Banda Magda, “Cucurrucucú Paloma”

In a lonely house with wide-open windows
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Here’s a heartbreakingly beautiful ballad from Banda Magda for a Thursday evening.

From the DVD “Yerakina” released September 23rd, 2014 on GroundUP Music.
written by Tomás Méndez Sosa

Produced by Magda Giannikou, Michael League & Fab Dupont

Filmed by Andy LaViolette

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Magda Giannikou: voice & accordion
Ignacio Hernandez: nylon string & acoustic guitar
Bob Lanzetti: electric guitar
Justin Stanton: rhodes
Mika Mimura: vibraphone
Marcelo Woloski: percussion
Keita Ogawa: percussion
James Shipp: percussion
Petros Klampanis: upright bass

Background vocals by Petros Klampanis and Magda Giannikou.

Our rhythm section was recorded by Fab Dupont & Mike La Tona at Kaleidoscope Sound, NJ with Ian Cassel assisting.
Lead vocal was recorded by Fab Dupont at Flux Studios.
Mika’s vibraphone, some of Nacho’s guitars & rhodes were recorded at Atlantic Sound Studios in Brooklyn, NY by Diko Shoturma, with Sean Van Doornum assisting.
All the rest were recorded at Flux with Mike La Tona.
All the music was edited by Mike La Tona.

Mixed by Fab Dupont at Flux Studios NYC.
Mastered by Pablo Lopez Ruiz & Diego Calviño at 3:3:2 Studio.
Photography by Daniel Hilsinger
Artwork by Magda & Christos Mastorakis
All the recording process was shot, directed and edited by Andy LaViolette.

Executive Producers: Randraiz and Yolanda Wharton, Chico.

Dicen que por las noches
no mas se le iba en puro llorar,
dicen que no comía
no mas se le iba en puro tomar;
juran que el mismo cielo
se estremecía al oír su llanto
Cómo sufrió por ella,
que hasta en su muerte la fué llamando:
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, lloraba,
ay, ay, ay, ay, gemía,
ay, ay, ay, ay, cantaba
de pasión mortal moría.
Que una paloma triste
muy de mañana le va a cantar
a la casita sola
con sus puertitas de par en par;
juran que esa paloma
no es otra cosa mas que su alma,
que todavía la espera
a que regrese la desdichada.
Cucurrucucú, paloma,
cucurrucucú, no llores.
Las piedras jamás, paloma
qué van a saber de amores.

English Translation

They say that at night
all he could do was cry;
they say he wouldn’t eat,
all he could do was drink.
They swear that even the sky
Shuddered, listening to his cry.
So much he suffered for her
that in death he still called her.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, he sang
ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, he whimpered.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, he sang,
of mortal fervor, he was dying.
A sorrowful dove would sing
in the early morning
in a lonely house with wide-open windows.
They swear that the dove was nothing else
but his soul
that still waits for her return.
Cucurrucucú paloma,
cucurrucucú, don’t cry.
what do stones know of love, paloma?

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333 comments
1
wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 5, 2016 • 9:56:10pm

From a friend’s Facebook page today:

WTF are these things!! Help!

Left hand cat looks very alarmed. Right hand cat merely curious.

The next photo has the ducks on the patio and the cats in retreat.

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De Kolta Chair  May 5, 2016 • 9:58:06pm

That lovely song reminds me a bit of the late Chris Gaffney’s “The Man of Somebody’s Dreams.”

Man of Somebody’s Dreams “Chris Gaffney”

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jaunte  May 5, 2016 • 10:07:21pm

beautiful contrast; hot lyrics with cool arrangement

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De Kolta Chair  May 5, 2016 • 10:11:27pm

I’m giving it a ten. Hauntingly melancholy lyrics beautifully played and sung and you can trance dance to it.

And recorded in Brooklyn yo!

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De Kolta Chair  May 5, 2016 • 10:12:50pm
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FormerDirtDart  May 5, 2016 • 10:18:12pm

Planned launch about 3 minutes away now

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Stanley Sea  May 5, 2016 • 10:19:31pm

re: #5 De Kolta Chair

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good one!

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FormerDirtDart  May 5, 2016 • 10:20:24pm

T-minus 1 minute
drone ship landing will be attempted, but deemed unlikely to be achieved

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FormerDirtDart  May 5, 2016 • 10:21:46pm

Rocket go vroom, no boom

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De Kolta Chair  May 5, 2016 • 10:21:48pm

re: #6 FormerDirtDart

Planned launch about 3 minutes away now

I’m old enough to remember staying up until the wee hours to watch launches from Cape Canaveral, where this is taking place I’m glad to learn. Fun!

spacex.com

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De Kolta Chair  May 5, 2016 • 10:25:54pm

Obviously, there are a lot of avid fans at the scene, which is super neat.

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De Kolta Chair  May 5, 2016 • 10:26:55pm

re: #7 Stanley Sea

good one!

Thanks, though I’m glad I stayed around for a minute to follow this launch. ;-)

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FormerDirtDart  May 5, 2016 • 10:30:17pm

On the drone ship

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De Kolta Chair  May 5, 2016 • 10:30:29pm

Holy shit, pin point landing! Fantastico!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 5, 2016 • 10:31:23pm

That’s pretty damn amazing!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 5, 2016 • 10:36:34pm

Hot damn! They weren’t terribly hopeful about this one because it comes in so much hotter on a geosynchronous launch.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 5, 2016 • 10:37:19pm

Wish the engines would quit smouldering, though….

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De Kolta Chair  May 5, 2016 • 10:39:27pm

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Targetpractice  May 5, 2016 • 10:51:39pm
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CleverToad  May 5, 2016 • 10:54:11pm

re: #10 De Kolta Chair

I’m old enough to remember staying up until the wee hours to watch launches from Cape Canaveral, where this is taking place I’m glad to learn. Fun!

spacex.com

As another oldster with similar memories, I am giggling like a six-year-old right now. They stuck the flippin’ landing again, at higher speed, straight up and right on the bloody target. Here’s to the future!

21
Ubiq  May 5, 2016 • 11:05:56pm

Just in case you needed another reason to vote against Donald Trump, don’t forget that he’s an anti-vaxxer.

slate.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 5, 2016 • 11:11:17pm

The Economist analyzes The Donald.

His foreign policy:

It is not correct to call this isolationism, since Mr Trump has also proposed some foreign adventures, including the occupation of Iraq and seizure of its oilfields. Rather it is a Roman vision of foreign policy, in which the rest of the world’s role is to send tribute to the capital and be grateful for the garrisons.

HIs effects on the GOP:

The Republican Party, always fractious, may actually fracture. Even if he loses, Mr Trump will have shown that there is a path to the nomination that runs via nativism and economic populism. Mountaineers know that the surest route to the summit is the one that has worked before. Some Republicans will say that Mr Trump’s message, shorn of its roughest edges, could deliver victory next time. Others will argue that he lost because he was not a true conservative. Without agreement on what went wrong, it will be hard to forge something new.

economist.com

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Single-handed sailor  May 5, 2016 • 11:14:16pm

Fuck, nothing on CNN or Fox News about SpaceX. America is dead, it has no soul.

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Single-handed sailor  May 5, 2016 • 11:22:14pm

RT covered it, if that is the best news service we’re fucked.

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Anymouse  May 5, 2016 • 11:44:27pm

OT, Sharknado! asked if I lived in the path of totality for the upcoming eclipse. I responded late to what is a dead thread, so I will repost that comment here (don’t crucify me):
———-
Yes, I live in the path.

Eclipse 2017 (a Website with information on the total eclipse that will sweep the USA)

That provides information about the total solar eclipse in USA on August 21, 2017.

My wife has a Website up for a local bed and breakfast here that is advertising the eclipse.

As for information about where to stay, if you look at the charts at the eclipse site above, it shows all the cities and towns in the path, thus you could pick a town then call around or use the Web for a hotel/motel reservation.

Info about my town is here:
Broadwater, NE

Alliance is right on the centre of the path of totality.

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Single-handed sailor  May 5, 2016 • 11:55:27pm

re: #25 Anymouse

I’ve been looking forward to this eclipse for several years. I’m going to Missouri to see it. I have a friend in Rolla who I hope is still there in 2017.

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Anymouse  May 5, 2016 • 11:59:16pm

re: #26 Single-handed sailor

I live right in the path of the total eclipse (the last one I was in the path of was in Virginia Beach, and it became overcast when I went to view it from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel), so I am looking forward to this).

The eclipse will be just over a minute here, but north of here in Alliance it will be much longer. I am considering going to Alliance, though I have a friend in Omaha that wants to stay at my house for the eclipse (he is a meteorologist for SAC)

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Single-handed sailor  May 6, 2016 • 12:19:53am

re: #27 Anymouse

I haven’t seen an eclipse over 88% totality. I’ve been waiting 60 years. My mom saw one in England in 1999. She was “meh”, I was so jealous.

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 12:25:11am

I have never seen one over about 40%. I moved here in late 2011; I was pleasantly surprised I moved right into the path of a total eclipse.

Turns out, this eclipse sweeping the USA is the first to go from coast to coast since 1918, I suppose I won’t have another shot. (Weather, don’t fail me now; this area is semi-desert so hopefully it won’t cloud up like it did to me in Virginia Beach).

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 1:25:08am

Currently hate the world. Going to bed.

G’night, Lizards.

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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 1:44:38am

The Kills - No Wow (2005)

It’s really interesting the music I pick up from watching Person of Interest.

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Ming5000  May 6, 2016 • 1:55:03am

Many expect downticket GOP collateral damage as a result of Trump being the GOP nominee. Apparently nobody told Trump about the downticket effects and the need to support downticket. Or, maybe he just doesn’t care about GOP downticket results. The dynamic is inscrutable, other than it all really just comes from Trump’s own spontaneous stream of thought. From WashPost

“What I want you to do is save your vote — you know, you don’t have to vote anymore. Save your vote for the general election, okay? Forget this one. The primary is gone,” Trump said.

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Targetpractice  May 6, 2016 • 2:14:03am

Was just yesterday we had a concern troll session about the “indie” vote and the email “scandal,” how Hillary needed to do more to make it go away or else the indies would leave her. Wish I’d had this poll handy at the time:

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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 2:16:44am

re: #33 Targetpractice

Was just yesterday we had a concern troll session about the “indie” vote and the email “scandal,” how Hillary needed to do more to make it go away or else the indies would leave her. Wish I’d had this poll handy at the time:

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28% of conservatives supporting Clinton? Is that the reverse crazification factor at work?

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Ming5000  May 6, 2016 • 2:18:05am

re: #33 Targetpractice

Was just yesterday we had a concern troll session about the “indie” vote and the email “scandal,” …

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The discussion yesterday was intense. I had that uncomfortable feeling I get when I witness an argument, but appreciated the rehashing of old arguments and counterarguments, along with the fresh points.
I appreciated your doggedness. Thanks!

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Targetpractice  May 6, 2016 • 2:18:07am

re: #34 Timothy Watson

28% of conservatives supporting Clinton? Is that the reverse crazification factor at work?

The only conclusion I can reach is the man really is that much of a dick to many in the party. Though I don’t expect that 28% to hold through to November, it’s not a great starting point for The Donald.

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Targetpractice  May 6, 2016 • 2:19:53am

re: #35 Ming5000

The discussion yesterday was intense. I had that uncomfortable feeling I get when I witness an argument, but appreciated the rehashing of old arguments and counterarguments, along with the fresh points.
I appreciated your doggedness. Thanks!

There’s gonna be a lot of that between now and November, as the Chicken Littling begins. If there’s one constant about Democrats, it’s that we’re always prepared to second guess our own good fortune.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 2:21:02am

‘Boaty McBoatface’ polar ship named after Attenborough

At this point, Mr. Attenborough should do the hono(u)rable thing(e) and change his name to “Boaty McBoatface”.

Will of the People and all…

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Ming5000  May 6, 2016 • 2:21:22am

re: #33 Targetpractice

I like how the poll did not include Bernie. I assume his die-hards chose “other”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 2:21:32am

re: #37 Targetpractice

There’s gonna be a lot of that between now and November, as the Chicken Littling begins. If there’s one constant about Democrats, it’s that we’re always prepared to second guess our own good fortune.

The political equivalent of the Chicago Cubs…

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 2:29:28am

re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The political equivalent of the Chicago Cubs…

Hey, the Cubbies are in the lead at the moment (but they have a lot of time to blow it; my wife is a die-hard Cubs fan - the only think that keeps my wife alive is that the Cubs are guaranteed to lose every year. She would have a stroke if they won the whole thing.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 2:33:00am

re: #41 Anymouse

Hey, the Cubbies are in the lead at the moment (but they have a lot of time to blow it; my wife is a die-hard Cubs fan - the only think that keeps my wife alive is that the Cubs are guaranteed to lose every year. She would have a stroke if they won the whole thing.)

I was in love with the 1968 Cubs, you remember, ones that were blown out of first place by the upstart NY Mets?

They broke my young heart, and I have long since given up hoping for the Cubbies…

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Targetpractice  May 6, 2016 • 2:34:54am

Bernie got some bad news from the FEC:

So, not only did he not get the photo-op he was hoping for with the Pope, he’s now out of pocket for the trip itself.

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 2:37:12am

re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

My wife never gives up hope for the Cubs (though my mother moved away from Wrigley Field when they installed lights to avoid the traffic).

When we lived in Oklahoma, my wife liked to note the Cubs last won the World Series the same year Oklahoma became a state.

Heck, if Leicester City could win the English Premier League, surely the Cubs could pull it off… .

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 2:38:50am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 2:39:13am

re: #44 Anymouse

My wife never gives up hope for the Cubs (though my mother moved away from Wrigley Field when they installed lights to avoid the traffic).

When we lived in Oklahoma, my wife liked to note the Cubs last won the World Series the same year Oklahoma became a state.

Heck, if Leicester City could win the English Premier League, surely the Cubs could pull it off… .

I do not doubt the power of a good Italian-American goat curse

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Targetpractice  May 6, 2016 • 2:43:48am

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

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This election season is, if nothing else, serving as a great way to weed out who amongst our celebrities are the raving nutbars.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 2:48:49am

re: #47 Targetpractice

This election season is, if nothing else, serving as a great way to weed out who amongst our celebrities are the raving nutbars.

We have long since erased the distinction between actors and politicians.

In the old Roman Republic, actors, gladiators and other such figures were considered “infam” and forbidden from entering politics.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 2:50:02am

re: #47 Targetpractice

This election season is, if nothing else, serving as a great way to weed out who amongst our celebrities are the raving nutbars.

Really good odds that either drugs or the lack of drugs are at least partially involved in her case. Her feed reads like the product of a schizophrenic mind way off its meds, all kinds of really bizarre self-aggrandizing religious craziness mixed with typical Shitlord brand “everyone look at me” attention whoring.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 2:52:15am

Neat idea.

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 2:53:14am

re: #46 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I do not doubt the power of a good Italian-American goat curse

She says she did not know of the Curse of the Goat (I did not either).

I met my first wife at a goat roast in Safety Harbor, Florida. I wonder if that roasted goat is why my marriage went down the tubes (enough personal stuff, back to your regular Cubs programming - pulling for an El series between the Sox and the Cubs)

The Cubs are at .778 right now. They have until Autumn to pull out a loss; they don’t seem to be working very hard at that.
chicago.cubs.mlb.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 3:07:24am

re: #51 Anymouse

She says she did not know of the Curse of the Goat (I did not either).

The Cubs are at .778 right now. They have until Autumn to pull out a loss; they don’t seem to be working very hard at that.
chicago.cubs.mlb.com

I will not let my heart get broken again like it was in 1968. I was nine years old and totally in love with that team.

My older brother took me to several games at Wrigley Field and even caught a foul ball in the stands, which he gave to me. I had it signed by several team members (and made the mistake of showing it off around the neighborhood, it was stolen within a week…God, all these past traumas bubbling up again…now do you understand?).

In any case, if (and only if) they manage to someday break the curse and at least get into the World Series, I will reconsider offering my support…

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 3:10:35am

re: #52 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I will not let my heart get broken again like it was in 1968. I was nine years old and totally in love with that team.

But heartbreak is what the Cubs are all about.

Hopes fly high as the Cubs run out in front, to see them dashed on the rocks of Lake Shore Drive at the end of the season …

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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 3:10:51am

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

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How long until Milo demands to know why they haven’t taken her verified status?

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 3:18:21am

re: #54 Timothy Watson

How long until Milo demands to know why they haven’t taken her verified status?

It’s a good question actually. I reported a tweet of hers over an hour or so ago in which she was plausibly threatening Hillary. Looks like it’s gone now.

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 3:19:37am

re: #55 goddamnedfrank

It’s a good question actually. I reported a tweet of hers over an hour or so ago in which she was plausibly threatening Hillary. Looks like it’s gone now.

I’m glad I don’t do Twitplace or Faceplant… .

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 3:30:16am

Off-topic: It appears that a rodent-couplation campaign is on either against Senator Sanders or Secretary Clinton.

whois.domaintools.com

An IP in Kashmir registered to a person in Queensland, Australia has set up a Website purportedly to support Bernie Sanders but is hosting a bunch of anti-Clinton derp.

Apparently some Sanders supporters and other people think the site is legitimate.

If someone suggests it to you, you might consider disabusing them of its authenticity.

I do not know how to contact the Sanders campaign to suggest they look into it. Neither Clinton nor Sanders needs something like this.

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William Lewis  May 6, 2016 • 3:36:14am

re: #51 Anymouse

Leicester City was nearly relegated last season yet won the Premier League championship for the first time in their 132 year history at longer odds than the Cubs face. I no longer have any sympathy or time for the lovable loser shtick.

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 3:43:46am

re: #58 William Lewis

Leicester City was nearly relegated last season yet won the Premier League championship for the first time in their 132 year history at longer odds than the Cubs face. I no longer have any sympathy or time for the lovable loser shtick.

Well, I never said they were lovable. My wife is just a first-class cynic about everything, and the Cubs encapsulate that entirely. (Even my name links to her cynical Website of absurd ways to destroy humanity.)

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Nojay UK  May 6, 2016 • 4:02:34am

re: #29 Anymouse

I have never seen one over about 40%. I moved here in late 2011; I was pleasantly surprised I moved right into the path of a total eclipse.

Turns out, this eclipse sweeping the USA is the first to go from coast to coast since 1918, I suppose I won’t have another shot. (Weather, don’t fail me now; this area is semi-desert so hopefully it won’t cloud up like it did to me in Virginia Beach).

If you want to practice, there’s a transit of Mercury happening on Sunday 8th May. It’s not naked-eye visible but a projection from a reasonable-sized telescope will show it. Obvious warnings — don’t try and look at it directly with binoculars etc.

I’ll be trying to take pictures as I did with the near-total eclipse in April 2015, using a welder’s helmet glass filter positioned in front of a cheap superzoom digital camera. I’ll post what I get although the weather forecast is for cloud early on in the day.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 4:03:30am

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

Well, who woulda thought …

Trump’s really pulling in all the A-listers, isn’t he?

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Nojay UK  May 6, 2016 • 4:05:00am

re: #43 Targetpractice

Bernie got some bad news from the FEC:

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So, not only did he not get the photo-op he was hoping for with the Pope, he’s now out of pocket for the trip itself.

Can he lay it off against his personal taxes as a “business” expense?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 4:10:55am

re: #60 Nojay UK

If you want to practice, there’s a transit of Mercury happening on Sunday 8th May. It’s not naked-eye visible but a projection from a reasonable-sized telescope will show it. Obvious warnings — don’t try and look at it directly with binoculars etc.

I’ll be trying to take pictures as I did with the near-total eclipse in April 2015, using a welder’s helmet glass filter positioned in front of a cheap superzoom digital camera. I’ll post what I get although the weather forecast is for cloud early on in the day.

I caught the one in 2011 in China, and luckily had halfway decent weather at my location. I wanted to go to Indonesia for the one in March, but our winter vacation had just ended and I’d already spent a month in Malaysia. So I passed on that one.

But I will be in the States for the 2017 eclipse. I think my son in Denver might be persuaded to take a roadtrip to Wyoming for that one. I observed the 1979 eclipse from my boss’ airplane somewhere over North Dakota, saw a partial in 1991 and barely remember seeing the one in the 1960s with my next door neighbor and his dad. So, that’ll make four US eclipses for me.

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Decatur Deb  May 6, 2016 • 4:26:58am

re: #51 Anymouse

She says she did not know of the Curse of the Goat (I did not either).

I met my first wife at a goat roast in Safety Harbor, Florida. I wonder if that roasted goat is why my marriage went down the tubes (enough personal stuff, back to your regular Cubs programming - pulling for an El series between the Sox and the Cubs)

The Cubs are at .778 right now. They have until Autumn to pull out a loss; they don’t seem to be working very hard at that.
chicago.cubs.mlb.com

Evrybody Hollerin’ Goat

Shimmy She Wobble

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 4:30:33am

re: #64 Decatur Deb

I met my first wife at a goat roast in Safety Harbor, Florida.

Did you do the Safety Dance?

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Nojay UK  May 6, 2016 • 4:33:08am

re: #63 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I observed the 1979 eclipse from my boss’ airplane somewhere over North Dakota, saw a partial in 1991 and barely remember seeing the one in the 1960s with my next door neighbor and his dad. So, that’ll make four US eclipses for me.

I remember many years ago being in primary school (ObUS: elementary school) and cutting class to go out into the playground to see a partial eclipse. The teacher wasn’t interested in showing it to the class for some reason. I’ve seen a few more since then; I lucked out for a rare annular eclipse in May 2012 which I only found out about when I got to Japan on a visit. I was able to observe “totality” in that one from just outside Ueno station in the middle of Tokyo. Unfortunately cloud got in the way of much of the spectacle and I was woefully underequipped to take pictures but I did get some.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 4:37:20am

re: #66 Nojay UK

I remember many years ago being in primary school (ObUS: elementary school) and cutting class to go out into the playground to see a partial eclipse. The teacher wasn’t interested in showing it to the class for some reason.

I assume the teacher was concerned about schoolkids damaging their eyes without proper protection. Although there are many simple and easy ways to make it visible. During the last partial eclipse in Europe, my friends just looked at the reflection in their laptop screens.

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Lani  May 6, 2016 • 5:04:32am

I lived on the Big Island when the 1991 eclipse ocurred. Clouds gathered, traffic stopped, and other problems occurred. But I was fortunate to view the total eclipse from my backyard. It’s magnificent to see.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 5:14:59am

re: #68 Lani

I lived on the Big Island when the 1991 eclipse ocurred. Clouds gathered, traffic stopped, and other problems occurred. But I was fortunate to view the total eclipse from my backyard. It’s magnificent to see.

It’s awe-inspiring. You can understand why people long ago freaked out when the sun disappeared and the stars came out. Animals get real quiet, too.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 5:19:09am

re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I assume the teacher was concerned about schoolkids damaging their eyes without proper protection. Although there are many simple and easy ways to make it visible. During the last partial eclipse in Europe, my friends just looked at the reflection in their laptop screens.

Even that’s risky. As long as they didn’t stare at the image for too long, they’d have been OK.

For 1991 one, it was a partial eclipse in Louisville, KY. I had prepared for it by getting a solar filter to my school’s telescope, and we set it up on the sidewalk for people to see. Some kids came with binoculars to project the image on the ground. These were high school kids, and I’d already drilled them on the dangers of cooking your eyeballs with sunlight.

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Dave In Austin  May 6, 2016 • 5:19:35am

Morning all….. It’s Fishing Friday!

Donald Trump Calls Obama After Indiana Win

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 5:34:59am

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

Tile Tequila

TRUMP: THAT’S MY VP!!!

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:36:05am

re: #72 The Vicious Babushka

TRUMP: THAT’S MY VP!!!

Thankfully not eligible. Man she’s nucking futs. She actually does have some legitimate mental problems though so I don’t mock her too much but dayum.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  May 6, 2016 • 5:36:56am

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

wow. someone hit the tequila a little hard…

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 5:37:35am

re: #60 Nojay UK

Odds are we’ll be skunked in NYC metro area this weekend with the weather continuing to be rather bleak until Sunday morning - and then clouds remain in the forecast all through next week (with varying degrees of rain forecast). There’s a meteor shower the Eta Aquarids, but that’ll be skunked too (peak was yesterday/today) - though that is something better seen in the Southern Hemisphere than up here in the Northern.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:38:34am

It doesn’t feel like May here at all.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 5:38:42am

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

And that’s why people shouldn’t treat entertainers as though they’ve got some special insight or understanding. She’s just a misguided and ignorant tool, and I can’t wait to see how Trump exploits that to his advantage.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 5:39:28am

re: #76 HappyWarrior

It doesn’t feel like May here at all.

It’s springtime for, er, Germany. Brilliant weather, I always tell people that the best time to visit is May/June or September/early October.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 5:40:16am

Because of course

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:40:36am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It’s springtime for, er, Germany. Brilliant weather, I always tell people that the best time to visit is May/June or September/early October.

Yeah when I went to Germany, it was June. Beautiful weather every day I was there.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:41:24am

re: #79 The Vicious Babushka

Because of course

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Loved mocking it. There’s a difference.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 5:43:02am

re: #80 HappyWarrior

Yeah when I went to Germany, it was June. Beautiful weather every day I was there.

Then, traditionally, it goes to hell right around the 4th of July (we have had numerous Independence Day expat barbecues wiped out by thunderstorms) and stays either cool and rainy or sweltering & muggy through July/August and then finally picks up again in September

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:44:13am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Then, traditionally, it goes to hell right around the 4th of July (we have had numerous Independence Day expat barbecues wiped out by thunderstorms) and stays either cool and rainy or sweltering & muggy through July/August and then finally picks up again in September

Just in time for Okotoberfest.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 5:44:41am

Pandering to West Virginia coal miners - we’ll bring back your jobs.

No. You wont. And you can’t bring back coal mining any more than you can bring back the whale oil industry.

Business and industry and energy providers see what pricing can do, and what’s more efficient and cheaper to obtain. That’s natural gas. It’s also cleaner burning, more efficient, and doesn’t require as much to knock down its emissions. It’s also easier to build small natural gas power facilities to meet local demand than to build a coal powered plant, which has to be bigger to include where they store the coal as it comes in. And coal plants aren’t as quick to turn on/off to meet demand.

All of that favors coal being phased out.

It sucks for those states and communities that are entirely based on coal industry, but it isn’t coming back. There are no good alternatives for the people living there.

It’s easy to say move, but these are folks who don’t have the means to move. Jobs aren’t going to come to them either. It isn’t like Pittsburgh, which saw the decline of the steel industry, but managed to remake itself as a tech and medical hub, but it could be a satellite to Pittsburgh (it’s only 2+ hours from Morgantown to Pittsburgh for instance).

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 5:45:29am

re: #83 HappyWarrior

Just in time for Okotoberfest.

Kannot be a Koincidence…

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 5:47:03am

re: #84 lawhawk

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Pandering to West Virginia coal miners - we’ll bring back your jobs.

No. You wont. And you can’t bring back coal mining any more than you can bring back the whale oil industry.

It’s not so much the coal mining industry as what it stands for: well-paid, regular work for people without any degree of education or special training. A strong back is a terrible thing to waste…

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:47:27am

re: #84 lawhawk

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Pandering to West Virginia coal miners - we’ll bring back your jobs.

No. You wont. And you can’t bring back coal mining any more than you can bring back the whale oil industry.

Business and industry and energy providers see what pricing can do, and what’s more efficient and cheaper to obtain. That’s natural gas. It’s also cleaner burning, more efficient, and doesn’t require as much to knock down its emissions. It’s also easier to build small natural gas power facilities to meet local demand than to build a coal powered plant, which has to be bigger to include where they store the coal as it comes in. And coal plants aren’t as quick to turn on/off to meet demand.

All of that favors coal being phased out.

It sucks for those states and communities that are entirely based on coal industry, but it isn’t coming back. There are no good alternatives for the people living there.

It’s easy to say move, but these are folks who don’t have the means to move. Jobs aren’t going to come to them either. It isn’t like Pittsburgh, which saw the decline of the steel industry, but managed to remake itself as a tech and medical hub, but it could be a satellite to Pittsburgh (it’s only 2+ hours from Morgantown to Pittsburgh for instance).

Pittsburgh has done a great job reinventing itself. Have to give the home city of my grandparents major props there. Anyhow as for Trump’s position on wages, it just shows again that this guy is about as far as a “straight talker” as you can get and it’s something that I hope that the Clinton campaign focuses on because the myth of Trump the straight talker is a big part of his appeal and if that can be weakened, maybe just maybe we can get the workings of the best Democratic presidential win in years that will be a huge repudiation of Trump and the GOP brand.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:47:57am

re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Kannot be a Koincidence…

Nah you know the Germans, very organized.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:50:17am

The coal industry employed two of my four great grandfathers and pretty much made the town in Pennsylvania where my mom’s folks grew up in along with the steel industry but adaptation is in order. And honestly, I know the miners hate losing the job that they’ve known but I think what we need to do is invest in those areas. That way the coal miners that lose their jobs can get back on their feet and the other thing is they’ll live longer and more healthier lives too.

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No Depression  May 6, 2016 • 5:51:23am

re: #87 HappyWarrior

Pittsburgh has done a great job reinventing itself. Have to give the home city of my grandparents major props there. Anyhow as for Trump’s position on wages, it just shows again that this guy is about as far as a “straight talker” as you can get and it’s something that I hope that the Clinton campaign focuses on because the myth of Trump the straight talker is a big part of his appeal and if that can be weakened, maybe just maybe we can get the workings of the best Democratic presidential win in years that will be a huge repudiation of Trump and the GOP brand.

Using Karl Rove’s strategy of attacking the strengths of a candidate against the GOP nominee. I like it!

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:52:55am

re: #90 No Depression

Using Karl Rove’s strategy of attacking the strengths of a candidate against the GOP nominee. I like it!

And unlike Rove’s bullshit attacks on Kerry’s military record, this is actually true. Trump isn’t a straight talker. He tells the gullible idiots of the GOP base exactly what they want to hear.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 6, 2016 • 5:57:11am

WV primary, correct? I bet those trump supporters that were told to stay home will vote for Bernie.

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b.d.  May 6, 2016 • 6:01:22am

Maybe Trump can move his clothing manufacturing from China to West Virginia?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 6:02:25am

re: #93 b.d.

Maybe Trump can move his clothing manufacturing from China to West Virginia?

Including the workers’ barracks?

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:04:27am

re: #93 b.d.

Maybe Trump can move his clothing manufacturing from China to West Virginia?

It’s been pretty much shown that the Make America Great Hats again were made in China right? I know his suit line was shown to be but not sure about those godawful hats.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 6:10:27am

Looks like Baby Whiplash is boarding the Trump Train

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 6:11:07am

Saw news item this morning saying that pro Hillary Super PACs have more than $90 million in ad buys ready to go against Trump in swing states.

There’s just so much material, it practically writes itself:

And I’ve got to wonder if we’ll be seeing a redefinition of swing state once polling gets serious at the end of the summer. Early polling suggests that states that have been reliable GOP in presidential races might be going purple, though that could just be temporary and isolated to these early polls. If it trends that way, then the GOP worries increase exponentially (and I see that as a good thing). They deserve a full-frontal rebuke of all their policies which gave rise to Trump - the bigotry, hate, and misogyny. Trump’s not the only one to stake out those positions. He’s just far more blunt in declaring support for them.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 6:12:46am

re: #95 HappyWarrior

Actually, those hats were made in Newark, New Jersey. There’s a small hat outfit there that makes specialty hats.

At a nondescript factory near Branch Brook Park in Newark, workers have an easy way of gauging the popularity of any given presidential candidate.

As the only unionized American manufacturer of baseball caps, Unionwear has made logo-embroidered hats for candidates of all stripes.

If a candidate is doing well, his or her campaign might put in a large order for hats, said Mitch Cahn, president of Unionwear. Not so well? The campaign might cut back to putting in small orders on a week-by-week basis.

And just which hat has been popular? That would be “Drumpf,” the ancestral name of Donald Trump’s family, derisively parodied by British comedian John Oliver on HBO, which placed a large order for the hats.

“They put it on their website as a joke and sold way more than they expected,” Cahn said.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 6:14:21am

re: #60 Nojay UK

If you want to practice, there’s a transit of Mercury happening on Sunday 8th May. It’s not naked-eye visible but a projection from a reasonable-sized telescope will show it. Obvious warnings — don’t try and look at it directly with binoculars etc.

I’ll be trying to take pictures as I did with the near-total eclipse in April 2015, using a welder’s helmet glass filter positioned in front of a cheap superzoom digital camera. I’ll post what I get although the weather forecast is for cloud early on in the day.

Kewl. I have a 10” telescope and a solar filter.

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Barefoot Grin  May 6, 2016 • 6:14:30am

I’m sure Tila Tequila has more than a few alt-right male fans who are otherwise rabid racists. I don’t know much about her, but those tweets reveal her as a POS.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 6:16:40am

Woman in Australia claimed to have cured her “incurable” brain cancer with diet and woo-woo treatments, published a cookbook and an app, but finally she admitted — after bilking people out of their money — that she never had cancer to begin with.

bbc.com

And get this quote. She could run for political office.

Attempting to justify her behaviour, she told the magazine: “If I don’t have an answer, then I will sort of theorise it myself and come up with one. I think that’s an easy thing to often revert to if you don’t know what the answer is.”

Uh, right? {As he edges slowly toward the nearest door.}

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:18:26am

re: #98 lawhawk

Actually, those hats were made in Newark, New Jersey. There’s a small hat outfit there that makes specialty hats.

Ah okay.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:19:26am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

Looks like Baby Whiplash is boarding the Trump Train

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He’ll be kissing Trump’s ass all summer long. Baby Ben has no moral compass. You need to lack one to work for Breitbart as long as he did.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 6:20:14am

re: #98 lawhawk

Actually, those hats were made in Newark, New Jersey. There’s a small hat outfit there that makes specialty hats.

Even Trump had enough sense to know what the backlash would be if those hats had a “made in China” label sewn in them

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 6:23:40am

re: #100 Barefoot Grin

I’m sure Tila Tequila has more than a few alt-right male fans who are otherwise rabid racists. I don’t know much about her, but those tweets reveal her as a POS.

I am not going to look up her name at work, but I think she had a stroke or something similar (no, I don’t know what’s similar) that changed her personality in one of those “this wasn’t just realizing she had so much to live for” kind of ways. Like it really did some damage to her brain.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 6:30:32am

re: #105 Belafon

I am not going to look up her name at work, but I think she had a stroke or something similar (yeah, I don’t know what’s similar) that changed her personality in one of those “this wasn’t just realizing she had so much to live for” kind of ways. Like it really did some damage to her brain.

From teh Wikipedia:

On March 7, 2012, it was reported that Tequila has agreed to check into rehab after having reportedly “almost died” from an attempted suicide by overdosing on pills. The incident caused her to be hospitalized from a brain aneurysm.[78][79] Tequila completed her rehab treatment on April 5, 2012.[80] Upon completing her treatment, Tequila opened up about her near-death experience to US Weekly stating “I can remember feeling like the bones were popping out the side of my head [because] the pain was so bad. I took some medications and tried to go for a nap, but when I woke up I was vomiting. I really thought I was going to die.”[81]

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 6:31:40am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

Looks like Baby Whiplash is boarding the Trump Train

Hasn’t he been railing against Trump for months?

Sounds like he’s had a quick conversion.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:32:53am

re: #107 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Hasn’t he been railing against Trump for months?

Sounds like he’s had a quick conversion.

Yeah but Team GOP above all else

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 6:33:05am

re: #98 lawhawk

Actually, those hats were made in Newark, New Jersey. There’s a small hat outfit there that makes specialty hats.

UNIONIZED??!??!!?!?

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 6:33:33am

re: #106 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Thanks. Because of that, I think we really have to treat her as the crazy cat lady.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 6:34:01am

re: #108 HappyWarrior

Yeah but Team GOP above all else

Looks like Paul Ryan could be in hot water for not getting on board the Trump Train.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 6:34:59am

What we know is bunk is that Paterno did all he could to protect kids from Sandusky all the years that were relevant for the criminal trial. He protected Sandusky, not the kids.

Now his son is trying to protect what’s left of Paterno’s legacy from evidence that Paterno knew for 35 years that Sandusky was a child predator - and did nothing except provide cover to Sandusky.

If anything, it makes his later actions even more heinous since he knew or had reason to know that Sandusky was a serial molester.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 6:35:10am

re: #111 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Looks like Paul Ryan could be in hot water for not getting on board the Trump Train.

He is trying to put some pressure on Trump to straighten out his act, but the Donald will not take orders from anyone.

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Bubblehead II  May 6, 2016 • 6:35:19am

re: #108 HappyWarrior

Yeah but Team GOP above all else

Waiting for a certain Lizard to start singing the GOP blues and threaten to vote 3rd party or not vote at all.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 6:37:23am

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

Who?

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Barefoot Grin  May 6, 2016 • 6:38:01am

re: #106 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

From teh Wikipedia:

Ok, I have some sympathy for her if she truly has these issues. I just read that she claims to have Dissociative Identity Disorder. She’s a social media phenom; it’s also her undoing.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 6:39:01am

In some instances, yes, they are out of control. But in many others - it shows a lack of understanding of what is involved. Some businesses want the occupational training/licensing because it limits the number of people who are in that industry, but there are good safety reasons. For instance, hair stylists, barbers, shampooers, etc., might need to understand chemical interactions because various products may include specific rules of use. Don’t want to burn or poison yourself or your customers.

And people kinda have a thing for how they look. They don’t want just anyone cutting their hair.

300 hours of training? That’s roughly 8-10 weeks of classroom work.

Of course, it takes no training at all to work for Heritage and pump out nonsensical ravings about everything from climate change to government regulation (opposes both, ignores clear science, etc). No wonder DeMint is so at home there. He’s perfectly qualified.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 6:41:44am

re: #110 Belafon

Thanks. Because of that, I think we really have to treat her as the crazy cat lady.

She was kinda messed up before the aneurysm, TBH.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 6:41:54am

re: #117 lawhawk

These occupational licensing regulations are out of control—keeping Americans from learning skills and working!.

Yep, gone are the days when you could just whittle a great big tooth and hang it out with a sign reading DEИTIST

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 6:42:12am

re: #117 lawhawk

These occupational licensing regulations are out of control—keeping Americans from learning skills and working! t.co
— Jim DeMint

And here are our innocent and necessary requirements for abortion providers, no big deal, just want the womenz to be safe because we care about thare health.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:43:23am

re: #117 lawhawk

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In some instances, yes, they are out of control. But in many others - it shows a lack of understanding of what is involved. Some businesses want the occupational training/licensing because it limits the number of people who are in that industry, but there are good safety reasons. For instance, hair stylists, barbers, shampooers, etc., might need to understand chemical interactions because various products may include specific rules of use. Don’t want to burn or poison yourself or your customers.

And people kinda have a thing for how they look. They don’t want just anyone cutting their hair.

300 hours of training? That’s roughly 8-10 weeks of classroom work.

Of course, it takes no training at all to work for Heritage and pump out nonsensical ravings about everything from climate change to government regulation (opposes both, ignores clear science, etc). No wonder DeMint is so at home there. He’s perfectly qualified.

DeMint should try living in the real world sometime away from the idiots at Heritage but as you say absolutely training and safety are important. DeMint would know this if he had actually worked in a job that wasn’t being a right wing shill.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:44:26am

re: #120 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

And here are our innocent and necessary requirements for abortion providers, no big deal, just want the womenz to be safe because we care about thare health.

Oh, that’s different. //

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William Lewis  May 6, 2016 • 6:44:47am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It’s springtime for, er, Germany. Brilliant weather, I always tell people that the best time to visit is May/June or September/early October.

Autumn in Bavaria is beautiful. Octoberfest is at a nearly perfect time of year.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:45:09am

re: #114 Bubblehead II

Waiting for a certain Lizard to start singing the GOP blues and threaten to vote 3rd party or not vote at all.

Snicker. You know in a way I do feel bad because it’s gotta hurt knowing that your party is full of shit.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 6:45:57am

re: #117 lawhawk

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In some instances, yes, they are out of control. But in many others - it shows a lack of understanding of what is involved. Some businesses want the occupational training/licensing because it limits the number of people who are in that industry, but there are good safety reasons. For instance, hair stylists, barbers, shampooers, etc., might need to understand chemical interactions because various products may include specific rules of use. Don’t want to burn or poison yourself or your customers.

And people kinda have a thing for how they look. They don’t want just anyone cutting their hair.

300 hours of training? That’s roughly 8-10 weeks of classroom work.

Of course, it takes no training at all to work for Heritage and pump out nonsensical ravings about everything from climate change to government regulation (opposes both, ignores clear science, etc). No wonder DeMint is so at home there. He’s perfectly qualified.

One of my friends here taught English at a vocational school for a while. Her students were learning to be hairdressers, but in China that includes head and neck massage as well as the usual washing, styling, cutting, etc.

There are also “hair salons” that offer more intimate services for gentlemen customers (and maybe ladies, too), but the school does not offer classes in those skills. I suppose it’s a DIY thing — learn on the job, no certification necessary.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:46:40am

re: #111 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Looks like Paul Ryan could be in hot water for not getting on board the Trump Train.

Could we be looking at yet another shift in the GOP house leadership? Shit I don’t even know who the majority leader is now. I think McCarthy may still be it. I know they kept Scalise- David Duke without the baggage as majority whip.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 6:46:45am
Pass the popcorn
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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 6:46:59am

re: #117 lawhawk

Of course, it takes no training at all to work for Heritage and pump out nonsensical ravings about everything from climate change to government regulation (opposes both, ignores clear science, etc). No wonder DeMint is so at home there. He’s perfectly qualified.

Naturally-take a look at Ayan Ali Hirsi.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:47:42am

re: #127 lawhawk

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Image: Pass the popcorn

I don’t favor forced marriage but I’m very much in the favor of the forced marriage of Paul Ryan and Donald Trump.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 6:48:38am
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BlueSpotinAL  May 6, 2016 • 6:51:09am

I thought you would like to see a beer that is being released in Alabama in response to our governor’s current imbroglio…

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Bubblehead II  May 6, 2016 • 6:53:21am

re: #124 HappyWarrior

Snicker. You know in a way I do feel bad because it’s gotta hurt knowing that your party is full of shit.

Yep. Something we’ve been pointing out for the last 8 yrs. But party first despite the facts that it will take an external force to bring change to the republican party. But maybe this year, after a complete drubbing he will see the light.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:55:16am

re: #130 lawhawk

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So even when Bernie wins there’s fraud. Seriously Tim, grow the fuck up already. Not everyone thinks Bernie Sanders is the best thing since sliced bread. Man, I hate getting this upset with someone I probably agree with on the vast majority of the issues but Robbins constantly complaining about fraud without any merit is really unbecoming.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 6:56:49am

re: #133 HappyWarrior

So even when Bernie wins there’s fraud. Seriously Tim, grow the fuck up already. Not everyone thinks Bernie Sanders is the best thing since sliced bread. Man, I hate getting this upset with someone I probably agree with on the vast majority of the issues but Robbins constantly complaining about fraud without any merit is really unbecoming.

When your candidate is losing, you do everything you can to discredit the results. That is what I see coming from the GOP: they will overblow reports of irregularities and fraud to create the impression that HRC “stole” the election by some underhanded means.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:57:30am

re: #132 Bubblehead II

Yep. Something we’ve been pointing out for the last 8 yrs. But party first despite the facts that it will take an external force to bring change to the republican party. But maybe this year, after a complete drubbing he will see the light.

I really hope so. I do like the guy and he’s a champ to stay here despite the fact he’s very outnumbered ideologically but I just think he needs to see what a bunch of assholes his party really are. Maybe seeing the blatant insincerity of the Never Trumps.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 6:58:16am

re: #126 HappyWarrior

Could we be looking at yet another shift in the GOP house leadership? Shit I don’t even know who the majority leader is now. I think McCarthy may still be it. I know they kept Scalise- David Duke without the baggage as majority whip.

The leadership lifespan of GOP Speakers is diminishing at an exponential rate.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:58:36am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

When your candidate is losing, you do everything you can to discredit the results. That is what I see coming from the GOP: they will overblow reports of irregularities and fraud to create the impression that HRC “stole” the election by some underhanded means.

True. Thing is though he’s bellyaching about a primary his guy won. I mean it’s sad enough when they lose but it really is pathetic when Robbins still claims fraud even when Bernie wins.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 7:01:11am

Trump VP material:

Perry wants to be on the national stage. Vying with Christie for role of Chief Gimp.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 7:02:29am

Morning Joke is drunk-Tweeting

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:03:19am

re: #138 lawhawk

Trump VP material:

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Perry wants to be on the national stage. Vying with Christie for role of Chief Gimp.

I’m old enough to remember when Perry denounced Trump’s attacks on military service. Now I am old and gray the same age.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:04:35am

re: #139 The Vicious Babushka

Morning Joke is drunk-Tweeting

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Looks like there’s whiskey in his morning joe. What an ass. I’m getting really tired of the excuses made for Trump. He’s a fucking liar and a fucking bigot.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 7:04:48am

OT: Chuck Tingle counter-trolls the Gamergaters who nominated his erotica for a Hugo Award

As hilarious and thorough as these VOXMAN owns are, mere Twitter owns aren’t enough to defeat a campaign whose main goal seems to be attention for Day. He’s expressed, in so many words, that hate can only make him stronger.

That’s where the third prong of Tingle’s trolling makes a difference. As the Daily Dot’s April Siese discussed in her recent profile of Tingle, the hard and sexy author’s true identity remains a mystery. He cannot very well reveal himself by showing up to an award ceremony. So, in his place, he has invited perhaps the one person internet alt-rightists and Gamergate-adjacent agitators hate most.

Now that’s some epic counter-trolling….

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:05:43am

re: #142 Eric The Fruit Bat

OT: Chuck Tingle counter-trolls the Gamergaters who nominated his erotica for a Hugo Award

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Now that’s some epic counter-trolling….

Oh that’s good.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 7:07:49am

re: #142 Eric The Fruit Bat

I have to admit I have no idea what or who you’re talking about.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:08:32am

re: #144 Skip Intro

I have to admit I have no idea what or who you’re talking about.

I don’t understand gamergate that well either but Zoe is that woman that the douche bros flipped their shit over I believe.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  May 6, 2016 • 7:09:03am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Robbins’ Razor: Only a conspiracy can kill a god.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:10:21am

re: #146 Pawn of the Oppressor

Robbins’ Razor: Only a conspiracy can kill a god.

I for one am eager to see the Bernie Bro flip out when Clinton wins California.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 7:11:49am

re: #141 HappyWarrior

Looks like there’s whiskey in his morning joe. What an ass. I’m getting really tired of the excuses made for Trump. He’s a fucking liar and a fucking bigot.

And those are his good points. I keep wondering if he’s going to continue to get free tv ad time every fucking day on tv until the election. Sure looks like it.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 7:13:19am

re: #139 The Vicious Babushka

It’s amazing how Trump critics who repeatedly attack him for being untruthful then make shit up against people who done hate him& are fair.
— Joe Scarborough

Delete your account.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 7:15:36am

Gotta grab more popcorn. It’s going to be a long day. Hope I have enough for GOP: Civil War. Coming to a bund near you. It’s not nearly as sexy as a Marvel Cinematic Universe production, but there’s a whole lot more hand to hand combat and none of that CGI to get in the way (though plastic surgery is a definite concern).

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 7:19:50am

re: #150 lawhawk

Trump spokeswoman predictably says Paul Ryan is unqualified as Speaker of the House if he doesn’t back Trump

When I think “qualified politician” I think Donald Trump!!!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 7:19:57am

re: #144 Skip Intro

All you need to know is that the self-hating man-child Milo is deeply involved with GamerGate-and this article describes how this offshoot of GamerGate (rigging of the Science Fiction Hugo Award voting process by alt-right trolls) has just been counter-trolled by one of their own nominees.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 7:20:47am

re: #150 lawhawk

Gotta grab more popcorn. It’s going to be a long day. Hope I have enough for GOP: Civil War. Coming to a bund near you. It’s not nearly as sexy as a Marvel Cinematic Universe production, but there’s a whole lot more hand to hand combat and none of that CGI to get in the way (though plastic surgery is a definite concern).

The Breitbarts and Dim Jim commenters are probably spewing hatred at Ryan.

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 7:21:17am

re: #150 lawhawk

Gotta grab more popcorn. It’s going to be a long day. Hope I have enough for GOP: Civil War. Coming to a bund near you. It’s not nearly as sexy as a Marvel Cinematic Universe production, but there’s a whole lot more hand to hand combat and none of that CGI to get in the way (though plastic surgery is a definite concern).

Coordinated messaging….

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Franklin  May 6, 2016 • 7:21:19am
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:22:11am

re: #150 lawhawk

Gotta grab more popcorn. It’s going to be a long day. Hope I have enough for GOP: Civil War. Coming to a bund near you. It’s not nearly as sexy as a Marvel Cinematic Universe production, but there’s a whole lot more hand to hand combat and none of that CGI to get in the way (though plastic surgery is a definite concern).

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Man I feel like I’m watching a Red Sox-Yankees game or a Patriots-Ravens game. Can’t both these be stuck in the mud?

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:22:34am

re: #154 Dr. Matt

Coordinated messaging….

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I thought Hannity wasn’t a Republican, he was a “conservative.”

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Snarknado!  May 6, 2016 • 7:24:06am

re: #141 HappyWarrior

Looks like there’s whiskey in his morning joe. What an ass. I’m getting really tired of the excuses made for Trump. He’s a fucking liar and a fucking bigot.

Especially since we’re talking about Joe “Is this how the Party of Abraham Lincoln Dies?” Scarborough.”

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Alephnaught  May 6, 2016 • 7:24:19am

Meanwhile, votes are being counted for the London Mayor. Wonder how the Trumpettes will react when, as seems likely, London gets it’s first Muslim Mayor, Sadiq Khan?

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:25:00am

re: #158 Snarknado!

Especially since we’re talking about Joe “Is this how the Party of Abraham Lincoln Dies?” Scarborough.”

Right. Party first though I guess.

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 7:25:07am

re: #157 HappyWarrior

I thought Hannity wasn’t a Republican, he was a “conservative.”

He’s best described as a bottom feeding parasite.

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Franklin  May 6, 2016 • 7:25:34am

OT but a “d’uh, why didn’t i think of that!”

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b.d.  May 6, 2016 • 7:26:19am

re: #159 Alephnaught

Meanwhile, votes are being counted for the London Mayor. Wonder how the Trumpettes will react when, as seems likely, London gets it’s first Muslim Mayor, Sadiq Khan?

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Will President Trump allow a foreign Muslim to visit America?

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:27:24am

re: #161 Dr. Matt

He’s best described as a bottom feeding parasite.

I know, I’m mocking how Hannity claims not to be a Republican hack by claiming he’s a conservative not a Republican when he’s very much a GOP hack.

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withak  May 6, 2016 • 7:27:32am

re: #144 Skip Intro

I have to admit I have no idea what or who you’re talking about.

I’ll try to tl;dr the Sad Puppies/Hugos bullshit.

A group of MRAs, originally led by some mostly-douchey SF author whose name I can’t recall and then co-opted by arch-taint Vox Day, are upset that the Hugo awards are now rewarding “SJW” authors, “SJW” plots, etc. instead of manly sci-fi/fantasy where stuff gets killed good and the good guy gets the helpless girl, or something.

Authors in the Hugo-nominating community will frequently post “slates” of literary works they feel that the Hugo voters should consider for an award, listing a handful of novels and short stories and whatnot. This is all part of the standard process for the Hugos; it’s not meant to be “vote for these works,” more like “I think you should read these works, and if you like them, vote for them.”

Authors such as John Scalzi (who also happens to be one of my favorite authors and one of my Internet heroes) is one such author who posts a Hugo voting slate every year. He’s won Hugos, which particularly enrages the MRAs, because he’s apparently an SJW, or something. (Plus, he is an expert troll, in a good way, so they really hate his guts.)

Enter the Sad Puppies/Rabid Puppies. This is the name the MRAs have given themselves; they have presented their own slates of works, full of works that MRAs might find more tolerable, in an effort to vote-stack the Hugo nominations and awards.

This has been going on for a couple of years. It’s never been very successful, if at all.

I haven’t been following this story that much this year, but apparently one of the works on the Sad Puppy slate is a work of erotic fiction that I guess doesn’t belong anywhere near a Hugo.

That should catch you up well enough to read the linked article.

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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 7:30:15am
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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 7:30:22am
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:31:24am

re: #166 FormerDirtDart

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So that’s the one registered Republican that lived in D.C.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:32:36am

re: #167 Dr. Matt

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Reagan has more in common with Trump than he does Lincoln. *cough Philadelphia, Mississippi* speech and the young bucks and their t-bones. Sorry I had to do that. I don’t think Reagan should get a pass. He’s not Trump but he did do a lot of the same shit Trump does now just in a more subtle wink and smile way.

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 7:35:53am

re: #169 HappyWarrior

Reagan has more in common with Trump than he does Lincoln. *cough Philadelphia, Mississippi* speech and the young bucks and their t-bones. Sorry I had to do that. I don’t think Reagan should get a pass. He’s not Trump but he did do a lot of the same shit Trump does now just in a more subtle wink and smile way.

Raygun was a miserable SOB and his policies helped destroy the middle class and embolden a generation of mindless cultists. But, IF I had to make the choice, I’ll still take that miserable SOB than this absolute assclown in Trump. My 2 cents

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 7:36:23am

re: #159 Alephnaught

Break out the no-go zone BS. Because that’s what they’ll say. They’ll claim that parts of London will be no go zones for non-Muslims, or that the new mayor will institute Sharia law or other nonsensical ravings - and bring in Gaffney or other Islamophobes as proof, even though there’s no actual evidence any of that is happening anywhere they’ve claimed (Paris, Netherlands, etc.)

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Joe Bacon  May 6, 2016 • 7:37:06am

re: #101 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Woman in Australia claimed to have cured her “incurable” brain cancer with diet and woo-woo treatments, published a cookbook and an app, but finally she admitted — after bilking people out of their money — that she never had cancer to begin with.

bbc.com

And get this quote. She could run for political office.

Uh, right? {As he edges slowly toward the nearest door.}

Sounds like the clown who push Laetrile in the 70s. I still remember a very kind lady who fell for that con and died from metastasized cancer. So sad…

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:37:07am

re: #170 Dr. Matt

Raygun was a miserable SOB and his policies helped destroy the middle class and embolden a generation of mindless cultists. But, IF I had to make the choice, I’ll still take that miserable SOB than this absolute assclown in Trump. My 2 cents

I would too. I just think Reagan is part of the GOP’s devolution towards Trump. That is Reagan in a way is what makes Trump possible today. Lincoln not so.

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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 7:39:45am

Vetting? Vetting? We don’t need no stinking vetting!

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:40:09am

re: #171 lawhawk

Break out the no-go zone BS. Because that’s what they’ll say. They’ll claim that parts of London will be no go zones for non-Muslims, or that the new mayor will institute Sharia law or other nonsensical ravings - and bring in Gaffney or other Islamophobes as proof, even though there’s no actual evidence any of that is happening anywhere they’ve claimed (Paris, Netherlands, etc.)

I can’t wait for us to elect a Muslim governor, senator, or president and to see them really flip out.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:41:00am

re: #174 FormerDirtDart

Vetting? Vetting? We don’t need no stinking vetting!

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Are you an unrepentant asshole with no sense of ethics whatsoever?
No,
Well let me be the first to welcome you to the Trump campaign.

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Sherlock Hound  May 6, 2016 • 7:42:40am

re: #58 William Lewis

Leicester City was nearly relegated last season yet won the Premier League championship for the first time in their 132 year history at longer odds than the Cubs face. I no longer have any sympathy or time for the lovable loser shtick.

No. Red Sox fan here. I HATED “The Curse of the Bambino”.

But the old owner, Tom Yawkey, was the most vicious racist. His curse was very real.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:49:21am

re: #177 Sherlock Hound

No. Red Sox fan here. I HATED “The Curse of the Bambino”.

But the old owner, Tom Yawkey, was the most vicious racist. His curse was very real.

That’s probably what hurt you guys alot. Not to rub salt in on a wound but I heard that there was some interest from a Sox’s scout on Willie Mays and Yawkey and his GM Collins said no n-words on our team. Not only bigots but stupid.

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 7:50:34am

re: #173 HappyWarrior

I would too. I just think Reagan is part of the GOP’s devolution towards Trump.

Bingo

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 7:51:17am
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Franklin  May 6, 2016 • 7:52:07am

re: #178 HappyWarrior

That’s probably what hurt you guys alot. Not to rub salt in on a wound but I heard that there was some interest from a Sox’s scout on Willie Mays and Yawkey and his GM Collins said no n-words on our team. Not only bigots but stupid.

bostonglobe.com

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:54:41am

re: #181 Franklin

bostonglobe.com

Jackie too I see. I had forgotten that. Have to say props to Williams for that speech he made 50 years ago advocating for Satchel and Josh Gibson. Williams was a bit of an asshole (in other ways not racial) but he wasn’t a racist. I agree with the article that Yawkey was a stain on the Sox and city of Boston.

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Franklin  May 6, 2016 • 7:57:42am

re: #182 HappyWarrior

It’s a race-based article was written by Adrian Walker, there is no way in hell I am reading the comments on that.

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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 8:00:13am

re: #47 Targetpractice

This election season is, if nothing else, serving as a great way to weed out who amongst our celebrities are the raving nutbars.

I reserve judgment; her twitter feed might’ve been hacked.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 8:01:58am

What global warming…

While late April/early May has been cooler than usual in NYC metro, the rest of the nation has been warmer… and we’re already seeing fire season take a nasty turn - from Canada on down.

Folks up in Canada are warning that the fires around Fort McMurray aren’t going to be put out until they get sustained rains. Forecast for next 14 days? No rain, except slight chance on Monday and then again next Monday.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 8:05:03am

re: #185 lawhawk

What global warming…

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While late April/early May has been cooler than usual in NYC metro, the rest of the nation has been warmer… and we’re already seeing fire season take a nasty turn - from Canada on down.

Folks up in Canada are warning that the fires around Fort McMurray aren’t going to be put out until they get sustained rains. Forecast for next 14 days? No rain, except slight chance on Monday and then again next Monday.

Those results are skewed!

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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 8:05:37am

A “domestic-violence shooting”.
I guess it is either a murder suicide, or a parental shootout…

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Pawn of the Oppressor  May 6, 2016 • 8:06:06am

re: #176 HappyWarrior

This reminds me of something I formulated this morning.

Every Trump Interview, reduced to essentials:

Q. “Are you truly a colossal asshole, or are you putting on a show?”

A. “…Yes.”

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:06:07am

re: #183 Franklin

It’s a race-based article was written by Adrian Walker, there is no way in hell I am reading the comments on that.

Yeah I didn’t read the comments.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 8:12:33am

330 square miles.

Meanwhile, there’s reports that there are huge water shortages across India, and the monsoon there isn’t predicted to be sufficient to overcome the deficit.

But hey, what global warming.

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Stanley Sea  May 6, 2016 • 8:15:41am

re: #184 Big Beautiful Door

I reserve judgment; her twitter feed might’ve been hacked.

Tila T. is mentally ill & not getting help, only exposure.

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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 8:17:18am

Damn stinking libnazis and their assault on Christianity…

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Eventual Carrion  May 6, 2016 • 8:17:24am

re: #171 lawhawk

Break out the no-go zone BS. Because that’s what they’ll say. They’ll claim that parts of London will be no go zones for non-Muslims, or that the new mayor will institute Sharia law or other nonsensical ravings - and bring in Gaffney or other Islamophobes as proof, even though there’s no actual evidence any of that is happening anywhere they’ve claimed (Paris, Netherlands, etc.)

The King Khan Quran version?

// Goofing on the King James Bible version

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Eventual Carrion  May 6, 2016 • 8:18:21am

re: #175 HappyWarrior

I can’t wait for us to elect a Muslim governor, senator, or president and to see them really flip out.

Already done I believe.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:18:27am

re: #192 FormerDirtDart

Damn stinking libnazis and their assault on Christianity…

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You’d think someone with the name Conroy would be a little more sympathetic towards religious bigotry.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  May 6, 2016 • 8:19:11am

I saw King Khan Quran live once. They drop some mad beats.

/seriously that would be an awesome dance name

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:19:30am

re: #194 Eventual Carrion

Already done I believe.

I don’t think we have a Muslim governor or senator. But yes my state’s Virgil Goode did flip his shit when Keith Ellison got elected and I loved Keith swearing in on Thomas Jefferson(Monticello is in what was Goode’s district)’s Quran.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2016 • 8:21:00am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 8:21:22am

re: #171 lawhawk

Break out the no-go zone BS. Because that’s what they’ll say. They’ll claim that parts of London will be no go zones for non-Muslims, or that the new mayor will institute Sharia law or other nonsensical ravings - and bring in Gaffney or other Islamophobes as proof, even though there’s no actual evidence any of that is happening anywhere they’ve claimed (Paris, Netherlands, etc.)

If he wins, Londoners will react in their usual way. Go to work, complain about traffic snarls and the transport system, crime, and litter in the streets, and blame the mayor.

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Joe Bacon  May 6, 2016 • 8:21:32am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

Looks like Baby Whiplash is boarding the Trump Train

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Coming up next! Baby Whiplash grovels at the feet of Tila Tequilla as she keeps doing the 1488 thing…

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Bubblehead II  May 6, 2016 • 8:21:37am

re: #194 Eventual Carrion

Already done I believe.

Keith Ellison and Andre Carson

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Eventual Carrion  May 6, 2016 • 8:22:29am

re: #197 HappyWarrior

I don’t think we have a Muslim governor or senator. But yes my state’s Virgil Goode did flip his shit when Keith Ellison got elected and I loved Keith swearing in on Thomas Jefferson(Monticello is in what was Goode’s district)’s Quran.

Ok, that’s the one I remember them losing their shit about.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:23:44am

re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth

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This is pretty damn funny. And Erick, Republicans lost any claim of moral high ground on that issue the second that quite a few of the impeachment managers were revealed to be adulterers themselves. I knew this in 1999 and I was 12. I’ll give old Erick some credit though, he’s not embracing Trump. He’s still a sad hack though because he actually thinks Cruz is somehow not as vile as Trump.

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KGxvi  May 6, 2016 • 8:23:47am

re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth

Blind squirrel, stopped clock, or actual epiphany?

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:24:23am

re: #202 Eventual Carrion

Ok, that’s the one I remember them losing their shit about.

Yeah I think Ellison was the first Muslim elected to Congress. There’s been at least one other since then.

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No Depression  May 6, 2016 • 8:24:32am
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Barefoot Grin  May 6, 2016 • 8:26:08am

re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Paraphrasing: ‘for years the GOP has accused the Democrats of gutter politics and now we’ve sunk to that level.’

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA … HA.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:26:14am

re: #206 No Depression

Here’s some good news:

Salvation Army bans Duggar cult’s ‘retreat’ that promoted arranged marriages for teen girls

My bad guys, did not know the Duggars weren’t involved with this.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 8:27:57am

re: #208 HappyWarrior

What’s worse is that none of them have seen jail time for obstruction of justice, molestation, child abuse, endangering welfare of minors, etc.

And the organization to which they belong condones said abuse.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:28:30am

re: #207 Barefoot Grin

Paraphrasing: ‘for years the GOP has accused the Democrats of gutter politics and now we’ve sunk to that level.’

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA … HA.

It amuses me that it took Trump for him to realize that. I really do think it’s that Trump doesn’t even pretend to be religious or give a damn about the religious right that drives people like Erick crazy. I mean I’m sorry but has Erick forgotten that Dennis Hastert who was in office long before Trump was a blip on the GOP radar recently admitted to sexually assaulting teenage boys. I mean Trump’s sleazy but I don’t think he’s ever done anything illegal with women sexually. But hey if this is what it takes for Erick to realize that the Clinton impeachment was a circus and that the Republican party are a bunch of sexual hypocrites so be it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 8:28:30am

re: #208 HappyWarrior

Good. Disgusts me that the Duggars are still up to their sleazy ways.

Not the Duggars themselves, but their spiritual advisor had planned the teenage bridal market.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:28:57am

re: #209 lawhawk

What’s worse is that none of them have seen jail time for obstruction of justice, molestation, child abuse, endangering welfare of minors, etc.

And the organization to which they belong condones said abuse.

Agreed 110%.

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No Depression  May 6, 2016 • 8:29:12am

re: #208 HappyWarrior

Good. Disgusts me that the Duggars are still up to their sleazy ways.

I probably should have changed RawStory’s headline. I don’t think the Duggars were actually involved in this, just other like-minded people from the Quiverfull cult.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:29:15am

re: #211 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Not the Duggars themselves, but their spiritual advisor had planned the teenage bridal market.

He can go fuck off too. Awful people the whole bloody lot.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:29:43am

re: #213 No Depression

I probably should have changed RawStory’s headline. I don’t think the Duggars were actually involved in this, just other like-minded people from the Quiverfull cult.

Ah ha, thanks. Man these Quivers are sick people.

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Barefoot Grin  May 6, 2016 • 8:30:38am

re: #210 HappyWarrior

It amuses me that it took Trump for him to realize that. I really do think it’s that Trump doesn’t even pretend to be religious or give a damn about the religious right that drives people like Erick crazy. I mean I’m sorry but has Erick forgotten that Dennis Hastert who was in office long before Trump was a blip on the GOP radar recently admitted to sexually assaulting teenage boys. I mean Trump’s sleazy but I don’t think he’s ever done anything illegal with women sexually. But hey if this is what it takes for Erick to realize that the Clinton impeachment was a circus and that the Republican party are a bunch of sexual hypocrites so be it.

Right. It’s not his bigotry and misogyny. It’s that Trump in many ways is pretty moderate when it comes to social issues. He’s just not “a man of God.”

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 8:31:19am

re: #208 HappyWarrior

Good. Disgusts me that the Duggars are still up to their sleazy ways.

As we noted last night, the group in question disavows any association with the Duggars.

While the group in question believes it is mandatory that one marry (and that women have children) to please God, they are not part of the official Quiverfull/Duggar circle of groups.

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 8:32:47am

There’s no end of religious variant cults. Those of us on the outside may want to lump them all together, but the adherents will be quite adamant about their differences with the next cult.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:32:49am

re: #216 Barefoot Grin

Right. It’s not his bigotry and misogyny. It’s that Trump in many ways is pretty moderate when it comes to social issues. He’s just not “a man of God.”

That’s what infuriates many of them about him. There’s lots of things about Trump to be disgusted about but Trump not being an adhoerent of the religious right’s bullshit isn’t one of them. In other words, conservatives are doing it all wrong yet again. And the bigotry Trump shows towards Muslims, Latinos, etc really isn’t that different from what Cruz (yes I know Cruz is Latino himself) espouses.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:33:19am

re: #217 freetoken

As we noted last night, the group in question disavows any association with the Duggars.

While the group in question believes it is mandatory that one marry (and that women have children) to please God, they are not part of the official Quiverfull/Duggar circle of groups.

I missed the discussion last night, thanks

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 8:33:22am

re: #215 HappyWarrior

Ah ha, thanks. Man these Quivers are sick people.

Ultra-patriarchy, like the crazy offshoot of the LDS with one old man (the leader) claiming teenage girls as brides, and stealing the wives of other men, or the still common practice in South Asia and Southeast Asia of exchanging daughters for a “dowry,” and marrying them off to an older man.

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Alephnaught  May 6, 2016 • 8:33:33am

re: #171 lawhawk

Break out the no-go zone BS. Because that’s what they’ll say. They’ll claim that parts of London will be no go zones for non-Muslims, or that the new mayor will institute Sharia law or other nonsensical ravings - and bring in Gaffney or other Islamophobes as proof, even though there’s no actual evidence any of that is happening anywhere they’ve claimed (Paris, Netherlands, etc.)

Well, strangely enough, the Conservative candidate for Mayor tried to run the “extremist” thing on him. That backfired badly, with even some in his own party criticising him on it, such as the outgoing Deputy Mayor.

“I’m concerned that the campaign we’ve run is going to leave a negative legacy which we in London are going to have to clear up long after the the people who ran Zac Goldsmith’s campaign have gone on their way,” Evans said at London’s City Hall.

“I’ve been the deputy mayor for the last year and it’s been my job to go and talk to communities in London,” he said before the result was declared. “I’ve always been very pleased with the courtesy with which I was received and the hearing all communities were willing to give to a Conservative politician.

“We’re going to have to do quite a lot of work to re-establish trust with a lot of communities in London, that’s a shame and an opportunity missed.”

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KGxvi  May 6, 2016 • 8:33:58am

re: #210 HappyWarrior

It amuses me that it took Trump for him to realize that. I really do think it’s that Trump doesn’t even pretend to be religious or give a damn about the religious right that drives people like Erick crazy.

While that’s part of it, my guess is that a lot more of it is the Team R vs Team D stuff. It’s politics as sports - they recognize that they’re going to lose

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:34:37am

re: #221 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Ultra-patriarchy, like the crazy offshoot of the LDS with one old man (the leader) claiming teenage girls as brides, and stealing the wives of other men, or the still common practice in South Asia and Southeast Asia of exchanging daughters for a “dowry,” and marrying them off to an older man.

It’s awful. I mean how about letting kids be kids? I guess that’s too much to ask for thes fanatics.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:35:23am

re: #223 KGxvi

While that’s part of it, my guess is that a lot more of it is the Team R vs Team D stuff. It’s politics as sports - they recognize that they’re going to lose

I think so too. The smarter ones know that to be associated with Trump is to be associated with a huuuuuuuuuuge loser.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 8:37:27am

re: #224 HappyWarrior

It’s awful. I mean how about letting kids be kids? I guess that’s too much to ask for thes fanatics.

They believe that the father has dominion over his family, especially the womenfolk but also the sons. It’s Old Testament patriarchy handed down from the Bronze Age with added Christian fundamentalism.

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Romantic Heretic  May 6, 2016 • 8:37:35am

re: #187 FormerDirtDart

More human sacrifices to water The Tree of Liberty.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:38:40am

re: #226 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

They believe that the father has dominion over his family, especially the womenfolk but also the sons. It’s Old Testament patriarchy handed down from the Bronze Age with added Christian fundamentalism.

It’s disturbing stuff to see in the modern era.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 8:44:05am

re: #228 HappyWarrior

It’s disturbing stuff to see in the modern era.

Indeed. And you have to wonder how these people got these wacky ideas in the first place.

More disturbing for me is how a family who observes many aspects of this belief system got a TV show.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:46:28am

re: #229 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Indeed. And you have to wonder how these people got these wacky ideas in the first place.

More disturbing for me is how a family who observes many aspects of this belief system got a TV show.

Same thing with the Robertsons. But yeah you do have to wonder where these beliefs are coming from.

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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 8:49:27am

re: #227 Romantic Heretic

More human sacrifices to water The Tree of Liberty.

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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 8:52:09am

Edit: The French Ambassador to the United States of America…

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BeachDem  May 6, 2016 • 8:52:58am

re: #75 lawhawk

Odds are we’ll be skunked in NYC metro area this weekend with the weather continuing to be rather bleak until Sunday morning - and then clouds remain in the forecast all through next week (with varying degrees of rain forecast). There’s a meteor shower the Eta Aquarids, but that’ll be skunked too (peak was yesterday/today) - though that is something better seen in the Southern Hemisphere than up here in the Northern.

hH4U6MGoJpyC1TMSAM8oT/BQ+r8+Dn3W2LIo5B8BJ/N0DiszhANOxOH5QasGjPrV4Uvjr3xfm9nusfwWRZMuKIKecsBLzdJfrM+wKxbtAay0Kg03ffz45QGm0ICHyXVOOE3xB3iDxBvWKhd6S1yiujTIqzVd7EO5r36ip1yGJgstJfUX8y4Goaiuzk0yJnsiCVAUI6VzVVfdO/KW/sVp9ZH3KrhKouDn/50WPwBcagiFujJ6yolzr/dVlu6K0wBAOMITRL1H3GuodZCnfWwvkHPbFjIL7bRm8cxeEz/6m8/B2RcIlFGrGcIZos5TsmVI6Y/H6w+G+YSvpNbTTmkdR8TpMGTlf0+V9fwn6/+ru0gc3eQVd6xMhp2vwPTdoV/oM/E/EXnn4nSJThNbLUvAzv0pxFAcePvgjnc+F8E3WogcnvllDFptpet+I+YZoA9HrotXbkqHpiQITmwF1hppwYQenBIqIMMc

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makeitstop  May 6, 2016 • 8:53:05am

re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Um… seriously? Gotta go see what that’s about.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:54:12am

re: #232 FormerDirtDart

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An olive branch would actually be sitting down with Mexican-American community leaders and apologizing for the hateful things he’s said not some tacky tweet of him with a taco bowl. Said yesterday, let’s call Cavuto a dumb “wop” or “guinea” and then pose with a pizza and go hey it’s an olive branch, Neil!

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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 8:56:04am

re: #191 Stanley Sea

Tila T. is mentally ill & not getting help, only exposure.

The tweets were so over the top, I had to wonder.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 8:59:29am

I’m not nearly as positive that it’d be a full on rout, but I think Warren’s likely to be a dealmaker/power broker in the Senate for years to come. She’s got a knack for fundraising and supporting fellow Democrats - because that’s what Democrats need to do. They’ve got to help each other, even if they aren’t 100% in lockstep on every single issue.

Winning down ticket races is the key in November. That’s how a Democrat in the WH gets their agenda moved forward. That’s the whole ball of wax.

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 9:01:12am
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Stanley Sea  May 6, 2016 • 9:01:37am

re: #232 FormerDirtDart

We follow ea other on twitter !!!!

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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 9:02:09am

re: #210 HappyWarrior

It amuses me that it took Trump for him to realize that. I really do think it’s that Trump doesn’t even pretend to be religious or give a damn about the religious right that drives people like Erick crazy. I mean I’m sorry but has Erick forgotten that Dennis Hastert who was in office long before Trump was a blip on the GOP radar recently admitted to sexually assaulting teenage boys. I mean Trump’s sleazy but I don’t think he’s ever done anything illegal with women sexually. But hey if this is what it takes for Erick to realize that the Clinton impeachment was a circus and that the Republican party are a bunch of sexual hypocrites so be it.

Well in her book Ivanka did accuse Trump of raping her, though she denies it now.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 9:08:37am

re: #232 FormerDirtDart

Fox News host calls Donald Trump’s taco bowl tweet “an olive branch” to the Mexican people t.co
— Media Matters

WHAT MORE DO THESE PEOPLE WANT??!?!?

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Franklin  May 6, 2016 • 9:12:09am

re: #237 lawhawk

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I’m not nearly as positive that it’d be a full on rout, but I think Warren’s likely to be a dealmaker/power broker in the Senate for years to come. She’s got a knack for fundraising and supporting fellow Democrats - because that’s what Democrats need to do. They’ve got to help each other, even if they aren’t 100% in lockstep on every single issue.

Winning down ticket races is the key in November. That’s how a Democrat in the WH gets their agenda moved forward. That’s the whole ball of wax.

I’m the furthest thing from a Bernie defender, but this line struck me a little weird:

a rumpled socialist from Vermont manages to galvanize crowds of young people with a Warren-esque platform

Bernie has been a rumpled socialist since Warren was a Republican. That’s not knock on my Senior Senator either, we’ve all made mistakes :)

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 9:12:40am

re: #240 Big Beautiful Door

Trump is the quintessential date rapist. Entitled, brutish, and happy to objectify women for his own means.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 9:14:21am

re: #232 FormerDirtDart

Pandering to the Nth degree. Oh. Look. An Olive Branch in the form of a fucking taco salad in a bowl. How nice. Ignore the 98 metric tons of shit he heaped on Mexicans. Ignore the other 99.99% of what falls from his lips. Cavuto. Jockeying for proper lip position.

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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 9:15:59am
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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 9:16:03am

re: #244 nines09

Pandering to the Nth degree. Oh. Look. An Olive Branch in the form of a fucking taco salad in a bowl. How nice. Ignore the 98 metric tons of shit he heaped on Mexicans. Ignore the other 99.99% of what falls from his lips. Cavuto. Jockeying for proper lip position.

Quick, book Dick Morris so he can predict a landslide Trump victory!

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Tigger2  May 6, 2016 • 9:16:35am
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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 9:17:51am

re: #247 Tigger2

LOL

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See, there’s no global warming…
Here’s a cat video as proof

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 9:18:20am

re: #187 FormerDirtDart

A “domestic-violence shooting”.
I guess it is either a murder suicide, or a parental shootout…

Attack helicopter parents?

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 9:20:03am

re: #246 Big Beautiful Door

Trump won the nomination. The GOP will fall in line. All that came before was just a little misunderstanding. Time to kiss ass and make up. Fox meal ticket is the GOP. Trump is the GOP. Fox will d**pthroat Trump from here on in. Let the ***kfest begin

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 9:20:43am

re: #245 FormerDirtDart

Don’t worry Trump! I hear the “Club for Multiple Bankruptcies” is going all in for you.

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Franklin  May 6, 2016 • 9:20:50am

re: #250 nines09

Trump won the nomination. The GOP will fall in line. All that came before was just a little misunderstanding. Time to kiss ass and make up. Fox meal ticket is the GOP. Trump is the GOP. Fox will d**pthroat Trump from here on in. Let the ***kfest begin

derpthroat?

jerkfest?

Am I close?

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 9:21:57am

re: #252 Franklin

It all fits. A few more. All very plausible. Somewhere Newt Gingrich is practising his technique. Awaiting that phone call. Praying for a crumb.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 9:23:10am

re: #250 nines09

Trump won the nomination. The GOP will fall in line. All that came before was just a little misunderstanding. Time to kiss ass and make up. Fox meal ticket is the GOP. Trump is the GOP. Fox will d**pthroat Trump from here on in. Let the ***kfest begin

More then a ****fest: they have to find some way to keep this looming blowout for Team Hillary looking like some sort of horse race in which DT has a chance. They will start out by focusing on polls that show him behind by double digits and then build up the intensity when he “closes the gap” to mere single digits…or something.

And expect to hear nothing from then about Hillary except Benghazi e-mail Whitewater Vince Fostergate.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 9:24:16am

Donald Trump’s Idea to Cut National Debt: Get Creditors to Accept Less

Sure, that will work. Make the full faith a credit of the US as worthless as yours is DT.

What an ass, and what a country full of asses supporting him.

nytimes.com

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 9:24:50am

re: #245 FormerDirtDart

Please proceed…

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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 9:24:55am

Was there a shortage of shootings this week, and we’re trying to catch up by close of business???

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 9:25:14am

re: #255 Skip Intro

Donald Trump’s Idea to Cut National Debt: Get Creditors to Accept Less

Sure, that will work. Make the full faith a credit of the US as worthless as yours is DT.

What an ass, and what a country full of asses supporting him.

nytimes.com

Called “running the country like a business”. A Trump business…

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 9:25:49am

re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

More then a ****fest: they have to find some way to keep this looming blowout for Team Hillary looking like some sort of horse race in which DT has a chance. They will start out by focusing on polls that show him behind by double digits and then build up the intensity when he “closes the gap” to mere single digits…or something.

And expect to hear nothing from then about Hillary except Benghazi e-mail Whitewater Vince Fostergate.

“When the election started, he was behind HIllary by 60 points. He’s closed the gap to single digits. Hillary should drop out now and let him become president.”

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 9:26:07am

re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They have 24 hours a day 7 days a week up until November to fill. It will be a vomitorium ad nauseum.

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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 9:26:14am

Someone had to do it…

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 9:29:23am

David Duke Wants To Give Drumpf Space To ‘Dispose Of The Jews’

Duke said it was high time “to start naming the enemy that’s orchestrating our destruction: If we don’t dispose the Jews, there is no hope for our people.”

“This is not Trump’s job,” Duke said. “It’s our job to give Trump the space to do it eventually.”

He explained that Jews “control” the media, academia and the political world, “and I think that we’ve really got to start going full bore on that. I’m not saying that Trump has to but we’ve got to and that’s the only way we’re going to move people like Trump more toward doing the things we’ve got to do.”

crooksandliars.com

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 9:30:33am
Donald Trump business model in one picture.
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 9:31:18am

re: #240 Big Beautiful Door

Well in her book Ivanka did accuse Trump of raping her, though she denies it now.

I didn’t know that actually.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 9:33:56am

re: #262 Skip Intro

David Duke Wants To Give Drumpf Space To ‘Dispose Of The Jews’

crooksandliars.com

And by backing Trump, Republicans validate this guy but yet Obama’s the Anti-Semitic and Anti-Israel one.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 9:34:24am

re: #240 Big Beautiful Door

Well in her book Ivanka did accuse Trump of raping her, though she denies it now.

Ivanka is his daughter, I’m pretty sure you mean Ivana, his first wife, even though Trump admitted he’d like to “date” his own daughter.

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Tigger2  May 6, 2016 • 9:34:29am

re: #263 nines09

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FIMA camps disposal area after Hillary wins.///

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 9:35:48am
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 9:36:49am

re: #268 The Vicious Babushka

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WHY NO ONE EXAMINE OBUMMER’S RECARD?

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 9:38:00am

re: #267 Tigger2

FIMA camps disposal area after Hillary wins.///

That’s where all the heads will be stored after the 30,000 FEMA guillotines are put to work.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 9:38:25am

I’m a winner. I’m magnificent. I’ll run this nation like a business. Have you seen my business?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 9:39:00am

re: #261 FormerDirtDart

Someone had to do it…

All of London Britain is a Sharia-Law No Go Zone!!!!!1

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 9:39:10am
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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 9:39:33am

Damn! More bad news.

Boaty McBoatface beaten by Sir David Attenborough in UK science ship naming

I really thought we had a chance to win this one.

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b.d.  May 6, 2016 • 9:40:36am

re: #272 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

All of London Britain is a Sharia-Law No Go Zone!!!!!1

THE LONDON MAYOR OUTLAWED THEM MAKING GUINNESS IN LONDON!!

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withak  May 6, 2016 • 9:40:47am

re: #274 Skip Intro

Damn! More bad news.

Boaty McBoatface beaten by Sir David Attenborough in UK science ship naming

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I really thought we had a chance to win this one.

From an article I read, they named a sub on the ship “Boaty McBoatface” as a compromise.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2016 • 9:43:27am
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Bubblehead II  May 6, 2016 • 9:44:20am

re: #274 Skip Intro

Damn! More bad news.

Boaty McBoatface beaten by Sir David Attenborough in UK science ship naming

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I really thought we had a chance to win this one.

The name won the polling but was not dignified enough for a premiere research vessel. It is instead going to one of the ships submersibles.

bbc.com

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 9:47:17am

Mitt Romney is worried.

“Lovey, Get my car from the elevator”

Credit to Orlylicious at the Fogbow

Romney went on to say, “I don’t know what happens when we elect somebody to the White House what they’ll do as opposed to what they’re saying, but I certainly think this is a critical time for freedom, a critical time for America. I think it happens to be an inflection point in our history as we go through this dramatic change economically and militarily, socially, all those things … And I happen to think that the person who is leading the nation has an enormous and disproportionate impact on the course of the world, so I am dismayed at where we are now, I wish we had better choices, and I keep hoping that somehow things will get better, and I just don’t see an easy answer from where we are.”

washingtonexaminer.com

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 9:47:35am

re: #257 FormerDirtDart

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 9:48:23am

re: #273 The Vicious Babushka

If only people voted in elections as though they were reality tv shows.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 9:48:58am

re: #262 Skip Intro

David Duke Wants To Give Drumpf Space To ‘Dispose Of The Jews’

crooksandliars.com

The question on an ad becomes one of timing. You want to release one at the right time that makes a lot of people pissed that this guy is backing Trump, force Trump to distance himself, and then piss off Trump’s supporters for throwing Duke under the bus.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 9:49:19am

re: #279 Skip Intro

Mitt Romney is worried.

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washingtonexaminer.com

Mitt helped build that!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 9:49:57am

American Police State: Secret Service Controlling Journalist Access to Conventions by Arbitrary, Secretive, No Appeal Screening Process

Cites this Daily Beast article on how locked down the reporters are going to be.

“Given that dynamic, why should the Secret Service have jurisdiction over the 1st Amendment for the Republican and Democratic conventions?”
Salant, for his part, told The Daily Beast that three months of constructive engagement and quiet diplomacy with the agency have yielded zero accommodations from the Secret Service, which is premising its unprecedented credentialing authority on a 2013 Obama administration national security directive—Presidential Policy Directive 22—whose language is classified and thus not publicly available.
Needless to say, it is extremely unusual, at least in the American context, for a government agency to formulate a policy regarding the news media, based on the possibly tendentious interpretation of a secret directive that, because the content and purpose of the directive are a mystery, is not open for discussion. An official listing of President Obama’s directives mentions the existence of PPD 22 but otherwise offers no explanation, leaving the line blank. (An anonymous law enforcement official told Politico that the directive gives the Secret Service to power of enforcing “access control.”)
This is yet another irony for a president who regularly touts his administration’s alleged “transparency” and, as recently as his remarks during last Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, frequently lauds the role of the Fourth Estate in demanding government accountability.
Salant said he hopes that in a meeting of the Standing Committee scheduled for next Tuesday, he and his fellow committee members vote to go public with objections that they have already expressed privately in a Jan. 29 letter to Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy.

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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 9:50:01am

re: #279 Skip Intro

Mitt Romney is worried.

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washingtonexaminer.com

Professional concern troll?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 6, 2016 • 9:50:19am
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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 9:51:35am

re: #280 lawhawk

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 9:52:11am

It’s lunch time! Share your food with a friend!

Instagram

Follow @babyanimalhd for more amazing animals photos & videos!
Video by @parkerhouser
Tag #naturegeography and follow us to be featured!

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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 9:52:48am

re: #284 Eric The Fruit Bat

American Police State: Secret Service Controlling Journalist Access to Conventions by Arbitrary, Secretive, No Appeal Screening Process

Cites this Daily Beast article on how locked down the reporters are going to be.

While the Secret Service is a government agency, they’re working security for two organizations that get to pick and choose who they want in their conventions.

Not sure what the big deal is.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 9:59:55am

More evidence that Trump doesn’t understand how government works. He, and his supporters, just want to see it burn. That’s the TP/GOP in a nutshell.

We saw it with Cruz and his government shutdown temper tantrum. We see it with every GOP proposal to starve government funding with tax cuts to the rich, and then claim that they have no choice but to slash and burn the safety net.

And folks who don’t understand the consequences of tax cuts (hey, look, I’m getting more money back, but why do my schools and roads suck, etc) buy into the tax cut nonsense.

That’s the GOP. Trump didn’t build it. It’s the culmination of decades of trickle down BS and irrational hate/fear.

And I’m sounding like a broken record at this point…

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gocart mozart  May 6, 2016 • 10:00:53am
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 10:01:53am

re: #290 lawhawk

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More evidence that Trump doesn’t understand how government works. He, and his supporters, just want to see it burn. That’s the TP/GOP in a nutshell.

We saw it with Cruz and his government shutdown temper tantrum. We see it with every GOP proposal to starve government funding with tax cuts to the rich, and then claim that they have no choice but to slash and burn the safety net.

And folks who don’t understand the consequences of tax cuts (hey, look, I’m getting more money back, but why do my schools and roads suck, etc) buy into the tax cut nonsense.

That’s the GOP. Trump didn’t build it. It’s the culmination of decades of trickle down BS and irrational hate/fear.

And I’m sounding like a broken record at this point…

Heh didn’t Carson claim that Trump is “open” to a Democratic running mate? Yet Trump’s going to fire Janet Yellen only because of her party. Yeah that makes total sense. Really anyone who actually thinks this guy is a straight shooter needs to realize that he’s a double-talking piece of shit who just says what he thinks his audiences want to hear.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 10:04:26am

re: #292 HappyWarrior

Heh didn’t Carson claim that Trump is “open” to a Democratic running mate? Yet Trump’s going to fire Janet Yellen only because of her party. Yeah that makes total sense. Really anyone who actually thinks this guy is a straight shooter needs to realize that he’s a double-talking piece of shit who just says what he thinks his audiences want to hear.

Carson says a lot of things, which is why he flamed out so early. Trump has apparently nixed the idea of a Democratic running mate.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 10:05:58am

re: #293 Blind Frog Belly White

Carson says a lot of things, which is why he flamed out so early. Trump has apparently nixed the idea of a Democratic running mate.

Yeah that was quick. I can’t wait to see what the Trump trust comes up with.

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Stanley Sea  May 6, 2016 • 10:08:21am

re: #290 lawhawk

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More evidence that Trump doesn’t understand how government works. He, and his supporters, just want to see it burn. That’s the TP/GOP in a nutshell.

We saw it with Cruz and his government shutdown temper tantrum. We see it with every GOP proposal to starve government funding with tax cuts to the rich, and then claim that they have no choice but to slash and burn the safety net.

And folks who don’t understand the consequences of tax cuts (hey, look, I’m getting more money back, but why do my schools and roads suck, etc) buy into the tax cut nonsense.

That’s the GOP. Trump didn’t build it. It’s the culmination of decades of trickle down BS and irrational hate/fear.

And I’m sounding like a broken record at this point…

Time for hair dye herr drumpf

(bet he does it himself, in the sink)

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blueraven  May 6, 2016 • 10:08:43am

Today:
Westfield Montgomery mall
Aspen Hills shopping center
Yesterday:
High Point High School

All three locations in DC area involved shooting women. 2 of them have died, according to reports.

Suspect in HS shooting, Eulalio Tordil still at large.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 10:08:52am
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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 10:10:36am

re: #289 Timothy Watson

So they get to pick which journalists cover their events. Nice.

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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 10:11:41am

re: #298 Eric The Fruit Bat

So they get to pick which journalists cover their events. Nice.

Should the Democratic Party be forced to let VDARE or the Heritage Foundation into their events?

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Testy Toad T  May 6, 2016 • 10:12:48am

re: #298 Eric The Fruit Bat

So they get to pick which journalists cover their events. Nice.

Well… yeah. It’s a private organization hosting a private event. They would be entirely within their rights to ban journalists entirely, if they felt like it.

One of the most amazing things about this primary season has been the revelation that so many people in this country do not understand what a political party is, on a very fundamental level, even if they are ostensibly well-educated politically.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 10:13:52am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 10:14:21am

re: #296 blueraven

Today:
Westfield Montgomery mall
Aspen Hills shopping center
Yesterday:
High Point High School

All three locations in DC area involved shooting women. 2 of them have died, according to reports.

Suspect in HS shooting, Eulalio Tordi still at large.

sigh

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 10:16:30am
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Testy Toad T  May 6, 2016 • 10:17:10am

re: #303 Kragar

wow
very pure
so above politics
positive campaign

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 10:17:48am
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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 10:18:30am

re: #266 The Vicious Babushka

Ivanka is his daughter, I’m pretty sure you mean Ivana, his first wife, even though Trump admitted he’d like to “date” his own daughter.

Whoops, my bad.

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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 10:21:38am

re: #297 lawhawk

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Hey, did Carly ever actually suspend her Vice Presidential campaign?

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 10:21:50am

re: #305 lawhawk

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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 10:21:55am

re: #279 Skip Intro

Mitt Romney is worried.

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Credit to Orlylicious at the Fogbow

washingtonexaminer.com

Mitt, if you want to do something positive for your country, endorse Hillary once she is the nominee.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 10:23:34am

re: #305 lawhawk

uh….

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 10:23:48am

re: #299 Timothy Watson

Should the Democratic Party be forced to let VDARE or the Heritage Foundation into their events?

Odds are the DNC has probably let their journalist in more so than the RNC has let in journalists from Media Matters and others of their ilk. Shit, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Rage Furby show up at either event.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 10:24:22am

re: #290 lawhawk

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More evidence that Trump doesn’t understand how government works. He, and his supporters, just want to see it burn. That’s the TP/GOP in a nutshell.

We saw it with Cruz and his government shutdown temper tantrum. We see it with every GOP proposal to starve government funding with tax cuts to the rich, and then claim that they have no choice but to slash and burn the safety net.

And folks who don’t understand the consequences of tax cuts (hey, look, I’m getting more money back, but why do my schools and roads suck, etc) buy into the tax cut nonsense.

That’s the GOP. Trump didn’t build it. It’s the culmination of decades of trickle down BS and irrational hate/fear.

And I’m sounding like a broken record at this point…

And if you thought that was bad, his ideas on the national debt will melt your brain.

Basically, “Let’s borrow a lot, and if the economy does well, we can pay it back. If the economy goes bad, we’ll just offer to pay SOME of it back.”

You remember how the Right has been predicting a huge rise in interest rates (and accompanying inflation)? THIS is how you’d go about making it happen.

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Eventual Carrion  May 6, 2016 • 10:25:15am

re: #298 Eric The Fruit Bat

So they get to pick which journalists cover their events. Nice.

That’s that whole “Freedom of the press” thingy.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 10:27:12am

re: #313 Eventual Carrion

Yeah-it’ll get interesting once the conventions take off to see who gets ‘the big gets’.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 10:28:04am

re: #274 Skip Intro

Damn! More bad news.

Boaty McBoatface beaten by Sir David Attenborough in UK science ship naming

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I really thought we had a chance to win this one.

If he were a real man, Sir David would change his name to “Sir Boaty McBoatface”

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allegro  May 6, 2016 • 10:30:17am

Rodney has a new BFF! Meet Bic…

A best friend is the one who always has a light for your bong
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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 10:31:14am
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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 10:33:40am

On CNBC this morning Trump suggested that one strategy he’ll use for reducing the national debt is having bond holders accept “haircuts”. To be clear what that means, he’ll try to get people who own US Treasury bonds and are owned X to accept X/2. That’s called defaulting on a debt obligation.

In other words, he wants to put the US through something like bankruptcy. Now, to be clear, in the world of business this is not at all uncommon. In a bankruptcy proceeding almost everyone takes a haircut. Many lose everything. You were owed $7 million and you have to accept $2 million. It often happens in simple business negotiations too. Things are going great. Debt has to be restructured to help the company survive. A creditor thinks they might lose everything so they’ll accept 50 cents on the dollar.

So all good, except the United States is not a struggling casino.

It’s a soveriegn nation with sovereign debt. It is not too much to say that centuries of American prosperity have been undergirded by the “full faith and credit of the United States.” In other words, the US always pays its debts in full and on time. Indeed, it’s black letter text in the US constitution that the country’s debt can never even be questioned. Defaulting on the national debt would clearly be unconstitutional.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 10:33:47am

re: #316 allegro

Rodney is tres k3wl.

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Franklin  May 6, 2016 • 10:35:10am

re: #317 Kragar

Sanders wrote that the lack of representation for his supporters at the convention suggests that the Democratic Party “is not open to the millions of new people that our campaign has brought into the political process.”

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 10:39:57am

re: #318 Kragar

MAKE GOVERNMENT RUN GREAT LIKE A BUSINESS AGAIN!!!!!!

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 10:41:20am

re: #321 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 10:43:15am

re: #321 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

MAKE GOVERNMENT RUN GREAT LIKE A BUSINESS AGAIN!!!!!!

Yeah, it’s called giving your creditors a haircut. Screw vendors. Screw the employees.

You get to reorganize your poorly managed business and everyone else around you suffers for it.

Except that’s not how US government debt works. You can’t simply force the creditors to take a haircut. Because guess who owns a whole lot of that debt. US taxpayers. Multinationals. Foreign nations.

None of them would ever accept that, and even the slightest hint of what he proposes would send people flocking to a more stable currency, further weakening the US currency in the process. Lending would come to a standstill making the credit crisis in 2007 look like child’s play.

All because Trump has a nonsensical worldview about government shared by his supporters.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 10:50:57am

re: #303 Kragar

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Jesus.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 10:52:15am

re: #317 Kragar

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Long story short: Bernie: Clinton cheated by having the audacity to beat me. Man just go back to Vermont, Bernie, you’re fucking cranky and in no position at all to run a country.

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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 10:55:41am

re: #292 HappyWarrior

Heh didn’t Carson claim that Trump is “open” to a Democratic running mate? Yet Trump’s going to fire Janet Yellen only because of her party. Yeah that makes total sense. Really anyone who actually thinks this guy is a straight shooter needs to realize that he’s a double-talking piece of shit who just says what he thinks his audiences want to hear.

Trump/Sanders! Make America Bern Again!

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 10:56:44am

re: #326 Big Beautiful Door

Trump/Sanders! Make America Bern Again!

That’s heh harsh but man Bernie’s being a vindictive asshole. Dude you lost. You’re not in Vermont anymore.

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Nojay UK  May 6, 2016 • 10:59:13am

re: #323 lawhawk

Except that’s not how US government debt works.
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…and even the slightest hint of what he proposes would send people flocking to a more stable currency, further weakening the US currency in the process. Lending would come to a standstill making the credit crisis in 2007 look like child’s play.

The US has benefited greatly from having trillions of dollars sloshing around the world being used as trade currencies for oil and other commodities, and never having those dollars repatriated to the US. Currency is effectively an IOU and the US has gained value in trade, raw materials, services etc. by issuing these IOUs knowing they’ll never have to be redeemed, ever. It’s a benefit of being the world’s reserve currency but it relies 100% on that “full faith and credit” deal being believed by everyone who handles a greenback, anywhere on the planet. Messing with that belief means those greenbacks will come winging back to the US and wealth extracted from the economy, in terms of property or products or raw materials as the IOUs are redeemed, even at a 50 cents on the dollar firesale.

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Stanley Sea  May 6, 2016 • 11:05:48am

re: #316 allegro

Rodney has a new BFF! Meet Bic…

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FANTASTIC. Love him.

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 11:11:52am

re: #229 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Indeed. And you have to wonder how these people got these wacky ideas in the first place.

More disturbing for me is how a family who observes many aspects of this belief system got a TV show.

Ratings. That is all that matters.

Go around the channels available in American and marvel at how stupid some of the shows are. But do not wonder why they are on; they are on because there are enough viewers watching to sell ads. No viewers…no ads…no show.

And then consider this almost one whole year of Trump and The Gang and why the networks that should know better didn’t know better.

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 11:14:51am

re: #240 Big Beautiful Door

Well in her book Ivanka did accuse Trump of raping her, though she denies it now.

I wonder how big the denial check was…and how long the contract she had to sign was to get the check?

Am I cynical. Youbetcha!

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 11:20:14am

re: #255 Skip Intro

Donald Trump’s Idea to Cut National Debt: Get Creditors to Accept Less

Sure, that will work. Make the full faith a credit of the US as worthless as yours is DT.

What an ass, and what a country full of asses supporting him.

nytimes.com

Is everyone getting the idea this guy has no clue on how anything works?

I’m surprised he was able to bankrupt his companies only 4 times.

The Mouth That Roared and Keeps Roaring as that is All The Mouth of Trump Knows.

He’ll bellow his way through…

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 11:27:30am

re: #293 Blind Frog Belly White

Carson says a lot of things, which is why he flamed out so early. Trump has apparently nixed the idea of a Democratic running mate.

So, Bernie is still in the running then?

(looks around…)


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