The important thing is that you make sure that neither the favorable nor the unfavorable critics move into your head and take part in the composition of your next work.
— Thornton Wilder
Happy National Siblings Day
(I’m pretty sure the cat is ok)
AYO RT @ImLordMA52: 😂😂😂 RT @MilynJensen_: Wtf 😂😂 RT @Braxman3: Happy national sibling day,
enjoy pic.twitter.com/BilfrQN2i5— Dre The 5-7 (@2Tanks_DRE) April 11, 2016
re: #1 Jenner7
To post a YouTube video, don’t bother with the embed code - just copy the URL of the video from your browser’s address bar and paste it into a comment.
K, ya’ll I’m going to call it a night.
See you tomorrow.
re: #2 Stanley Sea
Happy National Siblings Day
(I’m pretty sure the cat is ok)
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I was talking about this with my kids and we came to the conclusion that the only use for National Siblings Day would be to convince your siblings to ignore you the other 364 days.
For the record, Chuck C. Johnson’s Michelle Fields obsession has now reached 10 posts. Now he’s attacking her aunt for “hating” Trump.
He’s got a screw loose, as my mother would have said.
Accprding to his schoolyard code of ethics, Michelle Fields is “attacking” Corey Lewandowski solely because members of her family “hate” Trump. Chuck cannot comprehend that (1) politics is not inherited and (2) it is possible for journalists to set aside their personal feelings while covering a story and (3) Lewandowski did it.
smh
So, did the Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) sign or veto the electric chair bill before him? I understand he had until midnight Eastern Time to decide that. He wouldn’t say one way or another to the press.
An example of press reporting on this is from The Guardian:
theguardian.com
As the law currently stands, the electric chair can only be used when a condemned person elects it. The bill would allow the state to impose it.
C’mon Virginia, even my state of Nebraska repealed the death penalty. If our Republican legislature can bring themselves to do that, surely a Democratic governor would not sign a bill to make it easier.
Sanders calls on Clinton to “stop being vague” about her tax and social security plans https://t.co/NikLisGyHa pic.twitter.com/y1hU08h7y7
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 10, 2016
Can’t say how he’ll enact core policies in own stump speech, demands details readily available on Hillary’s website. https://t.co/wMRejr3PpA
— Spanky McSizzlechest (@goddamnedfrank) April 11, 2016
re: #9 goddamnedfrank
Media flogging horse race narrative once again…. I will say this, it’s nice that Sanders is in the race. Without him there and helping to bring into discussion topics like free tuition, income inequality what would we have likely had? In my mind I could see the media still relentlessly flogging the nothingburgers of Benghazi, and the e-mail server and failing that, attempting to pin the failures of the Clinton Presidency on her doorstep. At least the discussion on the Dem side are mostly about issues and not character.
In comparison to the shit show on the other side, lets jail the abortionists because women don’t have any rights when they’re pregnant, lets build a wall and lets bomb everyone who doesn’t suck up to us…. I’d much rather deal with the lefty purity ponies than the outrage brigade over on the right.
re: #10 piratedan
Media flogging horse race narrative once again…. I will say this, it’s nice that Sanders is in the race. Without him there and helping to bring into discussion topics like free tuition, income inequality what would we have likely had? In my mind I could see the media still relentlessly flogging the nothingburgers of Benghazi, and the e-mail server and failing that, attempting to pin the failures of the Clinton Presidency on her doorstep. At least the discussion on the Dem side are mostly about issues and not character.
In comparison to the shit show on the other side, lets jail the abortionists because women don’t have any rights when they’re pregnant, lets build a wall and lets bomb everyone who doesn’t suck up to us…. I’d much rather deal with the lefty purity ponies than the outrage brigade over on the right.
Struth. Our big contretemps is that one candidate got all agitated and called the other unqualified. Their big contretemps is that Republican National Convention might leave Cleveland an irradiated wasteland of charred corpses and deflated red white and blue balloons, unfit for human habitation for the next ten thousand years.
Given the choice, I’ll take some online #bernieorbust drama mongers.
I’m proud of my family’s Marine.
But this newly commissioned Lance Corporal has had some setbacks. She broke her leg somehow, and was just diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. She’s a tough kid, but your thoughts and prayers are welcome.
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re: #12 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Are they going to let her stay in with the Type 1 diabetes?
(I am Type 1 diabetic, and the military recruiters told me I wasn’t eligible to serve in that case.)
re: #13 Timothy Watson
Are they going to let her stay in with the Type 1 diabetes?
(I am Type 1 diabetic, and the military recruiters told me I wasn’t eligible to serve in that case.)
I have no idea. She was admitted to the base hospital with blood sugar of 387 and sugar in her pee. Insulin brought her back to normal, but I don’t know if the USMC will accommodate her daily insulin doses.
She just received her commission last month.
re: #8 Anymouse
So, did the Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) sign or veto the electric chair bill before him? I understand he had until midnight Eastern Time to decide that. He wouldn’t say one way or another to the press.
An example of press reporting on this is from The Guardian:
theguardian.comAs the law currently stands, the electric chair can only be used when a condemned person elects it. The bill would allow the state to impose it.
C’mon Virginia, even my state of Nebraska repealed the death penalty. If our Republican legislature can bring themselves to do that, surely a Democratic governor would not sign a bill to make it easier.
I am not seeing any recent (as in after midnight) stories giving McAuliffe’s decision and the legislative page hasn’t been updated (and won’t be until the clerks at the General Assembly get in):
lis.virginia.gov
And the bad thing is that a man was just released after doing 33 years in prison here in Virginia in a non-capital case because someone at the Department of Forensic Science didn’t document exculpatory evidence in his report so the prosecutor wouldn’t be forced to turn it over. The case also involved bullshit forensic evidence involving bite mark patterns and a witness who had been hypnotized:
richmond.com
re: #9 goddamnedfrank
Sanders reminds me of McCain and Romney during their campaigns. Sanders is acting so cravenly that he clearly is diminishing not only his short term appeal, but also his long term credibility. It is sad in a way. And incomprehensible. What causes them to throw away their honor?
re: #16 Ming5000
Sanders reminds me of McCain and Romney during their campaigns. Sanders is acting so cravenly that he clearly is diminishing not only his short term appeal, but also his long term credibility. It is sad in a way. And incomprehensible. What causes them to throw away their honor?
Yep, and he could be encouraging his supporters to get out there and be involved in the Congressional (and state, and local) primaries, party organizations, and Congressional general election races, which would increase his influence and goodwill and might cause the party to shift more to the left.
But that would be too “establishment” for him.
re: #16 Ming5000
Sanders reminds me of McCain and Romney during their campaigns. Sanders is acting so cravenly that he clearly is diminishing not only his short term appeal, but also his long term credibility. It is sad in a way. And incomprehensible. What causes them to throw away their honor?
In Bernie’s case somewhere along the line he saw a glimmer of a chance that he might actually be the nominee, the race being much closer at this point than he thought it’d be going in. His wife admitted as much in a recent interview, that they’re doing far better than either of them ever thought possible. So they went from a position where it was impossible to really even be disappointed to one where they were actually able to get their hopes up.
re: #17 Timothy Watson
Yep, and he could be encouraging his supporters to get out there and be involved in the Congressional (and state, and local) primaries, party organizations, and Congressional general election races, which would increase his influence and goodwill and might cause the party to shift more to the left.
But that would be too “establishment” for him.
Exactly. He could be a team player, and encourage his supporters to broaden their idea of the “team.” Instead, he’s acting like he’s the star center, and all the other players are just there running around for no real purpose.
An idiot could tell him that his lofty goals are just not going to happen without a cooperative Congress, one that he could help elect. As it is, if he were elected, the Dems surviving the election would not have a lot of good will toward a presidential candidate who did zero for the downticket.
re: #18 goddamnedfrank
In Bernie’s case somewhere along the line he saw a glimmer of a chance that he might actually be the nominee, the race being much closer at this point than he thought it’d be going in. His wife admitted as much in a recent interview, that they’re doing far better than either of them ever thought possible. So they went from a position where it was impossible to really even be disappointed to one where they were actually able to get their hopes up.
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Icarus ignored his father’s instructions not to fly too close to the sun, whereupon the wax in his wings melted and he fell into the sea.
re: #12 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
She’s got ‘em.
Trump RT’d some guy with a Confederate general for his avi, but they’re not white supremacists, nuh uh
“@TimeHasCome1: @WayneDupreeShow @ThePatriot143 Trump needs to hold a massive protest rally in Colorado. He’d get 100k & own the news cycle”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2016
Lol pic.twitter.com/HAr9zs1b0Y
— Abi Wilkinson (@AbiWilks) April 11, 2016
re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth
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@AbiWilks “HELP! I’M TRAPPED IN WEALTH. SOMEBODY CALL A BUTLER!”
— Nick Names Nuts (@nicknamesnuts) April 11, 2016
Just as an experiment, I’d like to be trapped in wealth for a few years.
If you are Jewish, don’t vote for Bernie
Bernie Sanders is not quite Jewish. He’s Jew-ish — a non-practicing, anti-Israel, kinda, sorta Hebrew.
Raised in a veritable shtetl in Brooklyn, the Bernmeister had a bar mitzvah, worked as a volunteer on an Israeli kibbutz — a collective farm modeled on communist principles — for several months while in his 20s, and counts a number of his European ancestors as victims of the Holocaust.
But the geriatric Vermont senator, who craves toppling Her Hillaryness from her presidential perch as he might crave a bagel with a schmear, is hardly down with the Chosen People.
Before running for the Democratic presidential nomination, before making a nebbishy star turn on “Saturday Night Live,” Bernie was something of a ham. He rapped on a folk-rock album while serving as mayor of Burlington, Vt., in 1987. Then, he donned a yarmulke to play a stereotypically obnoxious rabbi named “Manny Shevitz” (oy) in a low-budget 1999 romantic comedy, “My X-Girlfriend’s Wedding Reception,” while serving in the House.
Watch the Video!
re: #26 Barefoot Grin
Just as an experiment, I’d like to be trapped in wealth for a few years.
That’s one problem you could literally spend your way out of.
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re: #29 lizardofid
That’s one problem you could literally spend your way out of.
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Not necessarily. A beneficiary of a trust-fund doesn’t get to spend out the capital in the fund, they just receive the interest and/or a regular drawdown. Someone I knew had a trust fund, part of a family financial instrument that paid him enough to live on without him needing to work, but no private jets or limos. He wanted to get his hands on “his share” of the capital fund to live the high life for a few years but he couldn’t.
re: #30 Nojay UK
Not necessarily. A beneficiary of a trust-fund doesn’t get to spend out the capital in the fund, they just receive the interest and/or a regular drawdown. Someone I knew had a trust fund, part of a family financial instrument that paid him enough to live on without him needing to work, but no private jets or limos. He wanted to get his hands on “his share” of the capital fund to live the high life for a few years but he couldn’t.
There’s a problem I could live with.
26 words, 90 seconds… We’re starting the week with a brand new word game over on the blog! https://t.co/98ZTDGA5da pic.twitter.com/RAWYUrlNMR
— Haggard Hawks (@HaggardHawks) April 11, 2016
I got 53% before I ran out of time.
re: #26 Barefoot Grin
Just as an experiment, I’d like to be trapped in wealth for a few years.
Was that not a line from Tevyeh in Fiddler on the Roof responding to his idealistic son-in-law: “If wealth is a curse, then may I be smitten so that I never recover!”
re: #32 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
There’s a problem I could live with.
Steven eventually died in a car accident under the influence of drink and drugs. He was rather aimless, the money from the trust-fund insulating him from real life in some ways but it wasn’t enough to permit him the hedonistic lifestyle he felt was his due.
The problems of the rich aren’t the same as the problems of poor people, but they are problems. You don’t have paparazzi crawling through your garden trying to take candid pictures of you, your family, your kids, your pets. You don’t have to worry about crazed stalkers obsessed with the characters you play in movies or worry about kidnap and extortion. You don’t have to maintain a private security force for every trip outside your heavily-guarded compound, wear kevlar in public, spend your life maintaining the family fortune for your successors and wading through bullshit that others don’t have to.
re: #36 Nojay UK
Steven eventually died in a car accident under the influence of drink and drugs. He was rather aimless, the money from the trust-fund insulating him from real life in some ways but it wasn’t enough to permit him the hedonistic lifestyle he felt was his due.
The problems of the rich aren’t the same as the problems of poor people, but they are problems. You don’t have paparazzi crawling through your garden trying to take candid pictures of you, your family, your kids, your pets. You don’t have to worry about crazed stalkers obsessed with the characters you play in movies or worry about kidnap and extortion. You don’t have to maintain a private security force for every trip outside your heavily-guarded compound, wear kevlar in public, spend your life maintaining the family fortune for your successors and wading through bullshit that others don’t have to.
Wealthy people who are not celebrities do not experience these problems.
re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Was that not a line from Tevyeh in Fiddler on the Roof responding to his idealistic son-in-law: “If wealth is a curse, then may I be smitten so that I never recover!”
Ha! I don’t think my line would have played on Broadway.
I do agree with Nojay’s point about extra struggles for the rich and famous, but “wealth” for me is a relative term.
Being poor kills you, especially if you live in a place that sucks.
The life expectancy for the poor in metro Detroit is much lower than poor in New York area https://t.co/KGk80YBs7b pic.twitter.com/kyv4IyCZ79
— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) April 11, 2016
re: #26 Barefoot Grin
Just as an experiment, I’d like to be trapped in wealth for a few years.
This is exactly the spin that I was expecting to see: we force rich people to do things like this because we tax them. If we only did not tax them at all, they would invest all their surplus moneys in jerb creation instead of seeking offshore shelters.
re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
This is exactly the spin that I was expecting to see: we force rich people to do things like this because we tax them. If we only did not tax them at all, they would invest all their surplus moneys in jerb creation instead of seeking offshore shelters.
The Panama Papers investigations have revealed that between $1 trillion and $4 trillion has “leaked” out of China to offshore accounts since 1997. That’s around $1,000 for each citizen of China, many of whom live on much less than that annually.
re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
This is exactly the spin that I was expecting to see: we force rich people to do things like this because we tax them. If we only did not tax them at all, they would invest all their surplus moneys in jerb creation instead of seeking offshore shelters.
The rich write the tax laws, they should at least pass one “I feel like acting right with this money but don’t act questions about my other cash” law.
Sanders and Trump voters confused and angry over rules made to deter candidates like theirs https://t.co/Q0eyiuFqji pic.twitter.com/TMHxVez2m8
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) April 9, 2016
WASHINGTON — When it comes to nominating presidential candidates, it turns out the world’s foremost democracy is not so purely democratic.
For decades, both major parties have used a somewhat convoluted process for picking their nominees, one that involves ordinary voters in only an indirect way. As Americans flock this year to outsider candidates, the kind most hindered by these rules, they are suddenly waking up to this reality. And their confusion and anger are adding another volatile element to an election being waged over questions of fairness and equality.
In Nashville a week ago, supporters of Donald J. Trump accused Republican leaders of trying to stack the state’s delegate slate with people who were anti-Trump. The Trump campaign posted the cellphone number of the state party chairman on Twitter, leading him to be inundated with calls. Several dozen people showed up at the meeting at which delegates were being named, banged on the windows and demanded to be let in.
Backers of Senator Bernie Sanders, bewildered at why he keeps winning states but cannot seem to cut into Hillary Clinton’s delegate count because of her overwhelming lead with “superdelegates,” have used Reddit and Twitter to start an aggressive pressure campaign to flip votes.
re: #27 Kent Dorfman
Bernie Sanders is not quite Jewish. He’s Jew-ish — a non-practicing, anti-Israel, kinda, sorta Hebrew.
Hey, remember when the Republicans talked about how Obama didn’t really count as black, and we were all “Yeah, that’s a totally reasonable thing to say”?
Closed Primary Could Be Sanders’ Achilles’ Heel https://t.co/h3UFGXUuza
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) April 11, 2016
In New York, tight laws and early deadlines will compound the challenge for Sanders.
There is no same-day registration in the state. Independents or members of third parties who want to vote as Democrats had to change their party registration by October 9.
And new voters - another key Sanders voting bloc - had to register by March 25, just days after the Sanders campaign deployed their first paid staffers in New York and the day before they opened their first field office there.
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Hillary stole the election by following the rules! We don’t want rule followers!”
Quote unquote.
re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sanders and Trump voters confused and angry over rules made to deter candidates like theirs/
There is nothing illegal or conspiritorial about the way that political parties select their candidates: the rules, although sometimes arcane and Byzantine, are there for all to see. But these people are upset because they are participating in a system they do not fully understand and are getting all huffy when they find out.
Sort of like what we all go through when we reach puberty…
re: #45 Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist
Hey, remember when the Republicans talked about how Obama didn’t really count as black, and we were all “Yeah, that’s a totally reasonable thing to say”?
You know, Jews are actually allowed to disagree with Bibi.
re: #47 Belafon
“Hillary stole the election by following the rules! We don’t want rule followers!”
Quote unquote.
It’s hard to have a revolution if you follow the rules.
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re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
Backers of Senator Bernie Sanders, bewildered at why he keeps winning states but cannot seem to cut into Hillary Clinton’s delegate count because of
her overwhelming lead with “superdelegates,”their inability to understand that a larger number is bigger than a smaller number have used Reddit and Twitter to start an aggressive pressure campaign to flip votes.
A proportional delegate system was never going to allow a person to get a huge jump. But Sanders wouldn’t be in the race at all it the Southern states had been winner-take-all. And it favors larger states, a lot like the Electoral College.
re: #22 The Vicious Babushka
Trump RT’d some guy with a Confederate general for his avi, but they’re not white supremacists, nuh uh
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Confederate General John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general and cavalry officer in the American Civil War. Morgan is best known for Morgan’s Raid when, in 1863, he and his men rode over 1,000 miles covering a region from Tennessee, up through Kentucky, into Indiana and on to southern Ohio. This would be the farthest north any uniformed Confederate troops penetrated during the war.
re: #54 Decatur Deb
Confederate General John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general and cavalry officer in the American Civil War. Morgan is best known for Morgan’s Raid when, in 1863, he and his men rode over 1,000 miles covering a region from Tennessee, up through Kentucky, into Indiana and on to southern Ohio. This would be the farthest north any uniformed Confederate troops penetrated during the war.
Loved his mother so much, he escaped from Federal prison and rode his horse through her house just to kiss her goodbye….
Ted Cruz is “honored” to name demon-hunting anti-gay exorcist Gordon Klingenschmitt to his Colorado Leadership Team: https://t.co/gIqEdfpTpE
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 11, 2016
Even if you’re not that into Bitcoin, this visualization is interesting to watch.
The cubes represent blocks of transactions, and the balls represent individual Bitcoin transactions. Hit the spacebar to clear the surface, click mute to shut off the sounds.
re: #22 The Vicious Babushka
“@TimeHasCome1: @WayneDupreeShow @ThePatriot143 Trump needs to hold a massive protest rally in Colorado. He’d get 100k & own the news cycle”
— Donald J. Trump
Also, too, a MASSIVE YUUUUGE PROTEST RALLY WOULD GET ALL THE DELEGATES!!!11
#POTUS Truman to General MacArthur: #YoureFired! 65 yrs ago #TDiH 1951: https://t.co/4Ps7KT5sWs pic.twitter.com/4nweOAnIQy
— Today’s Document (@TodaysDocument) April 11, 2016
re: #54 Decatur Deb
Confederate General John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general and cavalry officer in the American Civil War. Morgan is best known for Morgan’s Raid when, in 1863, he and his men rode over 1,000 miles covering a region from Tennessee, up through Kentucky, into Indiana and on to southern Ohio. This would be the farthest north any uniformed Confederate troops penetrated during the war.
I think Earl Van Dorn was my favorite Confederate general:
It was Van Dorn’s reputation as a womanizer, not a Union bullet, that led to his death. In May 1863 he was shot in his headquarters at Spring Hill in Maury County, Tennessee, by Dr. James Bodie Peters,[30] who claimed that Van Dorn had carried on an affair with his wife Jessie McKissack Peters.[29] Alone in his office at the home of Martin Cheairs (now known as Ferguson Hall) Van Dorn was writing at his desk, and Peters entered and shot him once in the back of the head, killing him instantly.[31] Peters was later arrested by Confederate authorities, but was never brought to trial for the killing.[29] In defense of his actions, Dr. Peters stated that Van Dorn had “violated the sanctity of his home.”[32]
Classy guy.
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re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #55 Barefoot Grin
Loved his mother so much, he escaped from Federal prison and rode his horse through her house just to kiss her goodbye….
A ball fired by his horse artillery is still lodged in a pharmacy wall in Elizabethtown. His gunners missed the whole Hardin County courthouse at a range of 1000 meters.
The important thing is that you make sure that neither the favorable nor the unfavorable critics move into your head and take part in the composition of your next work.— Thornton Wilder
So, what was Satie’s satirical response to Debussy’s advice that he should “pay more attention to form” in his music? He wrote “Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear.” But the work actually had seven parts:
A Way of Starting
Continuation of Same
Piece One
Piece Two
Piece Three
One More
A Rehash
Satie had fun with lots of his titles some of which can be seen as forerunners of outlandish, goofy names for bands. There’s “Dried Up Embryos,” “Dreamy Fish,” and “Disagreeable Perceptions”. I think the funniest is “Authentic Flabby Preludes (for a Dog)”.
Must have been the absinthe.
re: #62 Decatur Deb
A ball fired by his horse artillery is still lodged in a pharmacy wall in Elizabethtown. His gunners missed the whole Hardin County courthouse at a range of 1000 meters.
1000 meters was about the limit of the effective range of Civil War artillery.
Overlord says It’s National Pet Day
Convey Mere: #61 b.d.
You would think that they would have retyped it after the line throughs?
They probably did since that was the draft copy.
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
As Harry said.
I fired him because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the President. That’s the answer to that. I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that’s not against the laws for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.
re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Was that not a line from Tevyeh in Fiddler on the Roof responding to his idealistic son-in-law: “If wealth is a curse, then may I be smitten so that I never recover!”
“I realize, of course, that it’s no shame to be poor. It’s no great honor either.”
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
1000 meters was about the limit of the effective range of Civil War artillery.
That fits if it was a 12 lb mountain howitzer (the sort of gun he would hump, and what the round looks like). It was at the limit of it’s range, failed to penetrate a double-brick wall.
re: #37 The Vicious Babushka
Wealthy people who are not celebrities do not experience these problems.
They do have the problem of never being sure how many of their friends are really “friends”. How many of the people wanting to date them really care about their personality or intellect or sense of humor. Who really enjoys their company and wants to be with them, and who just love their house and their car and are already calculating possible divorce settlements before they even get to the second date.
So it turns out that Trump’s “charitable givng” wasn’t done using his money. Now there’s a surprise.
Front page, Washington Post today (sorry but I can’t get my iPad to paste the link correctly).
re: #27 Kent Dorfman
Knew it had to be the NY Post.
How far they’ve fallen since the days of headlines like ‘Headless Body in Topless Bar’.
re: #71 Skip Intro
So it turns out that Trump’s “charitable givng” wasn’t done using his money. Now there’s a surprise.
Front page, Washington Post today (sorry but I can’t get my iPad to paste the link correctly).
Saw that! The WaPo also has a good article today here: One woman helped the mastermind of the Paris attacks. The other turned him in.
re: #73 iceweasel
Saw that! The WaPo also has a good article today here: One woman helped the mastermind of the Paris attacks. The other turned him in.
So, the mastermind of the attacks was a woman, and the other woman turned him (the mastermind of the attacks who was a woman) in?
Finished streaming Bosch season 2 last night. Good stuff. Has made me appreciate the books again.
One thing about the streaming I don’t get, the sound is incredibly low. I have to have the speakers at 100% to hear it. I don’t have this problem with music or anything else. Anybody else have this issue with Amazon Prime or have suggestions? I’ll have to compare to other movies or shows streaming from Prime.
re: #74 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
So, the mastermind of the attacks was a woman, and the other woman turned him (the mastermind of the attacks who was a woman) in?
Him? Don’t you mean ‘hir’? :)
re: #76 iceweasel
Him? Don’t you mean ‘hir’? :)
Yeah I didn’t get the gender switcheroo in the headline.
The floodgates are open. Time to make the bigoted GOP-dominated states suffer economically.
Bryan Adams follows in Springsteen’s footsteps, cancels Mississippi gig https://t.co/unnxzQOtIK
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) April 11, 2016
re: #78 Dr. Matt
The floodgates are open. Time to make the bigoted GOP-dominated states suffer economically.
I think I can hear Bryan Fischer cry
re: #74 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
So, the mastermind of the attacks was a woman, and the other woman turned him (the mastermind of the attacks who was a woman) in?
No. The mastermind of the attacks was a man; the woman who helped him was a cousin, the woman who turned him in was a family friend.
re: #78 Dr. Matt
The floodgates are open. Time to make the bigoted GOP-dominated states suffer economically.
I would be really surprised, after seeing this, that Texas, even with our idiot governor and Lt. governor, tries to pass a bill like that. If there’s one thing Texas does more than religion, it’s business. Yes, they passed an anti-gay marriage amendment, but, at the time, no company was threatening to leave states over it. Now? Republicans in the state know who pays their salaries.
re: #65 Great White Snark
Overlord says It’s National Pet Day
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Woohoo, the catnip and jerky treats will flow free tonight! (Not that I really need an excuse to spoil them.)
re: #81 Belafon
I would be really surprised, after seeing this, that Texas, even with our idiot governor and Lt. governor, tries to pass a bill like that. If there’s one thing Texas does more than religion, it’s business. Yes, they passed an anti-gay marriage amendment, but, at the time, no company was threatening to leave states over it. Now? Republicans in the state know who pays their salaries.
The party bifurcation continues.
re: #80 sagehen
No. The mastermind of the attacks was a man; the woman who helped him was a cousin, the woman who turned him in was a family friend.
Thanks. I’m a little slow on this Monday I guess…..
hahahahahahahahaha
.@ScottWalker is giving away “free” presidential campaign T-shirts for a $45 donation, but he can’t guarantee size or color
— Scott Bauer (@sbauerAP) April 11, 2016
.@ScottWalker says presidential campaign T-shirts can be framed or used for “crafty things” like turning into a pillow or bag
— Scott Bauer (@sbauerAP) April 11, 2016
re: #8 Anymouse
Finally a news story about the bill:
Gov. Terry McAuliffe has recommended dramatic changes to a bill that would allow the state to use the electric chair as a fallback option in executions, suggesting instead that prison officials be allowed to make emergency deals with pharmacies to obtain drugs needed for lethal injections.
Under the governor’s recommendation, the identity of any pharmacy providing lethal drugs could be kept secret and would be protected from being outed in civil lawsuits.
McAuliffe is expected to formally announce the action during a news conference this morning at the Capitol.
re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Joke Scarborough was losing his mind over Wyoming results from Saturday and was pissed off those rascally Democrats could allow people to vote for Bernie to win by several points and yet Clinton ends up with more delegates. They had it 11-7…I really don’t know, I’m growing numb to the whole thing.
There was so much cross-talking with the whole panel it was a cacophony of voices. I couldn’t even do my normal 20 opening minutes. Joke sounded like Trump.
Yeah, the whole nominating process sucks…but it has been this way for some time. Did everyone just become aware now??? Why didn’t someone like Joke Scarborough take time to understand it all…or is it just easy to lose your shit and bitch about it?
re: #88 ObserverArt
11-7 is with the superdelegates added. The pledged delegate count came to 7-7.
re: #88 ObserverArt
Joke Scarborough was losing his mind over Wyoming results from Saturday and was pissed off those rascally Democrats could allow people to vote for Bernie to win by several points and yet Clinton ends up with more delegates. They had it 11-7…I really don’t know, I’m growing numb to the whole thing.
There was so much cross-talking with the whole panel it was a cacophony of voices. I couldn’t even do my normal 20 opening minutes. Joke sounded like Trump.
Yeah, the whole nominating process sucks…but it has been this way for some time. Did everyone just become aware now??? Why didn’t someone like Joke Scarborough take time to understand it all…or is it just easy to lose your shit and bitch about it?
Go go horserace coverage!
re: #87 Timothy Watson
Finally a news story about the bill:
When I voted for McAuliffe, I knew he was no prize. But he was better than the alternative, which was the lunacy of Cuci. One of the trade-offs of living in a purple state is you’re rarely going to find decent Dems to run for office.
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
.@ScottWalker says presidential campaign T-shirts can be framed or used for “crafty things” like turning into a pillow or bag
— Scott Bauer
….line the cat’s litter pan
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
Scott Walker says presidential campaign T-shirts can be framed or used for “crafty things” like turning into a pillow or bag
First use that comes to mind here is as a douchebag…
re: #91 Targetpractice
When I voted for McAuliffe, I knew he was no prize. But he was better than the alternative, which was the lunacy of Cuci. One of the trade-offs of living in a purple state is you’re rarely going to find decent Dems to run for office.
McAuliffe isn’t anywhere near pure. Why didn’t you just write in a True Progressive third-party?
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re: #92 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
….line the cat’s litter pan
Wouldn’t you want the cat to use the litter box?
re: #91 Targetpractice
When I voted for McAuliffe, I knew he was no prize. But he was better than the alternative, which was the lunacy of Cuci. One of the trade-offs of living in a purple state is you’re rarely going to find decent Dems to run for office.
The good thing that happened when the Republicans nominated Cuci is that it resulted in the Dems gaining the governor, lt governor, and AG’s office. I’m still no big fan of Terry but he’s been way better than Cuci would have been. But yeah that is the predicament we often find ourselves in. I do like Kaine though. A little more iffy on Warner but better than them than any of the Republicans who have run against them.
re: #96 HappyWarrior
The good thing that happened when the Republicans nominated Cuci is that it resulted in the Dems gaining the governor, lt governor, and AG’s office. I’m still no big family of Terry but he’s been way better than Cuci would have been. But yeah that is the predicament we often find ourselves in. I do like Kaine though. A little more iffy on Warner but better than them than any of the Republicans who have run against them.
I may just speak for myself, but I always found Kaine to be a middling governor at best, but have been impressed by his performance in Congress so far. I’m sure there’s votes of his I’ve disagreed with, but I have not yet found myself regretting my vote for him.
re: #94 Testy Toad T
McAuliffe isn’t anywhere near pure. Why didn’t you just write in a True Progressive third-party?
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The too good to vote people almost resulted in McAuliffe losing. He only won by 56,505 votes.
re: #97 Targetpractice
I may just speak for myself, but I always found Kaine to be a middling governor at best, but have been impressed by his performance in Congress so far. I’m sure there’s votes of his I’ve disagreed with, but I have not yet found myself regretting my vote for him.
Better legislator than governor I agree. He actually was the first person I ever voted for.
re: #27 Kent Dorfman
If you are Jewish, don’t vote for Bernie
Watch the Video!
Up next from the Post: Hillary claims to be a woman, but is she really down with the fairer sex?
They’re saying that my Congresswoman Barbara Comstock already wants to run for Senate. So this is funny after 30+ years of Frank Wolf, we may get a term or two of Comstock. Comstock isn’t as bad as Dick Black, my odious state senator who ran against her in the primary but she is still pretty much a right wing hack.
re: #88 ObserverArt
Joke Scarborough was losing his mind over Wyoming results from Saturday and was pissed off those rascally Democrats could allow people to vote for Bernie to win by several points and yet Clinton ends up with more delegates.
Because they’re trying to do the same gerrymandering in their own states to destroy the “urban” vote?
(I agree that this isn’t the way to apportion votes, but still….)
re: #101 HappyWarrior
They’re saying that my Congresswoman Barbara Comstock already wants to run for Senate. So this is funny after 30+ years of Frank Wolf, we may get a term or two of Comstock. Comstock isn’t as bad as Dick Black, my odious state senator who ran against her in the primary but she is still pretty much a right wing hack.
Great, another politico looking for celebrity.
re: #95 Belafon
Wouldn’t you want the cat to use the litter box?
Perhaps the shirt could be used to clean up the messes when the Overlords miss the litter pan.
re: #103 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Great, another politico looking for celebrity.
I don’t know if she’s looking for celebrity. I just think it’s amazing that she wants the Senate seat already while having accomplished very little in Congress. She’s not unique in that regard by the way but it does rub me the wrong way. Of course, I fear what could happen is she steps down from the House and that allows Black to get her seat and eh’s just awful. If Dick Black got elected, he’d immediately be in the Gohmert/Steve King caucus of idiots in a party full of them.
re: #105 HappyWarrior
I don’t know if she’s looking for celebrity. I just think it’s amazing that she wants the Senate seat already while having accomplished very little in Congress. She’s not unique in that regard by the way but it does rub me the wrong way. Of course, I fear what could happen is she steps down from the House and that allows Black to get her seat and eh’s just awful. If Dick Black got elected, he’d immediately be in the Gohmert/Steve King caucus of idiots in a party full of them.
yeah, that too. I mean cmon. She barely got her House seat warm.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 11, 2016
re: #106 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
yeah, that too. I mean cmon. She barely got her House seat warm.
And it’s not like she’s passed much. She wouldn’t be the worst the Virginia Republican Party could offer I concede.
Being president really does wear a person down.
The first & last portrait photos of Lincoln as President: May 1860 & Feb 1865. pic.twitter.com/JquGZETZJy
— I Love History (@lLoveHistory) April 11, 2016
Jeff Weaver’s on CNN calling Hillary a racist and Obama a defender of her racism.
Good morning and happy Monday! #BernedOut— Brinda Estrella (@BrindaStar) April 11, 2016
Ooookay.
re: #109 darthstar
Being president really does wear a person down.
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He had some personal tragedy too during his presidency.
Holy cow…talk about your executive orders.
The divorced who have entered a new union should be made to feel part of the Church. They are not excommunicated.
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) April 11, 2016
re: #110 Jenner7
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Ooookay.
Weaver does know that Bernie is running for the nomination of Obama’s party right? Amateur hour.
re: #110 Jenner7
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Ooookay.
Bernie should really cut this Weaver loon loose. Holy crap.
re: #112 darthstar
Holy cow…talk about your executive orders.
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Meanwhile, on the batshit crazy side of Christianity…
Christian publisher: ‘Women are losing their salvation because they masturbate’ https://t.co/0yZOBUbjJ5 pic.twitter.com/KFqAmV0HHK
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 11, 2016
re: #114 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Two of Trump’s Kids Missed NY Registration Deadline, Can’t Vote for Dad
Haw haw.
re: #116 darthstar
Meanwhile, on the batshit crazy side of Christianity…
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Well these people must be the life of the party.
re: #112 darthstar
Holy cow…talk about your executive orders.
The divorced who have entered a new union should be made to feel part of the Church. They are not excommunicated.
My grandmother never went to church with us because she was divorced and excommunicated.
re: #89 Belafon
11-7 is with the superdelegates added. The pledged delegate count came to 7-7.
I think Joke was pissed about that too. Overall, he was just pissed!
re: #110 Jenner7
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Ooookay.
Every single aspect of Sanders’ campaign and candidacy looks like a guy who has never lived in a <90% caucasian region in his life.
I wonder why black voters are so skeptical. ///
re: #116 darthstar
Meanwhile, on the batshit crazy side of Christianity…
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Christine “I am not a witch” O’Donnel pointed out that masturbation is sinful because it stems from the sin of lust.
Which does not apply in my case, it is just force of habit…
re: #117 HappyWarrior
Haw haw.
” Yahoo News reported last week that only oldest son Donald Jr. is a registered Republican and that both Ivanka and Eric have previously donated to Democratic candidates.”
re: #116 darthstar
Meanwhile, on the batshit crazy side of Christianity…
Christian author and publisher Mack Major warned over the weekend that “Christian women are losing their salvation” by using dildos, which he called a “direct path to Satan.”
Not that there aren’t views like this in Christianity, but as an ex-fundy, I’ve never heard of this Mack person. Maybe he’s new or just kind of obscure.
re: #114 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Two of Trump’s Kids Missed NY Registration Deadline, Can’t Vote for Dad
Now that is Rich!
re: #110 Jenner7
Ooookay.
I was going to write “I’m sure the whitesplaining will go over real well with his target audience” but then I got to wondering about who his target audience actually is.
re: #112 darthstar
Holy cow…talk about your executive orders.
Oh sure, let in the divorced people. Then pretty soon you’re letting women be pastors and making everyone do gay weddings.
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re: #110 Jenner7
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Ooookay.
If Weaver’s out there, feeding this crap to Sanders on the campaign trail, what’s he going to feed him when he’s in the Oval Office? Just like Hillary in ‘08, Sanders is beginning to suffer from the perception that he has no control over the people running his campaign and even less over the people supporting it.
re: #114 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Two of Trump’s Kids Missed NY Registration Deadline, Can’t Vote for Dad
Thanks for reminding me.
Just submitted my change of address with the Duval County (FL) Supervisor of Elections
re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Christine “I am not a witch” O’Donnel pointed out that masturbation is sinful because it stems from the sin of lust.
Which does not apply in my case, it is just force of habit…
I was just cleaning it and it went off!
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re: #116 darthstar
That is a very odd picture. If you stare at it … it.. it is just odd somehow.
re: #135 Ming5000
That is a very odd picture. If you stare at it … it.. it is just odd somehow.
Kinda hard not to stare at it…girl in the middle looks like she is holding a mini-hamburger…
re: #130 Targetpractice
If Weaver’s out there, feeding this crap to Sanders on the campaign trail, what’s he going to feed him when he’s in the Oval Office? Just like Hillary in ‘08, Sanders is beginning to suffer from the perception that he has no control over the people running his campaign and even less over the people supporting it.
Bernie is a bit drunk on his unexpected popularity. It is going to his head now and he probably thinks people like Jeff Weaver and Nina Turner and others that say outrageous crap is helping. So he goes with it.
‘Morning, Lizards!
An update on this week’s Long Island Trump appearance - he’s scheduled to appear at a Suffolk County GOP fundraiser at a club called The Emporium in the Village of Patchogue.
For those not familiar, Patchogue is a small village on Long Island’s South Shore. Like many towns on LI, it kinda went dead economically for years, but is now making a strong comeback. Lots of good restaurants and cool music venues, plenty of new construction going on in the center of town.
This Trump appearance is rubbing the locals the wrong way, for a number of reasons. The Emporium is the one venue in Patchogue that has had real violence at their shows - shooting incidents, brawls in the street outside, like that. The easy-going Patch locals call it ‘asshole central.’ Kind of the most appropriate venue in town for Trump to appear.
But it’s located right in the middle of town, about a half block off the main drag. Between the Trump fans trying to get into the club and the protesters who are guaranteed to show up, it’s a lead-pipe cinch that it will tie the town in knots for hours. (By contrast, Trump’s Nassau County appearance last week was at a former industrial location, away from the town of Bethpage proper, so it was a much more manageable place to hold a political rally.)
Further complicating matters is the fact that the rally is going to take place on the same block as the murder of an Ecuadorean immigrant in 2008 by a gang of teens. Local clergy are criticizing the location as incredibly tone-deaf considering the high Hispanic population of the town, and are trying to convince SCGOP to move the rally to another venue. Whether SCGOP will even try to do so remains to be seen.
Also - the cheap tickets for the event were priced at $100 last week. Over the weekend, the venue raised the price to $150 per. Like I said, asshole central.
re: #137 ObserverArt
Bernie is a bit drunk on his unexpected popularity. It is going to his head now and he probably thinks people like Jeff Weaver and Nina Turner and others that say outrageous crap is helping. So he goes with it.
That’s what desperation tends to do to you: Leaves you grasping at any reed, no matter how thin, in the hopes that it will be your salvation.
This keeps happening to Republicans. What do women see in them?
Antigay Indiana ‘Religious Freedom’ Sponsor Resigns Amidst Sex Scandal https://t.co/UBbsTlVEQS
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 11, 2016
re: #140 darthstar
a sexually explicit video starring the representative was sent via text message from McMillin’s cell phone
hmm, from his own phone? tee hee
re: #74 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
So, the mastermind of the attacks was a woman, and the other woman turned him (the mastermind of the attacks who was a woman) in?
The way I read it is the mastermind was a man. Then there were two women, one who helped him, and one who turned him in. All I read was the headline tough.
re: #140 darthstar
This keeps happening to Republicans. What do women see in them?
Women are enchanted by their passion for America…
re: #140 darthstar
This keeps happening to Republicans. What do women see in them?
Sigh.
This is the second time McMillin has resigned from a job over sexual misconduct allegations.
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Women are enchanted by their passion for America…
I think it’s more likely that alcohol in significant quantities are involved.
re: #144 Le Lapin Tueur
This is the second time McMillin has resigned from a job over sexual misconduct allegations.
Third time should be the charm.
re: #139 Targetpractice
That’s what desperation tends to do to you: Leaves you grasping at any reed, no matter how thin, in the hopes that it will be your salvation.
I heard Bernie’s Senior Advisor Tad Devine asked about campaign manager Jeff Weaver saying Hillary help create ISIS. His answer; Jeff’s his own man and he is a tough ex-Marine.
There you go! Even the management has no control.
It really seems it is all a lark for these guys.
Everyone wondered if Trump was serious, and then as he got more and more out in the lead they wondered if he knew what he was actually going to do if he wins.
I get the same feeling from Bernie at times.
re: #149 Lidane
Was it accidental? Questions must be asked.
re: #149 Lidane
Facebook is off limits. What does it say?
re: #152 Belafon
Facebook is off limits. What does it say?
Trump’s kids missed the deadline to register to vote for the GOP primary in New York.
re: #153 Lidane
Trump’s kids missed the deadline to register to vote for the GOP primary in New York.
Shows how seriously presidential this fellow and his family really are…
re: #114 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Two of Trump’s Kids Missed NY Registration Deadline, Can’t Vote for Dad
I am now curious as to whether or not any Trump’s have voted in recent history, including Teh Donald.
re: #155 MsJ
I am now curious as to whether or not any Trump’s have voted in recent history, including Teh Donald.
they don’t vote for politicians, they pay for them
what would possibly compel the DNC to support Clinton over the dude who shoved a D next to his name at random pic.twitter.com/bgnDcDOtEI
— Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes) April 11, 2016
Black and Latina girls walk off soccer field after whites chant ‘Trump, build that wall’ https://t.co/QV4BEg16dQ pic.twitter.com/aWR4pdtwcK
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 11, 2016
re: #155 MsJ
I am now curious as to whether or not any Trump’s have voted in recent history, including Teh Donald.
I’m wondering that too. They’re adults who have lived there all their lives and they aren’t registered to vote?
re: #159 allegro
I’m wondering that too. They’re adults who have lived there all their lives and they aren’t registered to vote?
Might be registered indy. Or (D), for that matter.
re: #157 FormerDirtDart
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Umm… stupid question: Did any of the primary rules/procedures/whathaveyou change after Bernie entered the race?
re: #160 Testy Toad T
Might be registered indy. Or (D), for that matter.
Ohhh, hadn’t thought of that.
re: #160 Testy Toad T
Might be registered indy. Or (D), for that matter.
I read that two of them, including Ivanka, have donated to Democrats before.
re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
NYT Politics ✔
@nytpoliticsSanders and Trump voters confused and angry over rules made to deter candidates like theirs nyti.ms
7:22 PM - 9 Apr 2016
I read about halfway through the following article last week, then threw my hands up in despair and abandoned all hope of being able to understand the process. O_o
How Votes For Trump Could Become Delegates for Someone Else
The rules for how Republican delegates are selected — which differ in every state — could end up turning votes for one candidate into delegates who will support another candidate at the convention.
re: #158 Lidane
Black and Latina girls walk off soccer field after whites chant ‘Trump, build that wall’
ah, the ideals of American sportsmanship: inclusiveness and fair play
and walls with razor wire and moats
<First World Problems> When did microwave turntables stop turning an integral number of times in a minute? The last two I’ve had only come around to the front again after (a multiple of) four minutes. Grumble, grumble…. </First World Problems>
re: #166 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
<First World Problems> When did microwave turntables stop turning an integral number of times in a minute? The last two I’ve had only come around to the front again after (a multiple of) four minutes. Grumble, grumble…. </First World Problems>
Yay, another weirdo like me who notices things like this!
My microwave at home does it the right way… I will have to do tests on potential replacements when we replace the kitchen appliances…
re: #164 CuriousLurker
I read about halfway through the following article last week, then threw my hands up in despair and abandoned all hope of being able to understand the process. O_o
Just do a find-replace “party” with “club” in every article and rulebook and everything makes perfect cohesive sense.
Because that’s all they are.
re: #166 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
<First World Problems> When did microwave turntables stop turning an integral number of times in a minute? The last two I’ve had only come around to the front again after (a multiple of) four minutes. Grumble, grumble…. </First World Problems>
They might be trying to avoid things like this:
evilmadscientist.com
LOOK AT THIS CRYBABY==>
Springsteen and Adams are the real bigots and bullies. Want freedom of conscience for themselves but not for anyone else.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) April 11, 2016
LOL:
Ivanka Trump, who did not register for the NY GOP primary, made at least 5 videos explaining how to register to vote https://t.co/FqUu24i8QX
— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) April 11, 2016
re: #159 allegro
I’m wondering that too. They’re adults who have lived there all their lives and they aren’t registered to vote?
I was 40, pushing 41, the first time I attempted to register to vote in 2004
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
LOOK AT THIS CRYBABY==>
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Come now, Bryan, shouldn’t you celebrate that they made a decision based upon their beliefs? Why is it you feel they’re wrong for that decision when your entire argument is that people should be able to live as they wish to?
re: #88 ObserverArt
Yeah, the whole nominating process sucks…but it has been this way for some time. Did everyone just become aware now??? Why didn’t someone like Joke Scarborough take time to understand it all…or is it just easy to lose your shit and bitch about it?
THIS.
re: #173 Targetpractice
Come now, Bryan, shouldn’t you celebrate that they made a decision based upon their beliefs? Why is it you feel they’re wrong for that decision when your entire argument is that people should be able to live as they wish to?
I guess he is miffed because he had tickets to meet up with a blind bear date at the Springsteen concert…
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I guess he is miffed because he had tickets to meet up with a blind bear date at the Springsteen concert…
BEARS!!!
I’m just gonna leave this for the lulz…
Hello. This far-right UK politician thinks the Dudley Boyz & Tommy Dreamer are Syrian “Islamic hate preachers” pic.twitter.com/0rNZQw6UvL
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) April 11, 2016
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I guess he is miffed because he had tickets to meet up with a blind bear date at the Springsteen concert…
I don’t know why Bryan Fischer is associated with bears but I don’t like it and I sure as hell ain’t going to Google it.
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Springsteen and Adams are the real bigots and bullies. Want freedom of conscience for themselves but not for anyone else.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) April 11, 2016
Words so difficult. Must learn actual meanings of words to communicate. Will spew meaningless mouth sounds, instead.
re: #177 Jayleia
I’m just gonna leave this for the lulz…
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What’s funny is that as I was scrolling down, before that entire tweet, or image was visible, my brain told me “Professional Wrestlers” as I saw that trio, and I have no clue who they are…
re: #160 Testy Toad T
Might be registered indy. Or (D), for that matter.
NYC has approximately 8 million people. Let’s assume half are old enough, and citizens, to be potential voters. NYC has 460,000 registered Republicans.
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
ah, the ideals of American sportsmanship: inclusiveness and fair play
and walls with razor wire and moats
and sharks with lasers on their heads.
re: #181 sagehen
NYC has approximately 8 million people. Let’s assume half are old enough, and citizens, to be potential voters. NYC has 460,000 registered Republicans.
@AlGiordano With GOP registration #s so low in Bronx a candidate could win 3 delegates with a few hundred votes
— Marshall Julie (@MHJulie) April 11, 2016
It’s pretty funny to me that somebody like Weaver thinks it’s productive to whine about how the Democratic Party set up the primary process to be generally resistant to insurgent outsider campaigns.
My reaction is somewhere between “and?”, “so?”, and “thank god”.
Outreach! Coalition-broadening!
re: #179 Le Lapin Tueur
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Springsteen & Adams should do their concerts but they should open their shows declaring that they are dedicating their shows to Satan.
We’ll see how tolerant Bryan is then.
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re: #17 Timothy Watson
Yep, and he could be encouraging his supporters to get out there and be involved in the Congressional (and state, and local) primaries, party organizations, and Congressional general election races, which would increase his influence and goodwill and might cause the party to shift more to the left.
But that would be too “establishment” for him.
It’s why I don’t quite understand the “it’s not about Bernie, it’s about the REVOLUTION” mantra. Exactly what is the revolution going to consist of if/when
Bernie doesn’t get the nomination?
re: #177 Jayleia
I’m just gonna leave this for the lulz…
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Good grief, is she for real? I checked her timeline and saw the tweet in question, but she’s so over the top… it’s become impossible to distinguish parody from real life.
For example, another of her tweets:
This pic shows people are offended by a St Georges cross on a uniform but not a Burka. Get your priorities right pic.twitter.com/7WZYZu7YdL
— Jayda Fransen (@jaydafransenbf) March 29, 2016
re: #178 stpaulbear
I don’t know why Bryan Fischer is associated with bears but I don’t like it and I sure as hell ain’t going to Google it.
IIRC he has seemed to be unusually preoccupied with the dangers of actual bears, and of course the Internet has taken that and run with it.
OT the best phone center invention is the “enter your #, we’ll call you back” feature.
My dog, what we used to deal with.
re: #187 CuriousLurker
LOLWUT? Guess she’s not aware that Malcolm X was Muslim.
The stupid, it burns.
If he was alive today, he would be marching with @GoldingBF and I #BritainFirst pic.twitter.com/cHHfejgcvD
— Jayda Fransen (@jaydafransenbf) March 26, 2016
re: #184 Testy Toad T
It’s pretty funny to me that somebody like Weaver thinks it’s productive to whine about how the Democratic Party set up the primary process to be generally resistant to insurgent outsider campaigns.
My reaction is somewhere between “and?”, “so?”, and “thank god”.
Outreach! Coalition-broadening!
It’s why I’ve been reflecting in recent days on the ridiculousness of comparing Sanders to Obama in some effort to suggest that he could succeed. Obama was not an outsider in ‘08, not like Sanders is now. He was a rookie Congressman, but he was also an accomplished state-level legislator as well as the protege of Ted Kennedy. Even in ‘04, when he gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, he was already seen as being groomed for a presidential run. So when he ran against Hillary four years later, he did so with the backing of powerful forces in the party.
By contrast, Sanders is an outsider and one who has done nothing to ingratiate himself to the people whose support he needs to be taken seriously as a candidate. The powerful members of the party don’t support him because he’s done little for them and has actually made a name for himself butting heads with them on major legislation. The rank-and-file see an old man with few accomplishment to his name and love for his supposed adopted party. And party supporters only see a man who is bashing his more accomplished opponent in an increasingly negative campaign.
And that’s not even getting into the more rabid of his fanbase, who are largely “independent” voters who are actively trying to divide the party in the hopes of creating a party with major backing that is more to their liking. They lack the initiative or will to build a viable third party, mirroring the same lacking in their candidate who chose to latch onto a major party rather than engage in the heavy-lifting necessary to stage a successful third party run.
Breitbart is breathlessly reporting rumors that Sanders won’t be going to the Vatican after all.
In the midst of the firestorm caused by news that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would be addressing a high-level Vatican conference later this week, rumors are now circulating in Rome that Sanders may not be attending the event, most likely because he has been disinvited.
re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
Breitbart is breathlessly reporting rumors that Sanders won’t be going to the Vatican after all.
But wait, I thought the Pope personally invited him. That is, after all, what he implied when the girls of The View said he was invited and he just nodded along. You mean to tell me he never really was invited?
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re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Springsteen and Adams are the real bigots and bullies. Want freedom of conscience for themselves but not for anyone else.
— Bryan Fischer
Awwww, Springsteen and Adams have started to spoil Fischer’s Happy over Mississippi’s new law. He was so excited about that law, it was going to change the world….
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Hillary Clinton Vs. Cheesecake https://t.co/QgUZCM5HA1 pic.twitter.com/JJyEADsU1B
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) April 11, 2016
Hard choices. https://t.co/OLUXNaqiuY
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 11, 2016
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Springsteen and Adams are the real bigots and bullies. Want freedom of conscience for themselves but not for anyone else.
— Bryan Fischer
Fischer wants his pals to have safe spaces….
re: #195 The Vicious Babushka
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Be smarter than me and don’t read the responses to that tweet.
Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson prays for “a Jesus man in the White House”, to which America rolled it’s eyes and said, “Jesus, man.”
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) April 11, 2016
re: #195 The Vicious Babushka
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That’s a very easy choice, Hill. The one with the strawberries.
#DemocracySpring heading to the Capitol pic.twitter.com/oCKoCtAOcT
— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) April 11, 2016
“Sir, they’ve brought giant paper-mache heads!”
“FLEE! FLEE FOR YOUR MISERABLE LIVES!” @owillis pic.twitter.com/rnEWvyKyrB— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 11, 2016
re: #140 darthstar
This keeps happening to Republicans. What do women see in them?
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Sex for me but not for thee!
Bryan Fischer needs the world to be a safe space for him and his favorite Mississippi law.
re: #191 Targetpractice
And that’s not even getting into the more rabid of his fanbase, who are largely “independent” voters who are actively trying to divide the party in the hopes of creating a party with major backing that is more to their liking. They lack the initiative or will to build a viable third party, mirroring the same lacking in their candidate who chose to latch onto a major party rather than engage in the heavy-lifting necessary to stage a successful third party run.
In many senses this faction is, in actuality, what the Tea Party professed to be.
Kobach’s Office Puts Out Spanish Voter Guide With Wrong Registration Deadline @TPM https://t.co/r0ceD0TWBi
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 11, 2016
re: #198 darthstar
Phil wouldn’t know Jesus if He was hanging on the cross next to him.
I need more coffee. Looks like this is gonna be a l-o-n-g day.
re: #197 withak
Be smarter than me and don’t read the responses to that tweet.
The Clinton account tweets about cheesecake and people reply with all sorts of hate and buzzwords, miserable people
— Jordan Ashby (@JM_Ashby) April 11, 2016
re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
My grandmother never went to church with us because she was divorced and excommunicated.
Same with my grandmother. And the whole time during her funeral, while the priest was talking. All I could think of was how they wanted nothing to do with her through her life since the divorce but were there to take her money for the burial plot. Oh well, that was grandmas decision where she wanted buried.
re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth
ITS BECAUSE OBUMMER DIVIDED US AND HITLERY NEEDS TO BE JAILED NO BAIL!!!!!
re: #197 withak
Be smarter than me and don’t read the responses to that tweet.
Thanks for the heads up.
re: #205 Kragar
[Kobach’s Office Puts Out Spanish Voter Guide With Wrong Registration Deadline]
Something is often lost in the translation. In this case, it should be Kobach’s job.
Porn Giant XHamster Is Shutting Off Access For North Carolina Because Of Anti-LGBT Law https://t.co/XL5WmN9MqC LOL
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 11, 2016
re: #213 Kragar
Porn Giant XHamster Is Shutting Off Access For North Carolina Because Of Anti-LGBT Law
Now Bryan Fischer is really gonna be upset.
re: #213 Kragar
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Oh thank God I have a governor who’s not batshit insane.
Er…I mean…serves them right!
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Bernie Sanders is literally going to the Vatican to talk for 10 MINUTES: pic.twitter.com/UbywtyAN8b
— Mike Mandell (@MichaelJMandell) April 11, 2016
Bernie’s schedule is going to be seriously tight.
The debate ends at 11 p.m.
The actual flight time should be about 9 hours.
There’s travel time to and from airports.
There’s a 6 hour difference in time zones.
He’s scheduled to speak at 4 p.m., which is 11 hours after the debate finishes.
re: #78 Dr. Matt
The people behind those laws are not going to care. In their minds those of us who disagree with them are evil. Completely and absolutely evil.
If NC or any other state that has passed such laws collapses economically it is a good thing to them because it means evil is no longer part of their community. If they are reduced to eating acorns it doesn’t matter because the land is pure. They will be rewarded in heaven.
Texas AG:
#Breaking: @KenPaxtonTX charged after SEC probe into Servergy deal, same issue for which he was indicted #txlege #paxton
— Lauren McGaughy (@lmcgaughy) April 11, 2016
re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Bernie Sanders is literally going to the Vatican to talk for 10 MINUTES:]
Bernie’s schedule is going to be seriously tight.
The debate ends at 11 p.m.
The actual flight time should be about 9 hours.
There’s travel time to and from airports.
There’s a 6 hour difference in time zones.
He’s scheduled to speak at 4 p.m., which is 11 hours after the debate finishes.
‘Coffee’ gets 35 minutes!
Why are embedded tweets looking like this? (in Chrome)
re: #221 wrenchwench
Well, you want to take time to enjoy the coffee.
re: #222 jaunte
My initial reaction was “WTF DID I JUST POST?”
re: #222 jaunte
Why are embedded tweets looking like this? (in Chrome)
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re: #120 ObserverArt
Isn’t that one of the two standard settings for wingnuts? Pissed and outraged.
re: #225 withak
Now you’re just o̻̪͢l̘͓̺̭̫d͕̺ ͖͜ing with me.
re: #225 withak
Th̺͚̜ȩ̤͈̲̻͚͓̳ ̠̣̳̦ͅo̻̪͢l̘͓̺̭̫d͕̺ ͖͜on̫̺͙̟͍̯̰e̵͎̖̰̗s̤̠̥͈͇̹̼ ̭̤̞̯͠ͅa͓̜̖̭͢r̷̯̟e ̜͈̟w̟à͈͚̣̼̖̮̩t̜͢c͈̹̺̝h͢įn̞̪̦̗͎̬͈g̶̺͕͈̩̰͇̭.̟ͅ
Lo, for he has risen!re: #213 Kragar
Heck, shut down all access to Porn and the entire state will go dark. Southern states are the top purveyors of porn.
re: #222 jaunte
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What is this? Did the quadratic formula explode? I see a “Strong ba” in there, but it’s getting eaten… by some… Linux or something.
re: #234 Kragar
That’s what I’m doing, I just forgot the last time Chrome was greeked.
re: #232 MsJ
Bow to his noodley appendages!
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn! Iä! Iä!
Biden tells us “I’d like to see a woman elected,” staff immediately tries to end interview https://t.co/tNvcfrP1Ia pic.twitter.com/9kqZPKKkTS
— Stefan Becket (@becket) April 11, 2016
Destroying your liver wasn’t good enough:
Is a popular painkiller hampering our ability to notice errors?
re: #233 jaunte
They look like this for me in Firefox:
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They all look normal to me. Maybe Charles was tinkering under the hood or Twitter is having issues with their API.
re: #195 The Vicious Babushka
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It’s 3:00 AM. Your stomach is calling for some cheesecake. You need someone that can make the proper choice between three different topping. Hillary is that person!
re: #243 ObserverArt
It’s 3:00 AM. Your stomach is calling for some cheesecake. You need someone that can make the proper choice between three different topping. Hillary is that person!
All of them, of course.
(I sure hope they sent a couple of pieces home with her.)
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