Monday Night Jam: Jacob Collier’s #IHarmU Vol. 1

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Here are the first 20 melodies from the #InMyRoomJC #IHarmU campaign! There are many more still to come. Send me a melody before July 1st – I’ll be harmonising and posting every single one I receive.

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#IHarmU Vol. 1 Listing:
David Lynn Grimes – 0:03
Hanna Barsznica – 0:38
Stephan Diethelm – 1:09
Jamie Cullum – 1:42
Kelontae Gavin – 2:40
Charles Jones – 3:17
Moni Kosev – 3:45
Etienne Monsaingeon – 4:15
Julia Sequeira – 4:45
Branwen Munn – 5:25
Eric Crittenden – 5:53
Mahabongo – 6:31
Judith Owen – 7:13
Avery Wilson – 7:43
Colin Johnson – 8:54
William Barnes-McCallum – 9:37
Becky Cavanaugh – 10:03
Veselina Dragolova-Danailova – 10:36
Aaron Sheppard – 11:05

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589 comments
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Kragar  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:33:58pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:34:51pm
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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:39:17pm

I don’t get how you have a contested convention when there are only two candidates. You hold a vote, the one with the most votes wins. The only way it could be contested is if there were a tie.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:44:42pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

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Uh he didn’t force a contested convention and he’s hardly little known. He’s been in Congress since before the Clintons got to Washington. Man Sirota’s such an insufferable prick. Oh and by the way Dave, Obama actually beat Clinton but unlike Bernie, Obama’s not a petty asshole.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:45:55pm

It needs to stop pouring so I can take my dogs out for a quick pee…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:52:55pm

Here’s that number again. Freaky:

Chris Christie’s approval rating reaches record low

Gov. Chris Christie’s approval rating is at an all-time low of 27 percent, according to the latest Monmouth University poll.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:52:58pm

I will grant that Bernie did well better than he was expected to but I will also point out that he also did a lot of things that were very shitty too.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:53:34pm

re: #6 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Here’s that number again. Freaky:

Chris Christie’s approval rating reaches record low

Feels like just yesterday he was coasting to re-election. I bet New Jersey voters wish they had that one back.

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:53:41pm

My son, who lives in Jacksonville near the river, is under a Tropical Storm Warning tonight.
nhc.noaa.gov

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Kragar  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:54:58pm
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teleskiguy  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:56:11pm

re: #5 FormerDirtDart

It needs to stop pouring so I can take my dogs out for a quick pee…

You may need to show the little dogs some tough love. Florida is a rainy place, after all.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 6, 2016 • 9:58:33pm

re: #10 Kragar

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Wondering how long it will take @ShaunKing and @HAGOODMANAUTHOR to make their Breitbart news debuts?

Couldn’t prove by me they’re not already clandestine Breitbrats.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:00:54pm
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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:04:09pm

re: #13 goddamnedfrank

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Fuckers. Get the fuck out of the Democratic Party.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:04:39pm

re: #11 teleskiguy

You may need to show the little dogs some tough love. Florida is a rainy place, after all.

I already walked them twice in the rain today. It’s my ass that doesn’t want to get wet, or have wet dogs to deal with at 1AM.
We caught a hole. I’m getting pretty good at using the weather radar to predict when the gaps will cross over us.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:04:41pm

re: #9 Anymouse

My son, who lives in Jacksonville near the river, is under a Tropical Storm Warning tonight.
nhc.noaa.gov

Looks like Gainesville was saved. Yay.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:07:06pm

I like how they think committing fraud and mischief is somehow going to make people eager to switch to Bernie. I really hope the young people who have worked for the Sanders campaign learned a valuable lesson about politics and that’s being a condescending asshole to those who disagree with you is no way to win allies. I was actually quite sympathetic towards Bernie early but he alienated the hell out of me when he acted like a condescending jerk- You can’t be progressive and moderate at the same time*
*Unless you’re Bernie doing what the NRA wants on guns I guess

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:07:44pm

Hockey stuff under the spoiler.

Click to Reveal

My Sharks lost but I went and hung out with some friends to see the game anyway. Ended up in the live doodle comic one of them does. A good time even if the game didn’t go our way.

Have to drop the ballots off at the polling place tomorrow, along with a few errands. I vote anyway regardless of what the news says.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:10:26pm
As one Republican who served in the George W. Bush administration tells me, “The vast majority of Republicans I know — the foreign policy specialists — are incredibly depressed and a little embarrassed. Most of all, we’re concerned about what a Trump administration would mean for U.S. interests and the security of our nation. I have not yet met a Republican who says they would work for a Trump administration.”

Would you work for Donald Trump?

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:12:19pm

re: #9 Anymouse

My son, who lives in Jacksonville near the river, is under a Tropical Storm Warning tonight.
nhc.noaa.gov

This is my view of the St. Johns, on a clearer day. I was hoping for some tidal surge, just to see how high the water might get…

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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:12:55pm

re: #19 Stanley Sea

Would you work for Donald Trump?

Probably not the best thing if you want to further your resume. And if the Bush administration thinks your FP is messed up, wowie.

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:22:00pm

I was out watching the clip here of John Oliver blowing away Oprah Winfrey’s record for the most money given away on TV with his medical debt buying company he set up to expose the sleazy industry of debt collection.

John Oliver is a national treasure (even if he is from the UK). Everything from Net Neutrality, his Church of the Perpetual Exemption, to setting up a debt collection company on-line legally in Mississippi for $50.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:23:25pm

re: #22 Anymouse

I was out watching the clip here of John Oliver blowing away Oprah Winfrey’s record for the most money given away on TV with his medical debt buying company he set up to expose the sleazy industry of debt collection.

John Oliver is a national treasure (even if he is from the UK). Everything from Net Neutrality, his Church of the Perpetual Exemption, to setting up a debt collection company on-line legally in Mississippi for $50.

I believe Oliver has become a naturalized US citizen.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:24:30pm

re: #22 Anymouse

I was out watching the clip here of John Oliver blowing away Oprah Winfrey’s record for the most money given away on TV with his medical debt buying company he set up to expose the sleazy industry of debt collection.

John Oliver is a national treasure (even if he is from the UK). Everything from Net Neutrality, his Church of the Perpetual Exemption, to setting up a debt collection company on-line legally in Mississippi for $50.

I don’t know how much stock to put in this:

‘Rolling Jubilee’ activists accuse ‘Last Week Tonight’ of misleading them for $15 million debt stunt

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:28:59pm

Rage Furby is now claiming Judge Curiel’s parents were “illegal aliens” because he can’t find any proof of their legal immigration.

Plus, he’s printed copies of their supposed death certificates.

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whitebeach  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:29:03pm

re: #9 Anymouse

My son, who lives in Jacksonville near the river, is under a Tropical Storm Warning tonight.
nhc.noaa.gov

I know you must worry, but take it from one who’s been through more tropical storms than he can reliably remember. A tropical storm isn’t a hurricane, or anything like one. A tropical storm is mainly just a bad day for golf. Unless you’re accustomed to golfing in Ireland, in which case you merely call it “soft weather.”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:30:54pm

And Win 10 is complaining about running out of memory again, so I have to reboot. BBIAB

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:31:37pm

re: #26 whitebeach

I know you must worry, but take it from one who’s been through more tropical storms than he can reliably remember. A tropical storm isn’t a hurricane, or anything like one. A tropical storm is mainly just a bad day for golf. Unless you’re accustomed to golfing in Ireland, in which case you merely call it “soft weather.”

Yeah, I have been through my share of tropical storms and hurricanes, both on land and at sea. That said, flooding and tornadoes are the principal problems associated with tropical storms.

The current storm with its east winds moving through Jacksonville will drive the storm surge up the St John’s River sometime in the early morning hours, before the storm passes to the north of the city later in the day.

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Lidane  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:33:03pm

re: #6 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Here’s that number again. Freaky:

Chris Christie’s approval rating reaches record low

I am now convinced that Trump is going to pick him as his VP.

Ever since The Outlaw Jersey Whale burned all his bridges and endorsed Trump, he’s been the obedient, subservient lapdog. Goes where he’s told, says what he’s told to say, and then shuts up the rest of the time. Trump rewarded his loyalty by holding a fundraiser and getting all his campaign debts paid off, and we haven’t heard a peep out of Christie since. Even now, with Trump on the warpath against Judge Curiel, there’s been nothing at all.

With the rest of the GOP field seemingly pushing back against Trump’s idiocy with the judge, there won’t be anyone left for the VP slot, and Christie has nothing to lose. He’ll never get another term in office, so why not go out as the VP on a losing ticket?

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:33:15pm

re: #25 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Rage Furby is now claiming Judge Curiel’s parents were “illegal aliens” because he can’t find any proof of their legal immigration.

Plus, he’s printed copies of their supposed death certificates.

He’s an idiot. Even if what he claims is true, Judge Curiel was born in Indiana. That makes him an American.

And I doubt everyone’s immigration papers are available to one Chuck C Johnson just because he asks for them (and he hasn’t had enough time even if he could get them).

He’s making stuff up. He needs to go to the FOX News Channel School of Wingnut Grift first before he can play in the big leagues of right-wing propaganda.

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Lidane  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:37:57pm

re: #30 Anymouse

He’s an idiot. Even if what he claims is true, Judge Curiel was born in Indiana. That makes him an American.

“BUT LA RAZA! ELEVENTY!” seems to be the standard talking point from the rubes. Even when you show them that the group the judge belongs to is as threatening as a Rotary Club meeting, they still insist that the judge is unfit to hear the Trump University cases because reasons.

None of Trump’s drooling idiot followers can ever explain why Judge Curiel’s ethnicity prevents him from hearing two class action fraud cases, but they’ll keep charging at that windmill over and over and over and over insisting that the Judge has a conflict of interest because MEXICAN ZOMG. It’s bizarre.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:39:22pm

re: #30 Anymouse

He’s an idiot. Even if what he claims is true, Judge Curiel was born in Indiana. That makes him an American.

No question, and none of it pertains to the Trump U fraud case at all. Chuck is just doing his usual horning in on the latest RWNJ nontroversy.

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teleskiguy  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:39:45pm

re: #31 Lidane

YOU’RE MEXICAN! STINKY!!! WE NEED TO BAN Lidane!!!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:39:59pm

re: #25 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Rage Furby is now claiming Judge Curiel’s parents were “illegal aliens” because he can’t find any proof of their legal immigration.

Plus, he’s printed copies of their supposed death certificates.

Jesus Christ he’s a fucking ghoul. And even if they were, so the fuck what, Curiel is an American. This shit is pathetic. This man doesn’t deserve this at all. He was a fine prosecutor and is a good judge. Trump had no right to put him on trial for the crime of being a Mexixan American ruling on his fraudulent university.

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:40:06pm

re: #31 Lidane

None of Trump’s drooling idiot followers can ever explain why Judge Curiel’s ethnicity prevents him from hearing two class action fraud cases, but they’ll keep charging at that windmill over and over and over and over insisting that the Judge has a conflict of interest because MEXICAN ZOMG.

They can’t because the Supreme Court has already ruled that race is not a disqualifier for hearing cases or serving on juries. They’re just making stuff up because their low-info base doesn’t know any better, and if they informed them properly they could not grift from them.

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whitebeach  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:40:18pm

re: #28 Anymouse

Yeah, I have been through my share of tropical storms and hurricanes, both on land and at sea. That said, flooding and tornadoes are the principal problems associated with tropical storms.

Well, if you’ve been through a hurricane at sea, your experience exceeds mine, since I’ve only endured them on land. Got a sailor’s tale for us? As for the tornadoes around tropical storms, they tend to be snappy little shingle rippers rather than the town killers you undoubtedly must be familiar with out there in Nebraska.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:42:54pm

Bill O’Reilly fine legal scholar he is says Curiel needs to recuse himself. No, Bill he does not have to recuse himself because a bullying piece of shit can’t accept him because of his ethnicity. I feel so bad that Curiel who has worked his ass off to get where he is having this happen to him.

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:43:34pm

re: #36 whitebeach

Well, if you’ve been through a hurricane at sea, your experience exceeds mine, since I’ve only endured them on land. Got a sailor’s tale for us? As for the tornadoes around tropical storms, they tend to be snappy little shingle rippers rather than the town killers you undoubtedly must be familiar with out there in Nebraska.

One tale: Aboard the USS America (CV-66), we took to the eye of a hurricane to cross the Atlantic to see if we could hide from Soviet surveillance.

There were a whole lot of sick people during the crossing. A destroyer following in our wake to smooth the water would disappear below the aft deck, then pop up above the carrier.

We lost a number of HF antennas off the side of the ship, and there were salt streaks halfway down the length of the flight deck.

I have a stomach constitution that allows me to eat while walking on bulkheads, but there were an awful lot of sick people for a week or so.

Chow in the chow hall was interesting, because you could not keep your dinner tray on the tables. The chow hall (after a couple disastrous meals) chose to serve box meals instead.

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Lidane  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:44:18pm

re: #37 HappyWarrior

Bill O’Reilly fine legal scholar he is says Curiel needs to recuse himself. No, Bill he does not have to recuse himself because a bullying piece of shit can’t accept him because of his ethnicity. I feel so bad that Curiel who has worked his ass off to get where he is having this happen to him.

I loved how BillO was babbling about the judge recusing himself even though he hadn’t done anything wrong. WTF. How does that make sense? If he’s done nothing wrong there’s no grounds for recusal.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:44:53pm

re: #38 Anymouse

I discovered, on our cruise in April, that I got sick merely crossing the Gulf Stream.

That sounds pretty awful.

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Lidane  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:44:57pm

re: #33 teleskiguy

YOU’RE MEXICAN! STINKY!!! WE NEED TO BAN Lidane!!!

/

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:45:09pm

re: #39 Lidane

I loved how BillO was babbling about the judge recusing himself even though he hadn’t done anything wrong. WTF.

Wingnut talking point of the week. If it was a female judge, or a disabled judge, or a former POW judge, &c they would be arguing the same.

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whitebeach  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:47:18pm

re: #38 Anymouse

Wow. As a guy who gets queasy on an aging pier, I salute you.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:48:00pm

re: #39 Lidane

I loved how BillO was babbling about the judge recusing himself even though he hadn’t done anything wrong. WTF. How does that make sense? If he’s done nothing wrong there’s no grounds for recusal.

It sets up a dangerous precedent. Complain about a judge and get him removed. Trump is a lunatic as is BillO.

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:48:37pm

re: #43 whitebeach

Wow. As a guy who gets queasy on an aging pier, I salute you.

Well, when I got out of the Navy, I got as far away from the sea as I could. The Nebraska Panhandle is about as far away as you can get in North America.

The guys on the destroyer behind us must have had a fun time.

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:52:59pm

There was a sad note to that trip though: The captain had passed that all hands were to stay in the interior of the ship.

One fellow from my division (IM-3, Avionics repair) decided he wanted to go look at the waves. He went out on Elevator #1 to look at them, and a wave rolled over the elevator and took him out to sea. We never found him.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:53:04pm

From my genealogy research, I know you have to give a reason for obtaining a birth or death certificate from the public records office. In Indiana, as in most states, you have to state a family relationship to obtain a copy.

So Chuck is Mexican, too?

secure.in.gov

I’m hazy on the legal aspects of lying to obtain a death certificate, but for most people, it would certainly be unethical. And considering the target of this witch hunt is a federal judge, such actions would be unwise.

So, either someone besides Chuckie obtained those copies for him, or he obtained them himself. No matter what, they would have had to lie on the application form that they had a direct interest.

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:55:27pm

re: #47 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

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So, either someone besides Chuckie obtained those copies for him, or he obtained them himself. No matter what, they would have had to lie on the application form that they had a direct interest.

Or, he made it up.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:57:41pm

re: #31 Lidane

re: #39 Lidane

I swear, this is because they aren’t actually interested in the content of arguments, they just want something that is plausibly argument-shaped.

Weirdly, this from people who shit themselves over the idea that post-modernism means “no facts, nothing means anything.”

Has it just been projection for two decades and someodd? Seems like it.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:58:22pm

The death certificate isn’t going to say citizenship status or anything like that anyhow. I’ve seen enough of Pennsyvania death certificates to know that. I only know my great grandparents were naturalized since it indicates it on their census records and with the men their draft registration cards.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:59:13pm

re: #46 Anymouse

There was a sad note to that trip though: The captain had passed that all hands were to stay in the interior of the ship.

One fellow from my division (IM-3, Avionics repair) decided he wanted to go look at the waves. He went out on Elevator #1 to look at them, and a wave rolled over the elevator and took him out to sea. We never found him.

Yikes! That’s awful. It reminds me of a Post Doc I used to work with, years ago. There had been an earthquake in Alaska, and so there was a Tsunami Warning for the California coast. He said, “Wow! Wouldn’t it be cool to go to Ocean Beach and watch that come in?”

He was from Indiana. He didn’t know from oceans.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 6, 2016 • 10:59:15pm

re: #28 Anymouse

Yeah, I have been through my share of tropical storms and hurricanes, both on land and at sea. That said, flooding and tornadoes are the principal problems associated with tropical storms.

The current storm with its east winds moving through Jacksonville will drive the storm surge up the St John’s River sometime in the early morning hours, before the storm passes to the north of the city later in the day.

Local news

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teleskiguy  Jun 6, 2016 • 11:00:56pm

Today is Prince’s birthday.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 6, 2016 • 11:00:58pm

Here is the pertinent statute in Indiana law:

Ind. Code § 16-37-1-10 : Indiana Code - Section 16-37-1-10: Restrictions on disclosure of data; judicial review; exemption; birth records of adopted children

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the records and files of the division of the state department concerning vital statistics are subject to this article and rules of the state department. Data contained in the records and files may be disclosed only as follows:
(1) The state registrar shall permit inspection of the records or issue a certified copy of a certificate or part of a certificate only if the state registrar is satisfied of the following:
(A) That the applicant has a direct interest in the matter recorded.
(B) That the information is necessary for the determination of personal or property rights or for compliance with state or federal law.
The state registrar’s decision is subject to review by the state department or a court under this section.
(2) The state department may permit the use of data contained in vital statistical records for research purposes only, but no
identifying use may be made of the data.
(3) In any extraordinary case that the state registrar determines is a direct tangible and legitimate public interest.
(b) The birth record of an adopted child remains subject to the confidentiality provisions of IC 31-19 regarding the release of adoption information.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.20. Amended by P.L.1-1997, SEC.91; P.L.257-1997(ss), SEC.29; P.L.1-1999, SEC.45.

- See more at: codes.lp.findlaw.com

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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 11:02:29pm

re: #54 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Here is the pertinent statute in Indiana law:

- See more at: codes.lp.findlaw.com

So he’s either lying or admitting breaking the law. Wtg dumnuts.

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 11:02:31pm

re: #52 FormerDirtDart

Well, that’s good. Since my son hasn’t called I presume everything is okay. (He calls when there are problems.) My ex-wife hasn’t called either, so I guess she doesn’t need money. /s

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 11:04:02pm

re: #54 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Perhaps someone should send this to Chuck C Johnson. If he is making claims he has attempted to get the death certificates of Judge Curiel’s parents, then he might want to be aware that is illegal.

Or, alternatively, send Chuck C Johnson’s claim from GotNews to the Indiana state prosecutor along with the link to the law.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 6, 2016 • 11:06:24pm

re: #50 HappyWarrior

The death certificate isn’t going to say citizenship status or anything like that anyhow. I’ve seen enough of Pennsyvania death certificates to know that. I only know my great grandparents were naturalized since it indicates it on their census records and with the men their draft registration cards.

Some records are also not available for recently deceased people. Curiel’s dad, for example, died in 1964. His naturalization records may still be protected. The 1940 census is available, because 75 years have passed. The 1950 census is still under wraps.

I’m seriously bothered by Rage Furby’s obtaining those vital records, because it’s not only unethical (normal for him) but probably illegal to release them to someone without a “direct interest.” It’s also an invasion of the Curiel family’s privacy.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 6, 2016 • 11:08:23pm

re: #58 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Some records are also not available for recently deceased people. Curiel’s dad, for example, died in 1964. His naturalization records may still be protected. The 1940 census is available, because 75 years have passed. The 1950 census is still under wraps.

I’m seriously bothered by Rage Furby’s obtaining those vital records, because it’s not only unethical (normal for him) but probably illegal to release them to someone without a “direct interest.” It’s also an invasion of the Curiel family’s privacy.

Good points. I’m bothered by it too. It’s ghoulish.

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Anymouse  Jun 6, 2016 • 11:11:31pm

re: #59 HappyWarrior

Good points. I’m bothered by it too. It’s ghoulish.

I’m guessing he is lying.

Remember the fake “Commonwealth of Kenya” birth certificate that circulated claiming Barack Obama was born there (when Kenya was still Rhodesia and a British colony)?

On the other hand, if Chuck C Johnson has obtained (or tried to obtain) the actual death certificates, the state attorney’s office should be notified, as that would be a crime under Indiana statues. (Might be nice to see Mr. Johnson sporting horizontal stripes in an Indiana jail.)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 6, 2016 • 11:32:43pm

re: #60 Anymouse

I’m guessing he is lying.

Remember the fake “Commonwealth of Kenya” birth certificate that circulated claiming Barack Obama was born there (when Kenya was still Rhodesia and a British colony)?

On the other hand, if Chuck C Johnson has obtained (or tried to obtain) the actual death certificates, the state attorney’s office should be notified, as that would be a crime under Indiana statues. (Might be nice to see Mr. Johnson sporting horizontal stripes in an Indiana jail.)

I can’t pursue that at the moment, since classes beckon, but GotNwes has published something about it.

BREAKING: Chuck C. Johnson may have illegally printed death records of Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s parents

Perhaps others can refer the matter to legal experts and retweet as needed whilst I teach young minds.

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teleskiguy  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:07:05am

Instagram

Detox Day 20: Still can’t sleep past 5:30 so I’m just gonna lay in bed and read the 12 fucking steps. Everyone tells me the 12 fucking steps are key!

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teleskiguy  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:08:47am

Facebook Post

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Kragar  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:45:38am

re: #13 goddamnedfrank

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:46:48am

The world needs more tacitly racist white manbabies.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:54:00am
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Kragar  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:10:11am

re: #66 goddamnedfrank

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:15:36am
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Kragar  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:24:26am

re: #68 goddamnedfrank

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Kragar  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:25:31am

Think I should let him know I’m a white guy?

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:32:29am

Now he’s openly advocating for fascism as a way to “shake things up.” This is why the hardcore Berners have always been so despicable, they’re more anarchists / nihilists than genuine socialist / social democrat. They never actually cared about anybody but themselves.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:36:21am

re: #71 goddamnedfrank

I do not Twitter for obvious reason. Nor do I really wanna know what some idjit is twittering…

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Kragar  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:51:28am
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Eventual Carrion  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:53:07am

re: #63 teleskiguy

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Push, breath breath, push …

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 7, 2016 • 2:04:31am

re: #60 Anymouse

I’m guessing he is lying.

Remember the fake “Commonwealth of Kenya” birth certificate that circulated claiming Barack Obama was born there (when Kenya was still Rhodesia and a British colony)?

I’m way late to the party, but Kenya was never Rhodesia. Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 2:06:08am

re: #76 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’m way late to the party, but Kenya was never Rhodesia. Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi.

“Kenya” is a dogwhistle for “blacks rising up and slaughtering whites”, which is just the sort of image that people like Newt Gingrich want to implant in people’s minds.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 2:58:22am

More than 400 hits on my latest GotNwes post so far.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 7, 2016 • 3:15:54am
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Ming5000  Jun 7, 2016 • 3:56:27am

re: #68 goddamnedfrank

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Cripes. Pity the Twitter fool who garners the attention of both Gaddamnedfrank and Krager.

BernieBros really have no idea about the depth of the water that they swim in.

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Ming5000  Jun 7, 2016 • 4:00:00am

re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I do not Twitter for obvious reason. Nor do I really wanna know what some idjit is twittering…

I don’t Twitter either, but I enjoy peeking into that battleground. It is an area I would have little exposure to if it were not for LGF.
And, the LGF’er responses help me sharpen my skylls.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Jun 7, 2016 • 4:19:57am

re: #63 teleskiguy

It’s giving birth to an unholy cross-breed

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Timothy Watson  Jun 7, 2016 • 4:44:20am

Frell, there’s a gnat inside my monitor running around.

Man, that’s going to be annoying.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 4:54:11am

Bernie Bros is to “contested convention” as “impeachment” is to RWNJs. If you don’t like the results of an election, have a hissy fit and shit the bed.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:00:34am

re: #84 Dr. Matt

Bernie Bros is to “contested convention” as “impeachment” is to RWNJs. If you don’t like the results of an election, have a hissy fit and shit the bed.

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Anyone that references that awful “I, Robot” film in a meme ought to be publicly flogged.

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Ming5000  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:02:10am

re: #84 Dr. Matt

Bernie Bros is to “contested convention” as “impeachment” is to RWNJs. If you don’t like the results of an election, have a hissy fit and shit the bed.

Reminds me of hipsters, I tell ya!

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:03:16am

re: #71 goddamnedfrank

Now he’s openly advocating for fascism as a way to “shake things up.” This is why the hardcore Berners have always been so despicable, they’re more anarchists / nihilists than genuine socialist / social democrat. They never actually cared about anybody but themselves.

some people just want to watch the world burn

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Scout  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:12:06am

I used this art once before, and I hope to use it at least one more time come November.

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Fineday  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:16:24am

You beat me to it.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:28:10am
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jeffreyw  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:36:15am

Imgur
Good Morning!

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:37:08am

The Morning Joe crew are suddenly having an epiphany that Donald Trump is a bad person.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:38:59am

re: #92 Dr. Matt

The Morning Joe crew are suddenly having an epiphany that Donald Trump is a bad person.

It only took them so long.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:40:19am

re: #92 Dr. Matt

The Morning Joe crew are suddenly having an epiphany that Donald Trump is a bad person.

If only there were some alternative candidate they could vote for—but Sadly, No!

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:40:51am

re: #93 HappyWarrior

It only took them so long.

Bob Corker can’t even say whether Trump is fit to be president. Sad.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:44:05am

re: #95 Dr. Matt

Bob Corker can’t even say whether Trump is fit to be president. Sad.

There’s something deeply wrong with that party.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:45:18am

re: #96 HappyWarrior

There’s something deeply wrong with that party.

1) Clinton Derangement Syndrome. 2) They actually believe America is in terrible shape.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:46:04am

re: #95 Dr. Matt

Bob Corker can’t even say whether Trump is fit to be president. Sad.

Yeah but BENGHAZI!!!!1

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:46:18am

re: #79 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

he’s just pinin’, you know, for the fjords (don’t hate me)

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:46:19am

re: #97 Dr. Matt

1) Clinton Derangement Syndrome. 2) They actually believe America is in terrible shape.

Yep on both counts.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:46:40am

re: #97 Dr. Matt

Did Corker actually say that Hillary is running around with her hair on fire?

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:47:47am

Checked in with the Bernie-butthurt on FB. Something about

We will not collude in this media collusion with the Clinton campaign!!!!!11

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:50:04am

re: #2 Charles Johnson

well it looks like he may have used two words correctly - “a” and “the”.
the rest, not so much

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:53:43am

if you think the AP overstepped, the best way to stick it to them is to vote and landslide win everything today.

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Dark_Falcon  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:55:34am

re: #103 dangerman

well it looks like he may have used two words correctly - “a” and “the”.
the rest, not so much

Sirota? He wouldn’t know a fact about the current election if he tripped over it.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:56:51am

Actual Bernie Bro statement on Morning Joe: “If we held the early caucus elections again, I bet you that Bernie would win”. Sad

And, of the 6 Bernie Bros they interviewed, only 2 said they would vote for Hillary if she was the nominee. Sad x2

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:57:45am

re: #105 Dark_Falcon

Sirota? He wouldn’t know a fact about the current election if he tripped over it.

ok, then he didn’t even use the words “a” and “the” correctly. ;-)

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:57:46am

re: #102 Sir John Barron

Checked in with the Bernie-butthurt on FB. Something about

I haven’t been on yet. No plans to until after this settles down.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 5:59:45am

re: #106 Dr. Matt

Actual Bernie Bro statement on Morning Joe: “If we held the early caucus elections again, I bet you that Bernie would win”. Sad

And, of the 6 Bernie Bros they interviewed, only 2 said they would vote for Hillary if she was the nominee. Sad x2

They just don’t see how poor their campaign was at outreach. Bernie really didn’t have much of a base that one wins a primary with. Bernie also had shitty advisers like Davine and Weaver.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:00:04am

Here’s an actual Trump rant circulating on FB:

Here’s why we want Trump, yes he’s a bit of an ass, yes he’s an egomaniac, but we don’t care. The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republican Party is two-faced & gutless, and illegals are everywhere. We want it all fixed! We don’t care that Trump is crude, we don’t care that he insults people, we don’t care that he has been friendly with Hillary, we don’t care that he has changed positions, we don’t care that he’s been married 3 times, we don’t care that he fights with Megyn Kelly and Rosie O’Donnell, we don’t care that he doesn’t know the name of some Muslin [sic] terrorist.

This country is weak, bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegals, we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo and Hasid is a special group with special rights to a point where we don’t even recognize the country we were born and raised in; “AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED” and Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want.

We’re sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic Party, Republican Party, and sick of illegals. We just want this thing fixed. Trump may not be a saint, but he doesn’t have lobbyist money holding him, he doesn’t have political correctness restraining him, all you know is that he has been very successful, a good negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and he’s also not a politician, he’s not a cowardly politician. And he says he’ll fix it. And we believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong or looked at and called a liar.

Also we don’t care if the guy has bad hair.

We just want those raccoons gone, out of our house, NOW.

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:04:19am

re: #110 Dr. Matt

“We just want those raccoons gone, out of our house, NOW.”

you hire this guy to do it, he’s going to demolish your house in the process. on purpose or by accident, you’ll get wet next time it rains

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:04:59am

re: #110 Dr. Matt

Here’s an actual Trump rant circulating on FB:

We just want those raccoons gone, out of our house, NOW.

Quickest way to get raccoons out of your house? SET IT ON FIRE!!!

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:05:08am

re: #110 Dr. Matt

That’s the strategery behind someone using a flamethrower to exterminate a single spider in a home.

It shows a complete and utter lack of knowledge about how things actually work, or what politics is actually about. It’s absolutism and leads down a path to authoritarianism, which is how Trump sees himself. He thinks he can do no wrong, and he has no filter. That’s how his supporters want it. They want the ability to say the things Trump says without the repercussions.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:05:34am

re: #109 HappyWarrior

They just don’t see how poor their campaign was at outreach. Bernie really didn’t have much of a base that one wins a primary with. Bernie also had shitty advisers like Davine and Weaver.

And they also blamed the media for the early losses. It’s amazing….you can’t tell the difference between wingnuts and berniebros

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:07:32am

man trying to kill spyder ignites gas pump fire

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Lidane  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:13:14am

“Threats, I’ve had neighbors who — this was months ago, before I even considered this — neighbors who were nervous there were going to be attacks in the neighborhood. He unlocks something terrible in this country,” he said.

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Brian J.  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:13:54am

re: #106 Dr. Matt

Actual Bernie Bro statement on Morning Joe: “If we held the early caucus elections again, I bet you that Bernie would win”. Sad

The Huffington Post Pollster shows an average 51-41 lead for Hillary in national primary polling, within the MOE of the 55-43 margin of the national popular vote to date. Also, Bernie had a 90%+ recognition rating before the Iowa caucus. If he did it all over again, the results would be pretty much the same.

And, of the 6 Bernie Bros they interviewed, only 2 said they would vote for Hillary if she was the nominee. Sad x2

Further evidence that Sanders’ platform can’t be taken seriously. And this habit of putting words at the end of your posts detailing your emotional state has got to stop. Goofy!

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Lidane  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:14:39am

re: #115 dangerman

man trying to kill spyder ignites gas pump fire

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:14:40am

Yeah I fucked up by checking Facebook. FeeltheBern has turned into FeeltheWhine. I am sorry. I wish the AP had held off on it and waited for the primaries to happen today but you know what, I’m tired of being told I’m not a real progressive because I am not 100% in love with Bernie Sanders, I’m tired of being told that I’m some establishment hack because I don’t think it’s wise to hand the keys to our party to a seventy four year old who quite honestly has done less for Democratic candidates than I have and one that doesn’t believe in campaigning for other candidates. You want to be disappointed? That’s your right but you chose to embrace a very flawed candidate. He did very well despite his flaws. Take some pride in that instead of whining about the big bad establishment. And honestly Bernie would have had more SDs if he had actually showed that he cared about working with other people and not having the biggest progressive dick in the Congressional classroom.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:15:39am

re: #116 Lidane

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Very fucked up but what can you expect from a bunch of thugs like the Trump Campaign. Note to French though, your pals at the NRO helped this guy compile his USSC wishlist, they’re all about team conservative above all else and they could care less about you our your family.

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:18:14am

re: #118 Lidane

sent that pic to my wife once. she was like “yeah, and?”

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Dark_Falcon  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:20:07am

re: #110 Dr. Matt

Here’s an actual Trump rant circulating on FB:

That guy has to know that ‘raccoons’ is liable to be read as a dog whistle. Which means he did it on purpose.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:20:13am

I like how the BBs on my timeline are acting like the DNC is this center right machine. I don’t think a center right party puts Barney Frank, Elijah Cummings, and Barbara Lee on its platform committee. There are some ways that I do wish the DNC was more to the left but at the same time, I think the actual left is clueless as shit how to run an actual political party. Listen, the New Deal and Great Society programs were great, they were also in a team where racial minorities struggled to get access to many of the same government programs. The reason we had the anti government backlash is quite frankly te white working class voters that Bernie wants to bring back to the party had a shit fit about other people having the same benefits they did. Not all of course but enough of them did to the point where white working class voters vote for the Republicans these days as a group.

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Great White Snark  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:21:52am

Good morning. My ballot goes in the mail today, the one meaningful vote is for Kamala Harris. And the California primary almost had relevance. But not quite.

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Brian J.  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:22:00am

re: #123 HappyWarrior

I like how the BBs on my timeline are acting like the DNC is this center right machine. I don’t think a center right party puts Barney Frank, Elijah Cummings, and Barbara Lee on its platform committee. There are some ways that I do wish the DNC was more to the left but at the same time, I think the actual left is clueless as shit how to run an actual political party. Listen, the New Deal and Great Society programs were great, they were also in a team where racial minorities struggled to get access to many of the same government programs. The reason we had the anti government backlash is quite frankly te white working class voters that Bernie wants to bring back to the party had a shit fit about other people having the same benefits they did. Not all of course but enough of them did to the point where white working class voters vote for the Republicans these days as a group.

This primary season has really made it clear that the left has both a Wingnut Welfare machine of its own and a purity caucus that would rather keep the issues than solve them. In addition, all too many of today’s young people (who won’t get off my lawn) would rather snark about the world than actually do anything to change it.

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Dark_Falcon  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:23:05am

re: #124 Great White Snark

Good morning. My ballot goes in the mail today, the one meaningful vote is for Kamala Harris. And the California primary almost had relevance. But not quite.

Why would you ever vote for her?

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Scout  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:24:41am

Sorry, I don’t know if I’m doing this right, but this link should take you to a really powerful anti-Tump ad on YouTube.

At the end, a little girl sinks a basket and I was blubbering like a baby.

Grace

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Scout  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:25:35am

re: #127 Scout

Also, sorry if anyone else has already posted it here.

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Great White Snark  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:26:31am

re: #126 Dark_Falcon

Why would you ever vote for her?

I like her for the job.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:26:32am

re: #125 Brian J.

This primary season has really made it clear that the left has both a Wingnut Welfare machine of its own and a purity caucus that would rather keep the issues than solve them. In addition, all too many of today’s young people (who won’t get off my lawn) would rather snark about the world than actually do anything to change it.

It’s always been there unfortunately. I mean what pisses me off about is how they think they can claim the mantle of the left for themselves. I’m staunchly liberal. I’m also happy that Clinton and not Sanders is going to the Democratic nominee. So many of these people think the Democratic Party only exists as a tool for them to move to the left at their will and then the second the party does something, they can abandon it. If they want to act like that, I’m all for the Dem Party honchos telling them go to hell. You want this to be your party then you don’t get to act like a toddler every time something doesn’t go your way.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:28:24am

re: #127 Scout

Sorry, I don’t know if I’m doing this right, but this link should take you to a really powerful anti-Tump ad on YouTube.

At the end, a little girl sinks a basket and I was blubbering like a baby.

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Video

Is there any group that Trump won’t shit on to get a rise from the jackals that support him?

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Great White Snark  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:29:19am

If one had a choice between watching the political process and sausage making it’s an easy one. Making sausage in no more bloody or confused, but far more honest.

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darthstar  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:30:24am

Mornin’ everyone…welcome to Tuesday - and the end of the primaries.

I told you we’d make it.

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Dark_Falcon  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:34:47am

re: #129 Great White Snark

I like her for the job.

And on that you lost me. But then I could never live in California either.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:34:50am

re: #24 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I don’t know how much stock to put in this:

‘Rolling Jubilee’ activists accuse ‘Last Week Tonight’ of misleading them for $15 million debt stunt

Reading the article, they’re whining because John is copying them (boohoo) and that he hasn’t fixed the debt problem. They want all the glory, damn it.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:36:25am

re: #110 Dr. Matt

Here’s an actual Trump rant circulating on FB:

ARE ENEMIES ARE LAUGHING AT US!!!!!

oh yeah and

ILLEGALS!!!!1

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:36:57am

re: #134 Dark_Falcon

And on that you lost me. But then I could never live in California either.

Not even on the beach?

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Great White Snark  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:38:27am

re: #134 Dark_Falcon

No worries, it’s a state matter. It’s an upgrade afaik.

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Dark_Falcon  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:39:52am

re: #137 Sir John Barron

Not even on the beach?

Not even there. It’s a mix of liberal politics and high temperatures, and I don’t like either.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:40:58am

This Day In History: Hillary Clinton Concedes To Obama. Is That Subtle Enough?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:41:05am

re: #116 Lidane

[Trump] unlocks something terrible in this country,”

The Beast has long been unchained. But DT dispels any doubt that it was the GOP that unchained it.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:42:21am

My cardiac surgeon who replaced my valve. His name is Chris Cook MD, but I refer to him as Dr. Billy Jack. He did my wife’s double bypass a year ago after her heart attack. After I left pre-op from her I went to the waiting room to wait out the procedure. A door opens on the other side of the waiting room and in walks a surgeon (he was dressed like one at least, which it being a hospital I didn’t think much of it). When I focused on his face my immediate though is, here comes Billy Jack. He walks up to me and introduces himself as Dr. Cook, the surgeon that would be doing my wife’s procedure. From that point on he has been Dr. Billy Jack, a kickass surgeon.

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William Lewis  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:42:31am

re: #139 Dark_Falcon

Not even there. It’s a mix of liberal politics and high temperatures, and I don’t like either.

Well, with global warming you’ll get the temperatures and with Governor Brown you have him continuing to work on California Uber Alles! Best of California, Everywhere!!!!

////// Heheheheheh.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:42:48am

re: #126 Dark_Falcon

Why would you ever vote for her?

Because the alternative would be a disaster.

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:42:51am

re: #140 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

i’ll say it for the last time - if they think they AP got it wrong, they can prove it today by winning big.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:44:23am

re: #139 Dark_Falcon

Not even there. It’s a mix of liberal politics and high temperatures, and I don’t like either.

Actually DF, there’s a lot of parts of California that are pretty conservative and not too hot. I was wearing jeans a lot of the time the week I spent in SF a few years back. The temperatures I’d say except in Death Valley aren’t really too much hotter than you’d get in Chicago either.

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Dark_Falcon  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:45:05am

re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Because the alternative would be a disaster.

I dunno, I’m not familiar with the other Senate candidates in Cali.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:45:07am

re: #145 dangerman

i’ll say it for the last time - if they think they AP got it wrong, they can prove it today by winning big.

I think that’s why they’re still doing GOTV. I totally believe the Clinton campaign would have preferred that they clinch today.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:45:08am

re: #146 HappyWarrior

Actually DF, there’s a lot of parts of California that are pretty conservative and not too hot. I was wearing jeans a lot of the time the week I spent in SF a few years back. The temperatures I’d say except in Death Valley aren’t really too much hotter than you’d get in Chicago either.

There’s that whole north part of the state that keeps wanting to secede. Jefferson.

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:48:09am

re: #148 HappyWarrior

I think that’s why they’re still doing GOTV. I totally believe the Clinton campaign would have preferred that they clinch today.

may have stolen some of the thunder. i think tonight’s going to be as big and noisy as it would have been anyway.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:48:25am

re: #149 Belafon

There’s that whole north part of the state that keeps wanting to secede. Jefferson.

Never knew about that. I’ve only been in the part that borders Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz. I liked all the areas in their own way. If you had to press me on which place I’d live, I’d probably go with SF but I’m a city creature. The drive from SF to Santa Cruz I have to say was one of the most beautiful drives I’ve ever been on. That Pacific Coast Highway is something else.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:50:07am

re: #150 dangerman

may have stolen some of the thunder. i think tonight’s going to be as big and noisy as it would have been anyway.

Yeah. I’m thinking the SDs that leaked were probably tired of the Sanders campaign acting like a bag of dicks in any case. Honestly, I want to know why SDs were okay with Bernie when Obama clinched with them but why they’re not okay when Hlilary clinched with them. I mean it’s okay if you have a legit gripe with that system but there’s lots of double standard this campaign has had.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:51:55am

fivethirtyeight.com
The headline says it all as far as I’m concerned.

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:54:09am

Apparently Bernie fans are just as bad with reading as with math.

Yeah, Bernie’s going to somehow get 882 out of 930 delegates up for grabs today (that’s what the graphic actually states). And then turn over the supers to his side, when they’re not going to override the popular vote that has given Hillary a commanding lead in delegates.

The rest of it is attempting to reframe the delegate math, leaving out a few minor details - like how Hillary gets a majority of the pledged delegates after today’s races are done. Supers do count, and counting them as they’ve always done provides the same result - Hillary wins in a historic fashion.

Bernie hasn’t had a chance to win since Super Tuesday and can’t make a case for the nomination since he has not gotten closer than being 200 delegates down since Super Tuesday. That’s some momentum.

But I preach to the choir here.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:55:49am

re: #152 HappyWarrior

Yeah. I’m thinking the SDs that leaked were probably tired of the Sanders campaign acting like a bag of dicks in any case. Honestly, I want to know why SDs were okay with Bernie when Obama clinched with them but why they’re not okay when Hlilary clinched with them. I mean it’s okay if you have a legit gripe with that system but there’s lots of double standard this campaign has had.

Presidential campaigns are a slow torture. Imagine being behind for three months, but there’s a possibility you could win it all, as long as everything went your way. And then, imagine winning contests but winning actually reduced your chance of earning the nomination. I bet it eats at the best of us. It did Clinton in 2008, and we saw it with Michigan and Florida.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:58:35am

re: #154 lawhawk

Apparently Bernie fans are just as bad with reading as with math.

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Yeah, Bernie’s going to somehow get 882 out of 930 delegates up for grabs today (that’s what the graphic actually states). And then turn over the supers to his side, when they’re not going to override the popular vote that has given Hillary a commanding lead in delegates.

The rest of it is attempting to reframe the delegate math, leaving out a few minor details - like how Hillary gets a majority of the pledged delegates after today’s races are done. Supers do count, and counting them as they’ve always done provides the same result - Hillary wins in a historic fashion.

Bernie hasn’t had a chance to win since Super Tuesday and can’t make a case for the nomination since he has not gotten closer than being 200 delegates down since Super Tuesday. That’s some momentum.

But I preach to the choir here.

Wipe out the SDs and Bernie still loses, have only open primaries and Bernie still loses, the only way Bernie would have been able to win would have been to have caucuses everywhere. You know what? I don’t feel bad for them at all. They chose to make enemies with people who had been big parts of the Democratic coalition for a long time. They chose to insult Clinton Democratic primary voters by calling them sell outs. When Obama ran against Clinton, Clinton had a lot of endorsements including a lot from the African-American community, Obama’s campaign didn’t bitch. They worked and that’s why Barack Obama was nominated and then became President. He worked for it. Bernie didn’t want to do the hard work of building relationships, working as a team player, and working with other Democrats to get nominated. This loss is on Bernie. Be mad at him not the big bad establishment and maybe find a better standard bearer than an old man who just became a Democrat from a state whose demographics aren’t even close to resembling what the US’s are.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 6:59:33am

re: #155 Belafon

Presidential campaigns are a slow torture. Imagine being behind for three months, and there’s a possibility you could win it all, as long as everything went your way. And then, imagine winning contests but winning actually reduced your chance of earning the nomination. I bet it eats at the best of us. It did Clinton in 2008, and we saw it with Michigan and Florida.

That’s quite true. Honestly, I’m ready to give Bernie another shot if he’s ready to actually work with other Democrats.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:00:44am

This is also happening today:

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Dark_Falcon  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:01:11am

re: #156 HappyWarrior

Bernie Sanders is ill-suited to the realities of of a large-coalition party, so he lost. His followers can whine all they want, but folks here shouldn’t get to focused on the whining.

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:03:25am

all the big names, and you know who they are, will now “pivot” to the general. bernie can either join in or keep saying “look at me over here”.

(and, as an aside, please don’t destroy trump before the convention.)

(edited for clarity)

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:04:03am

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is also happening today:

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Is Boehner backing anyone or staying out of it? Obviously the seat will stay Republican but it will be interesting to see who the voters choose.

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Dark_Falcon  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:05:13am

SDF/YPG forces in Syria reparing a Daesh-damaged to support their advance on Manbij:

Proving that you can repair what the other side tries to wreck is part of how you win the peace.

BBT

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sagehen  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:09:25am

Wellesley this weekend released audio of Hillary’s 1969 Commencement speech.

theatlantic.com

The speech is also a reminder that Clinton’s individual political talent and interest predates her two decades as sidekick to her husband. She made the front page of the next morning’s Boston Globe, which wrote in a headline that Senator Brooke was “upstaged” by a senior who “challenged his views.” The young Hillary Rodham who gave that speech, and who you hear in this clip, wouldn’t meet Bill Clinton for another two years.

So, y’know, if anybody thinks her achievements are all about nepotism.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:12:15am

keeping it classy:

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:15:15am

re: #163 sagehen

Wellesley this weekend released audio of Hillary’s 1969 Commencement speech.

theatlantic.com

So, y’know, if anybody thinks her achievements are all about nepotism.

That was pretty cool.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:15:38am

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

keeping it classy:

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He forgot “popular votes”

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:16:56am

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

keeping it classy:

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Doesn’t Huckabee have a dog to torture with his son? Anyhow, this is pretty damn funny considering that the GOP already rallied around Trump. Your concern is noted Mike. Now fuck off and have your theocrat wet dreams without us.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:17:10am

re: #166 The Vicious Babushka

He forgot “popular votes”

Those pesky things.

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Lidane  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:18:16am

Trump rubes are reacting exactly as you’d expect.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:22:47am

re: #169 Lidane

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Trump rubes are reacting exactly as you’d expect.

A direct attack on the 1st amendment.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:28:37am
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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:31:52am

re: #171 FormerDirtDart

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Indefensible? Oh so you’ll be dropping your support of him, right Paul? The Republicans condemning Trump’ in those terms mean nothing if they still support him. Graham to his credit seems to be telling Republicans to rescind their endorsements of him. I just don’t understand how or why they’re shocked. There’s something deeply wrong with this candidate and his party.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:32:14am

re: #171 FormerDirtDart

White-on-white racism.

Can we do a go-fund-me for shivs at the Republican convention? //

Edit: After writing that, I think there’ll be more blood spilled if there isn’t any physical violence.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:35:31am

You know we’er shocked by Trump’s attacks on Curiel now but I guarantee in a week, he’ll have someone else equally odious.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:35:50am

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

keeping it classy:

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Holy shit. I had completely forgotten about Huckabee.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:36:22am

re: #175 Barefoot Grin

Holy shit. I had completely forgotten about Huckabee.

I envy you.

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William of Orange  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:43:25am

Two questions to Charles Johnson directly.

1) Will this “pay screen” be there forever?

2) Will you finally keep your promise to open the site for multiple devices at once? It’s very annoying to post something on my computer while at the same time the site logs off on my tablet…

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KGxvi  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:44:25am

re: #172 HappyWarrior

Indefensible? Oh so you’ll be dropping your support of him, right Paul? The Republicans condemning Trump’ in those terms mean nothing if they still support him. Graham to his credit seems to be telling Republicans to rescind their endorsements of him. I just don’t understand how or why they’re shocked. There’s something deeply wrong with this candidate and his party.

Graham is pretty much the Blackfish of NeverJoffreyTrump. Slightly more interesting is this:

Michael Reagan, a son of former President Ronald Reagan, tweeted Monday that he won’t vote for Donald Trump and doesn’t think his late father would have supported the presumptive GOP nominee.

I’m not sure if that means anything to anyone anymore, but invoking Reagan among Republicans has been a pretty useful move in recent cycles.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:44:41am

I’m getting a bunch of alt-right shitlords with anime & Pepe avis in my timeline. Twitter Block Chain activated.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:47:26am

Once again, Baby Whiplash is projecting his own thoughts onto some random thing that he calls “The Left”

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:47:51am

re: #178 KGxvi

Graham is pretty much the Blackfish of NeverJoffreyTrump. Slightly more interesting is this:

I’m not sure if that means anything to anyone anymore, but invoking Reagan among Republicans has been a pretty useful move in recent cycles.

I did see that. Honestly, I think the only thing would be Ronnie himself condemning Trump and that obviously isn’t going to happen.

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Franklin  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:48:51am

OK, technical twitter question. How do I make the tweet embedding function like they do on the twitter web interface?

This screenshot here:

When embedded looks like this:

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:48:51am

re: #119 HappyWarrior

Yeah I fucked up by checking Facebook. FeeltheBern has turned into FeeltheWhine. I am sorry. I wish the AP had held off on it and waited for the primaries to happen today but you know what, I’m tired of being told I’m not a real progressive because I am not 100% in love with Bernie Sanders, I’m tired of being told that I’m some establishment hack because I don’t think it’s wise to hand the keys to our party to a seventy four year old who quite honestly has done less for Democratic candidates than I have and one that doesn’t believe in campaigning for other candidates. You want to be disappointed? That’s your right but you chose to embrace a very flawed candidate. He did very well despite his flaws. Take some pride in that instead of whining about the big bad establishment. And honestly Bernie would have had more SDs if he had actually showed that he cared about working with other people and not having the biggest progressive dick in the Congressional classroom.

My husband coined the term Neo-Progressives; people who are socialists without the democratic. They don’t believe in the democratic process, you know, voting and all that stuff. What other people think and want doesn’t matter.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:50:02am

I don’t think I’d seen this part of the Lindsey Graham quote:

This is the most un-American thing from a politician since Joe McCarthy. If anybody was looking for an off-ramp, this is probably it. There’ll come a time when the love of country will trump hatred of Hillary.

- Lindsey Graham

At least he doesn’t like what Trump’s doing to the party. Now if only other (resident) Republicans would recognize the same thing.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:51:00am

re: #180 The Vicious Babushka

Once again, Baby Whiplash is projecting his own thoughts onto some random thing that he calls “The Left”

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Ben doesn’t know a thing about the left. And fuck this piece of shit for calling Sotomayor a racist. No one on the left says white cops can’t be objective but what we do say is that there is racism that exists within police departments and that’s absolutely true. You want racist? No one on the right objected to many of what Obama proposed when Republicans were proposing it but they suddenly had a change of heart when Obama became President. That’s racism. Now quit bitching about a non existent left that is as bad as the nominee that your party and ideology is hellbent on forcing on America.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:51:16am

re: #182 Franklin

OK, technical twitter question. How do I make the tweet embedding function like they do on the twitter web interface?

This screenshot here:

Embedded Image

When embedded looks like this:

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You can make a screenshot, or you can embed the Tweet you’re quoting above your own Tweet.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:52:40am

re: #147 Dark_Falcon

I dunno, I’m not familiar with the other Senate candidates in Cali.

But because you see evil liberals you make a statement that you now admit you have no clue about.

PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:53:18am

re: #183 MsJ

My husband coined the term Neo-Progressives; people who are socialists without the democratic. They don’t believe in the democratic process, you know, voting and all that stuff. What other people think and want doesn’t matter.

The irony of ironies is they think they speak for the people. Honestly, I’m tempted to say something but I don’t want a cloud of shit bricks coming down on me when I point out that Clinton has beaten Sanders under every possible way. He’s beaten her with the popular vote, he’s beaten her with pledged delegates. They like to talk about how they speak for the people but frankly they act like Bolsheviks who think they get to speak for the people. The people of the Democratic Party spoke. They prefer Clinton. Now, where one is free is how they choose to react about that but they’re not entitled to change the facts.

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Franklin  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:53:44am

re: #186 The Vicious Babushka

You can make a screenshot, or you can embed the Tweet you’re quoting above your own Tweet.

I usually do the embed the one I am quoting routine. Am I crazy or did it used to work? I’ve noticed it not working for a while now but never looked for a fix.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:53:56am

re: #187 MsJ

But because you see evil liberals you make a statement that you now admit you have no clue about.

PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!

Oh! Will there be free beer and dancing girls?

Oh, right. Different kind of party.

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CuriousLurker  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:54:08am

If all goes as expected today & tomorrow—i.e. HRC sews up her presumptive nominee status and POTUS endorses & starts campaigning for her—Von ClownStick’s going to quickly find himself in a world of hurt, massively outsmarted and outclassed.

They’re gonna run rings around him and, sooner or later, he’ll have a complete meltdown in front of the entire nation and take the GOP with him. It was a serious error in judgement for so many Republicans to endorse him and it’s gonna cost them.

Despite the pessimistic hand-wringing from some quarters, I truly believe in my heart of hearts that most Americans aren’t that hateful and have no intention of electing a disgusting proto-fascist to represent them on the world stage.

Let’s all keep in mind that the America we live in is the same America that just elected a black man to be President. TWICE. And his approval rating is climbing by the day.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:54:23am

re: #190 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Oh! Will there be free beer and dancing girls?

Oh, right. Different kind of party.

Yeah this is the kind of party that Ned Flanders would find too constricting.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:55:40am

re: #191 CuriousLurker

If all goes as expected today & tomorrow—i.e. HRC sews up her presumptive nominee status and POTUS endorses & starts campaigning for her—Von ClownStick’s going to quickly find himself in a world of hurt, massively outsmarted and outclassed.

They’re gonna run rings around him and, sooner or later, he’ll have a complete meltdown in front of the entire nation and take the GOP with him. It was a serious error in judgement for so many to endorse him and it’s gonna cost them.

Despite the pessimistic hand-wringing from some quarters, I truly believe in my heart of hearts that most Americans aren’t that hateful and have no intention of electing a disgusting proto-fascist to represent them on the world stage.

Let’s all keep in mind that the America we live in is the same America that elected a black man to be President. TWICE. And his approval rating is climbing by the day.

The good thing about Obama being popular and getting more is and this is another thing to Clinton’s credit is she’ll gladly use him as a surrogate where she needs him to be. I honestly think Gore’s distancing himself from President Clinton cost him big time.

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Teukka  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:55:56am

re: #187 MsJ

But because you see evil liberals you make a statement that you now admit you have no clue about.

PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!

“Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” is not dangerous when we do it! 11ty!!!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:56:10am

re: #139 Dark_Falcon

Not even there. It’s a mix of liberal politics and high temperatures, and I don’t like either.

But it’s a dry heave!

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:56:51am

re: #189 Franklin

I usually do the embed the one I am quoting routine. Am I crazy or did it used to work? I’ve noticed it not working for a while now but never looked for a fix.

Twitter Reply includes the Tweet you’re responding to in the embed, but Twitter Quote just includes a link.

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gwangung  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:57:27am

re: #193 HappyWarrior

The good thing about Obama being popular and getting more is and this is another thing to Clinton’s credit is she’ll gladly use him as a surrogate where she needs him to be. I honestly think Gore’s distancing himself from President Clinton cost him big time.

You can blame that on his campaign manager.

Hm. Wonder what happened to him….

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KGxvi  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:57:45am

While trying to figure who to vote for today, I did notice that recent polling shows that we are likely to end up with two Democrats on the ballot in November for the Senate race. Harris is the front runner, but Loretta Sanchez looks like she’s pretty solidly in second place. According to the Times, among the newly registered, party registration ran 3-1 Democrat over Republican, so it seems hard to imagine that the unknown Republicans running in the single digits have a chance to pass Sanchez (polling around 20%).

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:58:04am

re: #190 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Oh! Will there be free beer and dancing girls?

Oh, right. Different kind of party.

Yeah, the party of the brainwashed that believe a whole bunch of shit that just isn’t true. And they know what isn’t true is true down to their very fucking core. And no matter what proof, actual documented proof, you offer, they don’t believe it.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:58:27am
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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:59:20am

re: #197 gwangung

You can blame that on his campaign manager.

Hm. Wonder what happened to him….

I’m drawing a blank honestly. I was only 13 that year.

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Great White Snark  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:59:27am

re: #147 Dark_Falcon

I dunno, I’m not familiar with the other Senate candidates in Cali.

I was not going for Sanchez.

Cristina Grappo[5]
Kamala Harris, California Attorney General[6]
Massie Munroe, engineer[5]
Herbert G. Peters[5]
Emory Rodgers, activist[7]
Loretta Sanchez, U.S. Representative[8]
Steve Stokes, small business owner and Independent candidate for CA-28 in 2014[9]

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 7:59:30am

re: #191 CuriousLurker

If all goes as expected today & tomorrow—i.e. HRC sews up her presumptive nominee status and POTUS endorses & starts campaigning for her—Von ClownStick’s going to quickly find himself in a world of hurt, massively outsmarted and outclassed.

They’re gonna run rings around him and, sooner or later, he’ll have a complete meltdown in front of the entire nation and take the GOP with him. It was a serious error in judgement for so many to endorse him and it’s gonna cost them.

Despite the pessimistic hand-wringing from some quarters, I truly believe in my heart of hearts that most Americans aren’t that hateful and have no intention of electing a disgusting proto-fascist to represent them on the world stage.

Let’s all keep in mind that the America we live in is the same America that elected a black man to be President. TWICE. And his approval rating is climbing by the day.

please please please let’s dont help trump implode till after he’s nominated

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:00:00am

re: #198 KGxvi

Hmmm. For some reason I thought you were out east somewhere.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:00:27am

re: #199 MsJ

Yeah, the party of the brainwashed that believe a whole bunch of shit that just isn’t true. And they know what isn’t true is true down to their very fucking core. And no matter what proof, actual documented proof, you offer, they don’t believe it.

They believe in Higher Truths: Jesus, Law and Order and the Free Market, the kind of Truths that are immune to factual rebuttal.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:00:38am

re: #200 FormerDirtDart

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Yeah Chris, it’s the media’s fault that your candidate attacked a judge based off of his ethnicity. God I remember the days when you looked somewhat decent for an Obama era Republican when you stood up for that Muslim judge. I guess that small bit of integrity went away when Trump bought you Chris.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:01:46am

re: #206 HappyWarrior

Yeah Chris, it’s the media’s fault that your candidate attacked a judge based off of his ethnicity. God I remember the days when you looked somewhat decent for an Obama era Republican when you stood up for that Muslim judge. I guess that small bit of integrity went away when Trump bought you Chris.

I remember actually admiring him for standing up to the Islamophobes in his party.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:02:03am

re: #200 FormerDirtDart

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:02:06am

re: #191 CuriousLurker

Clinton’s already hammering Trump and has been all while fending off the Bernie bot ankle biters. That’s only going to intensify even further as the nomination is secured and the support coalesces behind her.

Trump doesn’t know the first thing about running a campaign, and it’s showing. He doesn’t have a ground game in place, while Hillary’s sharpening hers going into the generals. She’s already been transitioning to the generals in primary states that have already voted. That’s a significant issue since GOTV is key.

Trump thinks that Clinton will be a pushover like the rest of the clown bus that Trump faced (including Huckabee whose odious comments show just how out of touch from reality he is). He doesn’t realize that in a 2-person race, there’s no one else who he can attack and Clinton has no reason to try and peel off core GOP voters so she’s free to attack Trump’s core racism, bigotry, and hate, to say nothing of his fact-free diatribes about, well, everything.

While the rest of the GOP primary nitwits were trying to be coy in attacking Trump over his positions without trying to lose out on his potential voters (because they needed those votes too), Hillary has no such restriction. She’s got open warfare in mind, and she’s already used to decades of right wing attacks that have been all sound and fury, but haven’t stopped her in the slightest.

When the best you can hope for is some mythical indictment on a crime that didn’t happen, that’s the state of the GOP (and the Bernie bros).

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:02:14am

re: #202 Great White Snark

I was not going for Sanchez.

Cristina Grappo[5]
Kamala Harris, California Attorney General[6]
Massie Munroe, engineer[5]
Herbert G. Peters[5]
Emory Rodgers, activist[7]
Loretta Sanchez, U.S. Representative[8]
Steve Stokes, small business owner and Independent candidate for CA-28 in 2014[9]

Saw one of Harris’s ads on FB since a friend liked it. Seems like a good candidate to me. I’m impressed with her background. IIRC I’d heard her name for AG and USSC when those came up but she preferred the Senate seat.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:03:14am

re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I remember actually admiring him for standing up to the Islamophobes in his party.

I admired what he did but not him since he still was a dick in those days. If that makes any sense.

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KGxvi  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:04:08am

re: #139 Dark_Falcon

Not even there. It’s a mix of liberal politics and high temperatures, and I don’t like either.

California is a big place, there are actually climates that don’t have high temperatures - San Diego’s average high temperature stays in the mid-70s. Same with Santa Barbara. If you don’t like the beach, there’s South Lake Tahoe with mountains and skiing and whatnot.

As for liberal politics, that’s the GOP’s fault for tying themselves to Prop 187 and running nobody credible (Arnold doesn’t count, he wouldn’t have survived a Republican primary and only won because the recall was nonpartisan). The CAGOP went Trump before it was cool, and they’ve been paying the price ever since.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:05:25am

Dark, WRT high temps in California, you gotta realize that CA goes from -282’ to 14,494’ in altitude, and covers the same latitude as the Eastern Seaboard from Connecticut to Georgia. So while there are places where it gets routinely into the triple digits, there are also places where it rarely goes over the mid 70s.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:05:26am

re: #198 KGxvi

While trying to figure who to vote for today, I did notice that recent polling shows that we are likely to end up with two Democrats on the ballot in November for the Senate race. Harris is the front runner, but Loretta Sanchez looks like she’s pretty solidly in second place. According to the Times, among the newly registered, party registration ran 3-1 Democrat over Republican, so it seems hard to imagine that the unknown Republicans running in the single digits have a chance to pass Sanchez (polling around 20%).

I plan to vote for Harris. Gonna leave work a little early to go vote, but will vote for her in both the primary and general. Sanchez is a twit.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:06:46am

re: #212 KGxvi

California - yes the entire freaking state - is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. I have loved it from the first time I set foot there. It really pisses me off to see people disparage it for political bullshit.

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withak  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:06:57am

re: #177 William of Orange

Two questions to Charles Johnson directly.

1) Will this “pay screen” be there forever?

2) Will you finally keep your promise to open the site for multiple devices at once? It’s very annoying to post something on my computer while at the same time the site logs off on my tablet…

I’m obviously not Charles, but I’ve never had a problem with item #2. I’m logged in from my desktop and my phone right now.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:07:22am

re: #213 Blind Frog Belly White

Dark, WRT high temps in California, you gotta realize that CA goes from -282’ to 14,494’ in altitude, and covers the same latitude as the Eastern Seaboard from Connecticut to Georgia. So while there are places where it gets routinely into the triple digits, there are also places where it rarely goes over the mid 70s.

It’s falsely attributed but isn’t Twain credited with saying that his coldest winter was summer in San Francisco. But yeah the geographical diversity of California is somethign to behold. It very much mirrors the nation as a whole in my observations.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:07:27am

re: #211 HappyWarrior

I admired what he did but not him since he still was a dick in those days. If that makes any sense.

I also meant that I admired what he did there. Although he was the closest the GOP came to a candidate I could even consider voting for, I knew that he stood no chance in the primaries.

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KGxvi  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:07:44am

re: #214 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

I plan to vote for Harris. Gonna leave work a little early to go vote, but will vote for her in both the primary and general. Sanchez is a twit.

Yeah, I’m voting for Harris. Had a run in with Sanchez years ago and wasn’t a fan. I was mostly looking at other races - particularly judges, but the Senate race got a lot of attention for obvious reasons.

Speaking of, I should probably get to the polls so I can get on with my day.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:08:28am

re: #216 withak

I’m obviously not Charles, but I’ve never had a problem with item #2. I’m logged in from my desktop and my phone right now.

Ditto. I am usually logged in on my phone and computer. I believe logins are timed out but not tied to each other.

Charles mentioned some time ago that he wanted only one device active, but I don’t think that is in place because I can still (thankfully) log into mobile and desktop at the same time.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:08:28am

re: #215 MsJ

California - yes the entire freaking state - is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. I have loved it from the first time I set foot there. It really pisses me off to see people disparage it for political bullshit.

I always thought it was silly when people think a place stinks because of its politics. I love Maryland’s Eastern Shore even if its populace is staunchly right wing.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:08:47am

re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I also meant that I admired what he did there. Although he was the closest the GOP came to a candidate I could even consider voting for, I knew that he stood no chance in the primaries.

Gotcha.

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CuriousLurker  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:10:26am

re: #203 dangerman

please please please let’s dont help trump implode till after he’s nominated

I agree that after the convention would probably be better, but I’ll trust the judgment of HRC & POTUS about when they should really turn up the heat on Von ClownStick.

HRC has been politically active and battling the GOP for decades, and I think she learned a LOT when she ran for the ‘08 nomination and lost badly. She knows what she’s doing. As for POTUS, not only has he actually been president for 7.5 years, but he’s also the polar opposite of Von ClownStick—he almost never loses his cool and, man oh man, can he ever give a barn burner of a speech when he’s fired up. And if reports are to be believed, he’s chomping at the bit to get out there and start campaigning.

Von ClownStick is toast.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:10:46am

re: #219 KGxvi

Yeah, I’m voting for Harris. Had a run in with Sanchez years ago and wasn’t a fan. I was mostly looking at other races - particularly judges, but the Senate race got a lot of attention for obvious reasons.

Speaking of, I should probably get to the polls so I can get on with my day.

My ex is an attorney. I find voting for judges to be the oddest thing. The vast majority of people don’t know anything about judges. It was eye opening once I did know the judges by reputation of the local attorneys. Now, I never vote for a judge unless I have personal knowledge of them.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:11:03am

re: #215 MsJ

California - yes the entire freaking state - is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. I have loved it from the first time I set foot there. It really pisses me off to see people disparage it for political bullshit.

Well, you know, California is a Socialist Hellhole, so of course it must be an awful place to live. Kansas, OTOH, is just a Free Market Utopia!

Mind you, so many people want to live in California that housing in the Bay Area is once again ridiculously hot. But yeah. It’s an awful place. Just awful. Don’t even think about moving here.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:11:05am

re: #221 HappyWarrior

I always thought it was silly when people think a place stinks because of its politics. I love Maryland’s Eastern Shore even if its populace is staunchly right wing.

Northern Arizona and southern Utah. ‘Nuff said for disparity between politics and landscape.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:11:32am

re: #224 MsJ

My ex is an attorney. I find voting for judges to be the oddest thing. The vast majority of people don’t know anything about judges. It was eye opening once I did know the judges by reputation of the local attorneys. Now, I never vote for a judge unless I have personal knowledge of them.

I was just going to get at that. I find voting for judges very odd too.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:12:21am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Northern Arizona and southern Utah. ‘Nuff said for disparity between politics and landscape.

Oh yeah plenty of examples.

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withak  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:13:39am

re: #227 HappyWarrior

I was just going to get at that. I find voting for judges very odd too.

I always research the judicial races that have an actual race, and write in Mickey Mouse against any judge running unopposed. I know the latter is meaningless, but it’s out of protest.

At least our judicial races are non-partisan, which I understand to not be the case country-wide.

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makeitstop  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:13:42am

re: #171 FormerDirtDart

After Paul Ryan’s press conference condemning Trump, Jeffrey Lord just called Ryan a racist. Was this a new Trump directive for surrogates?

Short answer - yep.

On the need for surrogates to attack journalists as the ‘real racists’ …

“The people asking the questions—those are the racists. I would go at ‘em.”

I’m sure that new directive includes anyone who would criticize Prince Stubby Fingers. Fucking repulsive.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:14:08am

re: #227 HappyWarrior

I was just going to get at that. I find voting for judges very odd too.

I knew quite a few judges. Even knowing them personally wouldn’t give me enough information to vote for one. I may like someone personally but find their judgement out there.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:15:07am

re: #230 makeitstop

Short answer - yep.

I’m sure that new directive includes anyone who would criticize Prince Stubby Fingers. Fucking repulsive.

Trump really does give off that mobbed up feel, doesn’t he. Nice house you got there. Nice reputation you got there.

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Jenner7  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:15:09am

“Micro-targeting black and hispanics with policies (the democrats, he says) is just as racist as Donald going after the judge.” —Trump supporter, Rep Lee Zeldin on CNN

“I don’t think Donald thinks he’s more superior than the judge, so it’s not that racist. He just wants to win.” —Trump supporter, Rep Lee Zeldin on CNN

Wow.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:15:30am

re: #231 MsJ

I knew quite a few judges. Even knowing them personally wouldn’t give me enough information to vote for one. I may like someone personally but find their judgement out there.

Yeah it’s hard to judge a good potential judge. I had a cousin who was a judge actually.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:17:29am

re: #233 Jenner7

“Micro-targeting black and hispanics with policies (the democrats, he says) is just as racist as Donald going after the judge.” —Trump supporter, Rep Lee Zeldin on CNN

“I don’t think Donald thinks he’s more superior than the judge, so it’s not that racist. He just wants to win.” —Trump supporter, Rep Lee Zeldin on CNN

Wow.

No, Lee, he’s saying that the judge can’t judge his case fairly because he’s Hispanic. Zeldin is Jewish I believe. Wonder how he’d feel about a candidate saying a Jewish judge can’t rule fairly because of being Jewish(edited since Trump has said this about Muslims). And again with this odious shit that Democrats are just giving Hispanics and Blacks free stuff? Really LEe you do know that a large part of your party’s base are white people on public assistance tand that we Democrats fight for them to get the same help too. These people man, they’er unfuckingbelievable.

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ObserverArt  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:18:01am

re: #127 Scout

Sorry, I don’t know if I’m doing this right, but this link should take you to a really powerful anti-Tump ad on YouTube.

At the end, a little girl sinks a basket and I was blubbering like a baby.

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Video

Thanks for posting that. Nice to see Grace and her parents are from Columbus…where I am located.

Morning Lizards!

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ObserverArt  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:19:01am

re: #133 darthstar

Mornin’ everyone…welcome to Tuesday - and the end of the primaries.

I told you we’d make it.

It’s not over yet! This is Bernie we are talking about…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:19:03am

:D

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:19:12am

You know what, I think Trump could show up wearing a swastika and they’d find some excuse for him.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:19:17am

re: #233 Jenner7

“Micro-targeting black and hispanics with policies (the democrats, he says) is just as racist as Donald going after the judge.” —Trump supporter, Rep Lee Zeldin on CNN

“I don’t think Donald thinks he’s more superior than the judge, so it’s not that racist. He just wants to win.” —Trump supporter, Rep Lee Zeldin on CNN

Wow.

Microtargeting whites with promises of getting minorities out of the country is pretty racist. Targeting minorities with the ability to compete on a fair playing field isn’t racist.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:19:50am
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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:20:09am

re: #239 HappyWarrior

You know what, I think Trump could show up wearing a swastika and they’d find some excuse for him.

That would be easy: “It represents peace in some other cultures.”

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:20:28am

re: #239 HappyWarrior

You know what, I think Trump could show up wearing a swastika and they’d find some excuse for him.

targeting the swastika makes you the racist.

/

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:21:23am

re: #243 Sir John Barron

targeting the swastika makes you the racist.

/

Why do you hate Hindus, Finns and Hopis?

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:21:42am

re: #240 Belafon

Microtargeting whites with promises of getting minorities out of the country is pretty racist. Targeting minorities with the ability to compete on a fair playing field isn’t racist.

Conservatives love to say they’re for true equality- equality of opportunity but they ignore that not everyone starts at the same place. A mutual friend of my brother and mine was trying to claim that when ranting about “lazy” people. My brother to his credit politely told him that he was wrong. Our friend wasn’t a dick about it but I really don’t think he understands that the concept of equality of opportunity is a logical fallacy. It’s great in principle mind you but it ignores the real world.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:21:46am

Ana Navarro chewed up Jeffrey Lord and spit him out this morning on CNN. It was beautiful.

Claiming “reverse racism” has been a tactic of actual racists for a long time, but there was a huge uptick about 7.5 years ago…..

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:22:12am

Jeff Weaver has a very punchable face.

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William of Orange  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:23:50am
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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:24:02am

re: #246 Barefoot Grin

Ana Navarro chewed up Jeffrey Lord and spit him out this morning on CNN. It was beautiful.

Claiming “reverse racism” has been a tactic of actual racists for a long time, but there was a huge uptick about 7.5 years ago…..

I do like Ana. She’s been consistent as hell and she seemed like a good sport on Jeopardy. Al Franken won big. I forget who the other contestant was.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:24:26am

re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Why do you hate Hindus, Finns and Hopis?

My ex had an Indian blanket passed down from her grandmother, IIRC. It had swastikas all around its border. She had to explain to me it was made by the Hopi, and it was not some kind of weird wartime memorabilia. (My father-in-law served in the USN Pacific fleet, so I was confused a little.)

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:24:45am

The GOP nominated this dumpster fire (apologies to dumpsters). This is who they are. And the GOP continues to endorse/support/say they’re going to vote for Trump. They own this.

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ObserverArt  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:25:13am

re: #163 sagehen

Wellesley this weekend released audio of Hillary’s 1969 Commencement speech.

theatlantic.com

So, y’know, if anybody thinks her achievements are all about nepotism.

Hey…that confirms what I have thought and comment on many times. I’ve often thought Hillary is more a political machine than Bill. She may have driven him.

Goldwater Girl or not. She is about the politics.

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ObserverArt  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:25:46am

re: #166 The Vicious Babushka

He forgot “popular votes”

He knows not popular votes.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:26:27am

re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They follow orders so well.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:26:37am

re: #242 Belafon

That would be easy: “It represents peace in some other cultures.”

All those cultures we hate. /

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CuriousLurker  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:27:01am

re: #215 MsJ

California - yes the entire freaking state - is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. I have loved it from the first time I set foot there. It really pisses me off to see people disparage it for political bullshit.

I agree, it’s stupid to hate on California over politics. Not only that, Cali is a huge producer of many of the foods we eat every day (though many would have you believe all the food we depend on is grown in the heartland. Emphasis mine:

The C-Free Diet
If we didn’t have California, what would we eat?

Food scientists at Cornell University have produced a strain of broccoli that thrives in hot environments, which may make it possible for states with stiflingly hot summers to grow the vegetable. California, where cool coastal fog is perfect for growing standard broccoli, currently produces more than 90 percent of the broccoli grown in the United States. If California were to disappear, what would the American diet be like?

Expensive and grainy. California produces a sizable majority of many American fruits, vegetables, and nuts: 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic, 89 percent of cauliflower, 71 percent of spinach, and 69 percent of carrots (and the list goes on and on). Some of this is due to climate and soil. No other state, or even a combination of states, can match California’s output per acre. Lemon yields in California, for example, are more than 50 percent higher than in Arizona. California spinach yield per acre is 60 percent higher than the national average. Without California, supply of all these products in the United States and abroad would dip, and in the first few years, a few might be nearly impossible to find. Orchard-based products in particular, such as nuts and some fruits, would take many years to spring back. […]

The loss of California’s output would create a dire situation for at least a decade. […]

slate.com

We should be thankful for California and its abundance, regardless of how we might feel about it’s politics or culture.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:27:19am

Amanda Carpenter, former member of Cruz campaign, calling to defy the will of the people??

Question: Has Cruz actually stated that he supports Trump? Or, has he merely hedged, and said he would support the “party’s nominee”?

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:27:42am

re: #249 HappyWarrior

I do like Ana. She’s been consistent as hell and she seemed like a good sport on Jeopardy. Al Franken won big. I forget who the other contestant was.

I missed that Jeopardy. That must have been fun. But, yeah, she was pissed.off.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:27:50am

re: #246 Barefoot Grin

Ana Navarro chewed up Jeffrey Lord and spit him out this morning on CNN. It was beautiful.

Claiming “reverse racism” has been a tactic of actual racists for a long time, but there was a huge uptick about 7.5 years ago…..

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:27:56am

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

Congrats, HRC for winning delegate count the traditional Dem way: backroom deals, connections and kickbacks. Sorry, California!
— Gov. Mike Huckabee

LOLwhat?

Also, too: congrats Huckabee for losing

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:28:24am

re: #250 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

My ex had an Indian blanket passed down from her grandmother, IIRC. It had swastikas all around its border. She had to explain to me it was made by the Hopi, and it was not some kind of weird wartime memorabilia. (My father-in-law served in the USN Pacific fleet, so I was confused a little.)

A friend’s dad from southern AZ near Nogales, Mexcio got strange looks for his silver skull ring when he went off to WW2. Lots of people thought it was an SS-Totenkopf insignia.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:28:26am

It’s only a matter of time before Baby’s Whiplash’s lips are firmly connected to Dim Jim’s asshole.

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Jenner7  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:28:27am

Missed this gem.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:28:29am

Well, Adam Steinbaugh, whose legal knowledge far exceeds mine, says Chuck probably did not break any laws by printing those death certificates. There is still some question about how Rage Furby came by them.

There is no question that he’s lying about Curiel being a member of La Raza or his parents being undocumented aliens, though.

In latest attempt to kiss Trump’s *ss, Chuck C. Johnson libels federal judge

It may not be libel, but it sure borders on it.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:29:51am

re: #257 FormerDirtDart

Wow, some “neverTrump” ers still out there.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:30:48am

re: #264 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Reload my 264. I left out a “not.”

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makeitstop  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:30:49am

Trump’s new campaign strategy - ‘You’re either with us or you’re a racist.’

Sheah, that’ll work.

I’d hate to be the one responsible for cleaning up the mess after Hilz hands him his ass in November.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:30:57am

re: #262 The Vicious Babushka

It’s only a matter of time before Baby’s Whiplash’s lips are firmly connected to Dim Jim’s asshole.

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Yet he’ll probably still support those Republicans because he hates THE LEFTISTS that much more.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:31:09am

re: #252 ObserverArt

Hey…that confirms what I have thought and comment on many times. I’ve often thought Hillary is more a political machine than Bill. She may have driven him.

Goldwater Girl or not. She is about the politics.

Famous joke from the 90’s about Bill and Hillary driving through rural Arkansas. They stop at a gas station, where the attendant recognizes and greet Hillary very familiarly.

Bill later asks who it was. Hillary tells him it was an old high school boyfriend.

“Just think,” says Bill, “If you had married him instead of me, you wouldn’t be First Lady today!”

“I would, too!” replies Hillary…

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:31:14am

re: #263 Jenner7

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Missed this gem.

Nutbags have been “arguing” it in the comments section of The Hill, Mediate, Politico, and your local news station for 7.5 years….

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:32:06am

re: #265 Sir John Barron

Wow, some “neverTrump” ers still out there.

Wait. Party allegiance is a tough nut to crack.

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ObserverArt  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:33:06am

re: #239 HappyWarrior

You know what, I think Trump could show up wearing a swastika and they’d find some excuse for him.

I don’t know. They might actually celebrate that.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:33:52am

re: #256 CuriousLurker

I agree, it’s stupid to hate on California over politics. Not only that, Cali is a huge producer of many of the foods we eat every day (though many would have you believe all the food we depend on is grown in the heartland. Emphasis mine:

We should be thankful for California and its abundance, regardless of how we might feel about it’s politics or culture.

Back during the Power Crisis that took down Gray Davis, it was common to hear people say California should produce all its own power, instead of buying it from outside the state. Most of the people saying that, of course, have no clue where their own state got all its power from, and of course it ignores the fact that the rest of the country depends on California for a lot of things they don’t produce themselves.

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Testy Toad T  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:34:41am

So here’s the thing that’s funny to me about Superdelegatepalooza.

Yes, it is true that none of the superdelegates are bound to their choices until they actually vote next month. Yes, it is true that each and every one of them could change their minds.

But this introduces some interesting game theory shit. This is not a perfect-information setup — as far as they know, Clinton is winning most of the supers already, and if you, Bernie Sanders, call up a superdelegate right now and ask them to back you, you are asking them to back the loser. You can tell them that you’ve secreted away enough superdelegate votes to win in Cleveland, but you need to walk a very fine line if you do so, since if you’re winning anyway then why do they need to buy in? And they might just think you’re a liar. And even if you think you’ve got enough switchers to win, some of them might in turn be lying to you.

Nobody backs losers. It’s not fun, and you might also expect political retribution in the future. This is why, absent a Trumpian extinction-level-event for the party, superdelegates are never going to steal a primary.

(Go figure that Sanders fans completely fail to understand yet another aspect of group dynamics.)

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:35:00am

re: #258 Barefoot Grin

I missed that Jeopardy. That must have been fun. But, yeah, she was pissed.off.

It was. Al’s a pretty impressive guy. Always plays for the USO which he did shows for before becoming a Senator. I wasn’t sold on Al at first in politics though I did admire his passion. I have so much mor respect for Franken than say Michael Moore who is just ta smug dick, Franken likes working for solutions. I’d be honored ot have him as my senator if I lived in Minnesota.

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:36:04am

re: #264 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Think you have it wrong. (since corrected by wheat above in his edit).

Steinbaugh doesn’t think a crime was committed.

Trying to dig up death records about the parents of a sitting federal judge is creepy, and irrelevant to anything news-y, but that’s the Rage Furby for you. I’d have to look at the specific state laws on access to records to see whether there’s actually limitations on who can get the records or not (as if you must show familial connection to the deceased to get the record).

If he lied in order to get the records, and wouldn’t have been entitled to them otherwise, then he would have broken the law. If someone else lied to get the records, then the other person would have broken the law.

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William of Orange  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:37:03am

I haven’t seen this on LGF! Jon Stewart did an interview on May 10 and Donald Trump got a lot of attention!!

Jon Stewart Donald Trump(NEW)

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:37:09am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:37:31am
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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:37:50am

re: #276 lawhawk

Trying to dig up death records about the parents of a sitting federal judge is creepy, and irrelevant to anything news-y, but that’s the Rage Furby for you

1. be creepy
2. Be irrelevant to anything new-y

Yup, that’s Rage Furby’s MO to a T.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:38:19am

re: #277 William of Orange

the beard looks cool on him

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Tigger2  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:39:40am

re: #65 goddamnedfrank

The world needs more tacitly racist white manbabies.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:40:57am

automated call just received informing me the IRS has filed a lawsuit against me.

Sounds totally legit.

/

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:41:17am

re: #276 lawhawk

Think you have it wrong.

Steinbaugh doesn’t think a crime was committed.

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Trying to dig up death records about the parents of a sitting federal judge is creepy, and irrelevant to anything news-y, but that’s the Rage Furby for you. I’d have to look at the specific state laws on access to records to see whether there’s actually limitations on who can get the records or not (as if you must show familial connection to the deceased to get the record).

If he lied in order to get the records, and wouldn’t have been entitled to them otherwise, then he would have broken the law. If someone else lied to get the records, then the other person would have broken the law.

I know. I left out a word in my 264, and told people to reload it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:41:49am

re: #283 Sir John Barron

automated call just received informing me the IRS has filed a lawsuit against me.

Sounds totally legit.

/

“This is the FINAL NOTICE!!” Yep, we’ve gotten them. I bet that scares the shit out of the olds.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:42:37am

re: #282 Tigger2

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If you’re going to vote Trump because Bernie didn’t win then you never really were a progressive in the first place and I’d be saying the same if the roles were reversed. A vote for Trump is a vote against everything progressivism in this country is about- inclusion, respect for all, equality, etc.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:43:55am

re: #276 lawhawk

Think you have it wrong.

Steinbaugh doesn’t think a crime was committed.

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Trying to dig up death records about the parents of a sitting federal judge is creepy, and irrelevant to anything news-y, but that’s the Rage Furby for you. I’d have to look at the specific state laws on access to records to see whether there’s actually limitations on who can get the records or not (as if you must show familial connection to the deceased to get the record).

If he lied in order to get the records, and wouldn’t have been entitled to them otherwise, then he would have broken the law. If someone else lied to get the records, then the other person would have broken the law.

According to IN statutes and regulations, you have to demonstrate a “direct interest” in the death certificate, as in be a family member, and you have to provide ID to view it or retrieve a copy. They can be requested online, but IIRC a hard copy is provided.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:45:42am
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CuriousLurker  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:46:38am

re: #277 William of Orange

Yep, here’s the full version. The whole thing is good:

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Dave In Austin  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:46:46am
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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:46:47am

BTW: In ‘08, Sanders Endorsed Obama - Before Clinton Formally Exited Race

“I plan to play a very active role,” Sanders said of endorsing Obama, according to an interview in the June 5, 2008 Burlington Free Press. “I will do everything I can to see that he is elected president.”

But the newspaper added, “Sanders said he held off supporting either of the Democrats [Obama or Clinton] because he has made it a custom not to support any Democrat for the presidential nomination until the party had chosen its nominee

Obama clinched the Democratic nomination on June 3, 2008.

Clinton did not formally end her presidential campaign until June 7, 2008.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:46:59am

re: #263 Jenner7

Missed this gem.

It might be easy to put those words together, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to prove.

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:48:12am

re: #284 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I was composing and hit postit on my message before I saw your message to reload…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:48:19am
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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:48:29am

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Maybe Mr. Petrocelli should tell his client to shut the fuck up then because it’s obvious that he has some problem with the judge.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:49:28am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

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From a man who probably wishes that actual lynching was still legal. Really Pat, it takes special cojones for a fascist shit like you to cry about a “lynching.”

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:49:36am

re: #291 Dr. Matt

BTW: In ‘08, Sanders Endorsed Obama - Before Clinton Formally Exited Race

And I think we should expect him to act the way Clinton did. At the end of the week, we’ll know his true character. Let’s all join Clinton and move on to Trump.

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:49:47am

re: #285 Blind Frog Belly White

I work with taxes and am quite familiar with tax procedures by state tax departments and the IRS, so I get a chuckle over the cold calls from those claiming they’re the IRS going to sue me, because that’s not how it works.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:50:12am

re: #291 Dr. Matt

BTW: In ‘08, Sanders Endorsed Obama - Before Clinton Formally Exited Race

Yeah but that was different. Bernie’s ego wasn’t threatened then.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:50:17am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

*Puts away noose.*

I was just getting started. //

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CuriousLurker  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:51:07am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

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These people, they’re such miserable wretches. *smh*

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:51:13am

re: #297 Belafon

And I think we should expect him to act the way Clinton did. At the end of the week, we’ll know his true character. Let’s all join Clinton and move on to Trump.

If anything, I expect more out of him. McCain needed to be defeated but Trump, Trump is awful. How much did Bernie eventually do for Obama anyhow? I’m being completely serious here.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:51:33am

re: #291 Dr. Matt

BTW: In ‘08, Sanders Endorsed Obama - Before Clinton Formally Exited Race

Yeah, I have to say at this point that Sanders is pretty much full of shit. When you start out making the argument that the Superdelegates rig the system because they could overturn the will of the voters, and THEN argue that the Superdelegates SHOULD overturn the will of the voters, you’re pretty much just like any other politician, except a little clumsier at it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:52:42am

re: #293 lawhawk

I was composing and hit postit on my message before I saw your message to reload…

No worries.

Anyway, I just corrected my blog post to say printing the DCs was probably not illegal, but obtaining them was probably pretty shady.

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Brian J.  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:53:30am

re: #274 Testy Toad T

So here’s the thing that’s funny to me about Superdelegatepalooza.

Yes, it is true that none of the superdelegates are bound to their choices until they actually vote next month. Yes, it is true that each and every one of them could change their minds.

But this introduces some interesting game theory shit. This is not a perfect-information setup — as far as they know, Clinton is winning most of the supers already, and if you, Bernie Sanders, call up a superdelegate right now and ask them to back you, you are asking them to back the loser. You can tell them that you’ve secreted away enough superdelegate votes to win in Cleveland, but you need to walk a very fine line if you do so, since if you’re winning anyway then why do they need to buy in? And they might just think you’re a liar. And even if you think you’ve got enough switchers to win, some of them might in turn be lying to you.

Nobody backs losers. It’s not fun, and you might also expect political retribution in the future. This is why, absent a Trumpian extinction-level-event for the party, superdelegates are never going to steal a primary.

(Go figure that Sanders fans completely fail to understand yet another aspect of group dynamics.)

The only way they’re plausibly going to influence the primary is if three (or more) plausible candidates reach the convention with none holding a majority of pledged delegates. Or if a Democratic Trump arises, and the Sandbaggers have shown us that the party is not immune to being overrun by hostile forces in open primaries and caucuses.

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Jenner7  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:53:58am

If this is true, then Obama should come out and endorse this week. Send a signal.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:54:12am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ole Pat, still holding out hope for a VP nom.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:56:05am

re: #303 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, I have to say at this point that Sanders is pretty much full of shit. When you start out making the argument that the Superdelegates rig the system because they could overturn the will of the voters, and THEN argue that the Superdelegates SHOULD overturn the will of the voters, you’re pretty much just like any other politician, except a little clumsier at it.

I could accept it all a litlte more if Bernie didn’t try to portray himself as being immune from typical politics while attacking Clinton as the consummate politician. Bernie’s a hack. I’m sorry but he really is. Loves to talk corporate responsibility but then goes silent when guns come up. Loves to talk about how we need a revolution in this country and gets angry when a reporter asks him why he hasn’t done anything for progressive candidates over the years. Clinton may be to Bernie’s center but she’s done more to get progressive candidates elected and stay in office than Bernie ever has.

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CuriousLurker  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:56:20am

I’ve gotta get some work done, but below is an example of the part of America that rarely makes the news. They—and other decent, tolerant, kind-hearted people (regardless of their religion or lack of it)—might not be as loud as the haters, but I think there are far more of them than we realize: Minnesota Churches Wish Muslim Neighbors a ‘Blessed Ramadan’ - LGF Pages

BBL

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:56:56am

re: #301 CuriousLurker

These people, they’re such miserable wretches. *smh*

Hey!

Oh, you said ‘wretches’, not wrenches. Nevermind.

The machine I fed my ballot into said I was voter #100. Woo hoo!

One of the volunteers there was the woman who gave me CPR in the street. She introduced me as ‘that woman I told you about who got run over and I saved her.’ Obviously a very civic-minded person!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:58:26am

re: #309 CuriousLurker

I’ve gotta get some work done, but below is an example of the part of America that rarely makes the news. They—and other decent, tolerant, kind-hearted people (regardless of their religion or lack of it)—might not be as loud as the haters, but I think there are far more of them than we realize: Minnesota Churches Wish Muslim Neighbors a ‘Blessed Ramadan’ - LGF Pages

BBL

Minnesota has a fairly large Muslim community I believe. I like seeing stuff like this. This is definitely laudable. I may not be religious but I do appreciate it when people go out of their way not to be dicks based on religion.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:58:57am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

Pat Buchanan: Stop ‘The Lynching’ Of Donald Trump Over Racist Attack On Judge t.co
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 7, 2016

BUT, BUT, BUT WHITE PEOPLE WERE SLAVES TOO!!~

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CuriousLurker  Jun 7, 2016 • 8:59:56am

re: #310 wrenchwench

Hey!

Oh, you said ‘wretches’, not wrenches. Nevermind.

The machine I fed my ballot into said I was voter #100. Woo hoo!

One of the volunteers there was the woman who gave me CPR in the street. She introduced me as ‘that woman I told you about who got run over and I saved her.’ Obviously a very civic-minded person!

Heh, I was kinda psyched about having the rare opportunity to use the word “wretches.”

I’m glad she saved you and I bet she’d do it for anyone.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:00:58am

re: #263 Jenner7

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Missed this gem.

If you talk about race you are a racist.

Same ole racist deflection.

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Jenner7  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:01:31am

Bernie supporter on MSNBC says he’s going to have to choose “the lesser of two evils, again.” Again? You mean you didn’t really want to vote for Obama?

It’s a continuing theme from Bernie and his supporters, going after Obama. One of the best Presidents in my lifetime. I just don’t get it.

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iossarian  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:01:44am

re: #295 HappyWarrior

Maybe Mr. Petrocelli should tell his client to shut the fuck up then because it’s obvious that he has some problem with the judge.

Petrocelli auto +1

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Stanley Sea  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:04:56am

re: #276 lawhawk

Think you have it wrong. (since corrected by wheat above in his edit).

Steinbaugh doesn’t think a crime was committed.

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Trying to dig up death records about the parents of a sitting federal judge is creepy, and irrelevant to anything news-y, but that’s the Rage Furby for you. I’d have to look at the specific state laws on access to records to see whether there’s actually limitations on who can get the records or not (as if you must show familial connection to the deceased to get the record).

If he lied in order to get the records, and wouldn’t have been entitled to them otherwise, then he would have broken the law. If someone else lied to get the records, then the other person would have broken the law.

What’s sick is trump has put this judge in this position. Damn.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:05:49am

I am just now getting around to reading Brock Turner’s father’s letter about his poor little boy who got a few months in the pokey for raping a girl.

What a fucking pity party. Dad says his wholesome boy was “totally unprepared” for living so far from his Midwest home, in a foreign land called Palo Alto where the customs are so different. So Brock tried to fit in and well, got drunk and raped a girl for like 20 minutes or something. It was society’s fault! My boy is now all tore up about it, so please judge let him off.

I’m a father, too. If one of my kids had done that kind of shit, I’d be writing a letter telling the judge to double his sentence.

{{Flips over non existent desk in fury.}}
documentcloud.org

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Tigger2  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:06:09am

re: #299 HappyWarrior

Yeah but that was different. Bernie’s ego wasn’t threatened then.

I’m beginning to think the problem is Bernie just personalty doesn’t like Hillary.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:06:39am

re: #315 Jenner7

Bernie supporter on MSNBC says he’s going to have to choose “the lesser of two evils, again.” Again? You mean you didn’t really want to vote for Obama?

It’s a continuing theme from Bernie and his supporters, going after Obama. One of the best Presidents in my lifetime. I just don’t get it.

They really do see Obama that way yet they have this delusion that tehy’re the base of Obama’s party, a party where Obama remains popular. They’re entitled to feel how they feel but I really resent them saying they’re the actual base of the Democratic party because they’re constantly looking for an excuse to leave it or shit on. They have no pride at all in the fact that Obama has done a lot of great things and been successful. They just seem to see the Democratic Party as the most left wing party that can actually win elections and think they can use it to their own ends. That’s not what being a party member is all about and you know what if they don’t have the stomach for that, that’s okay, you don’t have to be a Democrat but if you want to shape the Democratic PArty, yo should have a vested interest in staying a Democrat rather than constantly bitching about how you have to vote the lesser evil or how they don’t really represent you. The Clintons started as McGovern volunteers and worked within the party’s framework to where they are today. Who knows maybe 30 years from now, a Dem frontrunner will be a kid who started out in the Bernie campaign.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:06:58am

re: #319 Tigger2

I’m beginning to think the problem is Bernie just personalty doesn’t like Hillary.

I think so too.

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BeachDem  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:07:44am

re: #306 Jenner7

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If this is true, then Obama should come out and endorse this week. Send a signal.

And, from Bernie’s ONE Senate super—-

“We have to be unified to take on Trump. And that unity is going to begin today as soon as the polls close,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., says on CNN.

The party’s over, Bernie. Go home.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:09:22am

re: #322 BeachDem

And, from Bernie’s ONE Senate super—-

“We have to be unified to take on Trump. And that unity is going to begin today as soon as the polls close,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., says on CNN.

The party’s over, Bernie. Go home.

David Brock and George Soros and the media have obviously gotten to Merkley…

///

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Tigger2  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:09:33am
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withak  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:09:36am

re: #318 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I am just now getting around to reading Brock Turner’s father’s letter about his poor little boy who got a few months in the pokey for raping a girl.

What a fucking pity party. Dad says his wholesome boy was “totally unprepared” for living so far from his Midwest home, in a foreign land called Palo Alto where the customs are so different. So Brock tried to fit in and well, got drunk and raped a girl for like 20 minutes or something. It was society’s fault! My boy is now all tore up about it, so please judge let him off.

I’m a father, too. If one of my kids had done that kind of shit, I’d be writing a letter telling the judge to double his sentence.

{{Flips over non existent desk in fury.}}
documentcloud.org

It’s just infuriating, isn’t it? Shades of “Affluenza Teen” Ethan Couch.

Time to add “consent” to the list of awkward conversations to have someday with both my son and my daughter.

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Brian J.  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:10:27am

re: #322 BeachDem

And, from Bernie’s ONE Senate super—-

“We have to be unified to take on Trump. And that unity is going to begin today as soon as the polls close,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., says on CNN.

The party’s over, Bernie. Go home.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ( It’s Over, Go Home [ Ending ])

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Jenner7  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:10:55am

re: #320 HappyWarrior

And there is nothing wrong with going after your party, I mean, look at the GOP. But what Bernie supporters are doing is out of bounds, in my opinion.

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blueraven  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:11:02am

haha…TIGBY?

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:12:09am

re: #322 BeachDem

And, from Bernie’s ONE Senate super—-

“We have to be unified to take on Trump. And that unity is going to begin today as soon as the polls close,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., says on CNN.

The party’s over, Bernie. Go home.

I am glad to see that not all of Bernie’s supporters act like Nina Turner who was on a bizarre rant last night about how Bernie doesn’t like hot sauce. And I have to give Bob Reich credit even though he did push the silly Bernie Math thing, he’s been very vocal that once this is officially Clinton’s that Trump is the main goal. See, that’s the shame of Bernie’s campaign. I think they deeply do care about making this country a better place and I not only agree with them that income inequality is a problem I think it’s a big one but I think they ignored other problems too. I don’t want ot have hard feelings. The difference between Clinton and Sanders on the issues pales to the difference between Bernei and Trump even with Bernie’s IMO silly views on trade.

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freetoken  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:14:43am

So I’m looking at my ballot before I go vote today… and here in California we are constrained to vote within a declared party for only certain offices, and that does not include US Senator.

Thus I have a giant list of candidates in the primary for the coming Senate election in the fall.

Looking at the list I see that there are several running as Republican for the GOP nomination for Senate… and who should I see among that group?

None other than Ron Unz.

Yup.

And then people wonder why we now equate Republicans with racists.

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:15:24am

re: #326 Brian J.

Deadpool Post/End/After Credits Scene

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:16:04am

re: #318 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

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sagehen  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:16:43am

re: #256 CuriousLurker

We should be thankful for California and its abundance, regardless of how we might feel about it’s politics or culture.

That would be the “anti-business” culture that produced Levis, Silicon Valley, and the motion picture business? The three industries most responsible for America’s cultural hegemony throughout the world?

(and music of course, America’s music genres that took over the world aren’t especially Californian… but they’re also not white.)

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Jenner7  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:17:09am

Haha.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:17:10am

When you convinced yourself that there was no way Bernie could lose, of course you’re going to be mad and a bit disillusioned. You know how I know that? Because I thought there was no way Kerry would lose to Bush in 2004. The same is happening today in the Bernieverse. They’re convinced that Bernie should have won even though by all metrics he lost, and is definitely not the preferred candidate of Democrats. Bernie saw the Democratic Party as the quickest path to the Presidency and honestly I think they were generous to let him run as one even though he had never been one until just last year.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:17:53am

re: #334 Jenner7

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Haha.

Everyone is a racist except the guy who is you know racist.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:21:02am

And despite what BernieB’s beleive that Clinton sees the left as her enemy, i really don’t think that’s the case at all. She’s happily allowed people who are staunchly if not more progressive than Bernie Sanders to sit on the platform committee. Clinton may not be as progressive as some people want her to be Clinton I think values progressives far more than Bernie does. You know why Ifeel that way because I’ve seen her work with them. We couldn’t even get Bernie to commit to campaign for candidates who were endorsing him like John Fetterman in Pennsylvania.

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sagehen  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:21:12am

re: #274 Testy Toad T

Nobody backs losers. It’s not fun, and you might also expect political retribution in the future. This is why, absent a Trumpian extinction-level-event for the party, superdelegates are never going to steal a primary.

(Go figure that Sanders fans completely fail to understand yet another aspect of group dynamics.)

Nobody remembers that in 2008 most of the Superdelegates started out backing Clinton. But after clear majorities of Actual Voters and Actual Primaries went for Obama, the supers switched to the guy with the majority of pledged delegates.

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KerFuFFler  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:22:34am

re: #111 dangerman

“We just want those raccoons gone, out of our house, NOW.”

you hire this guy to do it, he’s going to demolish your house in the process. on purpose or by accident, you’ll get wet next time it rains

They need to listen to this story about cops trying to get a squirrel out of a house———it’s hilarious. Just a great story from NPR’s This American Life.

Whoops! They broke the segment into two chunks. Here’s the rest of the story.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:24:07am

re: #338 sagehen

Nobody remembers that in 2008 most of the Superdelegates started out backing Clinton. But after clear majorities of Actual Voters and Actual Primaries went for Obama, the supers switched to the guy with the majority of pledged delegates.

John Lewis switched to Obama I remember. I remember being a little disappointed that he backed her over Obama but I never lost respect for him. See, that’s the thing that separates the Obama campaign from the Sanders one. The Obama one truly was inclusive even towards those who weren’t supporting him. Bernie’s campaign meanwhile turns on you the second you endorse his opponent which is what Governor Brown found out.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:26:04am
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Tigger2  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:26:35am

re: #340 HappyWarrior

John Lewis switched to Obama I remember. I remember being a little disappointed that he backed her over Obama but I never lost respect for him. See, that’s the thing that separates the Obama campaign from the Sanders one. The Obama one truly was inclusive even towards those who weren’t supporting him. Bernie’s campaign meanwhile turns on you the second you endorse his opponent which is what Governor Brown found out.

“Bernie’s campaign meanwhile turns on you the second you endorse his opponent which is what Governor Brown found out.”

Which is exactly why I consider some of the Sanders supporters being like the Teabaggers because that is what they did.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:26:36am

The BBC delves into comic book lore: When Muhammad Ali took on Superman.
bbc.co.uk

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makeitstop  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:27:12am

Today is Prince’s birthday - and Prince Day in Minnesota.

Prince - Gold Official video RIP Prince

Happy Prince Day, y’all.

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darthstar  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:27:15am

re: #134 Dark_Falcon

And on that you lost me. But then I could never live in California either.

You wouldn’t want to live here…the place sucks. Just this morning as I was driving to work there was only one surfer out at Montara beach - the ocean was glassy smooth, small 3-4 foot rollers breaking gently around him, and fifty yards out a humpback whale surfaces and does a long slow blow as it takes a breath and dips silently back beneath the surface of the water…Made me fuckin’ miserable to think I was in my car going to work.

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freetoken  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:27:18am

Missouri GOP Gubernatorial Candidates Debate Trump, Mizzou Turmoil

Missouri’s Republican hopefuls for Governor participated in a debate Monday night in Maryland Heights. They all say they support Donald Trump for President, but Catherine Hanaway is the only one who would say that she’d campaign for him if he visits Missouri.

“Unlike Hillary Clinton, he’s not for amnesty, he’s not for abortion on demand, he doesn’t want to take away second amendment rights, he’s going to appoint conservatives to the U.S. Supreme Court,” said Hanaway.

[…]

Of course they do.

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:27:29am
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Testy Toad T  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:27:38am

re: #340 HappyWarrior

John Lewis switched to Obama I remember. I remember being a little disappointed that he backed her over Obama but I never lost respect for him. See, that’s the thing that separates the Obama campaign from the Sanders one. The Obama one truly was inclusive even towards those who weren’t supporting him. Bernie’s campaign meanwhile turns on you the second you endorse his opponent which is what Governor Brown found out.

In 2008, I never for a second thought a Democrat who backed Hillary Clinton in the primary was somehow less of a Democrat.

(as a side note, it’s hilarious to me how sure Sanders supporters seem to be that everyone who backs Clinton now did so in 2008. So sure they don’t even feel the need to say it out loud, it’s taken as a foundational fact of the universe)

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:27:41am

re: #341 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I still love Rubio wanting credit for “warning” us about Turmp but still supporting him. I always did dislike Rubio from the minute he ran quasi-homophobic ads attacking Crist for hugging Obama and it’s been downhill from there since he’s been a horrible Senator.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:28:27am

re: #342 Tigger2

Which is exactly why I consider some of the Sanders supporters being like the Teabaggers because that is what they did.

Yeah actual threats.

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:28:56am

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:29:00am

So, about that Trump guy…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:31:22am

re: #345 darthstar

You wouldn’t want to live here…the place sucks. Just this morning as I was driving to work there was only one surfer out at Montara beach - the ocean was glassy smooth, small 3-4 foot rollers breaking gently around him, and fifty yards out a humpback whale surfaces and does a long slow blow as it takes a breath and dips silently back beneath the surface of the water…Made me fuckin’ miserable to think I was in my car going to work.

My god, man! How can you live in such a hell hole!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:33:01am

re: #348 Testy Toad T

In 2008, I never for a second thought a Democrat who backed Hillary Clinton in the primary was somehow less of a Democrat.

(as a side note, it’s hilarious to me how sure Sanders supporters seem to be that everyone who backs Clinton now did so in 2008. So sure they don’t even feel the need to say it out loud, it’s taken as a foundational fact of the universe)

It was just a disagreement of where we wanted the party to go. Shit two of the oldest Democrats I knew (my grandparents) were Clinton backers. I preferred Obama because I thought he had the better message and I do admit I had Clinton fatigue too but the idea of her and her supporters not being real Democrats? Never crossed my mind. I realize now what I didn’t realize then is Hillary Rodham Clinton has built up a lot of good will in her party. Now that I think about it, I can remember my other grandmotehr being so happy to get a Christmas card from the WH. I doubt Bill and Hillary actually signed it personally but it meant a lot to her in her older years and she always told us about it. That woman was a proud Democrat from the minute she was able to vote for FDR and I do wish she had the chance to vote for Hillary. She was born into a world where women could not vote in this country. My grandfather thankfully treated her as an equal and I have no doubt that if she had lived in an era more egalitarian towards women, she would have done very well for herself.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:33:35am

re: #339 KerFuFFler

They need to listen to this story about cops trying to get a squirrel out of a house———it’s hilarious. Just a great story from NPR’s This American Life.

hahaha! Thanks for posting!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:33:46am

re: #351 lawhawk

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

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Melania makes me embarrassed to be Slovene-American. There’s so few of us out there and I hate that this lady is the most famous one of us.

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:35:03am

re: #345 darthstar

It’s your sunsets, Marty. Something gotta be done about your sunsets!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:35:19am

re: #345 darthstar

You wouldn’t want to live here…the place sucks. Just this morning as I was driving to work there was only one surfer out at Montara beach - the ocean was glassy smooth, small 3-4 foot rollers breaking gently around him, and fifty yards out a humpback whale surfaces and does a long slow blow as it takes a breath and dips silently back beneath the surface of the water…Made me fuckin’ miserable to think I was in my car going to work.

You’re near the Pacific Coast Highway right? I still say that’s the most beautiful drive I’ve ever had. San Francisco to Santa Cruz was like no drive I’ve had before or sense. Last thing on my mind was the politics of the area which do happen to coincide with my own but even fi not, what a drive.

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Great White Snark  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:38:21am

re: #353 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Next thing ya know you get stuck with this!

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freetoken  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:38:33am

So Lindsey Graham apparently wants to take the “off ramp” from the Drumpfskind train…. meanwhile, to no one’s surprise, Pat Buchanan is coming to Drumpfskind’s defense over Judge Curiel.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:39:21am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:40:39am

re: #359 Great White Snark

Next thing ya know you get stuck with this!

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Holy Mary Mother of God! Stop it! How can you people survive in such a wasteland?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:40:53am

sigh

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:41:07am

re: #322 BeachDem

And, from Bernie’s ONE Senate super—-

“We have to be unified to take on Trump. And that unity is going to begin today as soon as the polls close,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., says on CNN.

The party’s over, Bernie. Go home.

I get a feeling Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. is one of the “40 or so” supers mentioned as waiting to come out for Clinton the other day…

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:41:35am

re: #363 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh

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Hey let him encourage them to vote. He’s going to be even further behind after this.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:41:55am

re: #363 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh

Actually, I agree with that statement. Not he doesn’t say “we’re gonna win.”

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:42:57am

re: #364 FormerDirtDart

I get a feeling Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. is one of the “40 or so” supers mentioned as waiting to come out for Clinton the other day…

It wouldn’t surprise me. I’m going to be interested in reading about the inner Bernie camp, I imagine you have two factions at play- one more pragmatic like Merkley and others much less so.

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plansbandc  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:43:19am

I just very happily voted for Hillary! Will be even happier voting for her in November!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:44:35am

re: #366 Belafon

Actually, I agree with that statement. Not he doesn’t say “we’re gonna win.”

I agree, too. I posted the wrong “sigh” tweet. Should have been this one:

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Tigger2  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:45:58am

re: #363 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh

After I reread it I agree with it to. I deleted my tweet.

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:46:36am

re: #363 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:46:59am

re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth

I agree, too. I posted the wrong “sigh” tweet. Should have been this one:

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How do we know Franklin’s not talking about Clinton? Because taht sounds more like Clinton than Trump. I jest obviously.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:47:07am
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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:48:44am

re: #142 Eventual Carrion

My cardiac surgeon who replaced my valve. His name is Chris Cook MD, but I refer to him as Dr. Billy Jack. He did my wife’s double bypass a year ago after her heart attack. After I left pre-op from her I went to the waiting room to wait out the procedure. A door opens on the other side of the waiting room and in walks a surgeon (he was dressed like one at least, which it being a hospital I didn’t think much of it). When I focused on his face my immediate though is, here comes Billy Jack. He walks up to me and introduces himself as Dr. Cook, the surgeon that would be doing my wife’s procedure. From that point on he has been Dr. Billy Jack, a kickass surgeon.

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I must have been just the right age for that movie (13). I thought it was GREAT!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:48:54am
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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:48:58am

re: #363 Backwoods_Sleuth

it’s the ninth inning. the yankees (ok, or whoever) are ahead 19-2. you can sneak down from the bleachers and watch the last out from an empty box.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:49:08am

re: #373 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Amen.]

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:49:33am

re: #375 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yep.

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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:50:37am

re: #373 Backwoods_Sleuth

alcohol gets blamed for a lot of things it didn’t do

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Franklin  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:50:49am

re: #322 BeachDem

And, from Bernie’s ONE Senate super—-

“We have to be unified to take on Trump. And that unity is going to begin today as soon as the polls close,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., says on CNN.

The party’s over, Bernie. Go home.

Senator Sanders one Senate super-delegate.

Says it all right there.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:51:16am

Hey fellow scaly ones. Amazon has the Croods for free in HD if you have an account with them. :)

amazon.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:51:45am
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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:53:54am

re: #379 dangerman

alcohol gets blamed for a lot of things it didn’t do

They recently reported that New Mexico has the highest pedestrian kill rate in the country, and they blamed alcohol consumption, BY THE PEDESTRIANS! Which may be a thing, but I doubt it’s the headline thing they made it out to be.

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Skip Intro  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:55:08am

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

Let my dreams come true and have Trump act as his own lawyer. Please.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:55:17am
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Jenner7  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:56:20am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:56:58am

Lmao

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Testy Toad T  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:57:12am

It’s downright precocious how Sanders dead-enders pretend that we always play out the string in every primary election ever. Good confirmation that they’re not actually Democratic voters, though.

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Franklin  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:57:46am
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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:57:54am

re: #387 GlutenFreeJesus

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Lmao

That ‘If’ is the size of a dwarf galaxy.
But, by all means, go vote. Everyone go vote.
Doesn’t bother me.
;)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:58:31am
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dangerman  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:58:51am

re: #387 GlutenFreeJesus

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Lmao

the sentiment’s right. no i’m not going to check the math.
if the AP got it wrong, it should be easy to prove it. win today in landslides

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:58:53am

re: #387 GlutenFreeJesus

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Lmao

weren’t those caucus states where like 8 people voted?

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Brian J.  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:59:12am

re: #387 GlutenFreeJesus

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Lmao

That -4.8% margin won’t actually help you much, Bernard.

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Jay C  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:59:47am

re: #322 BeachDem

And, from Bernie’s ONE Senate super—-

“We have to be unified to take on Trump. And that unity is going to begin today as soon as the polls close,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., says on CNN.

The party’s over, Bernie. Go home.

I think a major sad is going to be haz by a lot of political commentators this year: they are going to have to trash, or re-program their “Democrats in Disarray” bots when writing about the 2016 campaign.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 9:59:55am

re: #387 GlutenFreeJesus

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Lmao

As annoying as the PUMAs were in 08, I don’t think they were nearly has bad as the Bros.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:00:25am

re: #385 Backwoods_Sleuth

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God he’s such an asshole. I’m sorry but I’ve never liked Michael Moore that much. He hates on the people who support Clinton because he thinks we do it for elect-ability reasons but that was the exact reason he endorsed Wes Clark in 2004 because Mike thought having a general would make the Dems immune from national security attacks.He’s also said that the President doesn’t act “black” enough whatever the fuck that means. I really wanted Clinton to beat Bernie in his home state of Michigan so he could wallow in some more self pity.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:01:04am

re: #391 Backwoods_Sleuth

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What? There are other elections? //

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:01:23am

re: #391 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kamala Harris is running for Boxer’s seat. But who cares. Let’s keep whinging about Bernie losing. 🙄
— (((Imani Gandy))) (@AngryBlackLady) June 7, 2016

What’s up with the “(((” and “)))” around twitter names? I keep seeing this lately.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:01:52am

re: #390 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Sanders won Alaska 81.6/18.4. California is not going to go that way.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:02:06am

“Hey, hand me a wrench, please!”

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:02:57am

re: #346 freetoken

Missouri GOP Gubernatorial Candidates Debate Trump, Mizzou Turmoil

Of course they do.

She sounds nice…..

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Skip Intro  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:03:20am

re: #351 lawhawk

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

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Two pigs in a gold leaf box.

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Great White Snark  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:03:36am

re: #397 HappyWarrior

He has advocates disease as a chronic incurable condition. So many sour grapes documentaries they soaked all the way to his marrow.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:04:17am

re: #400 GlutenFreeJesus

Sanders won Alaska 81.6/18.4. California is not going to go that way.

Even if Bernie won CA 60-40, he still wouldn’t be the nominee. He lost. He also sucks at having a diverse campaign.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:05:00am

re: #399 Dr. Matt

What’s up with the “(((” and “)))” around twitter names? I keep seeing this lately.

It’s something called “echoes” used in a since-deleted Google ap that identified Jews for targeting by assholes.
When sane people learned of it, they started using the echoes as pushback.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:05:07am

re: #399 Dr. Matt

What’s up with the “(((” and “)))” around twitter names? I keep seeing this lately.

There was a white supremacist google app (subsequently removed) that identified Jewish names with (((….)))

Basically a movement in solidarity.

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:05:30am

re: #358 HappyWarrior

You’re near the Pacific Coast Highway right? I still say that’s the most beautiful drive I’ve ever had. San Francisco to Santa Cruz was like no drive I’ve had before or sense. Last thing on my mind was the politics of the area which do happen to coincide with my own but even fi not, what a drive.

You haven’t seen the half of it, literally. Continue from Santa Cruz down to Santa Barbara, at least.

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Jay C  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:05:32am

re: #399 Dr. Matt

What’s up with the “(((” and “)))” around twitter names? I keep seeing this lately.

A mockery of antisemitic wingnuts’ recent adoption of (((xxxx))) to “indicate” that said Twitter person is Jewish (and thus, by the bigots’ [dim] lights, biased).

The social-media equivalent of the yellow stars the Danes all donned under the German occupation in WWII to protest the anti-Jewish ordinances the Nazis promulgated

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(((The Engineer Lobuno)))  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:05:47am

re: #399 Dr. Matt

What’s up with the “(((” and “)))” around twitter names? I keep seeing this lately.

There is/was a browser extension that put the ((( ))) around Jewish names.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:06:31am

re: #404 Great White Snark

He has advocates disease as a chronic incurable condition. So many sour grapes documentaries they soaked all the way to his marrow.

What’s frustrating is I empathize with what he’s pointed out are societal problems but at the same time, Mike would rather bitch about it than actually work with like minded people whom he may not always 100% of the time but would be happy to work towrards solutions. He’s an ideologue and a jerk.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:07:11am
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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:07:32am

re: #408 wrenchwench

You haven’t seen the half of it, literally. Continue from Santa Cruz down to Santa Barbara, at least.

Maybe next time. Have no idea when I’ll be in that neck of the woods again.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:08:04am

re: #412 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Coward rhymes with Ayotte.

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Great White Snark  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:08:13am

Cue up the chemtrail and weather control freaks…

GPS Problem Zone

littlegreenfootballs.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:08:23am

re: #399 Dr. Matt

What’s up with the “(((” and “)))” around twitter names? I keep seeing this lately.

Twitter alt-right nazis were using ((())) around a person’s name to MARK THEM AS TEH JUICE so now everybody is using them. Now the alt-right nazis are using )))((( to identify themselves as NOT TEH JUICE.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:08:54am
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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:09:20am

re: #415 Great White Snark

Cue up the chemtrail and weather control freaks…

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littlegreenfootballs.com

No.
Cloaked Whales.
That is all.

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Franklin  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:09:29am

I’ll just use:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (((franklin)))¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:09:55am

Rage Furby now puts a boilerplate blurb about himself at the end of every post at his blog. I have edited it somewhat.

It’s in private tags because I don’t yet intend it for public consumption.

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Kragar  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:10:27am
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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:11:03am

re: #396 Dr. Matt

As annoying as the PUMAs were in 08, I don’t think they were nearly has bad as the Bros.

They were as bad, and the race was much closer. Also remember that the people we see on the internet are a small fraction of the total Democratic population.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:12:42am

re: #421 Kragar

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I wouldn’t be surprised if Moore is totally unaware of the Senate race. I love my brother but I think he had no idea that there was a Senate race in Nevada going on too. I cut him some slack since he’s not a political talking head like Moore is and he goes to school full time but the point is that Sanders diehards are so focused on teh presidential election they forget there are other races too.

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Kragar  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:12:44am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:13:23am

Seth has some new nonsense:

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Majacita  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:15:00am

re: #416 The Vicious Babushka

Twitter alt-right nazis were using ((())) around a person’s name to MARK THEM AS TEH JUICE so now everybody is using them. Now the alt-right nazis are using )))((( to identify themselves as NOT TEH JUICE.

It’s the Sneetches! With stars upon thars.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:16:46am

re: #416 The Vicious Babushka

Twitter alt-right nazis were using ((())) around a person’s name to MARK THEM AS TEH JUICE so now everybody is using them. Now the alt-right nazis are using )))((( to identify themselves as NOT TEH JUICE.

We should enclose ours in ()(name)(). Then we can all be Princess Leah.

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Lidane  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:16:47am

This is adorable:

Trump won the GOP nomination fair and square. The Republicans own him and everything about him, since Trump has been declared the standard-bearer of the party. If they tried to take the nomination from him now, they might as well hand Hillary the White House keys on the last day of the RNC.

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No Depression  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:16:58am

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

Seth has some new nonsense:

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So is he admitting that Bernie’s platform is about as realistic as getting a Pegasus?

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:17:09am

re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:17:33am

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

Seth has some new nonsense:

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I do like the logo though.

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(((The Engineer Lobuno)))  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:17:50am

re: #427 Belafon

We should enclose ours in ()(name)(). Then we can all be Princess Leah.

Love your idea.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:17:59am

re: #420 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Rage Furby now puts a boilerplate blurb about himself at the end of every post at his blog. I have edited it somewhat.

It’s in private tags because I don’t yet intend it for public consumption.

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Speaking Rage Furby, I’m callin bullshit that they actually raised this money:

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:18:33am

re: #381 GlutenFreeJesus

Hey fellow scaly ones. Amazon has the Croods for free in HD if you have an account with them. :)

amazon.com

Thanks! I love that movie.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:18:41am

You want to take money out of politics? Get off your ass and vote. If Democrats could be relied upon to show up at the polls, their candidates wouldn’t need to spend millions of dollars running for seats and trying to get moderates to vote. Samantha Bee did a bit about the 2010 elections when Democrats stayed home in some sort of national temper tantrum and ceded the country to the Republicans.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:19:29am

re: #416 The Vicious Babushka

Twitter alt-right nazis were using ((())) around a person’s name to MARK THEM AS TEH JUICE so now everybody is using them. Now the alt-right nazis are using )))((( to identify themselves as NOT TEH JUICE.

Gives everyone a chance to go Danish: (((Decatur Deb))).

Let me know when they figure out a Muslim semaphore.

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Franklin  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:19:39am

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

Seth has some new nonsense:

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Fixed it
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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:20:00am

re: #422 Belafon

They were as bad, and the race was much closer. Also remember that the people we see on the internet are a small fraction of the total Democratic population.

Well, I was temporarily banned from C&L for going toe-to-toe with PUMAs. But, 7+ years later, I can admit I was correct about Candidate Obama all along. :)

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:20:06am

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

Seth has some new nonsense:

The worst thing you can say about the Democratic Part from 1980 until 2008 was that it was a party that had rested on their laurels for so long that it had to spend all its time defending the New Deal from being killed. We may finally be at the point where we can grow from the New Deal, but a big part of that is because the current iteration of Conservatism is finally failing.

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Jay C  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:20:39am

re: #428 Lidane

…they might as well hand Hillary the White House keys on the last day of the RNC.

Isn’t that what they are going to be doing in any case??

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:20:48am

welp, never mind………..

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:20:49am

re: #437 Franklin

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Where’s the fart?

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:22:10am

As if Glenn ever cared about “Anti Semitism” at any time ever

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:22:35am

re: #441 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp, never mind………..

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Yeah you’re a coward Paul. Really fuck these guys. They’re worse than Trump himself as far as I’m concerned. Ryan and the GOP leadership want to be able to have it both ways. They want accolades for condemning Trump but they don’t want to actively run away from him because tehy know they’d lose their own power. The honorable and decent thing to do would be to resign and admit that the party has been hijacked by racist clowns and that they (the leadership) had a big part in that.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:22:41am

re: #433 Dr. Matt

Speaking Rage Furby, I’m callin bullshit that they actually raised this money:

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I tend to agree. Supposedly Chuck and Pax each gave $12K toward the Nick Denton criminal acts thing, but who’s to say it really happened? They word each campaign met to encourage more donations, while not really providing details about how the money is being used. Not very transparent, IOW.

Somebody allegedly gave the Nick Denton project an anonymous $10K donation. A fool and his money …

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:22:43am

re: #441 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ryan clarifies that he wasn’t calling Trump himself a racist, just his comments t.co pic.twitter.com
— The Hill (@thehill) June 7, 2016

Ah. If someone robs a bank, they are not a criminal they merely committed a criminal act. Gotcha.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:22:54am

re: #443 The Vicious Babushka

As if Glenn ever cared about “Anti Semitism” at any time ever

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WTF.

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gocart mozart  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:23:02am

re: #65 goddamnedfrank

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Lidane  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:23:24am

re: #440 Jay C

Isn’t that what they are going to be doing in any case??

I’m being generous. At the rate they’re going they might as well hand her the keys on the FIRST day of the RNC.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:23:34am
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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:23:49am

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

Seth has some new nonsense:

OK, Seth, thanks for sharing.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:24:14am

re: #441 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp, never mind………..

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He must have gotten a telephone call from The Don’s enforcers.

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Tigger2  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:24:14am

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

Seth has some new nonsense:

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:24:46am

re: #443 The Vicious Babushka

As if Glenn ever cared about “Anti Semitism” at any time ever

Hey, just asking questions….

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:24:52am

re: #443 The Vicious Babushka

As if Glenn ever cared about “Anti Semitism” at any time ever

“Drop out of the race”? There is no race. Sanders lost. The*race*is*over.

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lizardofid  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:25:30am

re: #134 Dark_Falcon

And on that you lost me. But then I could never live in California either.

Ah, Dark. I know how you feel. But you might be surprised. I grew up in Texas, with all kinds of ill conceived ideas about the Golden State. But, starting in my mid 20’s, business took me there through out my working life. I guess it was Santa Barbara that got to me first. There is absolutely something exotic about the air, and it seems to manifest in the people who live there. Later, I would find really down to earth, working stiffs just like myself, scattered around all the major population centers, from San Diego to Sacramento. Now granted, I ran across an a**hole or two. (although a pretty smart man told me one time, if the people you’ve met, that you absolutely can’t work with, is more than you can count on one hand, then the problem might not be them)

Hell, I even fell in love with a fog named Karl. I hope everyone gets the chance to walk in it on a fall evening, after a hearty bowl of cioppino with some fresh sourdough.

peace

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:25:59am

re: #443 The Vicious Babushka

As if Glenn ever cared about “Anti Semitism” at any time ever

Demanding that Sanders drop out when we know he’s lost has never ever happened to any other candidate ever in the history of ever.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:26:32am

Well, time for bed here in the Middle Kingdom. I await happy news from California and New Jersey come my morning time.

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withak  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:26:35am

If the Sanders “revolution” had any elements of a grass-roots movement, I’d be much more interested in buying what he’s selling. But you don’t build a grass-roots movement from the top down.

Or maybe I’m just not meta enough for the likes of Seth Abramson.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:26:59am

re: #438 Dr. Matt

Well, I was temporarily banned from C&L for going toe-to-toe with PUMAs. But, 7+ years later, I can admit I was correct about Candidate Obama all along. :)

After Susie Madrak got front page posts, I left C&L never to return. Sorry, I don’t deal well with bullshit and they heaped it high and wide.

I posted a few “Susie, you wrote, literally, the exact opposite of this post 6 (or 8 or 48) hours ago. Do you not remember your own writings?” and then just left. No need to flounce, I just gave up.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:27:12am

re: #453 Tigger2

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They hate the Democratic Party but yet want to run it. Kind of like how conservatives view the government as far as I’m concerned. As I said earlier, Hillary and Bill Clinton got their start as supporters of McGovern. Bill got himself nominated for Congress. He lost but then ran for AG of Arkansas and won that and then became governor. I mean it’s like they have no concept of how people actually build a party. They say Bernie has started a movement and honestly a lot of what the movement stands for incldue things I support but it’s not a movement if you’re saying Bernie or bust. It’s not a movement if your candidate wouldn’t eevn commit to campaigning for other Democrats.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:29:13am

re: #448 gocart mozart

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HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:29:37am

re: #460 MsJ

After Susie Madrak got front page posts, I left C&L never to return. Sorry, I don’t deal well with bullshit and they heaped it high and wide.

I posted a few “Susie, you wrote, literally, the exact opposite of this post 6 (or 8 or 48) hours ago. Do you not remember your own writings?” and then just left. No need to flounce, I just gave up.

I used to be on DU. The place had oto many CT nuts (one thing I love about LGF is we are united in opposition to that crap) and we understand nuance better. I still have some contact with some people I knew in those days. Some are viewing the election like we are but some sadly haven’t learned a admn thing politically in over a decade. It’s sad honestly. I don’t think these are bad people but I think they’re politically ignorant/naive.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:31:11am

re: #460 MsJ

After Susie Madrak got front page posts, I left C&L never to return. Sorry, I don’t deal well with bullshit and they heaped it high and wide.

I posted a few “Susie, you wrote, literally, the exact opposite of this post 6 (or 8 or 48) hours ago. Do you not remember your own writings?” and then just left. No need to flounce, I just gave up.

She can be as thin-skinned as Trump. She banned several long-time lefty posters who questioned her over-the-top “outrage” of calling a woman “bossy”. Apparently, in Susie’s world, calling a woman “bossy” is as insulting as the c- and b-words…combined.

Things I learned on the a daily basis. //

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:33:01am

re: #434 MsJ

Thanks! I love that movie.

I call them…”shoes”.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:33:42am
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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:33:59am

re: #463 HappyWarrior

I used to be on DU. The place had oto many CT nuts (one thing I love about LGF is we are united in opposition to that crap) and we understand nuance better. I still have some contact with some people I knew in those days. Some are viewing the election like we are but some sadly haven’t learned a admn thing politically in over a decade. It’s sad honestly. I don’t think these are bad people but I think they’re politically ignorant/naive.

No kidding. I am a realist, pragmatic to the max and logical thinking. I hate bullshit and I don’t care where it comes from; left, right, from family, friends, it doesn’t matter. Bullshit is bullshit.

Don’t bullshit or lie to me. Once one is achieved, I write you off. I know that is harsh but it is how I am. I always hated having to figure out if I had to believe what someone said. So I cut out people I know were full of shit. It made my life easier.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:34:29am

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

Seth has some new nonsense:

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the logo is missing its horn.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:34:33am

re: #446 Dr. Matt

Ah. If someone robs a bank, they are not a criminal they merely committed a criminal act. Gotcha.

LOL. Poor Paul Ryan, he sold his soul to the Donald and now he’s wriggling on the hook.

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Lidane  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:34:57am

ROFL:

Trump only has a 3 point lead in Utah. It’s going to be a loooong election for the GOP.

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Franklin  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:35:14am

re: #468 Stanley Sea

the logo is missing its horn.

keep scrolling :)

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Shiplord Kirel  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:36:28am

re: #415 Great White Snark

Cue up the chemtrail and weather control freaks…

[Embedded content]

littlegreenfootballs.com

Obviously intended to keep patriots and resistance fighters from even finding their bunkers, stashes, and rally points if Moonbeam and Hildabeast have to declare martial law to protect the rigged primary.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:38:38am

re: #464 Dr. Matt

She can be as thin-skinned as Trump. She banned several long-time lefty posters who questioned her over-the-top “outrage” of calling a woman “bossy”. Apparently, in Susie’s world, calling a woman “bossy” is as insulting as the c- and b-words…combined.

Things I learned on the a daily basis. //

I know. My husband was one of the banished. Granted, he can be an asshole online sometimes (he’s very smart, well read and throws out statistics and proof and shit, but comes off as an augmentative know it all at times) but what he was calling out as bullshit was in fact utter and complete bullshit.

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:39:47am

My doctor moved to Utah, but she didn’t leave me any forwarding info.

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ObserverArt  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:40:10am

What is the big deal about Trump retracting his statements about the judge in California?

Does that make them go away, make things all better and change the thinking of Trump and those that love he said it?

I heard Morning Joke say he should retract his statements about banning Muslim immigration too. Same thing. Does it change his feelings and the feelings of all those that voted for him because of such stances?

Cats out of the bag Republicans. We all know many of your supporters and even some of your politicians think the same way. Trump just used it to get where he is at.

If anything, you are just embarrassed it has now been mainstreamed.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:41:13am

Good afternoon Lizards from France!

Been successfully dodging rain the last few days and getting in good sightseeing. Castle yesterday near Colmar.

Haut Koenigsburg

Ended yesterday in Verdun. Some more minor Verdun stuff today, but most of it was my brother tracing our grandfather’s World War 1 deployment in the Meuse-Argonne area. Located the 2-3 villages near where he “went over the top” and was wounded in October, 1918 and also the wood that the target of the assault. Also visited the main American memorial and cemetery in that area.

Meuse-Argonne Cemetery

Stopping for the night in Stemay on the Meuse River. Inn is an old mill by the river. Across the street from a beer museum.

We know who the true landlord of the inn is!
Beer Museum! With its own tavern!
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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:42:24am

re: #465 GlutenFreeJesus

I call them…”shoes”.

My husband said “It really is genetically ingrained, isn’t it?” which made me laugh that much harder.

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(((The Engineer Lobuno)))  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:43:25am

re: #457 Belafon

Demanding that Sanders drop out when we know he’s lost has never ever happened to any other candidate ever in the history of ever.

In a way, it’s true. Most candidates concede long before that.

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:43:28am

re: #476 Feline Fearless Leader

A French kitteh!! Miou!

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:44:32am

re: #446 Dr. Matt

Ah. If someone robs a bank, they are not a criminal they merely committed a criminal act. Gotcha.

And yet the wingnut welfare machine is turning out “Hillary Lacks The Proper Character to be Prez, etc” books as we speak.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:46:47am

re: #478 (((The Engineer Lobuno)))

In a way, it’s true. Most candidates concede long before that.

The only positive thing I can say about Ted Cruz was that the moment Trump’s nomination became inevitable, he dropped out of the race.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:46:58am

re: #473 MsJ

I know. My husband was one of the banished. Granted, he can be an asshole online sometimes (he’s very smart, well read and throws out statistics and proof and shit, but comes off as an augmentative know it all at times) but what he was calling out as bullshit was in fact utter and complete bullshit.

Ellen from Newshounds is just as bad…and is now at C&L. I was permabanned from NH about 10 years ago. Glad to see her website is now even more inconsequential than gotnews.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:47:38am

re: #135 Belafon

Reading the article, they’re whining because John is copying them (boohoo) and that he hasn’t fixed the debt problem. They want all the glory, damn it.

Isn’t that the kind of thing you would WANT people to copy?

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Franklin  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:47:48am

re: #475 ObserverArt

What is the big deal about Trump retracting his statements about the judge in California?

Does that make them go away, make things all better and change the thinking of Trump and those that love he said it?

Exactly. The retractions are usually hollow gestures even when they are made immediately. When you wait a week or two? And your name is Donald trump? Even more hollow.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:48:13am

re: #381 GlutenFreeJesus

Hey fellow scaly ones. Amazon has the Croods for free in HD if you have an account with them. :)

amazon.com

How did you find that? Is there a place to look for freebies?

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BeachDem  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:49:12am

re: #338 sagehen

Nobody remembers that in 2008 most of the Superdelegates started out backing Clinton. But after clear majorities of Actual Voters and Actual Primaries went for Obama, the supers switched to the guy with the majority of pledged delegates.

They also seem to think that this is the first election ever to have young/first time voters and that if their candidate doesn’t win, we’ll have lost a whole generation.

What a crock. It has been the case in every election ever. And there have been some pretty devastating results for young voters over the years. Hell, my first presidential vote was for McGovern in 1972—talk about having your optimistic dreams crushed!

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Jay C  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:50:32am

re: #480 Sir John Barron

And yet the wingnut welfare machine is turning out “Hillary Lacks The Proper Character to be Prez, etc” books as we speak.

Though one does have to wonder who, exactly ( outside of those way stations between the printing press and the pulping mill known as ” conservative book clubs” ) ever reads - or still less, gets influenced by these trite hatchet-job tell-all tomes?

My guess is - when it comes to changing any actual voters’ minds. - nearly no one.

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:51:52am

re: #482 Dr. Matt

Ellen from Newshounds is just as bad…and is now at C&L. I was permabanned from NH about 10 years ago. Glad to see her website is now even more inconsequential than gotnews.

I hate this whole purity bullshit thing some on the left are doing. I despised Jane Hamsher for what she did with healthcare. I thought she was a right wing plant. Both her and John Aravosis (from Americablog - an attorney in DC) were both acting like they had no idea how shit gets done in DC, and Aravosis especially with his background!) put so much effort into tanking Obamacare it wasn’t even funny. Ever since then I look at those kinds of people as teabaggers with lemon…sour spoilers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:53:04am

BWAHAHAHAAAAAA

“sekrit survey”
Hey Shaun, you’re confusing this with Family Feud.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:53:44am

re: #139 Dark_Falcon

Not even there. It’s a mix of liberal politics and high temperatures, and I don’t like either.

You may not like our “liberal politics” but its results that count - and we are now doing way the hell better than most of the red states.

ETA:
AS Governor, Jerry Brown prefers to tackle problems, even difficult ones. I’m assuming you prefer the Team R way - like in Kansas, where the Republican legislature just said “What? Fix school funding? Fuck that, we’re going home!”
Other than making your team look like morons, what harm does “liberal politics” do to you that would make CA so hellish for you?

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:54:29am

re: #489 Backwoods_Sleuth

BWAHAHAHAAAAAA

“sekrit survey”
Hey Shaun, you’re confusing this with Family Feud.

OFFS

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:55:05am

re: #485 MsJ

Someone posted on slickdeals.net. I have no clue. lol

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:56:43am

re: #490 Jebediah, RBG

You may not like our “liberal politics” but its results that count - and we are now doing way the hell better than most of the red states.

I just have to laugh at the completely closed mind. There’s no interest there in an actual conversation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:57:05am

re: #362 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Holy Mary Mother of God! Stop it! How can you people survive in such a wasteland?

Just read about median rents for a 2-bedroom apt in San Francisco: $5,000. In a city where two-thirds of the houses already cost more than $1 million…

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:57:21am

re: #489 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m a party elite? Who knew?

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Dr. Matt  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:58:21am

The current status of the Trump campaign

The current status of the Trump campaign
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jaunte  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:58:50am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:59:29am

re: #493 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I just have to laugh at the completely closed mind. There’s no interest there in an actual conversation.

He has no idea who else is on the ballot for that race but for some reason Kamala Harris is teh evil…

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:59:47am

re: #490 Jebediah, RBG

You may not like our “liberal politics” but its results that count - and we are now doing way the hell better than most of the red states.

Most conservative states don’t like the “liberal politics” of states like CA, but they don’t mind living off of the extra taxes CA and other liberal states pay to the federal government.

Texas, my state, is the only conservative state not on the list of “receives more in taxes than they send” but that’s partially because it doesn’t bother taking care of its citizens.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 10:59:47am

re: #406 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s something called “echoes” used in a since-deleted Google ap that identified Jews for targeting by assholes.
When sane people learned of it, they started using the echoes as pushback.

Also called the “Jewish cowbell”
a double parenthesis is a “cowbell”

another sign that rabid anti-Semitism is growing more acceptable by the day

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gocart mozart  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:00:01am
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:00:04am

re: #498 Backwoods_Sleuth

He has no idea who else is on the ballot for that race but for some reason Kamala Harris is teh evil…

She’s a woman and a Democrat. The math checks out.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:00:19am

re: #497 jaunte

I’ve already gotten 3 cellular calls from the IRS. lol

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ramex  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:00:52am

re: #441 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump has the best racist words.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:02:48am

re: #470 Lidane

ROFL:

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Trump only has a 3 point lead in Utah. It’s going to be a loooong election for the GOP.

Even Mormon wives are not voting for him…

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MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:02:51am

re: #501 gocart mozart

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:03:09am

re: #502 klys (maker of Silmarils)

She’s a woman and a Democrat. The math checks out.

Also: California. The whole damn thing. ‘Left coast’.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:04:52am

Contractor is burying my house today.
It’s looking more hobbity by the minute.
Yay!

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KerFuFFler  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:06:10am

re: #446 Dr. Matt

Ah. If someone robs a bank, they are not a criminal they merely committed a criminal act. Gotcha.

I do think in many situations there is merit in drawing a distinction between calling a statement racist and identifying the person as a racist. This video sums it up pretty well.

HOWEVER, when a person fails to learn from their mistakes, is constantly making racist statements and has a long documented history of racist behavior like systematically avoiding renting to black people, then you no longer can reasonably extend them the benefit of the doubt. That is why it is fair to call Trump a racist.

My dad, who was white and loved watermelon, was bringing in the groceries and carrying two large watermelons. On the way in, he spotted a neighbor (who happened to be black). My dad, feeling a little goofy encumbered with those two enormous melons volunteered that the supermarket had a really great sale on watermelons. From then on, that neighbor gave my dad the cold shoulder and it took a while for my dad to realize what had caused the rift. He really wasn’t thinking of the stereotype——-he just figured everyone would want to know that there was a great price on some delicious food. He figured everyone loves watermelon.

I can totally see why our neighbor was troubled by my dad’s comment, but it was unfortunate that he jumped right from finding that statement offensive to thinking my dad was a racist. I think it’s important to give people the benefit of the doubt.

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Skip Intro  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:06:44am

Let’s keep talking about Hillary’s emails, ok?

Florida AG asked Trump for donation before nixing fraud case

WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida’s attorney general personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump around the same time her office deliberated joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University and its affiliates

The new disclosure from Attorney General Pam Bondi’s spokesman to The Associated Press on Monday provides additional details around the unusual circumstances of Trump’s $25,000 donation to Bondi.

The money came from a Trump family foundation in apparent violation of rules surrounding political activities by charities. A political group backing Bondi’s re-election, called And Justice for All, reported receiving the check Sept. 17, 2013 — four days after Bondi’s office publicly announced she was considering joining a New York state probe of Trump University’s activities, according to a 2013 report in the Orlando Sentinel.

After the check came in, Bondi’s office nixed suing Trump, citing insufficient grounds to proceed.

bigstory.ap.org

There’s so much quid in that pro quo that even a Supreme Court Justice should be able to see it.

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:07:27am

re: #508 Backwoods_Sleuth

Contractor is burying my house today.
It’s looking more hobbity by the minute.
Yay!

Are your toes getting furry?

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jaunte  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:07:37am

re: #508 Backwoods_Sleuth

Are you making an earth-ship?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:07:44am

re: #511 wrenchwench

Are you toes getting furry?

yeppers!!!

514
GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:10:23am

“I’m forever blowing bubbles”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:11:59am

re: #512 jaunte

Are you making an earth-ship?

Round, mostly underground house.

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KerFuFFler  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:12:18am

re: #510 Skip Intro

After the check came in, Bondi’s office nixed suing Trump, citing insufficient grounds to proceed.

Same essential thing happened in Texas.

“Abbott’s probe was quietly dropped in 2010 when Trump University agreed to end its operations in Texas.”

“Trump subsequently donated $35,000 to Abbott’s successful gubernatorial campaign, according to records,” the AP reported.

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:12:24am

re: #514 GlutenFreeJesus

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Now there’s a dog doing something I’ve never seen a dog do.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:14:10am
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iossarian  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:14:17am

re: #509 KerFuFFler

This is all true but the nature of the political life is that the tolerance for misstatements is lower, because the only way of judging politicians is on how they behave in public - how they talk but most importantly how they vote.

This is why Ryan’s comment that he “doesn’t know what’s in Trump’s heart” is so stupid. I don’t know what’s in Ryan’s heart, Trump’s heart, Hillary’s heart or Bernie’s heart. But I know how they vote.

I don’t care what’s in Trump’s heart. What I care about is that he will vote like a racist.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:16:11am

re: #518 Backwoods_Sleuth

More elite stealing of the election by the Clinton machine.

//

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:17:09am

Woke up this morning with a low level headache that doesn’t want to go away. I was going to run a shit-ton of errands today but I really don’t feel up to it. I don’t know if I even feel up to doing my weight lifting. :( But I will walk into downtown to get the ballots dropped off.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:20:32am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:20:36am

re: #515 Backwoods_Sleuth

Round, mostly underground house.

House, in much early stage of construction:

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:21:06am

re: #517 wrenchwench

My malamute (that’s a husky) hated water if he wasn’t drinking it. He’d jump out of and away from puddles. No way he would have ever even thought of doing that. lol

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:21:41am

re: #523 Backwoods_Sleuth

House, in much early stage of construction:

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wow, can’t wait to see when done.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:23:03am

Where is Jenner7

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:23:41am

re: #525 Sir John Barron

wow, can’t wait to see when done.

See that dirt pile in the foreground? That’s what it will look like.

/I imagine.

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Jenner7  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:23:49am

re: #526 Stanley Sea

Hehe. Safe and sound.

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:23:52am

re: #523 Backwoods_Sleuth

House, in much early stage of construction:

[Embedded content]

The front door better be round.

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No Depression  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:23:59am

re: #522 FormerDirtDart

[Embedded content]

Are they gonna serve some ice cold Americas too?

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jaunte  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:25:12am

re: #522 FormerDirtDart

Whatever the beer is, it’s got to be Pale.

532
Tigger2  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:25:55am

re: #523 Backwoods_Sleuth

House, in much early stage of construction:

Embedded Image

I would have liked to have had one of those.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:27:15am

re: #515 Backwoods_Sleuth

Round, mostly underground house.

In process of being buried:
Side view:

Top view of second story roof (it will be covered in dirt, too):

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:27:43am

re: #531 jaunte

Whatever the beer is, it’s got to be Pale.

A pale beer in German is “fell” And there is a pale Pilsner made in the town of Fucking, Austria.

Yes, Fucking Hell.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:28:21am

re: #508 Backwoods_Sleuth

Contractor is burying my house today.
It’s looking more hobbity by the minute.
Yay!

My wife always wanted to live in Bag End.

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retired cynic  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:29:29am

re: #535 Big Beautiful Door

My wife always wanted to live in Bag End.

Me, too!!! And they can leave the tree roots and the furniture.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:30:34am

re: #510 Skip Intro

Let’s keep talking about Hillary’s emails, ok?

Florida AG asked Trump for donation before nixing fraud case

bigstory.ap.org

There’s so much quid in that pro quo that even a Supreme Court Justice should be able to see it.

Florida Lizards ought to file a bar complaint against Pam Bondi.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:30:50am

re: #533 Backwoods_Sleuth

That skeletal structure on top of the domed roof will be an observation room with a clear dome, for night stargazing and watching meteor showers.

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Tigger2  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:31:21am

Underground House Pictures.

Some of them are truly awesome.

google.com

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retired cynic  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:31:36am

re: #538 Backwoods_Sleuth

That skeletal structure on top of the domed roof will be an observation room with a clear dome, for night stargazing and watching meteor showers.

I want!

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:36:07am

We should take a moment to ponder how extraordinarily awful it is that the nation’s highest ranking Republican, two heartbeats away from the Presidency, doesn’t think that making racist statements is a disqualification for the Presidency. The GOP is now a white power party.

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jaunte  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:36:55am

re: #538 Backwoods_Sleuth

That skeletal structure on top of the domed roof will be an observation room with a clear dome, for night stargazing and watching meteor showers.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:36:56am

re: #508 Backwoods_Sleuth

Contractor is burying my house today.
It’s looking more hobbity by the minute.
Yay!

what are the advantages or qualities about this type of house that you like?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:37:33am

re: #536 retired cynic

Me, too!!! And they can leave the tree roots and the furniture.

Interior vertical support post inside the house:

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:37:35am

re: #535 Big Beautiful Door

Bag End was the name of the cattery where I got my Himalayan, Minuet.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:37:57am

re: #543 Sir John Barron

what are the advantages or qualities about this type of house that you like?

super energy-efficient, I gather…

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:39:01am

She’s so silent, she’s only mentioned in the tweet, not the article.

Her parents were born in Mexico. I wonder when she’ll endorse Trump.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:39:02am

re: #356 HappyWarrior

Is she more famous than Peter Sagan?
If she is, she shouldn’t be. Sagan is great.

ETA: Whoops, never mind. You said Slovene-American. Peter Sagan is not American.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:39:24am

re: #543 Sir John Barron

what are the advantages or qualities about this type of house that you like?

Energy savings on heating/cooling costs, and a place to safely hunker down during tornado season.

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lawhawk  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:39:29am

McConnell is a pandering fool who thinks people will buy into his BS.

Now is when Trump needs to quit attacks on minorities.

Really.

Trump’s not the only one attacking minorities. Ryan’s “economic plan” is an assault on minorities, the poor, and the disadvantaged, since it’s the rehash of the same trickle down BS the GOP has been peddling for years. Tax cuts for the rich, and burden shifting on to those least able to afford them. Cut taxes, and lose services and the safety net.

Yeah, this is the state of the GOP.

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Targetpractice  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:40:10am

re: #547 wrenchwench

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She’s so silent, she’s only mentioned in the tweet, not the article.

Her parents were born in Mexico. I wonder when she’ll endorse Trump.

Republican leaders shocked, SHOCKED to find that racist douchebag is making racist remarks.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:40:25am

re: #547 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

She’s so silent, she’s only mentioned in the tweet, not the article.

Her parents were born in Mexico. I wonder when she’ll endorse Trump.

Well, after the massive barrage of insults Trump threw at her, her silence is no surprise.

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KGxvi  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:41:36am

re: #224 MsJ

My ex is an attorney. I find voting for judges to be the oddest thing. The vast majority of people don’t know anything about judges. It was eye opening once I did know the judges by reputation of the local attorneys. Now, I never vote for a judge unless I have personal knowledge of them.

It’s a hold over from the progressive era at the start of the 20th century. The railroads basically controlled the government, including the courts. So it, like the referendum, served as check against the powerful non-government actors. Probably something that has outlived its usefulness.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:42:30am

re: #224 MsJ

My ex is an attorney. I find voting for judges to be the oddest thing. The vast majority of people don’t know anything about judges. It was eye opening once I did know the judges by reputation of the local attorneys. Now, I never vote for a judge unless I have personal knowledge of them.

Probably not any better than the cynical way that legislators appoint them here in Virginia.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:42:47am

re: #547 wrenchwench

She’s so silent, she’s only mentioned in the tweet, not the article.

Her parents were born in Mexico. I wonder when she’ll endorse Trump.

Didn’t Trump criticize her just the other week? Can’t imagine she’d be favorable inclined toward him.

556
Skip Intro  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:42:52am

For the 1000th time, boy did you fuck up, Comedy Central.

The Bed We’ve Made | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:44:12am

re: #552 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, after the massive barrage of insults Trump threw at her, her silence is no surprise.

Here’s some outside the box thinking McCain would’ve liked. It won’t happen, but can you imagine if Hillary, in a show of bipartisan unity against Trumpism, selected Martinez as her VP?

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Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:44:13am

re: #556 Skip Intro

For the 1000th time, boy did you fuck up, Comedy Central.

[Embedded content]

She does it once a week.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:44:27am

re: #556 Skip Intro

For the 1000th time, boy did you fuck up, Comedy Central.

She and John Oliver have both surpassed the Daily Show by a long shot.

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ObserverArt  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:44:34am

re: #541 Big Beautiful Door

We should take a moment to ponder how extraordinarily awful it is that the nation’s highest ranking Republican, two heartbeats away from the Presidency, doesn’t think that making racist statements is a disqualification for the Presidency. The GOP is now a white power party.

Oooooh. Will Paul Ryan be shaving his head and wearing arm bands?

561
MsJ  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:44:49am

re: #553 KGxvi

re: #554 Timothy Watson

After reading about the pay for play out of FL and TX over not pursuing Trump U, I don’t know if I am fer or agin anymore.

I am becoming more and more jaded as time goes by. Almost none of these schmucks give the first rats ass about us, no matter the office being elected to. It’s really freaking depressing.

562
Targetpractice  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:45:11am

re: #556 Skip Intro

For the 1000th time, boy did you fuck up, Comedy Central.

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I still shake my head over Trevor Noah having the balls to say the reason ratings have taken a nosedive since he took the desk is because liberal “aren’t ready to hear the whole truth.”

563
Big Beautiful Door  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:45:35am

re: #553 KGxvi

It’s a hold over from the progressive era at the start of the 20th century. The railroads basically controlled the government, including the courts. So it, like the referendum, served as check against the powerful non-government actors. Probably something that has outlived its usefulness.

Now corporations buy judges by pouring massive amounts of money into their campaigns.

564
Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:45:41am

re: #550 lawhawk

McConnell is a pandering fool who thinks people will buy into his BS.

Now is when Trump needs to quit attacks on minorities.

Really.

Trump’s not the only one attacking minorities. Ryan’s “economic plan” is an assault on minorities, the poor, and the disadvantaged, since it’s the rehash of the same trickle down BS the GOP has been peddling for years. Tax cuts for the rich, and burden shifting on to those least able to afford them. Cut taxes, and lose services and the safety net.

Yeah, this is the state of the GOP.

McConnell: I told him to stop. I’ve done my job. It’s not my problem if he doesn’t listen to me. It’s not like I’m going to be affected by it.

565
sagehen  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:47:56am

re: #523 Backwoods_Sleuth

House, in much early stage of construction:

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So… low heating bills, but not much windows.

566
ObserverArt  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:48:15am

re: #549 Backwoods_Sleuth

Energy savings on heating/cooling costs, and a place to safely hunker down during tornado season.

Put a machine gun nest in that dome and you can also fight off the evil hordes!

567
wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:48:31am

re: #555 Sir John Barron

Didn’t Trump criticize her just the other week? Can’t imagine she’d be favorable inclined toward him.

This is from June 2:

Days after Trump’s attacks on NM governor, he now ‘respects’ her and wants endorsement

[…]

Martinez will hold a vote as a delegate at June’s National Republican Convention, which she previously said she would not attend, but changed her mind on in early May.

568
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:49:14am

re: #566 ObserverArt

Put a machine gun nest in that dome and you can also fight off the evil hordes!

I have thought of that….

:D

569
Belafon  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:50:13am

re: #549 Backwoods_Sleuth

Energy savings on heating/cooling costs, and a place to safely hunker down during tornado season.

There’s also not a lot of outside to take care of.

570
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:50:28am

re: #565 sagehen

So… low heating bills, but not much windows.

Solatubes.

571
KGxvi  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:50:55am

re: #557 Big Beautiful Door

Here’s some outside the box thinking McCain would’ve liked. It won’t happen, but can you imagine if Hillary, in a show of bipartisan unity against Trumpism, selected Martinez as her VP?

It’d be interesting to see happen, but quite frankly, the party would never go for it (that’s what happened when McCain wanted to go with Lieberman, the party revolted). The VP is almost always the frontrunner for the next time around (although Cheney and Biden have changed that a bit). Not to mention the idea that if something happened to Clinton, it would mean the party giving up the office.

572
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:52:09am

re: #569 Belafon

There’s also not a lot of outside to take care of.

Just mowing. I’m researching maintenance groundcovers.

573
HappyWarrior  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:53:41am

re: #548 Jebediah, RBG

Is she more famous than Peter Sagan?
If she is, she shouldn’t be. Sagan is great.

ETA: Whoops, never mind. You said Slovene-American. Peter Sagan is not American.

Heh he’s also Slovak and not Slovene. Easy mistake though. I’m Slovak-American as well.

574
sagehen  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:55:48am

re: #572 Backwoods_Sleuth

Just mowing. I’m researching maintenance groundcovers.

Get some goats. No mowing, and a ready food source when The Revolution comes.

575
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:56:21am

re: #574 sagehen

Get some goats. No mowing, and a ready food source when The Revolution comes.

I have a goat.
Really, I do.

576
Decatur Deb  Jun 7, 2016 • 11:59:37am

re: #574 sagehen

Get some goats. No mowing, and a ready food source when The Revolution comes.

It’s quite common for the Army to contract with sheep and goat herders to keep their thousands of acres of earth-covered “igloo” ammunition storage trimmed. Lowers the risk from grass fires and eliminates the ignition source from mechanical mowers.

577
Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:03:17pm

re: #572 Backwoods_Sleuth

Just mowing. I’m researching maintenance groundcovers.

I hear kudzu will grow well there….
//////

578
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:05:37pm

re: #577 Blind Frog Belly White

I hear kudzu will grow well there….
//////

We don’t have a kudzu problem here.
Wild wisteria OTOH…

579
Decatur Deb  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:08:25pm

re: #578 Backwoods_Sleuth

We don’t have a kudzu problem here.
Wild wisteria OTOH…

Bloody Mountain Laurel was a pain up in Carter Co.

580
Jebediah, RBG  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:16:08pm

re: #493 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Yup! Which is a little disappointing, since we have several years now of a number of states being completely (R) - gov’s and leg’s. So we have plenty of evidence of what works and what doesn’t. Even if you really do view politics mostly as a team sport, R’s versus D’s, there has to some way to keep score. I think just looking at elections won is less important than looking at who more effectively provides for the common good of their constituents. Maybe that’s why he doesn’t want to have that conversation.

581
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:16:44pm

re: #579 Decatur Deb

Bloody Mountain Laurel was a pain up in Carter Co.

Japanese honeysuckle and multiflora roses, too.

582
The Vicious Babushka  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:19:43pm

re: #544 Backwoods_Sleuth

Interior vertical support post inside the house:

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Can I come visit?

How far are you from I-65?

583
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:21:16pm

re: #582 The Vicious Babushka

Can I come visit?

How far are you from I-65?

Other side of the state. I’m about 90 miles east of I-75.

584
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:24:30pm

re: #582 The Vicious Babushka

Can I come visit?

How far are you from I-65?

And yes, you can visit!
My kitchen is going to be 15 feet wide and 22 feet long, with an additional HUGE walk-in pantry.

585
Jebediah, RBG  Jun 7, 2016 • 12:35:13pm

re: #573 HappyWarrior

American or not, though, I still think he deserves to be more famous than she. (And world-wide, probably is.)
I don’t know if you follow cycling, but either way I think you would be impressed by some of his finishes. He is an absolute beast on a bicycle, and his bike-handling skills are amazing.

586
Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:16:03pm

re: #526 Stanley Sea

Where is Jenner7

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I’ve advocated activities such as this as a way to raise the awareness of pedestrians and other people out in public. If there is a possibility of a large carnivore emerging from an alley and eating you the person then tends to pay closer attention to their surroundings rather than being “head in device” or otherwise engrossed.

587
GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:21:43pm

re: #575 Backwoods_Sleuth

Goat outta here. For real?!

588
Eventual Carrion  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:32:12pm

re: #563 Big Beautiful Door

Now corporations buy judges by pouring massive amounts of money into their campaigns.

It’s hard to say which did more ill
Citizens United or the Gulf oil spill

- The Long Way Around Jackson Brown

589
Eventual Carrion  Jun 7, 2016 • 1:34:11pm

re: #565 sagehen

So… low heating bills, but not much windows.

There are some cool things done with conduit and mirrors to bring sunlight into buildings like that.


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