The Bob & Chez Show: Great Hate and Sickness

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob & Chez Show:

Great Hate and Sickness: Trump’s Robotic Press Secretary; Trump is Surrounded by Incompetence; Trump isn’t Hitler, He’s Nixon; The Saturday Night Massacre; Defending Our Friend Stephanie Miller; The Nevada Convention Mayhem; No Evidence of Violence; No Evidence of Fraud or Disenfranchisement; and more.

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1
Unabogie  May 20, 2016 • 5:44:23pm

Looks like I just killed the thread downstairs, so reposting…

Not sure if this was posted yet, but Hillary just declared victory in an email:

Unabogie, because of you, I am going to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.

And that means it’s time to steel ourselves for the general election and a race against Donald Trump.

In moments like this, I think about some advice from my mom: Everybody gets knocked down in life. The real test is whether you get back up and keep going.

He’s going to come after us with everything he’s got. I need you with me now more than ever — chip in $75 and let me know you’re by my side:

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Charles Johnson  May 20, 2016 • 5:46:35pm
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Bubblehead II  May 20, 2016 • 5:49:11pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Is Mr. Ed. And the Human is Wilbur. Dating our selves Charles.

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 5:49:58pm

re: #3 Bubblehead II

Is Mr. Ed.

I was going to say Donald Trump, but no, no one can talk to him either.

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Charles Johnson  May 20, 2016 • 5:50:46pm
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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 5:52:42pm

I just spoke to my RWNJ Dad. Finally asked him the question.

Sea: ………I want to ask you a question about politics

Dad: beep beep beep I think someone is trying to call in. No, not really har har. blah blah liberal daughter blah blah

Sea: Are you a trumper

Dad: I will be

Sea: pray for me when you pull that lever

So that’s the situation we’re gonna be dealing with. Hate for Hillary is more than moral disgust for or being obviously scammed by trump.

wah.

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Schroedinger's Dog  May 20, 2016 • 5:56:23pm

Just got the word I have another job after the current one ends. Same rate and opportunity to learn a new stack while I’m using my current skill set.

Yee hah!

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 5:57:31pm

re: #7 Schroedinger’s Dog

Just got the word I have another job after the current one ends. Same rate and opportunity to learn a new stack while I’m using my current skill set.

Yee hah!

Congratulations! Hey, what do you do?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 5:59:50pm

re: #8 thedopefishlives

Congratulations! Hey, what do you do?

Same rate and opportunity to learn a new stack while I’m using my current skill set

Cantcha read? He makes pancakes.

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Unabogie  May 20, 2016 • 6:00:22pm

re: #7 Schroedinger’s Dog

Congrats!

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nines09  May 20, 2016 • 6:08:28pm

Donald Trump has revealed his patronage system for all to witness that have eyes. He may appear to be kising hind tit, but the greater con is yet to come. The GOP will fall in line behind him. What other choice do they have? They have played this card so long. So long. And now it’s in the hands of King Pimp. Oh just watch the divisions be mere distractions. All along it was nothing more than “perception” or “language”. Minor details. Now comes the monkey house shit slinging. Trump is plugged in. He’s a savvy media and PR guy. How else could he get away with the dumpster fires in his personal and business life preceding this run to Next Magnificent World Leader? The media will not stand in his way. The right wing slime machine knows which side of the toast is buttered. And a non stop lie campaign against Hillary Clinton for decades is about to be drug out and offered as fact and proof that Donald Trump is the best choice that the leading world power has to offer for leadership. The GOP slime machine will like to hear Trump speak their lies. Validation, after all. If the Democrats who supports Bernie play purity games, and says that a Clinton POTUS is no different than a Trump POTUS, we will have moved one step closer to 1915.

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 6:15:16pm

Mood.

Make sure to wait for the end.

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Schroedinger's Dog  May 20, 2016 • 6:15:52pm

I’m a contract IT guy. Been mostly doing Jack of all trades stuff. Lot of small system development using MS Access and Office. This will get me into the .Net stack which will raise my contract rate by 5 to 10 dollars once I get a year or two in.

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Shiplord Kirel  May 20, 2016 • 6:17:42pm

On the previous string, there were some questions about Belgium and the Rwandan genocide. Belgium did in fact have a sizable contingent of troops there as part of the disastrous UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda.

Among the first targets of the genocide were Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana and 10 Belgian members of 2nd Commando Battalion, the Paracommando Regiment operating as part of UNAMIR. These troops were murdered after handing over their weapons to Rwandan government troops. They were advised to do so by their battalion commander who was unclear on the legal issues with authorising them to defend themselves, even though they had already been under fire for approximately two hours.

After that UNAMIR and the Belgians were ordered to confine themselves to the ever sacred task of evacuating foreign nationals, even as ghastly massacres happened all around them. They did provide refuge for several thousand Rwandans, Hutu and Tutsi alike, at their headquarters. I remember seeing a video of the Belgians leaving on a military plane. One soldier was cutting his UN-issued beret to pieces in a display of disgust.

In 2007, a former Rwandan army major was convicted of the murders in a Belgian court and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Rwandan convicted of killing Belgian peacekeepers

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Dave In Austin  May 20, 2016 • 6:27:37pm

Does anyone really know what time it is??

Does anyone really care???

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Great White Snark  May 20, 2016 • 6:28:40pm

So, Friday night. Hmmm, playlist, check, shrimp cocktails, check, good company, check.
We all seem to be relatively happy and healthy right? Here at RWC HQ it might get a little bit loud for a few hours. Dragon_Lady and I gonna cut loose, blow off a long weird week.

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 6:29:45pm

re: #16 Great White Snark

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So, Friday night. Hmmm, playlist, check, shrimp cocktails, check, good company, check.
We all seem to be relatively happy and healthy right? Here at RWC HQ it might get a little bit loud for a few hours. Dragon_Lady and I gonna cut loose, blow off a long weird week.

I am relaxing on the couch, trying to recover after way overextending myself today at work. It seems to be working pretty well, but perhaps I need a little Fireball in my Coke and another snack.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 20, 2016 • 6:31:07pm

Of course, Rauner vetoes Ilinois’ anti-criminalization law for weed.

And my friends that voted for him are pissed. All I said is:

Quinn would have signed it.

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jaunte  May 20, 2016 • 6:31:23pm
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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  May 20, 2016 • 6:34:48pm

I think comparing Trump to Nixon is very unfair to Nixon. I mean, say what you will about the tenets of Nixonism, at least it’s an ethos. The man actually believed in governing as an end in itself, and not just another stone in the monument to his vanity. I mean, can you imagine the EPA being created under president Trump? The Clean Air and Water Acts? Title IX?

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nines09  May 20, 2016 • 6:35:48pm

re: #12 Stanley Sea

My daughter competes in college in women’s gymnastics. That landing looks and sounds worse than it actually is. That leg lift is cute, and a signal all is ok. My daughter does not do uneven bars, and I am thankful for that. Beam and vault. It’s a very unforgiving sport. And very fraught with danger. She trained at a gym in Harrisburg Pa, and a few weeks ago one of the boys team graduates was there training and teaching and had a horrible mishap that left him paralysed from the upper chest down. The boys and girls teams were close and my girl who is friends with Jose was devastated. I watched Jose and the boys train for years along with my girl and her team. Every parents fear. You can do something. VOTE

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 6:36:10pm

re: #1 Unabogie

Looks like I just killed the thread downstairs, so reposting…

Not sure if this was posted yet, but Hillary just declared victory in an email:

Well, I don’t have $75, but as a Sanders supporter who knows that Mr. Sanders has lost, I can probably afford to throw $27 her way.

I just received an E-mail from the Sanders campaign that reads like the beginning of giving his die-hard supporters an off-ramp, noting that his campaign “has laid the seeds of political change.” (Not he is bringing it himself.)

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Reality Based Steve  May 20, 2016 • 6:39:19pm

re: #17 thedopefishlives

I am relaxing on the couch, trying to recover after way overextending myself today at work. It seems to be working pretty well, but perhaps I need a little Fireball in my Coke and another snack.

I’m just chilling out, started up the last season of “Justified”. Looks like a pretty laid back weekend, may try to find a buddy for some dive time, if not, maybe some biking and/or golf.

Life is not bad at all.

RBS

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Charles Johnson  May 20, 2016 • 6:40:47pm
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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 6:41:27pm

Wonkette weighs in on Kansas forced birthers wondering about human-animal hybrids:
wonkette.com

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Reality Based Steve  May 20, 2016 • 6:43:18pm

re: #25 Anymouse

Wonkette weighs in on Kansas forced birthers wondering about human-animal hybrids:
wonkette.com

are they for or against?

RBS

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 20, 2016 • 6:45:24pm

I know most of you have probably seen her, but this woman is hilarious.

LAUGHING CHEWBACCA MASK LADY (FULL VIDEO)

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calochortus  May 20, 2016 • 6:45:40pm

I just got a call from some conservative PAC wanting to play a recorded message from Donald Trump for me. They had my name, so it wasn’t a random call, but I haven’t been a registered Republican for well over a decade. Why would they waste time and money on someone who couldn’t vote for their candidate since the CA GOP has a closed primary?

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 6:46:28pm

re: #26 Reality Based Steve

are they for or against?

RBS

The Kansas anti-abortion group is opposed to human-zebra hybrids.

It is part of a questionaire they sent out to legislators asking also where they stand on providing economic, education, and all sorts of other data on women seeking abortions. Their spokesperson told the Kansas City Star it is not about shaming women, or outing their names, but for science.

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 6:50:28pm

She also insisted to the Star that their group’s position has long been against human-animal hybrids, and though she is unaware of that happening anywhere in the USA she is sure it is happening somewhere. She also says that position is not crazy.

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calochortus  May 20, 2016 • 6:51:56pm

re: #30 Anymouse

She also insisted to the Star that their group’s position has long been against human-animal hybrids, and though she is unaware of that happening anywhere in the USA she is sure it is happening somewhere. She also says that position is not crazy.

Because when you need to tell people your position is not crazy you must be perfectly sane.

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 6:52:12pm

re: #31 calochortus

Because when you need to tell people your position is not crazy you must be perfectly sane.

I’m not crazy, the voices in my head told me so.

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 6:53:54pm

re: #17 thedopefishlives

I am relaxing on the couch, trying to recover after way overextending myself today at work. It seems to be working pretty well, but perhaps I need a little Fireball in my Coke and another snack.

You recovering ok?

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 6:54:15pm

re: #32 thedopefishlives

I’m not crazy, the voices in my head told me so.

Neither am I, as my cat tells me the same thing.

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Reality Based Steve  May 20, 2016 • 6:54:34pm

re: #32 thedopefishlives

I’m not crazy, the voices in my head told me so.

You’re lucky. The voices in my head are talking about me behind my back.

RBS

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stpaulbear  May 20, 2016 • 6:54:43pm

Go right to the source
And ask the horse
He’ll give you the answer
that you’ll endorse
He’s always on a steady course…

I didn’t have to look that up. Sad.

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 6:56:23pm

re: #33 Stanley Sea

You recovering ok?

I’m doing well enough that I went back to work yesterday. Today I overdid it a bit, and I’ve got some things planned this weekend, but nothing too strenuous. We’ll see how things go next week.

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 6:56:41pm

Kansas anti-choicers have to oppose the mermaids they have, not the mermaids they wish they had.

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 6:57:29pm

And they get a twofer for opposing mermaid abortion.

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teleskiguy  May 20, 2016 • 6:58:46pm

re: #6 Stanley Sea

My pops hates Hillary with the fire of a thousand suns. I asked him a while back if he would vote for Trump over Hillary. “Maybe.”

Ugh.

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Reality Based Steve  May 20, 2016 • 6:58:58pm

re: #29 Anymouse

The Kansas anti-abortion group is opposed to human-zebra hybrids.

It is part of a questionaire they sent out to legislators asking also where they stand on providing economic, education, and all sorts of other data on women seeking abortions. Their spokesperson told the Kansas City Star it is not about shaming women, or outing their names, but for science.

I, for one, welcome our ManBearPig overlords

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 7:00:28pm

Comment over at Wonkette: Next up: GOP mulls which bathroom should human-animal hybrids use?

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Reality Based Steve  May 20, 2016 • 7:04:42pm

Well, I’m off to read for a while, and off to bed. Have a good evening, and don’t take any wooden nickles.

RBS

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TK-421  May 20, 2016 • 7:05:08pm

David Clarke tells NRA: ‘Be wary of “freedom-loathing” gun haters’

Like those who spoke before him, Clarke focused mainly on protecting the right to bear arms, calling out “anti-gun bigots on the left” for making a “common enemy” of the National Rifle Association.

“It’s not about reducing mass murders, suicides or street-level violence. Heck, it isn’t even about gun control,” he said. “Folks, it’s about power. Political power. It’s all about government control over our lives.”

He warned that being selective about constitutional rights leads to fit a “leftist agenda” leads to “government tyranny,” which garnered applause from the audience. Framers of the Constitution understood the threat posed by strong central government, he said, and that’s why they included the safeguard of the Second Amendment.

“They knew that only an armed citizenry could keep the government in check,” he said.

In addition, Clarke said Nazi Germany’s use of firearm registration laws to confiscate weapons from Jews “rendered them defenseless from attacks.”

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EPR-radar  May 20, 2016 • 7:09:12pm

re: #28 calochortus

I just got a call from some conservative PAC wanting to play a recorded message from Donald Trump for me. They had my name, so it wasn’t a random call, but I haven’t been a registered Republican for well over a decade. Why would they waste time and money on someone who couldn’t vote for their candidate since the CA GOP has a closed primary?

I had a robocall from Trump the other day on the answering machine. I’ve also not been registered (R) in CA for at least 10 years.

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 7:09:13pm

re: #27 GlutenFreeJesus

I know most of you have probably seen her, but this woman is hilarious.

[Embedded content]

It made me laugh till I cried today. I hope she makes a million bucks somehow.

BTW Kohls sold out.

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goddamnedfrank  May 20, 2016 • 7:09:56pm

Shaun King continues to be an enormous cock-waddle.

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stpaulbear  May 20, 2016 • 7:10:36pm

re: #17 thedopefishlives

I am relaxing on the couch, trying to recover after way overextending myself today at work. It seems to be working pretty well, but perhaps I need a little Fireball in my Coke and another snack.

I’m recovering from a day of underextending at work. Phone calls and messages were all sent out to a black void of nothingness. My boss never said a word to me all day. If anyone had bothered to ask me how I felt, I was going to say that I felt like Brian Jones in a swimming pool. It wasn’t a good day.

I stopped at the grocery store on the way home and ran into a woman that I hadn’t talked to in years. We talked about gardening and psychotherapy.

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calochortus  May 20, 2016 • 7:11:02pm

re: #45 EPR-radar

I had a robocall from Trump the other day on the answering machine. I’ve also not been registered (R) in CA for at least 10 years.

Nice to hear they’re wasting their money.

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 7:11:58pm

re: #37 thedopefishlives

I’m doing well enough that I went back to work yesterday. Today I overdid it a bit, and I’ve got some things planned this weekend, but nothing too strenuous. We’ll see how things go next week.

Good you are back to work. That’s great. Take it easy & listen to your wife.

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EPR-radar  May 20, 2016 • 7:12:14pm

re: #47 goddamnedfrank

If Shaun King sticks to this apparent position of not voting for Hillary Clinton in the general election, he’s halfway to being a Republican. That’s actually much worse than being an enormous cock-waddle.

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 7:12:29pm

re: #40 teleskiguy

My pops hates Hillary with the fire of a thousand suns. I asked him a while back if he would vote for Trump over Hillary. “Maybe.”

Ugh.

Yep

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 7:12:56pm

re: #50 Stanley Sea

Good you are back to work. That’s great. Take it easy & listen to your wife.

I’m doing my best, but unfortunately, the Scotch and Irish are well known for giving the Swedes a run for their money in the stubbornness department.

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 7:14:24pm

I got a Trump robo-call here in Nebraska yesterday. The Republican Primary here was quite a while ago, and I have never been a registered Republican.

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CarolJ  May 20, 2016 • 7:14:29pm

The NRA is being disingenuous here. Confiscation, except in very limited circumstances such as domestic violence or insanity or history of violent crime, has never been on the table. General confiscation isn’t even a consideration for Democrats or anyone else. After all, if you are peaceful and careful, nobody really needs to worry that much. And the logistics alone make that impossible: think of efforts to eradicate drugs or other contraband in a vast nation of 300 million with porous borders and some pretty restless nations to our south.

I think what they do fear is that people may decide that they would rather live without the fear and give guns up rather than live paranoid lives. I think it’s like cigarettes: nobody has outlawed them, but as the consequences are getting clearer and clearer, fewer and fewer want them. With guns we are seeing a similar progression: like the smoker who hoards cartons, we are seeing gun hoarding. Who needs 20 assault guns who is not living in near-war zones? At least in those zones, one can sell the excess or assemble a militia to keep order.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 20, 2016 • 7:16:21pm

re: #13 Schroedinger’s Dog

.Net

I once transcoded some C# code (which resembled Java close enough) into COBOL and mainframe assembler for a project.

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 7:18:06pm

re: #13 Schroedinger’s Dog

I’m a contract IT guy. Been mostly doing Jack of all trades stuff. Lot of small system development using MS Access and Office. This will get me into the .Net stack which will raise my contract rate by 5 to 10 dollars once I get a year or two in.

Yes, yes it will. I’m a developer/DevOps guy, I have a pretty well-rounded education so I’ve filled in at several different seats in my relatively short career. If you can get any experience with cloud stuff, that’s yuuuuge right now, too.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 20, 2016 • 7:18:19pm

While the NRA thing was going on, we had a challenger to Trump for worst person in the US. Behold!

xoJane Publishes Terrible Article By a Woman Who’s Glad Her Friend Died, Then Deletes Her Byline

On Thursday, xoJane published an essay titled “My Former Friend’s Death Was a Blessing,” which outlines a series of petty grievances with a woman who, the piece reveals, later committed suicide. It’s a strange and deeply insensitive piece; simultaneously judgmental, self-absorbed, and unreflective, particularly since the subject matter is a young woman who suffered from schizoaffective disorder.

The piece, originally published with the byline of writer Amanda Lauren, engages in the voyeurism and spectacle typical of a kind of first-person essay, without any of the obligatory reflection. The only lesson learned from this piece is that xoJane shouldn’t have published it.

Lauren recounts the unraveling of this former friend, a woman, who Lauren acknowledges she hadn’t spoken to in years before she died. There are long, sanctimonious descriptions of the “former friend’s” Facebook page that, put bluntly, are downright vile. Throughout the piece, it’s clear that Lauren is concerned only with herself; there’s no attempt to empathize with a mentally ill woman, no attempt to intervene in her “former friend’s” clear unraveling.

It gets worse too. Apparently, the writer has received massive and constant backlash.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 20, 2016 • 7:19:57pm
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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 7:20:34pm

The NRA is not being disingenuous. It is lying.

That said, I need to wind this up. I need to prepare for tomorrow night’s special village board meeting (reorganisation of the board). As the second-most senior person on the board now, will it put the disabled vet liberal atheistic hippie Democrat in as chair pro-tempore (vice mayor) in an uber-conservative Panhandle town?

Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion of “Underdog”

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 7:21:49pm

re: #21 nines09

My daughter competes in college in women’s gymnastics. That landing looks and sounds worse than it actually is. That leg lift is cute, and a signal all is ok. My daughter does not do uneven bars, and I am thankful for that. Beam and vault. It’s a very unforgiving sport. And very fraught with danger. She trained at a gym in Harrisburg Pa, and a few weeks ago one of the boys team graduates was there training and teaching and had a horrible mishap that left him paralysed from the upper chest down. The boys and girls teams were close and my girl who is friends with Jose was devastated. I watched Jose and the boys train for years along with my girl and her team. Every parents fear. You can do something. VOTE

Oh my god. I just registered & voted. I hope things work out for him. No words.

(I was a on a gymnastics team back in the early 80’s - before the skills got intense, ie. we only did one backflip, not 2 etc etc)

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jaunte  May 20, 2016 • 7:22:05pm

re: #55 CarolJ

With guns we are seeing a similar progression: like the smoker who hoards cartons, we are seeing gun hoarding.

I think part of the persistence of the myth of ‘gun-grabbers’ is a defense of self image. If no one is actually coming for your guns, then the hoarding truly is a sign of emotional disturbance, and it’s more comfortable to invent confiscation fantasies than question ones own stability.

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 7:24:59pm

re: #23 Reality Based Steve

I’m just chilling out, started up the last season of “Justified”. Looks like a pretty laid back weekend, may try to find a buddy for some dive time, if not, maybe some biking and/or golf.

Life is not bad at all.

RBS

Catching up on thread. How was golf with the Bircher?

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TK-421  May 20, 2016 • 7:25:36pm

re: #63 Stanley Sea

Rough?

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Lancelot Link  May 20, 2016 • 7:26:03pm

So, some of the Bernie fans on facebook were forwarding some nasty anti-Clinton memes, and i happened to notice their original source.
It’s been a while, and he might have changed his politics, but the last time i heard from that guy he was actively supporting the White Aryan Resistance.
Go figure.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 7:29:19pm

re: #60 Anymouse

The NRA is not being disingenuous. It is lying.

That said, I need to wind this up. I need to prepare for tomorrow night’s special village board meeting (reorganisation of the board). As the second-most senior person on the board now, will it put the disabled vet liberal atheistic hippie Democrat in as chair pro-tempore (vice mayor) in an uber-conservative Panhandle town?

Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion of “Underdog”

Too good to be true. We had “Failin’ Palin”, but now someone whose name actually is Fallin—not even with an “o” like Jimmy? We couldn’t get that lucky.

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Big Beautiful Door  May 20, 2016 • 7:30:38pm

re: #20 Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)

I think comparing Trump to Nixon is very unfair to Nixon. I mean, say what you will about the tenets of Nixonism, at least it’s an ethos. The man actually believed in governing as an end in itself, and not just another stone in the monument to his vanity. I mean, can you imagine the EPA being created under president Trump? The Clean Air and Water Acts? Title IX?

Yes, even including Nixon, Trump is by far the worst human being to ever get a major party nomination for President, with the exception of Andrew Jackson.

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 7:32:26pm

re: #66 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Too good to be true. We had “Failin’ Palin”, but now someone whose name actually is Fallin—not even with an “o” like Jimmy? We couldn’t get that lucky.

When Mary Fallin was elected, my wife and I still lived in Oklahoma. We left.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 7:33:50pm

Not sure how I quoted the wrong person—the subject was the crazy OK Governor angling to be tRump’s VP.

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CarolJ  May 20, 2016 • 7:33:51pm

re: #62 jaunte

Could it also be why there’s suddenly a drive for “open carry”? It isn’t enough to simply own a gun and show them off for those who may appreciate it. Now it must be brandished in places where people have reason to think that some gun-toter just might be interested in shooting up the place. In an urban setting, seeing someone with a long gun come into a public place-the survival instinct is to flee if one can: either a robbery is about to take place, or one of those things that will end up with bullets flying all over the place. Trying to normalize this is disadvantaging those people.

So it’s an ego thing, not a security thing. Keep it at home unless its a business reason to carry openly, or concealed.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 20, 2016 • 7:35:14pm

re: #3 Bubblehead II

Is Mr. Ed. And the Human is Wilbur. Dating our selves Charles.

Alan Young’s son, David moved to Macon, Ga, to do sales promotion for the record company and then moved back to LA to head up the West Coast promotion office.

Nice guy.

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Big Beautiful Door  May 20, 2016 • 7:35:42pm

re: #30 Anymouse

She also insisted to the Star that their group’s position has long been against human-animal hybrids, and though she is unaware of that happening anywhere in the USA she is sure it is happening somewhere. She also says that position is not crazy.

Then she must definitely be against the meld between Trump and the alien creature attached to his head.

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jaunte  May 20, 2016 • 7:36:11pm

re: #70 CarolJ

So it’s an ego thing, not a security thing.

It’s a way for the relatively powerless to silently let everyone around them know “I could easily kill you if I choose.”

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Big Beautiful Door  May 20, 2016 • 7:37:21pm

re: #36 stpaulbear

Go right to the source
And ask the horse
He’ll give you the answer
that you’ll endorse
He’s always on a steady course…

I didn’t have to look that up. Sad.

Its amazing; you can go without hearing a song for years, decades even, hear it on the radio, and sing right along.

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calochortus  May 20, 2016 • 7:37:28pm

re: #73 jaunte

It’s a way for the relatively powerless to silently let everyone around them know “I could easily kill you if I choose.”

I’m not particularly powerful, but I have to say I’ve never had the urge to make people afraid of me. I must be doing something wrong.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 7:39:48pm

re: #30 Anymouse

She also insisted to the Star that their group’s position has long been against human-animal hybrids, and though she is unaware of that happening anywhere in the USA she is sure it is happening somewhere. She also says that position is not crazy.

Seinfeld - Pigman

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 7:39:56pm

While the Oklahoma Legislature works on important things like closing its schools for lack of money, passing potty police bills, banning all abortion, and impeaching President Obama from the state legislature, they have this:
koco.com
A bridge collapsed this afternoon in Oklahoma City. Fortunately no one was injured.

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jaunte  May 20, 2016 • 7:42:54pm

The proposed guidelines also advise faculty to not “‘go there’ if you sense anger” and “limit student access off hours.”

“Only meet ‘that student’ in controlled circumstances,” the guidelines state.

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calochortus  May 20, 2016 • 7:43:01pm

re: #77 Anymouse

Infrastructure. Who needs it?
Why do people always want their tax dollars to go for something glamorous? I’m happy if every cent I pay goes for sewage treatment or even paperclips to hold things together and increase efficiency in some office somewhere.

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calochortus  May 20, 2016 • 7:43:30pm

re: #78 jaunte

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Feature, not a bug.

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jaunte  May 20, 2016 • 7:43:48pm

Texas Lt Idiot: Where People Have Guns, Bad Guys Don’t Go’

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Charles Johnson  May 20, 2016 • 7:46:45pm
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jaunte  May 20, 2016 • 7:49:54pm

In a country where the GOP is nominating self-publicist/WWE/reality TV celebrity Trump, people are still wondering why Hillary Clinton, a political celebrity, gets paid well for making a speech.

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CarolJ  May 20, 2016 • 7:51:57pm

That’s a huge difference between Democrats and Republicans: accurate data collection and data management. That’s worth $500 million dollars right there. All of those weeks of canvassing pay off in effective GOTV. No calls are wasted calling dead people, people who are staunch Republicans, going to places that no longer exist. By the time voting comes around, we know how many are staunch, leaners, and who need a little urging to vote. When we knock on doors again, we get people who are gettable. The result is that 50% of our voters in places where early voting is capable already have voted by election day, shortening lines considerably.

A story: I was an election day flusher in 2004 for the Democratic Party. Our job was to knock on doors. We had nothing except a van who took us to various neighborhoods. We went to places where no one was home, where we couldn’t have gotten in due to security doors. We had no information about who had voted already. On the way we met the Soros-funded group who was already canvassing and who barely spoke English. Because of campaign finance rules, we could not coordinate our outreach-more than one group knocked on the same doors.

Obama 2008: Obama refuses Fed funding. Election Day canvassing has gone on for weeks. I was a canvasser. We had names, addresses and each night people who had already voted was scratched off the list. There was one unified organization doing this work. There was no last minute frantic push for voters-we knew who we had to go for and got them.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 7:57:39pm
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CuriousLurker  May 20, 2016 • 8:01:25pm

Gawd, these people are totally mental. Apparently Islam constitutes the Four Horses of the Apocalypse (never mind the horsemen, apparently). They are listed as:

• Infiltration - The MB (Huma Abedinnnnnn!)
• Bribery - The Saudi royals
• Extortion - Iranian ayatollahs
• Terror - AQ, Da’esh, etc.

Closing paragraph:

All four battle horses are ridden with great cunning by both Sunni and Shias, herding the West into the sunset. Meanwhile, U.S. politicians concern themselves with bathroom etiquette.

webcitation.org

Drama Llama

Ya’ll are doomed, doomed I tell you! Get your paperwork in order ‘cause you’re gonna need it when you have to attend dhimmi orientation & register for your ID card—we’re gonna take Trumpenstein’s advice and put all non-Muslims in a database (and no more visas for non-Muslim visitors either). //

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 20, 2016 • 8:02:26pm

re: #85 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

That image of the the Tardigrade, especially it’s snout, looks really funky to me-it looks like a perfect gear, which I find highly suspicious.

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CuriousLurker  May 20, 2016 • 8:06:09pm

re: #81 jaunte

Texas Lt Idiot: Where People Have Guns, Bad Guys Don’t Go’

Kewl. So instead of sending troops to the Middle East, the wingnuts can just have a gun drive and make sure every man, woman and child in every country over there is armed so they can get rid of the bad guys, right? RIGHT??

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calochortus  May 20, 2016 • 8:06:47pm

re: #86 CuriousLurker

So, can you let us in on some inside knowledge? Why is it that you folks are just getting in gear on this now? Is there a specific reason, or were you just plotting quietly for the last several hundred years?

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 8:07:21pm

re: #76 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Triple upding

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 8:07:21pm

re: #87 Eric The Fruit Bat

That image of the the Tardigrade, especially it’s snout, looks really funky to me-it looks like a perfect gear, which I find highly suspicious.

It’s supposedly a color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph. If it’s fake, it fooled APOD anyway.

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jaunte  May 20, 2016 • 8:07:42pm

re: #88 CuriousLurker

Dan Patrick apparently missed out reading about all the wars of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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calochortus  May 20, 2016 • 8:09:13pm

re: #87 Eric The Fruit Bat

That image of the the Tardigrade, especially it’s snout, looks really funky to me-it looks like a perfect gear, which I find highly suspicious.

I am absolutely fascinated by the moss in that picture.

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 8:09:30pm

Wife wouldn’t let me go to bed.
She is helping an on-line domina re-write her Website to include a chat feature. Wife wanted me to record hammered dulcimer sound clips for audio cues on the Website.

My wife is now chatting with her to help her install the chat feature and sound clips.

My wife the software engineer and librarian. I get to curl up with good books and a bad librarian (paraphrasing UK Conservative Party politician Sir Needham).

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CuriousLurker  May 20, 2016 • 8:09:57pm

re: #89 calochortus

So, can you let us in on some inside knowledge? Why is it that you folks are just getting in gear on this now? Is there a specific reason, or were you just plotting quietly for the last several hundred years?

We’re cunning like that. I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you… //

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 8:12:58pm

re: #89 calochortus

So, can you let us in on some inside knowledge? Why is it that you folks are just getting in gear on this now? Is there a specific reason, or were you just plotting quietly for the last several hundred years?

It’s one of those things that’s already happened unnoticed, like Obama takin yer gunz, but that we need lots of money to keep from happening.

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calochortus  May 20, 2016 • 8:13:39pm

re: #95 CuriousLurker

We’re cunning like that. I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you… //

Ah, well then, just let me know when to show up for that dhimmi orientation and we’ll be good. Can’t be any worse than the prospect of a Trump presidency.

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No Depression  May 20, 2016 • 8:14:42pm

re: #86 CuriousLurker

Bribing and
Extorting the
Nation,
Grinning
Hillary
Aids
Zealots from
ISIS

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 8:15:28pm

re: #97 calochortus

Ah, well then, just let me know when to show up for that dhimmi orientation and we’ll be good. Can’t be any worse than the prospect of a Trump presidency.

I’d take Harun ‘al-Rashid over tRump any day.

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Charles Johnson  May 20, 2016 • 8:16:06pm
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calochortus  May 20, 2016 • 8:17:13pm

re: #99 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’d take Harun ‘al-Rashid over tRump any day.

Sounds reasonable to me.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 20, 2016 • 8:20:51pm

re: #100 Charles Johnson

One of my Facebook friends, whom I’ve known since college, commented on one of the Trump bumperstickers I generated and posted on FB. He said he used to hang out at LGF and even commented here a lot, but left when the focus changed.

He’s a Trumpist and a Republican, so you can probably figure out what change he means.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 20, 2016 • 8:22:53pm

Some news about the downed plane: it may not necessarily have been terrorism, but perhaps an electrical fire.

EgyptAir: ‘Smoke detected’ inside cabin before crash

There were smoke alerts inside the cabin of the EgyptAir passenger plane before it crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday, reports say.

Smoke was detected in the toilet and the aircraft’s electrics, just minutes before the signal was lost, according to data published on air industry website the Aviation Herald.
However, there has been no official confirmation of the data.

bbc.co.uk

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 8:23:02pm

re: #97 calochortus

Ah, well then, just let me know when to show up for that dhimmi orientation and we’ll be good. Can’t be any worse than the prospect of a Trump presidency.

Nothing could be that bad. I’d rather be hog-tied and subjected to Chinese water torture. It’s probably what I’ll get for being a heathen backslider fallen librul Christian in the new right-wing regime, anyhow.

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De Kolta Chair  May 20, 2016 • 8:23:25pm

♬ Don’t cry for me Bernie Sanders
To me you’re just Ned Flanders
With a Che poster
Above your soap dispenser
In the men’s room
Of the Senate,
Did you think your bros
Really meant it,
When they called Hillary
a right-wing menace? ♫

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Charles Johnson  May 20, 2016 • 8:25:27pm
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dell*nix  May 20, 2016 • 8:26:18pm

re: #30 Anymouse

I think I need to visit my relatives in Roswell for a health checkup.

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 8:26:25pm

re: #103 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Some news about the downed plane: it may not necessarily have been terrorism, but perhaps an electrical fire.

bbc.co.uk

NO!!! SAY IT’S TERRORISM OR WE WILL KEEEL YOUUUUU!!!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 20, 2016 • 8:27:06pm

re: #104 thedopefishlives

Nothing could be that bad. I’d rather be hog-tied and subjected to Chinese water torture. It’s probably what I’ll get for being a heathen backslider fallen librul Christian in the new right-wing regime, anyhow.

Apparently, the Chinese never used this form of torture, but the Italians and Spanish Inquisition did.
en.wikipedia.org

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 8:27:35pm

re: #109 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Apparently, the Chinese never used this form of torture, but the Italians and Spanish Inquisition did.
en.wikipedia.org

And the Mythbusters, who proved its efficacy with disturbing results.

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calochortus  May 20, 2016 • 8:29:17pm

A glass of wine and a book await, so I’m out for this evening.

Hasta mañana, Lizards.

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 8:29:49pm

re: #111 calochortus

A glass of wine and a book await, so I’m out for this evening.

Hasta mañana, Lizards.

I’m about 5 minutes from declaring the Iron Fist rule on myself. Why do I do this.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 20, 2016 • 8:30:58pm

re: #46 Stanley Sea

Everyone is sold out now lol

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 8:31:30pm

Wife’s Webhosting and Website building resume - oughta look good.

Her own Websites
Village public library
A couple local businesses
County Democratic Party (still in work)
Mistress Ivey

That should be a good selling point I think.

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jaunte  May 20, 2016 • 8:32:56pm

re: #103 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Some news about the downed plane: it may not necessarily have been terrorism, but perhaps an electrical fire.

bbc.co.uk

Trump will claim he predicted an electrical fire.

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 8:32:58pm

….oops

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 8:33:44pm

re: #98 No Depression

Bribing and
Extorting the
Nation,
Grinning
Hillary
Aids
Zealots from
ISIS

sung to the tune of wishing & hoping

Am I correct or random?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 20, 2016 • 8:36:01pm

re: #108 thedopefishlives

NO!!! SAY IT’S TERRORISM OR WE WILL KEEEL YOUUUUU!!!

So, here’s my speculations. There’s a fire in the toilet, with lots of smoke. Pilot executes emergency descent, while turning to port (west) to reach nearest land mass. Then fire breaks out in the avionics, and all hell breaks loose — maybe the flight crew is overcome with smoke or has to put out fires, or maybe the flight controls no longer respond. That could explain the helical descent path. Plane straightens into the new path toward landing in Greece, but something still goes catastrophically wrong at 10,000 ft and the plane explodes.

The BBC noted that the same plane had experienced engine problems in 2013, which required an unscheduled landing.

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Kragar  May 20, 2016 • 8:36:52pm

It was 2010, and Sergeant Dipprasad Pun of the Royal Gurkha Rifles was on duty at a two-story outpost. He heard some noises and found two insurgents attempting to lay an IED in a nearby road. He realized he was surrounded. The night sky filled up with bullets and RPG fire. Taliban fighters sprang into a well-planned assault on Pun’s outpost.

Pun responded by pulling his machine gun off its tripod and handholding it as he returned fire toward the oncoming fighters. He went through every round he had available before tossing 17 grenades at the attackers. When he was out of grenades, he picked up his SA80 service rifle and started using that. He even threw a land mine at the enemy.

As Pun defended his position, one Taliban fighter climbed the side of the tower adjacent to the guard house, hopped on to the roof and rushed him. Pun turned to take the fighter out, but his weapon misfired. Pun grabbed the tripod of his machine gun and tossed it at the Taliban’s face, which knocked the enemy fighter off of the roof of the building.

Pun continued to fight off the assault until reinforcements arrived. When it was all said and done, 30 Taliban lay dead.

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Kragar  May 20, 2016 • 8:37:57pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 8:38:54pm

re: #108 thedopefishlives

NO!!! SAY IT’S TERRORISM OR WE WILL KEEEL YOUUUUU!!!

“AL-EQTRISITI?” CONNECT THE DOTS, SHEEPLE!!11!!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 20, 2016 • 8:39:02pm

re: #119 Kragar

There’s a movie in this.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 8:39:51pm

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 8:39:55pm

re: #119 Kragar

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A badass among badasses.

Gah. Edited to remove the award reference; did not read the article first.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 8:41:40pm

re: #110 thedopefishlives

And the Mythbusters, who proved its efficacy with disturbing results.

When Kari started crying, I just totally lost it.

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 8:44:16pm

re: #125 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

When Kari started crying, I just totally lost it.

Yeeeah, that was a hard episode to watch. In one of their later shows, she mentioned that “nobody thought to realize that if we succeeded, we were essentially torturing ourselves.” It literally never occurred to them what could happen if it worked.

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Kragar  May 20, 2016 • 8:44:36pm

re: #124 thedopefishlives

apocryphal Gurkha story:

Brits wanted to launch guerilla missions in WWII, so asked for Gurkhas to volunteer to be airdropped behind Japanese lines.

They only got a handful of volunteers. The Brits had been expecting a lot more volunteers, so they sent an officer to explain the mission.

“We’re asking you to parachute…”

“Oh, we get parachutes? Why didn’t you say that in the first place?”

All the Gurkhas volunteered.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 20, 2016 • 8:46:19pm

re: #110 thedopefishlives

And the Mythbusters, who proved its efficacy with disturbing results.

It doesn’t surprise me it was invented by 15th century Europeans, and a version was used by the Spanish Inquisition. Those people created some really nasty torture machines.

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 8:47:12pm

re: #118 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So, here’s my speculations. There’s a fire in the toilet, with lots of smoke. Pilot executes emergency descent, while turning to port (west) to reach nearest land mass. Then fire breaks out in the avionics, and all hell breaks loose — maybe the flight crew is overcome with smoke or has to put out fires, or maybe the flight controls no longer respond. That could explain the helical descent path. Plane straightens into the new path toward landing in Greece, but something still goes catastrophically wrong at 10,000 ft and the plane explodes.

The BBC noted that the same plane had experienced engine problems in 2013, which required an unscheduled landing.

And no one has claimed they did it.

What gets me, is isis so regulated that they won’t make claim if they didn’t do it?

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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  May 20, 2016 • 8:54:06pm

re: #81 jaunte

Texas Lt Idiot: Where People Have Guns, Bad Guys Don’t Go’

Yeah, that’s definitely what’s keeping Johnny Terrorist from attacking Bumblefuck North Dakota.

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thedopefishlives  May 20, 2016 • 8:54:53pm

re: #130 Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)

Yeah, that’s definitely what’s keeping Johnny Terrorist from attacking Bumblefuck North Dakota.

And not the fact that he’d freeze to death long before reaching his target.////

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HappyWarrior  May 20, 2016 • 8:55:21pm

re: #130 Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)

Yeah, that’s definitely what’s keeping Johnny Terrorist from attacking Bumblefuck North Dakota.

What you mean terrorists target population centers, you don’t say.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 20, 2016 • 8:57:31pm

re: #132 HappyWarrior

What you mean terrorists target population centers, you don’t say.

They should be cheering on the terrists—any place with more than 100 people per square mile is lousy with Demonrats!

134
Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 9:01:22pm

trump scams again. Only foreign workers, because slaves to their visas.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 20, 2016 • 9:03:43pm

re: #129 Stanley Sea

And no one has claimed they did it.

What gets me, is isis so regulated that they won’t make claim if they didn’t do it?

Yeah. Terrorists were quick to take credit for the Russian plane that went down over Egypt, but no one has claimed they targeted this flight. I’m leaning toward an inflight accident, on a hunch.

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HappyWarrior  May 20, 2016 • 9:03:51pm

re: #133 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

They should be cheering on the terrists—any place with more than 100 people per square mile is lousy with Demonrats!

Heh reminds me of this
theonion.com

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Feline Fearless Leader  May 20, 2016 • 9:15:45pm

re: #119 Kragar

Do not mess with Gurkhas.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 20, 2016 • 9:20:06pm

re: #137 Feline Fearless Leader

Do not mess with Gurkhas.

Both Singapore and Brunei have a special forces unit composed completely of Gurkhas recruited from Nepal. Singapore relied on them during its early independence, because everyone could perceive them as neutral — not Chinese, not Malay, not Indian, not British.

139
Eventual Carrion  May 20, 2016 • 9:25:07pm

re: #81 jaunte

Texas Lt Idiot: Where People Have Guns, Bad Guys Don’t Go’

Unless they are interested in acquiring more guns.

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 9:42:56pm

re: #132 HappyWarrior

What you mean terrorists target population centers, you don’t say.

Well, our village was required to put alarms on our water tower (at the village’s expense of course) because everyone knows that al Queda is interested in attacking the water system of a town with 128 people.

141
b_sharp  May 20, 2016 • 9:47:30pm

re: #140 Anymouse

Well, our village was required to put alarms on our water tower (at the village’s expense of course) because everyone knows that al Queda is interested in attacking the water system of a town with 128 people.

If you had 125 or 130 people you’d be in the clear.

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sagehen  May 20, 2016 • 9:55:32pm

re: #118 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So, here’s my speculations. There’s a fire in the toilet, with lots of smoke. Pilot executes emergency descent, while turning to port (west) to reach nearest land mass. Then fire breaks out in the avionics, and all hell breaks loose — maybe the flight crew is overcome with smoke or has to put out fires, or maybe the flight controls no longer respond. That could explain the helical descent path. Plane straightens into the new path toward landing in Greece, but something still goes catastrophically wrong at 10,000 ft and the plane explodes.

The BBC noted that the same plane had experienced engine problems in 2013, which required an unscheduled landing.

Or, y’know, emergency protocols drops the oxygen masks ‘cause some sensor says there isn’t enough and… fire explodes when oxygen is introduced.

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geosherman  May 20, 2016 • 9:56:46pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 20, 2016 • 10:00:26pm

re: #142 sagehen

Or, y’know, emergency protocols drops the oxygen masks ‘cause some sensor says there isn’t enough and… fire explodes when oxygen is introduced.

Maybe, though I assumed the O2 flows only when the passengers pull down on the masks.

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Stanley Sea  May 20, 2016 • 10:05:05pm

re: #143 geosherman

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Beautiful photos.

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Anymouse  May 20, 2016 • 10:05:47pm

re: #141 b_sharp

If you had 125 or 130 people you’d be in the clear.

So do I propose to the village board Monday that we evict a couple people from town, or have a couple people get on producing more people? /s

147
Single-handed sailor  May 21, 2016 • 12:00:38am

Hello … Mom?? Is this thing on?

// that was a joke message that programmers used in the old days to test communications over a network. (or so a friend of mine claimed about his time working on the development of ARPANET)

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Anymouse  May 21, 2016 • 1:33:31am

re: #58 Ziggy_TARDIS

While the NRA thing was going on, we had a challenger to Trump for worst person in the US. Behold!

xoJane Publishes Terrible Article By a Woman Who’s Glad Her Friend Died, Then Deletes Her Byline

It gets worse too. Apparently, the writer has received massive and constant backlash.

xoJane has entirely withdrawn the article (after first simply withdrawing the writer’s name, then closing off comments). They have published an apology.
xojane.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 21, 2016 • 2:18:20am

re: #144 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Maybe, though I assumed the O2 flows only when the passengers pull down on the masks.

re: #144 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Maybe, though I assumed the O2 flows only when the passengers pull down on the masks.

You pay attention to the safety instructions?

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Decatur Deb  May 21, 2016 • 2:45:17am

SOROS!!!

Link to a long New Yorker article elaborating the recent James O’Keefe screw-up, with the target’s narrative:

newyorker.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 21, 2016 • 3:00:11am

re: #149 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

You pay attention to the safety instructions?

After 45 years of flying, it sinks in.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 21, 2016 • 3:23:58am

re: #150 Decatur Deb

SOROS!!!

Link to a long New Yorker article elaborating the recent James O’Keefe screw-up, with the target’s narrative:

newyorker.com

O’Keefe is only marginally more successful than Rage Furby, while better funded. But, like Rage Furby, O’Keefe’s hubris gets in the way of doing any real damage since the ACORN scandal. His more recent stunts have been embarrassments, and eventually people with serious money will look elsewhere for oppo research.

153
Ming5000  May 21, 2016 • 4:42:25am

re: #6 Stanley Sea

That “har , har, har…” stuff is so common on the right.
They see politics as some kind of joke. They see it as a team sport with no real ramifications about what is said and done so long as the team wins.

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Danack  May 21, 2016 • 5:27:17am

re: #120 Kragar

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This is why Bernie Sanders staying in the race is premia facie hurting the Democrats. The vast majority of donations to Bernie come from people who would otherwise support Democrats. Every dollar taken by Bernie and spent on his dead campaign, is a dollar not available to be donated to, and spent by down ticket races.

An extra $300,000 in every congressional race would actually make a significant difference.

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Dave In Austin  May 21, 2016 • 5:51:47am

The waking Frenchie. Mr. Brutus

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jeffreyw  May 21, 2016 • 6:15:32am

Imgur
Good morning!

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geosherman  May 21, 2016 • 6:20:50am

re: #145 Stanley Sea

Thank you!

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 21, 2016 • 6:46:46am

re: #118 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

That sounds like a very plausible theory. Someone also could have packed something bad into their luggage that caught fire too.

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Dr. Matt  May 21, 2016 • 6:49:43am

re: #118 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

If it turns out NOT to be terrorism, it’s a certainty that Trump will claim that the governments of France and Egypt are covering up an act of terrorism, yadda, yadda, it’s a conspiracy to make Trump look bad, yadda, yadda, France and Egypt are terrorist apologists, yadda, yadda, and so forth…..

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 21, 2016 • 6:57:19am

I guess the word today is that Hillary can’t be trusted. She’s a liar!

Why? Because she won’t have another debate with Bernie.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 21, 2016 • 6:59:50am

re: #159 Dr. Matt

If it turns out NOT to be terrorism, it’s a certainty that Trump will claim that the governments of France and Egypt are covering up an act of terrorism, yadda, yadda, it’s a conspiracy to make Trump look bad, yadda, yadda, France and Egypt are terrorist apologists, yadda, yadda, and so forth…..

No doubt. He will act if he said nothing about terrorism earlier.

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Dr. Matt  May 21, 2016 • 7:00:49am

re: #160 GlutenFreeJesus

I guess the word today is that Hillary can’t be trusted. She’s a liar!

Why? Because she won’t have another debate with Bernie.

In other words, Bernie is fucking desperate and will continue to do everything to destroy the Left and Democratic Party. Fuck that asshole and old crank. I’ve lost all respect for him.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 21, 2016 • 7:03:22am

re: #162 Dr. Matt

In other words, Bernie is fucking desperate and will continue to do everything to destroy the Left and Democratic Party. Fuck that asshole and old crank. I’ve lost all respect for him.

At this point, Clinton doesn’t need to agree to anything to make Sanders happy. He’s an also-ran. Time to stick a fork in his campaign.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 21, 2016 • 7:08:25am

re: #158 Ziggy_TARDIS

That sounds like a very plausible theory. Someone also could have packed something bad into their luggage that caught fire too.

From the BBC just now:

Analysis: Richard Westcott, BBC transport correspondent
This data could be the biggest clue yet as to what happened. It suggests there was a fire at the front of the aircraft, on the right-hand side.

The sequence begins with a warning of an overheating window in the cockpit. Smoke is then detected in the lavatory (we assume it’s the one behind the cockpit) and in a bay right underneath the cockpit, which is full of electronic equipment.

Finally, another window becomes too hot, before all the systems begin collapsing. All of this takes place over a few minutes, then the aircraft drops off the radar.

Some pilots have suggested that the 90 degree left turn the plane then made is a known manoeuvre to get out of the way in an emergency, when an aircraft needs to drop height suddenly.

The 360 degree turn after that, they say, could be the crew managing a crisis.
So it seems that the aircraft caught fire and that the fire spread very quickly. But whether that fire was deliberate or mechanical, we still can’t say.

bbc.com

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Birth Control Works  May 21, 2016 • 7:08:28am

How is it now?

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Birth Control Works  May 21, 2016 • 7:08:51am

re: #158 Ziggy_TARDIS

That sounds like a very plausible theory. Someone also could have packed something bad into their luggage that caught fire too.

I love your nic

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 21, 2016 • 7:30:23am

So, apparently there are crocs in the Everglades now.

bbc.com

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 7:31:58am

re: #167 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So, apparently there are crocs in the Everglades now.

bbc.com

Thanks Obama.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 21, 2016 • 7:34:17am

re: #168 SoundGuy 2016

Florida is quickly becoming America’s Australia.

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thedopefishlives  May 21, 2016 • 7:35:13am

re: #169 Ziggy_TARDIS

Florida is quickly becoming America’s Australia.

Except dumber.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 7:35:18am

It’s getting harder to tell the diff between BernieBots and TrumpBots.
#BotConfusion
#MisBotgotten

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stpaulbear  May 21, 2016 • 7:35:53am

re: #136 HappyWarrior

Heh reminds me of this
theonion.com

Holy sh!t. I’ve never seen that one.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 7:36:02am

re: #170 thedopefishlives

Except dumber.

More mullets, less teeth.

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William Lewis  May 21, 2016 • 7:39:08am

ought to be asleep by now but I’m watching the strangeness that is AV Club Undercover on Youtube.

This is the weirdest yet… Fun, mind, but stone cold weird.

Cursive covers “We Built This City”

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 21, 2016 • 7:39:19am

re: #170 thedopefishlives

re: #173 SoundGuy 2016

Do we have any Australians here? I heard Queensland is pretty bad.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 7:43:44am

My sister married an Aussie and I’ve been there twice. I also live 5000 miles away. So I’m an expert on Australia.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 21, 2016 • 7:44:41am

How the cardinal got its red feathers

bbc.com

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 7:47:46am

This is totally epically epical:

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William Lewis  May 21, 2016 • 7:57:48am

re: #166 Birth Control Works

I love your nic

Gotta admit it’s the best of your variations on that theme.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 21, 2016 • 8:06:11am

re: #162 Dr. Matt

“If Bernie were in her position, would he debate her again?”

“Of course he would.”

*coughBULLSHITcough*

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 8:06:25am

Take a look at Josh’s TL, he starts getting into ideology and rage culture:

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Big Beautiful Door  May 21, 2016 • 8:07:51am

re: #119 Kragar

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Gurkhas are bad asses.

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Jay C  May 21, 2016 • 8:08:33am

re: #181 SoundGuy 2016

Take a look at Josh’s TL, he starts getting into ideology and rage culture:

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I think he meant to say “except at the margins”, but it kinda works this way too…

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William Lewis  May 21, 2016 • 8:10:04am

re: #182 Big Beautiful Door

Gurkhas are bad asses.

No. They are so far beyond bad assed so as to require the retirement of that phrase. They are the ultimate human warriors. And as someone who served in the Infantry, I stand in awe and salute him.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 8:21:39am
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Big Beautiful Door  May 21, 2016 • 8:24:41am

re: #184 William Lewis

No. They are so far beyond bad assed so as to require the retirement of that phrase. They are the ultimate human warriors. And as someone who served in the Infantry, I stand in awe and salute him.

If that scene was in an action movie, I’d think it was over the top.

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Alephnaught  May 21, 2016 • 8:28:07am

re: #30 Anymouse

She also insisted to the Star that their group’s position has long been against human-animal hybrids, and though she is unaware of that happening anywhere in the USA she is sure it is happening somewhere. She also says that position is not crazy.

My goodness, that’s like the sanity equivalent of “I can take a joke as well as the next person, but….”.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 21, 2016 • 8:29:02am

yet every single coal county in Kentucky voted for him.

O_o

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William Lewis  May 21, 2016 • 8:29:49am

re: #186 Big Beautiful Door

If that scene was in an action movie, I’d think it was over the top.

That is reality is so many ways. You want an impossible to believe but real story? Read about the mission of “Old 666” on June 16, 1943 en.wikipedia.org

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KGxvi  May 21, 2016 • 8:33:24am

re: #140 Anymouse

Well, our village was required to put alarms on our water tower (at the village’s expense of course) because everyone knows that al Queda is interested in attacking the water system of a town with 128 people.

I used to work at a firm in Palos Verdes Estates, a suburb of Los Angeles with about 13,400 people. Very wealthy beach community. I always laughed because this town, with a police force of maybe 8 (two of whom spend their days marking tires for parking tickets), had a mobile terrorism command center. We were really stupid in the early aughts. Thankfully, some of us have recovered from that stupidity.

ETA: ok, so apparently the police force has 25 officers, it’s also the only city on the Palos Verde Peninsula that has it’s own force.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 8:33:36am

re: #172 stpaulbear

Holy sh!t. I’ve never seen that one.

Oldie but goodie :)

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 21, 2016 • 8:38:50am

re: #187 Alephnaught

She would have conniption fit over this.

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Romantic Heretic  May 21, 2016 • 8:47:50am

re: #78 jaunte

“New Texas law allowing people to carry guns on state college campuses is already chilling academic debate”

Ha! It worked!

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William Lewis  May 21, 2016 • 8:49:16am

re: #193 Romantic Heretic

Ha! It worked!

Hush! Not supposed to say that where “they” might hear!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 21, 2016 • 8:49:22am

asshole…

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Romantic Heretic  May 21, 2016 • 8:53:06am

re: #119 Kragar

You do not fuck with the Gurkhas.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 8:53:24am

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

asshole…

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Says the guy who forbids guns in his hotels. Real original too Donny, did Baby Wayne write that for you before or after you spoke at his penis compensation convention.

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William Lewis  May 21, 2016 • 8:54:37am

Ok, I’m still up. I have no excuse.

Still listening to the same AV Club Undercover stuff.

This one is just simply good.

All things considered that’s scary. But it … it … well, it really is … just simply good.

Barenaked Ladies cover Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight”

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Romantic Heretic  May 21, 2016 • 8:56:29am

re: #128 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It doesn’t surprise me it was invented by 15th century Europeans, and a version was used by the Spanish Inquisition. Those people created some really nasty torture machines.

And recorded avery scream. Every ‘inquiry’ had a notary there to make sure all ‘evidence’ was available for study and analysis later.

My favourite author calls The Inquisition “the first modern organization” due to its insistence on gathering and maintaining every last piece of information it could.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 21, 2016 • 8:57:31am

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

Those bodyguards are Secret Service agents, and what do Trump’s detail carry — water pistols?

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Dark_Falcon  May 21, 2016 • 8:57:56am

re: #70 CarolJ

Open carry is being pushed because groups on either side of the gun issue always have to pushing an angle. If one such were to say “Everything’s OK in the state of Midlands [fictional name, obviously]. All the candidates now reflect our views and so do the laws.” then membership in that org in Midlands drop off and donations would decrease greatly.

This is also true with many other activist groups. What is feared by the people who work for the group is not defeat but rather demobilization.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 21, 2016 • 9:05:45am

Time to decamp for bed. If you’re in Florida, watch out for crocodiles. If you’re on Twitter, watch out for Trump, the crock that ate the GOP.

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William Lewis  May 21, 2016 • 9:08:55am

re: #201 Dark_Falcon

Open carry is being pushed because groups on either side of the gun issue always have to pushing an angle. If one such were to say “Everything’s OK in the state of Midlands [fictional name, obviously]. All the candidates now reflect our views and so do the laws.” then membership in that org in Midlands drop off and donations would decrease greatly.

This is also true with many other activist groups. What is feared by the people who work for the group is not defeat but rather demobilization.

Problem with that is the existence of someone like me - I have a carry permit, I have a S&W Model 13 that I carry on me daily and I do not play the NRA’s hate mongering game. I fight it at every chance I have while still not disarming myself against the many local neo-nazi scum. How does that fit your model? Don’t forget that I also oppose the Trump Republican Party’s “Grand Old Fascist Party” attempts to subvert self defense and freedom.

I expect - though I pray you will prove me wrong - that you will vote for the fascist Trump despite your honor because, for you, family and party loyalty is stronger. I really do hope you will prove me wrong though. Is there any hope you can convince your father of just how evil Trump really is?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 21, 2016 • 9:09:14am

but of course…

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 9:09:20am

re: #201 Dark_Falcon

Open carry is being pushed because groups on either side of the gun issue always have to pushing an angle. If one such were to say “Everything’s OK in the state of Midlands [fictional name, obviously]. All the candidates now reflect our views and so do the laws.” then membership in that org in Midlands drop off and donations would decrease greatly.

This is also true with many other activist groups. What is feared by the people who work for the group is not defeat but rather demobilization.

Are you suggesting that the anti-gun control debate reacts simply on issues relating to guns because of how pro gun control activists act? Frankly, I think you’re wrong. I think the open carry debate exists because gun nuts truly believe their right to own guns goes beyond legal and into the divine so fuck the erst of our safety. Honestly, I’m tired of their pissy attitude and thinking the rest of our safety should be put aside because tehy think everyone’s out to get them. I’m sick of reading about so caleld responsible gun owners whose children kill themselves because Mr. and Mrs. Responsible Gun Owner is far from responsible at all.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 9:10:38am

re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth

but of course…

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Of course, he’s a racist fuckwad and they’re racist fuckwads. It would be shocking if Nugent lost his influence with the NRA.

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Dark_Falcon  May 21, 2016 • 9:20:06am

re: #203 William Lewis

Problem with that is the existence of someone like me - I have a carry permit, I have a S&W Model 13 that I carry on me daily and I do not play the NRA’s hate mongering game. I fight it at every chance I have while still not disarming myself against the many local neo-nazi scum. How does that fit your model? Don’t forget that I also oppose the Trump Republican Party’s “Grand Old Fascist Party” attempts to subvert self defense and freedom.

I expect - though I pray you will prove me wrong - that you will vote for the fascist Trump despite your honor because, for you, family and party loyalty is stronger. I really do hope you will prove me wrong though. Is there any hope you can convince your father of just how evil Trump really is?

You don’t fit the model, William. You’re rather rare on the matter, I must say.

As for Trump, my dad and I don’t talk about him much. My dad’s dealing with an ongoing mobility problem that while no longer getting worse or threatening his life is troublesome for him and a source of a good deal of stress and worry. I’m not going to add to his stress with an election discussion he won’t like

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darthstar  May 21, 2016 • 9:26:12am

Mornin’ everyone…

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Dave In Austin  May 21, 2016 • 9:27:25am
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William Lewis  May 21, 2016 • 9:27:38am

I am what I am, DF. I am not interested in stuff beyond that. I do know that what I live is not all that unusal in northern wisconsin. If the Democratic party ever learns to do what is needed? The republicans will never have a majority again.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 21, 2016 • 9:28:50am
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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 9:30:15am

re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Ironically, I seem to recall a Republican senator pushing for a repeal of a law requiring that restaurant employees was their hands. because you know that’s such a burdensome regulation, I mean it’s not like diseases spread through food handling.

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thedopefishlives  May 21, 2016 • 9:31:30am

re: #212 HappyWarrior

Ironically, I seem to recall a Republican senator pushing for a repeal of a law requiring that restaurant employees was their hands. because you know that’s such a burdensome regulation, I mean it’s not like diseases spread through food handling.

What the crap. Do the anti-science types even refuse to believe in germ theory?

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PhillyPretzel  May 21, 2016 • 9:32:48am

re: #213 thedopefishlives

Yes. They rather take more bible reading than general science.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 9:32:48am

re: #213 thedopefishlives

What the crap. Do the anti-science types even refuse to believe in germ theory?

Germs are just a theory man.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 9:34:07am

re: #213 thedopefishlives

What the crap. Do the anti-science types even refuse to believe in germ theory?

I don’t know but I do remember seeing that hear. I forget who it was. Honestly, now that I think about it may have been Tom Cotton who was in the news the other day decrying that we have an under-incarceration problem because you know housing 22% of the world’s prisoners is underachieving.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 21, 2016 • 9:34:11am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 21, 2016 • 9:35:33am

re: #216 HappyWarrior

I don’t know but I do remember seeing that hear. I forget who it was. Honestly, now that I think about it may have been Tom Cotton who was in the news the other day decrying that we have an under-incarceration problem because you know housing 22% of the world’s prisoners is underachieving.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)
washingtonpost.com

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 9:36:15am

re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)
washingtonpost.com

That’s right. I knew it was a southerner.

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darthstar  May 21, 2016 • 9:36:30am

re: #215 SoundGuy 2016

Germ Theory is my stripper name.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 9:37:26am

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He’s going to be giving this same tired speech four years from now. It’s always the same. Maybe one day the rank and file of the NRA will wake up and realize that it’s all a big fat scam to keep them scared and keep Wayne loaded.

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Dark_Falcon  May 21, 2016 • 9:37:32am

re: #210 William Lewis

I am what I am, DF. I am not interested in stuff beyond that. I do know that what I live is not all that unusal in northern wisconsin. If the Democratic party ever learns to do what is needed? The republicans will never have a majority again.

That last is not true, William. The issues are deeper than that and party politics is by nature cyclical. The Liberal party of Canada did what it needed to do budget-wise in Canada in the mid-late 1990’s, but they eventually lost power anyways when its Quebec branch got greedy and indulged in Chicago-style pay-to-play corruption. The national leadership wasn’t ultimately implicated, but the stench of the scandal and its temporary immobilization of the Liberal party was enough for the Conservatives to win power.

Then more recently the Conservatives got complacent, oil prices tumbled, and the Liberals won in large part due to that. Nobody stays on top forever.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 9:37:45am

re: #220 darthstar

Germ Theory is my stripper name.

My punk rock band.

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William Lewis  May 21, 2016 • 9:38:32am

re: #207 Dark_Falcon

You don’t fit the model, William. You’re rather rare on the matter, I must say.

As for Trump, my dad and I don’t talk about him much. My dad’s dealing with an ongoing mobility problem that while no longer getting worse or threatening his life is troublesome for him and a source of a good deal of stress and worry. I’m not going to add to his stress with an election discussion he won’t like

DF, I understand what you are saying.

I’m still going to say this - once.

Please try to convince your father that even though I doubt he will ever get past the FOX lies about Hillary, that to vote for Trump is to vote for a bigger set of lies. If he is a true conservative he will, at worst, not vote for president. At best he will vote for Clinton because she -even if everything everyone has ever said about her were true, she’d STILL be better than Trump for America - and that’s a hard thing for you and him to talk about in public.

I DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT IN PUBLIC!!! Do what is right for our nation, damn it!

Do what is right. You and your father know what that is. You go to mass? Then you know what God wants (micah 6:8) Vote. Do what is right.

Ah, hell. I’m drunk and this is probably stuff you aren’t ready to listen to.

Still, I pray, lord god, give me strength, that my dear friend DF and his family finds their way to you and votes to save us all from the horror we possibly face. In our lord’s name. Amen.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 9:39:13am

You can’t make this shit up:
TV reporter arrested for defecating on homeowner’s lawn while on assignment

He obviously gives a shit about his job.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 9:40:53am

re: #225 SoundGuy 2016

You can’t make this shit up:
TV reporter arrested for defecating on homeowner’s lawn while on assignment

He obviously gives a shit about his job.

Well crap.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 21, 2016 • 9:45:16am
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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 9:46:01am

re: #227 Eric The Fruit Bat

Anybody sense anything just a bid odd here?

NRA’s Wayne LaPierre Freaks Out About Ex-Felons Voting, Is Fine With Them Carrying Guns

Just a wee bit.

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darthstar  May 21, 2016 • 9:46:31am

re: #224 William Lewis

Ah, hell. I’m drunk and this is probably stuff you aren’t ready to listen to.

You may be drunk, but at least you’re armed. :)

DF will vote how he votes. He’s in Illinois so it’s not exactly a swing state anyway. Just like I’m in California and it probably isn’t important how I vote (except to me). Besides, if California is competitive this year, we’ll all be better off drunk…and armed.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 9:46:41am

Tears. Too many poop jokes. Wife looking at me all ‘WTF are you laughing about?’

‘Just some stupid shit honey’

See, I can’t stop this shit.

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ObserverArt  May 21, 2016 • 9:48:08am

I haven’t done any fun Photoshops™ lately…this one comes from the frustration of dealing with painful berns.

All Purpose Problematic Political Pain Relief - Works on both Those Berned and Those Berning.
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darthstar  May 21, 2016 • 9:48:08am

Since we’re on the subject, it’s time for me to make like horse shit and hit the trail.

Later, lizards.

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PhillyPretzel  May 21, 2016 • 9:49:37am

re: #231 ObserverArt

rofl. That is a good one.

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darthstar  May 21, 2016 • 9:50:30am

One more thing before I go…I saw this pic on twitter…go large, download it, and view it on your desktop. It’s really quite stunning.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 9:50:51am

A reporter went to follow up on a story of a college football player who put the family dog in a smoker, and took a dump on the football player’s lawn.

It doesn’t get weirder than this.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 9:52:22am

re: #235 SoundGuy 2016

A reporter went to follow up on a story of a college football player who put the family dog in a smoker, and took a dump on the football player’s lawn.

It doesn’t get weirder than this.

Reads almost like a madlib.

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ObserverArt  May 21, 2016 • 9:52:50am

re: #233 PhillyPretzel

rofl. That is a good one.

Thanks…I feel a little better now. The stuff works!

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wrenchwench  May 21, 2016 • 9:54:56am
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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 9:55:55am

re: #238 wrenchwench

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Team GOP above all else.

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Nyet  May 21, 2016 • 9:58:09am

It’s not by chance that both the Russian and the American conservatives hate Soros and his Open Society Foundation.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 10:00:40am

re: #240 Nyet

It’s not by chance that both the Russian and the American conservatives hate Soros and his Open Society Foundation.

No, I don’t think so either.

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Nyet  May 21, 2016 • 10:00:53am

Open society is an anathema to conservatism.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 10:03:22am

It always amused me seeing conservatives hate on Soros for what happened to him during WWII while ignoring that we were fine with actual Nazi war criminals. via Operation Paper Clip. There’s always been a hint of old school antisemitism with the right’s attacks on Soros.

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Nyet  May 21, 2016 • 10:07:42am

I’m try to find any Holocaust denier that has addressed the only known footage of a homicidal gassing (at a psychiatric hospital in Mogilev in 1941) and I’m coming up empty. Interesting, that.

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ObserverArt  May 21, 2016 • 10:09:46am

re: #239 HappyWarrior

Team GOP above all else.

I feel sorry for real Republicans. Their party is a complete joke after a pack of, what, 17 candidates, they end up with a dick like Trump.

Sure go on ahead and be all about the party over anything else too and be as big a joke as your candidate.

You should be embarrassed. Good job!

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PhillyPretzel  May 21, 2016 • 10:11:47am

re: #245 ObserverArt

That is why I said I will be splitting my ticket in November.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 10:12:42am

re: #246 PhillyPretzel

That is why I said I will be splitting my ticket in November.

Got some sane local ones left?

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PhillyPretzel  May 21, 2016 • 10:14:09am

re: #247 HappyWarrior

A few. We are keeping them under wraps until November. We do not want the nationals harassing them.

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 10:15:28am

re: #248 PhillyPretzel

A few. We are keeping them under wraps until November. We do not want the nationals harassing them.

That’s a pleasant surprise. My old delegate was sane but he got primaried out by the Tea Party guy.

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jaunte  May 21, 2016 • 10:17:46am
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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 10:18:48am

re: #250 jaunte

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You too can be President if you act like a childish dick, Billy.

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Stanley Sea  May 21, 2016 • 10:22:06am
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PhillyPretzel  May 21, 2016 • 10:24:05am

re: #252 Stanley Sea

And this should be re-tweeted as often as possible.

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ObserverArt  May 21, 2016 • 10:33:32am

re: #246 PhillyPretzel

That is why I said I will be splitting my ticket in November.

I understand. However, would it not be best for everyone to deny all Republicans at this time?

They are all joined at the hip and I think they only way they are going to learn is by party faithful rejecting them totally. Look at the crap coming from Republicans from all over this country in all sorts of political positions. It’s completely nutty. Why would anyone want to be voting for anyone in a party that excuses the crazy in other parts of the party.

Yes, I know there are some Democrats that have issues, but they get isolated and moved to the side. The Republicans seem to jump on the crazy wagon thinking crazy is what works, what sells. Even sensible Republicans end up going with the flow. Trump is going to dominate this election and so many Republicans are blindly going to back him. It is ultimate spineless thinking. A party that bent over to accept a clown.

How and why? Is anyone anywhere sure of what he is really going to do? There is nothing clear and straight about his policies and goals. Totally flying blind to back Trump…and so many march right along.

Unless the message is sent by the voting public nothing is going to change. They couldn’t do what they said needed to be done to open the party to more diversity. In fact they have gotten worse. They are going with a candidate that isolates them even further from the groups they will need in the future. And no one in the party could stop it. There is no one in control, well except for Trump.

Good luck going forward with that.

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jaunte  May 21, 2016 • 10:37:33am
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stpaulbear  May 21, 2016 • 10:38:57am

re: #252 Stanley Sea

But how does he really feel?

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PhillyPretzel  May 21, 2016 • 10:53:22am

re: #255 jaunte

Sessions needs to use his spell checker.

thefreedictionary.com

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ObserverArt  May 21, 2016 • 11:05:13am

Wow…just went to ESPN to check out what’s up in the sportin’ world and saw this. How sad for two beautiful animals. You know, I sometimes really do not know what to think about horse racing.

ESPN - Homeboykris dies after win; Pramedya euthanized after breaking leg

In a tragic start to Preakness day, two horses died after racing at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

Homeboykris had rallied to win the day’s first race by a half-length on a rainy Saturday. After having his picture taken in the winner’s circle, he collapsed and died on his walk back to the barn. Track officials believe the 9-year-old gelding suffered cardiovascular collapse.

Pramedya was euthanized on the track after breaking her left front leg during the fourth race of the day, Pimlico racing officials said. She broke down around the turn and tumbled to the ground as jockey Daniel Centeno was thrown to the turf.

Centeno was driven off in an ambulance. Officials said he broke his right collarbone.

—CUT—

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 21, 2016 • 11:05:18am

re: #255 jaunte

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I fall too sea teh tipo.

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Stanley Sea  May 21, 2016 • 11:06:05am
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Sherlock Hound  May 21, 2016 • 11:09:16am

re: #258 ObserverArt

Eight Belles died at the Derby after her race a few years back. Happened on live TV:
en.wikipedia.org

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Timothy Watson  May 21, 2016 • 11:09:17am

re: #258 ObserverArt

Wow…just went to ESPN to check out what’s up in the sportin’ world and saw this. How sad for two beautiful animals. You know, I sometimes really do not know what to think about horse racing.

ESPN - Homeboykris dies after win; Pramedya euthanized after breaking leg

I think it was HBO who was planning on doing a TV series focused on horse racing back in the day, they ended up cancelling production after they killed three or four horses.

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wrenchwench  May 21, 2016 • 11:11:14am

Like the news; sometimes it’s just hard to swallow.

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Romantic Heretic  May 21, 2016 • 11:11:46am

re: #227 Eric The Fruit Bat

Not at all.

The first part is about promoting the profits of weapons manufacturers. The second is about denying power to those who don’t deserve it.

Both are central tenets of ‘modern conservatism’ (an oxymoron if I ever heard one); profits and power.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 11:12:22am

re: #240 Nyet

It’s not by chance that both the Russian and the American conservatives hate Soros and his Open Society Foundation.

That also don’t have to say ‘jewish banker’ just Soros.

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ObserverArt  May 21, 2016 • 11:13:12am

And in a strange ESPN article comes this. Strange too in that some asked him to be a Never Trump candidate as an independent hope for Republicans.

What a crazy political season this all is. I think I need to log off now…it may just get even weirder today! Later…maybe/

ESPN - Mark Cuban says he’d consider being Hillary Clinton’s VP if asked

Though Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said he doesn’t have the time to run for President of the United States, he thinks he can find the time to serve as potential Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton’s vice president.

In an excerpt of an interview that will air on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC, Cuban was asked if he would listen if the Clinton campaign came to him offering the vice presidency.

“Absolutely,” Cuban responded while adding that he would seek to alter some of Clinton’s platform were he to become her running mate.

“If she’s willing to listen, if she’s willing to, you know, hear other sides of things, then I’m wide open to discussing it,” Cuban said.

—CUT—

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HappyWarrior  May 21, 2016 • 11:16:17am

re: #266 ObserverArt

And in a strange ESPN article comes this. Strange too in that some asked him to be a Never Trump candidate as an independent hope for Republicans.

What a crazy political season this all is. I think I need to log off now…it may just get even weirder today! Later…maybe/

ESPN - Mark Cuban says he’d consider being Hillary Clinton’s VP if asked

I wonder what makes Cuban think that Clinton would even consider him. Cuban’s a wackjob in his own right.

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PhillyPretzel  May 21, 2016 • 11:26:55am

re: #258 ObserverArt

Very sad. :(

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 11:52:30am

OK who killed this thread? I want names people.

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Barefoot Grin  May 21, 2016 • 11:52:57am

re: #225 SoundGuy 2016

You can’t make this shit up:
TV reporter arrested for defecating on homeowner’s lawn while on assignment

He obviously gives a shit about his job.

Studied at the CCJ School of Journalism?

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 11:55:36am

re: #270 Barefoot Grin

Studied at the CCJ School of Journalism?

The award should be named The Chuccubus in Action Award.

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Lidane  May 21, 2016 • 11:58:03am

re: #266 ObserverArt

And in a strange ESPN article comes this. Strange too in that some asked him to be a Never Trump candidate as an independent hope for Republicans.

What a crazy political season this all is. I think I need to log off now…it may just get even weirder today! Later…maybe/

ESPN - Mark Cuban says he’d consider being Hillary Clinton’s VP if asked

I highly doubt Hillary would ask him to be her VP, but making him a public surrogate to reach out to business groups? That could work.

Cuban’s an Ayn Rand fanboy and whackjob in his own right, but if he’s willing to publicly back Hillary’s campaign and go to the mat for her, I say the Dems would be idiots to pass it up.

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jeffreyw  May 21, 2016 • 11:59:15am

Imgur
Thread needs more cheesecake.

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Nyet  May 21, 2016 • 11:59:47am

Mood: accomplished.

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No Depression  May 21, 2016 • 12:03:37pm

I saw some friends kvetching about Matt Bruenig getting fired for “speaking truth to power” on FB. I was tempted to bring up Bruenig’s history of harassing women of color and lay into them a little bit, but decided against it; just not worth the trouble. Whether they grow up politically or not is up to them.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 12:04:29pm

You knew it was coming to this.

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Tigger2  May 21, 2016 • 12:08:10pm

Everything Trump does is geared to try and make more money for himself.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 21, 2016 • 12:10:54pm

re: #273 jeffreyw

Possibly unpopular opinion: I neither get nor like cheesecake.

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wrenchwench  May 21, 2016 • 12:11:33pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 21, 2016 • 12:11:39pm

re: #254 ObserverArt

I understand. However, would it not be best for everyone to deny all Republicans at this time?

They are all joined at the hip and I think they only way they are going to learn is by party faithful rejecting them totally. Look at the crap coming from Republicans from all over this country in all sorts of political positions. It’s completely nutty. Why would anyone want to be voting for anyone in a party that excuses the crazy in other parts of the party.

No.
There are still sane Republicans out there, mostly on the state and local levels. They are quietly doing their jobs while trying to stay below the wingnut radar and, more importantly, attempting to keep nonsense bullshit knee-jerk pants-pooping laws from passing (many times quite successful).
They are in solidly red locales where voters just automatically vote for anyone with an R after their names and assume anyone with a D is satan’s spawn.
I know this because I live in one of those areas.
And I do know sane Republicans.

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jaunte  May 21, 2016 • 12:11:52pm
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jaunte  May 21, 2016 • 12:12:19pm

re: #279 wrenchwench

He really is phoning it in.

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wrenchwench  May 21, 2016 • 12:14:08pm

re: #282 jaunte

He really is phoning it in.

And doesn’t get it if someone picks it up and says, ‘¿Ola?’

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wrenchwench  May 21, 2016 • 12:15:25pm

re: #278 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Possibly unpopular opinion: I neither get nor like cheesecake.

Since you don’t like it, it’s just as well that you don’t get any.

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Reality Based Steve  May 21, 2016 • 12:17:38pm

re: #273 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Thread needs more cheesecake.

Yes, More Cheesecake

Oh, not that kind. Never mind.

RBS

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 21, 2016 • 12:18:20pm

re: #284 wrenchwench

Since you don’t like it, it’s just as well that you don’t get any.

It’s true. I just wish I understood it as a thing.

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Reality Based Steve  May 21, 2016 • 12:18:51pm

re: #269 SoundGuy 2016

OK who killed this thread? I want names people.

It was John Jacob Jinglemeyer Schmidt.

rBS

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jeffreyw  May 21, 2016 • 12:24:33pm

re: #278 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Imgur
Blueberry fried pies?

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sagehen  May 21, 2016 • 12:26:18pm

re: #273 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Thread needs more cheesecake.

I’ll give you a million dollars if you can find a way to e-mail that item to me. (not the picture. the actual item.)

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sagehen  May 21, 2016 • 12:28:17pm

re: #278 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Possibly unpopular opinion: I neither get nor like cheesecake.

That’s because you’ve never been to juniorscheesecake.com

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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  May 21, 2016 • 12:29:44pm

re: #238 wrenchwench

Como se llama “Vichy” en Espanol?

///

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Jay C  May 21, 2016 • 12:30:23pm

re: #262 Timothy Watson

I think it was HBO who was planning on doing a TV series focused on horse racing back in the day, they ended up cancelling production after they killed three or four horses.

“Luck” (2011) starring Dustin Hoffman, along with a top-notch cast: created by David Milch (“NYPD Blue”, “Deadwood”). Two horses had to be put down due to injuries sustained while filming; rumors of a third one (and complaints from various animal-rights groups) - along with poor ratings, IIRC, led HBO to pull the plug after 9 episodes.

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wrenchwench  May 21, 2016 • 12:32:41pm

re: #286 klys (maker of Silmarils)

It’s true. I just wish I understood it as a thing.

My advice: Keep trying. There are many different kinds. [All good, IMHO, so don’t listen to me.]

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Stanley Sea  May 21, 2016 • 12:34:03pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 21, 2016 • 12:34:27pm

re: #293 wrenchwench

My advice: Keep trying. There are many different kinds. [All good, IMHO, so don’t listen to me.]

I’ll just send you all of mine.

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Tigger2  May 21, 2016 • 12:35:03pm

re: #294 Stanley Sea

juniorscheesecake.com

Embedded Image

omg

That looks good to me.

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wrenchwench  May 21, 2016 • 12:35:26pm

re: #294 Stanley Sea

juniorscheesecake.com

[Embedded content]

omg

re: #295 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I’ll just send you all of mine.

YAY!

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 12:35:53pm

re: #294 Stanley Sea

juniorscheesecake.com

Embedded Image

omg

That looks HORRIBLE. Give me Klys’ share, shame to make somebody eat that. Could use a slathering of lilikoi sauce.

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SoundGuy 2016  May 21, 2016 • 12:38:56pm

Speaking of cheesecake, Louisiana is first in stupid again:
This state is about to become the first where targeting police is a hate crime

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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  May 21, 2016 • 12:39:18pm

re: #278 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Possibly unpopular opinion: I neither get nor like cheesecake.

S’okay. More for me.

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Stanley Sea  May 21, 2016 • 12:42:08pm

Kohl’s is on it!

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wrenchwench  May 21, 2016 • 12:42:08pm

re: #298 SoundGuy 2016

That looks HORRIBLE. Give me Klys’ share, shame to make somebody eat that. Could use a slathering of lilikoi sauce.

I had to look it up to be sure it doesn’t have koi in it. Proceed.

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Stanley Sea  May 21, 2016 • 12:43:08pm

re: #302 wrenchwench

I had to look it up to be sure it doesn’t have koi in it. Proceed.

It’s that foreign Hawaiian language.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 21, 2016 • 12:43:47pm
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Tigger2  May 21, 2016 • 12:44:28pm
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  May 21, 2016 • 12:52:26pm

good afternoon Lizards, I managed to make it the whole week without touching the cheese I smoked last weekend and it was so worth it, the cheddar is amazing and the jack and mozzarella aren’t half bad either.

Image: 13239308_10153530396411560_8465189523385927361_n.jpg

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Kragar  May 21, 2016 • 12:54:09pm
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wrenchwench  May 21, 2016 • 12:59:40pm

re: #307 Kragar

[Embedded content]

I decided not to post a tweet about Chris Simcox’s trial. An eight year old testified this week about things that happened when she was 5. Then his daughters were going to be up. He’s despicable.

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Dave In Austin  May 21, 2016 • 1:00:05pm

re: #304 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Shiplord Kirel  May 21, 2016 • 1:01:44pm

Noted war criminal and Trump supporter Allen West has been appointed to the NRA Board of Directors:

……on this day I am honored to say I have been elected for a three-year term to the NRA Board of Directors.

(freeper re-post, donotlink.com is down)

Seems a perfect match to me. Note that some of the freepers think this will improve Trump’s chances: It’s just taken for granted now that the NRA and the Trump campaign are one and the same.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 21, 2016 • 1:08:16pm
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wrenchwench  May 21, 2016 • 1:14:12pm

Retweeted for ‘brocialists’.

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Timothy Watson  May 21, 2016 • 1:14:35pm

For the Fallout fans:

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Stanley Sea  May 21, 2016 • 1:20:56pm
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ipsos  May 21, 2016 • 1:23:07pm

re: #314 Stanley Sea

[Embedded content]

AMERICA NEVER WINS ANYTHING!!!!

///

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stpaulbear  May 21, 2016 • 1:26:03pm

re: #314 Stanley Sea

Yeah, but what has Obama done for us lately?

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Shiplord Kirel  May 21, 2016 • 1:26:03pm

re: #314 Stanley Sea

BREAKING: Pentagon says US killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour by airstrike in remote area of Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Obama is doing nothing!

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Belafon  May 21, 2016 • 1:27:12pm

re: #317 Shiplord Kirel

Obama is doing nothing!

He didn’t do it, so it doesn’t count.

///

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 21, 2016 • 1:28:16pm

“You knew I was a snake when you took me in”:

Sanders throws support behind primary opponent of DNC head Wasserman Schultz

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stpaulbear  May 21, 2016 • 1:30:14pm

re: #314 Stanley Sea

BREAKING: Pentagon says US killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour by airstrike in remote area of Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Now watch this drive…

Youtube Video

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Tigger2  May 21, 2016 • 1:32:13pm

re: #319 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

“You knew I was a snake when you took me in”:

Sanders throws support behind primary opponent of DNC head Wasserman Schultz

I so hope the Dem’s put someone up to run against Sanders on his next Senate run.

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wrenchwench  May 21, 2016 • 1:32:13pm

re: #319 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

“You knew I was a snake when you took me in”:

That goes with this:

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Nyet  May 21, 2016 • 1:32:15pm

re: #319 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Primarying Schulz is a must though.

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Cheechako  May 21, 2016 • 1:34:37pm

re: #319 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

“You knew I was a snake when you took me in”:

Sanders throws support behind primary opponent of DNC head Wasserman Schultz

I wouldn’t be surprised if the DNC revoked Bernies Super Delegate credentials at the convention.

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Belafon  May 21, 2016 • 1:46:01pm

re: #319 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

“You knew I was a snake when you took me in”:

Sanders throws support behind primary opponent of DNC head Wasserman Schultz

Wasn’t there something Schultz did earlier this year that we did not like?

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Nyet  May 21, 2016 • 1:48:52pm

re: #325 Belafon

DWS shouldn’t be anywhere near DNC, much less being a DNC chairwoman.

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Dark_Falcon  May 21, 2016 • 1:52:10pm

re: #267 HappyWarrior

I wonder what makes Cuban think that Clinton would even consider him. Cuban’s a wackjob in his own right.

There is a certain “Send a maniac to stop a maniac” logic to it.

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Dark_Falcon  May 21, 2016 • 1:57:24pm

re: #325 Belafon

Wasn’t there something Schultz did earlier this year that we did not like?

In her scheduling of most of the Democratic debates, she put most on Sundays near sporting events. She worked generally to give Hillary Clinton a coronation and to keep Sanders from building momentum. Frankly, unlike many of the things he’s done recently, I consider Bernie Sanders to be acting reasonably in retaliating against Schultz.

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Bass Reeves  May 21, 2016 • 3:17:10pm

re: #328 Dark_Falcon

In her scheduling of most of the Democratic debates, she put most on Sundays near sporting events.

Yeah, sure. I guess that is a thing, because it’s reasonable to assume people care more about sports than electing the leader of the free world. I’m not even sure if I’m being sarcastic there or no.

She worked generally to give Hillary Clinton a coronation and to keep Sanders from building momentum.

Remind me, Sanders is running for which party now? And…before he was running to be the head of that party, he was part of what party? It seems to me, giving Clinton a coronation would most easiest been done by not allowing Sanders to run.

Frankly, unlike many of the things he’s done recently, I consider Bernie Sanders to be acting reasonably in retaliating against Schultz.

Yes, but still…you play for the other team, and the Democratic Party infighting only benefits the team you play for, so maybe you should take that into account when you do your calm objective reasoning. I personally think Sanders is blaming the absolute shitshow his campaign has become on DWS, as he has habitually blamed his failings on everyone else this entire election. Petulant and whiny, yes. Reasonable, no.

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Belafon  May 21, 2016 • 3:34:41pm

re: #328 Dark_Falcon

In her scheduling of most of the Democratic debates, she put most on Sundays near sporting events. She worked generally to give Hillary Clinton a coronation and to keep Sanders from building momentum. Frankly, unlike many of the things he’s done recently, I consider Bernie Sanders to be acting reasonably in retaliating against Schultz.

I thought there was some bill she opposed that most of us Democrats were for. It had something to do with the payday loan companies IIRC.

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Lancelot Link  May 21, 2016 • 3:34:49pm

re: #329 Bass Reeves

I personally think Sanders is blaming the absolute shitshow his campaign has become on DWS, as he has habitually blamed his failings on everyone else this entire election. Petulant and whiny, yes. Reasonable, no.

It’s almost always a woman he blames his failures on, even his own wife sometimes.


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