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HappyWarrior  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:18:07pm

I just imagine how well Obama’s done with a batshit opposition and then i wonder how he’d do with a sane one. Really makes you wonder.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:18:08pm

Such a diverse Parliament. Beautiful.

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TedStriker  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:23:07pm

re: #1 HappyWarrior

I just imagine how well Obama’s done with a batshit opposition and then i wonder how he’d do with a sane one. Really makes you wonder.

I think he’d given FDR and LBJ a run for their money on the legacy department.

That said, he didn’t have a sane Congress to work with most of the time, so he’s done the best he can with what he had; it certainly has shown that he’s ice cold under pressure.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:24:10pm

re: #3 TedStriker

I think he’d given FDR and LBJ a run for their money on the legacy department.

No doubt. History’s going to remember him well in any case. His opponents? Nope.

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Joe Bacon  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:29:05pm

re: #3 TedStriker

I think he’d given FDR and LBJ a run for their money on the legacy department.

That said, he didn’t have a sane Congress to work with most of the time, so he’s done the best he can with what he had; it certainly has shown that he’s ice cold under pressure.

Besides the Republicans blocking everthing you have to add in backstabbers like the Blue Dog Democrats and assholes like LIEberman who stuck a knife in Obama’s back every chance he could.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:30:42pm

re: #5 Joe Bacon

Besides the Republicans blocking everthing you have to add in backstabbers like the Blue Dog Democrats and assholes like LIEberman who stuck a knife in Obama’s back every chance he could.

The public option shit. Gah.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:32:15pm

This speech!!!!!

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Joe Bacon  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:33:37pm

re: #6 HappyWarrior

The public option shit. Gah.

Especially with LIEberman who was for opening Medicare for anyone 55 and over until Obama accepted that. Then that prick turned around and opposed it.

I’m thinking of all the people who died because they had no coverage thanks to that prick.

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danarchy  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:36:31pm

re: #2 Stanley Sea

Such a diverse Parliament. Beautiful.

It looked pretty white and male to me. Did a quick google search and couldn’t find current numbers, but last year it was only 27% female and about 12% non-white.

thestar.com

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HappyWarrior  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:36:59pm

re: #8 Joe Bacon

Especially with LIEberman who was for opening Medicare for anyone 55 and over until Obama accepted that. Then that prick turned around and opposed it.

I’m thinking of all the people who died because they had no coverage thanks to that prick.

You know what pisses me off about Lieberman is that even after Lieberman lost his primary and went independent, Obama still supported him? How did Lieberman return the favor? Only by campaigning for McCain and slamming Obama with the right wing mud and then doing what you’re talking about there. I used to think that Lieberman was someone that while hawkish than the average Democrat was still a Democrat at heart but he showed himself to be an ugly man with that. The good news is that Murphy seems like a great Senator.

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TedStriker  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:42:33pm

re: #10 HappyWarrior

You know what pisses me off about Lieberman is that even after Lieberman lost his primary and went independent, Obama still supported him? How did Lieberman return the favor? Only by campaigning for McCain and slamming Obama with the right wing mud and then doing what you’re talking about there. I used to think that Lieberman was someone that while hawkish than the average Democrat was still a Democrat at heart but he showed himself to be an ugly man with that. The good news is that Murphy seems like a great Senator.

Sounds like someone else we know….

/looks at Bernie

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HappyWarrior  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:43:29pm

re: #11 TedStriker

Sounds like someone else we know….

/looks at Bernie

I’ve been thinking for the past few weeks that Bernie is acting like a left wing version of Lieberman, yes.

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Reality Based Steve  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:43:44pm

I’m going to go read for a while. I’m a bit peeved at my shop right now (which I guess means that I’m angry at myself?). It seems like they loaned out one of my personal scuba tanks without asking me, (which is ok), but didn’t bother to record who they lent it to. All the gear that was rented over the weekend has come back in, and that tank is still missing.

I’m hoping that somebody simply hasn’t brought it back yet, that it will circle back in another day or two. I’ve already called the quarry we were at last weekend just to make sure that it didn’t get left there by mistake.

Next task…. get stickers made with name / phone / email and mount them on all my personal tanks. ARRGH.

RBS

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Kragar  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:44:42pm
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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:44:44pm

Did the camera person recording this get a low battery notice live?

My battery is fine.

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whitebeach  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:47:37pm

re: #9 danarchy

It looked pretty white and male to me. Did a quick google search and couldn’t find current numbers, but last year it was only 27% female and about 12% non-white.

These numbers actually compare very favorably to the current U.S. Congress as regards women, and for minorities too when the minority demographics of the two nations are taken into account. Our Senate is particularly lacking in diversity.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:49:06pm

re: #13 Reality Based Steve

I’m going to go read for a while. I’m a bit peeved at my shop right now (which I guess means that I’m angry at myself?). It seems like they loaned out one of my personal scuba tanks without asking me, (which is ok), but didn’t bother to record who they lent it to. All the gear that was rented over the weekend has come back in, and that tank is still missing.

I’m hoping that somebody simply hasn’t brought it back yet, that it will circle back in another day or two. I’ve already called the quarry we were at last weekend just to make sure that it didn’t get left there by mistake.

Next task…. get stickers made with name / phone / email and mount them on all my personal tanks. ARRGH.

RBS

Kick their ass on this RBS. You do not deserve it. namaste!!!!!!!!!!

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:52:17pm

I’m watching this whole speech. It. is. magnificent.

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majii  Jun 29, 2016 • 7:54:24pm

re: #10 HappyWarrior

After he helped f*ck up the ACA, I discovered that his wife works in the healthcare industry. What a way to take action against the people you’re elected to serve in favor of your spouse and other health company CEOs. I knew from that point on that he was only in Congress to serve himself and his crony buddies. I’ve had a bad taste in my mouth for Lieberman for quite some time now, but I really began disliking him a lot when I saw him in Iraq sucking up to McCain and pushing to keep American troops there even though both knew the Iraqi people and government wanted us OUT.

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Joe Bacon  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:07:56pm

re: #10 HappyWarrior

You know what pisses me off about Lieberman is that even after Lieberman lost his primary and went independent, Obama still supported him? How did Lieberman return the favor? Only by campaigning for McCain and slamming Obama with the right wing mud and then doing what you’re talking about there. I used to think that Lieberman was someone that while hawkish than the average Democrat was still a Democrat at heart but he showed himself to be an ugly man with that. The good news is that Murphy seems like a great Senator.

Chris Murphy IS a Senator unlike LIEberman who is a petty narcissistic backstabbing piece of CENSORED!

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:11:28pm

Today a day lift ticket is $150+ and a pitcher of beer is $20.

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Joe Bacon  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:12:14pm

re: #14 Kragar

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I want Trump to continue slamming the US Chamber of Commerce to the point that they pull the plug on him and pump money into Gary Johnson and the Libertarian Party.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:12:17pm

Fox Poll Shows Trump Winning By -6 Points

network’s tissue rejection of non conservative fascist blowhard amazes even liberals

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:13:06pm

If you are not watching, just go to 46:00. This is it

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:14:32pm

re: #14 Kragar

33m
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
For reasons only they can explain, the @USChamber wants to continue our bad trade deals rather than renegotiating and making them better.

cant figure that one out for yourself mr i have a very good brainz?

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majii  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:18:45pm

re: #25 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

I must admit that when the national chamber began tweeting and debunking Trump’s speech in real time yesterday, I was shocked because I’ve watched Donohue support GOPers for many years. I really didn’t know what was going on——until I did a bit of research and discovered that the CoC really wants TPP to go through. I read today that Trump’s speech caused a lot of discord within the GOP because republicans in Congress want it, too.

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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:22:17pm
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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:23:20pm

I watched the whole thing. Thank you Charles.

When he spoke of the refugees & how Canada has been beautiful. Tears.

This POTUS.

t h i s POTUS

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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:25:28pm

re: #2 Stanley Sea

Such a diverse Parliament. Beautiful.

Hey, the Republican legislature is super diverse too! It runs the gamut from Anglo to Saxon.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:25:44pm

Hedge Fund Manager says this but also says he’s not voting for Hillary, that must mean he put down a bunch of money betting that the world will fall into a global depression==>

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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:30:17pm

re: #4 HappyWarrior

No doubt. History’s going to remember him well in any case. His opponents? Nope.

“While President Obama tried valiantly to address the looming perils of climate change, his opposition in Congress and the Senate (located in present day Potomac Bay) stymied him whenever possible for short term political gain…”

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:32:34pm

OMG THE HORROR THE HORROR OF SWIMMING POOL HOURS FOR WOMEN

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:34:49pm

re: #30 The Vicious Babushka

Hedge Fund Manager says this but also says he’s not voting for Hillary, that must mean he put down a bunch of money betting that the world will fall into a global depression==>

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He looks soooooo unhealthy.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:35:52pm

re: #33 Stanley Sea

He looks soooooo unhealthy.

Not wearing the usual orange spackle.

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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:40:06pm

re: #21 teleskiguy

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Today a day lift ticket is $150+ and a pitcher of beer is $20.

Yeah, but you don’t have to wait five minutes for the woolly mammoth to get the treadmill back up to speed every time they have to stop the lift.

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retired cynic  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:45:17pm

re: #35 Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)

I know a couple from Steamboat, and I just forwarded them image to them. They are all excited, and want to know where you found it.

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retired cynic  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:46:55pm

re: #36 retired cynic

Addressed to Charlie, of course!

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:47:43pm

Sometimes, I feel, like a motherless child.

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:49:43pm

re: #37 retired cynic

Saw it on Facebook from a few Steamboat peeps I know. It was originally posted on the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association’s Facebook page.

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retired cynic  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:50:25pm

re: #39 teleskiguy

Saw it on Facebook from a few Steamboat peeps I know. It was originally posted by the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association’s Facebook page.

Thanks!

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:54:31pm
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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:54:46pm
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Teukka  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:56:31pm

So, a movie I’m considering to see:

Sully - Official Trailer [HD]
I wonder if they have the congressional hearings in this one, where republicans behaved disgracefully.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:58:41pm

re: #21 teleskiguy

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Today a day lift ticket is $150+ and a pitcher of beer is $20.

I can just imagine what a season pass would be. Back in the 80’s when I lived in Denver, I was working a compressed shift and had Mon-Wed. off. I had a season pass for Winter Park/MaryJane that cost maybe $250. Skied my ass off that year and never a line.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jun 29, 2016 • 8:59:04pm

I’m going to miss Obama in six months. He’s the best president of my lifetime.

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Kragar  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:01:24pm
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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:01:41pm

re: #45 Frankie Five Angels

I’m going to miss Obama in six months. He’s the best president of my lifetime.

I’m 62 this year and I can honestly say “I love this President”. Absolutely. I would be crushed if anything happened to him.

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bratwurst  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:02:26pm

Fuck yes!

AC has “Trump surrogates” on his show all the time. Glad he (unlike his boss) can see the problem with one who is contractually prevented from speaking ill of the orange colored nitwit.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:03:07pm

Obamas memoirs are going to be EPIC.

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:04:57pm

Susan Boyle sings Wild Horses (~3m in).

Susan Boyle sings Wild Horses on America’s Got Talent 2009

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:05:11pm

re: #45 Frankie Five Angels

I’m going to miss Obama in six months. He’s the best president of my lifetime.

No DOUBT.

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whitebeach  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:05:12pm

re: #45 Frankie Five Angels

I’m going to miss Obama in six months. He’s the best president of my lifetime.

Mine too, Frankie. And the first president of my lifetime was Truman.

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William Lewis  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:05:15pm

re: #21 teleskiguy

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Today a day lift ticket is $150+ and a pitcher of beer is $20.

Good for keeping the riff raff like me out.

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:07:50pm

re: #53 William Lewis

“Hold my legs as I dive deep…”

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retired cynic  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:09:54pm

re: #52 whitebeach

Mine too, Frankie. And the first president of my lifetime was Truman.

Me, too. I can tell you the first time I heard his voice was on a local public radio station when he was a state senator, and I knew, right then. I was driving down the road and almost had to pull off the road.

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:13:20pm
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Tigger2  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:14:57pm

re: #45 Frankie Five Angels

I’m going to miss Obama in six months. He’s the best president of my lifetime.

Kennedy was my best pick until Obama came along.

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:22:46pm

My old stomping grounds, way back when I was in college.

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blueraven  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:25:33pm

re: #55 retired cynic

Me, too. I can tell you the first time I heard his voice was on a local public radio station when he was a state senator, and I knew, right then. I was driving down the road and almost had to pull off the road.

I so wish it had been a more hospitable time for him. The polarization of America will doom us if we cant change. History will be harsh on the fuckers who wanted him to fail.
He has amazing character to keep going, to not let them get him down, for remaining optimistic and dare I say, hopeful.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:28:13pm

re: #58 teleskiguy

My old stomping grounds, way back when I was in college.

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I used to do lot of fishing in the Taylor and Gunnison rivers back in the day.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:30:15pm

re: #59 blueraven

I so wish it had been a more hospitable time for him. The polarization of America will doom us if we cant change. History will be harsh on the fuckers who wanted him to fail.
He has amazing character to keep going, to not let them get him down, for remaining optimistic and dare I say, hopeful.

It’s going to be worse with Hillary.

One further, Trump.

We are not in a good place.

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Joe Bacon  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:31:25pm

I’m just waiting for Obama’s book to come out after he leaves office. I just know that there are going to be several juicy chapters in it when it comes to Republicans.

Then five years from now, Chuck C will post a video claiming he has the original manuscript which he will test for Bill Ayres’ DNA…

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:32:08pm
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blueraven  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:32:51pm

We are not the only ones being a bit sentimental tonight. I think it is starting to hit. We wont have him as POTUS much longer.

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whitebeach  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:32:55pm

re: #43 Teukka

So, a movie I’m considering to see:

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There’s a thread running through Hanks’s career that makes me believe that if I ever see him boarding an aircraft I’m scheduled to fly on, I’ll find other transportation.

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Joe Bacon  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:33:13pm

re: #61 Stanley Sea

It’s going to be worse with Hillary.

One further, Trump.

We are not in a good place.

Oh, I can vouch for that Stanley Sea! I work at Social Security’s 800 number. You would be shocked to hear how many callers love using the “N” word when it comes to Obama. And those same folks are now doubling down with Hillary hate using the “L” word with her. Yeah, they also say Hillary is a Muslim too because she’s “involved with Huma”…

Quite often you will hear Fox News, Rush, other Hate Radio jerks or TV Preachers in the background while these folks use those “N” and “L” words!

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:33:24pm

re: #60 Dave In Austin

I used to do lot of fishing in the Taylor and Gunnison rivers back in the day.

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blueraven  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:34:23pm

re: #66 Joe Bacon

Oh, I can vouch for that Stanley Sea! I work at Social Security’s 800 number. You would be shocked to hear how many callers love using the “N” word when it comes to Obama. And those same folks are now doubling down with Hillary hate using the “L” word with her.

Lady? /

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:36:09pm
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Joe Bacon  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:37:04pm

re: #68 blueraven

Lady? /

I WISH…

There are days when I lose count of how many times I hear George Carlin’s 7 words you can’t say on TV with some of these folks…

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:38:03pm

re: #66 Joe Bacon

Oh, I can vouch for that Stanley Sea! I work at Social Security’s 800 number. You would be shocked to hear how many callers love using the “N” word when it comes to Obama. And those same folks are now doubling down with Hillary hate using the “L” word with her. Yeah, they also say Hillary is a Muslim too because she’s “involved with Huma”…

Quite often you will hear Fox News, Rush, other Hate Radio jerks or TV Preachers in the background while these folks use those “N” and “L” words!

Wow. The racism has obviously been there all along, but now it’s so in the open.

They are fucking fools.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:39:13pm

re: #67 teleskiguy

Can’t say I blame him…..

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Joe Bacon  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:39:43pm

re: #71 Stanley Sea

Wow. The racism has obviously been there all along, but now it’s so in the open.

They are fucking fools.

That’s what Cheeto Jesus is counting on.

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Tigger2  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:39:51pm

re: #62 Joe Bacon

I’m just waiting for Obama’s book to come out after he leaves office. I just know that there are going to be several juicy chapters in it when it comes to Republicans.

Then five years from now, Chuck C will post a video claiming he has the original manuscript which he will test for Bill Ayres’ DNA…

That will be the first book I have bought in a long time.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:41:46pm

re: #73 Joe Bacon

That’s what Cheeto Jesus is counting on.

I still believe he can’t get to 51%.

27 for sure - 27% of our neighbors are assholes.

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Joe Bacon  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:43:20pm

Oh my goodness! Look at what turned up in my e-mail!

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Kragar  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:44:33pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon

Obviously a scam.

Everyone knows Trump is self funded

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:47:28pm

Hi, y’all. Back home from Denver, car ready for Canada trip.

Came home to tree branches down all over the streets, had to manoeuvre the little Smart car around large boughs lying in the way.

Talked to my neighbour across the street; we were hit by a descending tornado. (I’m the guy that’s supposed to fire the tornado siren if the automated system fails; fortunately, it worked. Bad village trustee. Sit in the corner.)

The next town to our east (population 64) has trees lying across the streets. I am unaware of any damage reports other than that (I presume by now if there were injuries or major damage I would have heard either from my village board, the fire department, or the village folk in the next town over).

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:48:18pm

re: #72 Dave In Austin

Can’t say I blame him…..

It’s something I’ve witnessed throughout my entire life, the ultra-rich carving out the most beautiful spots in the country among themselves. It’s really bad in Teton County, WY, the county rated highest for economic inequality in the nation by sheer numbers.

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blueraven  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:49:31pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon

Oh my goodness! Look at what turned up in my e-mail!

I’m running for president because I want you and every single American to start winning again.

Crooked Hillary doesn’t care about you. She only cares about herself.

Her slogan is “I’m with her.” My response is I’m with YOU, the American people.

Right now, our campaign has set an ambitious end-of-quarter goal to ensure we stop Crooked Hillary from ever getting the chance to use the power of the presidency to crush you.

Please contribute toward our massive goal and help us Make America Great Again!

CONTRIBUTE $100 TO SAVE AMERICA

CONTRIBUTE $75 TO SAVE AMERICA

CONTRIBUTE $50 TO SAVE AMERICA

CONTRIBUTE $35 TO SAVE AMERICA

CONTRIBUTE OTHER AMOUNT

I want to make America great for ALL Americans, not just the top few.

Crooked Hillary and Obama want the government to hand pick winners and losers.

I want every American to win.

It’s simple: if she wins, you lose.

Contribute $35 toward our end-of-quarter goal to stop Crooked Hillary and help Make America Great Again!

Thank you and God bless you,

Donald J. Trump

Donald J. Trump

CONTRIBUTE $35 TO SAVE AMERICA

Contributions to the Trump Make America Great Again Committee are not deductible for federal income tax purposes.
Paid for by Trump Make America Great Again Committee, a joint fundraising committee authorized by and composed of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and the Republican National Committee.

Just sent Hillary another $10.
Not much I know, but I try to send small amounts as often as I can.

So, thank Donald J Trump for this one.

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:50:25pm

re: #60 Dave In Austin

I used to do lot of fishing in the Taylor and Gunnison rivers back in the day.

I registered my LGF account in my apartment in Gunnison. No foolin’!

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:52:20pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon

No way a man worth $10 billion needs anyone’s $35.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:52:37pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

It’s something I’ve witnessed throughout my entire life, the ultra-rich carving out the most beautiful spots in the country among themselves. It’s really bad in Teton County, WY, the county rated highest for economic inequality in the nation by sheer numbers.

Well, that’s part of the reason we have National Parks, and part of the reason conservatives want to abolish them.

I mean, who wouldn’t want a million dollar mansion with Chimney Rock in their backyard? (Chimney Rock is a national monument in my county.) Or maybe Pike’s Peak for a rock garden? Why should all those poors get to go to Yellowstone when rich libertarians could operate a hot spring natural spa out of it? And think of what you could charge to see the geysers.

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:53:34pm

re: #82 jaunte

That’s the ticket, though?

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:53:44pm

re: #83 Anymouse

You and I are on the same page.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:56:50pm

I get over to Wyoming frequently, since it is so close (mostly Cheyenne though). I did get to see the unusual park midway between Casper and Cheyenne that has all sorts of natural bridges and such.

There is a lot in W Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado that they would just love to dig up if they could.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:58:33pm

re: #80 blueraven

I thank the lordie above that I’m not receiving these emails.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 9:59:51pm

re: #87 Stanley Sea

I thank the lordie above that I’m not receiving these emails.

I thank my spam filter. (::

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:01:10pm

Paul Ryan says he’s on the same page with Donald Trump on trade

House Speaker Paul Ryan says he’s on the same page as presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump when it comes to trade deals.

But he declined to comment on Trump’s recent comments comparing one proposed trade agreement to rape.

“Look, he wants to get good trade agreements,” Ryan said Wednesday in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “So do I.”

Ryan’s comments downplaying their differences on trade came just one day after Trump compared the Trans-Pacific Partnership to rape during a speech in Ohio.

“The Trans-Pacific Partnership is another disaster done and pushed by special interests who want to rape our country,” Trump told supporters Tuesday at an Ohio college. “Just a continuing rape of our country.”

Meanwhile, Ryan has been calling on the administration to start talking to the United Kingdom about a new trade agreement in the wake of that country’s decision to exit the European Union.

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blueraven  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:03:37pm

re: #87 Stanley Sea

I thank the lordie above that I’m not receiving these emails.

Me too. I get enough from Hillary, DCCC and local Dems. Never got on any republican list, thank goodness!

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:03:38pm

There’s a developer named Tom Chapman, who’s been trying to build mansions in Bear Creek outside of Telluride, CO and on the north rim of the Black Canyon south of Crawford, CO.

One of the Koch brothers owns a ton of land between Crested Butte, CO and Paonia, CO. He even built his own private “old west” town complete with saloon, livery, museum, main street, and living quarters for his guests. The key word there is “private.” No journalist has actually seen the “town” on the northwest flanks of Marcellina Mountain, but people have heard stories.

A guy named Magnus Lindholm is the second largest landowner in my county. His property went into foreclosure in 2011 because the bank he borrowed the money from to buy the property went out of business. He’s still litigating that shit, probably will be able to sell the land for pennies on the dollar and still come out rich as fuck.

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:05:32pm

re: #91 teleskiguy

80% of my county is federally owned, which makes the Federal Government the largest landowner in my county behind this fucking guy.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:07:08pm

re: #90 blueraven

Me too. I get enough from Hillary, DCCC and local Dems. Never got on any republican list, thank goodness!

My wife is on the Libertarian’s lists (because she used to be a Libertarian), and on the Republican’s lists (because she wants to keep track of what they are doing).

Last week, however, she sent off her first donation to Mrs. Clinton. (She’d previously sent $50 to Mr. Sanders, made it $100 for Mrs. Clinton.)

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:08:29pm
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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:10:44pm

re: #89 TK-421

Paul Ryan says he’s on the same page with Donald Trump on trade

So much tone-deafness from Trump, so little time to make campaign adverts.

Rape is rape. Trade deals can be a lot of things (good, bad, lopsided, &c) but they are not rape. Only one act qualifies as rape, and that act is not a political leader putting pen to paper.

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SoundGuy 2016  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:11:57pm

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:13:58pm

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Donald Trump: He is a conspiracy theorist and bigot.
huffingtonpost.com

Sorry, Mr. Lee, your party’s pandering to the conspiracy theorists and bigots finally put one in the top candidate position. You thought you could control them when they are the majority of your party?

Never fear, though, Senator Lee. Democrats, the overwhelming majority of independent voters, and sane Republicans will make sure this guy only gets in the White House if he takes the tour, and hopefully ousts a number of other conspiracy theorists and bigots from the House and Senate as well.

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:19:11pm

I would’ve loved to see Prince throw down in this video.

Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line

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SoundGuy 2016  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:19:24pm

One truism I hear all the time that drives me nuts: when wealthy are really cheap or petty people frequently say ‘well, that’s why they’re wealthy.’

No, that’s not why they’re wealthy. They’re just fucking cheap. Don’t need to read into it any more than that.

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Tigger2  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:20:09pm

re: #80 blueraven

Just sent Hillary another $10.
Not much I know, but I try to send small amounts as often as I can.

So, thank Donald J Trump for this one.

I didn’t get the Trump email, but I’m like you can’t contribute much but just sent Hillary $10 because of the Trump email.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:23:01pm

re: #96 SoundGuy 2016

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SoundGuy 2016  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:24:37pm

This just popped into my head. Good stuff.

Romeo Void- Never Say Never

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:26:44pm

re: #98 TK-421

Best Super Group Ever.

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blueraven  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:29:00pm

re: #100 Tigger2

I didn’t get the Trump email, but I’m like you can’t contribute much but just sent Hillary $10 because of the Trump email.

Ha…in the end Hillary may do better than Trump off that email.
Spread it around!

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:30:21pm
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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:36:15pm

Going to Denver this morning I saw what I think is the largest billboard I ever saw, erected on I-76. It was a Donald Trump billboard, apparently erected by a farmer with his own money.

Also went through a small town on the Colorado plains, with a closed storefront with two Trump posters in the windows.

I just don’t get it. Does some farmer in NE Colorado really think that Mr. Trump gives a hoot about him? (Trump is supposed to appear in Denver in a couple days, so perhaps the Trump campaign paid to erect the billboard; it appeared to be handmade, however.)

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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:39:29pm

re: #82 jaunte

No way a man worth $10 billion needs anyone’s $35.

No way a man worth $10 billion needs to scam Ma and Pa Wingnut out of their social security checks with a fake university. And yet…

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:40:50pm

re: #106 Anymouse

Isn’t NE Co where those clowns wanted to secede from CO and form their own state of Centennial? Because they didn’t like the pot laws or some such nonsense?

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:45:05pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:45:53pm

TPP

i have a notion the multinationals would work to defeat any candidate who vows to fuck with their ability to outsource to the cheapest worker, even if they are running on the republican ticket

and them fellers dont play nice

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:46:32pm

re: #108 Dave In Austin

Isn’t NE Co where those clowns wanted to secede from CO and form their own state of Centennial? Because they didn’t like the pot laws or some such nonsense?

Yup, that would be the wingnut sheriff of Weld County. John Cooke is a member of the CSPOA (Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, which my own sheriff thinks is composed mostly of wingnuts).

On Donald Trump again today advocating for banning Muslims, I would note what a real Presidential person once said about that, via Wikiquote:

Muslims served in the U.S. military under the command of General George Washington, who was Commander in Chief of the Continental Army during the American War for Independence. Rosters of soldiers serving in Washington’s Army lists names like Bampett Muhammad, who fought for the Virginia Line between the years 1775 and 1783. Another one of Washington’s soldiers, Yusuf Ben Ali, was a North African Arab who worked as an aide to General Thomas Sumter of South Carolina. Peter Buckminster, who fought in Boston, is perhaps Washington’s most distinguished Muslim American soldier. Buckminster fired the gun that killed British Major General John Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Years after this famous battle, Peter changed his last name to ‘Salaam’, the Arabic word meaning ‘peace’. Peter Salaam later reenlisted in the Continental Army to serve in the Battle of Saratoga and the Battle of Stony Point. If Washington had a problem with Muslims serving in his Army, he would not have allowed Muhammad, Ali and Salaam to represent and serve non-Muslim Americans. By giving these Muslims the honor of serving America, Washington made it clear that a person did not have to be of a certain religion or have a particular ethnic background to be an American patriot

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:49:01pm

re: #106 Anymouse

The conservatives in the plains of Colorado are for the most part true believers in drowning government in the bathtub MURKA FIRST guns guns guns that is widely espoused in rural Texas. Oh, they’re 95% white middle aged males.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:49:59pm

re: #112 teleskiguy

The conservatives in the plains of Colorado are for the most part true believers in drowning government in the bathtub MURKA FIRST guns guns guns that is widely espoused in rural Texas. Oh, they’re 95% white middle aged males.

We keep the windows closed between the Nebraska line and the western Weld County line when travelling to or from Denver. /s

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Shiplord Kirel  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:51:10pm

re: #91 teleskiguy

True robber-barons. It’s David Koch who built the old West town, primarily as a repository for his vast collection of western antiques and memorabilia (the largest in the world).
He is a nut on the subject:

But Bill Koch has mostly made waves for collecting rare wine, winning the America’s Cup sailing race and, most recently, buying up every bit of valuable Western memorabilia that comes up for sale.
He paid $2.3 million for a photograph of Billy the Kid at an auction last year. He bought out the Buckskin Joe Western town near Cañon City for $3.1 million in 2010. He owns Jesse James’ gun, Wyatt Earp’s vest, Sitting Bull’s rifle and a flag that belonged to Gen. George Custer.

He has more Charles Russell paintings and Frederic Remington bronzes than most museums.

He is willing to pay exorbitant prices for this material, with the result that he has almost priced everyone else out of the market.

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:51:55pm

re: #107 Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)

No way a man worth $10 billion needs to scam Ma and Pa Wingnut out of their social security checks with a fake university. And yet…

Places like Greeley, Sterling, Ft. Morgan, Lamar and La Junta voted no for secession. Places like Julesburg, Holyoke, Wray (which is the hometown of U.S. Senator Cory Gardner), Kit Carson and Hugo voted yes.

All you have to do is look at the population for correlation.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:55:32pm

re: #116 teleskiguy

Places like Greeley, Sterling, Ft. Morgan, Lamar and La Junta voted no for secession. Places like Julesburg, Holyoke, Wray (which is the hometown of U.S. Senator Cory Gardner), Kit Carson and Hugo voted yes.

All you have to do is look at the population for correlation.

Greeley, home of a university. Sterling, not a large city but very diverse. Same with Fort Morgan. Julesburg is the gateway to wingnuttia when you pass from Nebraska to Colorado on I-76 or US-138.

While I live in a little conservative patch of paradise here in the Nebraska Panhandle, we don’t have any of the wingnuts like NE Colorado. There seems to be a wingnut magnetic pole stuck in Weld County.

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:55:53pm

re: #114 Shiplord Kirel

That’s the very same article I reference. Thanks for finding it Shiplord Kirel!

These people are sociopaths.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 10:59:16pm

re: #118 teleskiguy

That’s the very same article I reference. Thanks for finding it Shiplord Kirel!

These people are sociopaths.

I would like to see the American Psychological Association come up with a definition for a sociopathy or perhaps a description of a mental disorder for those who horde money. (Really, after you have six billion dollars, what do you need a seventh for?) Hoarding cats or tin cans would get you a diagnosis, why not money or guns?

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:00:01pm
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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:06:21pm
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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:07:27pm

re: #114 Shiplord Kirel

I’ll bet he bought up the John Wayne collection out of Old Tucson a while back. Wayne stored all the tack used in his movies there. I seem to remember a big auction years ago.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:09:11pm

re: #121 teleskiguy

Slalom through the Rosary.

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MsJ  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:09:54pm

re: #121 teleskiguy

The REAL Flying Nun.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:10:02pm

So Charlie, are you living in SW CO? for some reason I thought you were up by Steamboat.

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:10:51pm

re: #121 teleskiguy

“Fukn’a”

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:14:20pm

re: #125 Dave In Austin

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:20:37pm

Was Mr. BWS involved in this power restoration?!?

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:22:20pm

10/4

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:22:28pm
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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:22:47pm

re: #127 teleskiguy

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:24:08pm

re: #129 Dave In Austin

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freetoken  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:28:57pm

As Lake Mead dwindles, the water wars are heating up:

Why San Diego Isn’t at the Table for Doomsday Colorado River Water Talks

It’s all very complicated, but the bottom line is Southern California is not really united in how to go forward.

There is a battle between Los Angeles and San Diego on how to control the actions of the largest water district, from which San Diego depends for a great share of our water.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:29:13pm

re: #132 Anymouse

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:33:02pm

re: #127 teleskiguy

I’ll bet you know a hard rock miner or 2. I spent 5 years in a development crew pushing drift at Climax Henderson in the 80’s (when it was still Climax).

Best job I ever had.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:33:40pm

re: #134 Dave In Austin

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:34:18pm

re: #135 Dave In Austin

I know a guy that *grew up* in Climax and was a World Cup Ski Racer in the early 70s.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:36:52pm

re: #137 teleskiguy

I know a guy that *grew up* in Climax and was a World Cup Ski Racer in the early 70s.

The mine was out of Empire going west, just as you started up over Berthod Pass.

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:37:55pm

re: #138 Dave In Austin

The mine was out of Empire going west, just as you started up over Berthod Pass.

AH! We’re talking about different things.

en.wikipedia.org

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:38:11pm

re: #138 Dave In Austin

Most of my skiing was at WP, Loveland, or Summit County.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:39:55pm

re: #137 teleskiguy

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re: #134 Dave In Austin

Considering the primitive roads we drive our car on all the time (unimproved dirt tracks mostly when we are outside town; we have improved dirt tracks for streets), I think that would make a good advert for Smart/Mercedes.

The dealership has a photo of our car at Courthouse/Jail Rocks, on the primitive road that goes up to them, sitting on the roadside with the car leaning over thirty degrees due to the landscape.

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TK-421  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:40:55pm

re: #133 freetoken

Lawyers, draw water.

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Anymouse  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:46:26pm

re: #142 TK-421

Lawyers, draw water.

Yikes. I am originally from Michigan. The states and provinces around the Great Lakes are really touchy about removing water from the lakes, because once someone permits this, there is no argument to allow others the same.

I find it difficult to believe the parliament of Ontario would not kick up a greater fuss. Ontario depends on those lakes just as much as Michigan does.

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freetoken  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:46:28pm
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Scout  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:49:10pm

re: #92 teleskiguy

80% of my county is federally owned, which makes the Federal Government the largest landowner in my county behind this fucking guy.

How is that mathematically possible?

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:57:15pm

re: #146 Scout

How is that mathematically possible?

Huh? What in the ever loving hell is this kind of question?

Magnus Lindholm owns around 30,000 acres. The Federal Government owns many hundreds of thousands of acres beyond that, that’s BLM and National Forest.

Your stupid question confounds me.

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2016 • 11:58:30pm

What. The. Fuck.

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:01:32am

Bring it on you libertarian freaks with your anime avatars.

You’re hateful fucking weirdos. Your worldview is sick, you want the less fortunate among us to just die and that’s that. FUCK YOU.

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:05:25am

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Scout  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:07:19am

re: #147 teleskiguy

Huh? What in the ever loving hell is this kind of question?

Magnus Lindholm owns around 30,000 acres. The Federal Government owns many hundreds of thousands of acres beyond that, that’s BLM and National Forest.

Your stupid question confounds me.

I’m very sorry to be so stupid. You wrote that the federal government owns 80 percent of your county, but is “behind this fucking guy.” I interpreted that to mean “this fucking guy” owns more. Please forgive me for being so stupid.

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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:10:35am

re: #147 teleskiguy

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What the fuck is wrong with you today?

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Scout  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:13:16am

re: #149 teleskiguy

Bring it on you libertarian freaks with your anime avatars.

You’re hateful fucking weirdos. Your worldview is sick, you want the less fortunate among us to just die and that’s that. FUCK YOU.

How am I a libertarian? You’ve lost me.
I’m hateful? How so?
My worldview? Maybe you can tell me what you think my worldview is?
I want the less-fortunate to die? Whoa, podner, you’re leaping to a pretty far-out conclusion.

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:14:05am

re: #152 Nyet

What the fuck is wrong with you today?

I need to die, I guess. Who knows.

The most egregious post has been deleted.

I. Need. To. Die.

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Kragar  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:14:58am
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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:15:40am

I’m fucked up. Fuck me. Fuck you. And fuck all.

I’m just some fucking guy.

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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:15:51am

re: #154 teleskiguy

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Single-handed sailor  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:17:25am

re: #143 Anymouse

Yikes. I am originally from Michigan. The states and provinces around the Great Lakes are really touchy about removing water from the lakes, because once someone permits this, there is no argument to allow others the same.

I find it difficult to believe the parliament of Ontario would not kick up a greater fuss. Ontario depends on those lakes just as much as Michigan does.

I can understand that. We, in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Delta of California get a little pissy when L.A. demands more water diverted to the California Aqueduct. Our central valley if it were a lake would be about the size of Lake Superior. That would be cool.

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:17:44am
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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:19:23am

re: #159 teleskiguy

I have to go now and I hope you don’t do anything stupid. Calm down and sleep it off.

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Scout  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:20:01am

Dear Teleskiguy,

Please understand I meant no disrespect with my original question.

Please accept my apologies for any discomfort I caused.

I mean this with all sincerity.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:20:37am

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:22:41am
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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:24:44am

I’m a fuckhead. Right now I am a fuckhead. I suck as a human being.

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Anymouse  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:24:45am

I’m off to bed. Need to recharge after a long drive from Denver then cleaning up my yard from all the down branches from the storm yesterday. G’night.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:28:20am

re: #164 teleskiguy

Knock is off Charlie. Get to bed. I’ll holler at you tomorrow. It ain’t a big deal.

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:28:39am
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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:30:18am

re: #147 teleskiguy

Dude, chill. Your post was poorly phrased. You said the Feds were the largest landowner AFTER that guy, implying he owns more. Which is in conflict with the Feds owning 80% of it.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:35:51am

Couldn’t sleep, checked out Nate Silver’s Blog, and he now has his general election models up and running! According to the polls plus forecast, Trump currently has a better than one in four chance of becoming President, which is way too close for comfort.

projects.fivethirtyeight.com

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:36:29am

re: #168 Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)

Dude, chill. Your post was poorly phrased..

And that makes me want to snuff it.

Horrible as it is, I feel the need to just not be there.

I fucked up, I was a fucking asshole and an insufferable prick. And I feel that makes me undeserving of life itself.

Depression sucks. Everything above makes perfect sense in my mind.

I’ll be alright. My guns are locked away in another house and I have no access to opiates.

…one day at a time…

…I still want to die, after typing all this shit…

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Scout  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:37:41am

re: #170 teleskiguy

Please just laugh it all off.

None of this is a big deal.

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:39:18am

re: #171 Scout

Easier said than done.

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:41:53am
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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:44:49am

I’m so sorry, folks. I hate drama. And I have introduced it in a fucked up way to this place.

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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:45:31am

re: #156 teleskiguy

I’m fucked up. Fuck me. Fuck you. And fuck all.

I’m just some fucking guy.

We’re all just some fucking guy. Just-some-fucking-guy-ness is the human condition.

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:45:40am
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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:46:55am

I am absolutely embarrassed.

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:52:03am
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TK-421  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:52:15am

re: #177 teleskiguy

Here, listen to this.

Golden Earring - Radar Love (1973) HD 0815007

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:54:17am

re: #178 teleskiguy

There now…….. That’s more like it. I got WSP rolling in the Ear tonite. I’m waiting for the RR show next week.

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Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:55:19am

re: #170 teleskiguy

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:01:09am

re: #180 Dave In Austin

You gonna be there?!?

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:02:54am

I wish, I’ll stream the show the next day on Nugs. I missed the Austin show because I was lazy. Won’t happen again. I promise.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:05:01am

Last show I saw at RR was Blue Oyster Cult fronting for AC/DC….. That was like ‘85 or some such ancient history.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:07:25am

Fuck I’m old…….. My 1st concert was Jimi in ‘67 Gaaaa!

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:08:21am

re: #184 Dave In Austin

I’ve seen The Umphreys seven times at Red Rocks. By the 4th of July it’ll be nine times.

I’ve also seen Bob Dylan, Slayer, The James Gang, Wilco and SuperTroopers at Red Rocks.

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:11:51am
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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:12:08am
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Shimshon  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:14:30am

re: #112 teleskiguy

The conservatives in the plains of Colorado are for the most part true believers in drowning government in the bathtub MURKA FIRST guns guns guns that is widely espoused in rural Texas. Oh, they’re 95% white middle aged males.

But if you take away their government handouts (farm subsidies, small business loans, and oil and gas tax breaks and subsidies) they will hate you! Party of small government for thee not for me.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:18:55am

re: #189 Shimshon

The first thing I ask a Texan that shout Secede! is “Do you consider yourself to be a patriot?”. They either run and hide or say “Of course” until that ponder it. Then, they run away….

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:19:48am

Night shift sucks……

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:20:40am
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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:24:25am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:25:52am

re: #79 teleskiguy

It’s something I’ve witnessed throughout my entire life, the ultra-rich carving out the most beautiful spots in the country among themselves. It’s really bad in Teton County, WY, the county rated highest for economic inequality in the nation by sheer numbers.

Sedona, Arizona is a prime example of that: breathtaking scenery, near-perfect climate and the highest real-estate prices in the state.

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:27:33am

re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s a story as old as H. sapiens.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:29:01am

re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As a longtime Phx boy, I hear ya…. I remember slide rock when it was wild and free……

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:29:33am

re: #195 freetoken

It’s a story as old as H. sapiens.

“Ugh think asking price outrageous. Nowhere near enough house for 2 Mastodon tusks.”

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:30:20am

re: #192 teleskiguy

Nice……

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:33:31am

re: #195 freetoken

It’s a story as old as H. sapiens.

I was lucky enough to live in Sedona rent-free as a caretaker on six acres of property with a cabin built by a settler in the 1940’s. No flowing water, but I could bathe in the nearby creek. And that was in the early 80’s, before the New Agers started swarming to the place and opening up crystal vortex boutiques (is it a not a strange coincidence that the most intense psychic vortices seem to appear in places with amazing scenery and lots of rich people around?)

I later saw my old swimmin’ hole on Oak Creek in an REI camping gear ad in the Rolling Stone.

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:35:06am

re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

…(is it a not a strange coincidence that the most intense psychic vortices seem to appear in places with amazing scenery and lots of rich people around?)

Funny that…

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freetoken  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:37:22am

choices… choices….

cheesy or classic?
classic or cheesy?

….

This time of night… chessy wins…

Ferrante and Teicher ca. 1960:

MP3 Audio

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:43:14am

I’m sorry, Scout.

I’m sorry for my filthy fucking drama, my brain that brings me down every chance it gets.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:43:29am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:05:20am

re: #202 teleskiguy

I’m sorry, Scout.

I’m sorry for my filthy fucking drama, my brain that brings me down every chance it gets.

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dude, you’re harshing my buzz!

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:10:26am

re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

dude, you’re harshing my buzz!

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:11:15am

Now I’m LOLing both of ya,,,,,,

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:11:57am

Back this this Fing spreadsheet…..

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:14:33am

re: #34 The Vicious Babushka

Not wearing the usual orange spackle.

But he’s learned to thrust out his arm toward the camera so that foreshortening makes his hands look bigger.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:15:21am

re: #208 Grunthos the Flatulent

But he’s learned to thrust out his arm toward the camera so that foreshortening makes his hands look bigger.

I imagine that he spends an hour each day dangling from the ceiling by his fingers to try to stretch them…

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:19:13am

re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I imagine that he spends an hour each day dangling from his fingers tied to the ceiling to try to stretch them…

I figured he would spend that time with his fingers in a milking machine……

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:20:22am

Some jazz fusion for you nightowls in the US of A and Canada, featuring guitarist Guthrie Govan (UK) and Senri Kawaguchi of Japan on drums.

Senri Kawaguchi Played “EROTIC CAKES” - Guthrie Govan

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:25:31am
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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:25:50am

re: #211 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Some jazz fusion for you nightowls in the US of A and Canada, featuring guitarist Guthrie Govan (UK) and Senri Kawaguchi of Japan on drums.

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Video

Damn!! She get’s it!

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:26:44am
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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:29:16am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:37:59am

re: #215 teleskiguy

I hate being an asshole on the internet. Hate it, hate it. Hate It.

“Be there in just a few minutes honey, somebody on the Internet is wrong and I have to correct them!!!”

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:38:04am

It’s getting to him.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:39:17am

re: #217 goddamnedfrank

Wall Street Journal reports Donald Trump threw a chair off a second floor balcony into a carp pond yesterday at Mar-a-lago

Can he be charged with Cruelty to Carp?

Maybe he is upset because their golden color puts his to shame…

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teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:42:14am

re: #217 goddamnedfrank

Phil Hendrie is on point with the relentless slandering of The Donald™ on Twitter.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:45:44am

re: #213 Dave In Austin

Damn!! She get’s it!

I’m a Senri fanboi. She started drums when she was still in elementary school, and was performing professionally by age 16. Just phenomenal speed and style.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:48:30am

re: #220 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’m a Senri fanboi. She started drums when she was still in elementary school, and was performing professionally by age 16. Just phenomenal speed and style.

I’ll be passing that around…..

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:50:07am

re: #222 Dave In Austin

I’ll be passing that around…..

Here’s another. She has a channel on YouTube you should check out.

Stratus / Senri Kawaguchi @ROCK AU CHATEAU in FRANCE

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MsJ  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:52:42am

re: #217 goddamnedfrank

It’s getting to him.

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OUTSTANDING!

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 2:56:07am

re: #223 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Billy Cobham’s got nothing on her…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 3:01:26am

re: #225 Dave In Austin

Billy Cobham’s got nothing on her…

She’d be a member of my imaginary international teenage jazz band:

Joey Alexander, piano
Mohini Dey, bass
Senri Kawaguchi, drums
Jacob Collier, vocals and everything else

Maybe needs a guitar player, but Jacob is multi-talented. He could do it.

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Ming5000  Jun 30, 2016 • 3:15:39am

re: #76 Joe Bacon

If the Trump contribution mailing includes a free-postage return envelope SEND A CHEETO.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 3:15:40am

re: #217 goddamnedfrank

It’s getting to him.

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And this will go little-reported or mentioned by the press. But if it had been Hillary, “Chairgate” would be getting wall-to-wall coverage.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 3:20:53am

re: #227 Ming5000

If the Trump contribution mailing includes a free-postage return envelope SEND A CHEETO.

just the powdered coating…

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 3:21:26am

re: #227 Ming5000

If the Trump contribution mailing includes a free-postage return envelope SEND A CHEETO.

Or better yet. Cheeto Dust…..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 3:22:18am

re: #228 Targetpractice

And this will go little-reported or mentioned by the press. But if it had been Hillary, “Chairgate” would be getting wall-to-wall coverage.

Or if it is mentioned at all, it will be countered by: “It was only a chair in a carp pond, not FOUR DEAD AMERICANS IN BENGHAZI!!!11ty

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 3:29:06am

I think Japan is breeding child drummers. Kanade Soto is now 13 or 14. This is her age 11.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER! Hit like a girl contest 2014 KANADE SATO

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2016 • 3:37:04am

re: #232 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I noticed that she doesn’t hold here drumsticks in the traditional manner….

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 3:46:16am

re: #233 Dave In Austin

I noticed that she doesn’t hold here drumsticks in the traditional manner….

It seems the fashion now is matched grip.
en.wikipedia.org

I don’t play drums, but always wanted to. Looking at these preteens and teens burn up their kits makes me regret not bugging my parents for a drum kit.

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Alephnaught  Jun 30, 2016 • 3:58:51am

Scottish sarcasm:

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Alephnaught  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:01:23am

Looks like the hitherto favourite for Conservative party leadership no longer wants that poisoned chalice:

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:05:03am

Kanade Sato covers the Maynard Ferguson arrangement of Birdland. Not MF’s band, though, sadly.

バードランド / ドラムカバー by 13歳 中学生ドラマー 佐藤奏

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:06:43am

re: #236 Alephnaught

Looks like the hitherto favourite for Conservative party leadership no longer wants that poisoned chalice:

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So of the three options before Boris, he chose the one the coward’s way out.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:10:44am

re: #237 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Maynard Ferguson playing Birdland on TV

Maynard Ferguson - Birdland

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Alephnaught  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:14:15am

The announcement by Boris Johnson that he’s not running for leadership came as a surprise, as it happened at the end of a speech which appeared to be the start of a leadership bid, where he bigged up his own achievements as London mayor, and talked about challenges that UK would face in the coming months and years, and then closed with:

That is the agenda for the next prime minister of this country.

Well, I must tell you, my friends, you who have waited faithfully for the punchline of this speech, that having consulted colleagues and in view of the circumstances in parliament, I have concluded that person cannot be me.

My role will be to give every possible support to the next Conservative administration to make sure that we properly fulfil the mandate of the people that was delivered at the referendum and to champion the agenda that I believe in, to stick up for the forgotten people of this country.

And, if we do so, if we invest in our children and improve their life chances, if we continue to fuel the engines of social mobility, if we build on the great reforming legacy of David Cameron, if we invest in our infrastructure and we follow a sensible, one nation Conservative approach that is simultaneously tax-cutting and pro-enterprise, then I believe that this country can win and be better and more wonderful and, yes, greater than ever before.

Having ended his speech, he left without taking questions.

So, it looks like the top rat is leaving the sinking ship. Who’s next?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:20:23am

Just watching broadcast news makes Brexit seem a major crisis, but once you start reading, you realize that nobody wants to actually do anything: the referendum is non-binding: it is now up to a totally unwilling Parliament to apply to leave the EU and renegotiate a series of trade deals to replace the EU rules and regulations.

I have a feeling that the new deals are going to be much the same as the old ones…

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Alephnaught  Jun 30, 2016 • 4:26:38am

re: #240 Alephnaught

It seems Boris Johnson standing down might have something to do with Michael Gove making a surprise leadership bid earlier this morning, and a mass defection of Boris supporters to Gove on Twitter and the media.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:06:38am

re: #202 teleskiguy

Hey, I think this group understands. Many of us struggle with our biochemistry.

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ozharas  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:07:00am

re: #236 Alephnaught

Looks like the hitherto favourite for Conservative party leadership no longer wants that poisoned chalice:

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Saw this on FB

“are Cameron and Boris having a game of ‘take a shit on the floor then walk away?’

It’s 1-1 in case anyone’s wondering.”

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:22:21am

The situation on display in the UK has all the impression of a film where the antagonist had this intricate plan that hinged on the protagonist doing everything in a certain sequence, never planning for the possibility that the protagonist would catch wind of the plan and turn it on him. Boris got the part of the plan he wanted, which was gaining a great deal of celebrity while maneuvering Cameron into resigning. But the part of the plan where Cameron invokes Article 50 before resigning, thus leaving him as the scapegoat for the inevitable economic carnage, instead got turned on Boris as now he would be responsible for invoking.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:24:40am

Trump hates being audited by the IRS. Funny fact, if he’s elected President his taxes will be audited every year he’s in office.

Tax audits are in the news more than usual this year, since Donald Trump says the fact that he’s being audited by the IRS prevents him from releasing his returns as part of his quest for the presidency.

But if being audited blocked the release of a tax return, we never would have seen Barack Obama’s or George W. Bush’s or Bill Clinton’s or any other recent president’s. Even Richard Nixon released his returns while they were being audited (the fact that that return led to the House Judiciary Committee approving an Article of Impeachment against Nixon is another story).

Why? Because when it comes to the odds of being audited, one thing is crystal clear: If you’re living in the White House, your odds are 100%. The returns of the president (and the veep) get the going over every year, as required by section 4.2.2.11 of the Internal Revenue Manual.

kiplinger.com

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ObserverArt  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:25:25am

Morning!

So, is this “meeting” between Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the airport going to be made into a big thing? I get the feeling it is. Trump is sure to jump all over it.

And I see where Trump is now saying Bernie hates Hillary and using that as a wedge tool too. Lovely. Thanks Bernie, you’re doing a heck of a job.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:31:23am

re: #247 ObserverArt

Morning!

So, is this “meeting” between Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the airport going to be made into a big thing? I get the feeling it is. Trump is sure to jump all over it.

And I see where Trump is now saying Bernie hates Hillary and using that as a wedge tool too. Lovely. Thanks Bernie, you’re doing a heck of a job.

Look for the meeting to be spun as Bill trying to bribe/threaten Lynch into dropping “Emailgate.”

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:35:53am

re: #248 Targetpractice

Look for the meeting to be spun as Bill trying to bribe/threaten Lynch into dropping “Emailgate.”

I know when I’m conducting an eeeevil conspiracy, I always meet in public at an airport to make sure everybody sees. That’s just science.

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ObserverArt  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:37:57am

Oh my, I think I fell into a Google hell hole. Looking into this Bill and Loretta meeting to see how it is being covered I see where there is some kind of a big deal that Loretta Lynch “altered” the Orlando nightclub shooter’s 911 call in tapes to remove references to ISIS and Islam.

Evil Obama. He’s behind all this stuff obviously.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:39:28am

re: #249 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I know when I’m conducting an eeeevil conspiracy, I always meet in public at an airport to make sure everybody sees. That’s just science.

You know how it goes, the Clintons are criminal masterminds that are so stupid that they always get caught yet so brilliant that they never get charged with anything.

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Franklin  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:39:59am

re: #248 Targetpractice

Look for the meeting to be spun as Bill trying to bribe/threaten sexually harass Lynch into dropping “Emailgate.”

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ObserverArt  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:42:50am

re: #248 Targetpractice

Look for the meeting to be spun as Bill trying to bribe/threaten Lynch into dropping “Emailgate.”

Optics!

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CleverToad  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:43:22am

re: #138 Dave In Austin

The mine was out of Empire going west, just as you started up over Berthod Pass.

My cousin worked at Henderson way back when. I used to drive past Climax, too, on the way to Leadville. Not pretty.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:45:48am

re: #128 teleskiguy

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Was Mr. BWS involved in this power restoration?!?

Not this time around.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:46:22am

re: #251 Targetpractice

You know how it goes, the Clintons are criminal masterminds that are so stupid that they always get caught yet so brilliant that they never get charged with anything.

They’ve got a thing about Bill Clinton and airports. Remember the bogus story about him keeping a whole line of planes grounded while he got a ridiculously expensive haircut?

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:50:22am

Good morning fellow Lizards, Today is my friday and tomorrow I head up to the beautiful Eastern Sierra’s to do some trout fishing, eat bbq and drink beer for a few days.

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Joe Bacon  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:51:17am

re: #236 Alephnaught

Looks like the hitherto favourite for Conservative party leadership no longer wants that poisoned chalice:

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Ah, Boris walks away whistling while Westminster burns down…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:52:41am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:52:59am

re: #141 Anymouse

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Considering the primitive roads we drive our car on all the time (unimproved dirt tracks mostly when we are outside town; we have improved dirt tracks for streets), I think that would make a good advert for Smart/Mercedes.

The dealership has a photo of our car at Courthouse/Jail Rocks, on the primitive road that goes up to them, sitting on the roadside with the car leaning over thirty degrees due to the landscape.

Around here, we refer to our local road as “doubtful dirt”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 5:54:58am

re: #246 Timothy Watson

Trump hates being audited by the IRS. Funny fact, if he’s elected President his taxes will be audited every year he’s in office.

kiplinger.com

He has a convenient excuse that sounds good in a tweet. And he knows that his supporters are too media-ADD to follow up on anything he claims.

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jeffreyw  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:04:54am

Imgur
Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:07:03am

re: #262 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

If you are going to follow Twitter, then those are the kinda tweets I like…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:08:53am

re: #236 Alephnaught

Looks like the hitherto favourite for Conservative party leadership no longer wants that poisoned chalice:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:14:32am

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

Looks like the hitherto favourite for Conservative party leadership no longer wants that poisoned chalice:

Remember: Brexit was a non-binding plebiscite…nobody can force Parliament to sit down and ask to leave the EU, all they can do is elect a parliament that is willing to do so…right now, I don’t think that they can…as we have seen, people like BJ would rather quit than follow the result of the referendum.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:16:52am
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:17:03am

re: #265 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember: Brexit was a non-binding plebiscite…nobody can force Parliament to sit down and ask to leave the EU, all they can do is elect a parliament that is willing to do so…right now, I don’t think that they can…as we have seen, people like BJ would rather quit than follow the result of the referendum.

They want to evade blame for the disastrous results of invoking Article 50 and avoid the political heat for failing to do so. Meanwhile the ill effects happen anyway. Being PM is a lose-lose-lose proposition.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:19:27am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:21:10am
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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:21:32am

The Virginia GOP, stuck on crazy/stupid:

A new member of Virginia’s Republican State Central Committee apologized over the weekend for posting anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rhetoric on Twitter and Facebook — much of which echoed incendiary comments by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Fredy Burgos, an ardent Trump supporter who was elected to the committee in May, called Islam a “death cult organized by Satan” and compared Muslims to Nazis. He labeled Muhammad Ali a “racist black supremacist” and adopted Trump’s controversial criticism of American-born U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, asking on Twitter, “Isn’t this Judge an ‘Anchor Baby’?”

[…]

Burgos, a former candidate for state delegate from Burke, is the Canadian-born son of Chilean immigrants. He posts regularly in English and his native Spanish about illegal immigration in the United States. After a Trump rally in Richmond in June, he posted a video of himself pushing a protester who was calling on the crowd to show more sympathy to refugees.

richmond.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:24:21am

re: #270 Timothy Watson

The Virginia GOP, stuck on crazy/stupid:

They had a chance to call these people out or at least distance themselves from them, now they have taken over the entire party.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:24:34am

In NYC this morning:

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jeffreyw  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:26:51am

re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not a user, although I do titter on occasion.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:27:02am

Washington Post:

BREAKING: Andrews Air Force base on lockdown due to report of an active shooter

Ah, fuck.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:28:19am

This 1999 op-ed by Trump attacking Pat Buchanan’s racism is like something from a parallel universe

“Buchanan has enjoyed a long psychic friendship with Hitler, whom he has called ‘an individual of great courage, a soldier’s soldier and a leader steeped in the history of Europe,’” Trump wrote. “He also warns his followers that the United States is controlled by Jews, especially regarding foreign policy. On slow days, he attacks gays, immigrants, welfare recipients, even Zulus. When cornered, he says he’s misunderstood.”

….

“Buchanan is rewriting history and spreading fear for one purpose: To gain political power,” Trump wrote toward the end of his piece. “That makes him a very dangerous man.”

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:28:58am
The Marine Corps is investigating allegations of hazing, physical abuse and assault against 15 drill instructors at the Parris Island recruit depot, Marine officials said Wednesday, broadening the scope of a probe first disclosed after the death of a Muslim recruit in March.

[…]

The investigation became public knowledge after the March 18 death of Raheel Siddiqui, 20, a Pakistani American recruit from Taylor, Mich. Marine officials said Wednesday that during the course of an investigation into Siddiqui’s death, “facts revealed a drill instructor was improperly placed in charge of recruits while he was subject to an ongoing investigation.

[…]

One senior drill instructor involved in supervising Siddiqui had previously faced allegations of putting another Muslim recruit in a clothes dryer and using racially charged language, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous Marine Corps officials.

washingtonpost.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:29:20am

So, I was watching Person of Interest season 1, episode 8 just now. Up flashes a photo of a former Stasi agent named Steiler (sp?) from about 1989. And I go, “Whoa! I know who that guy is!”

Do you?

This guy pops up in the oddest places
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:29:43am
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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:33:37am

re: #277 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So, I was watching Person of Interest season 1, episode 8 just now. Up flashes a photo of a former Stasi agent named Steiler (sp?) from about 1989. And I go, “Whoa! I know who that guy is!”

Do you?

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As a Person of Interest fan, actually, I don’t.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:34:03am

re: #277 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Looks like Bill Murray.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:34:10am

re: #277 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So, I was watching Person of Interest season 1, episode 8 just now. Up flashes a photo of a former Stasi agent named Steiler (sp?) from about 1989. And I go, “Whoa! I know who that guy is!”

Do you?

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On the other hand, it could be a photo of the actor Sherman Howard when he was younger. I swear he looks like Sting.

imdb.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:34:42am

re: #279 Timothy Watson

As a Person of Interest fan, actually, I don’t.

Think musicians you may know of.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:35:50am

re: #281 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Considering Sting is not credited, I think my initial guess was way off base.

Nevermind.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:39:57am

re: #281 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

On the other hand, it could be a photo of the actor Sherman Howard when he was younger. I swear he looks like Sting.

imdb.com

Ah, guy looks a little heavy for Sting to me, but my age (28) means I haven’t seen as many pictures of him as other people.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:41:23am
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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:41:31am

re: #82 jaunte

No way a man worth $10 billion needs anyone’s $35.

I doubt that Trump could come up with the cash to buy a Ford Escape.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:44:59am

re: #284 Timothy Watson

Ah, guy looks a little heavy for Sting to me, but my age (28) means I haven’t seen as many pictures of him as other people.

Sting is 65 now and a bit heavier than he was as a young ‘un.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:46:56am
I think we could all get behind this idea….
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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:47:14am

re: #277 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So, I was watching Person of Interest season 1, episode 8 just now. Up flashes a photo of a former Stasi agent named Steiler (sp?) from about 1989. And I go, “Whoa! I know who that guy is!”

Do you?

[Embedded content]

It’s Sherman Howard

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:50:06am

re: #289 FormerDirtDart

It’s Sherman Howard

Yeah, now I see that. But the resemblance to a middle-aged Sting is pretty close.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:51:28am

re: #290 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yeah, now I see that. But the resemblance to a middle-aged Sting is pretty close.

I just saw a middle aged Sting in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels…do not see much resemblance between the two

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:52:24am

re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I just saw a middle aged Sting in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels…do not see much resemblance between the two

Maybe I need new glasses. :-/

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plansbandc  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:53:39am

re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg

Buying the day it comes out.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:53:43am

re: #290 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yeah, now I see that. But the resemblance to a middle-aged Sting is pretty close.

re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think the two could be cast as brothers, and be more plausible than you see in most casting decisions

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:55:51am

Oh look A Idiot in my timeline==>

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:57:46am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 6:58:57am

re: #295 FormerDirtDart

I think the two could be cast as brothers, and be more plausible than you see in most casting decisions

Many times, an actor provides a younger snapshot of him- or herself when a director needs a younger image of a character. I should have remembered that, but the “older” Sherman Howard appears later in the episode with a beard and a hat, so I didn’t make the connection.

He and Sting are döppelgangers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:00:17am
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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:02:59am

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

Of course he won’t because he’s a world class pathological liar. Nothing he says can ever be assumed to be true.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:03:15am

hahahahaa

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:05:01am

Oh goodie, we can look forward to another round of armchair generals telling us how the DoD needs to arm everybody down to the janitors on their bases because that’s the only way to prevent a shooting.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:06:24am

re: #302 Targetpractice

HILLARY TOOK AWAY ALL OF THEIR GUNZ!!!!!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:06:44am

I guess we should deport all Russians

cnn.com

Officials believe the men — identified by another Turkish official and state media as being from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan — entered Turkey about a month ago from Raqqa, along with the suicide vests and bombs used in the attack, the source said.

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MsJ  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:07:06am

re: #247 ObserverArt

Morning!

So, is this “meeting” between Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the airport going to be made into a big thing? I get the feeling it is. Trump is sure to jump all over it.

And I see where Trump is now saying Bernie hates Hillary and using that as a wedge tool too. Lovely. Thanks Bernie, you’re doing a heck of a job.

He’s been saying that for about a week now. And yeah, great job, Bernie. #349,588 to want a Bernexit.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:08:59am

re: #296 The Vicious Babushka

She’s missing the point, for sure.

Also, I doubt she’s really African-American, but that’s just a hunch.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:09:14am
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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:11:59am

re: #296 The Vicious Babushka

Oh look A Idiot in my timeline==>

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Usually nothing good for the country who just got its currency devalued? Unless you like paying more for stuff like gasoline, electronics, etc.

Economics, how the fuck does that work?

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:14:40am

re: #306 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

She’s missing the point, for sure.

Also, I doubt she’s really African-American, but that’s just a hunch.

I just checked its timeline, full of the usual wingnut shit.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:15:08am

re: #296 The Vicious Babushka

Oh look A Idiot in my timeline==>

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Oh yeah, devalued currency is a wonderful thing. Just ask 1930s Germany, where you needed a wheelbarrow of Reichsmarks to buy a loaf of bread.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:16:03am

So, I watched Deadpool last night and then had nightmares of being chased through a collapsing parking garage.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:17:14am

re: #311 The Vicious Babushka

So, I watched Deadpool last night and then had nightmares of being chased through a collapsing parking garage.

Well, at least you didn’t have dreams about being killed by a zamboni.

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Jenner7  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:17:28am

Surprise.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:17:35am

re: #302 Targetpractice

It works so well for cops ya know. Not a single one has ever been shot.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:17:46am

re: #310 Targetpractice

Oh yeah, devalued currency is a wonderful thing. Just ask 1930s Germany, where you needed a wheelbarrow of Reichsmarks to buy a loaf of bread.

People have no fucking idea how currencies work. And they want to elect a man who would simple try to get people to accept a write-down on US debt as if they were small contractors who worked on his casino…

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stpaulbear  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:18:02am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:18:04am

re: #313 Jenner7

Hillary got to them!!!!!!

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:20:10am

re: #313 Jenner7

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Surprise.

At this point, I’m pretty convinced the media isn’t making “mistakes,” they’re deliberately printing falsehoods and then covering their tracks with “corrections” after the initial damage is done.

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Tigger2  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:22:33am

I have arrived Rob Reiner replied to one of my tweets. lol

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:23:45am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:24:07am
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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:24:24am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:28:48am
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SoundGuy 2016  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:31:19am

Oh boy. Somebody getting fired.

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Tigger2  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:31:20am

re: #323 The Vicious Babushka

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Well damn, I bet a lot of wingnuts got themselves all worked up over this just to get let down. hehe

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ozharas  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:33:05am

re: #325 Tigger2

Well damn, I bet a lot of wingnuts got themselves all worked up over this just to get let down. hehe

a chorus of dammits could be heard…

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:36:24am

re: #326 ozharas

a chorus of dammits could be heard…

Freepers are too busy getting pissed that staff were ordered to shelter in place rather than being ordered to grab their guns and hunt down the shooter. Because we all know that the very best place to have a shootout is in the middle of a hospital.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:36:30am

re: #320 FormerDirtDart

That’s 25% unaccounted for.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:36:40am

re: #323 The Vicious Babushka

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COVERUP!! SCANDAL!!! GUN-FREE ZONES!!!! OBAMA TAKE ARE GUNZZZZZ!!!!!!!

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:36:58am

re: #319 Tigger2

I have arrived Rob Reiner replied to one of my tweets. lol

mic drop

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Jenner7  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:37:07am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:38:08am
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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:38:15am

re: #329 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

COVERUP!! SCANDAL!!! GUN-FREE ZONES!!!! OBAMA TAKE ARE GUNZZZZZ!!!!!!!

Oh, that’s another bit from the Freepers, they’re engaged in the “it’s too convenient” bit, convinced that this story was meant to take something absolutely devastating to Hillary/Obama/Democrats/etc off the news for the day.

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Tigger2  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:38:57am

re: #330 Sir John Barron

mic drop

Yep I can retire from twitter now.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:39:13am

re: #247 ObserverArt

Morning!

So, is this “meeting” between Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the airport going to be made into a big thing? I get the feeling it is. Trump is sure to jump all over it.

And I see where Trump is now saying Bernie hates Hillary and using that as a wedge tool too. Lovely. Thanks Bernie, you’re doing a heck of a job.

So Bill Clinton can’t meet anyone now?

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:39:44am

re: #333 Targetpractice

Oh, that’s another bit from the Freepers, they’re engaged in the “it’s too convenient” bit, convinced that this story was meant to take something absolutely devastating to Hillary/Obama/Democrats/etc off the news for the day.

The false report was a false flag.

/

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:41:17am

re: #320 FormerDirtDart

Hillary needs to be in the mid to upper 50s at least.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:42:03am

re: #335 Sir John Barron

So Bill Clinton can’t meet anyone now?

He might accidentally wander within 1,000 feet of a polling place and invalidate an election. Best keep him chained up in the back yard.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:42:30am

A bill introduced in the House of Representatives this week by Congresspersons Brett Guthrie and Cheri Bustos, boldly titled the “Save America’s Pastime Act,” actually appears to represent an effort to prevent Major League Baseball teams from complying with federal minimum-wage requirements for minor-league ballplayers.

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Tigger2  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:43:09am

re: #337 GlutenFreeJesus

Hillary needs to be in the mid to upper 50s at least.

She will get there as more people like Obama start stumping for her.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:43:12am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

Halperin is on the Bill Kristol, Dick Morris career path.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:44:57am

heh, remember this guy from yesterday (climate change is a hoax and evolution isn’t real because GOD!) who said he’d stand behind his horrible tweets?

After saying earlier Wednesday that he would not back down or delete his controversial tweets, new University of Louisville board of trustees member Doug Cobb has apparently deleted his entire account.

If you missed it, the Louisville entrepreneur was one of 10 appointed by Gov. Matt Bevin to Louisville’s board on Wednesday.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:47:02am

re: #339 FormerDirtDart

What a great way to keep minorities out of baseball: Make it so that the only people who can afford to be in the minors are those whose family can support them.

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SoundGuy 2016  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:48:03am
All Out
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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:49:25am

re: #331 Jenner7

I forgave my loans, OK. They did nothing wrong. FEC’s got nothing to do with it.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:50:04am
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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:50:36am

re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth

Updated: One of Gov Bevin’s new U of L trustees, asked about his colorful Tweets, deleted his Twitter account. t.co ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics

Delete your account. Oh, you did? Good call.

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nines09  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:51:35am

Another day, another demand….When Witless Cocksplat The First gets in office, there will be some changes made….
Il Duce has spoken.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:52:19am

welp

Burlington Police Lt. Paul Glynn says that while the man’s nakedness is “inappropriate,” it’s not necessarily illegal as long as he left home naked and isn’t disrobing in public or harassing people.

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Jay C  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:53:52am

re: #343 Belafon

What a great way to keep minorities out of baseball: Make it so that the only people who can afford to be in the minors are those whose family can support them.

Yep: the same-old, same-old about “The National Pastime” - the old-time (and we-thought-long-superseded) notion that baseball players ought to be playing for “the love of the game”; and dragging sordid materialism (like the principle that players ought to be making a living wage - however minimal) into the sport is an un-American ruination of the Athletic Ideal.

Charles Comiskey must be chuckling at this, wherever he is….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:54:38am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:55:05am

re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh, remember this guy from yesterday (climate change is a hoax and evolution isn’t real because GOD!) who said he’d stand behind his horrible tweets?

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Cobb founded The Cobb Group, which old timers may remember for its personal computing newsletters.

Now he is a venture capitalist.
chrysalisventures.com

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Tigger2  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:56:10am

re: #346 FormerDirtDart

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:56:16am

re: #350 Jay C

Yep: the same-old, same-old about “The National Pastime” - the old-time (and we-thought-long-superseded) notion that baseball players ought to be playing for “the love of the game”, and dragging sordid materialism (like the principle that players ought to be making a living wage - however minimal) into the sport is an un-American ruination of the Athletic Ideal.

Charles Comiskey must be chuckling at this, wherever he is….

But Bud Selig earned every penny of that $18,400,000 he was getting every year, plus the $6,000,000 he’s getting every year in retirement.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:57:25am
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SoundGuy 2016  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:59:10am

re: #348 nines09

Where is bottom for this freakshow of a candidate? To suggest that candidates who ran against you and now won’t support you should not be allowed to run for office in the future should be GTFO Laughable… or he is 100% verifiable a fascist dictator.

UnFreakingBelieveable.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 7:59:38am

But yeah, we should have gone to war with Iran over this…

- The sailors from Coastal Riverine Squadron 3 did not brief or even plan their route from Kuwait to Bahrain. While the original route would have avoided Iran’s territorial waters around Farsi Island, the crew immediately deviated from their original course to make up for a late start.

- The crew did not report regularly to their operational handlers on shore when they sighted land unexpectedly.

- Task Force 56, the riverine squadron’s immediate superior in 5th Fleet, tasked the sailors beyond their capabilities and limitations and fostered a “can do/will do” culture.

- The tactical operations center charged with tracking the transit failed to do so and reacted poorly when things started going wrong.

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Tigger2  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:00:34am
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Jenner7  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:00:55am
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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:02:10am

re: #359 Jenner7

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STILL BETTER THAN WAR CRIMINAL HILLARY!1!!

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Tigger2  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:02:48am

re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Love this Gif

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:04:24am

Carr wrote in a blog post that following the immediate negative coverage of his comments, Trump told him not to apologize while the two flew on Trump’s private plane. According to Carr, Trump said “You never hear me apologize, do you? That’s what killed Jimmy the Greek way back. Remember? He was doing okay ‘til he said he was sorry,” a reference to the former sports commentator and Las Vegas bookie who was fired for saying that black people were “bred” to be better athletes than whites. Carr doubled down on the comments saying he has no intention of apologizing “for mentioning the name of the fake Indian and then doing a few seconds of a war whoop”:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:05:53am
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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:06:15am

re: #357 FormerDirtDart

But yeah, we should have gone to war with Iran over this…

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Of course, had we done something drastic to secure their release, we’d now be listening to how the President did something bad by bringing home a bunch of “cry babies” and we should just left them with Iran for not fighting to the death like “real” soldiers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:06:37am

re: #359 Jenner7

they were his phones, he had the right to listen in any time he chose to

so there

/

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Tigger2  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:13:05am

I really hate getting added to pages on twitter without being asked.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:14:03am

Rage Furby is upset that a black Twitter user posted a $20 bounty on Twitter to out a teenaged African-American who is a Trump supporter.

Presumably, if the kid threw in for HRC or Bernie, Rage Furby would be publishing the doxx himself.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:14:15am
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nines09  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:14:20am

re: #356 SoundGuy 2016

Where is bottom for this freakshow of a candidate? To suggest that candidates who ran against you and now won’t support you should not be allowed to run for office in the future should be GTFO Laughable… or he is 100% verifiable a fascist dictator.

UnFreakingBelieveable.

There is no bottom to Trump. He’s the fruit from that poison tree the GOP has fed and watered all these years.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:16:16am

re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Remember when we in “the colonies” were supposed to be the lowbred idiots who got outraged over the stupidest things?

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:19:11am
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:20:01am

re: #370 Targetpractice

Remember when we in “the colonies” were supposed to be the lowbred idiots who got outraged over the stupidest things?

Last week? Yeah, I remember….//

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:20:05am

re: #370 Targetpractice

Remember when we in “the colonies” were supposed to be the lowbred idiots who got outraged over the stupidest things?

I married a Brit in the mid 90’s and spent a lot of time over there. I seem to have noticed a visible diminution of the level of education, intellect and even command of the native language over there ever since…this really confirms my theory.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:20:25am

And Rage Furby is also slamming Paul Ryan for “ramming through” the Puerto Rico finance bill. Get a load of the image he used for his post.

So very realistic

There’s another in the same post. I’ll spare you the pain.

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SoundGuy 2016  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:23:05am

It’s quite apparent what kind of personality we’re dealing with. When a person holds a ‘never apologize’ mindset it speaks to ego, narcissism, petulance. A fragile worldview based on acknowledging their fragile persona.

Most rational people would respect a person for apologizing or making remedy to things said.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:23:17am

Fortunately, Boris gave up his US citizenship and doesn’t have the required 14 years of residency.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:23:30am

re: #374 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I think you’d get more out of donating to the Nigerian prince than donating to Rage Furby.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:25:26am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:27:51am

re: #377 Belafon

I think you’d get more out of donating to the Nigerian prince than donating to Rage Furby.

I’d really like to know how he reports his income when he files his taxes.

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SoundGuy 2016  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:29:51am

Aw man…

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CuriousLurker  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:30:45am

OT: Gahhhhhh—freaking diabolical…

‘She wanted him to suffer’: Sheriff explains why Texas mom killed two daughters in front of husband

Nearly a week ago, on June 24 , his 45th birthday, Jason Sheats gathered with his family in the living room of their Houston-suburb home about 5 p.m. Beside him were his daughters, Taylor, 22, and Madison, 17. His wife, Christy, had called a family meeting.

After years of challenges with Christy’s mental health, her struggles with depression and anxiety, her suicide attempts, Jason told authorities that he thought perhaps she was going to announce she had decided to file for divorce. The couple had talked about separating.

But instead, police said, the 42-year-old mother pulled out a .38 caliber handgun, a gift from her late grandfather, and pointed it at her screaming children. Then she shot them, inside the house and out in the street, where the girls collapsed and stopped moving. When law enforcement arrived, they watched Christy fire a final bullet into her eldest daughter, then a police officer shot the mother dead. […]

In interviews with police, Jason said he believes that was all part of Christy’s plan.

“She wanted him to suffer,” Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls said in a news conference Wednesday. “Christy had ample time to shoot and kill Mr. Sheats in the home but she chose not to. Mr. Sheats stated that Christy knew how much he loved Taylor and Madison, and how much they loved him.”

“Mr. Sheats will have to live the rest of his life with this horrible memory,” Nehls said. […]

Sheriff’s deputies had been called out to the house more than a dozen times since 2012, the same year Christy’s elderly grandfather died in Alabama, where he raised her like a daughter. Two months later, her mother died. That’s when her “downward spiral” began, Nehls said, recounting interviews with Jason Sheats. […]

washingtonpost.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:30:56am
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Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:33:25am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:33:27am

re: #349 Backwoods_Sleuth

REVOLUTION!

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:33:45am

re: #381 CuriousLurker

OT: Gahhhhhh—freaking diabolical…

DimJim is awfully silent about this right-wing asshole/ammosexual freak who murdered her own daughters.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:34:24am

re: #385 Dr. Matt

DimJim is awfully silent about this right-wing asshole/ammosexual freak who murdered her own daughters.

If only those kids had been armed…

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SoundGuy 2016  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:34:58am

I was always struck by the Paulbot idiocy of highlighting LOVE in rEVOLution. As if Paul’s message was all about love.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:38:02am

re: #382 The Vicious Babushka

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And like 2012, we’ll soon be told that the media is lying about the poll numbers, that Trump is really leading or within a few points because one or two outlier polls say so, and it’s all a nefarious plot by the “liberal media” to convince people that there’s no point in voting.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:38:29am

re: #386 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If only those kids had been armed…

“Sheriff’s deputies had been called out to the house more than a dozen times since 2012, the same year Christy’s elderly grandfather died in Alabama, where he raised her like a daughter. Two months later, her mother died. That’s when her “downward spiral” began, Nehls said,”

And yet they kept a firearm around the house. But, but, but, gunz rights!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:39:11am

I wish someone interviewing Trump would ask him if he’d be willing to be waterboarded.

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Teukka  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:39:59am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:40:01am
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:41:23am

re: #388 Targetpractice

And like 2012, we’ll soon be told that the media is lying about the poll numbers, that Trump is really leading or within a few points because one or two outlier polls say so, and it’s all a nefarious plot by the “liberal media” to convince people that there’s no point in voting.

Donald Trump Thinks His Supporters Are Cowards Who Are Too Scared To Tell Pollsters They Love Him. SAD!

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Interesting Times  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:41:36am

In the “even a broken squirrel finds a nut twice a day” file, the TPP really does suck:

With zero mention of climate change in the text, TPP expands trade in dangerous fossil fuels that imperil the climate, and empowers corporations to undermine the exact policies we need to tackle the climate crisis.

“Investor state dispute settlement” rules in TPP gives foreign investors and multinational corporations special rights to sue governments in private tribunals for implementing policies that protect our environment.

* Canada has faced multiple corporate challenges against our common-sense environmental regulations using ISDS rules in other agreements.
* Right now, US mining company, Lone Pine Resources, is suing Quebec using ISDS for $250 million because the province put a ban on fracking.
* TransCanada is also suing the US for $15 billion seeking compensation for Obama’s decision to halt the Keystone XL pipeline due to concerns about climate change.

So yeah…sadly ironic that Obama is praising a deal that strengthens and expands the worst aspects of NAFTA (which resulted in his own gov’t being sued for a decision he made -_-)

And here’s the clearest statement yet (fairly recent too) that Hillary Clinton diverges from Obama on this issue:

As President, I will fight alongside IFPTE to protect workers’ rights to organize free from corporate intimidation, to oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership and build a level playing field so American workers can compete and win in the global economy

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:43:13am
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CuriousLurker  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:43:36am

re: #385 Dr. Matt

DimJim is awfully silent about this right-wing asshole/ammosexual freak who murdered her own daughters.

I’m guessing he, Brietbart, the Freepers and the rest of the wingnuts will be silent over this beheading also, since it didn’t involve a Muslim. Does anyone doubt there had to have been immediate speculation about jihad the moment it was reported?

Iron Range man decapitated with machete after rape claim, charges say

HIBBING, Minn. — A sexual assault allegation led to the beheading of a 20-year-old Hibbing man last week in rural Itasca County, according to murder charges filed Wednesday.

Authorities said David Alexander Haiman also was beaten with a baseball bat and stabbed with a machete after being lured to a wooded area in the Ball Club community by the boyfriend of the alleged sexual assault victim.

The suspect, 35-year-old Joseph Christen Thoresen of Grand Rapids, was arraigned Wednesday in Itasca County District Court on an intentional second-degree murder charge. […]

twincities.com

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Ming5000  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:49:03am

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

Loan-gate!

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:52:49am

re: #304 GlutenFreeJesus

Speaking of which, a Russian Guard apparently attacked a US Diplomat in Moscow.

I think the Russian Orthodox Church in the US should be forced to register as Foreign Agents under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, and then be stripped of it’s tax exempt status. Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church are tied at the hip.

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Jenner7  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:53:38am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:55:26am

re: #398 Ziggy_TARDIS

Speaking of which, a Russian Guard apparently attacked a US Diplomat in Moscow.

I think the Russian Orthodox Church in the US should be forced to register as Foreign Agents under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, and then be stripped of it’s tax exempt status. Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church are tied at the hip.

And especially after the latest Istanbul attacks (one of the perpetrators was Russian), we should ban all immigration from Orthodox countries until we figure out what is happening over there…

/

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:56:40am

re: #228 Targetpractice

And this will go little-reported or mentioned by the press. But if it had been Hillary, “Chairgate” would be getting wall-to-wall coverage.

So this is when you start something on the web about Hillary doing it. Then once it gets legs with the RWNJ’s you reveal that it was really tRump.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:58:43am

re: #398 Ziggy_TARDIS

Speaking of which, a Russian Guard apparently attacked a US Diplomat in Moscow.

I think the Russian Orthodox Church in the US should be forced to register as Foreign Agents under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, and then be stripped of it’s tax exempt status. Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church are tied at the hip.

I believe I have said the same thing about the Roman Catholic Church on occasion in light of the child-sex abuse scandals.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 8:59:03am

re: #395 Backwoods_Sleuth

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There’s bridge named after him in NYC, so I grew up hearing his name on the traffic reports.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:00:50am

re: #381 CuriousLurker

OT: Gahhhhhh—freaking diabolical…

It’s not like she cut them up and tossed them over the side of her trireme.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:01:01am

re: #399 Jenner7

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Uh, Herr Douchebag, if Scalia had been alive or (god forbid) you named a justice to the bench, it still would have been 5-4 against HB2. It still would have been killed. The difference is you’d have one more asshole on the bench offering up a bullshit reason why women who choose an abortion should face greater restrictions than ones who want hair removed with a laser.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:03:14am

Shocking! A Repulblicanasmussen poll has Trump leading Hillary! Shocking, I tell ya. Shocking! —->rasmussenreports.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:04:17am
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Teukka  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:04:24am

re: #406 Dr. Matt

Shocking! A Repulblicanassmussen poll has Trump leading Hillary! Shocking, I tell ya. Shocking! —->rassmussenreports.com

FTFY

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:04:49am

re: #408 Teukka

FTFY

Ha. Gracias.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:05:48am

And the academic year comes to an end here in the Czech Republic. The kids have graduated from public schools/universities and as for me, I now have a little more free time. My yearly student assessments are all filed and now I can chill a bit, even though I still have my corporate students, as business never sleeps, after all.

At least I have this to look forward to next Tuesday:

Iron Maiden - Death Or Glory (Live from The Book Of Souls World Tour)

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:05:50am

re: #406 Dr. Matt

Rasmussen should not even be looked at.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:06:41am

re: #382 The Vicious Babushka

That’s OK: Rasmussen to the rescue:

Thursday, June 30, 2016

The tables have turned in this week’s White House Watch. After trailing Hillary Clinton by five points for the prior two weeks, Donald Trump has now taken a four-point lead.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump with 43% of the vote, while Clinton earns 39%. Twelve percent (12%) still like another candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Last week at this time, it was Clinton 44%, Trump 39%. This is Trump’s highest level of support in Rasmussen Reports’ matchups with Clinton since last October. His support has been hovering around the 40% mark since April, but it remains to be seen whether he’s just having a good week or this actually represents a real move forward among voters.

Trump now earns 75% support among his fellow Republicans and picks up 14% of the Democratic vote. Seventy-six percent (76%) of Democrats like Clinton, as do 10% of GOP voters. Both candidates face a sizable number of potential defections because of unhappiness with them in their own parties.

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CuriousLurker  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:06:55am

re: #395 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s a bridge named after Kosciuszko in NYC. It’s been replaced before, the last time in 1939, and yet another replacement is currently under construction:

The Kosciuszko Bridge /ˌkɒziˈɒskoʊ, ˌkɒʒiˈɒʃkoʊ/ refers to two bridges that span Newtown Creek between the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, connecting Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Maspeth, Queens. It is a part of Interstate 278, which is also locally known as the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or BQE.

The original bridge is a truss bridge that opened in 1939, replacing the Penny Bridge that connected Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn to Review Avenue and Laurel Hill Boulevard in Queens, and is the only bridge over Newtown Creek that is not a drawbridge. It was named in honor of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish volunteer who was a General in the American Revolutionary War. Two of the bridge towers were surmounted with eagles, one with the Polish eagle and the other the American eagle.

In 2014, a contract was awarded and work begun to build a replacement bridge with more capacity. This new bridge has the same name as the original bridge. […]

en.wikipedia.org

The new one will be much more attractive than the existing one. Sorta reminds me of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, but not quite as elegant and considerably smaller.

There’s also another bridge named named after him upstate.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:08:28am

re: #410 Dr Lizardo

At least I have this to look forward to next Tuesday:

Video

Have fun! I haven’t seen them since the 80s/early 90s, but they put on a great show. Steve Harris is one of the best hard rock bass players. Good stuff.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:09:01am

re: #413 CuriousLurker

There’s a bridge named after Kosciuszko in NYC. It’s been replaced, the last time in 1939 and a replacement is currently under construction:

The new one will be much more attractive than the existing one. Sorta reminds me of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, but not quite as elegant and considerably smaller.

There’s also another bridge named named after him upstate.

I used to go swimming at Kosciuszko Park in Hammond, Indiana.

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CuriousLurker  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:09:26am

re: #403 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

There’s bridge named after him in NYC, so I grew up hearing his name on the traffic reports.

en.wikipedia.org

Ha, beat me to it—got distracted and didn’t notice it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:10:47am

re: #410 Dr Lizardo

And the academic year comes to an end here in the Czech Republic. The kids have graduated from public schools/universities and as for me, I now have a little more free time. My yearly student assessments are all filed and now I can chill a bit, even though I still have my corporate students, as business never sleeps, after all.

At least I have this to look forward to next Tuesday:

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My last exam is tomorrow (Friday) and my grades are due on Wednesday. So I’ll be done except for my weekend private students. My passport is out of my hands, as the public security bureau will affix a new residence permit into it, so I can’t go anywhere until I get it back in 2 weeks. Expect to see me here a lot, as I’ll have a lot of free time between now and then.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:11:01am

re: #381 CuriousLurker

I won’t blame anyone but the person who killed most of her family, but why in the hell didn’t someone in that family remove every firearm when she was out of the house? I know, Texas, she could have got more in a nanosecond, but if she was suicidal and had mental health issues, what the hell?

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CuriousLurker  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:12:00am

re: #418 A Mom Anon

I won’t blame anyone but the person who killed most of her family, but why in the hell didn’t someone in that family remove every firearm when she was out of the house? I know, Texas, she could have got more in a nanosecond, but if she was suicidal and had mental health issues, what the hell?

I know… *smh*

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:13:40am

re: #414 Dr. Matt

Have fun! I haven’t seen them since the 80s/early 90s, but they put on a great show. Steve Harris is one of the best hard rock bass players. Good stuff.

In 2008 they came around to Prague and seeing as my ex didn’t want to go (she loathed metal) I took a rather skeptical student of mine….skeptical as in “Iron Maiden? They’re still around? They’re really old, aren’t they?” and she was really into dubstep.

She changed her mind. A quarter of the way through the show, I could see she was having the time of her (admittedly young) life. She loved it and said she’d never been to a better concert in her 21 years.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:13:42am

re: #418 A Mom Anon

I won’t blame anyone but the person who killed most of her family, but why in the hell didn’t someone in that family remove every firearm when she was out of the house? I know, Texas, she could have got more in a nanosecond, but if she was suicidal and had mental health issues, what the hell?

The whole story is complete f’ed up. If you listen to the 911 call from the neighbor, he watched her go back inside, reload, walk back out, and then shoot her child in the back. WTF didn’t anyone tackle, shoot her, knock her out, etc. Unreal.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:13:57am

re: #418 A Mom Anon

I won’t blame anyone but the person who killed most of her family, but why in the hell didn’t someone in that family remove every firearm when she was out of the house? I know, Texas, she could have got more in a nanosecond, but if she was suicidal and had mental health issues, what the hell?

Knowing Texas, they would get charged with (grand) larceny.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:14:15am

re: #418 A Mom Anon

I won’t blame anyone but the person who killed most of her family, but why in the hell didn’t someone in that family remove every firearm when she was out of the house? I know, Texas, she could have got more in a nanosecond, but if she was suicidal and had mental health issues, what the hell?

I hope those questions are rhetorical, because you have both Texas and firearm in there. I can just tell you that the attitude of the more vocal gun people here would be that there’s no way anyone could have known and what if they’d needed to protect themselves from an intruder. You might prevent someone who wouldn’t kill their children from being able to protect themselves.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:14:40am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:15:10am

re: #414 Dr. Matt

And yes, Steve Harris is one of the greats. And I’d daresay this young man has quite a future ahead of him if he sticks with it.

Losfer Words (BASS - Iron Maiden cover)

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Franklin  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:16:34am

Just drove past several people wearing orange downtown, now I think I know why:

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:17:16am

re: #420 Dr Lizardo

In 2008 they came around to Prague and seeing as my ex didn’t want to go (she loathed metal) I took a rather skeptical student of mine….skeptical as in “Iron Maiden? They’re still around? They’re really old, aren’t they?” and she was really into dubstep.

She changed her mind. A quarter of the way through the show, I could see she was having the time of her (admittedly young) life. She loved it and said she’d never been to a better concert in her 21 years.

Iron Maiden (with Twisted Sister opening) was actually my very first concert ever. It was in Detroit at JLA in Jan of 1984. At the time I was into Twisted Sister (I was in Middle School), but after that show I was hooked on Maiden. I saw them live another 3 times by the end of the decade.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:17:58am

re: #239 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Maynard Ferguson playing Birdland on TV

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I saw Maynard quite a few times in the 70’s. Was always a fun concert.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:19:25am

re: #323 The Vicious Babushka

We can still blame Hillary for taking away their guns, can’t we?

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Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:22:56am

“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:23:57am

sigh

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:23:59am

re: #323 The Vicious Babushka

UPDATE: NBC reports that the Joint Base Andrews active shooter lockdown was a misunderstanding stemming from an active shooter drill.
— NBC Charlotte (@wcnc) June 30, 2016

If the entire base was armed, this wouldn’t have happened.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:26:31am

re: #428 Eventual Carrion

I saw Maynard quite a few times in the 70’s. Was always a fun concert.

I caught him only once, at a club in Louisville. He had a small group, rather than his usual big band, but it was still great. The girl I took wasn’t a jazz fan at all, but even she liked it.

His fan club is based across the river in New Albany, IIRC.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:30:00am

re: #428 Eventual Carrion

I saw Maynard quite a few times in the 70’s. Was always a fun concert.

I’ll always treasure the three or four times I saw B. B. King at the Aquarius Tavern in the late 70s. It was a $10 cover instead of the usual $1 when Heart was there, but well worth it. /

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:31:27am

re: #434 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’ll always treasure the three or four times I saw B. B. King at the Aquarius Tavern in the late 70s. It was a $10 cover instead of the usual $1 when Heart was there, but well worth it. /

Went to see BB King in Babenhausen, Germany in the 90’s. Was surprised when the guards would not let me in with my little Swiss pocket knife, but after the show, BB came out and shook hands and signed autographs…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:34:04am
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Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:38:03am

re: #419 CuriousLurker

I know… *smh*

Please no one take the following as instead of, but in fact as in addition to whatever proper legal steps could be taken in gun rules and how society copes with the mentally ill.

This is where families and friends have to step up. See somebody crazy, depressed, dangerous, say something. Yell if you have to. The government won’t ever connect all the dots like household members can when someone needs help and or is a danger to themselves or more. We can take away the guns and maybe the keys to the car, but that’s about it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:40:19am

ummm…

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Double Dumbass  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:40:24am

Still wondering how I can cash in on the Trudeau-Obama bromance.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:40:58am

Trump doubles down on Elizabeth Warren bogus derp==>

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Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:41:52am

Just remembered Andrea Yates. My God…

Andrea Pia Kennedy Yates (born July 2, 1964) is a former resident of Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:42:12am

re: #440 The Vicious Babushka

Trump doubles down on Elizabeth Warren bogus derp==>

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He doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about per usual.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:43:06am

re: #441 Great White Snark

Just remembered Andrea Yates. My God…

15 years ago already. Damn that was a sad case.

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Jenner7  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:43:54am

It was such a sneak, they used the super private Phoenix airport.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:44:54am

107 Nobel Laureates just signed a letter slamming Greenpeace over GMOs

“How many poor people must die before we consider this a ‘crime against humanity’?”

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CuriousLurker  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:45:34am

Forget the scare stories. Here’s what it’s really like to attend a mosque.

Given the negative rhetoric about Islam and Muslims that has been increasing in American society, many people associate mosques with terrorism. Lots of non-Muslims have asked me if I belong to a mosque and whether mosques are safe or are actually brainwashing children to become killers.

As you may know, Muslims gather for sermon and prayer services every Friday midday, similar to how Jews attend synagogue on Saturday and Christians go to church on Sunday for Mass.

Every Friday morning, it became a habit of mine to make an extensive search online for mosques within 30 miles of my home to go to for prayer in the hopes that I would find the perfect one that I have been looking for all my life. So far I’ve visited over 20 mosques within the U.S. and they all seem to have the same problems.

Odds are many of the Donald Trump followers and other people are advocating for the closing of all mosques in the U.S. have never even visited a mosque before. If they did, they might learn that the biggest challenges mosques face have little to do with making bombs in the basement.

Let this article be a guide for the uninformed about some of the common issues that mosques really have to deal with. Most of them are the same you’d encounter at your local church, synagogue or temple. A few are rather more serious. […]

fusion.net

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Shiplord Kirel  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:45:35am

‘The end is coming,’ says Ron Paul

“I think [the EU] will become nonfunctional,” Paul told CNBC’s ” Futures Now ” on Tuesday.

“It really is coming to an end. It doesn’t mean tomorrow or the next day, but people are going to be really unhappy. The end is coming, but it isn’t coming because of the breakup,” he added.

Paul attributed the fallout to “bad fiscal policies” around the globe. He said that as long as interest rates remain low, the markets will remain in bubble territory.

We can still save ourselves if we can rein in the Zionist banksters and their Islamo-humanist gay co-conspirators. If not, be sure to get one of our new Survival Harvest Emergency freeze-drier units while there is still time. We even take fiat money. Because we’re nice.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:48:38am

re: #447 Shiplord Kirel

‘The end is coming,’ says Ron Paul

We can still save ourselves if we can rein in the Zionist banksters and their Islamo-humanist gay co-conspirators. If not, be sure to get one of our new Survival Harvest Emergency freeze-drier units while there is still time. We even take fiat money. Because we’re nice.

Because Von Mises economic bs works so well.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:49:03am

re: #446 CuriousLurker

I’ve visited mosques, though not to worship, and noticed several features common to Christian churches — a donations box and a literature rack with colorful brochures. Oddly, the donations did not include weapons and the brochures did not include how-tos for would-be terrorists. I guess those are kept out of sight.
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:49:12am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:49:14am

Wow, Chris Christie has short stubby fingers too!

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:49:36am

re: #382 The Vicious Babushka

Well Mike was encouraging. “Just wait until your ISIS allies stage an attack in the US and watch your polls soar”.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:51:02am

re: #451 The Vicious Babushka

Wow, Chris Christie has short stubby fingers too!

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He thought the douchebag quotient wasn’t high enough.

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CuriousLurker  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:51:14am

re: #441 Great White Snark

Just remembered Andrea Yates. My God…

Yeah, but those were young children. I seriously doubt Sheats could’ve drowned her 17- and 22-year old daughters, especially not without her husband intervening. Ditto if she’d attempted to kill them with a knife or some other weapon. She still might have killed or maimed one though.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:55:45am

re: #454 CuriousLurker

Yeah, but those were young children. I seriously doubt Sheats could’ve drowned her 17- and 22-year old daughters, especially not without her husband intervening. Ditto if she’d attempted to kill them with a knife or some other weapon. She still might have killed or maimed one though.

Could have gone after them in their sleep but as I always say the gun makes it easier.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:56:15am

re: #382 The Vicious Babushka

Trump tells @radiotalkermike that he is baffled that he is not leading in polls. (h/t to @BuzzFeedAndrew) pic.twitter.com
— Sopan Deb

Life is so unfair.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:57:14am

re: #451 The Vicious Babushka

Wow, Chris Christie has short stubby fingers too!

I’m sure Trump’s vetting process is the best. Thorough.

/

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stpaulbear  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:57:14am

re: #454 CuriousLurker

re: #455 HappyWarrior

Well isn’t this a cheery thread.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:58:02am

re: #440 The Vicious Babushka

Trump on Elizabeth Warren: “…And she kept Native Americans out of the colleges…”

It is a matter of RWNJ faith that she used negative racism and political correctness to keep more qualified people out of positions for her own advancement.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 9:58:46am

re: #440 The Vicious Babushka

Trump doubles down on Elizabeth Warren bogus derp==>

Warren must scare them.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:01:09am

re: #460 Sir John Barron

Warren must scare them.

She definitely does.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:01:29am

re: #460 Sir John Barron

Warren must scare them.

yes, massively, and the “Pocahontas” story is all they seem to have on her. I also had a conservative friend post about how she profited from real estate deals after 2008…scandalous: making money from a collapsing real estate market.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:01:50am

re: #399 Jenner7

President Trump would veto it.

/

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:02:54am

re: #462 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

yes, massively, and the “Pocahontas” story is all they seem to have on her. I also had a conservative friend post about how she profited from real estate deals after 2008…scandalous: making money from a collapsing real estate market.

Yet wingnuts praise Trump’s ability to make money. OK.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:05:23am

re: #464 Sir John Barron

Yet wingnuts praise Trump’s ability to make money. OK.

Warren is not allowed to make money buying and selling things because she does not believe in free-market capitalism. Their logic is pretty damn seamless.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:08:53am

A wingnut ammosexual recently pointed out to me that Hitler did not use guns to kill most of the victims of the Holocaust.

My response was, okay, true enough, I will concede that poison gas is better for killing a large number of people if you have enough of it, but we don’t have a major political movement devoted to promoting the private ownership of chemical weapons.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:09:29am

re: #440 The Vicious Babushka

Trump doubles down on Elizabeth Warren bogus derp==>

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Warren is doing an excellent job making Trumplethinskin take his eye off the ball.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:10:00am

re: #451 The Vicious Babushka

JUST IN: Trump campaign vetting Christie for VP

to think that there was a time when CC was one Republican I would have at least considered as a candidate: he stood up to people who criticized his appointment of a Muslim judge, and he cooperated with Obama on hurricane Sandy relief in an uncharacteristically (for the GOP) bipartisan manner.

But he later showed his true colors, and knuckled under to the knuckleheads in his own party long ago…

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:13:11am

re: #468 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

to think that there was a time when CC was one Republican I would have at least considered as a candidate: he stood up to people who criticized his choice of a Muslim judge, and he cooperated with Obama on hurricane Sandy relief in an uncharacteristically (for the GOP) bipartisan manner.

But he later showed his true colors, and knuckled under to the knuckleheads in his own party long ago…

Christie just likes to yell at people.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:13:37am

re: #451 The Vicious Babushka

Wow, Chris Christie has short stubby fingers too!

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Last I checked, syphilis and genital warts had better approval numbers than Christie does in NJ. So if his master plan is to boost his numbers in NJ by putting Big Chicken on the ballot, Trump’s in for a big shock.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:14:26am
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Double Dumbass  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:14:40am

re: #466 Shiplord Kirel

A wingnut ammosexual recently pointed out to me that Hitler did not use guns to kill most of the victims of the Holocaust.

My response was, okay, true enough, I will concede that poison gas is better for killing a large number of people if you have enough of it, but we don’t have a major political movement devoted to promoting the private ownership of chemical weapons.

Aren’t chemical weapons illegal?

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Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:15:10am

re: #454 CuriousLurker

I don’t think she could have drowned them either. The point is she was a danger to her kids even if the guns were not there. Deadly? Certainly less easily so. Physical or emotional harm? Defines the common variety of domestic abuse/violence and tragedy.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:16:12am

re: #418 A Mom Anon

I won’t blame anyone but the person who killed most of her family, but why in the hell didn’t someone in that family remove every firearm when she was out of the house? I know, Texas, she could have got more in a nanosecond, but if she was suicidal and had mental health issues, what the hell?

Being Texas, she could have just bought another gun out of a vending machine at the local 7-11.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:16:38am

re: #470 Targetpractice

Last I checked, syphilis and genital warts had better approval numbers than Christie does in NJ. So if his master plan is to boost his numbers in NJ by putting Big Chicken on the ballot, Trump’s in for a big shock.

I think CC is there to assuage voters who are worried about DT’s total lack of a record of public service…and preferably do not know much about CC.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:18:24am

re: #471 Backwoods_Sleuth

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge blocked a new Indiana law Thursday that bans abortions sought because of a fetus’ genetic abnormalities.

U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted a preliminary injunction sought by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, which argued that the law was unconstitutional and violated women’s privacy rights. The law was set to take effect Friday.

Indiana and North Dakota are the only states with laws that ban abortions sought due to fetal genetic abnormalities, such as Down syndrome, or because of the race, sex or ancestry of a fetus.

The lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana also challenges the law’s provision requiring that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated. Planned Parenthood currently disposes remains by incineration, as with other medical tissue.

more at hosted.ap.org

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:19:29am

re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth

more at hosted.ap.org

cue headlines that liberals are secret eugenics supporters!

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:19:33am

The models identified by NHTSA include: 2001-2002 Honda Civic, 2001-2002 Honda Accord, 2002-2003 Acura TL, 2002 Honda CR-V, 2002 Honda Odyssey, 2003 Acura CL, 2003 Honda Pilot.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:21:09am

Jeeezus.

“I’m good at war. I’ve had a lot of wars of my own. I love war.”

Why You Don’t Want Donald Trump Controlling America’s Military Arsenal

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:21:40am

re: #381 CuriousLurker

Yet another example of why mental health care is at least as important as physical. It might not have stopped this crazy woman but the chances she’d have gotten the help she needed would be infinitely better.

Also, it’s a perfect example of why background checks are necessary. She should have been flagged as “Nohow, noway, not in this lifetime. Danger, Will Robinson. Danger!”

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Shiplord Kirel  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:21:42am

re: #472 Double Dumbass

Aren’t chemical weapons illegal?

Yes, they are. So?

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:23:37am

Yeah….
Kind of doubt this has happened in other Olympic host cities…

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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:24:34am

re: #478 FormerDirtDart

There have been 10 U.S. deaths tied to exploding Takata airbags. Eight of those deaths were in cars that had this specific airbag.
This group of cars is a small subset of cars with Takata airbags that have been already recalled. Nearly 70 million airbags in U.S. cars alone have been or will be recalled, according to the agency.

Interesting to compare airbag death toll and the subsequent reaction, to our death toll from small arms.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:25:34am

re: #480 Romantic Heretic

Well, I don’t see anything in the 2nd Amendment prohibiting crazy people from owning all the weapons they want, so we obviously can’t take away a God given right from the insane.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:25:54am

re: #479 Skip Intro

Jeeezus.

“I’m good at war. I’ve had a lot of wars of my own. I love war.”

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Sayeth the draft dodger.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:26:06am

I can hardly wait for the “design” memes to flood the internet…
/s/

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:26:56am

re: #484 Skip Intro

Well, I don’t see anything in the 2nd Amendment prohibiting crazy people from owning all the weapons they want, so we obviously can’t take away a God given right from the insane.

A well-regulated militia had to include a few looneybags did it not? Just think of what all the lead in that pewter did to Paul Revere’s brain, and nobody stopped him

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Double Dumbass  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:27:09am

re: #481 Shiplord Kirel

Yes, they are. So?

Then there are already constraints on their use so his argument is irrelevant.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:29:01am

re: #483 jaunte

Interesting to compare airbag death toll and the subsequent reaction, to our death toll from small arms.

Because with small arms it’s a feature, not a bug…

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Alephnaught  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:29:26am

Michael Hesiltine, cabinet minister in both Thatcher and Major governments, is none too pleased with Boris Johnson.

Hesiltine himself resigned from Thatcher’s cabinet over an issue, so he knows when to walk away and when not to.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:29:53am

re: #482 FormerDirtDart

Yeah….
Kind of doubt this has happened in other Olympic host cities…

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I think this fiasco will end the modern Olympics. I just hope the total lack of security doesn’t enable a terrorist attack that will put tRump in the White House. C’mon, IOC, it’s never too late to call the whole thing off!

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:32:51am

re: #486 FormerDirtDart

I can hardly wait for the “design” memes to flood the internet…
/s/

Barry Husein Obama thinks he deserves his own library! Arrogance!!!11

/

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:34:23am
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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:34:33am

re: #492 Sir John Barron

The Obama library will need an entire separate Mock Outrages Wing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:37:00am

re: #494 jaunte

The Obama library will need an entire separate Mock Outrages Wing.

You mean one that documents him doing things that every other president did, but without causing any heads to explode?

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:38:24am

re: #494 jaunte

The Obama library will need an entire separate Mock Outrages Wing.

It’ll need to be the size of the Powell’s Books store in Portland, Oregon.

en.wikipedia.org

Powell’s City of Books is located in the Pearl District on the edge of downtown and occupies a full city block between NW 10th and 11th Avenues and between W. Burnside and NW Couch Streets. It contains over 68,000 square feet (6,300 m2), about 1.6 acres of retail floor space

One place from Portland I truly miss.

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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:38:42am

re: #495 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Communist Christmas Ornament Kerfuffle!
Disappearing Churchill Bust!
Flag Pin Scandal!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:39:24am

re: #497 jaunte

Communist Christmas Ornament Kerfuffle!
Disappearing Churchill Bust!
Flag Pin Scandal!

Million-dollar-per-minute vacations!

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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:39:44am

re: #400 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And especially after the latest Istanbul attacks (one of the perpetrators was Russian), we should ban all immigration from Orthodox countries until we figure out what is happening over there…

/

Not sure how the one ties to the other. (Yes, I get that you’re joking.)

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nines09  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:40:23am

re: #482 FormerDirtDart

Photos Of Past Olympic Venues.

The OOC is every bit as corrupt as FIFA, maybe more so. And “winning” the Olympic bid is almost like a death wish. Brazil, and Rio in particular, could have used that money in just about every area of public health and safety. Rio is surrounded by favelas and water runs downhill. Throw in zika virus, and it’s one bomb away from being a total nightmare.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:40:27am

re: #497 jaunte

Communist Christmas Ornament Kerfuffle!
Disappearing Churchill Bust!
Flag Pin Scandal!

Dijongate!

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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:40:40am

This is hilarious.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:40:44am

*sigh*

Bernie has become the DNC’s Crazy Uncle Liberty.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:41:08am

re: #413 CuriousLurker

There are 2 bridges (the twin bridges) named after him in Upstate NY as well. They cross the Mohawk River on the northway.

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Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:41:20am

re: #496 Dr Lizardo

It’ll need to be the size of the Powell’s Books store in Portland, Oregon.

en.wikipedia.org

One place from Portland I truly miss.

When I visited Portland last summer I went to Powell’s twice. Still wasn’t enough.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:41:55am

re: #505 Stanley Sea

When I visited Portland last summer I went to Powell’s twice. Still wasn’t enough.

You can spend days in there.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:42:36am

re: #493 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Things Get Dire For Trump’s GOP Convention As Mike Ditka Turns Down Speech Offer

Hannity and Greta can give Trump on stage blowjobs on alternate nights to fill the time.

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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:42:39am
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Franklin  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:44:21am

re: #497 jaunte

Communist Christmas Ornament Kerfuffle!
Disappearing Churchill Bust!
Flag Pin Scandal!

pledge pin

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nines09  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:46:01am

re: #507 Skip Intro

Hannity and Greta can give Trump on stage blowjobs on alternate nights to fill the time.

There is always Chuck “Top Glue” Norris and Ted “Droopy Poopy Drawers” Nugent. Mike Huckabee? Sarah Palin? Lassie? Benito Mussolini’s ghost?

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sagehen  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:48:55am

re: #462 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

yes, massively, and the “Pocahontas” story is all they seem to have on her. I also had a conservative friend post about how she profited from real estate deals after 2008…scandalous: making money from a collapsing real estate market.

Didn’t that turn out to be she bought a house for her mother-in-law or something like that?

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Franklin  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:49:22am

‘SPLODEY HEADS

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Lidane  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:49:26am

Translation: No one else wants the job.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:51:20am

re: #513 Lidane

Translation: No one else wants the job.

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Didn’t someone make the joke back when it was first leaked that Big Chicken was leading the VP hunt that he might pull a Cheney, coming back from the search to declare that there was nobody more qualified than he?

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Franklin  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:51:32am

One of the only (maybe the only) knocks on Sen Warren as VP is that they are both (for all intents and purposes) Northeast politicians.

A NY/NJ Republican ticket? When there is a LOT to criticize about Christie?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:51:38am

re: #513 Lidane

Translation: No one else wants the job.

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I call shenanigans.

Donald doesn’t vet anything.

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Alephnaught  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:52:35am

re: #494 jaunte

The Obama library will need an entire separate Mock Outrages Wing.

Actually that reminds me: how does a Presidential Library work? Is it filled with relevant works made during the Presidential terms?

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Kragar  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:52:40am
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:53:17am

GOP National-Security Experts Are #ReadyForHer

“Not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but also I am not voting for any Republican who endorsed or supported Trump—be it for Senate, House, alderman, or county clerk. And yes, I will vote for Clinton, simply because to not vote, or to vote Libertarian, would be a half-vote for Trump,” said Ken Adelman, U.S. arms control director during the Reagan administration.

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Lidane  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:53:44am

re: #516 Backwoods_Sleuth

I call shenanigans.

Donald doesn’t vet anything.

Sure he does. Just ask his Hawaiian investigators. ;)

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Franklin  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:54:35am

Watched Selma (again) last night. What an incredible movie.

It’s going to be a sad sad day when Rep John Lewis passes. I don’t even want to think about it.

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Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:54:44am

So just how fucked up do you have to be to lose Mike Lee?

GOP Senator: Don’t Tell Me I Shouldn’t Be Concerned About Trump

huffingtonpost.com

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Shiplord Kirel  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:55:10am

re: #488 Double Dumbass

Then there are already constraints on their use so his argument is irrelevant.

True, that. Relevance is not an ammosexual strong suit. For instance, every time there is a highly publicized stabbing incident, they will make callous jokes about calling for “knife control.” It is all part of their false alternatives narrative. If anything, the ammosexual’s point about poison gas would be an argument in favor of gun control: The Orlando killer might have preferred to lob a few canisters of nerve gas into the disco, but he couldn’t get them.

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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:55:39am

re: #517 Alephnaught

Papers, books and special artifacts. So the Christmas ornaments might make it in!

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jaunte  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:56:27am

Frequently Asked Questions about Presidential Libraries and Museums
archives.gov

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Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:57:13am
“I cannot vote for either presumptive nominee,” said Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum. “It’s a mild form of despair!”

Hope he gets a reason for even more despair.

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stpaulbear  Jun 30, 2016 • 10:59:29am

re: #522 Skip Intro

So just how fucked up to be to lose Mike Lee?

GOP Senator: Don’t Tell Me I Shouldn’t Be Concerned About Trump

huffingtonpost.com

Lee explained there was “no possibility” he’d vote for Clinton, and Trump could certainly still win his vote. But first, Lee said he’d need to believe the businessman would be “a vigorous defender for the U.S. Constitution.”

Which probably means that he will ultimately delude himself into voting for Trump.

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Lidane  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:01:11am

ROFL:

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Interesting Times  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:01:15am

re: #526 Nyet

You might be interested in the link I posted above (even though it looks at the issue from a Canadian perspective)

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:01:36am

re: #502 jaunte

Michael Savage reacts to Benghazi report: “Trey Gowdy should be impeached for wasting my time! He promised us a lot” t.co
— Right Wing Watch

Damn, even when your party controls the House it still can’t manage to manufacture a scandal.

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No Depression  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:01:43am

re: #479 Skip Intro

Jeeezus.

“I’m good at war. I’ve had a lot of wars of my own. I love war.”

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Donald Trump reminds me of this character from the anime Hellsing Ultimate:

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:02:40am

re: #519 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

GOP National-Security Experts Are #ReadyForHer

RINO!!!11

533
Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:03:49am

re: #522 Skip Intro

So just how fucked up do you have to be to lose Mike Lee?

GOP Senator: Don’t Tell Me I Shouldn’t Be Concerned About Trump

huffingtonpost.com

Nobody loves and defends the Constitution more than Lee, who specializes in knowing all about the Constitution, more so than any of us.

////

534
Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:04:21am

re: #521 Franklin

Watched Selma (again) last night. What an incredible movie.

It’s going to be a sad sad day when Rep John Lewis passes. I don’t even want to think about it.

Yeah that should be on my list for this weekend.

535
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:04:23am

Bernie delusions continue:

536
Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:04:51am

re: #482 FormerDirtDart

Remember the Not Sochi memes? Ain’t seen nothin yet.

537
Franklin  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:05:36am

re: #534 Sir John Barron

Yeah that should be on my list for this weekend.

In John Lewis’s book I am about a chapter away from the Selma era. Almost like watching Harry Potter out of order :)

538
Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:08:18am

I’ll bet Obama won’t even call the theme of the “active shooter drill” at Andrews an Islamic extremist!

539
Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:08:32am

re: #512 Franklin

‘SPLODEY HEADS

Bryan Fischer might cry.

540
FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:08:51am

I see an endorsement offer in Ingraham’s future…

541
Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:10:09am

re: #540 FormerDirtDart

Laura Ingraham: People should wear diapers and soil themselves rather than share bathrooms with transgender people t.co
— Media Matters

Proud moments in Conservatism.

Standing Athwart History Yelling Stop!!!1

542
Alephnaught  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:10:12am

re: #496 Dr Lizardo

It’ll need to be the size of the Powell’s Books store in Portland, Oregon.

en.wikipedia.org

One place from Portland I truly miss.

Reminds me of Leasky’s Bookshop in Inverness.

Instagram

Leasky’s Bookshop in Inverness #photo #iphoneography

[EDIT: Gah, it’s in Inverness. Of course, it’s Inverness! Why did I say Dundee?]

543
Nyet  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:11:03am

Guccimbecile has posted a “FAQ” about himself.

You asked me several times if I’m a man or a woman. I’m a man. I’ve never met a female hacker of the highest level. Girls, don’t get offended, I love you.

2. About my activities and publications.

How do you estimate your hacking abilities? How much time does it take to acquire such skills?

Well… Actually, it’s up to you to estimate the one who is so widely spoken about. Personally I think that I’m among the best hackers in the world.

544
Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:11:09am

re: #538 Barefoot Grin

Bastard!

545
Lidane  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:11:17am
546
Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:12:09am

re: #545 Lidane

When you’ve lost Frank Luntz…..

547
Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:12:28am

re: #541 Sir John Barron

Proud moments in Conservatism.

Standing Athwart History Yelling I JUST SHIT MY PANTS Stop!!!1

Fixed that for you.

548
Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:13:07am

re: #542 Alephnaught

Reminds me of Leaskey’s Bookshop in Dundee.

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Looks nice. I’d love to check that place out.

549
TedStriker  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:14:39am

re: #540 FormerDirtDart

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I see an endorsement offer in Ingraham’s future…

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What a bigoted twit.

550
nines09  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:14:40am

re: #540 FormerDirtDart

Perfect. Sums up the present GOP perfectly. Perfectly.

551
Tigger2  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:18:03am

re: #451 The Vicious Babushka

Wow, Chris Christie has short stubby fingers too!

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:18:03am

re: #540 FormerDirtDart

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I see an endorsement offer in Ingraham’s future…

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Yes, they’re such brave and fearless people…that they’d rather sit in their own feces than share a bathroom with a transsexual.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:18:58am

re: #482 FormerDirtDart

Yeah….
Kind of doubt this has happened in other Olympic host cities…

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The clincher on the stay-away case:
The frustration over unpaid wages for members of law enforcement boiled over in several protests. That same day, several people held up a banner at the airport that said: “Welcome to hell. Police and firefighters don’t get paid, whoever comes to Rio de Janeiro will not be safe.”

Yikes!

554
Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:19:01am

re: #547 Dr Lizardo

Fixed that for you.

Ha! There was an old music store in my hometown run by an elderly man and his sons. One day I went in to get some guitar strings with a friend. Only the elderly man was there. Before we said or noticed anything he announced, “that’s right, I just shit my pants; you will too when you’re my age!” We decided to come back another time.

Now I’m just at the age of less-than-vigorous pee stream. Old age ain’t for the fearful.

555
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:19:23am
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stpaulbear  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:21:13am

re: #540 FormerDirtDart

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I see an endorsement offer in Ingraham’s future…

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Because when I’m standing in line at a store I’d always prefer to stand behind a person with poop in their pants rather than a transgender person.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:21:27am

re: #555 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Cinemark Wants Colorado Theater Shooting Victims To Pay $700K In Fees

If I actually went to movie theaters, I would add them to my boycott list.

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Kragar  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:21:45am
559
Franklin  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:22:40am
560
Alephnaught  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:24:08am

re: #548 Dr Lizardo

Looks nice. I’d love to check that place out.

Cool, but note my edit above. For some reason, my brain switched off when I was writing the comment, and I said the bookshop was in Dundee. It’s actually in Inverness. .

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:26:19am

re: #560 Alephnaught

Cool, but note my edit above. For some reason, my brain switched off when I was writing the comment, and I said the bookshop was in Dundee. It’s actually in Inverness. .

OK.

562
Franklin  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:26:29am

In an unrelated story:

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Sir John Barron  Jun 30, 2016 • 11:56:52am

re: #562 Franklin

In an unrelated story:

Ryan: GOP won’t “tolerate” another sit-in t.co pic.twitter.com
— The Hill

WATCH OUT WE GOT A BADASS HERE!!!!!!1111

564
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2016 • 12:28:19pm

...

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Khal Wimpo (no longer entitled to his own facts)  Jun 30, 2016 • 1:40:25pm

re: #559 Franklin

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You win the internet for today.

The new nickname for Christie has to be “The Gimp.” He has everything but the leather cowl with the zipper and the neck-chain.


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