The Return of VP Candidate Sarah Palin?

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Could this election possibly get any weirder? After all, we already have a racist Birther billionaire running for president on the GOP side, so how could it get any more bizarre than it already is?

Answer: if that racist Birther billionaire selects Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon turned presidential candidate turned unfiltered pitchman for Donald Trump and now part of the presumptive nominee’s vice presidential search committee, sat in the back of a Town Car with his wife, Candy, on his way to a televised interview. He had just explained to the reporter riding along that he wanted no role in a Trump administration when news arrived of a new poll naming him as the best-liked of a list of potential running mates.

“Who else was on the list?” he asked quietly, maintaining his usual inscrutable calm. The most favorably regarded contenders after himself, he was told, were John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Chris Christie.

“Those are all people on our list,” he said.

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335 comments
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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 6:51:35pm

If so, there is a God.

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 6:54:04pm
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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 6:55:01pm

If Trump picks Palin, I will have all my suspicions confirmed that this really was a ratfuck all along.

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Kragar  May 15, 2016 • 6:55:06pm

11 days ago:

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The Vicious Babushka  May 15, 2016 • 6:55:32pm
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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 6:56:15pm

re: #5 The Vicious Babushka

Which means they are under consideration.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 15, 2016 • 6:56:18pm
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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 6:57:41pm
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Feline Fearless Leader  May 15, 2016 • 7:00:14pm

Palin would fit the qualification of putting a worse executive threat than Trump in the VP seat in order to head off an impeachment attempt.

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 7:00:18pm
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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2016 • 7:05:30pm
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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2016 • 7:06:00pm
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Reality Based Steve  May 15, 2016 • 7:07:31pm

re: #9 Feline Fearless Leader

Palin would fit the qualification of putting a worse executive threat than Trump in the VP seat in order to head off an impeachment attempt.

Palin, the ultimate Poison Pill.

RBS

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Kragar  May 15, 2016 • 7:07:49pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

“I think I’m pretty much as vetted as anybody in the country could be vetted,” Palin told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I think there are so many other great people out there in American that could serve in this position.”

“I think if somebody wanted to choose me, they already know who I am, what I stand for,” she added. “They wouldn’t be in for any surprises.”

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 7:07:53pm

Trump’s Twitter banner may be the worst Photoshop job ever. It looks sooooo cheap.

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jaunte  May 15, 2016 • 7:09:00pm

re: #14 Kragar

Best known quitter in America.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 15, 2016 • 7:10:55pm

Now I can’t get that old jingle for Northwest Airlines out of my head.

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William Lewis  May 15, 2016 • 7:11:46pm

re: #9 Feline Fearless Leader

Palin would fit the qualification of putting a worse executive threat than Trump in the VP seat in order to head off an impeachment attempt.

GOP SOP since they put Dan Quayle on the ticket. Prevents impeachment and assassination attempts.

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Great White Snark  May 15, 2016 • 7:11:58pm

From probable defeat to certain landslide defeat. Works for me anyway.

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Mattand  May 15, 2016 • 7:13:36pm

re: #14 Kragar

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Swear to Christ, only a Republican would conflate “Constantly being exposed as a shameless grifter” with “Positive vetting”.

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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2016 • 7:14:51pm
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Joe Bacon  May 15, 2016 • 7:15:26pm

As some day it may happen that a insurance marker must be found,
Trump has a little list — He’s got a little list
Of Planned Parenthood offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!
There’s the pestilential DC Gasbags who beg for autographs —
All people who have flabby butts and Youuuggeee fantastic laughs —
All fetuses who are up in dates, and floor pro-choicers with them flat —
All persons who in kissing ass, smack those cheeks with you like that —
And all those liars in the Press who on spoiling tête-á-têtes insist —
They’d none of ‘em be missed — they’d none of ‘em be missed
The Donald’s got ‘em on the list — he’s got ‘em on the list;
And they’ll none of ‘em be pissed — they’ll none of ‘em be pissed.

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Mattand  May 15, 2016 • 7:16:29pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

This country elected George Bush Jr. twice. I don’t rule out anything at this point.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 15, 2016 • 7:17:31pm

re: #23 Mattand

This country elected George Bush Jr. Ronald Fucking Reagan twice. I don’t rule out anything at this point.

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William Lewis  May 15, 2016 • 7:18:27pm

re: #23 Mattand

This country elected George Bush Jr. twice. I don’t rule out anything at this point.

ding ding ding. Worse, they elected Raygun twice and Bush the Lesser was harmless compared to the damage we still suffer from that (*^(*^*&%&^^$$#$#$##.

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Joe Bacon  May 15, 2016 • 7:20:20pm

re: #25 William Lewis

ding ding ding. Worse, they elected Raygun twice and Bush the Lesser was harmless compared to the damage we still suffer from that (*^(*^*&%&^^$$#$#$##.

And let’s also not forget that this country elected Nixon twice as well!

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jaunte  May 15, 2016 • 7:20:23pm
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The Vicious Babushka  May 15, 2016 • 7:20:39pm

re: #25 William Lewis

ding ding ding. Worse, they elected Raygun twice and Bush the Lesser was harmless compared to the damage we still suffer from that (*^(*^*&%&^^$$#$#$##.

What did W. Bush and Raygun have that Donald Trump does not have?

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Joe Bacon  May 15, 2016 • 7:21:52pm

re: #28 The Vicious Babushka

What did W. Bush and Raygun have that Donald Trump does not have?

An astrologer? 😏

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 7:23:26pm

Al Jaffee, 95 years young, talks about his Fold-In creation.

Hanging With Al Jaffee, MAD Magazine’s 95-Year-Old Journeyman Cartoonist

It’s a wonderful five minute video.

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allegro  May 15, 2016 • 7:23:41pm

re: #28 The Vicious Babushka

What did W. Bush and Raygun have that Donald Trump does not have?

Hair

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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2016 • 7:24:08pm

Yup, the US elected Reagan, Nixon and W. Point taken. But Donald Trump is WAY beyond them in terms of bad craziness. WAY. He’s exponentially worse.

Has the country gotten so weird that a majority will vote for someone this heinous? I hope not. That would be a hell of a kick in the nads.

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Dark_Falcon  May 15, 2016 • 7:24:39pm

re: #28 The Vicious Babushka

What did W. Bush and Raygun have that Donald Trump does not have?

Actual policy positions and governing experience.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 15, 2016 • 7:25:12pm

re: #29 Joe Bacon

An astrologer? 😏

re: #31 allegro

Hair

They held elected office.

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Belafon  May 15, 2016 • 7:26:00pm

Yes, but it elected Obama twice. So, yes, it can be stupid, but it can also be pretty smart. It would be nice if it were smart enough to vote in the off-year elections.

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 7:26:07pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

I have not heard the term “nads” in a long time. Upding.

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jaunte  May 15, 2016 • 7:26:17pm

re: #33 Dark_Falcon

Pardon me, fat fingers.

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Belafon  May 15, 2016 • 7:26:42pm

re: #17 The Vicious Babushka

Now I can’t get that old jingle for Northwest Airlines out of my head.

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Interesting picture.

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Kragar  May 15, 2016 • 7:27:06pm

re: #27 jaunte

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The Engineer Lobuno  May 15, 2016 • 7:28:24pm

re: #28 The Vicious Babushka

What did W. Bush and Raygun have that Donald Trump does not have?

Normal sized hands?

Real hair instead of an animal on top?

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jaunte  May 15, 2016 • 7:29:17pm

re: #28 The Vicious Babushka

What did W. Bush and Raygun have that Donald Trump does not have?

A sense of shame?

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Joe Bacon  May 15, 2016 • 7:32:53pm

I can just imagine who Trump’s Chief of Staff would be…

Miss Cleo Commercial (1998)

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 15, 2016 • 7:34:31pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

Yup, the US elected Reagan, Nixon and W. Point taken. But Donald Trump is WAY beyond them in terms of bad craziness. WAY. He’s exponentially worse.

Has the country gotten so weird that a majority will vote for someone this heinous? I hope not. That would be a hell of a kick in the nads.

I wonder about the punditocracy’s third-party scenario. Imagine Clinton and Trump slanging each other for 6 months, driving each one’s negatives through the floor. In a low-turnout election, Clinton takes the Kerry map, Trump takes the ‘04 Bush map, except instead of Ohio being stolen for the GOP by Diebold, they ran John Kasich and he takes Ohio.

The election’s thrown into the House and they choose the candidate who came in an extremely distant 3rd in the Popular Vote. Would the American people sit still for this?

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Joe Bacon  May 15, 2016 • 7:38:07pm

re: #43 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I wonder about the punditocracy’s third-party scenario. Imagine Clinton and Trump slanging each other for 6 months, driving each one’s negatives through the floor. In a low-turnout election, Clinton takes the Kerry map, Trump takes the ‘04 Bush map, except instead of Ohio being stolen for the GOP by Diebold, they ran John Kasich and he takes Ohio.

The election’s thrown into the House and they choose the candidate who came in an extremely distant 3rd in the Popular Vote. Would the American people sit still for this?

Kasich has a teabagger majority in his legislature. If he tried that, they would revolt and impeach him.

However there may be another third party possibility if Wall Street dumps Trump and pumps up Gary Johnson on the Libertarian ticket. There could be a possibility that Johnson may run up to half of Perot’s 1992 total. That might create a critical mass for the Libertarian Party to become a real player on the national level.

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 7:38:46pm

re: #37 jaunte

Pardon me, fat fingers.

I would hope you have fat fingers, being 6’ 5” and all.

But wait, Trump is 6’ 2” and he’s got tiny little sausage fingers. Somethin’ doesn’t add up!

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CuriousLurker  May 15, 2016 • 7:39:37pm

Sarah Palin? Dumb and Dumber? The kiss of death.

OT Drive-by: My Sunday stroll into the Twittersphere’s wingnutistan:

In addition to the items below, I also collected some info on survey of British Muslims that Fox is using for scare-tweets, but it got kinda long so I decided to make it into a page. Unfortunately, it’s getting late here and I have to be up early tomorrow, so I can’t stick around to respond to comments. If anyone wants to chime in, I’ll check back tomorrow: Fox News Scare-Tweets About British Muslims - LGF Pages

This Trumpbot’s profile—he doesn’t like liars, but he’s 100% for Trump. Makes perfect sense. He also appears to dislike proper punctuation. //

CONNECTICUT 4 Trump
@1truecossack

loves——my family,nature,fishing,,bowhunting. ….likes——honesty,no matter how much it can hurt sometimes…dislikes———sneaky people..liars..

Rep. Steve King is still inspired by Andrew Breitbart, four years after his death:

A nauseatingly coy Newt “The Opportunist” Gingrich pretends that he wouldn’t jump at the chance to be Trump’s VP and knife anyone who got in his way:

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Reality Based Steve  May 15, 2016 • 7:40:25pm

Me from this weekend. Yes, Sasquatch can Dive!

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Dark_Falcon  May 15, 2016 • 7:44:02pm

Expect to see the Trumpkins and Bernie Bros make use of this:

The Wire actor Wendell Pierce arrested and charged with battery after early morning ‘hotel fight with female Bernie Sanders supporter’ during movie shoot in Atlanta

Wendell Pierce, 52, was arrested outside the Loews Hotel in Atlanta
The Wire actor allegedly grabbed a woman’s hair and smacked her head
Row is believed to have been over the woman’s support for Bernie Sanders
Pierce is in Atlanta filming One Last Thing and was staying at the hotel
He has been charged with battery and was released on a $1,000 bond

I predict spews of racism coupled with a generous amount of victim status claiming from the Sanders Twitter Hoard.

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 7:45:20pm
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William Lewis  May 15, 2016 • 7:46:08pm

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

DF, be sure to check out my post downstairs. I think you might find it historically/hysterically interesting… I certainly was hysterical at the end of that night… O_o

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 15, 2016 • 7:46:21pm

re: #47 Reality Based Steve

Me from this weekend. Yes, Sasquatch can Dive!

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Thought you were The Phantom from the funny papers for a sec….

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2016 • 7:46:29pm

re: #42 Joe Bacon

Tangentially related, there’s an excellent documentary called “Hotline” about people who work at crisis lines, phone sex lines and yes, even psychic hotlines.

The filmmakers actually interview Ms. Cleo herself who tells the story of how she ended up in that position. Evidently, the management saw something in her and made her the face of the company but she didn’t understand the legal implications of the whole thing so she made practically no money despite having her face plastered everywhere.

The documentary is on Netflix. HIGHLY recommended.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 15, 2016 • 7:46:41pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

Has the country gotten so weird that a majority will vote for someone this heinous?

In a word? Yes. And until after the primaries and conventions are over, we’re going to be stuck with this carny barker who is running the ultimate work on the American people.

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 7:47:00pm

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 7:47:52pm

re: #53 Eric The Fruit Bat

There is not enough wine on this beautiful planet to keep me drunk enough thru November 8.

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Stanley Sea  May 15, 2016 • 7:48:38pm

re: #54 Billy Batts

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Reality Based Steve  May 15, 2016 • 7:49:07pm

re: #51 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Thought you were The Phantom from the funny papers for a sec….

Rewatched that movie a week or so ago. Just as cheesy as I remembered it, but good light fun.

RBGTW
Reality Based Ghost That Walks.

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Reality Based Steve  May 15, 2016 • 7:50:16pm

re: #54 Billy Batts

Very Good On YOU!

RBS

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 7:51:32pm

re: #56 Stanley Sea

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 7:51:55pm

Safe at home.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2016 • 7:51:59pm

re: #54 Billy Batts

OUTSTANDING!!

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Dark_Falcon  May 15, 2016 • 7:52:04pm

re: #50 William Lewis

DF, be sure to check out my post downstairs. I think you might find it historically/hysterically interesting… I certainly was hysterical at the end of that night… O_o

I just did. Good stuff, though Reagan wasn’t actually ‘hair trigger’ where the Soviet Union was concerned. The real danger was that the Red Army would have taken your getting blown up as the “prelude to an attack”.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2016 • 7:52:42pm

re: #60 Billy Batts

The guy standing up in the background just makes that one.

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Joe Bacon  May 15, 2016 • 7:53:45pm

Hey folks! What’s wrong with this picture?????

I think that somebody looked at a Texas Textbook!
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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 7:53:52pm

re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg

The guy standing up in the background just makes that one.

Thanks! It definitely helped with the cropping!

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 15, 2016 • 7:56:14pm

Trump saying “most others”. Yeah. So his VP pick is on that list.

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allegro  May 15, 2016 • 7:57:10pm

Wyoming weed rules, man.

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Lidane  May 15, 2016 • 7:57:49pm

I would injure myself laughing if Trump went with Palin. The universe doesn’t love me enough for that, though.

Kasich, Cruz, and Rubio all loathe Trump with the fire of a thousand suns. ESPECIALLY Cruz, given that fifteen minute rant he went on a couple of weeks ago. Trump would have to hire food and drink tasters with Cruz as his running mate.

I bet it’s going to be Christie, just by default. It’s not like Christie has a political future in New Jersey anyhow. Might as well.

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jaunte  May 15, 2016 • 7:58:10pm

re: #64 Joe Bacon

Colorado marijuana so good there’s none to be found in Colorado.

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Dark_Falcon  May 15, 2016 • 7:58:18pm

re: #64 Joe Bacon

Hey folks! What’s wrong with this picture?????

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They mistook Dick Cheney’s state (Wyoming) for Teleskiguy’s state (Colorado).

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William Lewis  May 15, 2016 • 7:59:08pm

re: #54 Billy Batts

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I’m not a baseball fan, to put it nicely. But good action baseball photos are few and far between and yours are up there. Good work.

Just remember the ultimate baseball photo:

Because that’s the only photo that ever made me give a real f*** about baseball. That one shows the whole of what it took to get there and why we still care about what he did 68 years later.

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jaunte  May 15, 2016 • 7:59:30pm

re: #64 Joe Bacon

“States with Colorado marjijuana”

Editors must be stoned.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 15, 2016 • 8:00:06pm

re: #68 Lidane

I would injure myself laughing if Trump went with Palin. The universe doesn’t love me enough for that, though.

Kasich, Cruz, and Rubio all loathe Trump with the fire of a thousand suns. ESPECIALLY Cruz, given that fifteen minute rant he went on a couple of weeks ago. Trump would have to hire food and drink tasters with Cruz as his running mate.

I bet it’s going to be Christie, just by default. It’s not like Christie has a political future in New Jersey anyhow. Might as well.

A Noo Yawk/Joisey ticket? Would the Trumpiots in the south go for that? He hugged Obozo, too!!

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 8:00:43pm

re: #54 Billy Batts

Fuck yeah, dude!

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Belafon  May 15, 2016 • 8:00:46pm

re: #64 Joe Bacon

Hey folks! What’s wrong with this picture?????

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What’s the purpose of the arrows?

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 8:01:24pm

re: #71 William Lewis

Thank you very much. Yes, that image of Babe Ruth is an all-timer. I saw the original print at the MFA in Houston a few years ago, along with the caption that was written on the side, it really was incredible. I think it was a UPI photo, but I’m not sure, I’ll check.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 15, 2016 • 8:01:24pm

re: #72 jaunte

“States with Colorado marjijuana”

Editors must be stoned.

Damn! I didn’t even notice that!

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 8:01:38pm

re: #64 Joe Bacon

Hey folks! What’s wrong with this picture?????

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I’ll tell you what’s wrong with that picture. California doesn’t import weed.

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FormerDirtDart  May 15, 2016 • 8:02:24pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

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She really needs a beer in that empty hand…

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 8:02:28pm

re: #71 William Lewis

I’m not a baseball fan, to put it nicely. But good action baseball photos are few and far between and yours are up there. Good work.

Just remember the ultimate baseball photo:

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Because that’s the only photo that ever made me give a real f*** about baseball. That one shows the whole of what it took to get there and why we still care about what he did 68 years later.

Nat Fein (the N.Y. Herald Tribune)

iconicphotos.wordpress.com

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 8:03:16pm

re: #60 Billy Batts

Safe at home.

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The object of baseball, to be safe at home.

Fuck yeah, dude!

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William Lewis  May 15, 2016 • 8:03:56pm

re: #76 Billy Batts

As photographers we need to know when we do good and we also need to know what is our goal. Damn good work, but keep pushing. I’d love to see another sports Pulitzer…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 15, 2016 • 8:04:03pm

re: #75 Belafon

What’s the purpose of the arrows?

It’s supposed to remind you of The Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere, but nobody could draw an octopus.

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Charles Johnson  May 15, 2016 • 8:04:57pm
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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 8:05:10pm

re: #82 William Lewis

As photographers we need to know when we do good and we also need to know what is our goal. Damn good work, but keep pushing. I’d love to see another sports Pulitzer…

I never knew that Ruth photo won a Pulitzer until just a second ago.

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 8:07:30pm

re: #82 William Lewis

lens.blogs.nytimes.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2016 • 8:08:20pm

re: #71 William Lewis

I’m somewhat partial to this one…

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 8:08:47pm

re: #78 teleskiguy

California has been a medical cannabis state for 20 years.

I’m not familiar with the minutiae local politics and initiatives. Are Californians putting straight legalization to a vote this November?

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Great White Snark  May 15, 2016 • 8:10:51pm

re: #88 teleskiguy

Yes.

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 8:11:29pm

Giphy

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William Lewis  May 15, 2016 • 8:11:42pm

re: #86 Billy Batts

lens.blogs.nytimes.com

I remember that piece now that you bring it up. There was also an exquisite one in the Smithsonian magazine, IIRC. It was an amazing photo that could only be shot by someone who wasn’t a usual sports photographer because the behind the back shot was so unlike the usual sports heroic shot. Instead he caught the human side rather than the hero side of Ruth and made a portrait for the ages.

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William Lewis  May 15, 2016 • 8:12:22pm

re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m somewhat partial to this one…

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Understandable. But I’ll stand by my other one as the best baseball photo ever.

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 8:13:34pm

re: #91 William Lewis

Well said.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 15, 2016 • 8:14:09pm

re: #90 teleskiguy

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That helmet will help a lot. Like Jerry Seinfeld said: “At that point the helmet’s wearing you for protection.”

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 8:14:27pm

re: #91 William Lewis

mikepalmer.info

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Reality Based Steve  May 15, 2016 • 8:16:12pm

re: #90 teleskiguy

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oh.hell.no.

RBS

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 8:16:54pm

re: #89 Great White Snark

Yes.

I can haz Google!

ballotpedia.org

I hope it passes. That would mean every west coast state including Alaska has legal cannabis. States should look to Colorado and Washington and the regulatory system we have in place. A billion in sales last year in Colorado? That’s the tipping point. When people see that you can make money legitimately and help fund schools and the homeless problem, dominoes fall. California legalizing would be yuge!

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jaunte  May 15, 2016 • 8:17:02pm

re: #90 teleskiguy

And once he got over the gap, he had to turn around and go back.

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William Lewis  May 15, 2016 • 8:17:11pm

re: #95 Billy Batts

mikepalmer.info

Oh… Thank you.

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 8:21:24pm

re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg

Always loved this one.

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 8:22:23pm

re: #98 jaunte

It’s definitely one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen involving a bicycle. I hope Red Bull pays dude handsomely.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2016 • 8:23:26pm

re: #100 Billy Batts

Guy on home plate to catcher: Dude, seriously?

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William Lewis  May 15, 2016 • 8:25:33pm

I do hope that runner was safe, but when it comes to baseball I never know what to expect.

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FormerDirtDart  May 15, 2016 • 8:28:51pm

re: #90 teleskiguy

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retired cynic  May 15, 2016 • 8:36:02pm

Well, both my pro sportsball teams won tonight: Cards and Blues. Celebrate with Jack!

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goddamnedfrank  May 15, 2016 • 8:41:21pm
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Reality Based Steve  May 15, 2016 • 8:44:03pm

Night all. May you all be blessed with restful sleep and happy dreams.

RBS

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retired cynic  May 15, 2016 • 8:45:51pm

re: #107 Reality Based Steve

Night all. May you all be blessed with restful sleep and happy dreams.

RBS

Sounds like Frank needs that! (Or my cup of Jack!)

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Billy Batts  May 15, 2016 • 8:49:15pm

re: #105 retired cynic

Well, both my pro sportsball teams won tonight: Cards and Blues. Celebrate with Jack!

I watched both. Not a fan of either but congrats!

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retired cynic  May 15, 2016 • 8:50:30pm

re: #109 Billy Batts

I watched both. Not a fan of either but congrats!

Life long Cards fan (and that’s a long time!), and for the Blues only because they are from the area. I’ll cheer when I can!

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 8:55:37pm

Ah Joel. The keyboard player for my favorite touring rock ‘n’ roll circus is in eastern Europe right now. He found this now viral street art and added some context.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2016 • 9:01:14pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

I think I need some eye bleach now…

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2016 • 9:05:55pm

As most of you know, I’m a poet. I’ve been writing a fair bit lately and slowly but surely cobbling together enough work to release a collection. Here’s a recent one I’m quite proud of.

THE MUSIC

She met him on a blind date,
At the old Tree Top Cafe,
They were talking, they were laughing,
It was a gorgeous summers day.

Before long things had grown
Into something so much more.
They couldn’t wait to see the wonders
The future had in store.

The one night, a fancy dinner,
And an in house five piece band,
They were tearing up that dance floor,
Swinging ‘round near hand in hand.

The music was electric,
It became their special tune.
And by the time song was over,
They were the darlings of the room.

They danced like no one’s watching,
They danced with all their heart.
Two people meant to be together,
Romance, passion, drama, art.

Soon the wedding bells were ringing,
She looked so lovely dressed in white,
Two hundred fifty in the chapel,
It was a fascinating sight.

But not quite one year later,
She barely had the ring.
Three and a half months pregnant.
He came home and packed his things.

He said it wasn’t working,
But she was not to blame.
He said there was no other woman,
Just his own remorse and shame.

Soon it would be revealed,
He deceived her and he lied,
And on that day inside her soul,
The lovely music died.

So she’s there and crass and bitter,
How did this ever come to be?
The truth behind the man he was,
Why did she never truly see?

Then some long months later
One lonely winters day,
She’ll put the music on again,
And when the song begins to play…

She’ll dance like no ones watching
She’ll dance with all her heart,
She won’t let him take it from her,
She won’t let it fall apart.

Her son is five years old now,
He’s one amazing little kid.
Someday he’ll know her sacrifices,
And why she did the things she did.

It hasn’t all been easy,
She’s seen her share of grim.
But everything was worth it,
If not for her, her him.

And the old ex is out there somewhere,
But she could not care any less,
She doesn’t need the headaches,
And she doesn’t need the stress.

She has done just fine without him,
And though its true he did her wrong.
She’s got it all together now,
And she’s taken back her song.

She’ll dance like no ones watching,
She’ll dance with all her heart,
She’ll dance her way to freedom,
She will never fall apart.

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goddamnedfrank  May 15, 2016 • 9:12:04pm

This is why I have such a hard time taking these Bernouts seriously, there’s always some nefarious external excuse for his losses. They’re incapable of looking inward or even attempting to examine where their messaging failed and then trying to adapt and improve.

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 9:20:59pm

re: #114 goddamnedfrank

You just perfectly described the BernOut shit I’m seeing in my Facebook. Folks I know *in the flesh*. Many of them are convinced that everything is rigged, the system is broken, we’re totally fucked, etc., etc.

That’s not my bag, baby. And Bernie is being a fucking asshole staying in the race and inciting these irrational folks in the political theater.

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 9:24:35pm

Everything Bernie Sanders is doing right now is ratfucking the Democratic Party and their standard bearer Hillary Clinton. *EVERYTHING*.

I can’t wait to hear what that fucking asshole says when he loses the California primary.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2016 • 9:25:25pm

re: #116 teleskiguy

Everything Bernie Sanders is doing right now is ratfucking the Democratic Party and their standard bearer Hillary Clinton. *EVERYTHING*.

I can’t wait to hear what that fucking asshole says when he loses the California primary.

Oh I’m sure it will be some variation of: “we got screwed”.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 15, 2016 • 9:26:20pm

I wonder of how many the Berniebots use Hillary attacking points from RW sources.

It’s entirely possible the RWNJ scumbag bloggers and pundits have infected BOTH sides of this campaign.

and that’s just fucking sad.

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 9:26:47pm

re: #117 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh I’m sure it will be some variation of: “we got screwed”.

If that does happen, then Bernie is a ratfucker and he doesn’t love his country. He should then move to fucking Venezuela, piece of shit!

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 9:31:30pm

Ugh. The seal is broken for me. Bernie has pissed me off to no end. The shit in Nevada, his rhetoric on the stump as of late attacking Hillary and the whole of the Democratic Party, and his supporters on Twitter, fuck those folks in the ass with a big rubber dick.

I’ve had it. This is teleskiguy very frustrated and angry with recalcitrant Berniestans.

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Kragar  May 15, 2016 • 9:53:13pm
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Kragar  May 15, 2016 • 9:55:57pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 15, 2016 • 10:00:41pm

re: #105 retired cynic

Well, both my pro sportsball teams won tonight: Cards and Blues. Celebrate with Jack!

I’m cheering the other side of the Blues match-up, but I’m not despairing yet.

The Sharks had a cat run onto the ice the first game of the last series - little black kitten - who ended up being caught and brought to the Humane Society. She went to her forever home on Friday, and they had a viewing party today where there were a limited number of rally towels in her honor.

I got one. :D

Instagram

It might be an away game but we’re showing up at home to cheer the boys on anyway. Go Sharks! #hockey #sjsharks

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goddamnedfrank  May 15, 2016 • 10:08:03pm

re: #114 goddamnedfrank

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Danack  May 15, 2016 • 10:13:53pm

re: #68 Lidane

I bet it’s going to be Christie, just by default. It’s not like Christie has a political future in New Jersey anyhow. Might as well.

I can’t think of anyone else Trump would pick (other than Palin), but at the same time, Trump just doesn’t seem to like Christie that much, and is probably concerned about Christie possibly taking the limelight away from Trump.

If it isn’t Christie, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s some little known congressman that Trump picks - either one that is quite young (and so doesn’t appear to challenge Trump’s seniority on the ticke), or an older person, who is close to retiring.

I can’t see any serious politician that wants to have a future wanting to be Trump’s VP pick.

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majii  May 15, 2016 • 10:14:29pm

re: #120 teleskiguy

I see everything that he’s doing now as confirmation that he cares nothing about the Democratic Party or democrats/progressives. It’s all about him and his desires. The Democratic Party was the vehicle he chose to attempt to hijack and use for his own purposes. All the while he caucused with dems in Congress he couldn’t be bothered to change his party affiliation to Democrat—-until he got the rotten idea to run for POTUS. F*ck him and the hoss he rode in on. I endorse your graphic illustrating how you feel about him and his supporters. Count me in as another one who is thoroughly disgusted with their behavior. Although they don’t seem to realize it, their behavior is turning off lots of democrats to Sanders and anything he has to say. With the challenges we’re facing between now and election day, we don’t need the divisive, attention-getting acting out coming from them. Their recent shenanigans in Nevada and Alaska at the conventions are reprehensible and shows me that they’re left-wing extremists and no better than the Tea Partiers they love to mock and disparage. They are also failing to acknowledge that they can’t make us do sh*t, and many of us have become immune to their temper tantrums. My only wish at this point is that they sit down, STFU, and ride their hosses off into the sunset, and leave us grownups to unite the party and create strategies to keep Trump out of the WH. I haven’t laid out one cent so far this campaign season. I will soon, but I definitely won’t be donating to Sanders’ campaign because I abhor whiny, demanding, divisive, know-it-all, authoritarians with the heat of one million suns.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 15, 2016 • 10:25:24pm

re: #60 Billy Batts

What lens do you use for these shots?

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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 10:37:31pm

re: #126 majii

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goddamnedfrank  May 15, 2016 • 10:38:27pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 15, 2016 • 10:42:29pm

Computer is acting flaky. Time to reboot.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 15, 2016 • 10:57:29pm

John Oliver ridicules Trump over ‘John Miller’ alter-ego — then invites ‘Miller’ to come on the show

“Now, to be clear,” he added, “this is not an invitation to Donald Trump, who has never been and will never be invited here for an interview. But if ‘John Miller’ wants to sit down with us, we would love to have him.”

As an added inducement, Oliver promised to provide “John Miller” with a badly cooked Trump steak, skin mags and a hand mirror.

Last Week Tonight 5/16/2016: John Oliver destroy Donald Trump Again (Video)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 15, 2016 • 11:00:37pm

Aaannndd here I am back, after yet another mega-Windows update.

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Anymouse  May 15, 2016 • 11:01:27pm

re: #64 Joe Bacon

No wonder I keep going wrong! I keep driving south of my house in the Nebraska Panhandle, when according to USA Today Colorado is west of me!

No wonder I keep coming home with coal instead… .

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 15, 2016 • 11:03:07pm

re: #64 Joe Bacon

Hey folks! What’s wrong with this picture?????

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It’s one of those square states, y’know near the mountains?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 15, 2016 • 11:04:38pm

re: #134 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’s one of those square states, y’know near the mountains?

That Margie Juana gets around, huh?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 15, 2016 • 11:06:11pm

re: #135 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

That Margie Juana gets around, huh?

Voted Ms Popularity several years in a row, in two states!

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goddamnedfrank  May 15, 2016 • 11:32:19pm

I thought these assholes were done four days ago, but apparently no. Presented as a case study in how not to do progressive messaging and outreach.

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goddamnedfrank  May 15, 2016 • 11:39:18pm
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teleskiguy  May 15, 2016 • 11:46:19pm

re: #138 goddamnedfrank

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GrantS  May 15, 2016 • 11:46:49pm

Nonsense, there are plenty of choice. Has Trump approached Glenn Beck? He’s looking for a new routine pretty soon. Same with Rush Limbaugh. How about Alex Jones? He’d go for VP in a second. Don’t forget Peter King, or even Trey Gowdy. But Trump should avoid Cruz, as somehow I figure Trump might befall an accident shortly after that announcement.

The only problem with choosing Palin is that he would have to come up with another VP choice after two years. Palin would have to quit to do more for the world by something something.

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Viscous Obama  May 15, 2016 • 11:52:00pm

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goddamnedfrank  May 15, 2016 • 11:54:07pm

re: #141 Viscous Obama

Renegade Jew is the coolest thing anybody has ever called Bill Kristol. He’s peaked, it’s all downhill for him from here.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  May 16, 2016 • 12:54:06am

re: #47 Reality Based Steve

Me from this weekend. Yes, Sasquatch can Dive!

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Apparently he can also wield the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Oh for some proper image manipulation skills.
Sorry, that was literally all I could see when I looked at that photo.
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Anymouse  May 16, 2016 • 1:00:40am

re: #55 Billy Batts

There is not enough wine on this beautiful planet to keep me drunk enough thru November 8.

Or 151 rum.

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Kragar  May 16, 2016 • 1:01:19am
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teleskiguy  May 16, 2016 • 1:01:32am
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Kragar  May 16, 2016 • 1:12:23am

40k time

Death Korps of Krieg

The Death Korps of Krieg is the name given to all of the Imperial Guard regiments that originate from the devastated, post-nuclear Death World of Krieg in the Segmentum Tempestus. Krieg was the site of a rebellion against the Imperium of Man over 1,500 standard years ago in the 40th Millennium and was bombarded with nuclear weapons followed by five hundred years of grinding warfare to purge the heretical rebels. After all those years of nuclear destruction and bitter trench warfare, Krieg was reduced to a scorched, radioactive husk of a world composed of dust and mud whose surviving people were forced to retreat into underground hive cities to survive the toxic planetary environment. The Death Korps of Krieg is a siege specialist regiment of the Imperial Guard and the regiments raised on Krieg seek to repent for their former treachery against the Imperium by displaying a disturbing disregard for their own lives in combat. Death Korps troops excel at wars of attrition and defensive combat in particular.

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goddamnedfrank  May 16, 2016 • 1:15:38am

This is my main gripe regarding Sanders fans at this point, they pretend to be all about principles while actually demonstrating none.

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Kragar  May 16, 2016 • 1:25:01am
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goddamnedfrank  May 16, 2016 • 1:36:05am
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 16, 2016 • 1:40:13am

re: #149 Kragar

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Yeah, Trump’s got the Grover Dill vote sewn up, that much is true. But is it enough? Are there enough Grover Dills to put him in the White House? Are we a nation of Grover Dills? Looking back on my childhood I’m afraid of the answer….

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Timothy Watson  May 16, 2016 • 1:55:09am

re: #149 Kragar

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More terrifying than any publicity shot I’ve seen of the film.

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Timothy Watson  May 16, 2016 • 2:00:21am

re: #148 goddamnedfrank

This is my main gripe regarding Sanders fans at this point, they pretend to be all about principles while actually demonstrating none.

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Dammit, I don’t see what’s wrong with liking caucuses when they give you the desired result and wanting to get rid of them when they don’t.

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Ming5000  May 16, 2016 • 2:26:14am

I am watching the Panama Papers fallout. The wheels are still turning slowly.

Expect to hear a lot more of this kind of response:

Blouin, who was born in Montreal and was worth an estimated $425million a decade ago, set up the companies on the advice of her accountants.

She told The Toronto Star: ‘I assume everything is in good standing.

‘I’m not a lawyer and I’m not an accountant. So anything that was structured (in the) British Virgin Islands was done by Deloitte many, many years ago in the United Kingdom.’

Which could be true. I hope everything is aboveboard.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 16, 2016 • 4:12:46am

re: #154 Ming5000

I am watching the Panama Papers fallout. The wheels are still turning slowly.

Expect to hear a lot more of this kind of response:

Which could be true. I hope everything is aboveboard.

I think the biggest trouble these folks will have is from their national tax agencies, especially if income was underreported or not reported at all. Audits await them.

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Teukka  May 16, 2016 • 4:27:08am

So, a curious piece of news from Sweden…
A 332 m (1000’-ish) antenna mast for broadcast TV and Radio collapsed last night, taking out the power for 500 customers and radio and TV for 200,000 people over 7 counties.
It collapsed about 100m (300’-ish) up, and police have made finds which strengthen their suspicions it was an act of sabotage.
No clue as to who did it at this point.

Source: svt.se (Google Translate)

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Ming5000  May 16, 2016 • 4:32:17am

re: #156 Teukka

Someone climbed up 100 meters and did something that made the tower collapse at some later time after the climber had climbed back down and clear? Seems far fetched at first. Unless it was a timed or remote control explosive, which is obviously detectable.

I would even want to go up 10 meters.

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Kent Dorfman  May 16, 2016 • 4:37:51am

If Trump’s VP pick brings derision and furor to the left it is a good pick for Trump.

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Kent Dorfman  May 16, 2016 • 4:41:40am

Cue the Jaws music
mashable.com

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Anymouse  May 16, 2016 • 4:41:46am

re: #158 Kent Dorfman

Lemme know how Sarah Palin works out for the right. /s

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Kent Dorfman  May 16, 2016 • 4:42:57am

re: #160 Anymouse

That is just someone’s wet dream.

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Anymouse  May 16, 2016 • 4:49:25am

re: #161 Kent Dorfman

I can just imagine Bristol Palin as “first unwed teen mother” in the White House.

Wait, no I can’t, unless she takes the tour.

Nevertheless, there is absolutely nothing about Mr. Trump that surprises me any more.

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Teukka  May 16, 2016 • 4:50:36am

re: #157 Ming5000

Someone climbed up 100 meters and did something that made the tower collapse at some later time after the climber had climbed back down and clear? Seems far fetched at first. Unless it was a timed or remote control explosive, which is obviously detectable.

I would even want to go up 10 meters.

More like someone cut one of they guy wires.

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Ming5000  May 16, 2016 • 4:53:11am

re: #163 Teukka

Oh! Well, yeah. That makes more sense. Never mind. :-)

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Decatur Deb  May 16, 2016 • 4:54:31am

There are certain attitudes in Alabama that redeem a lot of the bullshit:

Epic and Honest Mobile Home Commercial

(Real commercial, filmed in Daughter1’s part of the state.)

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 4:58:08am

From Yad Vashem:

Various documents and appeals by the Jews of Dagestan to the authorities complaining about the author of an article in the “Kommunist” newspaper published in Buynakst accusing the Jews of Dagestan of using the blood of Muslims for cult purposes

In the file there are excerpts from the article by Makhmudov; appeals by mountain Jews to Ilya Ehrenburg, the local authorities and the government of the Soviet Union; reactions of the local authorities; Ilya Ehrenburg’s appeal to Suslov requesting an investigation of the matter; excerpts from speeches by famous lawyers regarding the blood libel (the Sara Modebadze Case), excerpts from articles and speeches of Lenin and Khrushchev regarding displays of antisemitism and blood libels.

Correspondence regarding the blood libel against Nikolay Bomze, from Tskhaltubo, who was arrested and released in 1962

Correspondence including letters to Ilya Ehrenburg from Bomze’s relatives and his housemaid, requesting help in the affair; Nikolay Bomze, from Tskhaltubo, was accused of taking blood for ritual purposes from a boy in Georgia [USSR] named Giya Shovinidze; following the intervention of Ilya Ehrenburg, his secretary Valentina Milman and the poet Boris Slutskiy, the accused man was released;

Included in the file are letters of gratitude to Ilya Ehrenburg; letter by Ilya Ehrenburg to the First Secretary of the Communist Party Committee in Moscow, Mr. Pyotr Demichev, including a request to help Nikolay Bomze receive an apartment in Moscow, instead of in Tskhaltubo, after the Chief Defense Attorney of Georgia [USSR] said that he cannot promise the security [safety] of Bomze in his Republic.

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Kent Dorfman  May 16, 2016 • 4:58:20am

re: #165 Decatur Deb

“Where my wife’s boyfriend hit me with a fence post”
Oldie but a goodie! Have another

Black and White People Furniture - Red House Commercial

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 16, 2016 • 5:32:20am

re: #167 Kent Dorfman

re: #165 Decatur Deb

We need someone to do something like those for Trump, Sanders and Clinton.

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 5:34:18am

RNC Chair: ‘No One Cares’ About NYT’s Article On Trump’s Abuse Of Women

Yeah, Rine-se.

How is it now?

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 5:36:29am

re: #155 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I think the biggest trouble these folks will have is from their national tax agencies, especially if income was underreported or not reported at all. Audits await them.


Outlaw Bank

for the same story in a novel: Foliage

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 5:37:42am

Key Quotes, Data & Themes from 2016 U.S. Department of Defense Report on China’s Military & Security Developments

link recommended by Foreign Policy email digest news daily.

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Joe Bacon  May 16, 2016 • 5:44:54am

re: #141 Viscous Obama

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In the immortal words of George The T…

George Takei Oh My

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2016 • 5:48:22am

re: #111 teleskiguy

Ah Joel. The keyboard player for my favorite touring rock ‘n’ roll circus is in eastern Europe right now. He found this now viral street art and added some context.

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Heh. Good one….I like it

I’ve seen this one in Berlin on the East Side Gallery:

The original photo of the ‘Socialist Fraternal Kiss’:

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Anymouse  May 16, 2016 • 5:48:32am

Furries and anime enthusiasts for Trump:

wonkette.com

Yeah, they’re a thing.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 16, 2016 • 5:48:44am

re: #165 Decatur Deb

There are certain attitudes in Alabama that redeem a lot of the bullshit:

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(Real commercial, filmed in Daughter1’s part of the state.)

Seems like he’d be a fun guy to go out drinking with.

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 5:53:23am

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman -NatGeo

I’ll be watching this.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 16, 2016 • 5:55:00am

re: #171 Birth Control Works

China has expressed that its feelings are hurt, and also predicted difficulties in the future should the USA get too close to the islands China has essentially seized.

The current regime here seems bent on military and commercial dominance of the region, at least as long as the money holds out. Or maybe in case the money doesn’t hold out.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 16, 2016 • 5:56:31am

re: #176 Birth Control Works

The Story of God, narrated by God. Nice touch.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 16, 2016 • 5:57:29am

re: #170 Birth Control Works


Outlaw Bank

for the same story in a novel: Foliage

Links are borked. You got “smile.” in there.

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darthstar  May 16, 2016 • 6:00:34am

It’s nice to wake up to a decent article on Monday morning.

This is a good read because of what it doesn’t do:
1. It doesn’t mention Hillary’s asshole GOP opponent.
2. It doesn’t discuss popularity polls or likeablility.
3.. It doesn’t spoon feed campaign talking points (positive or negative) to the reader.

What it does do is state something people will inevitably find difficult to understand - that Hillary’s foreign policy will differ from Obama’s in some ways because they have different mind-sets. This would seem obvious, I agree, but we aren’t asked to think about what that actually means. We’re just supposed to wave our respective flags and hope our team wins the race.

I like reading articles that don’t make me hate the state of our Amazing Race political election culture.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 16, 2016 • 6:00:52am

Baby Whiplash has a blind squirrel moment==>

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The Vicious Babushka  May 16, 2016 • 6:03:12am

Whoa he found another acorn==>

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 16, 2016 • 6:04:06am

re: #182 The Vicious Babushka

Slow learner

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 6:04:33am

I like how so many BernieBro revolutionaries abhor regime change. Wait wut.

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:06:27am

re: #179 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Links are borked. You got “smile.” in there.

iiii-eeeee

fixing

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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 6:06:58am

re: #182 The Vicious Babushka

Whoa he found another acorn==>

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The rise of right wing anti-Semitism?

It’s been there all along. Thanks for noticing numbuts (Lewis and Smeagol (aka Shapiro).

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:07:56am

re: #170 Birth Control Works


Outlaw Bank

for the same story in a novel: Foliage

Foliage —novel

Outlaw Bank —investigative journalism

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:08:28am

re: #178 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Story of God, narrated by God. Nice touch.

How cool is it to be Morgan Freeman?

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:09:01am

re: #177 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

China has expressed that its feelings are hurt, and also predicted difficulties in the future should the USA get too close to the islands China has essentially seized.

The current regime here seems bent on military and commercial dominance of the region, at least as long as the money holds out. Or maybe in case the money doesn’t hold out.

I don’t think we will be de-mobilizing our military presence in the South Pacific any time soon.

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:09:41am

re: #182 The Vicious Babushka

Whoa he found another acorn==>

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the “rise” or “exposure”?

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Timothy Watson  May 16, 2016 • 6:11:55am

re: #181 The Vicious Babushka

Baby Whiplash has a blind squirrel moment==>

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It’s amazing how something’s not a problem for those shitbirds until it personally affects them.

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Anymouse  May 16, 2016 • 6:13:30am

Entirely off topic (and probably out-of-bounds):

With our upcoming trip to Arctic Manitoba in July, my wife spent the last two weeks knitting me a knee-length sweater thicker than a coat for my birthday in two weeks.

Did I say I love my wife? No? I love my wife. I’ll even overlook that she was once a Libertarian Party campaign finance manager (but she got better).

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jeffreyw  May 16, 2016 • 6:13:31am

Imgur
Good morning!

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 6:13:38am

Wait, Iran does the cartoon thing again? But I thought that with Mahmoud gone they’ve almost become cute furry reformer kittens and it was shameful of Hillary to call for more sanctions because peace and unicorns and stuff. //

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Dark_Falcon  May 16, 2016 • 6:13:42am

re: #186 lawhawk

The rise of right wing anti-Semitism?

It’s been there all along. Thanks for noticing numbuts (Lewis and Smeagol (aka Shapiro).

Rise in the sense that while such sentiments have existed at a low level among some on the right (but not among the great majority of conservatives,) they were previously only said in disreputable places like Stormfront and were never heard in places that were considered the public faces of conservatism. While sites like the Daily Caller and National Review Online maintain a proper ban on Jew-hate, breitbart.com has joined some other sites in deciding to let the paleo-right spew its hatred and venom.

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Sir John Barron  May 16, 2016 • 6:15:31am

VP candidate would be a good gig for Palin. She’s done it before, it would only take up a few months of her time, her travel and expenses would get paid, etc.

//

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darthstar  May 16, 2016 • 6:16:05am

re: #184 Nyet

I like how so many BernieBro revolutionaries abhor regime change. Wait wut.

I did a little experiment this weekend because I knew there was some kind of Nevada Caucus event and that it’d probably be contentious given how fucked up some of the caucuses and primaries were this year (but seriously, I don’t care about that…spilled milk).

I did shit that needed doing - taking mother in law out to dinner, caring for my brother’s dogs while he was out of town, going wine tasting with friends, planting another Hydrangea in the front yard, building a bookshelf…and I spent as little time paying attention to Twitter as possible. Oh, and I watched network TV news (like your average American back when that was considered average).

You know what? Berniebros weren’t mentioned once. Then again, neither were white supremacist Trump supporters, tiny hands, Benghazi, tax returns, speech transcripts, revolution, etc.

It reminded me just how small a bubble the social media political sphere is.

Oh, and sorry I was a dick about Hillary the other day. Slap me when I do that.

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:16:36am

In New Superhero Blockbuster, Bill Kristol Wins Coveted Role of “Renegade Jew” - Mother Jones

?????

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Belafon  May 16, 2016 • 6:16:52am

re: #180 darthstar

It’s nice to wake up to a decent article on Monday morning.

This is a good read because of what it doesn’t do:
1. It doesn’t mention Hillary’s asshole GOP opponent.
2. It doesn’t discuss popularity polls or likeablility.
3.. It doesn’t spoon feed campaign talking points (positive or negative) to the reader.

What it does do is state something people will inevitably find difficult to understand - that Hillary’s foreign policy will differ from Obama’s in some ways because they have different mind-sets. This would seem obvious, I agree, but we aren’t asked to think about what that actually means. We’re just supposed to wave our respective flags and hope our team wins the race.

I like reading articles that don’t make me hate the state of our Amazing Race political election culture.

Reading it, I didn’t get much about her foreign policy goals. What I got was a critique of the press’s inability to find out what her foreign policy plans are.

And my rah-rah-team is like this for a reason: The delta between Clinton and Obama is almost nonexistent compared to the delta between Obama and whatever Republican.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 16, 2016 • 6:16:58am

re: #189 Birth Control Works

I don’t think we will be de-mobilizing our military presence in the South Pacific any time soon.

No. And China’s military maneuvering is one very good reason (among many) why D Trump can never be allowed near the football.

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Sir John Barron  May 16, 2016 • 6:17:40am

re: #181 The Vicious Babushka

My God, Breitbart has become such a feces tornado.
— Ben Shapiro

“Become”?

Also, “feces tornado” is pretty good. He had to have stole that from somewhere.

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darthstar  May 16, 2016 • 6:18:01am

re: #196 Sir John Barron

VP candidate would be a good gig for Palin. She’s done it before, it would only take up a few months of her time, her travel and expenses would get paid, etc.

//

Don’t forget the free clothes and the no-cost mini-bar for the kids in the room at the hotel!

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:23:42am

CERTAIN SEX OFFENDERS WOULD BE CASTRATED IF BILL PASSES

Do people know anything?

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Dr. Matt  May 16, 2016 • 6:25:03am

If Trump gives Palin the nod, I’ll be convinced he’s doing everything in his power to throw the election. A guy with zero political experience should see this as a deficiency and go out give the nod to a GOP statesman (if one really exists). Palin is nothing but another reality TV hack who pretends to be a serious pundit.

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darthstar  May 16, 2016 • 6:26:25am

re: #199 Belafon

Reading it, I didn’t get much about her foreign policy goals. What I got was a critique of the press’s inability to find out what her foreign policy plans are.

And my rah-rah-team is like this for a reason: The delta between Clinton and Obama is almost nonexistent compared to the delta between Obama and whatever Republican.

The only person who can clarify Hillary’s foreign policy goals is Hillary. I wasn’t expecting surrogates to clearly state those for her. That’s where we get talking points. I just liked coming away from an article with a thinking point for a change.

And yes, the media is incompetent - but they’re driven by ratings and revenue, not a desire to inform.

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Timothy Watson  May 16, 2016 • 6:27:38am

re: #203 Birth Control Works

CERTAIN SEX OFFENDERS WOULD BE CASTRATED IF BILL PASSES

Do people know anything?

No.

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Belafon  May 16, 2016 • 6:28:01am

re: #204 Dr. Matt

If Trump gives Palin the nod, I’ll be convinced he’s doing everything in his power to throw the election. A guy with zero political experience should see this as a deficiency and go out give the nod to GOP statesman (if one really exists). Palin is nothing but another reality TV hack who pretends to be a serious pundit.

Too many Republicans have convinced themselves that government is a circus and that it needs to be run by PT Barnum. His sidekick should be willing to walk a tightrope or be fired from a cannon.

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Great White Snark  May 16, 2016 • 6:29:02am

re: #201 Sir John Barron

“Become”?

Also, “feces tornado” is pretty good. He had to have stole that from somewhere.

Shitstorm with a degree of education.

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 6:30:44am

re: #208 Great White Snark

Shitstorm with a degree of education.

A Buckley shitstorm.

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:31:20am

“Princess Alice is watching you”: children’s belief in an invisible person inhibits cheating.

This experiment is featured in the Morgan Freeman series #storyofgod.

Tells us something about the age in which children can be manipulated into choosing good or bad behavior. More to the point, the important of being there for children!

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The Vicious Babushka  May 16, 2016 • 6:31:26am

Mansplainer can go fuck himself==>

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:33:48am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

Mansplainer can go fuck himself==>

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$5

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The Vicious Babushka  May 16, 2016 • 6:34:29am

OH HE IS OFFENDED!!

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Anymouse  May 16, 2016 • 6:36:57am

re: #206 Timothy Watson

No.

“We’re sorry we castrated you incorrectly after we caught the actual criminal, but you know, we have to uphold faith in the justice system.”

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Timothy Watson  May 16, 2016 • 6:38:19am

re: #214 Anymouse

“We’re sorry we castrated you incorrectly after we caught the actual criminal, but you know, we have to uphold faith in the justice system.”

Not to mention that any federal court will throw it out.

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Decatur Deb  May 16, 2016 • 6:38:45am

re: #214 Anymouse

“We’re sorry we castrated you incorrectly after we caught the actual criminal, but you know, we have to uphold faith in the justice system.”

“Kwitcherbitchn. In 1950 we would have lynched you.”

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Dr. Matt  May 16, 2016 • 6:38:49am

This is the “unifier” that wants to “make America great”

Instagram

After Alicia Machado won the 1996 Miss Universe title, something very human happened: She gained weight. @realdonaldtrump didn’t keep his critique of her body quiet. Instead, he publicly shamed her, she said. The Republican presidential candidate — who purchased the #MissUniverse Organization that year — said he had pushed Alicia to lose weight. “To that, I will plead guilty,” he said, expressing no regret for his tactics. For Alicia, who was photographed by @emilyberl, the humiliation was unbearable. “After that episode, I was sick, anorexia and bulimia for 5 years,” she said. Over the past 4 decades, #DonaldTrump has repeatedly unnerved women in private. @nytimes conducted dozens of interviews with women who worked with or for him, women who dated him or interacted with him socially; and women and men who have closely observed his conduct since his adolescence. Visit the link in our profile to read their stories.

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Anymouse  May 16, 2016 • 6:39:01am

re: #213 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t really care for the term “mansplain” myself, though it does crystallise a particular mindset; ask the fellow if he prefers “bigot.”

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:39:47am

re: #214 Anymouse

“We’re sorry we castrated you incorrectly after we caught the actual criminal, but you know, we have to uphold faith in the justice system.”

Not to mention that it will not change the person’s behavior.

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Belafon  May 16, 2016 • 6:40:04am

re: #215 Timothy Watson

Not to mention that any federal court will throw it out.

This should be obvious to just about anyone that it’s cruel and unusual and I believe there are plenty of studies that show it’s ineffective.

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Sir John Barron  May 16, 2016 • 6:40:58am

re: #213 The Vicious Babushka

@viciousbabushka @HillaryClinton “mansplain” is a sexist and derogatory remark seeking to dismiss my view based only on my gender. #shame
— Bernard Cornfeld

Ooooh, watch out, we got a badass here.

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Decatur Deb  May 16, 2016 • 6:40:59am

re: #220 Belafon

This should be obvious to just about anyone that it’s cruel and unusual and I believe there are plenty of studies that show it’s ineffective.

Effective/ineffective isn’t a criterion.

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:42:10am

re: #222 Decatur Deb

Effective/ineffective isn’t a criterion.

Righteous vengeance!!!

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Dr. Matt  May 16, 2016 • 6:43:03am

re: #203 Birth Control Works

CERTAIN SEX OFFENDERS WOULD BE CASTRATED IF BILL PASSES

Do people know anything?

This will be found unconstitutional in about 4 seconds after the bill passes….if it passes.

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Anymouse  May 16, 2016 • 6:44:11am

re: #221 Sir John Barron

Ooooh, watch out, we got a badass here.

Does “are your conservative panties in a bunch” work better for him? Too PC for him?

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Decatur Deb  May 16, 2016 • 6:46:12am

re: #223 Birth Control Works

Righteous vengeance!!!

Scalpel Therapy.

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Joe Bacon  May 16, 2016 • 6:47:16am

re: #182 The Vicious Babushka

Whoa he found another acorn==>

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Hmmmmm. Methinks somebody hasn’t read a single word of what Pat Buchanan has written since 1990…until now…

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:49:40am

re: #221 Sir John Barron

Ooooh, watch out, we got a badass here.

badass on the internet —ooohhhh!

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Anymouse  May 16, 2016 • 6:51:37am

re: #228 Birth Control Works

badass on the internet —ooohhhh!

Can leap tall keyboards with a single bound. Faster than a speeding bit.

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 6:54:17am
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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 6:54:28am

re: #224 Dr. Matt

This is the kind of stuff that the GOP right wing culture warriors is fixated on? Bathroom policing. Castrating sex offenders.

But doing stuff that might actually improve society, like expanded access to birth control (which reduces the need for abortions significantly), is something they fight tooth and nail (along with Obamacare).

You get outlets like Heritage and WSJ claiming Obamacare is a failure because rural communities are seeing Obamacare insurers withdrawing from those regions, ignoring that those same regions already had limited insurers operating there because they had such limited populations.

Every hike in premiums is seen as a failure of Obamacare, ignoring that rates rose faster before Obamacare, and the insurers are still trying to figure out the marketplace and setting rates accordingly.

There’s just so much BS coming from the right wing that it’s a shitstorm of epic proportions that will only become even dirtier as we near November.

This is only the edge of the derp.

Yeah, it’s going to be that bad. Especially as the polls show what we know and suspect - that Clinton will win handily over Trump.

Right now, the polls are running tight, but giving Clinton a definitive and consistent edge. That dynamic hasn’t changed, and you’ve got the Bernie bros and NeverClinton right wing gang both engaged in wishful thinking that she’s going to get indicted or worse before November - all based on zero evidence of wrongdoing.

Benghazi is a nothingburger, and this weekend’s news about how the former counsel to Gowdy’s committee said as much.

The emails are another nothingburger.

And then you have go reach back years and decades to long dismissed claims about Clinton wrongdoing, which is why we’re seeing Trump going after Bill Clinton’s infidelities.

That’ll work nearly as well it did the last 300 times they’ve tried that approach. Like before Clinton won her seat in the US Senate.

And if you’re going to bring up infidelity, then Trump takes the cake with his misogynist claptrap - the NYT piece is the tip of the iceberg. And among those who Trump is considering for the VP is Newt Gingrich, who’s another adulterer.

“Family values conservatism” is going to go up in flames with the GOP this election. cycle. But not without a fight - as we see their attempts to shift the culture wars to the bathroom bills, fighting SSM and equal rights/protections by pushing RFRAs that would enable bigotry and discrimination under state law.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 16, 2016 • 6:57:19am

re: #141 Viscous Obama

Pretty much sums up says it all now, doesn’t it? Breitbart has crossed the rubicon and mainstreamed white nationalism/anti-semitism/racism with its arrogance and stupidity.

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 7:00:30am

Dogs wanna go out

oy!

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Dr. Matt  May 16, 2016 • 7:05:56am

re: #231 lawhawk

And if you’re going to bring up infidelity, then Trump takes the cake with his misogynist claptrap - the NYT piece is the tip of the iceberg. And among those who Trump is considering for the VP is Newt Gingrich, who’s another adulterer.

“Family values conservatism” is going to go up in flames with the GOP this election. cycle. But not without a fight - as we see their attempts to shift the culture wars to the bathroom bills, fighting SSM and equal rights/protections by pushing RFRAs that would enable bigotry and discrimination under state law.

Morning Joe Panel Downplays NY Times Report On Trump’s Treatment Of Women: “People Expect It”

RNC Chair Suggests Trump Mistreating Women and PR Fake Stories Were Planted By Hillary

Sadly but expected, pundits and the establishment are already defending Trump’s past sexual misogynist behaviors.

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Anymouse  May 16, 2016 • 7:07:34am

re: #231 lawhawk

I live in an extremely rural area (less than two people per square mile). Makes me very glad I have evil socialistic health care (the VA and Tricare, the latter which also covers my wife).

Recently a rancher outside town developed cancer, which proved fatal, but the medical care cost his family his ranch. His wife moved into town into a rented house. Though conservative, she is no longer a fan of private healthcare or insurance (which dumped her hub the first chance they could get before the ACA was rolled out).

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Skip Intro  May 16, 2016 • 7:07:39am

re: #196 Sir John Barron

VP candidate would be a good gig for Palin. She’s done it before, it would only take up a few months of her time, her travel and expenses would get paid, etc.

//

Plus she’d get a new wardrobe and her grifting operation would get a new life.

If it isn’t Palin, my bet is on Trump Jr.

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Dr. Matt  May 16, 2016 • 7:08:02am

Bonkers Breitbart Headline Denounces Bill Kristol as a ‘Renegade Jew’ For Not Supporting Trump

Zombie Breitbart must be so proud of his legacy.

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 7:14:45am
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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 7:16:15am

re: #235 Anymouse

I live in an extremely rural area (less than two people per square mile). Makes me very glad I have evil socialistic health care (the VA and Tricare, the latter which also covers my wife).

Recently a rancher outside town developed cancer, which proved fatal, but the medical care cost his family his ranch. His wife moved into town into a rented house. Though conservative, she is no longer a fan of private healthcare or insurance (which dumped her hub the first chance they could get before the ACA was rolled out).

Medical bankruptcies still remain a major economic impediment to folks. Obamacare helps reduce the chances that you go bankrupt because of medical care, but only fractionally.

People who haven’t had to deal with major medical issues don’t appreciate just how quickly you can run through your life savings if you don’t have good insurance or Medicare/Medicaid, or very deep pockets.

Just how many people have $50-100k lying around to cover the cost of a hip replacement, like say after an elderly parent falls and breaks a hip, or is struck by a car while out walking. And that doesn’t count the tens of thousands in rehab care and aftercare. The $50-100k is just for the surgery and immediate care in hospital.

You’re talking about $200k or so in NYC metro area.

That’s what the hospital bills. Then if you’ve got insurance, they’ll cover it - perhaps 70-90% if you’re in network, and then perhaps 50-70% if you’re out of network (and just because the hospital you went to is in network doesn’t mean the ER department is in-network, or that the anesthesiologist is.

Obamacare made indigent care much easier to address, since instead of forcing hospitals to pay out of pocket and trying to recoup costs from everyone else, you’ve got far fewer people coming in without insurance. But hospitals still need to cover ER costs. That’s why hospitals are doing more and more urgent care centers - trying to get people to go to those instead so that only those most sick or injured are getting immediate care - a self-selecting triage system. Because urgent care centers don’t require the same kind of gear and personnel that an ER bed requires.

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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 7:25:06am
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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 7:26:17am

re: #240 lawhawk

That’s basically a punt. The court wants more time (and a full bench to consider).

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Agnostick  May 16, 2016 • 7:29:40am

Being unfashionably on-topic…

I can’t see Trump even considering Palin. I just don’t think he’s that stupid!

Why pick a loser and quitter like Palin, when he has at least half a dozen good, working, experienced legislators to choose from? I’m sticking with my original prediction: Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

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Belafon  May 16, 2016 • 7:33:51am

re: #241 lawhawk

That’s basically a punt. The court wants more time (and a full bench to consider).

Is this case going to be decided by the ninth justice?

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Anymouse  May 16, 2016 • 7:35:29am

re: #242 Agnostick

Being unfashionably on-topic…

I can’t see Trump even considering Palin. I just don’t think he’s that stupid!

Why pick a loser and quitter like Palin, when he has at least half a dozen good, working, experienced legislators to choose from? I’m sticking with my original prediction: Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

Why not Trey Gowdy? Or Darrel Isa?

Sarah Palin comes with her own unthinking marks voter bloc.

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Timothy Watson  May 16, 2016 • 7:39:04am

re: #242 Agnostick

Being unfashionably on-topic…

I can’t see Trump even considering Palin. I just don’t think he’s that stupid!

Why pick a loser and quitter like Palin, when he has at least half a dozen good, working, experienced legislators to choose from? I’m sticking with my original prediction: Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

I don’t think that Trump wants anyone with any knowledge challenging him.

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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 7:40:27am

re: #243 Belafon

My sense is that it was going 4-4 and instead of having a split among the circuits, the court decided to remand to the lower court for further evidence gathering. That puts even more pressure for Senate to act on the Garland nomination (both to block and to hold hearings).

It also suggests that if Scalia were there, it might have gone 5-4 against the contraceptive mandate, whereas with Garland on the bench, it might have gone 5-4 supporting the mandate.

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Sir John Barron  May 16, 2016 • 7:44:28am

re: #242 Agnostick

Being unfashionably on-topic…

I can’t see Trump even considering Palin. I just don’t think he’s that stupid!

Why pick a loser and quitter like Palin, when he has at least half a dozen good, working, experienced legislators to choose from? I’m sticking with my original prediction: Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

Sessions is a possibility, as is Chris Christie.

I just think Trump is going to go wild-card here. Pick someone, probably from congress, who no one’s thought of. Someone seen as experienced but not much of a personality or overly ideological.

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Dr. Matt  May 16, 2016 • 7:47:59am

re: #242 Agnostick

Sessions was doing a helluva desperate job drinking the Trump cool-aide yesterday on the morning talk shows. His circular logic actually trumped Trump. In the same statement he said Trump would be a better CiC because he wouldn’t overextend the use of our military and then said Trump would defeat ISIS by using all our available military resources.

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Belafon  May 16, 2016 • 7:48:00am

re: #247 lawhawk

My sense is that it was going 4-4 and instead of having a split among the circuits, the court decided to remand to the lower court for further evidence gathering. That puts even more pressure for Senate to act on the Garland nomination (both to block and to hold hearings).

It also suggests that if Scalia were there, it might have gone 5-4 against the contraceptive mandate, whereas with Garland on the bench, it might have gone 5-4 supporting the mandate.

Thanks.

I googled the case, and the post I read described the sequence that got us to this point starting with the RFRA (the case that triggered the RFRA including Scalia stating that allowing things for religious reasons would raise religion above government). I wonder if there would be a way to challenge the constitutionality of the RFRA?

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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 7:54:59am

re: #250 Belafon

Precisely because it would elevate religion above government function- and would legitimize discrimination.

This is one of the worst laws to have been passed in the past 30 years. And yeah, it was enacted by Bill Clinton. A law in search of a problem - and it went ahead and created a whole new set of problems.

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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 7:55:46am

what did I miss??

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Dave In Austin  May 16, 2016 • 7:56:36am

Holy Christ!!!!

Facebook Video

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Teukka  May 16, 2016 • 7:58:36am

re: #253 Dave In Austin

Holy Christ!!!!

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Meh.

Terminator - The Greatest Action Story Ever Told!

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Sir John Barron  May 16, 2016 • 8:00:35am

re: #253 Dave In Austin

Can you summarize for those of us who can’t see the image because of workplace firewall issues?

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 8:01:27am

re: #253 Dave In Austin

If you think about it, it’s not hugely different from the whole icon cult.

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Stanley Sea  May 16, 2016 • 8:03:03am

re: #253 Dave In Austin

Holy Christ!!!!

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Looks like SNL

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Dave In Austin  May 16, 2016 • 8:03:56am

re: #255 Sir John Barron

Can you summarize for those of us who can’t see the image because of workplace firewall issues?

JC Crucifixion action figures…… Cross sold separately.

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plansbandc  May 16, 2016 • 8:06:53am

re: #213 The Vicious Babushka

I’ve also been mansplained about how using the term mansplained is wrong. Congratulations!

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 8:08:15am

Like you have all those different types of Mary iconography - 142 on this image alone - each allegedly with its own “properties”. Sort of like buying Barbie sets…

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Barefoot Grin  May 16, 2016 • 8:08:19am

I think Trump should go with Texas, Travis County GOP Chairman Robert Marrow as VP: it can only make Trump look somewhat decent by comparison.

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Dr. Matt  May 16, 2016 • 8:08:20am

The punch heard around the world: Image: lpah74cvcu88l6elyrty.gif

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 8:09:41am

re: #262 Dr. Matt

Odor was too strong…

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The Vicious Babushka  May 16, 2016 • 8:10:40am
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Dr. Matt  May 16, 2016 • 8:11:51am

Bernie Bros being Bernie Bros: “What fascism looks like in 2016”

Spoiler: “Be Aware that Hillary is currently under investigation, under the espionage act by the FBI.”

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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 8:12:41am

Carson and Gingrich. Oh, that’ll be spectacular. Just like Palin. Derpfest on line 2.

At least Gingrich or Palin can claim some policy/govt experience, even if both ended up doing more damage than anyone would care to admit. And what exactly does Gingrich or Palin bring to the table? Gingrich wont convince social conservatives to vote for Trump, and he’s a liability on fiscal matters (say, how is his repayment of 2012 campaign debts going; still owes $4.6 million to his vendors). Palin’s not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed - and she’s got that in common with Carson too.

And Carson barely acts as though he’s got a pulse.

That’s some deep bench Trump’s running with/considering. It’s the same nonsense that the GOP was claiming when they had 17 awful candidates running; each was weaker than the next, which is why the field was as open and thin as it was. Everyone was running because no one was a clear favorite and no one was strong enough to take anyone else out. Trump simply survived because he could root in the muck better than anyone else and he appealed to the base more than anyone else by throwing out nonsense better than everyone else - he appealed to the base racist/misogynist positions.

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 8:13:49am

re: #265 Dr. Matt

By the “1 lie - you’re out” rule he would be out by the second sentence:

After 1725 duely elected Bernie Delegates showed up to the Nevada State Convention, at least 64 of them were barred from participating…with no explanation.

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Dr. Matt  May 16, 2016 • 8:14:10am

re: #263 Nyet

Odor was too strong…

To add insult to injury: After Bautista gets rocked by Odor’s first, Odor then slaps him his glove.

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 8:14:35am

re: #267 Nyet

who had stood as the winner by all counts when the day began

Except for, you know, having the majority of the votes…

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 8:16:10am

re: #269 Nyet

Be Aware that Bernie is actually only down a couple hundred delegates nationally.

Even Obama never was that far ahead of Clinton, but who cares about details - there’s devil in them, where’s mah holy water?

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 8:17:40am

re: #270 Nyet

Exponentially and go viral )))°

BE THE MEDIA )))°

Share????the????Bern )))°

Also known as “mental retardation smiley”.

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Belafon  May 16, 2016 • 8:19:15am

re: #270 Nyet

Even Obama never was that far ahead of Clinton, but who cares about details - there’s devil in them, where’s mah holy water?

In the last month and a half of the primary in 2008, Clinton won more delegates than Obama, and netted more delegates during that stretch than Obama netted on Super Tuesday.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 16, 2016 • 8:21:05am

re: #267 Nyet

By the “1 lie - you’re out” rule he would be out by the second sentence:

“duely” elected — meaning they got their places by shooting it out with someone?

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  May 16, 2016 • 8:22:44am

Good morning fellow Lizards, was a busy weekend for me. Saturday night I smoked 2 blocks each of cheddar, mozzarella and jack cheese then sunday I smoked 4 pork tenderloins and a couple pounds of fresh brats:

Brats: Image: 13254334_10153519316271560_7860486724586963799_n.jpg

Tenderloins: Image: 13245349_10153519316251560_2521792518974722450_n.jpg

Cheese: Image: 13237601_10153517633116560_313271422288856769_n.jpg

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Ming5000  May 16, 2016 • 8:26:24am

re: #274 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Want to share time, temp, wood for the tenderloins?

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KGxvi  May 16, 2016 • 8:26:29am

re: #273 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

“duely” elected — meaning they got their places by shooting it out with someone?

Well, that would explain why they weren’t allowed to participate

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Jenner7  May 16, 2016 • 8:30:26am
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Birth Control Works  May 16, 2016 • 8:31:05am

bbl

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  May 16, 2016 • 8:35:23am

re: #275 Ming5000

Want to share time, temp, wood for the tenderloins?

For the tenderloins you cook to temp, so once the meat reaches 145 you pull them to rest for half an hour. It took about 2-2.5 hours at 220-230 degrees grill temp. I used apple since I did both the brats and the tenderloins at the same time. I also trimmed the tails from the tenderloins and threw them on but they only take an hour or so and are good for snacking on.

I coated the tenderloins with a light coating of maple syrup before putting the rub on. Was a bit lazy and didn’t make my rub, used the Weber KC rub and wish I had used mine instead but they came out pretty darn good.

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CarolJ  May 16, 2016 • 8:43:45am

re: #266 lawhawk

It’s an indication of just how long and hard (no pun intended) Trump will have to look to find someone who is remotely creditable as a running mate. Nobody who wants a political future is going for this dumpster fire. Even if they agree with Trump’s beliefs, Trump won’t be around to protect them from the fallout of the things they have to say to defend them.

Didn’t I say that Carson is on the short list? I will have to find what I said and post it and the reasons why.

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sagehen  May 16, 2016 • 8:52:37am

re: #274 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Good morning fellow Lizards, was a busy weekend for me. Saturday night I smoked 2 blocks each of cheddar, mozzarella and jack cheese then sunday I smoked 4 pork tenderloins and a couple pounds of fresh brats:

Wow. I’ve smoked pot, I know people who’ve smoked crack or meth or even heroin. Never met anybody who smoked cheese. Unless that’s a euphemism?

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CarolJ  May 16, 2016 • 8:56:53am

re: #281 sagehen

littlegreenfootballs.com

Sounds pretty tasty. I love smoked cheese. Now back to Carson:

5/01/2016 7:44:11 am PDT
Ben Carson. No political career and doesn’t really want one. Meek enough to willingly stand beside Trump. Can make money off the side either way-he’s an independent entrepreneur. Can be a good “family values” person, a bridge to the Religious Right when needed. Makes Trump impeachment proof because no Republicans would want to elevate this guy to the Presidency no matter what Trump does or says.

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meteor  May 16, 2016 • 8:58:35am

re: #26 Joe Bacon

And let’s also not forget that this country elected Nixon twice as well!

Ouch. It’s too early in the day to start drinking.

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b_sharp  May 16, 2016 • 8:58:49am

re: #281 sagehen

Wow. I’ve smoked pot, I know people who’ve smoked crack or meth or even heroin. Never met anybody who smoked cheese. Unless that’s a euphemism?

What kind of papers do you use for cheese?

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Teukka  May 16, 2016 • 9:01:19am

More news from Sweden:
‘Suspicious object’ found at Swedish nuclear plant

Police were investigating on Monday after a suspicious item was found near a Swedish nuclear power station.

The object was discovered just before 3pm on Monday by sniffer dogs taking part in a joint police and military exercise at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in south-eastern Sweden.

“Both our and the Armed Forces’ dogs reacted to a parcel that was not part of the exercise,” police spokesperson Jimmy Modin told the Aftonbladet tabloid.

“We then took it to the side and x-rayed it. It has not been possible to determine its contents despite this, and for that reason is is being treated as a dangerous object,” he added.
….

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Nyet  May 16, 2016 • 9:01:47am

re: #277 Jenner7

YODO.

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Belafon  May 16, 2016 • 9:04:48am

re: #286 Nyet

YODO.

You obviously like owls: topatoco.com

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  May 16, 2016 • 9:09:57am

re: #284 b_sharp

What kind of papers do you use for cheese?

LOL

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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 9:11:27am

re: #282 CarolJ

Speaking of Carson:

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Eventual Carrion  May 16, 2016 • 9:12:57am

re: #289 lawhawk

Speaking of Carson:

[Embedded content]

Telling the truth is radical left wing.

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2016 • 9:14:09am

re: #290 Eventual Carrion

Telling the truth is radical left wing.

The truth has a liberal radical left wing bias, as the old saying goes.

At least in Dr. Carson’s twisted worldview.

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Skip Intro  May 16, 2016 • 9:18:22am
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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 9:20:34am

re: #292 Skip Intro

That cartoon seems to ignore that Lucifer himself is claiming that he rejects himself (Cruz).

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sagehen  May 16, 2016 • 9:23:10am

re: #284 b_sharp

What kind of papers do you use for cheese?

A pipe, I’m sure.

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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 9:25:42am
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sagehen  May 16, 2016 • 9:26:56am

re: #295 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Hiking the Appalachian Trail?

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ObserverArt  May 16, 2016 • 9:26:57am

re: #290 Eventual Carrion

Telling the truth is radical left wing.

The truth has a built in liberal slant. And it would be seen as radical by so many on the conservative right since they struggle with being able to do it.

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Eventual Carrion  May 16, 2016 • 9:27:12am

Just came across FB feed.

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2016 • 9:28:07am

re: #295 lawhawk

Oh, no. Considering how bad 2016 has been thus far for musicians………

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 16, 2016 • 9:31:55am

re: #295 lawhawk

Nice bike trail in Wilmette. It’s an affluent northern Chicago suburb. That being said. You should never be going out alone at that hour. Anywhere.

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2016 • 9:34:36am

re: #300 GlutenFreeJesus

Nice bike trail in Wilmette. It’s an affluent northern Chicago suburb. That being said. You should never be going out alone at that hour. Anywhere.

Within the last hour, I see there’s been three stories that have been posted (one from the BBC and two others from tabloid media) when I Google-fu’ed “Sinead O’Connor missing”.

ETA: far more than just three stories….the story started breaking within the last hour.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 16, 2016 • 9:36:49am

re: #301 Dr Lizardo

Yeah. And it doesn’t sound good. She went out Sunday morning. :(

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Le Lapin Tueur  May 16, 2016 • 9:37:21am

re: #176 Birth Control Works

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman -NatGeo

I’ll be watching this.

Mrs. Rabbit and I watched the first episode, it was very well done. Then, other Things Had to be Watched…

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2016 • 9:38:11am

re: #302 GlutenFreeJesus

Yeah. And it doesn’t sound good. She went out Sunday morning. :(

Holy shit, she’s been missing for over 24 hours. Damn.

305
Timothy Watson  May 16, 2016 • 9:44:18am

Okay, my respect for Susan Sarandon went up a little:
eonline.com

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Jenner7  May 16, 2016 • 9:48:31am

I hope she gets everything she’s asking for. This is unacceptable.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 16, 2016 • 9:50:47am

re: #302 GlutenFreeJesus

She’s threatened suicide before.

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Jay C  May 16, 2016 • 9:51:03am

re: #289 lawhawk

Speaking of Carson:

[Embedded content]

Jeez, some wingnuts really hold their grudges! I recall some years ago, being directed to some obscure site that had a post of one of Walter Cronkite’s WWII wartime dispatches (a glider-borne landing in Operation Market-Garden in September 1944; fascinating, if harrowing stuff); which post had precisely one comment on it: a nasty screed by some winger about how Cronkite should rot in Hell for (apparently) single-handedly causing the US to “lose” the war in Vietnam.

Maroons….

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2016 • 9:51:48am

re: #307 Eric The Fruit Bat

She’s threatened suicide before.

Last November, as I recall.

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Charles Johnson  May 16, 2016 • 9:53:58am

These people are simply nuts.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 16, 2016 • 9:57:54am

re: #307 Eric The Fruit Bat

Yup. I don’t have a good feeling about this. Lake Michigan isn’t very friendly.

312
Kent Dorfman  May 16, 2016 • 10:01:20am

Another tortured soul.

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FormerDirtDart  May 16, 2016 • 10:01:44am
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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 10:02:45am

There’s dumb stuff that people do at National Parks. And then there’s truly spectacular dumb stuff.

You know, there’s the ordinary dumb stuff, like getting drunk and engaging in vandalism or other damage to park property or endangering wildlife. We saw that at Death Valley last week as 3 people were arrested for vandalizing a section of Death Valley that is off limits to the general public because it is special habitat for a very rare fish found nowhere else on the planet (and one of those fish was found dead).

Truly spectacular? How about the couple that decided to “save” a bison calf by putting it in the back of their SUV.

There’s run of the mill stupidity like getting too close to the wildlife, which can gore, maim, or kill people. Bears or bison look friendly and gentle, right up until they charge you. We’ve all seen those videos. Heck, I’ve been caught in a bison jam with a bunch of other cars as 100+ bison are trying to use the road to get away from a perceived threat (a bear). But I’ve also seen the stupidity of folks trying to spot bears (and their cubs) by getting out of their cars to see up close. Traffic jams and the potential for a deadly confrontation.

This is what park rangers have to put up with on a daily basis.

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Timothy Watson  May 16, 2016 • 10:02:56am

re: #313 FormerDirtDart

[Embedded content]

But Bern and conservatives say racism is dead!1!!

/////

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CarolJ  May 16, 2016 • 10:04:21am

Don’t feel good about Sinead either. I assume she has a cell phone and friends who she can contact if she needs some assistance. And going out at 6am Sunday is going out at a time when most people are asleep or at home. Even Sunday joggers and bikers prefer going out later when they can get a bit of breakfast and find people out going to church. And was Sinead visiting or living there? The difference can be critical. Locals know the places in town to not go to when it’s practically deserted-a visitor may not be all that aware.

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lawhawk  May 16, 2016 • 10:07:06am

Heh.

It’s not transgenders that people really need to worry about. Sex abuse by priests and other religious leaders? That’s a different story. And one that is far more common than any claim at guys dressing up as women so as to carry out sex assaults, which was the “source” for the bathroom bills that right wing nutters enacted in NC and are pushing elsewhere.

319
Timothy Watson  May 16, 2016 • 10:08:25am

re: #317 The Vicious Babushka

She posted a kind of weird threat on Facebook yesterday.

Didn’t Arsenio Hall threaten to sue her after Prince died for some claim she made?

She apparently has some ongoing mental health issues which is unfortunate.

320
PhillyPretzel  May 16, 2016 • 10:08:33am

re: #317 The Vicious Babushka

It is not there now. I think they may have taken it down.

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Stanley Sea  May 16, 2016 • 10:10:00am

So trump called into CNN this morning while the NYT story was being discussed onm air. Not to be interviewed, but to bitch about the coverage. lol

Frum was just on & said trump’s just trying to get everyone talking about the NYT article & not how he said he couldn’t work with Cameron.

It may take a few, but I do see an implosion.

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wrenchwench  May 16, 2016 • 10:11:13am

re: #318 lawhawk

Heh.

[Embedded content]

It’s not transgenders that people really need to worry about. Sex abuse by priests and other religious leaders? That’s a different story. And one that is far more common than any claim at guys dressing up as women so as to carry out sex assaults, which was the “source” for the bathroom bills that right wing nutters enacted in NC and are pushing elsewhere.

From May 3:

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2016 • 10:12:54am

re: #321 Stanley Sea

So trump called into CNN this morning while the NYT story was being discussed onm air. Not to be interviewed, but to bitch about the coverage. lol

Frum was just on & said trump’s just trying to get everyone talking about the NYT article & not how he said he couldn’t work with Cameron.

It may take a few, but I do see an implosion.

I want to see Trump implode after he gets the nod at the GOP convention.

Ideally, sometime beginning in mid-September and continuing into mid to late October. An absolute and total campaign meltdown.

It’ll be glorious.

324
PhillyPretzel  May 16, 2016 • 10:12:54am

re: #321 Stanley Sea

That Trump person is in Philly today. thedp.com

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CarolJ  May 16, 2016 • 10:13:41am

I just think of all of the years we have showered with, used restrooms with and such with people who we did not know was transgender. Nobody talked about such a phenomenon at all, and there were no rules about it thereby. Yet nobody seems to bring up an incident where a transgender person assaulted someone in such a shared space.

What the law is really about is the fact that LBQT can no longer be shamed into silence by religious bigotry or public embarrassment. That people who aren’t right-wing Christian can’t be silence. Laws like this are designed to rebuild by force the closet where non-comforming people used to have to hide. People stop caring-“we will make them surrender to our will”.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 16, 2016 • 10:15:26am

re: #321 Stanley Sea

So trump called into CNN this morning while the NYT story was being discussed onm air. Not to be interviewed, but to bitch about the coverage. lol

Frum was just on & said trump’s just trying to get everyone talking about the NYT article & not how he said he couldn’t work with Cameron.

It may take a few, but I do see an implosion.

Unifier Donald Trump Will Nuke Our ‘Special Relationship’ With Britain From Orbit

Love this part:

Following the broadcast, a spokesman for Cameron said the prime minister (which is like a president except they don’t take two years to elect one, and they have to live in a Hobbit-hole in the Shire) stands by his earlier statements on Trump.

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Sir John Barron  May 16, 2016 • 10:16:01am

re: #321 Stanley Sea

So trump called into CNN this morning

This guy….

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 16, 2016 • 10:16:13am

re: #321 Stanley Sea

When he starts to not get his way all the time, he’s going to really lose it. More than he already has.

329
Sir John Barron  May 16, 2016 • 10:17:44am

re: #326 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Unifier Donald Trump Will Nuke Our ‘Special Relationship’ With Britain From Orbit

Love this part:

Yeah but both sides…..

/

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Joe Bacon  May 16, 2016 • 10:17:50am

re: #242 Agnostick

Being unfashionably on-topic…

I can’t see Trump even considering Palin. I just don’t think he’s that stupid!

Why pick a loser and quitter like Palin, when he has at least half a dozen good, working, experienced legislators to choose from? I’m sticking with my original prediction: Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

I got a feeling it’s going to be Trump & Rick Perry…

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Le Lapin Tueur  May 16, 2016 • 10:19:47am

re: #314 lawhawk

There’s run of the mill stupidity like getting too close to the wildlife, which can gore, maim, or kill people

This is bad because? Culling the human herd of those that should not breed is a service…

/barely

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The Vicious Babushka  May 16, 2016 • 10:20:04am

re: #320 PhillyPretzel

It is not there now. I think they may have taken it down.

What is this?

Jake, kindly go to the court on Tuesday and take custody your brother from Tusla. My lawyer will be making the illegal way yourself and Donal got him into Tusla (lying to the cops etc) known to the judge. expect to be in trouble. In fact you’d best bring a lawyer of your own. And do not abandon your brother or any other of my babies again. What you have done to your brother and your mother is LITERALLY criminal.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2016 • 10:29:07am

re: #332 The Vicious Babushka

What is this?

And that was posted yesterday (Sunday) morning well after 6 a.m.

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Joe Bacon  May 16, 2016 • 10:37:44am

re: #289 lawhawk

Speaking of Carson:

[Embedded content]

Ben Carson is to neurosurgery what Bobby Fischer was to chess….Both OFF THEIR ROCKERS!!!!!!!

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retired cynic  May 16, 2016 • 12:02:14pm

re: #320 PhillyPretzel

It is not there now. I think they may have taken it down.

I just saw it.


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