Friday Night Jazz, or Something Like It: Bill Laurance, “Ready Wednesday”

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Bill Laurance is one of the keyboard maestros who sprang fully formed from the Snarky Puppy gestalt, and this track is strange and beautiful. Michael League’s bass lines are totally amazing, but everyone who contributed deserves an award for making awesome music.

From the DVD “Flint” released May 6, 2014 on GroundUP Music

ALBUM PERSONNEL
Bill Laurance - acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, vocoder, keyboards, shaker, congas, ride cymbal, propane tank, hand claps
Michael League - electric bass, double bass, Moog bass, 12-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, hand claps
Robert “Sput” Searight - drum set, timpani, marching snare & bass drums, shekere, cowbells, vibraslap, woodblocks, shaker, hand claps
Maria Im - violin
Zach Brock - violin (solos)
Curtis Stewart - violin
Henry Flory - violin
Lev Zhurbin - viola
Eylem Basaldi - viola
Maria Jeffers - cello
J.Y. Lee - cello
Mike “Maz” Maher - trumpet & flugelhorn
Matt McLaughlin - French horn
Chris Bullock - tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, & flute
Brian Donohoe - alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, & flute
Scott Flynn - trombone
Magda Giannikou - propane tank, glockenspiel, & xylophone
Emilia Canas Mendes & Andy LaViolette - hand claps

Engineered by Rudyard Lee Cullers at the Carriage House in Stamford, CT.
Mixed by Nic Hard at Limebeat Studios in New York, NY.
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk NYC in New York, NY.
Filmed by Andy LaViolette.

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251 comments
1
teleskiguy  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:08:01pm

Re-post from downstairs.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:21:14pm

Incredible photo.

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Bubblehead II  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:28:05pm

Night Lizards. I came, I saw and I

But I leave you with this.

Enya - (1995) - The Memory Of Trees - 01 The Memory Of Trees

Sleep well and may the Deity of your choice smile down upon you and yours,

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Charles Johnson  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:32:20pm
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Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:32:35pm

There’s some Rick Wakeman in the early part of that.

Rick Wakeman - Catherine Howard - The Six Wives of Henry VIII - (1973) HQ

6
Dave In Austin  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:33:18pm

Hey Hey, we’re teh Oaf Creepers!! We’re coming to a Mall near you.

Mother Of Dog!!!

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Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:33:42pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

If you live in New York, have you ever had trouble swiping your card to get into the subway?

No, I always used the “Y” perforated token—15 cents.

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makeitstop  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:36:27pm

re: #7 Decatur Deb

No, I always used the “Y” perforated token—15 cents.

The design of which was appropriated by a certain basketball team…

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teleskiguy  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:40:41pm

I am literally crying right now watching this @ZappaMovie live stream of their last minutes in their KickStarter. Diva in particular has made me some kind of emotional.

10
Charles Johnson  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:43:49pm
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bratwurst  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:47:37pm

Wow, that is about 6 weeks for every minor he is known to have molested.

Bullshit.

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MsJ  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:48:42pm

re: #11 bratwurst

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Wow, that is about 6 weeks for every child he is known to have molested.

Bullshit.

More like 16 years. Jerk.

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FormerDirtDart  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:50:39pm

re: #7 Decatur Deb

No, I always used the “Y” perforated token—15 cents.

Tokens I’ve used:
1970-80 NYC TA Token
1980-86 NYC TA Token
1986-95 NYC TA Token

14
GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:51:27pm

re: #11 bratwurst

It pays to be in politics when you’re a piece of shit.

15
Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:55:43pm

re: #13 FormerDirtDart

Mine were just like the ‘70, but dime-sized (‘63-‘67).

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Charles Johnson  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:57:11pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:58:08pm

This is me, totally done with Shaun King.

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FormerDirtDart  Apr 8, 2016 • 6:58:10pm

re: #15 Decatur Deb

Mine were just like the ‘70, but dime-sized (‘63-‘67).

1953-70 NYC TA Token

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Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:02:53pm

re: #18 FormerDirtDart

Kept one for years after we left the city. Lost it somewhere along the way.

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bratwurst  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:04:19pm

Welp…first Trump nailed down the coveted Scott Baio endorsement…now this:

It’s official…Trump now has every nitwit in America.

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jaunte  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:06:50pm
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Decatur Deb  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:07:31pm

re: #20 bratwurst

Welp…first Trump nailed down the coveted Scott Baio endorsement…now this:

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It’s official…Trump now has every nitwit in America.

Victoria Jackson is holding out for an ambassadorship.

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MsJ  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:11:29pm

re: #20 bratwurst

Welp…first Trump nailed down the coveted Scott Baio endorsement…now this:

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It’s official…Trump now has every nitwit in America.

Has Victoria Jackson weighed in yet? Askin’ for a friend.

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MsJ  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:14:01pm

re: #22 Decatur Deb

Victoria Jackson is holding out for an ambassadorship.

Damn. Beat me to it! :-D

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FormerDirtDart  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:15:38pm

re: #19 Decatur Deb

Kept one for years after we left the city. Lost it somewhere along the way.

I had an non-perforated “Y” for years after I enlisted in ‘82, but lost track of it.
Always wanted to kick myself for not saving a large perforated “Y” when they were phased out

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makeitstop  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:16:18pm

So, Rick Scott’s got nothing better to do after getting told off in a Starbuck’s than to dig up dirt on the woman who told him off and make an attack ad?

She was right. He is an asshole. And she obviously hit a nerve.

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No Country For Old Haters  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:18:08pm

re: #25 FormerDirtDart

I had an non-perforated “Y” for years after I enlisted in ‘82, but lost track of it.
Always wanted to kick myself for not saving a large perforated “Y” when they were phased out

ebay.com

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Charles Johnson  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:22:50pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:26:11pm

Un. Fucking. Real.

PBS is publishing the author of The Bell curve. What the hell is going on in this country?

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mmmirele  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:27:33pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

Un. Fucking. Real.

PBS is publishing the author of The Bell curve. What the hell is going on in this country?

Yeah, one of my friends posted that thing on his FB yesterday and I was like, “It’s Charles Murray, author of ‘The Bell Curve.’ YUCK!”

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Joe Bacon  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:34:58pm
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TedStriker  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:35:15pm

re: #22 Decatur Deb

Victoria Jackson is holding out for an ambassadorship.

And then she’ll pop Trump like Garfield if he wins.

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jaunte  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:36:52pm

re: #31 Joe Bacon

Trump loves billion year contracts.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:38:27pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

Frontline is the only part of PBS worth saving, sad to say.And let’s not forget Project S.H.A,M.E.’s epic takedown of Murray.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:42:05pm
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EPR-radar  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:44:29pm

re: #35 goddamnedfrank

Taco Bell caused me to fart flaming rainbows!

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No Country For Old Haters  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:48:31pm

re: #31 Joe Bacon

So is Xenu endorsing Trump, too?

Heh. I was reading Jason Lee’s ex Carmen Llywelyn on leaving Scientology at Gawker at lunch today. No one comes off well in that article (from 6/2015).

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:50:04pm

The Panama Papers reveal some interesting stuff about the Iran-Contra deal.

Farhad Azima was a big donor to Bill Clinton’s campaign, and supported Hillary’s Senate run. Now, the Panama papers suggest he had some connections to Reagan’s Iran-contra deals.

In the mid-1980s, senior Reagan administration officials secretly arranged to sell weapons to Iran to help free seven American hostages then use the sale proceeds to fund right-wing Nicaraguan rebels known as the Contras. On a mission to Tehran in 1985, one of Azima’s Boeing 707 cargo planes delivered 23 tons of military equipment, the New York Times reported. Azima has always claimed to know nothing about the flight or even if it happened.

“I’ve had nothing to do with Iran-Contra,” Azima told ICIJ. “I was investigated by every known agency in the U.S. and they decided there was absolutely nothing there,” said Azima. “It was a wild goose chase. The law enforcement and regulators fell for it.”

Now, records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and other media partners reveal new details about one of America’s most colorful political donors. The records also disclose offshore deals made by another Iran-Contra figure, the Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi.

panamapapers.icij.org

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 8, 2016 • 7:55:14pm

re: #38 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Panama Papers reveal some interesting stuff about the Iran-Contra deal.

Farhad Azima was a big donor to Bill Clinton’s campaign, and supported Hillary’s Senate run. Now, the Panama papers suggest he had some connections to Reagan’s Iran-contra deals.

panamapapers.icij.org

I’m sorry, like Harry Truman said: “The buck stops here.” Ronnie and Poppy Bush should have spent the rest of their miserable lives busting rocks at Leavenworth.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 8, 2016 • 8:08:45pm

Not all heroes wear capes.

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jaunte  Apr 8, 2016 • 8:18:50pm
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William Lewis  Apr 8, 2016 • 8:22:08pm

re: #34 Eric The Fruit Bat

Frontline is the only part of PBS worth saving, sad to say.And let’s not forget Project S.H.A,M.E.’s epic takedown of Murray.

Did Nova get canceled? Because if not, that show is all I need to keep PBS around.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Apr 8, 2016 • 8:27:17pm

Good evening fellow lizards. Got a super cool gift from a co-worker. Apparently he used to work on/publish a magazine called Black Market and gave me a copy. How did I not know this magazine existed when I was a kid?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 8, 2016 • 8:28:11pm

re: #41 jaunte

Our Lot in Life

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Belafon  Apr 8, 2016 • 8:34:01pm

I was showing my dad Jacob Collier’s video for Hideaway that Charles featured here, and I noticed his ridiculously long fingers. I have short, wide fingers meant for gripping something and not letting go, so I’m a bit jealous as I learn to play the bass guitar. I have to strain and twist my hand a little to reach the octave fret on the E string. He lays his fingers on the frets, and his pinky sticks up nearly a knuckle above the neck.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 8, 2016 • 9:03:24pm

Well, looks like I’m too late for today, but anyway: Congratulations Elon Musk and SpaceX! It’s been a tough row to hoe, but you did it.

Of course the naysayers would be all over them if they had said this, so I’ll say it: You couldn’t ask for a prettier landing than the one off Vandenberg in January—perfectly centered, vertical, stable, and soft. It was a heartbreaker about the frozen fog keeping the landing leg from latching properly, but Oh, well. Learned a new launch constraint!

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Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist  Apr 8, 2016 • 9:04:27pm

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

Not all heroes wear capes.

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Don’t start no shit in a fancy sushi place, won’t be no shit in a fancy sushi place.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 8, 2016 • 9:26:23pm
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Jebediah, RBG  Apr 8, 2016 • 9:28:23pm

re: #45 Belafon

i know how you feel. My fingers aren’t quite Trumpishly short, but close, and my recent giant $200 splurge bass is not impressed.

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sagehen  Apr 8, 2016 • 9:45:18pm

re: #34 Eric The Fruit Bat

Frontline is the only part of PBS worth saving, sad to say.And let’s not forget Project S.H.A,M.E.’s epic takedown of Murray.

Hey!!

If it wasn’t for PBS, where would we see Ken Burns documentaries? (next week — Jackie Robinson). or Austin City Limits. or Sherlock. or anything Austen. or or or or.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 8, 2016 • 9:53:28pm

America’s Test Kitchen. This Old House. Bob Ross reruns. Jacques Pépin. Arthur. Cat in the Hat. ;)

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Apr 8, 2016 • 10:18:19pm

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

Not all heroes wear capes.

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Somehow I think that is one lucky guy.

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Great White Snark  Apr 8, 2016 • 10:41:47pm

Fun at the diversity poll…

littlegreenfootballs.com

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/comment/13/11139918

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 8, 2016 • 10:50:32pm

Packing is mostly completed, at least minus the shirt that isn’t quite dry and the stuff that can’t be packed until tomorrow. Nearly forgot the cash I’d gotten for doing tips for the room service on the cruise.

Husband forgot we need our passports.

Between the two of us we will hopefully make it out the door with everything we need tomorrow.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:02:43pm

So I can’t start my next cross stitch project because that stuff is all packed. Shouldn’t start any of the new books because they are supposed to be for the plane. Really should go clean the cat fountain.

The night before travel problems.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:11:01pm

I just bought The Big Short for the Kindle based on the Lizards’ recommendations over the past few days.

If it is horrible I am blaming all of you.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:13:42pm

re: #56 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I just bought The Big Short for the Kindle based on the Lizards’ recommendations over the past few days.

If it is horrible I am blaming all of you.

Hey, leave me outta this! I never recommended nuthin’!

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Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:15:56pm

re: #56 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I just bought The Big Short for the Kindle based on the Lizards’ recommendations over the past few days.

If it is horrible I am blaming all of you.

Hey, you can’t blame us for your churlish inability to appreciate the finer things in life

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MsJ  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:18:21pm

I’m reading Marsha Clark’s new novel. It’s pretty good. I downloaded it to my kindle app on my phone.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:23:52pm

re: #58 Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist

Hey, you can’t blame us for your churlish inability to appreciate the finer things in life

It’s one of like …5 new books. There’s one already set for the plane ride tomorrow, and if I like that one then I’ll buy the other 5 book series by the same author before we board the cruise ship.

Reading fast occasionally really sucks. :(

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:27:06pm

re: #56 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I just bought The Big Short for the Kindle based on the Lizards’ recommendations over the past few days.

If it is horrible I am blaming all of you.

I just finished it. It reads like a spy thriller/murder mystery. Pretty sure you’ll like it.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:29:07pm

re: #61 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I just finished it. It reads like a spy thriller/murder mystery. Pretty sure you’ll like it.

After the 2008 crash happened, my leisure activity during downtime in grad school was reading a blog that, while discussing real estate in Irvine, CA, also went into a lot of why the market crash happened. I understood it well enough at that point to explain what had happened and why to friends over lunch at Christmas, a conversation which was overheard by someone who apparently worked with this stuff and interrupted to congratulate me on my understanding.

I’ve forgotten at least half of what I learned then, but it’ll be an interesting read, I think. I’m honestly looking forward to more of the technical aspects of it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:37:33pm

re: #62 klys (maker of Silmarils)

After the 2008 crash happened, my leisure activity during downtime in grad school was reading a blog that, while discussing real estate in Irvine, CA, also went into a lot of why the market crash happened. I understood it well enough at that point to explain what had happened and why to friends over lunch at Christmas, a conversation which was overheard by someone who apparently worked with this stuff and interrupted to congratulate me on my understanding.

I’ve forgotten at least half of what I learned then, but it’ll be an interesting read, I think. I’m honestly looking forward to more of the technical aspects of it.

He doesn’t get into the technical aspects too much, but he manages to explain how the entire house of cards was built.

The same author wrote “Liar’s Poker,” about his experiences as a young trader on Wall Street. “The Big Short” ends with him having lunch with his old boss, a guy who hated the “Liar’s Poker” book because it revealed too much of the underside of trading. Even so, that same CEO told a group of college students not to become traders on Wall Street.

I haven’t read Liar’s Poker, but intend to soon.

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Single-handed sailor  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:42:19pm

re: #62 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Wait till you’re 60, I’ve forgotten 80% of what I learned. Knowledge seems to have become transitional, there’s no need to commit to memory that which you can look up on the Internet.

edited for a broken sentence

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:43:44pm

re: #64 Single-handed sailor

Wait till you’re 60, I’ve forgotten 80% of what I learned. Knowledge seems to have become transitional, there’s no need to commit to memory that which you can look up on the Internet.

I’ll probably inspire several get-off-my-lawn moments with this comment but I’m only 30 29, dammit.

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Single-handed sailor  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:44:46pm

re: #65 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I’ll probably inspire several get-off-my-lawn moments with this comment but I’m only 30 29, dammit.

dammit, you quoted me before I fixed that broken sentence.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 8, 2016 • 11:45:48pm

re: #66 Single-handed sailor

dammit, you quoted me before I fixed that broken sentence.

I fixed my quote for you.

I’m trying to avoid going and cleaning the cat fountain.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 9, 2016 • 12:41:14am

My current conclusion is that too many Lizards go to bed early.

Or else the late night crowd is just not talkative at all.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 9, 2016 • 12:54:08am

Hockey rookies pretending to be figure skaters. I like this one because of the smiles. They’re not sure, but end up actually kind of having fun. It’s great.

NHL Players Get Figure Skating Lessons

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 12:59:53am

re: #56 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I just bought The Big Short for the Kindle based on the Lizards’ recommendations over the past few days.

If it is horrible I am blaming all of you.

A buddy just told us that he thought The Big Short was one of the best movies he has watched in years. And, he is one of those sophisticated Australian chaps with international savoir faire.

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 2:54:49am

More slice and dice of the data at 538.
Bernie is not doing as well as his acolytes like to believe and the argument that superdelegates could be swayed is not based on his being more popular in the ,um, popular vote.

Sanders may have had a great night in Wisconsin on Tuesday and will probably have an even more terrific day in Wyoming on Saturday. But in the long run, even if he were somehow to win more pledged delegates, he’d probably still wind up short in the popular vote.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 9, 2016 • 3:07:08am

re: #68 klys (maker of Silmarils)

My current conclusion is that too many Lizards go to bed early.

Or else the late night crowd is just not talkative at all.

Central Daylight morning shift coming on. Pass the silence with some 18th Cent. harp:

L’Arpeggiata: Cavalli’s l’Amore innamorato ‘Restino imbalsamate’

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 3:12:31am

Just watched the Carol Bundy video to Harry Reid.

A couple of things:
1) How in the heck are the Bundys ranching cattle there?
2) Reid did call participants of the Bundy Ranch hootenanny domestic terrorists. So there. But this butthurt seems to come from 2014.

“600 people came armed, they had practiced, they had maneuvered… they set up snipers in strategic locations… they had automatic weapon,” the leading Democrat said Friday. “And they boasted about the fact they put women and children… so they would get hit first.”

“If there were ever an example of people who were domestic violent terrorist wannabes, these are the guys,” Reid concluded.

3) And, really?

“I’m angry today,” Bundy says in her video. “I have four sons in prison. I have a best friend whose husband was shot and Harry Reid put out a YouTube…talking about saving our land for future generations.”

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 3:13:53am

re: #72 Decatur Deb

LOL… your late night crowd is my restless cat induced early riser.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 3:13:55am

re: #73 Ming5000

It’s all about meeee!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 3:14:37am

re: #74 Ming5000

LOL… your late night crowd is my restless cat induced early riser.

Restless cat syndrome.

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 3:16:39am

re: #76 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Ask your Doctor if Catsoma is right for you.

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 3:33:34am

And this guy, junior Senator from Nevada:
Who’s side are you on Senator?

About the Bundy Ranch standoff perps:

Heller, sitting inches away from Reid in the television studio, rejected the thought. “What Senator Reid may call domestic terrorists, I call patriots,” he said.

Reid interrupted. “These people think they’re patriots, they’re not,” the majority leader insisted. “If they’re patriots, we’re in very big trouble.”

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 3:38:49am

Now this Balloon Juice thread has stuck me with a tragic earworm: Late Night (Papal) Bull Session Open Thread: B-B-B-Bernie and the Pope

Don’t have to change much…

Hey kids, plug into the faithless
Maybe they’re blinded
But Bernie makes them ageless
We shall survive, let us take ourselves along
Where we fight our parents out in the streets
To find who’s right and who’s wrong

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ozharas  Apr 9, 2016 • 3:41:31am

more reason to not shop at Hobby Lobby

THE MESSIAH COMETH: HOBBY LOBBY’S MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE DESCENDS ON THE NATION’S CAPITAL

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 3:49:40am

re: #80 ozharas

I wouldn’t mind a Hobby Lobby “Bible museum” any more than I do the (tee hee) Creation Museum in Kentucky.
What I do mind is the theft of historic artifacts. Jail!

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 3:53:14am

Golly, remember Bernie crowing about the Panama Papers and how he opposed the Panama Free Trade Agreement?
Well, my oh my: (Wash Post)

“I predicted that the passage of this disastrous trade deal would make it easier, not harder, for the wealthy and large corporations to evade taxes by sheltering billions of dollars offshore,” Mr. Sanders said in a news release. “I wish I had been proven wrong about this, but it has now come to light that the extent of Panama’s tax avoidance scams is even worse than I had feared.” Quite a contrast, he says, with Hillary Clinton, who helped push the deal through Congress as Mr. Obama’s secretary of state.

The evidence, however, suggests that the truth is pretty nearly the opposite of what Mr. Sanders claims — and our source for that is the Panama Papers themselves.

You mean the adults in the room considered facts and made an agreement that was a net gain for the USA? Shocked!

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:02:08am

From the Creation Museum in KY without comment:

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:12:29am

re: #79 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Bernie is such a douche in the clip from The View. Untruthful (regarding meeting the Pope), pandering ….
LOL, and of course you get to hear, “…the billionaires and large corporations..”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:18:49am

re: #83 Ming5000

From the Creation Museum in KY without comment:

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Taken out of context, the dialog has a different meaning

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:19:54am

Sounds familiar….

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:19:59am

re: #85 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

HAHAhahhahah HAHHAHAHAH!
I missed it. Good one

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:21:54am

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sounds familiar….

I do have to talk my HRC backing cousin off the ledge after every caucus, so, it does sound familiar.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:23:16am

In a few months, the idea of an TPGOP contested convention has gone from “conceivable” to “mainstream”.

Insiders: 90 percent predict contested GOP convention

politico.com

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Le Lapin Tueur  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:23:38am

re: #81 Ming5000

I wouldn’t mind a Hobby Lobby “Bible museum” any more than I do the (tee hee) Creation Museum in Kentucky.
What I do mind is the theft of historic artifacts. Jail!

If it were scholarly, then there wouldn’t be so much of a problem (minus the thievery) but it sounds like an propaganda machine with faux ‘archeologists’ pushing the ‘bible as historical fact as written’ crowd. And, then there is the ‘merika was founded on the bible crap, too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:25:45am

It appears that everything outside here in the backwoods is covered in a very thin glaze of ice.
Yay, Spring!///////////

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Decatur Deb  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:26:25am

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sounds familiar….

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“Me must fight.”

Mongo candidate.

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:26:58am

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

I feel your pain. (Michigan) But, when it gets here it will be so gooood.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:30:32am
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:43:16am

Campaign Chairman Says Clinton Will Declassify ‘UFO Files’

I’m old enough to remember Jimmy Carter promising the same thing in 1976—only to discover the cupboard was bare.

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Ming5000  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:47:28am

re: #95 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The cupboard was no bare! They simply stifled him!

I also learned this:

It would be nice though to release all of NASA’s lunar and Mars pictures without the obvious air brushing that takes place to hide those thing we are not supposed to see.

Why are THEY hiding things from those pictures!

(My wife and I semi-often wish we could just be conspiratorialists. Life seems easier for them)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 4:54:29am

re: #87 Ming5000

HAHAhahhahah HAHHAHAHAH!
I missed it. Good one

Those paperback Photoshops that teleskiguy shared did it to me!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 9, 2016 • 5:01:55am

snowing now.

sigh…..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 9, 2016 • 5:05:44am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 9, 2016 • 5:11:11am

These antis need a better hobby.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 5:43:49am

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

snowing now.

sigh…..

In Kentucky? In April? 0_o

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 9, 2016 • 5:54:19am

re: #101 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

In Kentucky? In April? 0_o

yep. It changed over to sleet now.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 9, 2016 • 5:56:53am

Been in a bubble for the last few days. Ah, so, is this real? Did this really happen?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 5:59:09am

re: #103 Dr. Matt

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Been in a bubble for the last few days. Ah, so, is this real? Did this really happen?

She used the Voice on the reporters. Apparently, it’s a thing.
//

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Dr. Matt  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:04:15am

re: #104 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

She used the Voice on the reporters. Apparently, it’s a thing.
//

Is that Clinton version of The Force™?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:04:33am

Well at least that homicidal nut who escaped from Western State is back in custody:

Dangerous Psych Hospital Escapee Recaptured

I can’t imagine where he got the money for a bus ticket to Spokane. He always heads for his parent’s house there, but it took them 12 hours to give them the heads-up. The Spokane County Sheriff is less than gruntled.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:08:12am

re: #105 Dr. Matt

Is that Clinton version of The Force™?

Wrong franchise. The Bene Gesserit in Dune use The Voice.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:13:26am
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Dr. Matt  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:14:07am

re: #107 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Wrong franchise. The Bene Gesserit in Dune use The Voice.

I imagine these next few words will be very unpopular here….but, here goes: I didn’t like Dune.

*ducks*

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:14:37am

re: #108 Dr. Matt

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The stars in his eyes are a nice touch.

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SoundGuy 2016  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:15:32am

I’m getting more Berned out: FB Bernie Bro is all ‘it’s sexist to hold it against a woman for being ambitious, but Hillary is really ambitious and her acolytes are playing the media to use this narrative.’

People have lost their minds.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:18:14am

re: #109 Dr. Matt

I imagine these next few words will be very unpopular here….but, here goes: I didn’t like Dune.

*ducks*

Well, I liked Dune itself—although I was…what, 13?…the first time I tried to read it. It took me years to try again and finish it. I’ve never been able to make it through any of the other books. And of course the movie was one of the greatest abominations in the history of the universe.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:25:18am

re: #112 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well, I liked Dune itself—although I was…what, 13?…the first time I tried to read it. It took me years to try again and finish it. I’ve never been able to make it through any of the other books. And of course the movie was one of the greatest abominations in the history of the universe.

The Kyle McLachlan version? Or the SyFy version? Or both?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:30:41am

re: #113 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Kyle McLachlan version? Or the SyFy version? Or both?

The Kyle McLachlan version. I never watched the SyFy minseries…supposedly it wasn’t as bad.

I like to blame McLachlan—a friend of a friend grew up with him in Spokane and she said he’s just as big an asshole as one would naively assume—but really the whole thing was a mess.

Figures they’d screw up the story, but the art direction—sheesh! Their flying machines are supposed to be ornithopters—you’d think they could get something interesting out of that.

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Danack  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:36:33am

re: #103 Dr. Matt

Been in a bubble for the last few days. Ah, so, is this real? Did this really happen?

Depends what you mean by ‘real’. If you mean, did Clinton actually use a static noise generator in real life, then no.

If you mean, did someone make up a bizarre story in their head, then yes! It’s completely real!

The TL:DR is that the microphone Clinton used to give a speech, wasn’t connected to as high a quality sound system that a music band used to do a performance at the same event. Sane people would take this to mean that conference PA systems kind of suck compared to bands high end equipment. Wingnuts take this to mean that the Clinton’s must be doing something illegal.

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Billy Batts  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:41:09am

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

Not all heroes wear capes.

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She must be single.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:41:44am

re: #115 Danack

<snip>…Wingnuts take this to mean that the Clinton’s must be doing something illegal.

Hey, if a Clinton does it, it’s by definition illegal. Where you been the last 25 years?

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Billy Batts  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:42:35am

re: #103 Dr. Matt

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Been in a bubble for the last few days. Ah, so, is this real? Did this really happen?

Why would you not want reporters being able to hear what you’re saying to, you know, report what you’re saying?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:46:33am

re: #114 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The Kyle McLachlan version. I never watched the SyFy minseries…supposedly it wasn’t as bad.

I like to blame McLachlan—a friend of a friend grew up with him in Spokane and she said he’s just as big an asshole as one would naively assume—but really the whole thing was a mess.

Figures they’d screw up the story, but the art direction—sheesh! Their flying machines are supposed to be ornithopters—you’d think they could get something interesting out of that.

Yeah, the McLachlan one directed by David Lynch was a horror. The voice-over narration was especially annoying, and the pseudo-1930s look was ugh.

The Syfy version had an international cast and was pretty good for a TV adaptation. It’s been years since I saw either one.

TBH, Dune (the book) is so long and complex that fitting all of it into one movie is a daunting challenge. It could be done as a trilogy (maybe) as long as someone required the director not to make each part longer than 2 hours.

Not holding my breath there.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:47:43am

On-board camera footage of the Falcon 9 landing.

If Project Apollo had decided to go with the direct ascent mode (and built the Saturn C-8 to launch it), this is about the scale of what the astronauts would be expected to back down onto the moon. By hand.

ETA: Warning—autoplay!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:53:04am

re: #119 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yeah, the McLachlan one directed by David Lynch was a horror. The voice-over narration was especially annoying, and the pseudo-1930s look was ugh.

The Syfy version had an international cast and was pretty good for a TV adaptation. It’s been years since I saw either one.

TBH, Dune (the book) is so long and complex that fitting all of it into one movie is a daunting challenge. It could be done as a trilogy (maybe) as long as someone required the director not to make each part longer than 2 hours.

Not holding my breath there.

I’d like to see it really tackled that way, but nowadays, with all the Arabic terminology, and the Fremen basically Bedouins? Nah gah happen.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 6:56:37am

re: #121 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’d like to see it really tackled that way, but nowadays, with all the Arabic terminology, and the Fremen basically Bedouins? Nah gah happen.

Maybe so. Both versions were filmed before Islamophobia gripped the land.

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Alyosha  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:00:02am

Snowjob making appeals to FSB-minded individuals to chuck David Cameron out for selling shares left to him by his late father, secreted offshore under Mossack Fonseca.

I detest the British PM but I detest even more feeling compelled to defend him. I really hope this was a statement forced on Snowden by the authorities of his host country and it eats at him until the day he wimps out, defects back to the US and cries about how bad the Russian state is while in prison.
I feel better now :)

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:07:46am

re: #123 Alyosha

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Snowjob making appeals to FSB-minded individuals to chuck David Cameron out for selling shares left to him by his late father, secreted offshore under Mossack Fonseca.

I detest the British PM but I detest even more feeling compelled to defend him. I really hope this was a statement forced on Snowden by the authorities of his host country and it eats at him until the day he wimps out, defects back to the US and crues about how bad the Russian state is while in prison.
I feel better now :)

Not a word about Putin or Poroshenko, but Cameron must go….

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:10:09am

re: #124 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Not a word about Putin or Poroshenko, but Cameron must go….

Because his *father* had the offshore accounts, while Putin and Poroshenko did it themselves. I’m not sure even Snowden could be blind to the differences there. His friendly hosts must have “persuaded” him to attack Cameron.

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Alyosha  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:12:04am

re: #124 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Not a word about Putin or Poroshenko, but Cameron must go….

Any Poroshenko talk would be a bit on the nose, but Cameron is widely disliked. I put it down to opportunism. Jeremy Corbin would be a kid-gloves type operator when it comes to Russia. Shitty to see Europe being played like this.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:13:38am

re: #126 Alyosha

Any Poroshenko talk would be a bit on the nose, but Cameron is widely disliked. I put it down to opportunism. Jeremy Corbin would be a kid-gloves type operator when it comes to Russia. Shitty to see Europe being played like this.

Meanwhile, here in China, the powers-that-be are making sure Chinese citizens never hear about their leaders’ rich family members.

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ObserverArt  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:13:56am

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

It appears that everything outside here in the backwoods is covered in a very thin glaze of ice.
Yay, Spring!///////////

We’ve got a light snow, and slick roads in Columbus. Back about 8:00 AM the local news reported accidents on every one of our major freeways. A couple of the roads were shut down for a bit.

Spring? W’a’s that???

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ObserverArt  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:16:16am

re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth

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These antis need a better hobby.

Oh look…it appears to be mostly men. Oh well, it is just like the GOP Congress.

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bratwurst  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:17:01am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:19:42am

Do we know for sure that Snowden is even alive?

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Alyosha  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:19:50am

re: #127 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’s interesting that in places like China and Russia, the state has circuit-breakers in place to prevent the rapid dissemination of negative reporting.
In the democratic nations, the free press acts according to what will generate the highest ratings but not necessarily what is most germane to national dialogue and thus self-improvement.
But at least we can report it.

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ObserverArt  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:20:13am

re: #115 Danack

Depends what you mean by ‘real’. If you mean, did Clinton actually use a static noise generator in real life, then no.

If you mean, did someone make up a bizarre story in their head, then yes! It’s completely real!

The TL:DR is that the microphone Clinton used to give a speech, wasn’t connected to as high a quality sound system that a music band used to do a performance at the same event. Sane people would take this to mean that conference PA systems kind of suck compared to bands high end equipment. Wingnuts take this to mean that the Clinton’s must be doing something illegal.

Shoot. I thought it was used so everyone wouldn’t complain about her screeching and screaming. /

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ObserverArt  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:23:22am

re: #130 bratwurst

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I’ve been working up a song with my buddy titled “Tight White Boys”.

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mmmirele  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:26:47am

re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth

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These antis need a better hobby.

OK, I’ve taken up protesting in front of a church as a “hobby” (this isn’t my first rodeo picketing). The difference between me and those asshats is (a) I understand the rules of engagement for Scottsdale. Those guys, blocking the sidewalk, heck, I’d call the police on me if I did that. (b) I walk back and forth with my sign (for the exercise) and (c) the whole point is to remind Mark Driscoll that he can’t escape what he did in Seattle and set up shop in Arizona consequence-free.

Oh yeah, and I don’t shout at people. I let my signs do the talking. My presence is so upsetting to the church people that they dispatched three people to watch me from the church steps last Sunday. Good. Maybe you’ll think before you give your precious time and hard-earned money to a grifter from Seattle.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:27:19am

Brazil’s politics are a total mess right now, as the country prepares for the Olympic Games.

bbc.com

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:29:00am

Bringing up a thought—if Bernie goes over there and gets snubbed by Francis, will the Bernie Bros call for the Pope to be impeached? Might be a more productive hobby for them.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:34:59am

re: #137 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

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Bringing up a thought—if Bernie goes over there and gets snubbed by Francis, will the Bernie Bros call for the Pope to be impeached? Might be a more productive hobby for them.

Did Bernie have a Kim Davis moment?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:35:01am

re: #137 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

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Bringing up a thought—if Bernie goes over there and gets snubbed by Francis, will the Bernie Bros call for the Pope to be impeached? Might be a more productive hobby for them.

I wonder if the Pope is a bit peeved that American politicians and rabble-rousers are using him as a PR gimmick. There was allegedly some fallout among the cardinals after that forced Kim Davis meet-and-greet with Francis.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:41:08am

re: #26 makeitstop

I’m wondering what is next? Sending some people to ‘disappear’ dissidents?

Because you know dirtbags like Scott would do that if they could get away with it.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:45:06am

*Sees a flash of lightning, hears crack of thunder*
Looks outside; Snowing heavily.
-_-

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:56:02am

re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth

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These antis need a better hobby.

Reading those tweets brought out my evil side. My thought on a ‘better hobby’?

Bleeding sounds like a good one.

I’d never do it but ignoring the temptation would be very difficult.

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ObserverArt  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:57:15am

re: #140 Romantic Heretic

I’m wondering what is next? Sending some people to ‘disappear’ dissidents?

Because you know dirtbags like Scott would do that if they could get away with it.

I wished the Florida voters would have made Scott disappear instead of electing that Medicare fraudster as Governor.

He proves if you bullshit enough, claim you knew nothing and are a member of the right party no harm done…good on you Guv’n’a!

But if you’re Hillary Clinton and are under political mud attacks for 25 years you get questioned about honesty, fitness, qualification, endurance and labeled as a mediocre candidate.

America Greatness! What is your definition?

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CleverToad  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:57:27am

re: #69 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Hockey rookies pretending to be figure skaters. I like this one because of the smiles. They’re not sure, but end up actually kind of having fun. It’s great.

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Video

My mom’s a figure skating fan from waaaaaay back, like to the Sonja Henie & Dick Button days. She laughed at this one!

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:57:41am

Good morning Lizards from a cold and lightly snow flurried on Philadelphia.

Plan on going for a hike (for the exercise and to scout out a park for potential future walks.) Also a way to test out gear combinations as well.

Saw an interesting article in a local Philly paper. Apparently in 2015 the Common Pleas Court (City/County of Philadelphia) issued 575,000 jury summons.

The actual juries ended up being filled by 80,600 (14%) of those sent summons.

Of the rest of the people sent summons 319,000 gave legitimate excuses to avoid service and 175,000 never responded at all.

I guess the next time I get summoned for service I can make a little button with a gavel on it and the caption “I’m one of the 14%” and wear that. And I will also see what I can do locally towards promoting better teaching of civic responsibilities in our schools.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:58:54am

re: #109 Dr. Matt

I imagine these next few words will be very unpopular here….but, here goes: I didn’t like Dune.

*ducks*

You’re not alone. Neither did I.

I did quite enjoy Dune II on my Sega Genesis many years ago.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 9, 2016 • 7:59:23am

re: #144 CleverToad

My mom’s a figure skating fan from waaaaaay back, like to the Sonja Henie era. She laughed at this one!

Well, figure skates and hockey skates are different in a couple of ways as well since there are differences in what the skater is trying to do wearing them.

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bratwurst  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:01:08am
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Ace-o-aces  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:01:36am

aaaaaaand the season is over….
espn.go.com

…fucking goat….

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HappyWarrior  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:02:15am

re: #149 Ace-o-aces

aaaaaaand the season is over….
espn.go.com

Nah they got good depth but man you just gotta feel for the kid.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:02:31am

re: #149 Ace-o-aces

aaaaaaand the season is over….
espn.go.com

So the baseball deities opted to make life simple for the Cubs fans this year?

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:03:20am

Family Guy - Mets Fan Joke

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:07:02am
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jaunte  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:13:49am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:15:32am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:17:37am

re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Trump sure has some real winners behind him.

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stpaulbear  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:21:10am

re: #109 Dr. Matt

I imagine these next few words will be very unpopular here….but, here goes: I didn’t like Dune.

*ducks*

I’m with you. The movie annoyed me.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:31:14am

I may be a little late with this.

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:32:29am

Ice Cube on N.W.A’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction: ‘We belong here’
Next up Kobe Bryant to be inducted into the Baseball Hall Of fame…

These guys deserve recognition. I see there is no Hip Hop Hall Of Fame, maybe there should be. But Rock & Roll? That’s not it, no more than Agatha Christie wrote Science fiction.

Or am I crazy on this?

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mmmirele  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:33:02am

re: #148 bratwurst

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Gingrich may be immoral (and probably criminal), but Hastert is a child sex abuser (caveat: if the reported statements are true). If so, he should be locked up.

Andy Richter from the Conan show posted this on his Twitter yesterday. He went to the high school Hastert talk at. I bet he and many other former students are having occasional bouts of the heebie jeebies today.

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stpaulbear  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:33:53am

re: #158 Ace-o-aces

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I may be a little late with this.

Anything that he doesn’t plagiarizer is an ‘exclusive!!’

We’ll…sometimes that stuff is exclusive too.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:34:19am

re: #159 Great White Snark

Ice Cube on N.W.A’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction: ‘We belong here’
Next up Kobe Bryant to be inducted into the Baseball Hall Of fame…

These guys deserve recognition. I see there is no Hiop Hop Hall Of Fame, maybe there should be. But Rock & Roll? That’s not it, no more than Agatha Christie wrote Science fiction.

Or am I crazy on this?

Step back and realize that the selections and operation is like any award show. They’re trying to draw eyeballs and advertisers in order to make money for themselves. The criteria are therefore as loose and arbitrary as they want to make it.

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sagehen  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:34:40am

re: #159 Great White Snark

Ice Cube on N.W.A’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction: ‘We belong here’
Next up Kobe Bryant to be inducted into the Baseball Hall Of fame…

These guys deserve recognition. I see there is no Hiop Hop Hall Of Fame, maybe there should be. But Rock & Roll? That’s not it, no more than Agatha Christie wrote Science fiction.

Or am I crazy on this?

I’m willing to call hip-hop a subset of rock ‘n roll.

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sagehen  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:37:02am

re: #160 mmmirele

Gingrich may be immoral (and probably criminal), but Hastert is a child sex abuser (caveat: if the reported statements are true). If so, he should be locked up.

Should have been a long time ago, but I also have a certain amount of sympathy for the concept of Statute of Limitations.

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ObserverArt  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:37:25am

re: #156 HappyWarrior

Trump sure has some real winners behind him.

More democratic representation!

Nuts for Nuts.

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:38:34am

re: #163 sagehen

To me that’s disrespectful of it to call it a subset. What they said about rock and roll “It’s a spirit” is true of music not just rock. And a ham handed redefinition. I think Hip Hop and Rap music are a full fledged separate genre from R&R same as that is a full fledged genre apart from Jazz.

As a nod to popularity and money I get it.

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stpaulbear  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:39:32am

re: #159 Great White Snark

Ice Cube on N.W.A’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction: ‘We belong here’
Next up Kobe Bryant to be inducted into the Baseball Hall Of fame…

These guys deserve recognition. I see there is no Hip Hop Hall Of Fame, maybe there should be. But Rock & Roll? That’s not it, no more than Agatha Christie wrote Science fiction.

Or am I crazy on this?

Rock and roll guys went gaga for The Beastie Boys (and got them into the Hall of Fame), so I think that the crossover is justified.

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:42:25am

re: #167 stpaulbear

Rock and roll guys went gaga for The Beastie Boys (and got them into the Hall of Fame), so I think that the crossover is justified.

Excellent point. Yikes, I like NWA more than those guys but of course that’s just me. I’m thrilled to see those guys get the regognition.

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CleverToad  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:44:54am

re: #147 Feline Fearless Leader

Well, figure skates and hockey skates are different in a couple of ways as well since there are differences in what the skater is trying to do wearing them.

Not to mention attempting the moves in full hockey gear. But they looked like they had fun trying.

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blueraven  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:45:30am

re: #159 Great White Snark

Ice Cube on N.W.A’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction: ‘We belong here’
Next up Kobe Bryant to be inducted into the Baseball Hall Of fame…

These guys deserve recognition. I see there is no Hip Hop Hall Of Fame, maybe there should be. But Rock & Roll? That’s not it, no more than Agatha Christie wrote Science fiction.

Or am I crazy on this?

Run DMC was inducted 6 or 7 years ago, so this is nothing new.

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mmmirele  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:45:39am

re: #164 sagehen

Should have been a long time ago, but I also have a certain amount of sympathy for the concept of Statute of Limitations.

Understood. And to be clear, he’s not being sentenced for child sexual abuse, but structuring. Since he is pleading guilty, he’s probably going to get a lighter sentence, as opposed to young-earth creationist Kent Hovind, whose sentence was beefed up because he was absolutely unrepentant.

But it’s interesting to note the following:

When Hastert’s sentence ends, prosecutors said, Hastert should be evaluated as a sex offender and never again have any contact with his alleged victims.

chicagotribune.com

I think the prosecutors are able to make this assertion because the underlying basis for the structuring was the fact that Hastert was paying off one of the teens he’d sexually abused. Otherwise it wouldn’t come up.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:45:50am

Hahahahahaha!
{gasp}
Hahahahahaha!

I think I pulled a muscle, laughing.

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ObserverArt  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:52:07am

So much modern music is an amalgamation of all forms of music it really is hard to draw distinct lines in Rock’n’Roll anyway. So…

Hip-Hop has used pieces and parts of a lot of it all. The Beasties being probably one of the clearest examples. Then there was Led Zep…and many blues artists borrowed and changed. Even folk artists passed around traditional songs and modified.

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Alyosha  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:54:38am

re: #172 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Hahahahahaha!
{gasp}
Hahahahahaha!

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I think I pulled a muscle, laughing.

I saw what appeared to be two male cockatoos harassing a female across the loading dock this morning. Deafening screeches.
Rendering that noise into some onomatopoeic-corporate-short-burst-antisocial-screed-platform name is probably just the ticket for these freaks.
eeeehhhhrrrrraaaaarrrrgggghhh.com.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:56:03am

re: #173 ObserverArt

So much modern music is an amalgamation of all forms of music it really is hard to draw distinct lines in Rock’n’Roll anyway. So…

Hip-Hop has used pieces and parts of a lot of it all. The Beasties being probably one of the clearest examples. Then there was Led Zep…and many blues artists borrowed and changed. Even folk artists passed around traditional songs and modified.

I can’t get excited about what is and isn’t rock and roll. The implicit definition I grew up with (as evidenced by what radio stations played) was that anything that wasn’t country or classical was rock and roll.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 9, 2016 • 8:58:20am

re: #175 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I can’t get excited about what is and isn’t rock and roll. The implicit definition I grew up with (as evidenced by what radio stations played) was that anything that wasn’t country or classical was rock and roll.

I know it’s only rock and roll, but I like it.

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ObserverArt  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:01:29am

re: #175 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I can’t get excited about what is and isn’t rock and roll. The implicit definition I grew up with (as evidenced by what radio stations played) was that anything that wasn’t country or classical was rock and roll.

And then there is the term “Pop Music.”

That covers a whole heck of a lot.

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:02:46am

Steve Miller was not thrilled with how the event was run, tho prolly shoulda kept it on the down low.

“The whole process needs to be changed from the top to the bottom,” Miller said. “They need to respect the artists they say they’re honoring, but they don’t.”

Miller claimed the Hall only offered him and his family two tickets and asked for thousands of dollars for any additional ones.

“I said ‘I’m playing here, what about my band, what about their wives,” he said. “They make this so unpleasant.”

nydailynews.com

Sorry late with the link. Bouncing between Brave and Chrome.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:04:04am

re: #177 ObserverArt

And then there is the term “Pop Music.”

That covers a whole heck of a lot.

New York, London, Paris, Munich! Everybody talk about…POP Music!

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stpaulbear  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:05:11am

re: #178 Great White Snark

Steve Miller was not thrilled with how the event was run, tho prolly shoulda kept it on the down low.

There’s a whole lot of reasons to not give a rat’s pitootie about the R&R hall of fame. Even if it was conceived for good reasons, it’s become corporate like everything else, especially the music festivals and large concert tours.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:06:27am

re: #175 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I can’t get excited about what is and isn’t rock and roll. The implicit definition I grew up with (as evidenced by what radio stations played) was that anything that wasn’t country or classical was rock and roll.

… They don’t give a damn about any trumpet playing band.
It ain’t what they call rock and roll…

Dire Straits

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:07:22am

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Be excellent to each other while I am gone, Lizards. :)

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retired cynic  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:10:56am

re: #175 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I can’t get excited about what is and isn’t rock and roll. The implicit definition I grew up with (as evidenced by what radio stations played) was that anything that wasn’t country or classical was rock and roll.

My husband asked everyone for decades what the definition of rock and roll was. The best answer he thought he got was from a teen: “what kids like.”

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:11:38am

I guess the worthwhile distinction among genres might be that Disco was never ever Rock & Roll. Bless ya Bob Seger

“Old Time Rock And Roll”

Just take those old records off the shelf
I’ll sit and listen to ‘em by myself
Today’s music ain’t got the same soul
I like that old time rock ‘n’ roll
Don’t try to take me to a disco
You’ll never even get me out on the floor
In ten minutes I’ll be late for the door
I like that old time rock ‘n’ roll

Still like that old time rock ‘n’ roll
That kind of music just soothes the soul
I reminisce about the days of old
With that old time rock ‘n’ roll
Won’t go to hear ‘em play a tango
I’d rather hear some blues or funky old soul
There’s only one sure way to get me to go
Start playing old time rock ‘n’ roll
Call me a relic, call me what you will
Say I’m old-fashioned, say I’m over the hill
Today’s music ain’t got the same soul
I like that old time rock ‘n’ roll

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Alyosha  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:11:46am

Rock and roll is an outdated term. It can mean vitually anything outside of, while encompassing aspects of, pop.
Totally subjective at this point. Saw a similar discussion of what constitutes ‘punk’ here the other day.
For me, rock has to be heavy AF. Bluesy as all get out. Gunning for the headbangs. QOTSA, Mastodon and the like. Or…

Church Of Misery “I, Motherfucker (Ted Bundy)” (OFFICIAL)

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:12:11am

Please remind any Neoconfederate dipshits you encounter that this is Appomattox day. Eat it!

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retired cynic  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:12:50am

re: #182 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Be excellent to each other while I am gone, Lizards. :)

Have an EXCELLENT TRIP!

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Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:13:52am

Off to take a walk in the snow. Have a good afternoon everyone!

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:14:00am

re: #175 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I can’t get excited about what is and isn’t rock and roll. The implicit definition I grew up with (as evidenced by what radio stations played) was that anything that wasn’t country or classical was rock and roll.

Made me think well maybe the artist gets the first nod. Artists title rights kinda. So if those guys say it’s rock and roll cool.

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CleverToad  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:14:26am

re: #182 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Be excellent to each other while I am gone, Lizards. :)

Whee! Great way to start the cruise! Hope you have a lovely time.
(sniffles in envy, of course. one of these centuries…)

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:15:14am

re: #182 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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wrenchwench  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:15:42am

re: #182 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Thanks for firming my resolve to clean the cat fountain.

Have a great time!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:16:41am

re: #189 Great White Snark

Made me think well maybe the artist gets the first nod. Artists title rights kinda. So if those guys say it’s rock and roll cool.

I tried to think of a way to torture that sentence into including “both kinds—country and western” but just couldn’t manage it.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:16:55am

re: #192 wrenchwench

Thanks for firming my resolve to clean the cat fountain.

Have a great time!

Ours is getting cleaned when I get back. >.> It got cleaned two weeks ago, they’ll live! (Also, there’s bowls of water out too because one of them has to be different and won’t drink from the fountain ever.)

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:18:33am

re: #192 wrenchwench

Todays afternoon project. Put up big tall new cat condo in living room next to window. 3 cat condo, $99 free shipping. Yaaay internet! So I got these older model GoPros, one that might be fun to hide in there catch that leap up into it.

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wrenchwench  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:20:17am

re: #194 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Ours is getting cleaned when I get back. >.> It got cleaned two weeks ago, they’ll live! (Also, there’s bowls of water out too because one of them has to be different and won’t drink from the fountain ever.)

I ain’t sayin’ how long it’s been since ours was cleaned, but I hope to beat you with the next cleaning.

Ours get sort of territorial over their fountain. Usually they regard it as a safe zone and won’t attack a drinking brother.

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Mattand  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:20:43am

So PZ Myers over at Pharyngula, an ardent Sanders supporter, issued another post reminding all Democratic voters to support the eventual nominee, whoever it is, because letting the GOP run the country would be a disaster.

Because you know how all those Clinton supporters are threatening to vote Trump if they don’t get their way.

I left a comment reminding everyone this is, as I put it, a “quasi-Magic Balance Fairy” stance; and that while my evidence is anecdotal, there’s only one faction of Democratic voters who are vowing to go Full Metal Nilihist if they don’t get their way. And those fine folks would benefit more from this reminder than the other.

This should be fun.

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:21:57am

re: #170 blueraven

Run DMC was inducted 6 or 7 years ago, so this is nothing new.

Maybe Gene Simmons did not piss everyone off with his cranky old man “glad when it goes away” crap then.Sounded just like kids get off my lawn.

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bratwurst  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:24:57am

Here is the deal: this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame business is little more than a vanity project for Jann Wenner that sells tickets to a very expensive concert this time each year and attempts to attract tourists to Cleveland.

The end.

I honestly feel like arguing over who is and isn’t in is a lot like debating professional wrestling or soap opera plots.

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wrenchwench  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:25:23am

re: #195 Great White Snark

Todays afternoon project. Put up big tall new cat condo in living room next to window. 3 cat condo, $99 free shipping. Yaaay internet! So I got these older model GoPros, one that might be fun to hide in there catch that leap up into it.

Good deal! We had ours built and roofed to match the house, which is a duplex now owned by the woman we share it with, so now we are more glad than ever we did a nice job, because we like her. She likes us too. She said if we move, she’s selling the place.

Our cat house is one 3’x3’x3’ cube with one ‘bunkbed’ and many rugs furnishing it. We call it ‘the Furanda’.

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blueraven  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:26:13am

re: #198 Great White Snark

Maybe Gene Simmons did not piss everyone off with his cranky old man “glad when it goes away” crap then.Sounded just like kids get off my lawn.

Looking thru past years; people like Bob Wills and the TX Playboys, Chet Atkins etc…Not what we normally think of as R&R, but certainly influences.

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Alyosha  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:27:55am

And just coz when I post one song I get into the groove, check out what was called ‘Americana’ when I discovered it. It’s a band that if memory serves, is a bunch of lapsed Mormons.
Heavy theme, deeply, darkly and ironically religious. Western, and more gospel than country. I don’t rave about many albums but their ‘The Kingdom is On Fire’ is a confetti of poignant, tongue-in-cheek and downright disheartening.
Sons of Perdition - Blood In The Valley

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:28:43am

re: #196 wrenchwench

At first I tried to keep the little filter clean in our cat fountain. Pointless, way too small. Besides, was not gonna put goldfish in there anyway. So we tossed the filter and we clean the fountain each time we replace the co located kitty grass. Maybe weekly. Pepper must have her greens or we have tummy troubles. Found that out fast after the new anti cat restrictions went in.

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wrenchwench  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:32:50am

re: #203 Great White Snark

At first I tried to keep the little filter clean in our cat fountain. Pointless, way too small. Besides, was not gonna put goldfish in there anyway. So we tossed the filter and we clean the fountain each time we replace the co located kitty grass. Maybe weekly. Pepper must have her greens or we have tummy troubles. Found that out fast after the new anti cat restrictions went in.

It’s time for me to bathe mine to cut down on the hairball barfing. I’m waiting for a hot day so they can dry in the Furanda.

Greens are always good. Ours are nuts for fresh catnip.

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stpaulbear  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:33:46am

re: #198 Great White Snark

Maybe Gene Simmons did not piss everyone off with his cranky old man “glad when it goes away” crap then.Sounded just like kids get off my lawn.

Gene Simmons pisses everybody off, but no one gives a damn about what he says either.

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:37:35am

re: #204 wrenchwench

I’m afraid to have that up fresh all the time. We keep that in reserve to encourage the big cat to play, Wheat grass seems to work well. Grows so fast you almost can watch. Cinnamon the young Manx needs no catnip. Think Tesla on Ludicrous speed. I think she will bset a record here, fastest camera exposure setting yet with motion blur.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:37:43am

I want to take a moment to thank everyone here for the positive thoughts, prayers, and good will sent my way. Yesterday, due to the incident labeled a “hate crime” by some, there were rumors of protests in front of our school. In the morning before school and after school. Nothing much materialized. it was pretty cold around here in the morning, and we dismissed school early in the afternoon, and it rained. Much more calm around here than some would expect. Glad to get to the weekend. I’m disconnecting from things for the most part for the next couple of days. On Monday, I have to meet with the schools attorney, as I know many facts firsthand. If there is any legal process that plays out, I’ll see how much I am involved.

Thanks for the support all.

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wrenchwench  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:38:46am

Santa Rita Prickly Pear:

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:40:23am

re: #207 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

When the legal smoke clears, please Page that? The insights of our own around here who actually witness events are a welcome contrast to media.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:41:56am

It is snowing in Philly. Big flakes of snow that melt as soon as it hits the ground.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:43:22am

re: #209 Great White Snark

When the legal smoke clears, please Page that? The insights of our own around here who actually witness events are a welcome contrast to media.

Will do.

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Lidane  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:46:57am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:56:20am
San Antonio policeman on leave after ‘body-slamming 12-year-old girl’

Texas school officials are investigating a video apparently showing a police officer body-slamming a 12-year-old girl to the ground.

Janissa Valdez’s classmates are heard yelling and laughing in the footage as she is thrown by the policeman, who handcuffs her and leads her away.

She told media in San Antonio that the other children were expecting a fight between her and another girl.

The officer has been placed on leave and is yet to comment.

The incident happened late last month but the footage went viral after being posted on a local blog.

bbc.com

Article includes citizen video footage. The cop picks up the girl and slams her to the pavement face down.

Nothing “apparent” about it, BBC editors.

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Belafon  Apr 9, 2016 • 9:58:42am

Do pro choice groups go to clinics to protest the protesters?

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wrenchwench  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:01:46am

re: #213 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

bbc.com

Article includes citizen video footage. The cop picks up the girl and slams to the pavement face down.

‘Body-slamming’ is the reality-avoidance term for ‘head-slamming’.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:03:44am
ANALYSISIS: $TWTR doomed because it’s not white enough
Twitter is doomed, but meanwhile let me back on!

Some of my clients — OK, this one guy — have asked me to expand on an analysysisis piece I wrote several months ago predicting the collapse of Twitter and most advertised-based publications (like GotNewsDotCom?).

But instead of expanding on it, I’ll just dump some notes on you and let you figure it out on your own.

Also, Twitter’s stock price is tanking because they kicked me off forever, took away Milo’s blue check mark, and also @SarahPalinUSA. Twitter doesn’t like white people, that’s all. And we know it, so we’re not using Twitter (even though half my notes are from Twitter), and especially we’re not buying Twitter stock.

So there.

More at GotNwes.com — not much more, really.

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:04:25am

re: #213 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I saw that, awful. Do any of these cops know how to cuff up a wiggler? Not that hard really. “On leave”?! Sorry that guy needs retraining. Remedial arrest skills 101.a

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wrenchwench  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:04:53am

re: #214 Belafon

Do pro choice groups go to clinics to protest the protesters?

I don’t remember being part of a group, but I was a volunteer ‘escort’ helping people dodge the protestors. It was organized by someone, I just don’t remember who.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:04:57am

re: #216 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Did they really take away sister Sarah’s blue check?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:05:51am

re: #217 Great White Snark

I saw that, awful. Do any of these cops know how to cuff up a wiggler? Not that hard really.

Anger management issues. The girl can’t weigh more than a 100 lbs. He could have subdued her without the excessive force.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:07:14am

re: #219 Stanley Sea

Did they really take away sister Sarah’s blue check?

No. Twitter is not suspending Azealia Banks for very rudely dissing Sister Sarah of the Boondocks, so Twitter is anti-white. QED

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stpaulbear  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:07:26am

re: #214 Belafon

Do pro choice groups go to clinics to protest the protesters?

I’ve heard of groups that make donations to the clinic for every protestor that shows up; the more protestors, the bigger the donation. I’ve got no links tho.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:07:49am

re: #221 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Ahhhh. Tks.

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sagehen  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:09:20am

re: #170 blueraven

Run DMC was inducted 6 or 7 years ago, so this is nothing new.

Proof that Run DMC are rock ‘n roll:

RUN-DMC - Walk This Way

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:10:33am

re: #223 Stanley Sea

I edited the original article to clarify that a little.

Chuck wants Palin to sue Banks and Twitter for … something. Adam Steinbaugh tweeted that lawsuits don’t really work that way.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:11:12am

re: #213 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

bbc.com

Article includes citizen video footage. The cop picks up the girl and slams to the pavement face down.

Isn’t it illegal to record the cops in Texas?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:11:30am

OK. 1 am here. Done all the damage I can do for today. Hasta manaña!

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sagehen  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:12:17am

re: #182 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Be excellent to each other while I am gone, Lizards. :)

Does this cruise have an all-you-can-eat buffet?

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wrenchwench  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:13:46am

re: #214 Belafon

Do pro choice groups go to clinics to protest the protesters?

BWS posted tweets from an escort organization.

LvilleClinicEscorts ‎@LouClinicEscort

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:15:44am

re: #225 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I edited the original article to clarify that a little.

Chuck wants Palin to sue Banks and Twitter for … something. Adam Steinbaugh tweeted that lawsuits don’t really work that way.

what damages are they claiming?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:16:42am

re: #230 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

what damages are they claiming?

butthurt fee-fees

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:16:52am

re: #220 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Back when I was sparring a lot, teaching some I got to workout with some police and trainees. We did some fun stuff, played around with (measured!) resisting getting cuffed then switching roles. A skilled cop can cuff you up despite a surprising amount of resistance especially (of course) with a massive size advantage. No excuse for the video.
I mention all that just because time in exercises like that reduces excessive violence. When a cop feels fear, they flip it to anger. When they have skilled practiced options they don’t get scared so easily, or behind in the situation flow. But getting the time and money for the guys to go is tough.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:18:34am

re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth

butthurt fee-fees

if they win judge will award them two pink baby asprins

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Skip Intro  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:27:07am

Ben Carson: Donald Trump worried about his Twitter ‘problem’

Maybe he should join Rage and Milo and sue.

kotatv.com

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stpaulbear  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:31:42am

After all the comments about The Big Short up above, I just ordered the book from an Amazon seller (used-VG $2+$4). Looking forward to reading it.

IMHO, marketplace sellers on Amazon are the way to go. They very rarely screw up or misrepresent stuff, even with shipping they’re usually way cheaper than Amazon, and once they know that you write positive reviews, they bust their butts to get it to you really fast. 75% of the stuff I buy on Amazon is through Marketplace.

(End of plug)

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blueraven  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:31:52am

re: #223 Stanley Sea

Ahhhh. Tks.

What Azealia Banks tweeted was disgusting. I detest Sarah Palin, but damn.
Calling for her to be gang raped? Nah.

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bratwurst  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:36:20am

So tired of these photo meme kinda thing…most of them are deceptive, like this:

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stpaulbear  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:38:08am

re: #237 bratwurst

So tired of these photo meme kinda thing…most of them are deceptive, like this:

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Haha.

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:41:44am

re: #236 blueraven

What Azealia Banks tweeted was disgusting. I detest Sarah Palin, but damn.
Calling for her to be gang raped? Nah.

Whoa. I had not seen that. Just skimmed her timeline. Hate speech filled semi popular C lister says what?

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blueraven  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:43:48am

re: #239 Great White Snark

Whoa. I had not seen that. Just skimmed her timeline. Hate speech filled semi popular C lister says what?

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:44:59am

re: #228 sagehen

Does this cruise have an all-you-can-eat buffet?

Don’t they all. Just working bathrooms are optional.

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Belafon  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:45:56am

re: #237 bratwurst

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No Country For Old Haters  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:49:56am

re: #240 blueraven

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She really should at least lose her checkmark.

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:55:17am

re: #243 No Country For Old Haters

She got one?!
//Twitter SMH

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wrenchwench  Apr 9, 2016 • 10:56:52am

re: #232 Great White Snark

Back when I was sparring a lot, teaching some I got to workout with some police and trainees. We did some fun stuff, played around with (measured!) resisting getting cuffed then switching roles. A skilled cop can cuff you up despite a surprising amount of resistance especially (of course) with a massive size advantage. No excuse for the video.
I mention all that just because time in exercises like that reduces excessive violence. When a cop feels fear, they flip it to anger. When they have skilled practiced options they don’t get scared so easily, or behind in the situation flow. But getting the time and money for the guys to go is tough.

Not really related:

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Belafon  Apr 9, 2016 • 11:09:44am

re: #242 Belafon

And this is why I’m not a politician: the irony of someone complaining about a swipe at Bernie under a picture of a swipe at Hillary.

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Mattand  Apr 9, 2016 • 11:22:05am

re: #13 FormerDirtDart

Tokens I’ve used:
1970-80 NYC TA Token
[Embedded image]1980-86 NYC TA Token
[Embedded image]1986-95 NYC TA Token

I so wish Septa in Philly would get their shit together and get their smart card fare system working. I think they may be last large American city transit system that still relies on tokens.

Of course, in a perfect world, I could just use my phone. Baby steps, I guess.

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Mattand  Apr 9, 2016 • 11:25:18am

re: #237 bratwurst

So tired of these photo meme kinda thing…most of them are deceptive, like this:

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I also love the implication that Bernie somehow is beneath photo ops, what with him being the Freedom Jesus that America has been longing for.

The guy’s been a professional politician for over three decades. Give me a break, Bernie Bros.

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Great White Snark  Apr 9, 2016 • 11:29:35am

Opportunity knocking… California could end this man as a politician.

In California, Trump’s aides are still looking for a campaign manager, and in New Jersey, the second-highest ranking staffer left this week. The states hold potentially determinative primary elections on June 7, the last day of voting.

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wrenchwench  Apr 9, 2016 • 11:30:41am

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But as far as I can see, there were no academic neuroscientists speaking. The only academics present at the NWF were from the field of management and marketing studies. No speakers are listed as being affiliated with a university neuroscience or psychology department.

So a large international ‘neuroscience’ event has taken place, without the help of any neuroscientists. This is remarkable.

[…]

How should neuroscientists react to neuromarketers? It’s easy for us to mock people who use words such as ‘brainology’, and it’s easy for us to decry them when their work doesn’t match up to academic standards. But are we, neuroscientists, responsible for creating this monster, or at least for feeding it up on a diet of neuro-hype?

Could neuromarketing actually represent an opportunity for doing better and more rigorous research? One of the limitations of academic neuroscience is its distance from real-world behaviour. Notoriously, most neuroscience experiments are run on college students - not a very diverse bunch. Could the neuromarketing scene serve as a bridge by which neuroscientists could find more realistic populations (e.g. employees at large organizations, user databases) in which to test our theories?

Yes, the article ends with questions, as more of them should, maybe?

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retired cynic  Apr 9, 2016 • 11:37:47am

OT: How big is the Google Earth database? 3 petabytes (3017 terabytes). Zowee!

gearthblog.com


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