia’ from the rubes?”

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Viscous Obama  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:29:16pm

re: #35 Belafon

And because of these totals, there’s now two diaries at DK claiming that Sanders won Nevada.

Remember, conventions represent the Will of the People™

since, uh, 7PM today

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:29:25pm

re: #33 KingKenrod

How to disable Bing in the start menu: howtogeek.com

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:31:11pm

re: #36 Sionainn

I have two daughters, ages 9 and 11, who have watched Frozen a whole bunch of times. I’m proud of the fact that I’ve never seen it. LOL.

It’s a good movie, and it totally subverts a number of Disney’s own tropes, like finding true love. It’s worth seeing once. I happen to agree with one critics assessment that it’s Disney’s best animated movie since the Lion King.

Edit: Actually, my only criticism of the movie is that it could have been 30 minutes longer. There were pieces of the story that really could have been fleshed out more.

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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:31:32pm

re: #24 Belafon

So, here’s the explanation for this tweet:

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The Clark County, Nevada convention was today, and:

But wait, there’s more:

The Hillary Clinton campaign has sent a letter to Clark County Democratic Party officials demanding the removal of the credentials chairman for Saturday’s convention that will choose delegates to the state convention next month who could go to Philadelphia this summer…Kramar is accused of releasing confidential Clinton information to the Bernie Sanders campaign

ralstonreports.com

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KingKenrod  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:31:58pm

re: #39 Belafon

How to disable Bing in the start menu: howtogeek.com

Ah, thanks! Done!

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:32:35pm

re: #30 Viscous Obama

I, uh, what?

Bernie Sanders Once Blamed Cervical Cancer on a Lack of Orgasms

Meh. He wrote it in the late ’60s/early ’70s. I’m going to go out on a limb and assume he is now better educated regarding women’s health issues.

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:33:27pm

re: #40 Belafon

It’s a good movie, and it totally subverts a number of Disney’s own tropes, like finding true love. It’s worth seeing once. I happen to agree with one critics assessment that it’s Disney’s best animated movie since the Lion King.

I haven’t seen the Lion King, either.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:33:36pm

re: #43 Sionainn

Meh. He wrote it in the late ’60s/early ’70s. I’m going to go out on a limb and assume he is now better educated regarding women’s health issues.

Poor Jane.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:35:45pm

re: #41 BeachDem

But wait, there’s more:

The Hillary Clinton campaign has sent a letter to Clark County Democratic Party officials demanding the removal of the credentials chairman for Saturday’s convention that will choose delegates to the state convention next month who could go to Philadelphia this summer…Kramar is accused of releasing confidential Clinton information to the Bernie Sanders campaign

ralstonreports.com

If we’re to have states using the caucus system, we should insist that all related travel be on horseback.

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Viscous Obama  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:35:59pm

Hey look at this

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:36:34pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

The Edge browser is an abomination. To fix one of those modal browser traps requires editing the registry-I shit you not. It’s HTML 5 video support is pretty lame, too.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:38:28pm

Instagram

Coming in hot!! #espressohands // @jsbcphoto Ben Reardon

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:38:58pm

re: #46 Decatur Deb

If we’re to have states using the caucus system, we should insist that all related travel be on horseback.

I don’t know why Nevada moved to the caucus system. It’s just a pain in the ass. Much easier to go and cast a ballot like any regular election. In and out. I was at the first caucus and it started 2 hours later than scheduled.

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:40:03pm

re: #44 Sionainn

Spoiler about Frozen:

Click to Reveal

The younger sister, Anna, gets injured and the only way to cure it is an act of true love. So she runs around thinking she’s got to get a kiss from the prince she met at the beginning, but ends up being cured because she steps in and prevents the prince from killing her sister by blocking the sword strike. Really inverts the typical Disney line, even as recently as Twisted.

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:40:16pm

re: #47 Viscous Obama

Hey look at this

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I saw this in the comments section of the Las Vegas Sun and wondered if anyone actually showed up to SEIU yesterday to register. If so, then they should have known that it was a hoax. If not, then they just didn’t bother to go to the caucus today.

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Bass Reeves  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:40:57pm

I think I have a good grasp of things I put my attention towards, but I’m not understanding this Nevada thing at all.

Also, this Colliers kids is amazeballs. Not better than Coheed, but amazeballs nonetheless.

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Reality Based Steve  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:41:19pm

re: #48 Eric The Fruit Bat

The Edge browser is an abomination. To fix one of those modal browser traps requires editing the registry-I shit you not. It’s HTML 5 video support is pretty lame, too.

There is a saying “A pistol is a tool that you use to fight your way back to the rifle you never should have dropped in the first place”. Edge is tool to download Firefox and/or Chrome.

RBS

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:41:46pm

This video, oh my.

Keller Williams isn’t even this good, and Keller is good.

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stpaulbear  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:43:44pm

re: #54 Reality Based Steve

There is a saying “A pistol is a tool that you use to fight your way back to the rifle you never should have dropped in the first place”. Edge is tool to download Firefox and/or Chrome.

RBS

That’s the first internet thing I did with my new computer. Edge felt very coarse.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:44:25pm

re: #51 Belafon

Spoiler about Frozen:

[Embedded content]

Hans Christian Anderson is sort of a Bergman pretending to be for kids. Check out The Rose Sellers.

imdb.com

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:44:51pm

re: #53 Bass Reeves

I think I have a good grasp of things I put my attention towards, but I’m not understanding this Nevada thing at all.

Also, this Colliers kids is amazeballs. Not better than Coheed, but amazeballs nonetheless.

What part are you not understanding?

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Kragar  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:45:36pm

re: #54 Reality Based Steve

Old joke

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Reality Based Steve  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:46:26pm

Over on FR they have hit Warp Derp. This is from one of the million or so threads about how Trump is being abused in some form or fashion.

People are waiting for Cruz to be eliminated first in terms of the 1237.

Then the next battle is over the seating of the delegates. As that reaches to maximum contention, Roger Stone will be organizing a million person march to the Cleveland Convention.

I will go but I’m a single father of a pre-teen boy and will need to have insurance on my life just so he can carry on in the event of my death. Problem is most life insurance doesn’t cover riots and combat. So I’m searching.

There is no greater calling than to risk all for saving our republic. And this is the battle of a lifetime.

yea…. it’s going to be just like Normandy, Watts and the Battle of Hastings all rolled into one.

RBS

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:47:31pm

re: #60 Reality Based Steve

Over on FR they have hit Warp Derp. This is from one of the million or so threads about how Trump is being abused in some form or fashion.

yea…. it’s going to be just like Normandy, Watts and the Battle of Hastings all rolled into one.

RBS

Did you hurt yourself rolling your eyes when you read that?

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:47:35pm

Jacob Collier is a robot. A robot with tender feelings and a knack for an insane number of instruments.

Wow. This guy is already revealing himself to be a real treasure for music lovers.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:48:24pm

re: #59 Kragar

Old joke

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The funny thing, in Europe, Internet Explorer is required by a settlement with the EU to present an option in browsers when it’s loaded for the first time.

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Reality Based Steve  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:48:54pm

re: #61 Sionainn

Did you hurt yourself rolling your eyes when you read that?

I think I saw my brain, that’s how far they rolled.

RBS

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:49:33pm

re: #60 Reality Based Steve

Over on FR they have hit Warp Derp. This is from one of the million or so threads about how Trump is being abused in some form or fashion.

yea…. it’s going to be just like Normandy, Watts and the Battle of Hastings all rolled into one.

RBS

LOL I’m thinking more like Chicago ‘68

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:49:53pm

Except that the rioting will be INSIDE the convention hall.

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Reality Based Steve  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:50:55pm

re: #63 Timothy Watson

The funny thing, in Europe, Internet Explorer is required by a settlement with the EU to present an option in browsers when it’s loaded for the first time.

I recall that. I also recall how MS was telling the Justice Dept that IE wasn’t tied to the operating system, while at DevCon they were busy telling us how in the next version it would be tied even TIGHTER to the OS.

RBS

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b.d.  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:51:18pm

re: #60 Reality Based Steve

Gee, wonder why the Secret Service said no to open carry on the convention floor?

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:52:40pm

19 years old. Fuck. When I was 19 I was just learning funk guitar and blues licks after playing punk and metal all through high school.

I am amaze.

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b.d.  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:52:59pm

re: #60 Reality Based Steve

yea…. it’s going to be just like Normandy, Watts and the Battle of Hastings all rolled into one.

The Rascal Rebellion

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Reality Based Steve  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:56:15pm

re: #70 b.d.

The Rascal Rebellion

The Hover-Round Light Cavalry Brigade.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:56:35pm

re: #70 b.d.

The Rascal Rebellion

Battle of Archie Bunker Hill.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 7:57:42pm
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Stanley Sea  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:00:17pm

Random you tube searching….old school Elvis Costello.

I’ve never seen this & it’s a goodie.

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - The Beat (Live 1978)

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Bass Reeves  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:01:38pm

re: #58 Sionainn

I think, if I have this right, that Nevada had a caucus that the majority of delegates went to Hillary. But those delegates didn’t show up at the next level, so…now Bernie?

Can we have a do-over with a closed primary?

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Great White Snark  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:04:59pm

re: #75 Bass Reeves

I think, if I have this right, that Nevada had a caucus that the majority of delegates went to Hillary. But those delegates didn’t show up at the next level, so…now Bernie?

Can we have a do-over with a closed primary?

Damn this country has both one political party too many and one too few..

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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:05:11pm

re: #60 Reality Based Steve

Over on FR they have hit Warp Derp. This is from one of the million or so threads about how Trump is being abused in some form or fashion.

yea…. it’s going to be just like Normandy, Watts and the Battle of Hastings all rolled into one.

RBS

Between the Trumpers’ the battle of a lifetime and the Berners’ the equivalent of saving the soul of this great nation
I really don’t know who is more full of shit.

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:05:47pm

re: #75 Bass Reeves

I think, if I have this right, that Nevada had a caucus that the majority of delegates went to Hillary. But those delegates didn’t show up at the next level, so…now Bernie?

Can we have a do-over with a closed primary?

You are correct that Clark County had the majority of delegates going to Hillary. There will be no do-over, however.

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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:08:32pm

re: #78 Sionainn

You are correct that Clark County had the majority of delegates going to Hillary. There will be no do-over, however.

What do you know about the credential woman, Kramer, and the challenge the Hillary team brought about her?

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Bass Reeves  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:10:32pm

re: #78 Sionainn

Clark County is just one county, but I have to guess that the majority of the final iteration of delegates will come from there (never been to NV). But really, this is just one county in one state?

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electrotek  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:10:34pm

This clown:

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:11:23pm

re: #79 BeachDem

What do you know about the credential woman, Kramer, and the challenge the Hillary team brought about her?

I just read in the comment section that she was fired.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:12:12pm

re: #63 Timothy Watson

The funny thing, in Europe, Internet Explorer is required by a settlement with the EU to present an option in browsers when it’s loaded for the first time.

Big guvmint tyranny!

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:13:23pm

re: #80 Bass Reeves

Clark County is just one county, but I have to guess that the majority of the final iteration of delegates will come from there (never been to NV). But really, this is just one county in one state?

It’s just one county out of 17. It looks like Hillary lost 4 delegates in Clark County and Bernie picked up 4. That’s not much. A lot of the counties went to Bernie, but since they are rural, they don’t have as many delegates.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:14:33pm

re: #76 Great White Snark

Quoted in my Twitter, with attribution and comment.

Exactly 140 characters this tweet is!

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bratwurst  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:16:15pm

re: #80 Bass Reeves

But really, this is just one county in one state?

Yes, but…it has no less than 75% of the population of the whole state.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:17:25pm

re: #86 bratwurst

Yes, but…it has no less than 75% of the population of the whole state.

Vegas *is* Nevada, whether those folks in Elko like it or not.

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:19:38pm

re: #87 teleskiguy

Vegas *is* Nevada, whether those folks in Elko like it or not.

I was born and raised in Las Vegas. I prefer the rest of the state. ;-)

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:20:08pm

re: #88 Sionainn

I was born and raised in Las Vegas. I prefer the rest of the state. ;-)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:20:21pm

I created two Chuck memes. One is in private tags coz of language usage.


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Reality Based Steve  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:23:11pm

re: #85 teleskiguy

Quoted in my Twitter, with attribution and comment.

[Embedded content]

Exactly 140 characters this tweet is!

Harmonica: Did you bring a horse for me?
Snaky: [Chuckling] It looks like we’re… it looks like we’re shy one horse!
Harmonica: You brought two too many

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Bass Reeves  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:24:05pm

re: #84 Sionainn

re: #86 bratwurst

Thanks, I think that shook the final piece loose in my head. Back to Discworld…

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:24:07pm

re: #88 Sionainn

I need to take some time traveling and camping in the Great Basin. GB National Park is on my list.

The desolation of the central part of Nevada intrigues me so. I hear it’s like the surface of the moon with a few snow-capped mountains in between, that sounds absolutely gorgeous to me.

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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:24:19pm

re: #82 Sionainn

I just read in the comment section that she was fired.

Hmh, did you see the letter that was in the John Ralston article?

ralstonreports.com

Think it will make any difference? It kinda sucks that she won Clark by more than 10 points and then lost all those delegates.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:26:42pm

re: #90 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The one behind the spoiler tag: That is the most asinine horseshit pseudo-intellectual excuse for bullying I’ve ever heard.

UpChuck is horrible. That is all.

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:28:05pm

re: #89 teleskiguy

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I love southern Utah!

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Great White Snark  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:28:45pm

re: #85 teleskiguy

Sorry dude, just my reaction to truly dangerous fanatics on the right and the propensity to argue among themselves on the left despite the right. Been voting that office since ‘80 and this one is such an embarrassing aberration my mind reels. Sometimes in the past we could brag to foreign friends or family about the quality of our guys and even if grudgingly admitting the credentials of those on the other side. Now? Change the subject

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Reality Based Steve  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:28:48pm

Ok, I’m outta here for the evening. I’ll catch you all tomorrow. Freeze warning tonight, and then going to be 70 on Monday. Go figure.

RBS

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:29:55pm

re: #93 teleskiguy

I need to take some time traveling and camping in the Great Basin. GB National Park is on my list.

The desolation of the central part of Nevada intrigues me so. I hear it’s like the surface of the moon with a few snow-capped mountains in between, that sounds absolutely gorgeous to me.

Great Basin National Park is one of the gems of Nevada. It’s remote enough that there aren’t a lot of visitors. Wonderful camping there. I love the fact that there are so many places to go in Nevada where you won’t see a single person, and since most of it is BLM land, there are lots of spots to get away from it all.

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calochortus  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:31:32pm

re: #93 teleskiguy

I need to take some time traveling and camping in the Great Basin. GB National Park is on my list.

The desolation of the central part of Nevada intrigues me so. I hear it’s like the surface of the moon with a few snow-capped mountains in between, that sounds absolutely gorgeous to me.

It is gorgeous. I wouldn’t want to live in that remote a location, but I love, love, love visiting.

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:32:01pm

re: #94 BeachDem

Hmh, did you see the letter that was in the John Ralston article?

ralstonreports.com

Think it will make any difference? It kinda sucks that she won Clark by more than 10 points and then lost all those delegates.

I did see the letter. I just updated the story in the Las Vegas Sun and she was suspended.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:33:02pm

re: #96 Sionainn

I love southern Utah!

Zion! All those canyons! Snow-capped mountains!

I think Utah is the greatest state in the Union when it comes to geography and topography. I would be living in SLC *right now*, but…

Utah is a case study of the importance of separation of church and state in our country. Thank dog for SLC - who elected their first openly gay mayor last year - for providing some semblance of balance between the religious and the secular.

But, yeah! Utah is so freaking beautiful.

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Great White Snark  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:33:54pm

re: #99 Sionainn

I love the fact that there are so many places to go in Nevada where you won’t see a single person, and since most of it is BLM land, there are lots of spots to get away from it all.

So right. Crowds and concrete are what I’m escaping from when I get out.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:37:09pm

Besides being a gifted instrumentalist, Jacob Collier is a really good vocalist, too. Singing falsetto and staying in tune is no easy task.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:44:31pm

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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:47:56pm

re: #101 Sionainn

I did see the letter. I just updated the story in the Las Vegas Sun and she was suspended.

Thanks. I’ll go look at that story.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:48:02pm
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calochortus  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:51:11pm

I’m just starting to plan our June trip to eastern Washington. We have 10-12 days and there is just so freaking much to see and with that short amount of time, there’s so much we just can’t include. Sigh. Steens Mountain (Oregon,) the Walla Wallas, the Channeled Scablands (main focus of the trip) the Columbia Gorge. And all the stuff we’ll just have to drive past.
Next year I’m hoping to get back to Great Basin. There are just too many things to see here in the West, to say nothing of the country as a whole.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:54:27pm

Me, trying to connect with the most famous person in my county. I’m a sucker for inopportune opportunities.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:58:04pm

Wow, I’m actually at the point where it’s installing Windows 10! After restarting the process over and over and over I finally found the correct magic words to make it go.

Totally ridiculous how difficult this is. Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves.

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calochortus  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:58:05pm

And speaking of “Night night” Good night, Lizards.
Hasta mañana.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 8:59:23pm

Instagram

Must come down… After skiing so many lines in marginal (but safe avalanche) conditions, it felt amazing to ski some soft powder.
Photo: @rob.lea (2/2)

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:01:22pm

Being able to post Instagram posts to LGF comments has already made the joint that much more beautiful.

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Kafitrar  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:04:14pm

One of my friends is a Bernie fan. He just posted this on Facebook about Sanders’ recent speech in the Bronx.

This speech is beautiful, simple and so important.
19,000 people came together in the South Bronx to hear it.
Especially the part about how change happens. What undergirds the Democratic race is a fundamental difference between the two candidates. One believes that change happens because smart elites cut deals in private and the obstacle to this elite deal-making are loud, indecorous, non-elite social movements. The other knows that change happens because social movements grow so large, so loud, so powerful, so undisputed in their occupation of the moral high ground that elites, in private, begin pretending that those movements’ demands were their idea all along.

I couldn’t roll my eyes hard enough.

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Sionainn  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:04:17pm

Off to bed. Goodnight, everyone!

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mmmirele  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:05:35pm

re: #102 teleskiguy

Zion! All those canyons! Snow-capped mountains!

I think Utah is the greatest state in the Union when it comes to geography and topography. I would be living in SLC *right now*, but…

Utah is a case study of the importance of separation of church and state in our country. Thank dog for SLC - who elected their first openly gay mayor last year - for providing some semblance of balance between the religious and the secular.

But, yeah! Utah is so freaking beautiful.

I lived in Utah for seven years in the 1990s. It is a gorgeous place. Where else can you live where you can be in the middle of a salt desert if you drive one hour west of Salt Lake City, or in the middle of snowcapped mountains if you drive one hour east? That said, the church plays an entirely outsized role in the state’s politics. Because the church disapproves of marijuana, there can be no discussion of medical marijuana. A loophole in the hate crimes law can’t be fixed because it might stop the church from being able to berate GLBT persons. And then there are the assumptions people make, particularly in Provo-Orem, that you’re an active member of the church. It can be annoying.

When someone in another state doesn’t get why separation of church and state is good, I suggest they need to be airdropped into Provo for a year to learn.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:11:56pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

I know that guy might have been seriously hurt, but I laughed.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:17:06pm

re: #117 Pawn of the Oppressor

I know that guy might have been seriously hurt, but I laughed.

I’m thinking cuts and bruises, stitches if it was really bad. But the worst is the deflated ego. His/or her steeze is no more forever. They are a Jerry Of The Day.

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:17:18pm

re: #114 Kafitrar

One of my friends is a Bernie fan. He just posted this on Facebook about Sanders’ recent speech in the Bronx.

I couldn’t roll my eyes hard enough.

Yep, remember how gun laws changed after the Sandy Hook shooting and the overwhelming support of the majority of American’s to background checks for gun purchases.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:18:28pm

Woo hoo! Eleven percent!

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:20:19pm

re: #118 teleskiguy

It was a male. No woman is stupid enough to miscalculate a jump underneath a chairlift where one ends up in a fucking tree.

Oh, and check out all the avalanche deaths this winter. 90% or better male.

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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:20:21pm

re: #114 Kafitrar

One of my friends is a Bernie fan. He just posted this on Facebook about Sanders’ recent speech in the Bronx.

I couldn’t roll my eyes hard enough.

They really are full of themselves, aren’t they, with their higher moral ground crap. Again, I ask, why didn’t Bernie, the paragon of all that is good, run in 2000 or 2004 or 2008 or challenge Obama in 2012, as he suggested someone should do?All of these issues were going on then? Why did he wait until now to lead the so-called revolution?

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:20:57pm

re: #120 Charles Johnson

Woo hoo! Eleven percent!

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At this rate you’ll be all good to go on Thursday!

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:21:52pm

re: #120 Charles Johnson

Woo hoo! Eleven percent!

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I will say that it didn’t take mine nearly as long, about an hour maybe. I’m not entirely sure why yours is taking that long.

One thing in Microsoft’s defense, they have to support a lot more hardware types than Apple. It’s the same issue Android’s had versus iOS.

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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:24:41pm

re: #120 Charles Johnson

Woo hoo! Eleven percent!

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You’ve inspired me to do the upgrade on my laptop (I have to go on a work trip the end of April, so I hope I have enough time to get it completed between now and then.)

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:25:58pm

Did you do the internet upgrade, Charles, or did you download the upgrade ISO?

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Stanley Sea  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:26:28pm

re: #114 Kafitrar

One of my friends is a Bernie fan. He just posted this on Facebook about Sanders’ recent speech in the Bronx.

I couldn’t roll my eyes hard enough.

Dream on weaver.

These people have not paid one iota of attention to the politics of the USA.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:33:41pm

re: #127 Stanley Sea

Again, this is why I took the view last night that they are a bunch of tantruming children.

Granted, about 75% of that is the fact that I have loneliness-induced stress out the wazoo, and someone it going to get it dropped on them. They just happen to be the easy target at the moment.

Trying to reach out to people to people who said they would be there when I got here, and failing. And a few people and a Mosque see it as their mission to “correct” me. I feel like I am going to go insane.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:34:52pm

re: #126 Belafon

Did you do the internet upgrade, Charles, or did you download the upgrade ISO?

The Internet upgrade.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:38:39pm

re: #129 Charles Johnson

The Internet upgrade.

I did mine overnight for both my old and new laptops. Even then, I had to reboot in the morning at least twice.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:38:41pm

re: #128 Ziggy_TARDIS

I think of you & hope for the best for you.

Do not stop trying.

I know you reach out to us for sanity. There’s only so much a comment can do. Hope you are still seeing therapist.

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Kafitrar  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:42:51pm

re: #122 BeachDem

They really are full of themselves, aren’t they, with their higher moral ground crap. Again, I ask, why didn’t Bernie, the paragon of all that is good, run in 2000 or 2004 or 2008 or challenge Obama in 2012, as he suggested someone should do?All of these issues were going on then? Why did he wait until now to lead the so-called revolution?

Yeah, but I’m going to let this one sit. I gently poked him and a few of my other pro-Bernie friends when he complained that Clinton is rigging the game. That was in response to Sanders possibly getting left off the Washington, DC primary ballot.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:43:02pm

Something to show the Trumpists in your life.

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Kafitrar  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:45:29pm

re: #128 Ziggy_TARDIS

Granted, about 75% of that is the fact that I have loneliness-induced stress out the wazoo, and someone it going to get it dropped on them. They just happen to be the easy target at the moment.

Trying to reach out to people to people who said they would be there when I got here, and failing. And a few people and a Mosque see it as their mission to “correct” me. I feel like I am going to go insane.

Are there any Meetups in your area for things you like that are not connected to your faith?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:46:33pm

re: #134 Kafitrar

Are there any Meetups in your area for things you like that are not connected to your faith?

There’s gotta be a Doctor Who group, for instance.

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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:46:36pm

re: #132 Kafitrar

Yeah, but I’m going to let this one sit. I gently poked him and a few of my other pro-Bernie friends when he complained that Clinton is rigging the game. That was in response to Sanders possibly getting left off the Washington, DC primary ballot.

If Clinton were really the mastermind they all think she is, I’d be even more in favor of her becoming president!
/

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Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:47:32pm

Rage Furby is so rich he went to New Zealand for vacation.

And yet, he doesn’t have the cash on hand to buy a lawnmower. LOL.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:48:01pm

re: #134 Kafitrar

Yep! Autism thing, and a local Whovian convention this month.

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:48:31pm

re: #136 BeachDem

If Clinton were really the mastermind they all think she is, I’d be even more in favor of her becoming president!
/

This is a bit of the same thing Obama gets accused of: Being both an idiot and a brilliant strategist.

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sagehen  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:48:45pm

re: #116 mmmirele

I lived in Utah for seven years in the 1990s. It is a gorgeous place. Where else can you live where you can be in the middle of a salt desert if you drive one hour west of Salt Lake City, or in the middle of snowcapped mountains if you drive one hour east?

Where I went to college (Claremont CA), there’s an annual surf/ski day — spend the morning at the beach, make it to the mountains in time for a couple of runs before sundown. And Joshua Tree (beautiful desert) is less than an hour east…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:49:29pm

re: #137 Charles Johnson

Rage Furby is so rich he went to New Zealand for vacation.

And yet, he doesn’t have the cash on hand to buy a lawnmower. LOL.

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He’s bought a house, gone to OZ and NZ, jets to various RW meetings around the USA, yet can’t afford his hosting or a lawnmower. It’s a puzzler.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:49:51pm

re: #137 Charles Johnson

Rage Furby is so rich he went to New Zealand for vacation.

And yet, he doesn’t have the cash on hand to buy a lawnmower. LOL.

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I got a creepy feeling that Ginger Snapped is going to find Jesus and get into the preacher business…

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Stanley Sea  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:49:58pm

re: #133 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Something to show the Trumpists in your life.

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USA USA USA USA

selfish fucks

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Stanley Sea  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:51:32pm

re: #141 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

He’s bought a house, gone to OZ and NZ, jets to various RW meetings around the USA, yet can’t afford his hosting or a lawnmower. It’s a puzzler.

Have you got the drift lately that all is not well with HAW?

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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:53:28pm

re: #128 Ziggy_TARDIS

Again, this is why I took the view last night that they are a bunch of tantruming children.

Granted, about 75% of that is the fact that I have loneliness-induced stress out the wazoo, and someone it going to get it dropped on them. They just happen to be the easy target at the moment.

Trying to reach out to people to people who said they would be there when I got here, and failing. And a few people and a Mosque see it as their mission to “correct” me. I feel like I am going to go insane.

I know I keep mentioning meeting up with fellow Democrats. You said things were slow because the primary is over, but there have to be Dem clubs and orgs.

When I moved down here, it was extremely lonely—and, because all of my work is out of state, there weren’t very many opportunities to interact with other people. Other than my next-door neighbor, I pretty much knew nobody until I hooked up with fellow Democrats. Went to some meetings and got involved. They were really welcoming (particularly here, where Dems are a rare, endangered species) and it was really easy to get involved. And trust me, they are really excited when young people show up!

(Stanley Sea can attest to how much fun hanging with Dems down here can be!)

I know it’s not the be all end all solution, but it might be worth a try.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2016 • 9:59:00pm

re: #137 Charles Johnson

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Stanley Sea  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:01:34pm

re: #145 BeachDem

I know I keep mentioning meeting up with fellow Democrats. You said things were slow because the primary is over, but there have to be Dem clubs and orgs.

When I moved down here, it was extremely lonely—and, because all of my work is out of state, there weren’t very many opportunities to interact with other people. Other than my next-door neighbor, I pretty much knew nobody until I hooked up with fellow Democrats. Went to some meetings and got involved. They were really welcoming (particularly here, where Dems are a rare, endangered species) and it was really easy to get involved. And trust me, they are really excited when young people show up!

(Stanley Sea can attest to how much fun hanging with Dems down here can be!)

I know it’s not the be all end all solution, but it might be worth a try.

I had the best time. Of course Beach Dem was everything you’d expect. Cool. Nice. PLU (an old one, “people like us”) But yes, the group of Democrats in SC were the best. If I lived there, they I have no doubt, would be my greatest friends. Miss you BD.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:02:08pm

It’s done! Windows 10 is MINE! MINE I SAY! BWAHAHA!

OK, I’ll calm down.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:05:55pm

re: #144 Stanley Sea

Have you got the drift lately that all is not well with HAW?

I’m not picking that up, but given his online anger, I can’t imagine living with him can be especially pleasant.

I have my hypotheses about HAW, but they are best kept private.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:06:53pm

Maybe Chuck can start a GoFundMe campaign for a new lawn mower.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:07:54pm

re: #149 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

TY. Interesting.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:09:30pm

re: #151 Stanley Sea

TY. Interesting.

It’s all speculation, of course.

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Jenner7  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:14:30pm

I’ve been moving shit all day, I hear Bernie fans think he won the nomination or something. //

Armando on twitter was trying to explain that nothing has changed.

I now have a room with a window and my soon to be teenage son has his own room.

Going to bed. Night Lizards. Have a pleasant Sunday.

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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:16:51pm

re: #147 Stanley Sea

I had the best time. Of course Beach Dem was everything you’d expect. Cool. Nice. PLU (an old one, “people like us”) But yes, the group of Democrats in SC were the best. If I lived there, they I have no doubt, would be my greatest friends. Miss you BD.

Same here—miss you. Wish we’d had more time to hang. Keep getting California jobs, but they’re not “go there” jobs, just setting up meetings. You never know, though. Unfortunately, my next road trip is to Westchester, NY—3.5 weeks in beautiful Yonkers. Sigh.

But I really do think “the kid” should channel his political interest into meeting like-minded folks. Dems, for all of our faults, are a pretty welcoming bunch, and there truly is diversity in the gatherings.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:17:11pm

re: #152 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Ah, but I trust the basic intuition.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:21:54pm

re: #154 BeachDem

I’m getting ready to retire. I check your east coast time. !!! latey

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BeachDem  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:23:44pm

re: #156 Stanley Sea

I’m getting ready to retire. I check your east coast time. !!! latey

Prime time for night owls.

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Belafon  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:25:27pm

Why they chose Benedict Cumberbatch (ht Balloon Juice):

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:31:12pm
Cash, PayPal, Bitcoin welcome!
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:48:43pm

Gah! Left out a word.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 10:51:08pm
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The Engineer Lobuno  Apr 2, 2016 • 11:04:50pm

re: #159 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

re: #161 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Call me blind, but I can’t see the difference between the two images.

Except that my nightmares will be doubled tonight.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 2, 2016 • 11:07:15pm

re: #162 The Engineer Lobuno

The first image left out the word “from” — I’ve deleted it from my image library.

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The Engineer Lobuno  Apr 2, 2016 • 11:07:59pm

re: #163 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The first image left out the word “from” — I’ve deleted it from my image library.

Ah, I see. I saw it after you uploaded the fix.

Thank you for explaining!

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:43:46am

The winds are insane.
Can’t sleep.

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MsJ  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:51:50am

re: #54 Reality Based Steve

There is a saying “A pistol is a tool that you use to fight your way back to the rifle you never should have dropped in the first place”. Edge is tool to download Firefox and/or Chrome.

RBS

Try Pale Moon. It’s Firefox stripped down and its glorious. Firefox is too bloated and slow these days.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:58:26am
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Romantic Heretic  Apr 3, 2016 • 2:02:43am

re: #121 teleskiguy

It was a male. No woman is stupid enough to miscalculate a jump underneath a chairlift where one ends up in a fucking tree.

Oh, and check out all the avalanche deaths this winter. 90% or better male.

Hold my beer and watch this.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 2:34:10am
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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Apr 3, 2016 • 2:45:18am

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bill Wi the Science Fi.
/mine

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 3, 2016 • 3:45:05am

re: #170 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Bill Wi the Science Fi.
/mine

Mine’s NSA Post 223.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 3, 2016 • 4:27:41am

yawn….

Time to go try to trick the basses into eating fake food…….

Yawn…… But first, Java and a taco.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 3, 2016 • 4:37:44am

Good Morning Lizardia!

Waiting for Zedushka to finishing getting his shit together so we can go to Toronto for the grandson’s Bar Mitzvah.

Meanwhile enjoy the STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY:

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 3, 2016 • 4:39:10am

If “Islamic Bakery” specialized in “Mohammed Cartoon Cakes” and sold them to Muslims, Jews, Atheists and Hindus but refused to sell them to Christians, then they might “have to”

But otherwise, no.

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Ming5000  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:04:30am

I had seen the headline, but just saw the picture:

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:09:24am

re: #175 Ming5000

I had seen the headline, but just saw the picture:

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Judging by where the knife is sitting, he also does that ridiculous thing of switching hands with the fork after cutting with the knife. Criminy!

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Alyosha  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:09:43am

re: #175 Ming5000

What kind of savage….

Ohhhh…

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:12:27am

re: #177 Alyosha

Yes. Savages.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:15:58am

re: #171 Dr Lizardo

Mine’s NSA Post 223.

Near us someone has Hurts When IP.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:23:02am

I kilt it.

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Ming5000  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:24:43am

The GOP convention in Cleveland (July 18-21) is starting to get some meat on the debacle bones.
Trump supporters are planning a rally and march at the same time as the convention.

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/04/02/donald-trump-ally-plans-protests-violence-trump-win-nomination/
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Ming5000  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:28:54am

Side note on that DaysOfRage rally. This was pointed out:

The “tech savviness” of this idea is demonstrated by the fact that Stone doesn’t use a hashtag (#DaysOfRage) but a Twitter address (@DaysOfRage) that belongs to some hapless mope named “Austin” whose timeline is about to get more interesting.

At the time of the original tweet Austin had 6 followers.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:33:41am

re: #182 Ming5000

Side note on that DaysOfRage rally. This was pointed out:

At the time of the original tweet Austin had 6 followers.

Trumpista is also historically inept. The 1968 Democratic Convention demonstration/police riot were not the “Days of Rage”, an SDS and Weather Underground effort that came some months later.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:35:04am

re: #183 Decatur Deb

Trumpista is also historically inept. The 1968 Democratic Convention demonstration/police riot were not the “Days of Rage”, an SDS and Weather Underground effort that came some months later.

Maybe Bill Ayers is secretly aligned with Donald Trump?

(God, I hope I didn’t just birth a conspiracy theory.)

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Decatur Deb  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:36:16am

re: #184 Timothy Watson

Maybe Bill Ayers is secretly aligned with Donald Trump?

(God, I hope I didn’t just birth a conspiracy theory.)

Even better, this has been attacked on Freep as an ‘Alinsky’ tactic.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:36:59am

re: #184 Timothy Watson

Maybe Bill Ayers is secretly aligned with Donald Trump?

(God, I hope I didn’t just birth a conspiracy theory.)

Attach his name to Trump and he becomes a heroic prankster.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:38:00am

re: #186 Barefoot Grin

Attach his name to Trump and he becomes a heroic prankster.

Sub-contractor. Trump hires all the best people to run his riots.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 3, 2016 • 5:44:58am

Off to fly the grand-kid’s rocket in the early quiet air. More fun than Sunday School. BBL.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:13:28am

As I read through some of the Bernie Bro remarks today, I find myself continued to facepalm any time I see one of them talk about “establishment” this or “establishment” that, as if the guy who has spent 26 years in Congress, has had the DNC support his campaigns, and has attended the same fundraisers and get-togethers that “the establishment” has is some different form of animal just because he says so.

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Billy Batts  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:14:41am

Drumpf is on Fox right now, and he has absolutely no idea what the hell he is talking about. I’m almost convinced that my original analysis (that he is ratfucking the GOP) is correct.

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Ming5000  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:17:25am

Do these people really believe this stuff?

In the occult, or secret world of abortion nothing is as it appears. In a LifeSiteNews article, we read the interview of a woman whose mother worked in an abortion clinic and who has firsthand knowledge of the clinic’s inner workings. According to this insider, the clinic was “pervaded with occult imagery and practices.” The article continued by stating that “the workers considered ‘abortion to be a form of sacrifice,’ would perform the procedure as a sort of ritual, and worshipped deities embodying death.”

Looking at the links provided I cannot help but feel worried about the people who are all in on this way of thinking.

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Billy Batts  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:19:56am

In every election cycle in my life, I’ve heard that “This is the most important election of our lifetime!” and when I’d hear that I’d just roll my eyes. I’m not rolling my eyes anymore. The GOP can not win the White House. At the top of my list is the Supreme Court; nothing else matters to me in November. If that makes me a single-issue voter, so be it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:20:58am

re: #191 Ming5000

Do these people really believe this stuff?

In a LifeSiteNews article, we read the interview of a woman whose mother worked in an abortion clinic and who has firsthand knowledge of the clinic’s inner workings. According to this insider, the clinic was “pervaded with occult imagery and practices.”
.

Whether the mere facts are correct or not is of course irrelevant: it reflects a Higher Truth, namely that abortion is Satanic.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:23:58am

Coincidence, got up at 4:00 am, early before work. Sat down at my desk, fired up my rig, windows 10 was installed. Aaarrrrggghh. The first screen had an option agree/ disagree. I disagreed and win 7 was back up in about ten minutes. I really hate their fucking constant nagging, I’m going to have to find the regedit that will stop that. I have win 10 on my laptop and guest rig. I really don’t like it, having to scroll though tiles to find apps fucking sucks.

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451_Montag  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:24:09am

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

If “Islamic Bakery” specialized in “Mohammed Cartoon Cakes” and sold them to Muslims, Jews, Atheists and Hindus but refused to sell them to Christians, then they might “have to”

But otherwise, no.

So that means I can order a “Jesus, smoking a joint, while being fisted by the village people in a planned parenthood clinc while bestowing healthcare on Latinos cartoon” cake from an evangelical bakery?

Why do these nutsacks never get the idea that it is just about equality. Offer a product to one, offer it to all. It isn’t hard.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:27:38am

re: #195 451_Montag

Dude, where is your bakery? Asking for a friend.

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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:28:47am

So, I wake up to 55 MPH winds and the news that Trump wants to hold a rally on Long Island on Wednesday at Grumman Studios in Bethpage.

The biggest studio in the facility (the one he wants to use) is just shy of 40,000 square feet - good-sized, but not a huge venue. My guess is he wants to pack out a small room to look good for the TV cameras.

I don’t know what to expect in terms of demonstrations or protests. But judging by some of the mooks I run into on LI, he might be playing to a house that loves him.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:29:43am

re: #194 Amory Blaine

Coincidence, got up at 4:00 am, early before work. Sat down at my desk, fired up my rig, windows 10 was installed. Aaarrrrggghh. The first screen had an option agree/ disagree. I disagreed and win 7 was back up in about ten minutes. I really hate their fucking constant nagging, I’m going to have to find the regedit that will stop that. I have win 10 on my laptop and guest rig. I really don’t like it, having to scroll though tiles to find apps fucking sucks.

You can revert to the old start menu, you know. The tiles are for touch screens.

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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:30:25am

re: #198 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

You can revert to the old start menu, you know. The tiles are for touch screens.

Or just click through to your desktop, which looks like Win 8.1.

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Ming5000  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:30:58am

re: #192 Billy Batts

Agree with you. I have never felt such a sense of dread about the possible future of our nation. We have a whole swath of dangerously backwards citizens who favor actions that weaken the ideals of the Constitution rather than honor it. (Malheurians, Creationists, “Pro-Life”ers, on and on)
When I look at the Berniacs I see the look of enthusiasm for the things most on the left espouse. I hope that enthusiasm will translate into long term action and not flicker out when their shiny penny doesn’t pan out. Their future depends on it.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:31:50am

re: #198 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Cool. Can you 86 Cortana?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:33:07am

An Amtrak train struck a backhoe that was left on the tracks south of Philadelphia Sunday, and fatalities were reported.

The train struck the piece of equipment around 8 a.m. this morning in Chester, Pa. and caused the train’s engine to derail.

Two people were reportedly killed, and others were being treated for injuries.

The train had left New York City early Sunday morning and was bound for Savannah, Ga., carrying 341 passengers and 7 crew members, according to a statement from Amtrak.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:34:33am

re: #194 Amory Blaine

How to customize the Win10 start menu. If you don’t like the tiles at all, scroll to the bottom of this page.
howtogeek.com

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Amory Blaine  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:35:47am

Jesus Christ, who would leave a backhoe on railroad tracks? Either stupid and irresponsible, or malicious.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:35:49am

re: #201 Amory Blaine

Cool. Can you 86 Cortana?

Ask and ye shall receive.
tomshardware.com

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Amory Blaine  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:37:14am

re: #205 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Sorry to make you do my leg work. I’ve been basically ignoring it, but it looks like the writing is on the wall.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:42:05am

re: #206 Amory Blaine

Sorry to make you do my leg work. I’ve been basically ignoring it, but it looks like the writing is on the wall.

No worries.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:44:08am

jeebus, I feel old. The photo in that tweet is the April 3, 1974, Xenia tornado. That same day I drove my Honda Civic around the curve on Route 50 in Ohio and straight into an F5 Sayler Park tornado. It picked my car up at the east end of Sayler Park and spit it out a couple miles away at the west end of town.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:45:52am

re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus, I feel old. The photo in that tweet is the April 3, 1974, Xenia tornado. That same day I drove my Honda Civic around the curve on Route 50 in Ohio and straight into an F5 Saylor Park tornado. It picked my car up at the east end of Saylor Park and spit it out a couple miles away at the west end of town.

!!
Were you in the car at the time?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:48:56am

re: #209 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

!!
Were you in the car at the time?

yes I was. It was just like being in the Wizard of Oz.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:50:23am

re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth

yes I was. It was just like being in the Wizard of Oz.

Damn. You are one lucky person!

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:50:57am

re: #173 The Vicious Babushka

Good Morning Lizardia!

Waiting for Zedushka to finishing getting his shit together so we can go to Toronto for the grandson’s Bar Mitzvah.

Meanwhile enjoy the STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY:

[Embedded content]

???

I don’t understand that cartoon. Federal civil rights laws don’t require bakeries to bake a specific type of cake. Businesses which serve the public are required, however, to serve the public and not pick and choose based on race, sex, religion, etc. Perhaps Rightwingers need an education on Federal civil rights laws so they don’t embarrass themselves with silly memes.

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Mattand  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:53:00am

re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth

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jeebus, I feel old. The photo in that tweet is the April 3, 1974, Xenia tornado. That same day I drove my Honda Civic around the curve on Route 50 in Ohio and straight into an F5 Sayler Park tornado. It picked my car up at the east end of Sayler Park and spit it out a couple miles away at the west end of town.

The tornado picked up the car with you in it and deposited you two miles away?????

I can’t even…

How badly were you hurt?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:53:04am

re: #212 Patricia Kayden

???

I don’t understand that cartoon. Federal civil rights laws don’t require bakeries to bake a specific type of cake. Businesses which serve the public are required, however, to serve the public and not pick and choose based on race, sex, religion, etc. Perhaps Rightwingers need an education on Federal civil rights laws so they don’t embarrass themselves with silly memes.

They don’t embarrass easily. Any objection or correction from a “libtard” is immediately discounted as invalid. Lalalalalala. I can’t hear you!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:55:49am

re: #213 Mattand

The tornado picked up the car with you in it and deposited you two miles away?????

I can’t even…

How badly were you hurt?

I wasn’t physically hurt and, despite all the huge debris flying around inside the tornado (boats, fishing shacks, HUGE trees, pieces of houses), there wasn’t a mark on my car.
Mentally, it took a few years to recover. I eventually became a severe weather spotter and tornado chaser for the NWS.

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Mattand  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:57:54am

re: #212 Patricia Kayden

???

I don’t understand that cartoon. Federal civil rights laws don’t require bakeries to bake a specific type of cake. Businesses which serve the public are required, however, to serve the public and not pick and choose based on race, sex, religion, etc. Perhaps Rightwingers need an education on Federal civil rights laws so they don’t embarrass themselves with silly memes.

I’m embarrassed to say it, but I could never quite figure out to word the response that stupid question until now. That’s why I do better behind a keyboard; I’m not as fast on my feet as I should be. Thanks so much for posting that.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 6:58:15am

Oh hai, Chuck. I see you are targeting John Podhoretz and Shane Smith now.

An Investigation: Is John Podhoretz a Lying Anti-Semitic Jew? Sure Looks That Way

WE TOLD YOU SO: The Coming End of Vice Media & Click Bait?

I think losing his Facebook access has driven Chuck into paying attention to his blog.

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Mattand  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:00:04am

re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth

I wasn’t physically hurt and, despite all the huge debris flying around inside the tornado (boats, fishing shacks, HUGE trees, pieces of houses), there wasn’t a mark on my car.
Mentally, it took a few years to recover. I eventually became a severe weather spotter and tornado chaser for the NWS.

Wow. Glad to hear that. They grow ‘em tough in KY.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:03:59am

re: #91 Reality Based Steve

Harmonica: Did you bring a horse for me?
Snaky: [Chuckling] It looks like we’re… it looks like we’re shy one horse!
Harmonica: You brought two too many

Love the opening to that movie. Sets up the atmosphere, gritty, and a good use for a really good set of western character actors.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:08:32am

re: #122 BeachDem

They really are full of themselves, aren’t they, with their higher moral ground crap. Again, I ask, why didn’t Bernie, the paragon of all that is good, run in 2000 or 2004 or 2008 or challenge Obama in 2012, as he suggested someone should do?All of these issues were going on then? Why did he wait until now to lead the so-called revolution?

Because he thought he could compete with Hillary by portraying her as flawed and totally establishment as compared to running against Obama himself and getting his ass kicked.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:09:29am

re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth

I understand. Even though I have not had anything like that happen to me I too watch the weather carefully.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:12:07am

re: #150 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Maybe Chuck can start a GoFundMe campaign for a new lawn mower.

Might even work if he promises to make potato salad or coleslaw with it.

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Mattand  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:12:47am

re: #220 Feline Fearless Leader

Because he thought he could compete with Hillary by portraying her as flawed and totally establishment as compared to running against Obama himself and getting his ass kicked.

That goes a real long way towards explaining his campaign of:

1. Elect me President
2. ?????
3. FREEDOM!!!!

At times, he really does seem to take that attitude of “Don’t ask questions how I’ll work with Congress while flipping off both parties, just trust me.”

Because if he’s counting on our astute, educated electorate to back him up, he’s in for a rude awakening.

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Mattand  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:13:40am

re: #220 Feline Fearless Leader

Off-topic: where was that John Paul Jones statue you shot yesterday? It looked like it was near the Art Museum, but I couldn’t quite figure it out.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:14:52am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:15:44am

re: #217 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Oh hai, Chuck. I see you are targeting John Podhoretz and Shane Smith now.

I think losing his Facebook access has driven Chuck into paying attention to his blog.

Short versions:
Podhoretz once called Chuck a “mentally ill monster,” and some other names in 2014 (!), so Chuck is still upset. Podhoretz also supports Michelle Fields, and you know how Chuck feels about her. He says some nasty shit about Podhoretz, even about his first marriage falling apart.

Shane Smith of Vice Media has also reported negatively on Chuck, so he’s on Chuck’s shit list. Now that Vice is apparently suffering a loss of web traffic (I have not confirmed this), Chuck is crowing that he predicted its demise in 2013.

Every single article he’s published these last two weeks have contained some kind of vindictive, evil remark about at least one person — a conservative, no less. Life must not be going so well for the Rage Furby.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:17:36am

re: #166 MsJ

Try Pale Moon. It’s Firefox stripped down and its glorious. Firefox is too bloated and slow these days.

I tried Pale Moon and it was eating just as much memory as Firefox was. I finally went with Chrome since I could disable Flash easier there and that made things marginally manageable. Knocking out Flash in Firefox was a pain since it would constantly restart Flash processes anyways - which would then eat memory and refuse to give it back.

(also seeing the never-ending loading in Chrome today with this page. Message in bottom left alternating between “Waiting for littlegreenfootballs.com…” and “Waiting for vast.bp#######.btrll.com. or just “Connecting…” ####### is a 7-digit string.)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:20:34am

re: #227 Feline Fearless Leader

I tried Pale Moon and it was eating just as much memory as Firefox was. I finally went with Chrome since I could disable Flash easier there and that made things marginally manageable. Knocking out Flash in Firefox was a pain since it would constantly restart Flash processes anyways - which would then eat memory and refuse to give it back.

(also seeing the never-ending loading in Chrome today with this page. Message in bottom left alternating between “Waiting for littlegreenfootballs.com…” and “Waiting for vast.bp#######.btrll.com. or just “Connecting…” ####### is a 7-digit string.)

Are you sure it’s the browser? How is your ‘net connection, usually? Pretty quick, or only so-so?

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:25:43am

re: #224 Mattand

Off-topic: where was that John Paul Jones statue you shot yesterday? It looked like it was near the Art Museum, but I couldn’t quite figure it out.

It’s on the down slope of the hill behind the Art Museum (assuming the front is facing City Hall.) There are a few sculpture gardens back there near the dam on the river along with the Azalea Garden.

The statues are of Revolutionary War heroes interspersed with cherry trees. The one garden behind it (on top of the underground parking garage) is more modern pieces and includes the giant electrical plug.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:28:54am

re: #228 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Are you sure it’s the browser? How is your ‘net connection, usually? Pretty quick, or only so-so?

Net connection varies since it’s Comcast and I’m in the middle of a city. But this is the only site that I get this intermittent “always loading” behavior on. And it might not happen when I move up to the next page. But once it’s doing it on a particular page I have never seen it stop, though re-loading the page sometimes stops it - thus my belief that it has to do with what ads the page is trying to load. Which sometimes includes one of those never-ending repeat video ads.

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451_Montag  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:29:53am

re: #220 Feline Fearless Leader

Because he thought he could compete with Hillary by portraying her as flawed and totally establishment as compared to running against Obama himself and getting his ass kicked.

I’m starting g to really hate the idea that is independent. I prefer the idea that he is simply selfish.

26 voting on the basis of what is best for himself. Never had to compromise for the sake of a shared party vision for America. Never had to work with others to get a workable policy, just this is what I want and I’ll vote for whatever will do me the most good in Vermont.

So easy to vote when you are in an uncontested seat. Never having to pay for making a decision that your smallish pool of voters wouldn’t like, for the greater good.

Guns kill more people than “terrorists”, but continually vote for the NRA. Way to make a difference there Bernie. Could easily stand up and say sorry Vermont, gun control is better for the people, but not won’t go there. Selfish.

Seriously, this rumpled out socialist professor , on the side of the people is really starting to look an act every bit as false as Trump.

Like or or loathe her Hillary has actually done the grunt work, trying to get stuff passed. Name your cliche… Putting her head above the parapet, in the trenches, at the chalk face. So what if she hasn’t won every thing. At least she tried. And she has spent the last 40 years taking lumps for trying.

Her reward now? So called democrats reusing tired old republican attacks. Some reward

Minor rant mode off

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:36:28am

re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Sorry Jane, under the bus you go.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:37:21am

re: #230 Feline Fearless Leader

Net connection varies since it’s Comcast and I’m in the middle of a city. But this is the only site that I get this intermittent “always loading” behavior on. And it might not happen when I move up to the next page. But once it’s doing it on a particular page I have never seen it stop, though re-loading the page sometimes stops it - thus my belief that it has to do with what ads the page is trying to load. Which sometimes includes one of those never-ending repeat video ads.

Oh, it’s got to be the ads. I’m a subscriber, so I don’t usually have any problems, other than being stuck behind the Great Firewall of China. Sometimes I have trouble with Javascript loading properly, because the connection times out (I think).

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:40:28am

re: #220 Feline Fearless Leader

Because he thought he could compete with Hillary by portraying her as flawed and totally establishment as compared to running against Obama himself and getting his ass kicked.

I believe Bernie saw the small field and thought of this as his big chance to win it all. Just found out the other day that Bernie managed to win his Senate seat in one of the most underhanded ways possible, namely running for the Dem nomination and then declaring after he’d won it that he didn’t want it and would be running as an independent. In other words, he decapitated the only possible competition and then left Democrats in Vermont with no choice but to support him or stay home. That’s the kind of man running this year, the kind that is not above dirty tricks to advance his “revolution.”

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:41:53am

re: #234 Targetpractice

I believe Bernie saw the small field and thought of this as his big chance to win it all. Just found out the other day that Bernie managed to win his Senate seat in one of the most underhanded ways possible, namely running for the Dem nomination and then declaring after he’d won it that he didn’t want it and would be running as an independent. In other words, he decapitated the only possible competition and then left Democrats in Vermont with no choice but to support him or stay home. That’s the kind of man running this year, the kind that is not above dirty tricks to advance his “revolution.”

So he’s a “Tea Party” Democrat. Wants all the benefits of a major party without any of the responsibilities attached to belonging to one.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:45:43am

re: #233 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Oh, it’s got to be the ads. I’m a subscriber, so I don’t usually have any problems, other than being stuck behind the Great Firewall of China. Sometimes I have trouble with Javascript loading properly, because the connection times out (I think).

That Javascript is involved would not surprise me one bit.

I reloaded the page and once it loaded the messages at the bottom settled back into revolving between the same 7-8; “Connecting…” , “Resolving host…”, “waiting for littlegreenfootballs”, “waiting for vast.bp3866364.brtll.com…”, and every so often “waiting for stickytvads (or something like that). So it’s some sort of ad list conflict I guess.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:46:00am

re: #235 Feline Fearless Leader

So he’s a “Tea Party” Democrat. Wants all the benefits of a major party without any of the responsibilities attached to belonging to one.

Nah, he’s one worse than a Tea Partier. They wanted to change the party “from the inside.” He wants to hijack the party and use it to advance his own ambitions, then discard it as soon as he’s gotten as far as he can. I would not be surprised if, after either winning the nomination or the presidency, he jumped up and declared he was an “independent” again.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:47:04am

re: #237 Targetpractice

Nah, he’s one worse than a Tea Partier. They wanted to change the party “from the inside.” He wants to hijack the party and use it to advance his own ambitions, then discard it as soon as he’s gotten as far as he can. I would not be surprised if, after either winning the nomination or the presidency, he jumped up and declared he was an “independent” again.

I’m more referring to the large Tea Party sect that are essentially Republicans too embarrassed to call themselves Republicans. Since they walk, quack, and act like ducks.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:47:54am

Bernie hasn’t publicly disagreed with anything his surrogates have said so far, why start now?

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:50:41am

re: #238 Feline Fearless Leader

I’m more referring to the large Tea Party sect that are essentially Republicans too embarrassed to call themselves Republicans. Since they walk, quack, and act like ducks.

Nah, Bernie’s not a Democrat, never really has been. He’s a political opportunist, something he admitted to a couple weeks ago when he told us that he’s basically just running in the Dem primaries because it’s getting him media attention and donations. He knew that an indie run would never pan out, that his “revolution” didn’t have the support to go anywhere.

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Alyosha  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:53:39am

Hear, hear.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:54:41am

re: #240 Targetpractice

Nah, Bernie’s not a Democrat, never really has been. He’s a political opportunist, something he admitted to a couple weeks ago when he told us that he’s basically just running in the Dem primaries because it’s getting him media attention and donations. He knew that an indie run would never pan out, that his “revolution” didn’t have the support to go anywhere.

Well, the “revolution” (small “r”) might well be the Democratic Party tightening down who can run and possibly getting rid of some caucuses. Especially if the recent shenanigans in Nevada actually carry all the way to the National Convention. (I presume that there will be some further contention regarding how those get allocated. Or Hillary simply won’t care once she gets a sufficient majority.)

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:54:44am

re: #230 Feline Fearless Leader

Net connection varies since it’s Comcast and I’m in the middle of a city. But this is the only site that I get this intermittent “always loading” behavior on. And it might not happen when I move up to the next page. But once it’s doing it on a particular page I have never seen it stop, though re-loading the page sometimes stops it - thus my belief that it has to do with what ads the page is trying to load. Which sometimes includes one of those never-ending repeat video ads.

I’ve asked this before, but when about half the pages here keep grinding away indefinitely, I just hit the little “x” in the address bar to stop the page load. Failing that, I could hit command+period to stop it. Won’t Windows allow you to do that?

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:56:21am

re: #243 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’ve asked this before, but when about half the pages here keep grinding away indefinitely, I just hit the little “x” in the address bar to stop the page load. Failing that, I could hit command+period to stop it. Won’t Windows allow you to do that?

Hitting the “X” button does nothing to stop the process. I just go from the “X” to the “O” button being available. The Command+period has no effect either.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:56:24am

All right, Chuck says Vice Media is tanking, because its web traffic fell 17% in one month. But after reading the same Variety article as he cites, I can’t jump to the same conclusion. While Vice. com’s traffic might be down, Vice Media seems to be doing quite well overall.

CNN’s report likewise does not suggest Vice is tanking.

And I note that Chuck has misconstrued a remark by Shane Smith to mean exactly the opposite of Smith’s intent.

Here’s the quote in context from a report in the Hollywood Reporter:

Media expert Michael Wolff once suggested in a Hollywood Reporter column that the latter simply are “drawn to his Pied Piper ability to attract ever-more media executives and the ever-larger multiples they and their col­leagues seem willing to pay for a piece of Vice.” Smith seems to delight in the skepticism that both his voracious dealmaking and his personal antics — the free-flowing booze, the $300,000 Vegas dinners and the liberal use of profanity (“f—” was uttered 52 times in this interview) — evoke, but he shoots down Wolff’s premise, unable to contain a chuckle: “You think I could hoodwink Bob Iger, Jeff Bewkes and Rupert Murdoch?”

Smith is clearly being sarcastic: “Do you really think I could hoodwink them?”

But Chuck construes that remark (contained in a tweet by someone else) to suggest Smith was making a statement about how he could trick those moguls.

Everything Smith had told about his past is a lie — including war time correspondent status — but he’s still managed to con Rupert Murdoch and Bob Iger into investing in Vice Media. Well done, Shane, but the truth catches up to every con man.

Vice’s Shane Smith Asks, “You Think I Could Hoodwink Bob Iger, Jeff Bewkes and Rupert Murdoch?” t.co

— THR TV News (@THRtv) February 3, 2016

Since he links to tweets and not the original articles, I suspect Chuckles is taking a big shortcut and using the tweets as evidence, rather than, you know, taking the time to read the articles referred to in the tweets.

He hates Shane Smith, so even if he read the articles, I guess he’d reach the same conclusions.

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darthstar  Apr 3, 2016 • 7:59:15am

Okay…Ted Cruz’s daughter is charming. She’s going to survive being that asshole’s kid.

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Alyosha  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:00:42am

This was the first tweet which I accidentally ommitted.
Bill Maher says that the primary process ought to be long because America is over-endowed with undecideds; and that these people are dumb and need an extended open window of time in which to blunder into the discussion and make a decision. Maybe it’s one of those throwaway remarks that sometimes make him funny but doesn’t add anything to the conversation.

Primary season, while enjoyable, is too long.
Mutant narratives get too much sunlight and poison the groundwater for the general. It also makes those of us with less stamina mix metaphors.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:01:14am

re: #246 darthstar

Okay…Ted Cruz’s daughter is charming. She’s going to survive being that asshole’s kid.

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So, what happens when Ted sees that photo? I hope he just laughs.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:02:06am

re: #244 Feline Fearless Leader

Hitting the “X” button does nothing to stop the process. I just go from the “X” to the “O” button being available. The Command+period has no effect either.

I used to have a Firefox plugin that allowed me to control which sites loaded when I opened a webpage. For example, when I load LGF, it links to Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube as the page loads. On my old computer and using FF, the page would just hang indefinitely, because China blocks all those services. The plugin, whose name I’ve forgotten, allowed me to “turn off” linking to those sites, and the page would load a lot more quickly.

Now, I don’t have that problem. New computer, Opera, and a faster network connection means I seldom have slow page loads like before.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:02:46am

re: #246 darthstar

Okay…Ted Cruz’s daughter is charming. She’s going to survive being that asshole’s kid.

Is she the younger one, who flicked at his face when he tried to kiss her?

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Teukka  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:05:36am

re: #203 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

How to customize the Win10 start menu. If you don’t like the tiles at all, scroll to the bottom of this page.
howtogeek.com

Also, you don’t have to go with the big tiles, you can change their sizes. I use them for stuff I use very often :)

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:05:38am

re: #249 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I used to have a Firefox plugin that allowed me to control which sites loaded when I opened a webpage. For example, when I load LGF, it links to Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube as the page loads. On my old computer and using FF, the page would just hang indefinitely, because China blocks all those services. The plugin, whose name I’ve forgotten, allowed me to “turn off” linking to those sites, and the page would load a lot more quickly.

Now, I don’t have that problem. New computer, Opera, and a faster network connection means I seldom have slow page loads like before.

I’m still using an old HP laptop running Win7. Probably a few Java versions behind as well. Problem with the current run of bloatware is that things reached the point on this machine that I have trouble running more than one piece of software (browser, Itunes, etc) at a time since they all want more than one-third of the memory. And given the machine I would be better off getting a new box than adding more memory.

Maybe I will just do that post-taxes. And just keep this one for handling photos, game work, etc. where I don’t need much net access.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:10:36am

re: #241 Alyosha

Hear, hear.

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I agree, except open primaries are a spectacularly bad idea. All they lead to is Republican ratfucking.

The first time I registered to vote, my Geology teacher registered everybody in class who wanted to. I expected to have to register as a Democrat or Republican, but no, he said Washington was the only state with open primaries like that. (He may have been wrong, but he was a State Rep, so….)

People finally got tired of the Republican ratfucking (we didn’t call it that in those days) and put in a closed primary. This led to so much bitching and moaning about “not letting people vote for who they want—wah, wah, mommy, they’re mean to me!!!” that we made the mistake of going back to open primaries: In fact worse than open—first two go on to the General.

I cannot wrap my brain around the thinking of these people who think anybody should be able to vote in a party primary. You’re choosing who you want to represent your party. It’s none of the random public’s goddamn business. By the same reasoning, the public should get to vote on Boeing’s CEO.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:10:46am

re: #252 Feline Fearless Leader

I’m still using an old HP laptop running Win7. Probably a few Java versions behind as well. Problem with the current run of bloatware is that things reached the point on this machine that I have trouble running more than one piece of software (browser, Itunes, etc) at a time since they all want more than one-third of the memory. And given the machine I would be better off getting a new box than adding more memory.

Maybe I will just do that post-taxes. And just keep this one for handling photos, game work, etc. where I don’t need much net access.

One other thing I’ve learned is to avoid loading up browsers with plugins. I run Opera with only two, AdBlock Plus, and unfortunately *%$*()*#! Flash. My Firefox installation on my old computer had at least four plugins, and it would routinely gobble up RAM if I kept it running while I did other things.

BHOs are another pain in the ass. Often you’ll load some freeware, and it will load some kind of Browser Helper Object if you don’t specifically say “NO!” Then those BHOs bog down the browser with their glitchy code.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:12:03am

Morning LGF!

I’ve mentioned before our local NBC station has a local politics show on every Sunday right before Meet The Press. Today there was talk about Trump and his problems with how he handled the questions from Chris Matthews on abortion.

Good ol’ Johnny Kasich was asked about it and he basically said that it was a stupid statement and showed Trump wasn’t ready for the big job. And then he said that it put women in an awkward situation and they shouldn’t have to worry about that…or some such bullshit. I didn’t hear it too well as I was making a late breakfast and my blood was just coming to a boil.

I tried to see if I could find video of it, but I don’t think they post video until a few days after the show.

Think about that. Johnny was worried about women being inconvenienced by Trump’s words about being punished.

How about being totally inconvenienced by sneaky politicians like you that change Ohio’s abortion laws on a weekend on in the middle of a Friday night. How about the fact women may be looking at politicians like you making abortion totally illegal.

I guess Johnny needs a lesson as to what punishment means. No access to abortion is draconian punishment.

In Kasich world he knows he can’t come out and say it like Trump did. That is what really worries Kasich. Trumps big mouth takes the cover away from snakes like Kasich.

Grrrrrr…and then there was the bit on the show with stiff Rob Portman and why America needs to vote for a new president and then we can all talk about Supreme Court nominations. I hope that idiot gets dumped big time. Dude is a total nothing.

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BeachDem  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:14:45am

re: #232 Targetpractice

Sorry Jane, under the bus you go.

Well, today she can have a nice conversation with Valerie Plame, who took up residence under the bus yesterday.

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BeachDem  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:17:58am

re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bernie hasn’t publicly disagreed with anything his surrogates have said so far, why start now?

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Has anyone verified whether Nina Turner really pushed Bernieorbust yesterday in Nevada? (Yes, I want somebody to do my research for me, libtards!)//

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:23:11am

re: #247 Alyosha

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This was the first tweet which I accidentally ommitted.
Bill Maher says that the primary process ought to be long because America is over-endowed with undecideds; and that these people are dumb and need an extended open window of time in which to blunder into the discussion and make a decision. Maybe it’s one of those throwaway remarks that sometimes make him funny but doesn’t add anything to the conversation.

Primary season, while enjoyable, is too long.
Mutant narratives get too much sunlight and poison the groundwater for the general. It also makes those of us with less stamina mix metaphors.

From where I’m sitting, a long primary season in particular and a long election season in general does more to turn people off to politics than it does to force them to make a choice. You can only spend so many weeks tuning into the nightly news only to hear about the latest shitstorm debate, campaign rally, or interview before you just want to leave your TV off until after November. Plus the wall-to-wall political ads don’t do much to help people feel that politics is anything but a shitslinging competition.

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Jenner7  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:25:01am

re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth

But she’s the one not to be trusted.

Man, he loses my respect more and more each day.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:26:15am

re: #259 Jenner7

But she’s the one not to be trusted.

Man, he loses my respect more and more each day.

“Give us the speech transcripts!”

“Where’s Bernie’s tax returns?”

“Can’t you see that she’s the one who’s lying?!”

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Great White Snark  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:27:39am

Good morning all. Too hungry for politics. Got this brunch recipe idea. French toast as a faux sandwich, with sauteed apple and sweet creme cheese in the middle. Maybe a lil powdered sugar garnish. I’m just not quite sure about the cheese part. Never made that as I’m not much of a pastry guy cooking wise.

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Alyosha  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:28:43am

re: #253 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I was open to the idea of non-registered people being able to vote for candidates in order to make it easier to vote, but you’re right.
If you’re invested enough in who a represents a party going into an election, you ought to be registered.

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Great White Snark  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:36:09am

Registration and voting should be an obligation like taxes and draft registration. The system just would have to let some people turn it in blank or none of the above. Legit as a protest vote. But just lazily skipping the whole thing? I can find no outrage to have over such an easy obligation to fulfill.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:41:55am

re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth

yes I was. It was just like being in the Wizard of Oz.

1974…that means you were in one of the original tiny civics. No competition for a big ass tornado. Wow.

I still remember that storm. I was watching a lot of it blow up through Columbus at around the same time. Later that week I was at a friend’s house in Bellville, Ohio, just south of Mansfield. They lived on a big hill. His father was out walking around their property and he found a big stack of papers. He looked at them, and they must have all been in a file cabinet or something from a house/business in Xenia. They were all clumped together having traveled some 90+ miles all in one clump during the storm.

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Great White Snark  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:44:31am

re: #259 Jenner7

But she’s the one not to be trusted.

Man, he loses my respect more and more each day.

The one tiny good thing about the long season is we get a good long look at these people. It’s easy to keep the mask from slipping for a short while. Then comes that 4th speech at that third city on a long day months into it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:44:55am

re: #264 ObserverArt

1974…that means you were in one of the original tiny civics. No competition for a big ass tornado. Wow.

Yep. I had one of the very first Civics sold in Greater Cincinnati. Every time something went wrong with it, it triggered a recall for every other Civic in North America.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:47:37am

re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yep. I had one of the very first Civics sold in Greater Cincinnati. Every time something went wrong with it, it triggered a recall for every other Civic in North America.

I was just reading about the 1974 super outbreak that hit Xenia.

Just damn. You were lucky as hell.

en.wikipedia.org

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Mattand  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:48:36am

re: #229 Feline Fearless Leader

It’s on the down slope of the hill behind the Art Museum (assuming the front is facing City Hall.) There are a few sculpture gardens back there near the dam on the river along with the Azalea Garden.

The statues are of Revolutionary War heroes interspersed with cherry trees. The one garden behind it (on top of the underground parking garage) is more modern pieces and includes the giant electrical plug.

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Cool. Thanks. Sounds like it’s near the Waterworks. For whatever reason, I have not biked in that area, even though I usually end my rides at the front of the museum.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:48:50am

re: #231 451_Montag

I’m starting g to really hate the idea that is independent. I prefer the idea that he is simply selfish.

26 voting on the basis of what is best for himself. Never had to compromise for the sake of a shared party vision for America. Never had to work with others to get a workable policy, just this is what I want and I’ll vote for whatever will do me the most good in Vermont.

So easy to vote when you are in an uncontested seat. Never having to pay for making a decision that your smallish pool of voters wouldn’t like, for the greater good.

Guns kill more people than “terrorists”, but continually vote for the NRA. Way to make a difference there Bernie. Could easily stand up and say sorry Vermont, gun control is better for the people, but not won’t go there. Selfish.

Seriously, this rumpled out socialist professor , on the side of the people is really starting to look an act every bit as false as Trump.

Like or or loathe her Hillary has actually done the grunt work, trying to get stuff passed. Name your cliche… Putting her head above the parapet, in the trenches, at the chalk face. So what if she hasn’t won every thing. At least she tried. And she has spent the last 40 years taking lumps for trying.

Her reward now? So called democrats reusing tired old republican attacks. Some reward

Minor rant mode off

It was a good rant. We are learning a lot about Bernie.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:51:12am

re: #234 Targetpractice

I believe Bernie saw the small field and thought of this as his big chance to win it all. Just found out the other day that Bernie managed to win his Senate seat in one of the most underhanded ways possible, namely running for the Dem nomination and then declaring after he’d won it that he didn’t want it and would be running as an independent. In other words, he decapitated the only possible competition and then left Democrats in Vermont with no choice but to support him or stay home. That’s the kind of man running this year, the kind that is not above dirty tricks to advance his “revolution.”

Damn. Did you happen to have a link to some of that info?

That’s a really snake-like move on his part. I guess what we are seeing now is not unique to his character.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:52:38am

re: #269 ObserverArt

It was a good rant. We are learning a lot about Bernie.

If the Bernie Bros have done anything useful, it is driving people to do deep research into the man as a means of spiting them. Seriously, can anyone imagine his getting this level of vetting without assholes on the net driving people to look into him just to destroy his messiah status amongst the BBs? I didn’t even know about his backstabbing the DNC in ‘06 until just the other day.

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Mattand  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:56:35am

re: #255 ObserverArt

Think about that. Johnny was worried about women being inconvenienced by Trump’s words about being punished.

How about being totally inconvenienced by sneaky politicians like you that change Ohio’s abortion laws on a weekend on in the middle of a Friday night. How about the fact women may be looking at politicians like you making abortion totally illegal.

I guess Johnny needs a lesson as to what punishment means. No access to abortion is draconian punishment.

In Kasich world he knows he can’t come out and say it like Trump did. That is what really worries Kasich. Trumps big mouth takes the cover away from snakes like Kasich.

A competent host would have immediately pivoted to this line of thought, which most likely would have ignited the temper that I keep hearing Kasich has, and caused him never to come back to the show

This, right here, is a perfect example of why the myth of the liberal media is just that.

Shit, I don’t want a liberal media. I want a competent one.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:57:13am

I’ve noticed a lot of ‘Clinton getting frustrated’ stories now. Seriously, any evidence to back this up journalists? Seems like wingnut wishes, berniebro hopes, or horserace invested mainstream desires.

Not actual news.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:59:06am

Of course, now that I’ve done even more research, I find that Counterpunch reported about the ‘06 election all the way back in July of last year. And he didn’t backstab them so much as make a seriously undemocratic agreement: He’d show up on state party’s primary ballot, but if he won he wouldn’t accept the party’s nomination. And any Democrat who chose to run against him in the election itself would get absolutely no financial help from the national party.

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Mattand  Apr 3, 2016 • 8:59:28am

re: #271 Targetpractice

If the Bernie Bros have done anything useful, it is driving people to do deep research into the man as a means of spiting them. Seriously, can anyone imagine his getting this level of vetting without assholes on the net driving people to look into him just to destroy his messiah status amongst the BBs? I didn’t even know about his backstabbing the DNC in ‘06 until just the other day.

I think it’s also a preview of what will happen to Bernie if gets the nom and the GOP has him fully in their sights. The Bros, and maybe Bernie himself, are so wrapped up in the belief that Bernie is The Chosen One who will awaken the Unwashed Masses, they’ve shut out all reality.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:01:45am

re: #268 Mattand

Cool. Thanks. Sounds like it’s near the Waterworks. For whatever reason, I have not biked in that area, even though I usually end my rides at the front of the museum.

The trail does a dip under a bridge right at the museum and then goes along with the Waterworks on the left and a rock outcrop on the right*. As you come clear of the outcrop and even with the dam on your left the place with the cherry trees and statues is immediately on your right. The trail then curves around a fountain and parking area** before going down Boathouse Row.

* - There are a few paths up the rock outcrop and the two pavilions with a nice view on the top of the outcrop.

** - Beyond that parking area is the Azalea Garden. Which is generally a good place to look at flowers since they have a selection of plants that usually has something blooming most of the year.

There’s also a little side trail along the river right before you up the hill to the Art Museum. That’s where I have been seeing turtles and taking my pictures of the local “weeds” blooming for a DailyKos diary. There’s steps at the end, so it’s not very bicycle friendly.

Most of my trail walks go up into that area. Alternates are going the other way down to the dog park and South Street, or crossing the Spring Garden St bridge and going up to the far side of the dam. (That’s the better side for afternoon photography.)

Art Museum in the late afternoon sun
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Alyosha  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:02:29am

re: #263 Great White Snark

Compulsory voting here. But I am envious of the US’ primary system. I could register as a Labor member and vote in preselection ballots, but that is only on a federal seat level in a parliamentary system. It’s not the same. Head of state is still the Governor General, proxy of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, appointed by the Prime Minister, whose leadership is decided within the party caucus and whose own authority is determined by a majority of federal seats.
I’m a Republican, naturally.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:06:21am

re: #257 BeachDem

Has anyone verified whether Nina Turner really pushed Bernieorbust yesterday in Nevada? (Yes, I want somebody to do my research for me, libtards!)//

Nina Turner is nuts. There I said it. She is so far up in that Bernie cloud she may never come back down. I love enthusiasm. But it is always best when it is anchored in reality.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:06:41am

re: #273 SoundGuy 2016

I’ve noticed a lot of ‘Clinton getting frustrated’ stories now. Seriously, any evidence to back this up journalists? Seems like wingnut wishes, berniebro hopes, or horserace invested mainstream desires.

Not actual news.

It’s the “horse race” narrative still running amuck. It’s mathematically improbable that the man can win the nomination, even less likely considering how hard he’s working to piss off the party when he desperately needs the superdelegates to have any hope of being the nominee. But the fact that he keeps spinning his wheels is supposedly “frustrating” to Hillary and the DNC because he’s getting in the way of her “coronation.”

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:07:00am

Regarding “weed” photos -

Blooming Henbit

One of these was planted on purpose. The other was not.

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Kafitrar  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:07:54am

re: #276 Feline Fearless Leader
That’s a beautiful photo. The colors look rich.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:12:51am

Finally saw Deadpool last night. Oh. My. God! I keep remembering parts and laughing again.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:14:02am

re: #272 Mattand

A competent host would have immediately pivoted to this line of thought, which most likely would have ignited the temper that I keep hearing Kasich has, and caused him never to come back to the show

This, right here, is a perfect example of why the myth of the liberal media is just that.

Shit, I don’t want a liberal media. I want a competent one.

The host of the show is a long-time NBC4i (Columbus) news host/reader…Coleen Marshall. She is also a lawyer at one of the biggest Columbus law firms. She’s never come out and said her party affiliation, but guessing by the firm she works with and some of her questioning on her local politics show…I think it safe it to say she is conservative, though not outrageously so.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:17:03am

re: #273 SoundGuy 2016

I’ve noticed a lot of ‘Clinton getting frustrated’ stories now. Seriously, any evidence to back this up journalists? Seems like wingnut wishes, berniebro hopes, or horserace invested mainstream desires.

Not actual news.

One fiery comeback to a Green Peace questioner on a meet the candidate line and she is getting frustrated.

11 hours being grilled by the BENGHAZI!!! crew and cool as an ice chest in the blazing sun but that is nothing.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:21:14am

re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yep. I had one of the very first Civics sold in Greater Cincinnati. Every time something went wrong with it, it triggered a recall for every other Civic in North America.

Was that the same storm system that hit Louisville? I was still in New York at the time, but I’ve seen photos of an entire stand of huge trees in Cherokee Park uprooted and thrown around like matchsticks.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:21:18am

re: #284 ObserverArt

One fiery comeback to a Green Peace questioner on a meet the candidate line and she is getting frustrated.

She showed some fire there. If she were a man the response would be different.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:25:26am

re: #286 SoundGuy 2016

She showed some fire there. If she were a man the response would be different.

Look at how she’s been criticized for remarking on Bernie’s tone (i.e. weeks of shitslinging), dubbed “afraid” and the suggestion made that if she can’t face him, how’s she gonna stand up to The Donald.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:27:33am

re: #287 Targetpractice

Look at how she’s been criticized for remarking on Bernie’s tone (i.e. weeks of shitslinging), dubbed “afraid” and the suggestion made that if she can’t face him, how’s she gonna stand up to The Donald.

I can’t wait until Trump has to debate Hillary Clinton. He’s going to get his ass kicked.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:27:49am

re: #287 Targetpractice

Look at how she’s been criticized for remarking on Bernie’s tone (i.e. weeks of shitslinging), dubbed “afraid” and the suggestion made that if she can’t face him, how’s she gonna stand up to The Donald.

Right. After 11 hours of hearings with Republican bozos.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:28:24am

re: #245 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I turned my comment into a GotNwes post.

I’m convinced that Rage Furby only read those tweets he quotes, and not the actual articles the tweets refer to. Total factual FAIL (TFF — I just coined that term. All royalties must go to me, henceforth.)

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:29:34am

re: #288 I Would Prefer Not To

I can’t wait until Trump has to debate Hillary Clinton. He’s going to get his ass kicked.

I’m thinking the next Democrat/Independent debate between Hillary and Bernie, most likely in New York next week, is going to be must see TV.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:29:44am

re: #285 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Was that the same storm system that hit Louisville? I was still in New York at the time, but I’ve seen photos of an entire stand of huge trees in Cherokee Park uprooted and thrown around like matchsticks.

yep

About an hour after the Brandenburg tornado, the same supercell spawned an F4 tornado that formed in the southwest part of Jefferson County near Kosmosdale. Another funnel cloud formed over Standiford Field Airport, touched down at The Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, and destroyed the majority of the horse barns at the center and part of Freedom Hall (a multipurpose arena) before it crossed Interstate 65, scattering several vehicles on that busy expressway. The tornado continued its 22-mile (35 km) journey northeast where it demolished most of Audubon Elementary School and affected the neighborhoods of Audubon, Cherokee Triangle, Cherokee-Seneca, Crescent Hill, Indian Hills, Northfield, Rolling Fields, and Tyler Park. Numerous homes were destroyed in residential areas, including a few that were leveled. The tornado ended near the junction of Interstates 264 and 71 after killing three people, injuring 207 people, destroying over 900 homes, and damaging thousands of others. Cherokee Park, a historic 409-acre (1.66 km2) municipal park located at Eastern Parkway and Cherokee Road, had thousands of mature trees destroyed. A massive re-planting effort was undertaken by the community in the aftermath of the tornado.[5][33]

Dick Gilbert, a helicopter traffic reporter for radio station WHAS-AM, followed the tornado through portions of its track including when it heavily damaged the Louisville Water Company’s Crescent Hill pumping station, and gave vivid descriptions of the damage as seen from the air.[34] A WHAS-TV cameraman also filmed the tornado when it passed just east of the Central Business District of Louisville.[34]

WHAS-AM broke away from its regular programming shortly before the tornado struck Louisville and was on-air live with John Burke, the chief meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Louisville office at Standiford Field when the tornado first descended. The station remained on the air delivering weather bulletins and storm-related information until well into the early morning hours of April 4. As electrical power had been knocked out to a substantial portion of the city, the radio station became a clearinghouse for vital information and contact with emergency workers, not only in Louisville but across the state of Kentucky due to its 50,000-watt clear-channel signal and the fact that storms had knocked numerous broadcasting stations in smaller communities, such as Frankfort, off the air. Then-Governor Wendell Ford commended the station’s personnel for their service to the community in the time of crisis, and Dick Gilbert later received a special commendation from then-President Richard Nixon for his tracking of the tornado from his helicopter.[35]

en.wikipedia.org

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:30:00am

re: #288 I Would Prefer Not To

I can’t wait until Trump has to debate Hillary Clinton. He’s going to get his ass kicked.

I look forward to it. The only question is how much will Hillary do to him or how much he’ll do to himself.

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blueraven  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:31:33am

One more fact checker finds Bernie is misrepresenting fossil fuel money to Clinton. Three Pinocchios.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:32:42am

re: #289 Blind Frog Belly White

Right. After 11 hours of hearings with Republican bozos.

The past is a foreign country to the media, hence why they rarely report upon it. So we’re all supposed to have forgotten the 11 hour committee hearing that was predicted to be “the end” for her presidential ambitions and just assume she’s never faced any real pressure in her life.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:32:48am

My wife is really excited about Hillary running. She’s never voted and taken part in politics but she is excited to vote for a woman, especially one with a serious record and experience.

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BeachDem  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:33:15am

re: #272 Mattand

A competent host would have immediately pivoted to this line of thought, which most likely would have ignited the temper that I keep hearing Kasich has, and caused him never to come back to the show

This, right here, is a perfect example of why the myth of the liberal media is just that.

Shit, I don’t want a liberal media. I want a competent one.

And it really doesn’t take that much to set Kasich off. He tends to be more nasty and sarcastic than angry, which showcases the meanness under the “nice guy” persona quite effectively.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:33:59am

re: #294 blueraven

One more fact checker finds Bernie is misrepresenting fossil fuel money to Clinton. Three Pinocchios.

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The longer he stays in, the more of a pariah the man makes himself. If he pushes this all the way to the convention, like his fan club insists he will, he’s gonna find a very frosty reception in Philly.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:34:32am

re: #293 SoundGuy 2016

I look forward to it. The only question is how much will Hillary do to him or how much he’ll do to himself.

Hillary should take a page from Obama and use the phrase, “Please Proceed.” as much as possible.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:35:14am

Good grief. You mean the Rage Furby is still going? He posted attacks on John Podhoretz and Shane Smith overnight? He’s on a serious hate bender.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:35:42am

re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thanks for confirming my hunch.

Forty years later, you’d never know that tornado had clobbered Louisville so hard.

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CleverToad  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:37:19am

re: #296 SoundGuy 2016

My wife is really excited about Hillary running. She’s never voted and taken part in politics but she is excited to vote for a woman, especially one with a serious record and experience.

My mom is looking forward to voting for her — likes the idea of finally having a woman in that office, and likes this well-qualified woman.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:37:32am

Should Hillary concede? She’s only 9m votes and 700 delegates ahead but she’s really frustrated because Bernie gets under her skin.

#Fakebutaccurate

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BeachDem  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:38:41am

re: #278 ObserverArt

Nina Turner is nuts. There I said it. She is so far up in that Bernie cloud she may never come back down. I love enthusiasm. But it is always best when it is anchored in reality.

She’s the perfect Bernie person, when you think about it. The Ohio Dems helped her rise in the party, then she decided she was on to bigger things and decided to lose to Husted for SoS instead of doing her job; the Clintons, Bill in particular, supported her in her SoS run, then she shits on them and is not just a Bernie surrogate, but a shit-slinging anti-Clinton surrogate.

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BeachDem  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:40:19am

re: #279 Targetpractice

It’s the “horse race” narrative still running amuck. It’s mathematically improbable that the man can win the nomination, even less likely considering how hard he’s working to piss off the party when he desperately needs the superdelegates to have any hope of being the nominee. But the fact that he keeps spinning his wheels is supposedly “frustrating” to Hillary and the DNC because he’s getting in the way of her “coronation.”

I’m particularly sick of the coronation crap. Hillary is working her ass off, and so is her team.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:41:20am

I really think women are going to come out and vote for Hillary. I also think the AA vote made a serious impact on Sanders.

I don’t think this election will be close. I sure hope not.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:41:53am
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BeachDem  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:43:43am

re: #289 Blind Frog Belly White

Right. After 11 hours of hearings with Republican bozos.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:45:05am

I’m open to all viewpoints. And I show it be retweeting a lot of white supremacists.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:45:42am

re: #308 BeachDem

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I LOVE that picture - Hillary still gladhanding, perfectly composed, smiling. Trey Gowdy covered in greasy flopsweat.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:50:59am

re: #298 Targetpractice

The longer he stays in, the more of a pariah the man makes himself. If he pushes this all the way to the convention, like his fan club insists he will, he’s gonna find a very frosty reception in Philly.

If Hillary still has the lead in pledged delegates and popular votes, he’ll have considerably less support from his own ranks for making a stink.

We’re still in the stages where it’s possible. How he handles the fading of that possibility is the key. Many worried about the party coming together in 2008. but between Bill, Hillary, and Barack, that worry was effectively defused.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:51:34am

re: #302 CleverToad

My mom is looking forward to voting for her — likes the idea of finally having a woman in that office, and likes this well-qualified woman.

I wish my mom were alive to witness this event. She liked Bill, and I think Hillary, too.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:51:36am

I sorta miss Barney Frank.

“If the voters have a position, the votes will kick money’s rear end any time. I’ve never met a politician— I’ve been in the legislative bodies for 40 years now— who, choosing between a significant opinion in his or her district and a number of campaign contributors, doesn’t go with the district.

And I have had people tell me— and we talk honestly to each other, we don’t lie to each other very often. You don’t survive if you do. As chairman of a committee, I’d be lobbying for votes. I have had members say to me, Mr. Chairman, I love you. Barney, you’re right. But I can’t do that politically because I’ll get killed in my district. No one has ever said to me, I’m sorry, but I got a big contributor I can’t offend.”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 9:57:20am

re: #307 Charles Johnson

It’s the Trump Effect. He’s shattered the tenuous conservative collective into its component parts. So now we’re watching the different factions choose sides. Podhoretz slams Pollak for being an idiot, Pollak slams Podhoretz for being judgmental, and Chuck Johnson, the goy, jumps into defend Pollak and attack Podhoretz with an especially nasty post.

I’m disappointed Chuck didn’t try to blame the Amtrak crash on a drug-addled gay black man this time. He’s slipping. /

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:02:31am

There’s something immensely frustrating about Sanders supporters (as opposed to Bernie Bros) who are now trying to act indignant about the negative backlash to the actions of his campaign as well as the BBs. They’ve known this shit was going on for months, they’ve sat silently or tried to make excuses for not speaking out, and now are angry because they’re getting lumped in as targets of the negativity.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:05:32am

re: #314 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’m sure Chuccubus has started a GoFundMe to pay for journalism finding a drug addled gay black man Cruz supporter parked the tractor on the tracks that crashed the train.

The truth is out there you just have to pay enough in the free market of ideas.

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Great White Snark  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:06:14am

re: #286 SoundGuy 2016

She showed some fire there. If she were a man the response would be different.

True, and we can’t have another President that waits until the second term to show some. Two in a row would be bad policy there. Opposition led congress etc etc.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:06:30am

re: #316 SoundGuy 2016

I’m sure Chuccubus has started a GoFundMe to pay for journalism finding a drug addled gay black man Cruz supporter parked the tractor on the tracks that crashed the train.

The truth is out there you just have to pay enough in the free market of ideas.

Not Cruz. It would have to be Rubio. Chuck loves Cruz.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:07:47am

re: #318 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’m having a hard time keeping track of who various wingnuts are for or against.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:09:40am

re: #319 SoundGuy 2016

I’m having a hard time keeping track of who various wingnuts are for or against.

Someone needs to keep a scorecard. Eventually, they’ll all fall behind Trump, unless there’s some big blow-up at the convention.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:12:03am

re: #320 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Someone needs to keep a scorecard. Eventually, they’ll all fall behind Trump, unless there’s some big blow-up at the convention.

If there is, all bets are off.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:14:07am

re: #321 Targetpractice

If there is, all bets are off.

I’ll be in the States during that time. I’m staying far away from Cleveland.

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b_sharp  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:17:36am

So, who won the presidential election?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:19:09am

re: #320 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Someone needs to keep a scorecard. Eventually, they’ll all fall behind Trump, unless there’s some big blow-up at the convention.

If they try to take it away from Trump there is a big chance he will run third party. And even if he doesn’t a lot of his fans will turn their backs on the GOP out of disgust and a sense of betrayal.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:19:12am

There’s a Facebook page called Periods for Pence. Trolling Level: Expert.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:19:46am

re: #323 b_sharp

So, who won the presidential election?

Some black guy from Kenya.

///

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:19:59am

re: #323 b_sharp

So, who won the presidential election?

I only know who is losing.

All of us.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:23:37am

re: #282 Blind Frog Belly White

Finally saw Deadpool last night. Oh. My. God! I keep remembering parts and laughing again.

I immediately thought of this.

Man. I’d hate to be the guy who tries to pressure her into prom sex.

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b_sharp  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:27:18am

re: #326 Targetpractice

Some black guy from Kenya.

///

So, we’re not there yet?

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:28:29am

re: #329 b_sharp

So, we’re not there yet?

We can’t all have elections that are done in the time it takes to boil an egg.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:29:16am

re: #330 Targetpractice

We can’t all have elections that are done in the time it takes to boil an egg.

We love instant miracle diets, overnight get rich quick schemes and we want our election outcomes predicted months in advance.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:30:12am

re: #273 SoundGuy 2016

I’ve noticed a lot of ‘Clinton getting frustrated’ stories now. Seriously, any evidence to back this up journalists? Seems like wingnut wishes, berniebro hopes, or horserace invested mainstream desires.

Not actual news.

I imagine this is Clinton’s reaction to all this foofaraw.

Hillary Clinton Gets That Dirt Off Her Shoulder

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Kragar  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:31:19am

re: #328 Romantic Heretic

I immediately thought of this.

“You will come talk with Professor Xavier.”

“McAvoy or Stewart? These timelines can get so confusing.”

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451_Montag  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:33:06am

re: #310 Blind Frog Belly White

I LOVE that picture - Hillary still gladhanding, perfectly composed, smiling. Trey Gowdy covered in greasy flopsweat.

It pretty much we summed up the Dems and the GOP at the moment.

Dems, cool, calm and coping.

GOP not

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b_sharp  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:34:45am

re: #330 Targetpractice

We can’t all have elections that are done in the time it takes to boil an egg.

Why?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:35:32am

I’m just trying to understand. Oil execs are employees of oil companies too. Just like those “lowly” secretaries and janitors Sanders touts as donations to his campaign. Trying this angle to appear “a man of the people” is just so stupid.

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Kragar  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:36:07am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:36:38am

re: #335 b_sharp

We can’t all have elections that are done in the time it takes to boil an egg.

Why?

because we have political parties and news networks that see it in their interest to start the next campaign as soon as the last one has ended

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Kragar  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:37:17am

Who left their nightmare fuel lying around?

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b_sharp  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:37:18am

I’m watching friends arguing about Bernie/Hillary and getting quite heated over it. I find it disturbing.

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b_sharp  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:37:48am

re: #338 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

because we have political parties and news networks that see it in their interest to start the next campaign as soon as the last one has ended

Crazy.

Not enough weed being smoked.

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stpaulbear  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:46:00am

re: #294 blueraven

One more fact checker finds Bernie is misrepresenting fossil fuel money to Clinton. Three Pinocchios.

I just posted that WaPo article to my Facebook page. I need to post more stuff like that.

Let’s see if anyone comes back with “..but Bernie never lies!!” or “…but WaPo!”, something to the effect that I’m not being fair.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:46:15am
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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:46:18am

re: #335 b_sharp

Why?

We Americans bore easily if not subjected to constant stimulation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:49:38am

re: #344 Targetpractice

We Americans bore easily if not subjected to constant stimulation.

And endless stream of reality shows and celebrity gossip fills the void that replaces actual thought and interaction

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BeachDem  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:49:39am

re: #342 stpaulbear

I just posted that WaPo article to my Facebook page. I need to post more stuff like that.

Let’s see if anyone comes back with “..but Bernie never lies!!” or something to the effect that I’m not being fair.

Oh, there are multiple kos diaries about how the WaPo should get the pinocchios for lying about Bernie. (Also, Barney Frank has joined Valerie Plame and countless others under the bus now.) Sigh.

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thedopefishlives  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:51:27am

Afternoon Lizardim.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:53:42am
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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:54:55am

re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Trump Heroin: The high from it is YUUUUUGE!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:55:52am

re: #349 Targetpractice

Trump Heroin: The high from it is YUUUUUGE!

And we can make Mexico pay for it!!!

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Apr 3, 2016 • 10:59:18am

Florence and the Machine is doing the theme song for Final Fantasy XV. They are doing a rendition of Stand By Me.

Final Fantasy XV - Reclaim Your Throne [EN]

Square Enix is putting alot down on this game. Trying to make a Skyrim-killer. And Final Fantasy VII killer too.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:00:47am

2 am here. Tomorrow is a holiday, so I don’t have classes, but I still need sleep. Later on, people!

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stpaulbear  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:01:43am

re: #352 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

2 am here. Tomorrow is a holiday, so I don’t have classes, but I still need sleep. Later on, people!

Can we borrow your holiday when Monday arrives here?

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451_Montag  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:04:46am

re: #350 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

And we can make Mexico pay for it!!!

But also makes you want to puke.

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bratwurst  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:07:42am

My Twitter pal Scott Adams has a VERY hot take today:

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stpaulbear  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:08:02am

re: #354 451_Montag

But also makes you want to puke.

…and will probably kill you within four years.

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Great White Snark  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:15:25am

re: #349 Targetpractice

Trump Heroin: The high from it is YUUUUUGE!

It will make your hair stand up!

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:16:23am

re: #357 Great White Snark

It will make your hair stand up!

And turn your skin that lovely shade of orange!

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Great White Snark  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:18:38am

She just wants that Food And Drug Admin position.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:20:55am

re: #351 Ziggy_TARDIS

Florence and the Machine is doing the theme song for Final Fantasy XV. They are doing a rendition of Stand By Me.

[Embedded content]

Video

Square Enix is putting alot down on this game. Trying to make a Skyrim-killer. And Final Fantasy VII killer too.

Working title: Super Magical White Goths In Trouble Challenge 37

It looks cool, but I have no idea what it’s about. I never have. :P Florence and The Machine are amazing though…

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:21:42am

re: #355 bratwurst

My Twitter pal Scott Adams has a VERY hot take today:

Now I’ve seen it all. Comic strip Dilbert wades into terrorism territory.

They already had their immigrant office intern, Asok, busted on suspicion of terrorism.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:24:33am

re: #340 b_sharp

I’m watching friends arguing about Bernie/Hillary and getting quite heated over it. I find it disturbing.

Do you mean here at LGF?

I don’t think it has been too bad here. This is a political discussion board, and most here feel themselves as being pretty fair-minded.

Add in many LGF members are conservatives and think there is too much bad stuff going on there, and others are independent and I think it equals a pretty fair group.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:29:03am

re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth

She’s 36…

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William Lewis  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:32:19am

re: #351 Ziggy_TARDIS

I probably should find a copy of VII someday. In the meantime, I still like III the best.

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gwangung  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:33:01am

re: #362 ObserverArt

Do you mean here at LGF?

I don’t think it has been too bad here. This is a political discussion board, and most here feel themselves as being pretty fair-minded.

Add in many LGF members are conservatives and think there is too much bad stuff going on there, and others are independent and I think it equals a pretty fair group.

LGF is more conservative than other sites; it tilts Clinton pretty much. At other sites with more Sanders representation, the discussions are a bit…livelier.

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Great White Snark  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:33:07am

re: #362 ObserverArt

In describing this blog to someone who has never seen it or anything of the political blog scene, I describe this as a kindly left leaning blog with a primary loyalty to facts, and a mostly self policed kindly nature. For those who have been political blogging for some time I just say see for yourself. Edit see for yourself as in they don’t tell the truth about this place out there.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:33:54am

There’s a lot more bullshit at other sites. Here, BS has a very short shelf life.

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:35:13am

re: #194 Amory Blaine

Coincidence, got up at 4:00 am, early before work. Sat down at my desk, fired up my rig, windows 10 was installed. Aaarrrrggghh. The first screen had an option agree/ disagree. I disagreed and win 7 was back up in about ten minutes. I really hate their fucking constant nagging, I’m going to have to find the regedit that will stop that. I have win 10 on my laptop and guest rig. I really don’t like it, having to scroll though tiles to find apps fucking sucks.

You don’t have much longer. They are planning on dropping support for all OSs other than 10 in the near future (which means no security fixes). The flip side is they’re not planning on making any more major OS releases.

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William Lewis  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:36:32am

re: #365 gwangung

Oy, I hear that. I gored a few at another site the other day over how every election its the same: vote for this times fantasy unicorn and everything will magically get better. The butthurt are still whining in that thread today

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:39:10am

re: #364 William Lewis

You can get it on Steam, and Playstation Network.

As in Final Fantasy III, or VI. I find VI to be an over-rated piece of garbage.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:49:40am

re: #365 gwangung

LGF is more conservative than other sites; it tilts Clinton pretty much. At other sites with more Sanders representation, the discussions are a bit…livelier.

Do you get a feeling there might be some hesitation about Bernie discussion here? As in Bernie supporters may think there is too much Clinton and Clinton supporters don’t want to say too much about Bernie so as to not offend.

Of course, people are going to see it they way they see it, but in a general way the board may not be the place for the Bernie fan so there may be members that hold their thoughts.

I thought maybe that was a little of what b_sharp may have been asking.

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Snarknado!  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:54:40am

re: #368 Belafon

You don’t have much longer. They are planning on dropping support for all OSs other than 10 in the near future (which means no security fixes). The flip side is they’re not planning on making any more major OS releases.

Third parties are still supporting XP and above. I have a mac in case I really need to worry about security (although I grew up in the pre-digital world and have never really moved away from it). But the way I feel now, I will move to linux before I’ll try win 10. That forced upgrade business is a serious deal breaker to me.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:56:07am
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stpaulbear  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:56:35am

re: #371 ObserverArt

Seems to me that there’s a lot of Bernie-follower bashing here rather than straight out Bernie Bashing, but LGF doen’t cut Bernie much slack any more either.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2016 • 11:59:25am

re: #374 stpaulbear

Seems to me that there’s a lot of Bernie-follower bashing here rather than straight out Bernie Bashing, but LGF doen’t cut Bernie much slack any more either.

Slack shouldn’t be cut ever!

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Amory Blaine  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:01:19pm

Trousers however..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:01:39pm
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Dr. Matt  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:04:11pm

re: #373 Charles Johnson

Correction: I was misinformed as to the ethnic background of Mr. Lewandowski. He is, in fact, a Catholic, not a Jew, but that sort of proves the point, doesn’t it?
~Rage Furby

This is all sorts of stupid for so many reasons.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:05:40pm

re: #363 GlutenFreeJesus

She’s 36…

Drugs will do that to you. I’m only two years younger than her but in that pic she looks like she could be my mother.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:06:03pm

Oh boy.

When Black Voters Exited Left
What African Americans lost by aligning with the Democratic Party

While the passage of the Civil Rights Act helped Johnson earn support from 94 percent of black voters in 1964, there is a gulf between what black Americans hoped the legislation would achieve and what Democratic politicians actually delivered. Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped end apartheid conditions in the South, a critical objective for which grassroots black Southern activists fought and died, the legislation did little to address the structures of racism that shaped black lives in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. This was an intentional consequence of how the bill’s sponsors, largely liberals from the North, Midwest, and West, crafted the legislation.

Liberals didn’t really want to help black folk. At least he didn’t come out and say Democrats are the real racists.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:06:40pm

re: #370 Ziggy_TARDIS

You can get it on Steam, and Playstation Network.

As in Final Fantasy III, or VI. I find VI to be an over-rated piece of garbage.

I am a big fan of the original Final Fantasy III, not the North American Final Fantasy III that was actually Final Fantasy VI. I also like final Final Fantasy IV and I think VIII was underrated.

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Archangelus  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:07:16pm

re: #339 Kragar

Who left their nightmare fuel lying around?

[Embedded content]

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b.d.  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:11:57pm

re: #373 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:11:59pm

re: #381 Eclectic Cyborg

I like your taste in games. VIII is my favourite, seeing how VII was hobbled by mistranslations, unfinished things, and some glitches.

Though VIII was mistranslated too, just in a different way.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:13:29pm

re: #383 b.d.

Charles the Sane vs The Chuccubus.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:15:21pm

re: #385 SoundGuy 2016

Charles the Sane vs The Chuccubus.

You owe me a new keyboard. :P

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:16:52pm

I’m trying to top Rage Furby. Will be hard but I like a good challenge.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:18:23pm

The Doctor Who comics just had a moment, as the 12th Doctor Adventures there are taking place before and in between Series 9.

Click to Reveal

Doctor: Oh alright then, the best companion with a sword for a nose that I ever had. Where to know, Coal Hill School? Home?

Clara: No, don’t you get it yet Doctor?

:Clara jumps and gives him a hug:

Clara: I AM home

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sagehen  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:21:20pm

re: #366 Great White Snark

In describing this blog to someone who has never seen it or anything of the political blog scene, I describe this as a kindly left leaning blog with a primary loyalty to facts, and a mostly self policed kindly nature. For those who have been political blogging for some time I just say see for yourself. Edit see for yourself as in they don’t tell the truth about this place out there.

I wouldn’t call it “self policed”. When I recommend it, stinky’s ban-hammer is one of the selling points.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:30:10pm

It’ll be interesting to see if this blows up big.

Over a year ago, an anonymous source contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and submitted encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that sells anonymous offshore companies around the world. These shell firms enable their owners to cover up their business dealings, no matter how shady.

In the months that followed, the number of documents continued to grow far beyond the original leak. Ultimately, SZ acquired about 2.6 terabytes of data, making the leak the biggest that journalists had ever worked with. The source wanted neither financial compensation nor anything else in return, apart from a few security measures.

The data provides rare insights into a world that can only exist in the shadows. It proves how a global industry led by major banks, legal firms, and asset management companies secretly manages the estates of the world’s rich and famous: from politicians, Fifa officials, fraudsters and drug smugglers, to celebrities and professional athletes.

panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de note: autoplay embedded at link.

Apparently, the PM of Iceland is being investigated as a result of this leak. Named politicians include:

Mauricio Macri, president or Argentina.

Bidzina Ivanishvill. ex PM of Georgia

Sigmundur Davío Gunnlaugsson, PM of Iceland.

Ayad H. Allawi, ex PM of Iraq.

Ali Abu-Ragheb, ex PM of Jordan.

Hamad Jasim J.M. Al-Thani, ex PM of Qatar.

Sheik Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar.

HRH Prince Salman, King of Saudi Arabia

Ahmad Al-Nirghani, ex-president of Sudan

Sultan Al-Nahyan, president of the UAE.

Pavlo Lazarenko, ex-PM of Ukraine.

Petro Poroshenko, president of Ukraine.

Gonna get interesting, methinks.

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The Ghost of the Spaghetti Weevil  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:36:04pm

re: #390 Dr Lizardo

Mossack Fonesca is pretty much the name in using shell corporations to hide and launder money.

If this data is real, this could get really interesting.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:41:39pm

Story catching fire. Seems for real.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:44:54pm

re: #391 The Ghost of the Spaghetti Weevil

re: #392 SoundGuy 2016

Yep. Seems to be the real deal. I wonder what the fallout is gonna be.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:54:50pm

re: #390 Dr Lizardo

wondering if Mitt Romney/Bain Capital and/or any Trump companies are in there…

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Great White Snark  Apr 3, 2016 • 12:59:55pm

re: #389 sagehen

I wouldn’t call it “self policed”. When I recommend it, stinky’s ban-hammer is one of the selling points.

Good point, I was thinking “mostly” as in the system Charles put in by way of the up/down ding system leaves it mostly to us. But certainly on the foundation he put in. Especially with how it works for new registered accounts. And bans are thankfully rare anymore, apart from occasional deliberate trolls just crapping up the place.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:00:18pm

re: #380 SoundGuy 2016

The comments there are a complete sewer of bigotry and racism.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:03:46pm

Well, goodnight Lizards.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:13:18pm
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blueraven  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:14:26pm

sigh

Why does this keep happening?

Amtrak Train derailment Chester, Pennsylvania

CHESTER, Pa. (WPVI) — Two people are dead and dozens are injured after an Amtrak train struck a backhoe in Chester, Delaware County.

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TedStriker  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:15:56pm

re: #340 b_sharp

I’m watching friends arguing about Bernie/Hillary and getting quite heated over it. I find it disturbing.

re: #362 ObserverArt

Do you mean here at LGF?

I don’t think it has been too bad here. This is a political discussion board, and most here feel themselves as being pretty fair-minded.

Add in many LGF members are conservatives and think there is too much bad stuff going on there, and others are independent and I think it equals a pretty fair group.

re: #365 gwangung

LGF is more conservative than other sites; it tilts Clinton pretty much. At other sites with more Sanders representation, the discussions are a bit…livelier.

re: #369 William Lewis

Oy, I hear that. I gored a few at another site the other day over how every election its the same: vote for this times fantasy unicorn and everything will magically get better. The butthurt are still whining in that thread today

re: #371 ObserverArt

Do you get a feeling there might be some hesitation about Bernie discussion here? As in Bernie supporters may think there is too much Clinton and Clinton supporters don’t want to say too much about Bernie so as to not offend.

Of course, people are going to see it they way they see it, but in a general way the board may not be the place for the Bernie fan so there may be members that hold their thoughts.

I thought maybe that was a little of what b_sharp may have been asking.

re: #374 stpaulbear

Seems to me that there’s a lot of Bernie-follower bashing here rather than straight out Bernie Bashing, but LGF doen’t cut Bernie much slack any more either.

re: #375 ObserverArt

Slack shouldn’t be cut ever!

While, IMO, Bernie himself has been taking increasingly more flack here as of late (and deservedly so), the main reason that the BernieBros get a lot of shit from a lot of Lizards is the more strident BBs have shown themselves to be little different than the hard-core Trumpiots and other RWNJ “true believers”.

While most of us here may have differing opinions on Bernie and can (typically) have civil discussions, the “true believer” BBs don’t do nuance (or reality) well, if at all.

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bratwurst  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:16:50pm

re: #400 blueraven

sigh

Why does this keep happening?

Amtrak Train derailment Chester, Pennsylvania

Because the combination of tax cuts for the rich and endless war have lead to a crumbling domestic infrastructure that will only get worse.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:17:17pm

re: #400 blueraven

Because no one is putting money towards Rail Maintenance?

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:18:28pm

re: #400 blueraven

sigh

Why does this keep happening?

Amtrak Train derailment Chester, Pennsylvania

I suspect the engineer saw the backhoe too late to swerve around it.

It’s not just here: en.wikipedia.org.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:19:09pm

re: #400 blueraven

sigh

Why does this keep happening?

Amtrak Train derailment Chester, Pennsylvania

Because no one gives a shit about rail transportation or rail transportation safety in this country.

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Jay C  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:19:14pm

re: #403 Ziggy_TARDIS

Because no one is putting money towards Rail Maintenance?

Or at least educating somebody that it’s bad to leave one’s backhoe parked on the railroad tracks??

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blueraven  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:20:33pm

re: #402 bratwurst

re: #403 Ziggy_TARDIS

Republicans HATE Amtrak.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:20:35pm

Here is some more news on that train derailment. newsworks.org

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:23:01pm

re: #406 Jay C

In this case, it would be the fault of whoever put the backhoe there.

re: #407 blueraven

That’s one area I was able to educate my Republican Friend in.

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bratwurst  Apr 3, 2016 • 1:25:31pm

A Ted Cruz speech is an idiot’s idea of what a smart person talks like.


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