Joe Scarborough and Donald Trump: The Honeymoon Terminated

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The sycophantic relationship of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough with Donald Trump is a long-running joke by now; in his speech to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Larry Wilmore cracked, “Morning Joe has their head so far up Donald Trump’s ass they bumped into Chris Christie.”

Well, it looks like that cozy, mutually beneficial lovefest is coming to an end today. After all, Trump doesn’t really need Scarborough any more, does he?

“Fella” and “Donnie boy!” Them’s wrastlin’ words!

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573 comments
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withak  May 6, 2016 • 11:54:45am
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iossarian  May 6, 2016 • 11:56:29am

Joe Scarborough something something dead intern.

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petesh  May 6, 2016 • 11:58:36am

Go, Injuries! You’re the best. Injuries forever! We love injuries!

4
InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 11:59:01am

Trump had a colonic and Joe Scarborough is the first casualty.

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 11:59:35am

I said it in the last thread. Trump will be on Morning Joke next week and Joke and Mika will kiss his butt for the ratings.

Pathetic TV…Catch it!

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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 11:59:45am

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson is using his Facebook account today to try to dox West Point cadets.

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Tigger2  May 6, 2016 • 12:00:06pm

And here I though Joe was going to be Trumps next wife. hehe

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Testy Toad T  May 6, 2016 • 12:01:18pm

re: #1 withak

I think 90% of Republican leaders will eventually fall in line, because that’s what they do.

But that 10% that aren’t are going to be, as Joe Biden would put it, a big fucking deal.

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 12:02:06pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson is using his Facebook account today to try to dox West Point cadets.

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Ohhh…strong black ladies of the military.

It’s just like Garlic and Silver Crosses to the RagedOne.

But he will only come out drunk at night…

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 12:02:31pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson is using his Facebook account today to try to dox West Point cadets.

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Any one of those young candidates has done more with their lives than Rage Furby will ever do for the rest of his pathetic life. Fuck that asshole.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  May 6, 2016 • 12:03:43pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson is using his Facebook account today to try to dox West Point cadets.

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As a former(for one year) black West Point cadet 19 years ago(damn), I can say that there is a very positive self created support network there for black cadets. The idea of Black Lives Matter has existed there for a long time.

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Mike Lamb  May 6, 2016 • 12:05:03pm

re: #1 withak

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You’re not helping Mitt…

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Tigger2  May 6, 2016 • 12:05:36pm

re: #10 Dr. Matt

Any one of those young candidates has done more with their lives than Rage Furby will ever do for the rest of his pathetic life. Fuck that asshole.

And each one of them could mop the floor with Furbys ass.

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calochortus  May 6, 2016 • 12:06:29pm

re: #11 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

As a former(for one year) black West Point cadet 19 years ago(damn), I can say that there is a very positive self created support network there for black cadets. The idea of Black Lives Matter has existed there for a long time.

But, but, it’s just so very offensi…oh wait. No it’s not. It’s a nice photo.

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Mike Lamb  May 6, 2016 • 12:06:31pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson is using his Facebook account today to try to dox West Point cadets.

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It’s “offending viewers”? What “viewers”?

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Shimshon  May 6, 2016 • 12:08:08pm

It’s only fair for black activists to be in the military now. In the 1950’s and 60’s the military units in the South were overtly confederate. RFK complained after a visit to an Arkansas National Guard unit in the Segregation conflict that the bases he visited all were flying Confederate flags and none had the stars and stripes.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 12:09:59pm

A bit of good news… suspect in multiple shootings in custody in MD.

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KGxvi  May 6, 2016 • 12:12:10pm

re: #16 Shimshon

It’s only fair for black activists to be in the military now. In the 1950’s and 60’s the military units in the South were overtly confederate. RFK complained after a visit to an Arkansas National Guard unit in the Segregation conflict that the bases he visited all were flying Confederate flags and none had the stars and stripes.

Just a reminder that Reconstruction ended about a century too early.

Also, I wonder how well the DOD will respond to some jackass like Chuck trying to dox cadets. My guess is: not well, for Chuck.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 12:13:13pm

re: #16 Shimshon

It’s only fair for black activists to be in the military now. In the 1950’s and 60’s the military units in the South were overtly confederate. RFK complained after a visit to an Arkansas National Guard unit in the Segregation conflict that the bases he visited all were flying Confederate flags and none had the stars and stripes.

What I don’t get is why the CSA flag isn’t seen in the most possible negative terms possible. I can almost accept though it’s a challenge for me people being proud of an individual ancestor but there’s nothing to be proud of with that flag.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 12:13:58pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson is using his Facebook account today to try to dox West Point cadets.

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Harassing West Point graduates, that’s low even for a shit brain like him.

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 12:17:12pm
“I have said I oppose the TPP agreement - and that means before and after the election.”

Yay! Go Hillz!

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 12:17:55pm

re: #18 KGxvi

Just a reminder that Reconstruction ended about a century too early.

Also, I wonder how well the DOD will respond to some jackass like Chuck trying to dox cadets. My guess is: not well, for Chuck.

The former Confederates got off way too easy and that really allowed the Lost Cause to be created. I don’t know if hangings were the answer but I don’t think Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and the other high ups of the CSA should have been able to die as freemen for their part in the most destructive war in our nation’s history.

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 12:19:26pm

BLACK LIVES MATTER OUTRAGE!!

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KerFuFFler  May 6, 2016 • 12:19:39pm

re: #5 ObserverArt

I said it in the last thread. Trump will be on Morning Joke next week and Joke and Mika will kiss his butt for the ratings.

Pathetic TV…Catch it!

Sad…

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 12:21:00pm
“Equality means abiding by the same standards. Kick those WOMEN OUT!,” William H. Reynolds replied on the post.

“All of theses cadets should be expelled, immediately!” Eddie Carmack commented.

nydailynews.com

Politically correct conservatives have knotted up their panties.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 12:24:18pm

Perhaps just the ones made in Mexico.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 12:24:21pm

re: #17 lawhawk

A bit of good news… suspect in multiple shootings in custody in MD.

apparently the shooter was with the federal protective police.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 12:25:08pm

re: #25 Dr. Matt

Politically correct conservatives have knotted up their panties.

Only liberals are politically correct. Conservatives are never politically correct. Those are the rules of politically correct club.

///

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Shimshon  May 6, 2016 • 12:25:12pm

re: #19 HappyWarrior

What I don’t get is why the CSA flag isn’t seen in the most possible negative terms possible. I can almost accept though it’s a challenge for me people being proud of an individual ancestor but there’s nothing to be proud of with that flag.

They look back fondly on a time when they, the white majority, was in complete power of government and society. The small percentage that are not racist and love the CSA flag are just honoring their ancestors while ignoring that they fought for slavery.

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 12:25:18pm

Dead Intern Joe vs. Trump: Battle of the thin-skinned idiots.

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 12:25:54pm

The essential BernieBro.

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mr.fusion  May 6, 2016 • 12:25:56pm

Sorry for going off-topic, but I think this is worth drawing peoples attn to. Here’s how Stormfront reacted to Trump’s refusal to condemn their harassment of the writer who wrote the Melania piece:

Media Matters:

Trump’s refusal to condemn their behavior has thrilled Trump’s neo-Nazi fans. Daily Stormer editor Andrew Anglin responded to the interview with the headline, “Glorious Leader Donald Trump Refuses to Denounce Stormer Troll Army.” He began:

Asked by the disgusting and evil Jewish parasite Wolf Blitzer to denounce the Stormer Troll Army, The Glorious Leader declined.

The Jew Wolf was attempting to Stump the Trump, bringing up stormer attacks on Jew terrorist Julia Ioffe. Trump responded to the request with “I have no message to the fans” which might as well have been “Hail Victory, Comrades!”

The pro-Hitler writer explained that “we are his most ardent supports. We will be on the ground, getting him elected. By the way: You all need to get ready to volunteer. We’re going to need a lot of boots on the ground to ensure the evil bitch Hillary is vanquished from the realm.”

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 12:26:28pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson is using his Facebook account today to try to dox West Point cadets.

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Thare. Raising. Their Fists!!!! OUTRAGE!!!!!

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 12:27:48pm

re: #32 mr.fusion

vanquished from the realm

Which spell are they hoping to use?

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 12:28:21pm

re: #32 mr.fusion

I disagree. I don’t think that’s off-topic at all.

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Dave In Austin  May 6, 2016 • 12:29:29pm
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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 12:30:17pm

re: #35 wrenchwench

I don’t think there is such a thing as offtopic at LGF at all…

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 12:31:23pm

Sadly, I can’t follow this cat fight between these two idiots because both of them have blocked me. It’s sort of a badge of honor I suppose….

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 12:32:21pm

re: #37 Nyet

I don’t think there is such a thing as offtopic at LGF at all…

I don’t know whether I’d agree with that, either. I’m just disagreeable today, I guess.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 12:32:52pm

re: #37 Nyet

I don’t think there is such a thing as offtopic at LGF at all…

Well, I’m fairly certain my cross stitch posts will never have anything to do with the main page, even if you could argue that I’m posting them in a thread and they’re made with thread…

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 12:34:17pm

re: #40 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Well, I’m fairly certain my cross stitch posts will never have anything to do with the main page, even if you could argue that I’m posting them in a thread and they’re made with thread…

Yeah, that would be stretching it. Not good for needlepoint, right?

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Stanley Sea  May 6, 2016 • 12:34:29pm

re: #37 Nyet

I don’t think there is such a thing as offtopic at LGF at all…

Thanks for the opening!

My new kit is chewing cords. ipad cord is toast. Phone cord was worked on, but survives.

I’m leaving in a bit to see the Violent Femmes & won’t be back till tomorrow. Pray for my house & my Chica. Who is currently under the sofa.

I’m unplugging everything & hiding the cords.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 12:35:01pm

re: #41 wrenchwench

Yeah, that would be stretching it. Not good for needlepoint, right?

You want reasonable tension when stitching though, otherwise it doesn’t look right. That’s what the frame/hoop/snaps are for.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 12:35:54pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson is using his Facebook account today to try to dox West Point cadets.

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Can’t believe this pic has wingnuts in frothing outrage.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 12:36:32pm

re: #42 Stanley Sea

You can get some stuff to spray on the cords that will have a bitter taste. That might help deter chewing. (We have dealt with this some. I’m not sure it made all that much difference, but maybe it would for yours.)

Watch smaller headphone cords, because those are more likely to actually end up being ingested, which is potentially very bad.

You can wrap some things in aluminum foil too - the noise might help as a deterrent.

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 12:36:41pm

Trump vs. Joe

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 12:36:43pm

re: #42 Stanley Sea

aww

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 12:37:53pm

re: #46 Dr. Matt

Trump vs. Joe

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Hey, don’t besmirch the Ice Queen and Fiona.

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Stanley Sea  May 6, 2016 • 12:38:05pm

re: #45 klys (maker of Silmarils)

You can get some stuff to spray on the cords that will have a bitter taste. That might help deter chewing. (We have dealt with this some. I’m not sure it made all that much difference, but maybe it would for yours.)

Watch smaller headphone cords, because those are more likely to actually end up being ingested, which is potentially very bad.

You can wrap some things in aluminum foil too - the noise might help as a deterrent.

Thanks! I’ll do the foil for a quick solution.

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MsJ  May 6, 2016 • 12:38:18pm

re: #5 ObserverArt

I said it in the last thread. Trump will be on Morning Joke next week and Joke and Mika will kiss his butt for the ratings.

Pathetic TV…Catch it!

I dunno. I think there may be the point now where people will watch to see Trump skewered for being the no-nothing he is. I think that’s going to provide ratings gold, as long as they don’t go too overboard and tilt people to him, make him not pitiable.

Just think, pathetic lyin’ Cruz was BesTED by Orange Julius Trumpenstein. SAD!

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allegro  May 6, 2016 • 12:40:07pm

re: #42 Stanley Sea

Thanks for the opening!

My new kit is chewing cords. ipad cord is toast. Phone cord was worked on, but survives.

I’m leaving in a bit to see the Violent Femmes & won’t be back till tomorrow. Pray for my house & my Chica. Who is currently under the sofa.

I’m unplugging everything & hiding the cords.

Got any cayenne?

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Tigger2  May 6, 2016 • 12:40:13pm
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KGxvi  May 6, 2016 • 12:40:43pm

re: #22 HappyWarrior

The former Confederates got off way too easy and that really allowed the Lost Cause to be created. I don’t know if hangings were the answer but I don’t think Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and the other high ups of the CSA should have been able to die as freemen for their part in the most destructive war in our nation’s history.

There are certain things in history that I do lament, Reconstruction among them. But I do wonder about the butterfly effect as well. How many of us would not be here if we so radically changed the last 160 years of history? It’s the same reason I have complicated feelings about Cuba - on the one hand, Castro’s regime took everything from my family; on the other, I wouldn’t have been born if he hadn’t.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 12:41:12pm

re: #52 Tigger2

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There’s that 28% again.

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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 12:42:15pm

I have told my assistant to go ahead and mark her calendar for Oaks Day 2017 now not to schedule conferences for Louisville attorneys. I tries to call two of them and I doubt their offices are even open today.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 12:42:33pm

re: #53 KGxvi

There are certain things in history that I do lament, Reconstruction among them. But I do wonder about the butterfly effect as well. How many of us would not be here if we so radically changed the last 160 years of history? It’s the same reason I have complicated feelings about Cuba - on the one hand, Castro’s regime took everything from my family; on the other, I wouldn’t have been born if he hadn’t.

I know what you mean about butterfly effects. But yeah changing that, you change history. We can always play what if with history.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 6, 2016 • 12:42:55pm

re: #51 allegro

Or wrap in sandpaper. :)

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KGxvi  May 6, 2016 • 12:42:58pm

re: #52 Tigger2

re: #54 HappyWarrior

There’s that 28% again.

Now that Trump is the presumptive nominee, I wonder if that number drops even more as some in that 37% of Republican respondents considers the possibility of a Trump Supreme Court pick (seriously, what in the utter fuck would that look like?).

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Stanley Sea  May 6, 2016 • 12:44:02pm

re: #51 allegro

Got any cayenne?

yep.

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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 12:44:41pm

re: #58 KGxvi

Now that Trump is the presumptive nominee, I wonder if that number drops even more as some in that 37% of Republican respondents considers the possibility of a Trump Supreme Court pick (seriously, what in the utter fuck would that look like?).

Celebrity Apprentice: SCOTUS Justice edition.

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allegro  May 6, 2016 • 12:46:13pm

re: #59 Stanley Sea

yep.

Pour a little veg oil on a paper towel and run the cord thru to get just a bit of an oil sheen. Sprinkle with cayenne. Kitty may bite it. But not more than once.

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Tigger2  May 6, 2016 • 12:46:16pm

re: #58 KGxvi

Now that Trump is the presumptive nominee, I wonder if that number drops even more as some in that 37% of Republican respondents considers the possibility of a Trump Supreme Court pick (seriously, what in the utter fuck would that look like?).

I don’t know, a lot of Republicans don’t trust Trump just like Democrats don’t trust him.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 12:47:58pm

re: #58 KGxvi

Now that Trump is the presumptive nominee, I wonder if that number drops even more as some in that 37% of Republican respondents considers the possibility of a Trump Supreme Court pick (seriously, what in the utter fuck would that look like?).

I suspect that if they thought Trump could win, they wouldn’t be worried. He’s going to pick a justice that Republicans like because I don’t think he cares about the court. None of their decisions would really affect him or his family.

This is entirely Clinton with a Democratic congress getting a pick to the left of Garland.

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Stanley Sea  May 6, 2016 • 12:49:06pm

re: #61 allegro

Pour a little veg oil on a paper towel and run the cord thru to get just a bit of an oil sheen. Sprinkle with cayenne. Kitty may bite it. But not more than once.

Will do. Saves my aluminum foil too.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 12:49:45pm

Ch ch ch check it, my karma to comment ratio is now 5:1.

Me, right now!
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allegro  May 6, 2016 • 12:50:11pm

re: #64 Stanley Sea

Will do. Saves my aluminum foil too.

Moreso, teaches kitty that cords taste bad and burn.

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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 12:50:12pm
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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 12:52:06pm

LOL, really?

Here is a Holocaust denial book at Amazon that costs 89 bucks. Irony: you can download it from the publisher’s site for free - completely legally/officially. (And sure, the book is a tissue of lies.) I guess if you are gullible enough to deny the Holocaust, you are gullible enough to pay 89$ for a freebie. Or vote for Trump.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 12:52:09pm

re: #52 Tigger2

IN AN ELECTION YEAR?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!

/

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 12:53:08pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

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Comparing human beings to viruses. Sure that’s what a white supremacist fuckhead would do.

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KGxvi  May 6, 2016 • 12:53:39pm

re: #63 Belafon

I suspect that if they thought Trump could win, they wouldn’t be worried. He’s going to pick a justice that Republicans because I bet he really doesn’t care about the court: None of their decisions would really affect him or his family.

This is entirely Clinton with a Democratic congress getting a pick to the left of Garland.

What makes you think Trump would care what Republicans think of his nominee? Honestly, I see something akin to another Harriet Miers nomination, where Trump basically picks one of his personal attorneys, figuring he’ll need him on the Court when he get sued again (I wish I was joking)

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 12:55:19pm

Bre: #71 KGxvi

What makes you think Trump would care what Republicans think of his nominee? Honestly, I see something akin to another Harriet Miers nomination, where Trump basically picks one of his personal attorneys, figuring he’ll need him on the Court when he get sued again (I wish I was joking)

I don’t even want to think who his legal advisers are. Good thing Roy Cohn is dead.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 12:55:39pm

re: #65 goddamnedfrank

Impressive. Most impressive. I’m only at 3:1.

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TedStriker  May 6, 2016 • 12:56:28pm

re: #72 HappyWarrior

B

I don’t even want to think who his legal advisers are. Good thing Roy Cohn is dead.

Wouldn’t have mattered for Cohn though, since Trump disowned and disavowed him after Trump found out Cohn had AIDS.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 12:57:15pm

re: #71 KGxvi

What makes you think Trump would care what Republicans think of his nominee? Honestly, I see something akin to another Harriet Miers nomination, where Trump basically picks one of his personal attorneys, figuring he’ll need him on the Court when he get sued again (I wish I was joking)

Anyone but a liberal justice will work.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 12:57:29pm

re: #58 KGxvi

Now that Trump is the presumptive nominee, I wonder if that number drops even more as some in that 37% of Republican respondents considers the possibility of a Trump Supreme Court pick (seriously, what in the utter fuck would that look like?).

He’s already said he’d would outsource SCOTUS nominations to the Heritage Foundation.

How fucked up is that? Dude just straight up said he would abdicate his own constitutionally mandated role in shaping the nation’s laws for decades to come, delegating those decisions to a “think tank” full of meth fueled shit weasels.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 12:58:34pm

re: #74 TedStriker

Wouldn’t have mattered for Cohn though, since Trump disowned and disavowed him after Trump found out Cohn had AIDS.

DIdn’t know that. That sounds like something he’d do though.

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calochortus  May 6, 2016 • 12:59:10pm

re: #73 lawhawk

Impressive. Most impressive. I’m only at 3:1.

I’m only about 2.5:1.

Must become wittier and more informative.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 12:59:22pm

I just can’t even

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 6, 2016 • 12:59:25pm

re: #71 KGxvi

Trump’s pick for SCOTUS:

Glen Lerner Saves Christmas Chicago- Glen Lerner Commerical

But I don’t think even he could fix the wreck that would be a Trump Presidency.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 12:59:26pm

re: #76 goddamnedfrank

He’s already said he’d would outsource SCOTUS nominations to the Heritage Foundation.

How fucked up is that? Dude just straight up said he would abdicate his own constitutionally mandated role in shaping the nation’s laws for decades to come, delegating those decisions to a “think tank” full of meth fueled shit weasels.

Yeah that’s pretty disturbing. God I don’t even want to know who Demint thinks is a good choice for SCOTUS.

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Testy Toad T  May 6, 2016 • 12:59:27pm

re: #73 lawhawk

Impressive. Most impressive. I’m only at 3:1.

[3:1 brofist]

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electrotek  May 6, 2016 • 12:59:44pm

Will Pamela Geller rush out to condemn this? Someone should @ her for her stance on this brutal beating of a homosexual man:

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:00:36pm

re: #79 The Vicious Babushka

I just can’t even

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What a doopahead.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:01:06pm

re: #83 electrotek

Will Pamela Geller rush out to condemn this? Someone should @ her for her stance on this brutal beating of a homosexual man:

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Jesus. That poor guy.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 1:01:33pm

re: #83 electrotek

Will Pamela Geller rush out to condemn this? Someone should @ her for her stance on this brutal beating of a homosexual man:

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Babushka condemns this.

Satmar thugs.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 1:02:16pm

re: #73 lawhawk

Impressive. Most impressive. I’m only at 3:1.

But I think I’m getting close to a senior citizen’s discount for being around here so long (10/2001).

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Stanley Sea  May 6, 2016 • 1:02:37pm

re: #79 The Vicious Babushka

I just can’t even

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Palinesque.

And no one cares.

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KGxvi  May 6, 2016 • 1:02:39pm

re: #80 GlutenFreeJesus

Advisor: Mr. President, there’s a vacancy on the Supreme Court, we need a nominee.

what about Judge Judy?

Advisor: I’m not sure…

you’re right, too ugly. and not very classy either. what about that Saul guy?

Advisor: Who?

You know, that guy on TV, Saul, what’s his name? He has those great commercials, Better Call Saul!

Advisor: Yeah, that’s a fictional character, also, here’s my letter of resignation.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 1:03:44pm

re: #89 KGxvi

Advisor: Mr. President, there’s a vacancy on the Supreme Court, we need a nominee.

what about Judge Judy?

Advisor: I’m not sure…

you’re right, too ugly. and not very classy either. what about that Saul guy?

Advisor: Who?

You know, that guy on TV, Saul, what’s his name? He has those great commercials, Better Call Saul!

Advisor: Yeah, that’s a fictional character, also, here’s my letter of resignation.

I’m sure Judge Jeanine “Ducklips” is angling for a nomination.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 1:03:55pm

re: #89 KGxvi

So, back to my point. I think Republicans in the Senate are scared of who Clinton will pick.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:04:45pm

re: #89 KGxvi

Advisor: Mr. President, there’s a vacancy on the Supreme Court, we need a nominee.

what about Judge Judy?

Advisor: I’m not sure…

you’re right, too ugly. and not very classy either. what about that Saul guy?

Advisor: Who?

You know, that guy on TV, Saul, what’s his name? He has those great commercials, Better Call Saul!

Advisor: Yeah, that’s a fictional character, also, here’s my letter of resignation.

I’d like to see the conversation but with Judge Reinhold the actor or Judge Dredd.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 1:04:58pm

STUPIDEST BERNIEBRO MEME OF THE DAY (FORMERLY STUPIDEST WINGNUT MEME OF THE DAY, RECYCLED)

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allegro  May 6, 2016 • 1:06:04pm

re: #91 Belafon

So, back to my point. I think Republicans in the Senate are scared of who Clinton will pick.

Hope she well validates their fears when she and a Democratic Senate pick the next 2 (or more).

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 1:06:12pm

re: #82 Testy Toad T

[3:1 brofist]

I think I’m at 3.49. There’s math involved….

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:06:13pm

re: #93 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST BERNIEBRO MEME OF THE DAY (FORMERLY STUPIDEST WINGNUT MEME OF THE DAY, RECYCLED)

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Comparing Hillary Clinton to Kim Davis. That person needs to fuck off.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 1:06:17pm

re: #93 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST BERNIEBRO MEME OF THE DAY (FORMERLY STUPIDEST WINGNUT MEME OF THE DAY, RECYCLED)

Need to find some old PUMA tweets or posts that say the same thing.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:07:02pm

re: #94 allegro

Hope she well validates their fears when she and a Democratic Senate pick the next 2 (or more).

I do too. I’m sure she has some people who not only would fit the philosophy we’d want but would be exceptionally qualified too.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 6, 2016 • 1:07:13pm

re: #91 Belafon

She wouldn’t have to pick anyone if they just did their job.

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 1:07:50pm

Anything that involves Drumpfskind personally I consider could be a work.

Including his little spat with Boring Joe.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 1:07:53pm

re: #84 HappyWarrior

What a doopahead.

Flashback upding to my youth! Been years decades since I heard that. But it’s spelled dupa. Meaning ass (stupid) in Polish.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 1:08:35pm

re: #93 The Vicious Babushka

Perfect dupa.

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petesh  May 6, 2016 • 1:08:47pm

re: #52 Tigger2

OK, there’s a 28%. The canonical number is 27% but we can reach that if we average in the 26% who think that Trump can eliminate $19 trillion of debt in 8 years.

Let’s face it, about a quarter of our fellow citizens are taking their lives in their hands every time they approach an electrical appliance.

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A Mom Anon  May 6, 2016 • 1:10:38pm

Hello Lizards….Lots going on at the moment, but I have been dropping in from time to time to read and leave an upding or two. We almost lost our kitty boy to kidney issues, so far he seems on the mend. Miss dog is sick again with allergies and we might be moving. Either because the husband is getting a new job and/ OR because some serious land issue shit is happening around here and I AM PISSED off about it. Long story, I’ll tell it some time when I have time to digest the situation and be coherent. My neighbors just might seriously be some of the biggest assholes ever if what I suspect to be true actually is. Helpful hint: If you see surveyors all over the place, ask a lot of questions.

Hope everyone is well and happy. I’ve not been able to keep up around here much so I’m not sure, but I think about you all alot and miss being here. Between the chaos, making home repairs and putting in a garden I am always pressed for time these days. (((hugs)))

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  May 6, 2016 • 1:11:09pm

re: #103 petesh

OK, there’s a 28%. The canonical number is 27% but we can reach that if we average in the 26% who think that Trump can eliminate $19 trillion of debt in 8 years.

Let’s face it, about a quarter of our fellow citizens are taking their lives in their hands every time they approach an electrical appliance.

The debt won’t matter if Donald is elected and if GOP keeps Congress. Important thing will be to cut taxes, which will spur growth and ponies.

//

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:11:30pm

re: #101 nines09

Flashback upding to my youth! Been years decades since I heard that. But it’s spelled dupa. Meaning ass (stupid) in Polish.

Damnit I thought it was that way. I think it’s butt in Slovene too btw. I thought it was just plain butt though since my grandpa always told us when we ate too fast that your mouth isn’t bigger than your dupa.

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petesh  May 6, 2016 • 1:13:34pm

re: #105 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Don’t spur my ponies! They’re even more sensitive than my unicorns, and you know how touchy they can, especially the pink ones.

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Jenner7  May 6, 2016 • 1:14:10pm
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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 1:14:41pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 1:15:36pm

re: #56 HappyWarrior

I know what you mean about butterfly effects. But yeah changing that, you change history. We can always play what if with history.

And we can never know the answer.

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 1:15:47pm

re: #103 petesh

Let’s face it, about a quarter of our fellow citizens are taking their our lives in their hands every time they approach an electrical appliance a voting booth.

FTFY

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:15:49pm

re: #108 Jenner7

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Oh, I see someone in Camp Clinton watches It’s Always Sunny. Good ad though. I would have added a clip of a prominent Republican saying they wouldn’t vote for him though but it’s good.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 1:15:52pm

re: #106 HappyWarrior

One of them old timer sayings. When someone took to much food or drink and couldn’t finish it my mother would say “Their eyes were bigger than their bellies.”

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:16:27pm

re: #110 Blind Frog Belly White

And we can never know the answer.

Yep. I still want my time machine though and that’s one thing that 8 year old me and 28 year old me agree on.

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 1:16:49pm

re: #104 A Mom Anon

Good to see you! {{{A Mom Anon}}}

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 6, 2016 • 1:17:24pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

I totally read that tweet in a British accent.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:17:29pm

re: #114 nines09

One of them old timer sayings. When someone took to much food or drink and couldn’t finish it my mother would say “Their eyes were bigger than their bellies.”

Yep. I’ve been thinking about him a lot today. Just got some photos from one of his sister’s daughters full of photos of him and his siblings that I had never seen before.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:18:04pm

re: #117 Eclectic Cyborg

I totally read that tweet in a British accent.

Well he is British but we can’t hold that against every British person.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 1:18:30pm

re: #70 HappyWarrior

Comparing human beings to viruses. Sure that’s what a white supremacist fuckhead would do.

Well, it’s what a white supremacist fuckhead just DID do.

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 1:18:33pm

re: #36 Dave In Austin

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No fair!

Joke probably uses a styling gel for that mop top.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:19:15pm

re: #120 Blind Frog Belly White

Well, it’s what a white supremacist fuckhead just DID do.

I know, I was just being matter of fact heh. Man what a dickwad.

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allegro  May 6, 2016 • 1:20:24pm

Hillary does good Twitter. Excellent medium for her and she seems to have fun with it. Using it to make fun of and laugh at Trump is perfection.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:21:45pm

re: #123 allegro

Hillary does good Twitter. Excellent medium for her and she seems to have fun with it. Using it to make fun of and laugh at Trump is perfection.

She has a better sense of humor than given credit for. I don’t think she takes Trump lightly but I loved her answer when Jimmy Kimmel asked if she was afraid of him and she just smiled and said no. She knows that Trump is pretty small shit compared to the challenges she’s faced as FL, Senator, and Secretary of State.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 1:22:54pm

Update on my weird situation.

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 1:22:57pm

re: #111 Charles Johnson

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Video

That was delightful.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 1:23:29pm

Joe and Don Jagoff having a “Smug Off”. Two stripped nuts, incapable of holding anything together.

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 1:24:14pm

re: #65 goddamnedfrank

Ch ch ch check it, my karma to comment ratio is now 5:1.

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Don’t get too big a head there buddy and go all Trump ‘n’ Sanders on us…we can reverse that you know. There is still time before the elections!

(I know you don’t like sarc tags…so live with the unknown)

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 1:25:09pm

re: #115 HappyWarrior

Yep. I still want my time machine though and that’s one thing that 8 year old me and 28 year old me agree on.

Yeah, but what if you went back and told the 8 year old you that he’d invent a time machine, and he subsequently became convinced that he must be so amazingly smart that he wouldn’t even have to study, and he misses the class that provides the crucial insight to make the time machine, and never manages to invent it?
//

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 1:25:25pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

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But dad…I don’t like the zoo. There are too many scary poo-flingin’ animals there.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 1:25:55pm

Of course, last night, my body decided now was an awesome time to get sick.

Coughing fits, runny nose, sneezing, light sensitivity, headaches, the sleep issues caused by those, the works.

Only got 5ish hours of sleep, which does not help.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 1:28:15pm

re: #129 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, but what if you went back and told the 8 year old you that he’d invent a time machine, and he subsequently became convinced that he must be so amazingly smart that he wouldn’t even have to study, and he misses the class that provides the crucial insight to make the time machine, and never manages to invent it?
//

Ha, good point. Honestly if I ever did time travel, I’d probably just do a lot of observing but man ti would be tempting as hell to interact with people.

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 1:28:53pm

re: #125 Ziggy_TARDIS

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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 1:29:22pm
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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 1:32:24pm

re: #95 wrenchwench

I think I’m at 3.49. There’s math involved….

Okay buddy…but a lot of you get dings from messages in tweets that are from others so you are working off their wit/humor.

Others of us have to go with pure original works!

So, take that all you up ding flashers!!!

(heh…like I really care…I’m just glad I get a few from time to time)

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A Mom Anon  May 6, 2016 • 1:33:35pm

OK, now I have to load up The Kid and fight traffic to get him to work on time. Miss you all, I’ll try to get back here when I can.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 1:34:37pm

re: #132 HappyWarrior

Ha, good point. Honestly if I ever did time travel, I’d probably just do a lot of observing but man ti would be tempting as hell to interact with people.

There was an episode of Star Trek TNG where Q takes Picard back 4.5 Billion years on Earth to show him the instant that life WOULD HAVE STARTED, if Picard didn’t just do what he just did.*

So even as an observer, don’t swat any bugs. The mosquito you kill might have been the one who gave Yellow Fever to the child who would have grown up to be The Next Hitler.
/////

*triggering a space/time anomaly in the 23rd Century halfway across the galaxy that spreads in both space and time to reach the Earth at that crucial point

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 1:34:41pm

re: #32 mr.fusion

Sorry for going off-topic, but I think this is worth drawing peoples attn to. Here’s how Stormfront reacted to Trump’s refusal to condemn their harassment of the writer who wrote the Melania piece:

Media Matters:

Trump’s refusal to condemn their behavior has thrilled Trump’s neo-Nazi fans. Daily Stormer editor Andrew Anglin responded to the interview with the headline, “Glorious Leader Donald Trump Refuses to Denounce Stormer Troll Army.” He began:

The pro-Hitler writer explained that “we are his most ardent supports. We will be on the ground, getting him elected. By the way: You all need to get ready to volunteer. We’re going to need a lot of boots on the ground to ensure the evil bitch Hillary is vanquished from the realm.”

I have a feeling that if the Stormers had their way, those laces would be red. I also suspect that it WILL happen, and there will be no real outrage from the right. Just the “Well, no TRUE CONSERVATIVE would do something like that.”

SPIT

RBS

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 1:34:54pm

re: #90 The Vicious Babushka

Just wait a little while longer and TV “Judge Palin” will be available.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 1:34:58pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 1:35:12pm

re: #107 petesh

especially the pink ones

I thought those were pink elephants that were touchy….

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 1:36:05pm

re: #104 A Mom Anon

Hello Lizards….Lots going on at the moment, but I have been dropping in from time to time to read and leave an upding or two. We almost lost our kitty boy to kidney issues, so far he seems on the mend. Miss dog is sick again with allergies and we might be moving. Either because the husband is getting a new job and/ OR because some serious land issue shit is happening around here and I AM PISSED off about it. Long story, I’ll tell it some time when I have time to digest the situation and be coherent. My neighbors just might seriously be some of the biggest assholes ever if what I suspect to be true actually is. Helpful hint: If you see surveyors all over the place, ask a lot of questions.

Hope everyone is well and happy. I’ve not been able to keep up around here much so I’m not sure, but I think about you all alot and miss being here. Between the chaos, making home repairs and putting in a garden I am always pressed for time these days. (((hugs)))

Hey Mom! I was doing some photo work in Logan and Lancaster and was on Route 33 the other day. Thought about you.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 1:37:11pm

re: #140 Kragar

“Those states are going to go Red in November! Why should they even count?”

…say the same people who will treat a win in West Virginia as PIVOTAL!!!!!

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 1:37:34pm

re: #137 Blind Frog Belly White

There was an episode of Star Trek TNG where Q takes Picard back 4.5 Billion years on Earth to show him the instant that life WOULD HAVE STARTED, if Picard didn’t just do what he just did.*

So even as an observer, don’t swat any bugs. The mosquito you kill might have been the one who gave Yellow Fever to the child who would have grown up to be The Next Hitler.
/////

*triggering a space/time anomaly in the 23rd Century halfway across the galaxy that spreads in both space and time to reach the Earth at that crucial point

The first of the final two episodes, which I thought were really good.

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 1:37:48pm

re: #135 ObserverArt

Okay buddy…but a lot of you get dings from messages in tweets that are from others so you are working off their wit/humor.

Others of us have to go with pure original works!

So, take that all you up ding flashers!!!

(heh…like I really care…I’m just glad I get a few from time to time)

I’m definitely more tweet-reliant since the injury. Having others speak for me takes much of the risk of typing foolishly out of it.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 1:39:12pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 1:39:48pm

re: #144 Belafon

The first half of the final two episodes, which I thought were really good.

I liked when Future Picard visits Future Data at Oxford, and Data asks Picard if he’d like some tea. Picard barks, “Tea! Earl Grey! Hot!”

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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 1:39:50pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 1:40:55pm

re: #146 Kragar

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At this point I’ve stopped engaging them. It seems almost like pulling wings off of flies.

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bratwurst  May 6, 2016 • 1:41:11pm

Regular reminder:

All of these “brave” Republicans coming out to state they will not vote for Trump OR Hillary are not every a little better than Trump voters.

If you are against Trump and what he stands for, you will show up to vote and make sure he loses.

If you don’t, you are a coward and a fraud…like this guy:

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Jenner7  May 6, 2016 • 1:41:53pm

Currently trying to prevent the basement from flooding. Getting slammed with some good rain storms. This usually doesn’t happen in early May.

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 1:42:02pm

re: #137 Blind Frog Belly White

There was an episode of Star Trek TNG where Q takes Picard back 4.5 Billion years on Earth to show him the instant that life WOULD HAVE STARTED, if Picard didn’t just do what he just did.*

So even as an observer, don’t swat any bugs. The mosquito you kill might have been the one who gave Yellow Fever to the child who would have grown up to be The Next Hitler.
/////

*triggering a space/time anomaly in the 23rd Century halfway across the galaxy that spreads in both space and time to reach the Earth at that crucial point

I always thought that it was interesting that the one character that Q feared was Whoopie Goldbergs character, Guiana. Never really explained AFAIK

RBS

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blueraven  May 6, 2016 • 1:42:29pm

Dear Joe and Mika. You know those song lyrics Trump often cites in his rallies?

The Snake

…

“I saved you,” cried the woman
“And you’ve bitten me, but why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die”
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in

Also: Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 1:42:52pm

re: #149 Blind Frog Belly White

He tweeted at me once, and I was thinking about responding, and then he started complaining about southern states and I just hit mute instead

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KGxvi  May 6, 2016 • 1:43:55pm

re: #152 Reality Based Steve

I always thought that it was interesting that the one character that Q feared was Whoopie Goldbergs character, Guiana. Never really explained AFAIK

RBS

I thought they did, but I can’t quite remember what the answer was.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 1:45:12pm

re: #153 blueraven

Dear Joe and Mika. You know those song lyrics Trump often cites in his rallies?

The Snake

Also: Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

The only question is which one of them will get to blow Trump first to get him back on their show?

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blueraven  May 6, 2016 • 1:47:46pm

re: #156 Skip Intro

The only question is which one of them will get to blow Trump first to get him back on their show?

Oh hell, they are probably just trying to play us all…doing this for ratings/exposure.

No sympathy for anybody. They all suck.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 1:48:19pm

re: #133 wrenchwench

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 1:49:27pm

Am I a bad person for hoping that Trump picks Palin to be his running mate?

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 1:50:24pm

re: #157 blueraven

Oh hell, they are probably just trying to play us all…doing this for ratings/exposure.

No sympathy for anybody. They all suck.

Well, all of their humiliating themselves for ratings is wasted on me. I’ll never watch any of these Trumpsuckers again. Their credibility has hit absolute zero.

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mr.fusion  May 6, 2016 • 1:50:32pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 1:50:55pm

re: #159 Kragar

Am I a bad person for hoping that Trump picks Palin to be his running mate?

He’s dishonest, bigoted, ignorant, arrogant, and crazy, but he’s not stupid.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 1:51:21pm

re: #159 Kragar

Of course not. In fact she’s the obvious choice.

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Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday's Child)  May 6, 2016 • 1:51:34pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson is using his Facebook account today to try to dox West Point cadets.

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ISIS sends CCJ a thank-you card for identifying military families that they can target. Yet another triumphant moment for CCJ! Such honor and love of country.

Of course, the country that he loves exists only between his ears, in that strange, twilit fantasyland where he is a heroic fighter for truth and justice.

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KGxvi  May 6, 2016 • 1:52:05pm

re: #162 Blind Frog Belly White

He’s dishonest, bigoted, ignorant, arrogant, and crazy, but he’s not stupid.

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Patricia Kayden  May 6, 2016 • 1:52:22pm

re: #93 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST BERNIEBRO MEME OF THE DAY (FORMERLY STUPIDEST WINGNUT MEME OF THE DAY, RECYCLED)

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My brain broke in two pieces reading that meme. Bloody Unbelievable!

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 1:52:40pm

Fort McMurray will be inaccessible for a while.

I know they are trying to fly people out of the oil camps. How is that progressing?

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makeitstop  May 6, 2016 • 1:53:29pm

re: #104 A Mom Anon

Hello Lizards….Lots going on at the moment, but I have been dropping in from time to time to read and leave an upding or two. We almost lost our kitty boy to kidney issues, so far he seems on the mend. Miss dog is sick again with allergies and we might be moving. Either because the husband is getting a new job and/ OR because some serious land issue shit is happening around here and I AM PISSED off about it. Long story, I’ll tell it some time when I have time to digest the situation and be coherent. My neighbors just might seriously be some of the biggest assholes ever if what I suspect to be true actually is. Helpful hint: If you see surveyors all over the place, ask a lot of questions.

Hope everyone is well and happy. I’ve not been able to keep up around here much so I’m not sure, but I think about you all alot and miss being here. Between the chaos, making home repairs and putting in a garden I am always pressed for time these days. (((hugs)))

Miss ya, Mom.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 1:53:44pm

re: #162 Blind Frog Belly White

He’s dishonest, bigoted, ignorant, arrogant, and crazy, but he’s not stupid.

I disagree. After reading all of the incredibly stupid things he’s said, I think he’s a really stupid person. As someone else said, without his inheritance and father’s connections, he’d be selling fake Rolex’s in Times Square today.

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Patricia Kayden  May 6, 2016 • 1:54:40pm

re: #32 mr.fusion

Do Stormfronters and other racists supporting Trump know that his daughter is married to one of “the Jews”?

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 1:55:25pm

re: #167 Ziggy_TARDIS

Fort McMurray will be unacceptable for a while.

I know they are trying to fly people out of the oil camps. How is that progressing?

From what I understand, the location where they are to the North is capable of handling C-130’s, so figure they can get 90-100 out on a flight. Since the Canadian Gov. had federalized the emergency, I’ve got a pretty good feeling that they will be ok.

RBS

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Patricia Kayden  May 6, 2016 • 1:57:22pm

re: #159 Kragar

Am I a bad person for hoping that Trump picks Palin to be his running mate?

He’s probably vetting her as I type this. ABC was reporting that he was considering Newt Gingrich. I don’t see how Newt is better than Palin.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 1:58:32pm

re: #165 KGxvi

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Is she still stumping with him, after that disastrous endorsement speech? Or has she been consigned to ‘Far Away From Trump’ duties?

Seriously, after that, I visited my old archery/bowhunting forum stomping grounds, and there was a big thread there where one after another, the folks who thought Palin was the greatest thing since sliced bread all said they were completely over her, and said about her what the rest of us have been saying since September of 2008.

After that, she kind of disappeared from the Trump campaign.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 1:58:47pm
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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 1:58:53pm

re: #170 Patricia Kayden

Do Stormfronters and other racists supporting Trump know that his daughter is married to one of “the Jews”?

It’s complicated. Since she converted she could convert back and not be a “real” Jew. Her husband, however, is headed for the ovens.

Her kids are in a gray zone; they’re only half or one quarter Jew (if she converts back). Uncle Adolph gave a pass to quarter Jews for a while, so she may have time to get them out of the country before it’s too late.

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blueraven  May 6, 2016 • 2:01:11pm
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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 2:01:46pm
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SteelPH  May 6, 2016 • 2:05:32pm

re: #177 Ziggy_TARDIS

Nonsense! I was told all the refugees were secretly ISIS agents!
//

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 2:06:33pm

re: #178 SteelPH

Nonsense! I was told all the refugees were secretly ISIS agents!
//

What better way to subvert Democracy than by caring for people.

//

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 2:08:44pm

re: #176 blueraven

Stick it up your ass, Jeb. Obama saved the economy from the actions of your party and your dumb ass brother.

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Dave In Austin  May 6, 2016 • 2:11:27pm

Such Presidential!!

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TedStriker  May 6, 2016 • 2:14:53pm

re: #169 Skip Intro

I disagree. After reading all of the incredibly stupid things he’s said, I think he’s a really stupid person. As someone else said, without his inheritance and father’s connections, he’d be selling fake Rolex’s in Times Square today.

Either that or he’d be just another NYC slumlord.

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Bubblehead II  May 6, 2016 • 2:15:31pm

re: #132 HappyWarrior

Ha, good point. Honestly if I ever did time travel, I’d probably just do a lot of observing but man ti would be tempting as hell to interact with people.

Can’t remember for sure, but isn’t there something in quantum physics that states even by making an observation you cause a change of state? Or is that Schrodinger cat?

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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 2:17:36pm

re: #181 Dave In Austin

“Single handily.” LOL

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KGxvi  May 6, 2016 • 2:17:55pm

re: #183 Bubblehead II

Can’t remember for sure, but isn’t there something in quantum physics that states even by making an observation you cause a change of state? Or is that Schrodinger cat?

I assume you mean the observe effect?

In science, the term observer effect refers to changes that the act of observation will make on a phenomenon being observed. This is often the result of instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 2:20:01pm

re: #181 Dave In Austin

It should be clear by now that Trump hates everybody not named Donald Trump. If he hasn’t turned his hate on you yet, just wait. He will.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 2:20:34pm

re: #184 Charles Johnson

“Single handily.” LOL

“I’m really smart” - Donald Trump

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 2:20:56pm

re: #148 Charles Johnson

Whack-a-Mole Milo

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bratwurst  May 6, 2016 • 2:21:13pm

Peter King on Bloomberg just said he will endorse and vote for Trump but he will not campaign for him.

Way to take a principled stand!

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 2:21:44pm

re: #185 KGxvi

I assume you mean the observe effect?

The best experiment to look up for this effect is the double-slit experiment. Fire electrons at two slits and the scattering pattern resembles wave interference. Put a detector at one of the slits and the pattern resembles particles, with two mounds at each slit.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 2:22:42pm

re: #189 bratwurst

Peter King on Bloomberg just said he will endorse and vote for Trump but he will not campaign for him.

Way to take a principled stand!

“I will endorse, campaign, and vote for Trump, but I refuse to carry him on my back.”

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Bubblehead II  May 6, 2016 • 2:24:16pm

re: #185 KGxvi

I assume you mean the observe effect?

That’s it. Thanks.

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 2:26:51pm

re: #83 electrotek

They seem nice.

en.wikipedia.org

Additionally, Brooklyn Shomrim organizers have been accused of withholding information on suspected child molesters and other Jewish criminals, in keeping with an interpretation of the Torah prohibition against mesirah (informing on a fellow Jew to the non-Jewish authorities).[12][13][14]

Shomrim have on many occasions received awards and commendations from the police for their work.[15][16][17][18]

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allegro  May 6, 2016 • 2:27:21pm

I don’t get what these guys think they’re saving by supporting/voting for a guy they KNOW is doom for the country and their party. Trump has already nuked the party - are they going to save their jobs and careers by not disavowing the clown and, I dunno, support and vote for the obviously capable and qualified candidate?

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makeitstop  May 6, 2016 • 2:28:01pm

re: #111 Charles Johnson

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The whole song with two hands, solo and all! I’m impressed.

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 2:29:18pm

Religion.

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makeitstop  May 6, 2016 • 2:31:43pm

re: #125 Ziggy_TARDIS

Update on my weird situation.

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It sounds like you’re approaching the situation in a prudent manner. Good for you, and good luck.

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blueraven  May 6, 2016 • 2:34:10pm

re: #196 Nyet

Religion.

What is it good for?

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 2:36:36pm
Bernie Sanders Supporters Force Early End to Hillary Clinton Speech

BernieBros are turning into BernieThugs?

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Dave In Austin  May 6, 2016 • 2:39:17pm

At this point I actually appreciate Lindsey Graham……

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 2:39:36pm

Just saw a word that is sorta ‘new’ for me: bribable. Bribable. Rolls off the tongue.

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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 2:40:14pm

I swear, I am trying to convey my disguise as Penn State, Joe Paterno, etc. and I am having trouble finding the right words and write something that doesn’t sound like it’s promoting violence.

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 2:40:42pm

Bribable Bible-bully babbled bull.

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 2:42:28pm
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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 2:43:01pm

re: #181 Dave In Austin

Such Presidential!!

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 2:43:50pm
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blueraven  May 6, 2016 • 2:51:53pm
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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 2:52:24pm

re: #206 Nyet

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 2:53:44pm

re: #125 Ziggy_TARDIS

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blueraven  May 6, 2016 • 2:55:00pm
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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 2:56:56pm

re: #211 blueraven

I’m pretty damn far from being a neocon and that shirt makes me want to hide under my bed for the next six months. WTF is wrong with these people?

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 2:57:06pm

re: #211 blueraven

“Executive Director, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.”

Disgusting scum.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 2:59:12pm

So it’s raining today.

In California.

In May.

I shook my fist at the sky and then used the elliptical indoors, because I still have the spot on my foot that I rubbed raw during the last walk in the rain.

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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 3:02:37pm

re: #214 klys (maker of Silmarils)

So it’s raining today.

In California.

In May.

I shook my fist at the sky and then used the elliptical indoors, because I still have the spot on my foot that I rubbed raw during the last walk in the rain.

Been raining here in Virginia for like two weeks.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 3:03:51pm
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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 3:06:31pm

re: #211 blueraven

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Satire…maybe? Hopefully?

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It’s from back in February in New Hamisphere.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 3:08:35pm

re: #215 Timothy Watson

Been raining here in Virginia for like two weeks.

Yes, but Virginia gets actual weather.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 3:10:02pm

Meanwhile, in places we should all band together to send the rain to:

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 3:13:51pm

re: #219 klys (maker of Silmarils)

And some photos starting to come out of Fort McMurray. Warning to ww - there’s some sad bicycle carnage in these.

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 3:15:34pm

re: #217 Timothy Watson

If so, it serves as further proof that Republicans suck at comedy.

If not, well… I wish someone would ask this young woman about the people who have attempted to do their jobs as journalists and politicians in Russia and have ended up dead.

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Sherlock Hound  May 6, 2016 • 3:22:22pm

re: #221 InfidelOfFreedom

In Real Life, Trump would just be disappeared. Putin is in no way being second. He never had to be nice on the way up because he is not going back down but in a box.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  May 6, 2016 • 3:22:32pm

Now On Sale This Year Only Get Your Extra-Tite Republican Party Glue

guaranteed to glue your party back together yesterday and make people you don’t like shut up shut up shut up

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 3:25:18pm

re: #220 klys (maker of Silmarils)

And some photos starting to come out of Fort McMurray. Warning to ww - there’s some sad bicycle carnage in these.

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I love bicycle carnage!

/work for me, or sales in some cases.

The motorcycle carnage looked worse.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 6, 2016 • 3:27:00pm

This has to be Bryan Fischer’s sickest Tweet ever==>

Click to Reveal
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allegro  May 6, 2016 • 3:29:15pm

re: #225 The Vicious Babushka

This has to be Bryan Fischer’s sickest Tweet ever==>

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All these sinning mammals!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 3:31:05pm

re: #222 Sherlock Hound

In Real Life, Trump would just be disappeared. Putin is in no way being second. He never had to be nice on the way up because he is not going back down but in a box.

Speaking of Trump being disappeared, the Republican bigwigs are not kids, and they’re facing an epic disaster in November. If Trump were to have an unfortunate…accident…of some sort, which would be best for them—before the convention or after? I guess it depends on the VP choice, but they might not know that till too late….

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dell*nix  May 6, 2016 • 3:34:45pm

How does the SS detail for Trump work? Is it self selected vermin or short straw draw?

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Bubblehead II  May 6, 2016 • 3:35:02pm

[ranton]First day of vacation and already 3 calls from work today from an individual who should have know how to fix the problems. The cell phone is now off for the duration.[/ranton]

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Bubblehead II  May 6, 2016 • 3:37:59pm

re: #227 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Speaking of Trump being disappeared, the Republican bigwigs are not kids, and they’re facing an epic disaster in November. If Trump were to have an unfortunate…accident…of some sort, which would be best for them—before the convention or after? I guess it depends on the VP choice, but they might not know that till too late….

Please. Do you really want 6 months of Hillary had him Vince Fostered or any of the other Clinton body count conspiracy theory BS?

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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 3:39:49pm
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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 3:40:03pm

re: #228 dell*nix

How does the SS detail for Trump work? Is it self selected vermin or short straw draw?

His Schutzstaffel is certainly packed with the best and the brightest Daily Stormers.

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 3:42:11pm

I’d like to see examples of unreasonable hawkishness on Hillary’s part. And if it all amounts to one stale vote, don’t even start.

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 3:43:23pm

OK, so what new horror films can you recommend?

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 3:44:59pm

re: #233 Nyet

I asked a Bernie supporter recently for specifics on where he thought Hillary would be starting all these wars. Yea… I still don’t have an answer.

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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 3:45:45pm
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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 3:47:18pm

Unreasonable dovishness can be as bad as unreasonable hawkishness.

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 3:47:28pm

re: #236 Charles Johnson

Biblical literalism is just as stupid as any other crack-brained cult (e.g., Scientology etc.).

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 3:48:15pm

re: #235 InfidelOfFreedom

I asked a Bernie supporter recently for specifics on where he thought Hillary would be starting all these wars. Yea… I still don’t have an answer.

Maybe Darth will grace us with an answer on it, since he clearly thinks she is unreasonably hawkish.

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makeitstop  May 6, 2016 • 3:48:16pm

re: #220 klys (maker of Silmarils)

And some photos starting to come out of Fort McMurray. Warning to ww - there’s some sad bicycle carnage in these.

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And one that somehow survived.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 3:51:57pm

Wonkette on the email “scandal”:

You may have heard the old adage, “Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire.” And that is a good adage sometimes! But there is another less-famous adage at play here, and it is “Where there’s smoke, it’s usually leaking out of the empty rectum holes of dead-ender losers who are just pretty sure Hillary did all the bad things, but they can never actually find her doing the bad things, but anyway, that is where that fart-flavored smoke is coming from.” (It’s a long adage, and real hard to cross-stitch, which is why it probably never caught on.)

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 3:53:20pm

re: #240 makeitstop

And one that somehow survived.

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Grab it! Research its survival secrets!

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 3:53:22pm
Pacifism. Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’. The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security. Mr Savage remarks that ‘according to this type of reasoning, a German or Japanese pacifist would be “objectively pro-British”.’ But of course he would be! That is why pacifist activities are not permitted in those countries (in both of them the penalty is, or can be, beheading) while both the Germans and the Japanese do all they can to encourage the spread of pacifism in British and American territories. The Germans even run a spurious ‘freedom’ station which serves out pacifist propaganda indistinguishable from that of the P.P.U. They would stimulate pacifism in Russia as well if they could, but in that case they have tougher babies to deal with. In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.
I am not interested in pacifism as a ‘moral phenomenon’. If Mr Savage and others imagine that one can somehow ‘overcome’ the German army by lying on one’s back, let them go on imagining it, but let them also wonder occasionally whether this is not an illusion due to security, too much money and a simple ignorance of the way in which things actually happen. As an ex-Indian civil servant, it always makes me shout with laughter to hear, for instance, Gandhi named as an example of the success of non-violence. As long as twenty years ago it was cynically admitted in Anglo-Indian circles that Gandhi was very useful to the British government. So he will be to the Japanese if they get there. Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. But though not much interested in the ‘theory’ of pacifism, I am interested in the psychological processes by which pacifists who have started out with an alleged horror of violence end up with a marked tendency to be fascinated by the success and power of Nazism. Even pacifists who wouldn’t own to any such fascination are beginning to claim that a Nazi victory is desirable in itself. In the letter you sent on to me, Mr Comfort considers that an artist in occupied territory ought to ‘protest against such evils as he sees’, but considers that this is best done by ‘temporarily accepting the status quo’ (like Déat or Bergery, for instance?). a few weeks back he was hoping for a Nazi victory because of the stimulating effect it would have upon the arts…

I pass over the money-sheltered ignorance capable of believing that literary life is still going on in, for instance, Poland, and remark merely that statements like this justify me in saying that our English pacifists are tending towards active pro-Fascism.

orwell.ru

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 3:56:52pm

re: #239 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Meanwhile Trump gets called an “isolationist” because he vomited out a bunch of contradictory nonsense last week, despite that he has threatened to “bomb the shit out of ISIS.”

The mind reels.

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 3:56:54pm

I knew this would come:

[…]

Boxers, soldiers, football players: The faces of TBI are almost always those of men in dangerous or physically demanding careers. When soldiers began returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Department of Defense spent millions researching new technology like battlefield ultrasound machines that would help assess and treat TBIs quickly. In sports, earlier this month an appellate court affirmed a settlement that would potentially provide retired football players as much as $5 million each in damages for brain injuries. But there is another group of TBI sufferers that has been far less visible: survivors of domestic violence.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly a quarter of American women experience extreme physical violence from intimate partners during their lives. Suffering repeated blows to the head, strangulation, and being violently shaken or slammed against the wall puts them at risk for TBI. But the lack of adequate screening and identification systems means that brain injuries often go unrecognized.

[…]

Children next.

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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 3:57:12pm

re: #243 Nyet

orwell.ru

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT ORWELL WASN’T A TRUUUUUUEEEEEEEE SOCIALIST!11!

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 6, 2016 • 3:58:11pm

Fischer is talking about the fact that in the Bible it was Eve who first ate the apple and then led Adam to do the same. As a result they were cast out of Eden and made to feel pain and negative emotions for the first time.

Generally referred to as the Fall of Man. In the account God does say He will cause women pain during childbirth but does NOT say a darned thing about periods.

So the point that Bryan Fisher is off his damned rocker still stands.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 3:58:28pm

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 3:59:14pm

re: #244 InfidelOfFreedom

Meanwhile Trump gets called an “isolationist” because he vomited out a bunch of contradictory nonsense last week, despite that he has threatened to “bomb the shit out of ISIS.”

The mind reels.

But he’s to the left of Hillary and consistent, if you ignore 90% of what he says!

//

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Lancelot Link  May 6, 2016 • 4:01:17pm

re: #241 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

“Where there’s smoke, there’s often someone blowing it.”

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 4:01:31pm

re: #246 Timothy Watson

Interesting how he was wrong about Gandhi. But I decided not to cut that out and to save the complexity.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:03:26pm

re: #237 Nyet

Unreasonable dovishness can be as bad as unreasonable hawkishness.

Right. And honestly anyone who thinks Trump is more dovish than Clinton is a moron.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 4:03:50pm

re: #244 InfidelOfFreedom

Not only bomb IS, but nuke it. And create trade wars and impose tariffs. Oh and charge our allies.

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 4:04:07pm

re: #249 klys (maker of Silmarils)

But he’s to the left of Hillary and consistent, if you ignore 90% of what he says!

//

Trump is actually directly from “Alice and the Looking Glass”

“I’m just one hundred and one, five months and a day.”

“I can’t believe that!” said Alice.

“Can’t you?” the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.”

Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”

“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

RBS

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:04:45pm

re: #253 lawhawk

Not only bomb IS, but nuke it. And create trade wars and impose tariffs. Oh and charge our allies.

I said it yesterday but Trump if he resembles anyone, it’s Pat Buchanan.

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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 4:04:56pm
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:05:49pm

re: #256 Dr. Matt

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But Trump’s a dove. //

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 4:09:49pm

Sanders fan’s yelling “Fuck you” at kids.

I’m beyond fucking done with this motherfucker.

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lockjawcanbefun  May 6, 2016 • 4:11:45pm

How ‘bout some nice news to wrap up this week?

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:13:53pm

re: #258 Kragar

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Sanders fan’s yelling “Fuck you” at kids.

I’m beyond fucking done with this motherfucker.

They really wanted them to feel the Bern bad I guess. Gee I am so shocked that the Dem establishment isn’t in love with Bernie when his supporters do their best to act like a left wing Tea Party and Trump supporters to people who disagree with them.

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CleverToad  May 6, 2016 • 4:14:42pm

re: #241 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Wonkette on the email “scandal”:

Or there’s that other adage that applies here: “Where there’s a whole lotta smoke, check for the mirrors.”

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 4:15:10pm

re: #261 CleverToad

Or there’s that other adage that applies here: “Where there’s a whole lotta smoke, check for the mirrors.”

That would be easier to cross stitch, being shorter.

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 4:15:53pm

There’s some pretty sick people in this country:

Texas children tied outside had hundreds of scars, injuries

Two young children found chained and leashed outside a San Antonio home had suffered hundreds of scars and injuries from months, perhaps years, of abuse, a sheriff’s official said Friday.

Doctors who treated the children after they were found April 29 determined they had old injuries indicating a long period of abuse. One of them also was suffering from hypothermia and had a broken arm resulting from the way she was tied to a garage door using a dog leash, Bexar County sheriff’s spokesman James Keith said.

Authorities initially said the children were 2 and 3 years old, but Keith says they may be a year older.

[…]

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 4:16:42pm

re: #258 Kragar

Nice job Bernie! This is what happens when you purposely fill young people’s heads with contrived cynicism instead of teaching them about how democracy and government can work for them.

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makeitstop  May 6, 2016 • 4:19:09pm

re: #242 wrenchwench

Grab it! Research its survival secrets!

Gotta be those pink tires. :)

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 4:21:14pm
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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 4:21:51pm

No.

That’s just no.

I’m betting that’s a position as sop to quitting race now (the futility of continuing is evident to everyone except the Bernie dead enders), but the reality is that Hillary’s got to look way beyond Bernie and look for someone who benefits her campaign demographically or regionally.

Bernie does neither.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 4:23:15pm

re: #247 Eclectic Cyborg

Fischer is talking about the fact that in the Bible it was Eve who first ate the apple and then led Adam to do the same. As a result they were cast out of Eden and made to feel pain and negative emotions for the first time.

Generally referred to as the Fall of Man. In the account God does say He will cause women pain during childbirth but does NOT say a darned thing about periods.

It doesn’t say squat about prostate problems in men either, and we know as FACT that the first men lived for up to 900 years. So my question is how did they survive without being able to pee for 800 of those years, eh Bryan? You can’t explain that!

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:24:47pm

re: #267 lawhawk

No.

That’s just no.

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I’m betting that’s a position as sop to quitting race now (the futility of continuing is evident to everyone except the Bernie dead enders), but the reality is that Hillary’s got to look way beyond Bernie and look for someone who benefits her campaign demographically or regionally.

Bernie does neither.

It’s a terrible idea. I’m fine with her picking someone to her elft but eh shouldn’t be considered. It’s not personal. He’d just be a bad choice.

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 4:25:54pm

Sorry-not-sorry, but these hard-core Sanders supporters are just contrarian assholes who think being immediately cynical about *EVERYTHING* means that they are somehow more informed than the rest of us.

They remind me of those goth assholes in South Park who think being miserable is the same thing as being deep, and Bernie is their Marilyn Manson.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:28:16pm

re: #270 InfidelOfFreedom

Sorry-not-sorry, but these hard-core Sanders supporters are just contrarian assholes who think being immediately cynical about *EVERYTHING* means that they are somehow more informed than the rest of us.

They remind me of those goth assholes in South Park who think being miserable is the same thing as being deep, and Bernie is their Marilyn Manson.

I’m telling you, the more I see from him and his supporters, the more Bernie appears to me to be a left wing Ron Paul complete with revisionist fantasies of the past and devoted supporters who think they’re somehow more informed because of you say their cynicism about everything. I really hope this isn’t the direction the left goes. Bernie is less and less inspirational and more hey let’s find fault with everything rather than working on the solutoin.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 4:28:55pm

We could all use a cat.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:30:30pm

I’m not saying I don’t appreciate the old New Deal policies of old. They were wonderful policies, however, Bernie always leaves out the ramptant racism that happened in those days. When his supporters complain about how the Dems have become too corporatist, they ignore that the Democratic party is perhaps the most socially liberal it’s ever been.

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majii  May 6, 2016 • 4:31:25pm

re: #267 lawhawk

Although it doesn’t seem as if he knows it, Bernie is just as authoritarian and divisive as some GOP/TPers. Clinton needs him like I need another headache.*

*I suffer with headaches everyday in the Spring when the pollen flies, so I don’t need another headache and HRC doesn’t need Sanders. The way his supporters are behaving in the video clip below is just disgusting, and it turns off more democrats/progressives to listening to anything Sanders and his supporters have to say. I have a really low tolerance for dealing with unreasonable, reality-denying persons.

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 4:33:16pm

re: #271 HappyWarrior

Just last week in East Austin, I saw a car with Ron Paul and Bernie bumper stickers. So rest assured it’s not your imagination.

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 4:33:30pm

re: #255 HappyWarrior

I said it yesterday but Trump if he resembles anyone, it’s Pat Buchanan.

Bingo. My grandfather was of the opinion that Pat Buchanan talked like a Nazi, even though he generally favored Republicans (e.g., big fan of Reagan etc.).

Grandpa knew exactly how Nazis talk, since he emigrated from Germany to the US because of Hitler’s rising power.

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jeffreyw  May 6, 2016 • 4:33:34pm

Thread needs more kitteh?

Imgur

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 4:34:22pm

re: #277 jeffreyw

I have yet to see a thread that is not improved by more kitties.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:35:06pm

re: #276 EPR-radar

Bingo. My grandfather was of the opinion that Pat Buchanan talked like a Nazi, even though he generally favored Republicans (e.g., big fan of Reagan etc.).

Grandpa knew exactly how Nazis talk, since he emigrated from Germany to the US because of Hitler’s rising power.

He would know. It’s the populist nationalist stuff.

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 4:35:50pm

re: #240 makeitstop

And one that somehow survived.

Image: image.jpg

Sadly, since I’m sure that it’s an Aluminum frame and was exposed to high temp (over 400*) it’s lost it’s temper and is not, sadly, good only for a wall hanging.

RBS

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 4:36:06pm

re: #268 Skip Intro

It doesn’t say squat about prostate problems in men either, and we know as FACT that the first men lived for up to 900 years. So my question is how did they survive without being able to pee for 800 of those years, eh Bryan? You can’t explain that!

This reminds me of my favorite question to pose to Intelligent Design types, especially if they are old men.

“Are you really going to tell me with a straight face that the prostate is intelligently designed?”

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:36:07pm

re: #275 InfidelOfFreedom

Just last week in East Austin, I saw a car with Ron Paul and Bernie bumper stickers. So rest assured it’s not your imagination.

Doesn’t surprise me unfortunately. It’s really disappointing. I actually liked Bernie quite a bit but he’s really really changed my mind about him. I’m seeing why he got so few endorsements.

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 4:36:29pm

en.wikipedia.org

The film revolves around the story of a man named Duncan who lives with his wife, Sarah, who worries about his constant stress. One day, he schedules an appointment with a gastroenterologist after experiencing a rather serious level of gastric stress the night before. During the appointment, the doctor and nurse spot a large “polyp” in his intestinal tract. […] The polyp forms into a 2-foot-tall sentient being similar in appearance to a demon or alien, and begins killing each person the creature sees as a source of stress with each day. […] To start off with, Duncan names this strange and unusual anally-dwelling creature Milo.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 4:37:35pm

re: #280 Reality Based Steve

Sadly, since I’m sure that it’s an Aluminum frame and was exposed to high temp (over 400*) it’s lost it’s temper and is not, sadly, good only for a wall hanging.

RBS

Plastic didn’t melt, so I’m not 100% sure on the temp exposure being sufficient. Depends on the plastic, I suppose.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  May 6, 2016 • 4:37:46pm

re: #263 freetoken

I have a highly personalized solution to this which is loud, but quick, painless, cheap, and I won’t even feel bad about it afterwards. They just need to give me a call. I’ll pay for my own gas and the bullet is on the house. It’ll even feed the local wildlife.

I have no patience or consideration for people who hurt women, kids, animals, or the elderly.

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Romantic Heretic  May 6, 2016 • 4:38:59pm

re: #212 InfidelOfFreedom

If those Great Men held the White House we will be the ones with power.

And then enemies of America will learn fear.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 4:39:01pm
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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 4:39:32pm

re: #273 HappyWarrior

I’m not saying I don’t appreciate the old New Deal policies of old. They were wonderful policies, however, Bernie always leaves out the ramptant racism that happened in those days. When his supporters complain about how the Dems have become too corporatist, they ignore that the Democratic party is perhaps the most socially liberal it’s ever been.

The Democratic party is definitely the most socially liberal it has ever been. It is also nowhere near as labor-friendly as it used to be. “Corporatist” is actually a fair charge, assuming it is not exaggerated beyond reason.

Whence all this angst from Sanders et al., which they really should have channeled more productively.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 4:39:47pm

re: #281 EPR-radar

This reminds me of my favorite question to pose to Intelligent Design types, especially if they are old men.

“Are you really going to tell me with a straight face that the prostate is intelligently designed?”

So which is worse—the urethra going through the middle of the prostate, or the esophagus going through the middle of the brain, like a cephalopod? Sounds like the Intelligent Designer™ had it in for everybody!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 4:42:10pm

re: #289 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

So which is worse—the urethra going through the middle of the prostate, or the esophagus going through the middle of the brain, like a cephalopod? Sounds like the Intelligent Designer™ had it in for everybody!

I think the part where the genitals are dangling (for guys) is honestly pretty stupid too, given what happens on impact.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:42:18pm

re: #288 EPR-radar

The Democratic party is definitely the most socially liberal it has ever been. It is also nowhere near as labor-friendly as it used to be. “Corporatist” is actually a fair charge, assuming it is not exaggerated beyond reason.

Whence all this angst from Sanders et al., which they really should have channeled more productively.

Oh I don’t disagree. I just think they ignore that the party is more socially liberal than ever. I definitely agree the party could be more pro labor than it is.

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Unabogie  May 6, 2016 • 4:42:44pm

Yesterday I posted a Downfall parody which cast lampooned Bernie Sanders. Being Jewish myself, I’ve always thought the Downfall parodies were funny, but several people found it offensive because Bernie himself is Jewish and the contrast rubbed them the wrong way.

I just wanted to say that I never intended to offend or hurt anybody, and for that I’m sorry. I took the page down.

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 4:43:00pm

So Bush and Graham come out and publicly state they will not support Drumpfskind.

Thing is, this actually helps Drumpfskind.

These Peter-Principled elite Republicans just don’t get it. The masses of TLC-reality-TV-watching Americans luv Drumpfskind exactly for the same reason they hate Bush and Graham.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:43:25pm

re: #287 goddamnedfrank

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I’m really going to enjoy Clinton making this pissant cry for his mother. He may have had his way with the morons in the GOP primary but this is the big leagues here with an electorate that is more than just angry bigoted sexually repressed assholes.

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 4:44:31pm

re: #294 HappyWarrior

I can’t wait to watch that self-tanner sweat down his face in a debate and leave him looking like the striped coward he is.

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 4:45:16pm

re: #290 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I think the part where the genitals are dangling (for guys) is honestly pretty stupid too, given what happens on impact.

IIRC in reality this is a by product of mammals evolving to have higher body temperatures than sperm can tolerate for long.

As a exercise in intelligent design, it is a clear failure.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 4:46:01pm

re: #283 Nyet

I could have gone my whole life without knowing that, but apparently, you thought differently. :P

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 4:46:22pm

Waiting until the usual subjects start to screech about this:

Elections: Labour’s Sadiq Khan elected London mayor

Sadiq Khan has been elected the new Mayor of London - boosting Labour after it slumped in Scotland’s elections.

Mr Khan is the city’s first Muslim mayor, after beating Conservative Zac Goldsmith.

[…]

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 4:47:59pm

re: #294 HappyWarrior

I’m really going to enjoy Clinton making this pissant cry for his mother. He may have had his way with the morons in the GOP primary but this is the big leagues here with an electorate that is more than just angry bigoted sexually repressed assholes.

I think when the cohort that’s still sore they couldn’t score with any teenage hippie chicks during the Summer of Love dies off, politics will change considerably.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 4:48:23pm

re: #296 EPR-radar

IIRC in reality this is a by product of mammals evolving to have higher body temperatures than sperm can tolerate for long.

As a exercise in intelligent design, it is a clear failure.

I obviously can’t know for sure, but my best estimation of the female equivalent involves the uterus and was terribly unpleasant and I’d rather not repeat the experience so guys do have my sympathy.

Even though I will still laugh in a reasonable number of these situations, depending on the comedic value of it.

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 4:48:37pm

re: #275 InfidelOfFreedom

Just last week in East Austin, I saw a car with Ron Paul and Bernie bumper stickers. So rest assured it’s not your imagination.

It’s not unlike the Trumparians who keep saying that they are going to get all of Bernies voters when he drops out. How any person who is even giving the slightest thought to the positions a candidate supports, as opposed to “Voting Against the System” could possible view the two as in any way complementary or interchangeable.

As somebody posted yesterday, “How do they manage to put their pants on without hurting themselves?”

RBS

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 4:48:43pm

re: #298 freetoken

Hopefully they cankick that nutbag Jeremy Corbyn out, and get someone in who is not a nimrod. Referring mostly to his foreign policy, and the creepily authoritarian way he runs the party.

The Labour needs to be more Left than it was under Blair, but Corbyn is too far.

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 4:50:52pm

re: #292 Unabogie

Yesterday I posted a Downfall parody which cast lampooned Bernie Sanders. Being Jewish myself, I’ve always thought the Downfall parodies were funny, but several people found it offensive because Bernie himself is Jewish and the contrast rubbed them the wrong way.

I just wanted to say that I never intended to offend or hurt anybody, and for that I’m sorry. I took the page down.

I generally like Downfall parodies, but this one felt pretty badly wrong to me.

My problem with it wasn’t really that Sanders is a Jew (although that certainly doesn’t help). It was more that Sanders, despite the many problems I have with him and his campaign, simply doesn’t deserve to be mocked in a Downfall parody IMO.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 6, 2016 • 4:50:59pm

RON SANDERS

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 4:52:01pm

So Andy Card has come out attacking Drumpfskind.

But again, this only plays into Drumpfskind’s gimmick of being an “outsider”.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 4:52:39pm

re: #292 Unabogie

I am going to say props on you for apologizing for the offense you caused, if unintentionally, and taking steps to fix things. I respect that.

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Schroedinger's Dog  May 6, 2016 • 4:53:27pm

OT, but found out I made it to the next round of interviews for a new gig. My current contract ends July 2nd, so it’s time to find my next one. Will pay slightly less but should be longer term

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:53:40pm

re: #305 freetoken

So Andy Card has come out attacking Drumpfskind.

But again, this only plays into Drumpfskind’s gimmick of being an “outsider”.

W’s former chief of staff. I had forgotten about him. I do have to agree with that assessment of the situation. What needs ot be destroyed along with the Trump is a straight talker is the Trump is an outsider stuff.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:53:51pm

re: #307 Schroedinger’s Dog

OT, but found out I made it to the next round of interviews for a new gig. My current contract ends July 2nd, so it’s time to find my next one. Will pay slightly less but should be longer term

Good luck.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 6, 2016 • 4:53:54pm

How is everyone?
I think I’ll be tuning out the rest of the primaries.

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 4:54:50pm

re: #301 Reality Based Steve

Funny enough, the same people who want to destroy “the system” have all been bugging me for weeks to vote in favor of letting Uber and Lyft write their own regulations in Austin. So I guess corruption is cool if it comes in app form???

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 4:55:18pm

Freepers freeping about the new London mayor:

Bad, bad deal. When they hit critical mass enough to get voted into office, the floodgates are open from now on.

8 posted on 5/6/2016, 2:46:28 PM by lapsus calami (What’s that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)

——

Well, America did it first. We got a dude named Barak, and he’s more than just a mayor. The west is going down the toilet.

12 posted on 5/6/2016, 2:48:26 PM by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

——

UK is in deep trouble, their capital is now surrounded and controlled by an enemy power.

16 posted on 5/6/2016, 2:49:33 PM by thoughtomator

And so forth…

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 4:57:00pm
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 4:57:17pm

re: #312 freetoken

Freepers freeping about the new London mayor:

——

——

And so forth…

I want these bigoted assholes to get a Muslim-American President in their lifetimes. It probably wont’ happen but I’d love for it.

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Schroedinger's Dog  May 6, 2016 • 4:57:23pm

Anybody dealing with Trump has to talk like Mr Subliminal. Donald Trump smallpenis just does not have the temperament to be President batshitcrazy. In fact his brand of foreign policy nuclearwar is simply too dangerous glowingcraters to think about runawayscreaming.

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SteelPH  May 6, 2016 • 4:58:04pm

re: #234 Nyet

OK, so what new horror films can you recommend?

The Room.
//

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 4:58:28pm

re: #234 Nyet

OK, so what new horror films can you recommend?

CNN?

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 4:59:16pm

re: #210 goddamnedfrank

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 4:59:25pm

re: #317 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I hear there’s a wolf involved… but he mostly just stands there and blinks.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 6, 2016 • 4:59:27pm

Horror?
Uh….
Alien.
The Thing.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:00:04pm

re: #317 klys (maker of Silmarils)

CNN?

Are you trying to give him nightmares?

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 5:00:07pm

Falling in line…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 5:00:11pm

re: #314 HappyWarrior

I want these bigoted assholes to get a Muslim-American President in their lifetimes. It probably wont’ happen but I’d love for it.

Problem is, they think it’s already happened.

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 5:00:28pm

re: #234 Nyet

In all seriousness, the movie “The Descent” was about the scariest thing I’ve seen in a long time.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:00:37pm

re: #320 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Horror?
Uh….
Alien.
The Thing.

New. I caught the most recent Insidious the other night. I find that series legitimately scary. Most horror doesn’t scare me but that series does.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:00:50pm

re: #323 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Problem is, they think it’s already happened.

True that.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 5:01:02pm

Trump will testify after election in Trump University suit

sanluisobispo.com

Meanwhile Darrell Issa says Hillary Clinton “investigation” will continue past the election.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:01:50pm

re: #322 lawhawk

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Falling in line…

I don’t get it. Dole can see what’s wrong with Cruz but not with Trump? Well that’s one past GOP nominee that will be there.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 6, 2016 • 5:02:12pm

re: #325 HappyWarrior

New. I caught the most recent Insidious the other night. I find that series legitimately scary. Most horror doesn’t scare me but that series does.

Those are new!
Haven’t seen anything that really ‘horrifies’ me. It’s all silly jump scares and crap.
/Not a fan of the horror genre.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:03:26pm

re: #329 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Those are new!
Haven’t seen anything that really ‘horrifies’ me. It’s all silly jump scares and crap.
/Not a fan of the horror genre.

Honestly some of the stuff that scares me the most are documentaries. That Kids for Cash one about those crooked judges in Scranton disturbed the hell out of me. I like horror but I like the funny horror like the Child’s Play and Leprechaun series.

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 5:03:54pm

So, after they meet next week, I expect many of the Congressional Republicans, and probably Ryan, to end up backing Drumpfskind, because Hillary.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:04:37pm

re: #331 freetoken

So, after they meet next week, I expect many of the Congressional Republicans, and probably Ryan, to end up backing Drumpfskind, because Hillary.

Of course.

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 5:05:30pm

re: #327 Skip Intro

Ah yes, the guy who definitely didn’t know anything about that warehouse mysteriously burning down WANTS ANSWERS.

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CuriousLurker  May 6, 2016 • 5:06:19pm

re: #292 Unabogie

I’m (obviously) not Jewish, but I was especially bothered because yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, which made it seem doubly inappropriate. To me, Hitler and the Holocaust were just too horrible to be even remotely amusing and, as someone already pointed out, Bernie isn’t that awful.

Anyway, thanks for taking it down.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 5:06:43pm

Oh, for Lizards who game and might be interested, Overwatch is in open beta this week. Good chance to give it a shot if you’re thinking about it but unsure if it’s something you want to sink the cash into.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 6, 2016 • 5:06:46pm

re: #333 InfidelOfFreedom

Ah yes, the guy who definitely didn’t know anything about that warehouse mysteriously burning down WANTS ANSWERS.

Hey!
At least he didn’t steal a car.
/

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 5:07:14pm

The commenters on Salem Communications outlets are still sort of divided, but the pro-Drumpfskind group looks to me to be gaining ground on Townhall.

I expect most of the wingnut right to come into line behind Drumpfskind, because Hillary.

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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 5:09:14pm
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:11:09pm

re: #338 Charles Johnson

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Yeah winning seems to favor the person who is well winning. Maybe Bernie shouldn’t have acted like us Southern voters were a bunch of right wing yokels who couldn’t appreciate his greatness. Psst Bernie we have delegates too.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 5:11:10pm

re: #333 InfidelOfFreedom

Ah yes, the guy who definitely didn’t know anything about that warehouse mysteriously burning down WANTS ANSWERS.

And if she wins he may need to extend that “investigation” another 4 years.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 5:11:16pm

If you want hawkish, consider this: the president invaded a country based on evidence that was considered at best a 50/50 shot, and the effort almost failed due to equipment failure. We talk about it in a good way only because it succeeded, but if it had failed, I’m pretty sure it would have ended Obama’s presidency. Clinton was against it.

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TedStriker  May 6, 2016 • 5:11:44pm

re: #288 EPR-radar

The Democratic party is definitely the most socially liberal it has ever been. It is also nowhere near as labor-friendly as it used to be. “Corporatist” is actually a fair charge, assuming it is not exaggerated beyond reason.

Whence all this angst from Sanders et al., which they really should have channeled more productively.

It’s partly because the GOP has, with the help of corrupt union leaders, made organized labor support of the Democrats a dirty word over the past couple of decades.

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 5:11:48pm

Next time one of my teams is in a championship game, I’m just going to accuse the league of favoring the team with the most points/goals/runs. It’s not faaaaaaaair!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 5:12:26pm

re: #343 InfidelOfFreedom

Next time one of my teams is in a championship game, I’m just going to accuse the league of favoring the team with the most points/goals/runs. It’s not faaaaaaaair!

Argh don’t get me started today.

/grouchy

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 5:12:43pm

re: #344 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Sorry :(

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 5:13:08pm

re: #345 InfidelOfFreedom

Sorry :(

I’m trying not to be too bitter.

Alternately, maybe I will go get a margarita this evening.

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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 5:13:41pm

re: #292 Unabogie

Yesterday I posted a Downfall parody which cast lampooned Bernie Sanders. Being Jewish myself, I’ve always thought the Downfall parodies were funny, but several people found it offensive because Bernie himself is Jewish and the contrast rubbed them the wrong way.

I just wanted to say that I never intended to offend or hurt anybody, and for that I’m sorry. I took the page down.

Thank you so much for that!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 5:14:42pm

HERE. Happy things that are not me being pissy about stuff outside of my control.

I got a nice accurate color shot of the current project this past weekend.

Instagram

The lighting here is such that you can actually see the colors! I love them so much. Got a little bit done this weekend while helping out, but now it is time to drive back home. #crossstitch #crossstitching #crossstitchersofinstagram #mirabilia #thegardenparty

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 5:16:21pm

re: #348 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Love those colors!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 5:17:20pm

re: #349 InfidelOfFreedom

Love those colors!

They are gorgeous but most of my in-progress shots are done at night when the lighting is shit and I can’t get accurate color representation to save my life, so it hasn’t been easy to show them off.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:19:17pm

re: #348 klys (maker of Silmarils)

HERE. Happy things that are not me being pissy about stuff outside of my control.

I got a nice accurate color shot of the current project this past weekend.

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Very nice.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 6, 2016 • 5:19:22pm

re: #348 klys (maker of Silmarils)

HERE. Happy things that are not me being pissy about stuff outside of my control.

I got a nice accurate color shot of the current project this past weekend.

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Neat.

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 5:19:39pm

National Racists Online is slowly, very slowly, laying the groundwork for their eventual bowing to Drumpfskind.

Jonah Nimoy-is-a-pornographer Goldberg writez:

Clinton is rich, and morally and ethically corrupt. So is Trump. But at least he’s entertaining. Everyone suspects they know what President Hillary Clinton: The Movie would look like. Trump: The Movie? That could be a wild ride.

It’s an balance-fairy approach to Clinton and Drumpfskind with the basic conclusion that Drumpfskind is no worse than Clinton.

Meanwhile, Brendon Bordelon declares:

Democrats See Danger in Trump’s Developing Anti-Clinton Strategy

It’s an attempt to paint Drumpfskind as not necessarily a loser against Clinton.

It’s going to take time to get NRO turned around… but their hatred of all things Clinton and Hillary will eventually drive them to it.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 5:21:05pm
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scottslemmons  May 6, 2016 • 5:23:09pm

re: #325 HappyWarrior

New. I caught the most recent Insidious the other night. I find that series legitimately scary. Most horror doesn’t scare me but that series does.

I lost my ability to watch most horror movies a while back — moved from an apartment into a new house and couldn’t get used to the idea that I was completely alone. But I know a lot of people who speak very highly of new-ish movies like “The Babadook” and “It Follows.”

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 6, 2016 • 5:23:25pm

re: #354 goddamnedfrank

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He certainly doesn’t have the temperament for this. He can’t handle a Dem primary without throwing tantrums. How the hell would he get through a general election?!

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 5:23:30pm

BOOM!

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 5:24:32pm

Here is the basic 4 month long journey ahead of what remains of the Drumpfskind-hating wingnut right:

1) remind that Hillary is bad;
2) repeat step 1 for a few hundred posts;
3) Drumpfskind may be bad, but he’s no worse than Clinton;
4) having the WH and the Senate both in Democratic hands is the work of Satan;
5) therefore we support Drumpfskind.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 6, 2016 • 5:24:48pm

re: #357 goddamnedfrank

BOOM!

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Haha!

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TedStriker  May 6, 2016 • 5:25:50pm

re: #357 goddamnedfrank

BOOM!

Trump ate taco salad for Cinco De Mayo. I can hardly wait to see what he’ll eat for Gay Pride!

— Fritz Alverez (@FritzAlverez) May 7, 2016

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CuriousLurker  May 6, 2016 • 5:27:09pm

Anyway, I just stopped by to tell you guys that my 7” Fire tablet arrived about an hour ago (yes, I caved and I blame BWS).

It’s actually much nicer than I expected for $39. It feels nice & solid—it weighs like 20 grams less than my 2nd Gen iPad mini, but it’s heavier than my Kindle Paperwhite, so I wouldn’t want to have to hold it up for any length of time. My iPad mini has a kick-stand case, but I’m not gonna shell out $$ for a case that costs 1/3 or 1/2 the price of the tablet. Besides, I have an adjustable plastic stand that I bought a while back which hasn’t been used lately, so I think that’ll suffice.

Oh, and the $10 I saved on the price was spent buying a 32GB micro SD card for it, so that worked out well. The screen can’t compare to a retina display, but it’s fine for watching videos, IMO. I prolly wouldn’t spend too much time reading books with it as the resolution is a little to low for that and, like I said, it’s kinda on the heavy side to be holding up for any length of time. Damned Amazon devils, they’re experts at convincing me to part with my money.

What else? I hear the camera sucks, but I haven’t tried it yet and anyway I almost never use the cameras on my mobile devices—it’s either my little point-n-shoot or the DSLR.

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 5:27:12pm

re: #357 goddamnedfrank

A tossed salad, perhaps?

(I’m not proud of this.)

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 6, 2016 • 5:28:58pm

re: #362 InfidelOfFreedom

A tossed salad, perhaps?

(I’m not proud of this.)

A bag of….
Nevermind.

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TedStriker  May 6, 2016 • 5:30:02pm

re: #362 InfidelOfFreedom

A tossed salad, perhaps?

(I’m not proud of this.)

*groan*

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 5:31:19pm

re: #362 InfidelOfFreedom

A tossed salad, perhaps?

(I’m not proud of this.)

Nothing to be ashamed of, you went for the low hanging fruit.

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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 5:32:26pm

Instagram

An abandoned boat in front of the home of Marq Naquin and Ochxia Naquin, who live on Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana. For over a century, American Indians on the island fished, hunted, trapped and farmed among the lush banana and pecan trees that once covered acres. But since 1955, more than 90% of the island’s original land mass has washed away. Because of the impacts of #climatechange, a $48 million federal grant has been allocated to resettle the island’s residents. The location of the new community has yet to be chosen, and moving is voluntary. Marq and Ochxia say they plan to stay — and they aren’t alone. Attachment to Isle de Jean Charles runs deep. Meanwhile, old and well-earned distrust of the government hangs over all efforts. Visit the link in our profile to read about America’s first #climaterefugees and to see more photos by @joshhaner.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 5:32:40pm

re: #365 goddamnedfrank

Nothing to be ashamed of, you went for the low hanging fruit.

Lindsey Graham?

I’ll show myself out….

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CuriousLurker  May 6, 2016 • 5:33:25pm

re: #361 CuriousLurker

BTW, it’s on sale until tomorrow if any of you want one: amazon.com

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Barefoot Grin  May 6, 2016 • 5:33:32pm

re: #365 goddamnedfrank

Nothing to be ashamed of, you went for the low hanging fruit.

Back to God’s design problems….

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 5:35:24pm

re: #324 InfidelOfFreedom

10+ years old is not quite new… ;)

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Great White Snark  May 6, 2016 • 5:36:50pm

re: #368 CuriousLurker

Link not working, for me anyway.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 5:37:20pm
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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 5:37:32pm

re: #365 goddamnedfrank

And Trump certainly personifies “low.”

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 5:37:53pm

Apparently #DropOutHillary is thing.

Yes, really.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 5:39:06pm

Okay, this cracked me up. (Some familiarity with the Tony X hockey thing is helpful.)

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CuriousLurker  May 6, 2016 • 5:40:15pm

re: #371 Great White Snark

Oops. Fixed now.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 5:40:49pm

Elizabeth Warren is fucking gangster.

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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 5:41:51pm

re: #370 Nyet

10+ years old is not quite new… ;)

Dang, time flies! It still gives me the creeps years later.

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Teukka  May 6, 2016 • 5:43:05pm

re: #378 InfidelOfFreedom

Dang, time flies! It still gives me the creeps years later.

Then we have “Constantine”…

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 5:45:48pm

re: #377 goddamnedfrank

That last tweet of hers captures everything you need to know about Trump. Good show Elizabeth.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 5:46:03pm

re: #322 lawhawk

He’s taken too many Viagra over the years that its drained his brain of oxygen.

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darthstar  May 6, 2016 • 5:46:12pm

Happy Friday everyone…free earworms for all.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 5:46:50pm
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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 5:47:36pm
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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 5:48:53pm

re: #384 Kragar

I could get used to this.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:50:07pm

re: #377 goddamnedfrank

Elizabeth Warren is fucking gangster.

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Awesome.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:50:30pm

re: #385 EPR-radar

I could get used to this.

She’s good.

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Skip Intro  May 6, 2016 • 5:51:23pm

re: #385 EPR-radar

I could get used to this.

Those tweets need to be forwarded to DWS so she can see what a real DNC head should be doing.

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Dave In Austin  May 6, 2016 • 5:51:32pm

re: #377 goddamnedfrank

Elizabeth Warren is fucking gangster.

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Holy Shit!!! Bam!!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 5:52:00pm

re: #368 CuriousLurker

Yer link is borked-edit out the “www”…

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 5:52:33pm

Japan Ambassador takes a very thinly veiled swipe at Trump regarding his statements about defense policy. Shameless self plug. littlegreenfootballs.com

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:53:31pm

re: #353 freetoken

National Racists Online is slowly, very slowly, laying the groundwork for their eventual bowing to Drumpfskind.

Jonah Nimoy-is-a-pornographer Goldberg writez:

It’s an balance-fairy approach to Clinton and Drumpfskind with the basic conclusion that Drumpfskind is no worse than Clinton.

Meanwhile, Brendon Bordelon declares:

It’s an attempt to paint Drumpfskind as not necessarily a loser against Clinton.

It’s going to take time to get NRO turned around… but their hatred of all things Clinton and Hillary will eventually drive them to it.

Entertaining? And lol at NRO feigning to think wealth matters when they’re the poster children for wealthy conservative elitism. Buckley talked like a fucking carnicture.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 5:54:48pm
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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 5:54:49pm

What was that about the Dems having a short bench? Hold on to your hair Donald! We’ve got plenty more coming!

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 5:56:48pm

This isn’t the Republican primaries with Cruz, Kasich, Carson, and Rubio. Donald has no idea what he’s in for.

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bratwurst  May 6, 2016 • 5:57:14pm

re: #393 goddamnedfrank

Wow, butthurt Trumpsters and butthurt Bernie Bros…it is a symphony of whining going on there!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 5:58:13pm

re: #396 bratwurst

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  May 6, 2016 • 5:58:39pm

Some new revelations in the ongoing saga of corrupt Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton - currently under federal and state indictment for felony securities fraud:

Ken Paxton did not disclose Servergy stock as a gift or income

AUSTIN - Ken Paxton told federal investigators that a tech CEO gave him $100,000 worth of stock five years ago, but he never disclosed the shares as either a gift or income, an issue ethics experts agreed could spell more trouble for the attorney general already facing state and federal fraud charges.

According to federal fraud charges filed against Paxton last month, the embattled first-term Republican AG told investigators from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that in 2011 he was given 100,000 shares of stock in the North Texas tech startup Servergy by the firm’s then-CEO Bill Mapp.
[…]
“Consequently, Paxton claims, he later accepted the shares as a gift,” the charges added. Yet Paxton, who was a state representative at the time, never disclosed the stock as a gift on annual personal financial statements that elected officials are required to file with the state.

Federal investigators doubt the shares were given as a gift, instead alleging Mapp handed over the stock to Paxton as a “sales commission” for convincing other people to invest in his company.

This man needs to go to prison for a very, very long time.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 5:59:34pm
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PhillyPretzel  May 6, 2016 • 6:00:05pm

re: #390 Eric The Fruit Bat

amazon.com

There is the main page to amazon. And the kindles are at the top. I love my kindle fire; it is great to watch my videos.

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451_Montag  May 6, 2016 • 6:00:30pm

re: #234 Nyet

OK, so what new horror films can you recommend?

Late reply, but is “Republican National Convention 2016” out on Blu-ray yet?

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 6:00:57pm

re: #395 HappyWarrior

This isn’t the Republican primaries with Cruz, Kasich, Carson, and Rubio. Donald has no idea what he’s in for.

Hillary Clinton and other Democrats like Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama etc. are perfectly free to call out every bit of Trump’s vileness and pin it squarely on the Republican party because they aren’t trying to get the votes of Trumpist bigots like Cruz et al. were attempting to do.

It’s going to be glorious.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:01:04pm

re: #399 Kragar

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I’m hoping McCain.

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 6:01:20pm

Neat video, catch the feed:

oceanexplorer.noaa.gov

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:01:25pm

re: #402 EPR-radar

Hillary Clinton and other Democrats like Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama etc. are perfectly free to call out every bit of Trump’s vileness and pin it squarely on the Republican party because they aren’t trying to get the votes of Trumpist bigots like Cruz et al. were attempting to do.

It’s going to be glorious.

Exactly.

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 6:02:31pm

re: #398 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Some new revelations in the ongoing saga of corrupt Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton - currently under federal and state indictment for felony securities fraud:

Ken Paxton did not disclose Servergy stock as a gift or income

This man needs to go to prison for a very, very long time.

Come on. Haven’t we all gotten 100 grand worth of stock, put the paperwork down in the drawer and just clean forgot about it. You know, like the warrentee card for the new blender?

RBS

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Charles Johnson  May 6, 2016 • 6:02:43pm
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InfidelOfFreedom  May 6, 2016 • 6:03:38pm

re: #407 Charles Johnson

Ahh good ol’ fashioned nightmare fuel.

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 6:03:48pm

… those are weird things down there…

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 6:03:51pm

re: #398 Bill and Opus for 2016!

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:04:09pm

re: #407 Charles Johnson

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That’s priceless.

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Lancelot Link  May 6, 2016 • 6:04:13pm

re: #234 Nyet

OK, so what new horror films can you recommend?

Have you seen “The Witch”?

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 6:05:12pm

re: #407 Charles Johnson

Seasick now.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  May 6, 2016 • 6:06:18pm

re: #377 goddamnedfrank

Can she be on the ticket? Please?

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451_Montag  May 6, 2016 • 6:06:27pm

re: #402 EPR-radar

Hillary Clinton and other Democrats like Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama etc. are perfectly free to call out every bit of Trump’s vileness and pin it squarely on the Republican party because they aren’t trying to get the votes of Trumpist bigots like Cruz et al. were attempting to do.

It’s going to be glorious.

Don’t you get the feeling all the pent up frustrations from the last 8 years are just going to flow daily at Donnie ” stumpy fingers” Trump (that’s his mob name), and it just going to be a day by day catharsis of hillarity?

Even better they will use not just his own tactics and words

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prairiefire  May 6, 2016 • 6:06:46pm

re: #412 Lancelot Link

Have you seen “The Witch”?

“It Follows” is very good.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 6:07:18pm

re: #402 EPR-radar

Hillary Clinton and other Democrats like Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama etc. are perfectly free to call out every bit of Trump’s vileness and pin it squarely on the Republican party because they aren’t trying to get the votes of Trumpist bigots like Cruz et al. were attempting to do.

It’s going to be glorious.

Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are the greatest political talents since FDR at least. The Kurzgefingert Plebejer won’t know what hit him.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:07:32pm

re: #414 Pawn of the Oppressor

Can she be on the ticket? Please?

I want to keep her in the Senate. With Reid leaving, I think she has to figure into the leadership plans for the future.

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stpaulbear  May 6, 2016 • 6:08:08pm

re: #357 goddamnedfrank

A G-BLT, of course.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:08:22pm

re: #417 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are the greatest political talents since FDR at least. The Kurzgefingert Plebejer won’t know what hit him.

The big difference is Trump won’t have the Republican electorate, he’ll have the whole electorate. And the electorate as a whole isn’t in love with him at all.

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Franklin  May 6, 2016 • 6:08:45pm
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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 6:09:39pm

Most GOPers will end up falling in line behind Trump. However, we will have more exceptions to this rule than usual.

This moment of clarity is from a RedState front pager:

I’ve been beating the drum of #NeverTrump everywhere I go the last several days and have been fortunate enough to have some networks offering me the air-time to do it. Interestingly, many on the right side of the aisle keep “warning” me that I’m being used by the lefty media who wishes to co-opt my message to fulfill their own dirty narratives.

The problem with that warning is that I’m in full agreement with the dirty narrative being described.

For the first time in my career, I am completely aligned with the talking points of the left on the GOP presidential nominee. He is a dangerous sociopath who uses xenophobic & racist dog whistles to stoke fear in masses of uninformed voters so that he can get to Washington and use the power of the pen to push billions of dollars to corporations as he cuts deals behind the scenes that benefit the most powerful and corrupt people in the world.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:09:46pm

re: #421 Franklin

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It is so fitting that it is Kennedy’s old seat that she has. Too bad for you guys that you had Walker those two years but I’m sure Warren has made it worth it.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:10:38pm

re: #422 EPR-radar

Most GOPers will end up falling in line behind Trump. However, we will have more exceptions to this rule than usual.

This moment of clarity is from a RedState front pager:

Better late than ever. That read too reasonable to be Erick himself.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 6:10:55pm

Revealed: Founder of ‘Quiverfull’ cult pushed his son into an illegal marriage with 16-year-old girl

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Pawn of the Oppressor  May 6, 2016 • 6:11:02pm

re: #418 HappyWarrior

Bummer. I think an alotta-fagina ticket will incite mass seppuku among Repubs. Plus she’d be wicked in a “debate”.

I wonder if Gangster Don will skip debates and cite some lame reason like “he doesn’t need to”, knowing he’ll be eviscerated.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 6:11:05pm
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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 6:11:46pm

re: #415 451_Montag

Don’t you get the feeling all the pent up frustrations from the last 8 years are just going to flow daily at Donnie ” stumpy fingers” Trump (that’s his mob name), and it just going to be a day by day catharsis of hillarity?

Even better they will use not just his own tactics and words

It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to nail the GOP nominee as a fascist and vast sections of the party itself as bootlickers of a fascist.

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PhillyPretzel  May 6, 2016 • 6:12:01pm

re: #425 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

How come I am not surprised? ///

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Targetpractice  May 6, 2016 • 6:12:12pm

re: #422 EPR-radar

Most GOPers will end up falling in line behind Trump. However, we will have more exceptions to this rule than usual.

This moment of clarity is from a RedState front pager:

It’s really telling that the wingnut’s not angry over Trump being xenophobic and racist, it’s that the wingnut thinks Trump is just using those whistles to get to the White House.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:12:20pm

re: #426 Pawn of the Oppressor

Bummer. I think an alotta-fagina ticket will incite mass seppuku among Repubs. Plus she’d be wicked in a “debate”.

I wonder if Gangster Don will skip debates and cite some lame reason like “he doesn’t need to”, knowing he’ll be eviscerated.

Oh, no, that’s just my opinion. I do hope she’s vetted at least though.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:13:31pm

re: #427 goddamnedfrank

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I feel bad that this woman was killed but scapegoating people including children for it is just crappy. I’m sorry the Roots lost their daughter but aligning with this gas bag isn’t the way to go. By the way, Donald how many illegal immigrants have you employed over the years?

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:14:10pm

re: #430 Targetpractice

It’s really telling that the wingnut’s not angry over Trump being xenophobic and racist, it’s that the wingnut thinks Trump is just using those whistles to get to the White House.

A lot of them are also mad that Trump doesn’t seem to really believe the religious right shit.

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451_Montag  May 6, 2016 • 6:16:12pm

re: #428 EPR-radar

It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to nail the GOP nominee as a fascist and vast sections of the party itself as bootlickers of a fascist.

I keep seeing the scene in Gladiator, with Russell Cross saying “On my sign, unleash hell” being played out.

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Barefoot Grin  May 6, 2016 • 6:21:54pm

How many mass shootings have we had in the last few weeks? Seems odd, statistically, to choose “death by illegal immigrant” as a position.

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 6:24:40pm

re: #433 HappyWarrior

A lot of them are also mad that Trump doesn’t seem to really believe the religious right shit.

It is hilarious when the reaction to this takeover of “God’s own party” by a wife-swapping atheist leads to lengthy prayers and bible quotes in wingnut commentary.

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Franklin  May 6, 2016 • 6:25:48pm

re: #435 Barefoot Grin

How many mass shootings have we had in the last few weeks? Seems odd, statistically, to choose “death by illegal immigrant” as a position.

Guns good. Brown people bad.

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Dave In Austin  May 6, 2016 • 6:26:22pm

I think EW has taken the title of Official Bear Poker. Donald will NOT know how to deal with her at all.

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 6:26:25pm

re: #437 Franklin

Guns good. Brown people bad.

Look at those cavemen go.

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 6:28:20pm

Another moment of clarity from Redstate, this time in response to a Trump supporter and expressed in fluent Trumpese:

You’re a Trumper, so let me explain words you might get: Bigly people stood not Trump than with Trump, so not Trump is more bigly than Trump.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 6:28:34pm

re: #438 Dave In Austin

I think EW has taken the title of Official Bear Poker. Donald will NOT know how to deal with her at all.

Donald’s going to have so many people poking him, Hillary will be able to save her ammo for the debates.

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allegro  May 6, 2016 • 6:29:37pm

re: #438 Dave In Austin

I think EW has taken the title of Official Bear Poker. Donald will NOT know how to deal with her at all.

EW + HRC = Uterati Dream Team

Would you want to be in opposition to those two?

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 6:30:57pm
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Jebediah, RBG  May 6, 2016 • 6:31:23pm

re: #377 goddamnedfrank

That shit is awesome! He won’t be able handle the GE, not even a little.

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EPR-radar  May 6, 2016 • 6:31:24pm

re: #441 Belafon

Donald’s going to have so many people poking him, Hillary will be able to save her ammo for the debates.

Trump’s the kind of idiot that just has to respond to everything. If he manages to go below the normal Republican floor for popular votes and electoral votes, a meltdown along these lines will likely be a major contributor.

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 6:33:03pm

Well, that was neat.

There will be another live video tomorrow.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 6:34:09pm

re: #445 EPR-radar

Trump’s the kind of idiot that just has to respond to everything. If he manages to go below the normal Republican floor for popular votes and electoral votes, a meltdown along these lines will likely be a major contributor.

Yep, and imagine having to deal with both Bill and Obama. When they really want to do a thousand cuts, each one of them will be deep.

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 6:34:58pm

re: #441 Belafon

Donald’s going to have so many people poking him, Hillary will be able to save her ammo for the debates.

Waiting for the inevitiable crys of “Alinsky!!!!!!” from the RNWJ. They seem to think that book is a cross between the Necronomicon and Das Kapital, when it’s really just a common sense guide to conducting effective asymmetric protest and change.

Of course, if they read it, they would realize that the same tactics go back centuries, and that all Saul did was make them easy to read, adapt and relevant.

RBS

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freetoken  May 6, 2016 • 6:35:26pm

This little guy was from a dive 2 weeks ago:

MP4 Video

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Archangelus  May 6, 2016 • 6:35:58pm

re: #277 jeffreyw

Thread needs more kitteh?

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My contributions to the cause:

Also because no kitteh compilation is complete without at least one Salem Saberhagen reference IMHO:

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Barefoot Grin  May 6, 2016 • 6:36:24pm

re: #440 EPR-radar

Another moment of clarity from Redstate, this time in response to a Trump supporter and expressed in fluent Trumpese:

Double plus not good.

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TedStriker  May 6, 2016 • 6:37:34pm

re: #377 goddamnedfrank

Elizabeth Warren is fucking gangster.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 6:38:59pm

re: #377 goddamnedfrank

Elizabeth Warren is fucking gangster.

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Saw this:

I’m ready.

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Barefoot Grin  May 6, 2016 • 6:39:28pm

re: #450 Archangelus

My contributions to the cause:

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Also because no kitteh compilation is complete without at least one Salem Saberhagen reference IMHO:

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Beautiful. Too bad contact produces bad, bad asthma-like symptoms for me. I’d love to have one or two around.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  May 6, 2016 • 6:41:16pm

re: #448 Reality Based Steve

They’re already there. One of my former co-workers, who I’m pretty sure now has his brain plugged directly into Breitbart, is spouting Alinsky hate on FB already.

Americans are fucking dumb.

:P

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 6:43:43pm

My twitter tl is full of disgruntled Bernie supporters complaining loudly about political party rules. Plan ahead, people.

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Feline Fearless Leader  May 6, 2016 • 6:43:44pm

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 6:46:07pm
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retired cynic  May 6, 2016 • 6:46:42pm

re: #457 Feline Fearless Leader

?

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allegro  May 6, 2016 • 6:46:53pm

re: #457 Feline Fearless Leader

I did not know that.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 6:47:50pm

re: #456 jaunte

We could also allow the Republicans to vote. Then we could call it the general election.

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 6:48:08pm

re: #455 Pawn of the Oppressor

They’re already there. One of my former co-workers, who I’m pretty sure now has his brain plugged directly into Breitbart, is spouting Alinsky hate on FB already.

Americans are fucking dumb.

:P

I just can’t hate fast enough I guess.

RBS

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 6:50:04pm

re: #396 bratwurst

Wow, butthurt Trumpsters and butthurt Bernie Bros…it is a symphony of whining going on there!

I think this symphony shall be called: A Cacophony of Tears.

Served with a nice glass of white whine.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 6:50:56pm
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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 6:51:50pm

re: #463 ObserverArt

I think this symphony shall be called: A Cacophony of Tears.

Served with a nice glass of white whine.

it will be a very white whine

RBS

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:52:29pm

re: #456 jaunte

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My twitter tl is full of disgruntled Bernie supporters complaining loudly about political party rules. Plan ahead, people.

I don’t see the problem with that and I’d think that Bernie supporters that apparently love unions would get that analogy. Really, it’s simple. Bernie is running for the Democratic party’s nomination. If you want to vote for Bernie fine but don’t act like parties requiring that you be a member of their party to vote on their nomination is somehow an affront to you. Man I am sorry but I’ve had it with the whining about this crap. They had time to register as Dems. If they didn’t knwo the rule, that’s clearly on them and don’t even get me started about how Bernie has benefitted from the very undemocratic caucus system.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:52:50pm

re: #464 Kragar

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Precisely but it’s easier to piss and moan I guess.

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Sherlock Hound  May 6, 2016 • 6:53:11pm

re: #463 ObserverArt

Sadly, the “whine list” is nearly unlimited and too many sommeliers to oblige them.

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Feline Fearless Leader  May 6, 2016 • 6:53:36pm

re: #459 retired cynic

?

Hmm - guess everyone could read that. Lawhawk asked a couple of threads back about how the one German knew that the British officer in “Inglorious Basterds” was not a German officer. (This was after he had doubts about his accent.)

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 6:53:54pm
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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 6:54:44pm

re: #466 HappyWarrior

I still see a bunch of people talking about how corrupt Hillary is while Bernie hints he’ll be willing to be her VP.

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retired cynic  May 6, 2016 • 6:55:05pm

re: #469 Feline Fearless Leader

Hmm - guess everyone could read that. Lawhawk asked a couple of threads back about how the one German knew that the British officer in “Inglorious Basterds” was not a German officer. (This was after he had doubts about his accent.)

I got it addressed to me (and two others). Sorry! I’m easily confused!

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Feline Fearless Leader  May 6, 2016 • 6:55:55pm

re: #472 retired cynic

I got it addressed to me (and two others). Sorry! I’m easily confused!

No problem - fault on my end since I thought it was going to Lawhawk only.

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Feline Fearless Leader  May 6, 2016 • 6:56:26pm

Sportspuck update. Lightning and Islanders going to OT tied 1-1.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 6:56:35pm

re: #457 Feline Fearless Leader

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I’ve seen a lot of people lately counting on their fingers starting rather than ending with their thumb, and couldn’t help thinking: “Who does that?”

Who is “he”, BTW, and three what?

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Targetpractice  May 6, 2016 • 6:57:02pm

re: #456 jaunte

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My twitter tl is full of disgruntled Bernie supporters complaining loudly about political party rules. Plan ahead, people.

It’s a private club that you refuse to join, but you think you deserve a say in how it runs itself. Bernie Bros are a special kind of moron.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:57:04pm

re: #471 jaunte

I still see a bunch of people talking about how corrupt Hillary is while Bernie hints he’ll be willing to be her VP.

It’s like how they hate the DNC but want to use the DNC convention to nominate Bernie even though most Democrats have voted for Clinton.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 6:57:20pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 6:57:20pm

re: #454 Barefoot Grin

Try to see if you can find a Siberian or a Balinese-especially females.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 6:59:04pm

re: #465 Reality Based Steve

it will be a very white whine

RBS

I would upding that enthusiastically, but I can’t bring myself to encourage pronouncing “wine” and “whine” the same./

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 6:59:35pm

re: #477 HappyWarrior

They’ll announce that there are cookies on the picnic table, then lock the clubhouse doors while everyone is distracted, and vote Bernie in as class President.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 6:59:59pm

re: #478 Kragar

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That was different, that was Bernie doing it so it’s okay. I’m really getting fed up with him. Either focus your ammo on Trump or leave the damn race.

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Feline Fearless Leader  May 6, 2016 • 7:00:56pm

re: #475 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’ve seen a lot of people lately counting on their fingers starting rather than ending with their thumb, and couldn’t help thinking: “Who does that?”

Who is “he”, BTW, and three what?

3 glasses

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:01:19pm

I’m not even a huge Clinton fan but the Sanders campaign’s constant whining and blatant double standards it creates are just tiring. I wasn’t a huge fan of Clinton’s in 2008. Funnily enough, Bernie’s behavior reminds me of what I didn’t like from Clinton in 2008.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 7:02:05pm

re: #483 Feline Fearless Leader

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Gotcha.

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 7:02:19pm

re: #432 HappyWarrior

I feel bad that this woman was killed but scapegoating people including children for it is just crappy. I’m sorry the Roots lost their daughter but aligning with this gas bag isn’t the way to go. By the way, Donald how many illegal immigrants have you employed over the years?

He hires only the ones he labeled last year as “some good ones” so he’s cool with it.

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Targetpractice  May 6, 2016 • 7:02:24pm

Alan Abramowitz actually ran the numbers the other day on how many delegates Bernie would have picked up if all the closed primaries ran up to then (4/28) had been open ones, based upon demographics and voting trends in other open primaries.

The number of delegates? 41. The lead Clinton enjoyed at that time? 298.

So any Bernie Bro who insists that Bernie would be ahead if all the primaries were open is deluded, but that really goes without saying by this point.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 7:03:58pm
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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 7:04:55pm

re: #488 goddamnedfrank

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OUCH… that’s gotta hurt.

RBS

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Jebediah, RBG  May 6, 2016 • 7:05:30pm

re: #472 retired cynic

Me too.

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 7:07:15pm

re: #488 goddamnedfrank

Dead-enders getting riled up.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 7:07:55pm

MTV is now attacking Sanders.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 7:09:24pm
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:10:33pm

re: #493 Kragar

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That’s what I’ve been finding out. For all the attacks on Clinton’s ambition. She’s happy to work for other Democrats to get elected. I haven’t seen much of that or to be totally honest at all from Bernie.

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Targetpractice  May 6, 2016 • 7:11:57pm

re: #491 jaunte

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Dead-enders getting riled up.

Go all the way to the convention and…what? Serve as the turd in the punch bowl by trying to pick a floor fight when you’re statistically fucked?

Bernie Bros have this fantasy now where Bernie does well enough in the final stretch not to win outright, but win enough states to say to superdelegates “Neither of us won outright, but I’m better for the party so pick me!”

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:13:07pm

re: #487 Targetpractice

Alan Abramowitz actually ran the numbers the other day on how many delegates Bernie would have picked up if all the closed primaries ran up to then (4/28) had been open ones, based upon demographics and voting trends in other open primaries.

The number of delegates? 41. The lead Clinton enjoyed at that time? 298.

So any Bernie Bro who insists that Bernie would be ahead if all the primaries were open is deluded, but that really goes without saying by this point.

First it was the crap about them losing the states that were going GOP anyhow. Then once they won some caucuses in equally Republican states, it became the crap about how poor people don’t actually vote (Gee Bernie, maybe you should actually do a better job energizing them to vote if you are in fact this candidate of the working class you proclaim yourself as( and now it’s the crap about the closed and open primaries. It amazes me that Bernie and his supporters accuse Clinton of being corrupt but at the same time he’s implying he wants to be vetted. I think he gave up any chance of that a long time ago. Now I’m of the opinion that even if he hadn’t acted like a jerk, I wouldn’t want him to be considered anyhow, he’s not executive material.

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Feline Fearless Leader  May 6, 2016 • 7:13:20pm

That was quick. Lightning win 2-1.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:14:57pm

re: #495 Targetpractice

Go all the way to the convention and…what? Serve as the turd in the punch bowl by trying to pick a floor fight when you’re statistically fucked?

Bernie Bros have this fantasy now where Bernie does well enough in the final stretch not to win outright, but win enough states to say to superdelegates “Neither of us won outright, but I’m better for the party so pick me!”

I like how they continue to ignore that Clinton has beaten him conviningly with registered Democrats and they go well Bernie wins independents! Okay that’s true but he’s running for the Democratic party nomination. Maybe if Bernie saw the Democratic Party as something other than his most easy path to the WH, he’d get that. I wonder if the BB’s would put up with this kind of bullshit from a right leaning Democrat who had been an independent until it became convenient for him.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 7:15:49pm

re: #497 Feline Fearless Leader

That was quick. Lightning win 2-1.

All the OT got used up last night.

/grumblegrumblegrumblefucktherefsgrumble

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 7:16:26pm

re: #482 HappyWarrior

That was different, that was Bernie doing it so it’s okay. I’m really getting fed up with him. Either focus your ammo on Trump or leave the damn race.

Still too focused on himself.

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 7:18:50pm

Since this forum thrives on, among other things, Kitties and Music…. Kitties in Chains

Kitties in Chains “Cat in the Box” (Parody)

RBS

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 7:22:41pm

Hmmm. Orange infused black beans (with oregano, cumin, and basil).

I am intrigued.

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 7:25:07pm

re: #502 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Hmmm. Orange infused black beans (with oregano, cumin, and basil).

I am intrigued.

Never tried it with an orange flavor, but other than that it sounds like one of my menu staples.

RBS

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 7:28:12pm

This fucking guy.

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 7:30:29pm

re: #504 goddamnedfrank

This fucking guy.

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It’s a level of argument right on a par with “I don’t like liver, so liver is bad”

RBS

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 7:30:36pm

re: #504 goddamnedfrank

This fucking guy.

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I’m sorry, he has gone from dear old Bernie to Dick.

Grrrr…

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 7:31:44pm

re: #503 Reality Based Steve

Never tried it with an orange flavor, but other than that it sounds like one of my menu staples.

RBS

I haven’t been cooking an awful lot recently because of the diet meals we’ve been doing (which have been working, hooray!) but at some point it will have to start again. I’ve definitely learned a fair bit on filling, low calorie meals while doing this, just from observation.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:31:59pm

re: #504 goddamnedfrank

This fucking guy.

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Said it before but it’s like the Republicans who want to keep winner take all electoral college results in states they win big in i.e. Texas but want to make it split in purplish blue states like Virginia and Pennsylvania. It’s a really shitty and dishonest thing he’s doing. He’s also doing his best to shit on minority voters again but go ahead I’m sure they’ll love to hear that Bernie is great because he marched with MLK.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:33:19pm

re: #506 ObserverArt

I’m sorry, he has gone from dear old Bernie to Dick.

Grrrr…

I honestly thought in the past that he was perhaps a little too idealistic but well meaning. I’m not seeing that any more. Perhaps he’s always been this way or perhaps the popularity he’s had has gotten to his head but either way I no longer think too highly of him.

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retired cynic  May 6, 2016 • 7:33:59pm

re: #507 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I’m a long way from a vegetarian, but I have leaned a lot on some commercial vegetarian frozen meals, based on veggies, rice and beans, usually with an Indian, Pakistani or Thai flavor set. They really have helped, and helped the cholesterol, too.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 7:34:36pm
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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 7:34:58pm
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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 7:37:53pm

What a shitshow this campaign is.

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 7:39:07pm

Well, I’ve been a Sanders supporter since his campaign started, and caucused for him here in Nebraska.

I also voted in the Primary here (we do both).

That said, I understand the delegate math, and short of a meteor strike Mrs. Clinton is going to win the primary.

I don’t know about the Bernie Bro stuff other than what I read here and Wonkette … I don’t have any way of knowing if this is a huge phenomenon, or something like “rodent copulation” from right wingers or something else.

That said, I would crawl over broken glass and fifty miles of burning prairie to get out and vote for Mrs. Clinton. I think it would be worthwhile for Mrs. Clinton to re-work some of President Johnson’s adverts against Barry Goldwater.

YouTube

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:39:34pm

re: #511 goddamnedfrank

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Precisely. I’m hoping Clinton beats him big in California to leave him without any excuses at all.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 7:39:50pm

re: #510 retired cynic

I’m a long way from a vegetarian, but I have leaned a lot on some commercial vegetarian frozen meals, based on veggies, rice and beans, usually with an Indian, Pakistani or Thai flavor set. They really have helped, and helped the cholesterol, too.

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 7:39:57pm

re: #507 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I haven’t been cooking an awful lot recently because of the diet meals we’ve been doing (which have been working, hooray!) but at some point it will have to start again. I’ve definitely learned a fair bit on filling, low calorie meals while doing this, just from observation.

I’ve been lucky that I’ve always been on the slender side, but when I do catch my weight slipping up a bit, I’ve found that a week or two of meals that are high fiber make me feel very full with out a lot of calories. A second thing is that I tend to ‘gulp’ my food down and will overeat because I’m eating faster than my satiation reflex can kick in. If I make it a point to make sure that I chew each mouthful at least 20 times, and also physically put my fork down on my plate so I have to pick it up again for my next mouthful I eat much slower.

just my .02

RBS

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 7:41:07pm

re: #514 Anymouse

To embed a youtube video, just copy the URL from your browser and paste it in the comment box here. Charles’s magic takes care of the rest. :)

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 7:42:06pm

From BJ:

Open Thread: Deadbeat Donnie’s Veepstakes

To recap: A former competitor whose campaign unwound to a degree that observers were speculating about organic brain disorders is fronting the search, under the supervision of a notorious lobbyist for foreign dictators and a guy best known for assaulting a female reporter. Party apparatchiks are signaling that they will need to be persuaded. The best (okay, least worst) “respectable” candidates have been taking their names off the table…

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 7:42:36pm

Ku Klux Klan for Goldwater:

YouTube

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 7:43:06pm

re: #504 goddamnedfrank

Well, it’s funny that his supporters think that open primaries are good - or good for Bernie, when there’s no evidence of that either. Bernie’s lost a bunch of those too - by wide margins.

The one predictor that seems to suggest how he’ll do that correlates fairly strongly: percentage of minorities living in the state. The lower the percentage, the better he does. The higher the percentage of minorities living in state, the worse he does.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:43:50pm

re: #514 Anymouse

Well, I’ve been a Sanders supporter since his campaign started, and caucused for him here in Nebraska.

I also voted in the Primary here (we do both).

That said, I understand the delegate math, and short of a meteor strike Mrs. Clinton is going to win the primary.

I don’t know about the Bernie Bro stuff other than what I read here and Wonkette … I don’t have any way of knowing if this is a huge phenomenon, or something like “rodent copulation” from right wingers or something else.

That said, I would crawl over broken glass and fifty miles of burning prairie to get out and vote for Mrs. Clinton. I think it would be worthwhile for Mrs. Clinton to re-work some of President Johnson’s adverts against Barry Goldwater.

YouTube
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I’ve honestly seen it on Facebook. As much as I want to believe it’s right wingers trying ot make left leaning people look bad, a lot of it is self inflicted. Anyhow no beef with you, you’ve gotten the big picture. In fact, I have no beef with someone who votes Bernie as long as they see the big picture and don’t use right wing smears or engage in dishonesty. I don’t like him acting like closed primaries are awful and ignoring his own wins from caucuses. I also as a Southerner don’t like him acting like “Well the South is very conservative so we’re not going to win that in the GE anyhow” while ignoring that he’s won some states and I’m not knocking your state so hear me out that he’s won big in some states that are equally Republican. I just think Bernie’s really ruined a lot of good will with people by being a poor loser and some (not all) his supporters make it worse.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 6, 2016 • 7:44:22pm

OT: The Ft.Mcmurray Fire….

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 7:45:02pm

re: #522 HappyWarrior

Easy “Bro” diagnostic: has the person said in any way, shape, or form that HRC is a Republican? If yes, you can probably safely assume they’re not rational and move on.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 7:45:04pm

re: #513 jaunte

It’s just getting started. I can’t wait for Trump to complain about that as though he’s being attacked for putting in a bunch of dishonest hacks around him who have ties to Russia and couldn’t pass screening.

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 7:45:33pm
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:45:44pm

re: #521 lawhawk

Well, it’s funny that his supporters think that open primaries are good - or good for Bernie, when there’s no evidence of that either. Bernie’s lost a bunch of those too - by wide margins.

The one predictor that seems to suggest how he’ll do that correlates fairly strongly: percentage of minorities living in the state. The lower the percentage, the better he does. The higher the percentage of minorities living in state, the worse he does.

Wasn’t Florida open? And we’re open here in Virginia and he lost us big. But yes it’s minorities. He’ll never say it but that’s what it is. His campaign doesn’t know how to resonate with minority voters and well let’s give credit where credit is due, the Clinton campaign really has worked hard for those communities gaining their support.

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BeachDem  May 6, 2016 • 7:46:29pm

re: #487 Targetpractice

Alan Abramowitz actually ran the numbers the other day on how many delegates Bernie would have picked up if all the closed primaries ran up to then (4/28) had been open ones, based upon demographics and voting trends in other open primaries.

The number of delegates? 41. The lead Clinton enjoyed at that time? 298.

So any Bernie Bro who insists that Bernie would be ahead if all the primaries were open is deluded, but that really goes without saying by this point.

Hmm, South by dog Carolina was an open primary and Hillary won every county. Oh, I forgot—dumb, low-info voters who don’t have Internet and just didn’t understand Bernie’s awesomeness—and Southron, so it doesn’t count.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:46:38pm

re: #526 goddamnedfrank

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Off to a running start, Mr. Everybody Loves Me.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 6, 2016 • 7:48:19pm

re: #527 HappyWarrior

Wasn’t Florida open? And we’re open here in Virginia and he lost us big. But yes it’s minorities. He’ll never say it but that’s what it is. His campaign doesn’t know how to resonate with minority voters and well let’s give credit where credit is due, the Clinton campaign really has worked hard for those communities gaining their support.

Minority communities have been in the Clinton camp so long that the RWNJs were sneering about Bill being “the first black president” in 1992.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 7:48:25pm

re: #526 goddamnedfrank

I wonder about people who give their kids names like “Baron” or “Major”.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:48:30pm

re: #528 BeachDem

Hmm, South by dog Carolina was an open primary and Hillary won every county. Oh, I forgot—dumb, low-info voters who don’t have Internet and just didn’t understand Bernie’s awesomeness—and Southron, so it doesn’t count.

They just can’t wrap their head around why someone would have a different opinion. I’ve been the Bernie supporter before. They can call me a sell out but I’ve learned his all or nothing approach to presidential politics isn’t something I want nor do I think works.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 7:49:33pm

re: #523 Eric The Fruit Bat

I watched a report today about how there are folks who have watched their houses burn down live via security cameras they had with Internet connectivity. It’s a pretty horrible situation - but hat’s off to the folks in the city, it really does appear that there are probably only two deaths that can be attributed to the evacuation (in an automobile accident on Wednesday) and none so far to the fire itself. Pretty amazing when you consider the number of people who had to be evacuated.

The fire that blew up in CA last fall killed 4, I believe, and that was a much less populated area (although the population distribution probably did not favor the folks in CA - it appears that Fort McMurray was much more densely populated in the city area, at least, which helps spread the word more quickly).

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 7:49:36pm

re: #527 HappyWarrior

Florida is closed.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 7:51:18pm

re: #526 goddamnedfrank

I think the most disturbing part about this is that up until right now, I didn’t know he had a ten year old son.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 6, 2016 • 7:51:54pm

This is so epic:

Let me talk to the man in charge
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 6, 2016 • 7:52:36pm

re: #535 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I think the most disturbing part about this is that up until right now, I didn’t know he had a ten year old son.

Baron, sired by Donald out of Melania

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goddamnedfrank  May 6, 2016 • 7:52:54pm
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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 7:53:10pm

re: #535 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I’ve only heard about his son because Melania was apparently slathering him with her caviar moisturizer concoction in an effort to publicize it.

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 7:53:53pm

re: #522 HappyWarrior

I’ve honestly seen it on Facebook. As much as I want to believe it’s right wingers trying ot make left leaning people look bad, a lot of it is self inflicted. Anyhow no beef with you, you’ve gotten the big picture. In fact, I have no beef with someone who votes Bernie as long as they see the big picture and don’t use right wing smears or engage in dishonesty. I don’t like him acting like closed primaries are awful and ignoring his own wins from caucuses. I also as a Southerner don’t like him acting like “Well the South is very conservative so we’re not going to win that in the GE anyhow” while ignoring that he’s won some states and I’m not knocking your state so hear me out that he’s won big in some states that are equally Republican. I just think Bernie’s really ruined a lot of good will with people by being a poor loser and some (not all) his supporters make it worse.

Apologies for not responding right back: We have heavy weather moving into the area and one of my collateral duty hats a a village trustee is to secure the flags in the village park.

I don’t find the argument of “well Mrs. Clinton winning in the South doesn’t mean much” to be very ingenuous, when Mr. Sanders wins in places like Wyoming or Nebraska.

That said, we libs are scattered around everywhere, and all our votes count.

If Mr. Trump keeps going, even Nebraska might flip blue (one electoral vote went to President Obama last election, and in 2014 one Republican representative was ousted and replaced by a Democrat - not mine, darn it.)

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Reality Based Steve  May 6, 2016 • 7:57:12pm

Night gang. Time for me to curl up and make like a chain saw until morning.

Be good, or at least have a good bail bondsman’s number on ya.

RBS

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 7:57:34pm

re: #534 lawhawk

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Florida is closed.

Gotcha. He needs incredible wins like unheard of numbers. That’s just not going to happen. If they want to lie to themselves, that’s their problem I guess but they’re only setting themselves up for disappointment.

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retired cynic  May 6, 2016 • 7:58:16pm

re: #516 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 7:58:23pm
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electrotek  May 6, 2016 • 7:59:36pm

So in other news, the first Arab Miss USA has converted to Christianity:

And of course, Fox News is lapping it up as if it’s some kind of victory over them Moose-lims!!!!111

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:00:14pm

re: #540 Anymouse

Apologies for not responding right back: We have heavy weather moving into the area and one of my collateral duty hats a a village trustee is to secure the flags in the village park.

I don’t find the argument of “well Mrs. Clinton winning in the South doesn’t mean much” to be very ingenuous, when Mr. Sanders wins in places like Wyoming or Nebraska.

That said, we libs are scattered around everywhere, and all our votes count.

If Mr. Trump keeps going, even Nebraska might flip blue (one electoral vote went to President Obama last election, and in 2014 one Republican representative was ousted and replaced by a Democrat - not mine, darn it.)

Nah, you’er good. Yeah that’s what bugs me about that argument. And honestly I see nothing wrong with Bernie winning those states. I just get annoyed as a Virginian that Clinton’s wins are swept aside by the candidate himself as “those states are very conservative anyhow” well so is Nebraska and Wyoming as you said. I think there’s a good possibility of that happening again with that one district. That would really be neat if it happened. I really don’t have any beefs at all with people like yourself. You just have another perspective, you don’t see Clinton as the enemy or being like a Republican.

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 8:01:23pm

Johnson’s “Confessions of a Republican Ad” against Goldwater almost precisely decribes both Mr. Trump and the Republican treatment of him:

YouTube

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:02:12pm

re: #545 electrotek

So in other news, the first Arab Miss USA has converted to Christianity:

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And of course, Fox News is lapping it up as if it’s some kind of victory over them Moose-lims!!!!111

I can’t help but to wonder how Fox would feel every time a European-American of a Christian background converted to Islam, it was made out to be a victory of Christianity and the West. Anyhow whatever makes her happy. Really sleazy yet typical of Fox to use this as a victory on radical Islam instead of what it is, a young woman choosing her own religious path, something that the religious right is against.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 8:02:29pm

re: #543 retired cynic

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:03:16pm

re: #547 Anymouse

Johnson’s “Confessions of a Republican Ad” against Goldwater almost precisely decribes both Mr. Trump and the Republican treatment of him:

YouTube

Did you know the guy in that commerical was the the frontline parody guy on Chappelle Show? I remember seeing this a couple months back and wondering what happened to the guy who plays the Republican in the ad and yep he’s the guy who played the Frontline parody host in the famous black white supremacist skit.

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electrotek  May 6, 2016 • 8:04:13pm

re: #548 HappyWarrior

I can’t help but to wonder how Fox would feel every time a European-American of a Christian background converted to Islam, it was made out to be a victory of Christianity and the West. Anyhow whatever makes her happy. Really sleazy yet typical of Fox to use this as a victory on radical Islam instead of what it is, a young woman choosing her own religious path, something that the religious right is against.

Seriously. It’s not like she’s using it as an excuse to bash Islam relentlessly. At least you can tell she did so on her own and doesn’t show an axe to grind…which can’t be said for some ex-Muslims who rant over and over about Muslims. She seems genuinely happy and I wish her best of luck in her newfound faith.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 8:05:39pm

re: #551 electrotek

Seriously. It’s not like she’s using it as an excuse to bash Islam relentlessly. At least you can tell she did so on her own and doesn’t show an axe to grind…which can’t be said for some ex-Muslims who rant over and over about Muslims. She seems genuinely happy and I wish her best of luck in her newfound faith.

Agreed. In fact, if I were her, I’d be genuinely bothered by this since no doubt she still has plenty of close friends and family that are still Muslim.

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 8:06:24pm

re: #550 HappyWarrior

Did you know the guy in that commerical was the the frontline parody guy on Chappelle Show? I remember seeing this a couple months back and wondering what happened to the guy who plays the Republican in the ad and yep he’s the guy who played the Frontline parody host in the famous black white supremacist skit.

No, I didn’t; thanks for that. Interesting tidbit.

Johnson on the Republican convention in 1964 about all the good candidates the GOP passed up for Goldwater:

YouTube

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retired cynic  May 6, 2016 • 8:08:10pm

re: #549 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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William Lewis  May 6, 2016 • 8:09:25pm

Anymouse where are you linking from? My android tablet is complaining about being “Unable to display Flash content”.

Just curious.

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 8:11:06pm

re: #555 William Lewis

Anymouse where are you linking from? My android tablet is complaining about being “Unable to display Flash content”.

Just curious.

I haven’t seen a one of the videos either.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 8:12:56pm

re: #554 retired cynic

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Great White Snark  May 6, 2016 • 8:13:52pm

re: #545 electrotek

So in other news, the first Arab Miss USA has converted to Christianity:

[Embedded content]

And of course, Fox News is lapping it up as if it’s some kind of victory over them Moose-lims!!!!111

I’m a little saddened at the peer pressure likelihood that was a career move.

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retired cynic  May 6, 2016 • 8:14:53pm

re: #557 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Imma gonna look into it, maybe as part time. Thanks!

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electrotek  May 6, 2016 • 8:16:08pm

re: #552 HappyWarrior

Agreed. In fact, if I were her, I’d be genuinely bothered by this since no doubt she still has plenty of close friends and family that are still Muslim.

re: #558 Great White Snark

I’m a little saddened at the peer pressure likelihood that was a career move.

Same would have been if she was in Pakistan i.e. cricket player Muhammad Yousuf who was a former Christian but converted due to most likely peer pressure

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 8:18:40pm

re: #559 retired cynic

They have a lot more flexibility now on ordering - you might even be able to do like one shipment a month. When we step down, that’s likely what we might look at. (Or one every three weeks.)

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 8:19:25pm

re: #555 William Lewis

Anymouse where are you linking from? My android tablet is complaining about being “Unable to display Flash content”.

Just curious.

Over a landline from Western Nebraska.
If you mean YouTube, that would be the “embed content” links that YouTube provides.

Edit: I went back and tried the links here; they worked for me anyway

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 8:20:35pm

re: #514 Anymouse

(High Quality) Famous “Daisy” Attack Ad from 1964 Presidential Election

Video from the first comment.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 8:21:17pm

re: #547 Anymouse

Confessions of a Republican (LBJ 1964 Presidential campaign commercial) VTR 4568-26

Video from the second comment.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 8:21:43pm

re: #553 Anymouse

Republican Convention Ad (LBJ 1964 Presidential campaign commercial) VTR 4568-14

Video from the third comment.

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 8:21:53pm

Hmm, maybe I should have just copied the YouTube link rather than the embed content link at YouTube?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 8:22:37pm

re: #566 Anymouse

Hmm, maybe I should have just copied the YouTube link rather than the embed content link at YouTube?

Yeah, that’s how you get the video to show up as the embed here. :)

I went ahead and grabbed them for you, in case that’ll work for other folks.

Charles just makes it too easy on us.

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 8:23:54pm

Thanks, Charles.

Goldwater Ku Klux Klan support advert:

KKK for Goldwater (1964) - Classic Lyndon B. Johnson Campaign Ad

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 8:27:53pm

re: #562 Anymouse

Over a landline from Western Nebraska.
If you mean YouTube, that would be the “embed content” links that YouTube provides.

Edit: I went back and tried the links here; they worked for me anyway

As klys mentioned above…you only need to copy the You Tube url address and paste it in. The embed does not seem to work with Charles’ coding.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 6, 2016 • 8:28:35pm

re: #569 ObserverArt

Pannoowau

As klys mentioned above…you only need to copy the You Tube url address and paste it in. The embed does not seem to work with Charles’ coding.

I did them down here at the bottom of the comments, so you can give those a try and see if they work. He’s got the hang of it now. :)

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Anymouse  May 6, 2016 • 8:31:48pm

re: #570 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I hang quite well: I was hanging from the park flagpole a few minutes ago fighting the wind to pull down the flags, now I am hanging around here… .

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 8:45:34pm

re: #563 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Video from the first comment.

re: #570 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I did them down here at the bottom of the comments, so you can give those a try and see if they work. He’s got the hang of it now. :)

Heh…somehow I hit paste and part of my Trump Indian name in the upstairs thread was already in the window. It’s what I get for having two thread tabs open…and it is getting late.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 6, 2016 • 9:57:22pm

re: #526 goddamnedfrank

If I were Graham I’d just say/tweet “Draft dodger says what?”


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