Photo of the Month: Unshakable Dignity

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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters

Things are getting very dicey in Baton Rouge again tonight, and here’s a tremendously moving photo that captures the essence of the situation: a lone protester in a summer dress standing up to police in riot gear with quiet, unshakable dignity. It’s one of those iconic images that captures the essence of a national issue; kudos to Jonathan Bachman for being in the right place at the right time.

Meanwhile, this is how it’s going tonight:

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719 comments
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Frankie Five Angels  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:18:23pm

Correct it to “Photo of the Year.”

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:19:15pm

Zack Kopplin:

“…Minutes later, some of the 100 police in riot gear charged the area where protesters were legally gathered, forcing them into the street where they were then arrested for obstructing a highway. Reporters have been forced some six blocks away.”
thedailybeast.com

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:22:17pm

I’ll bet Chuck C. Johnson is already trying to dox this woman and find dirt to smear her with.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:23:20pm

Fire the police hierarchy from Lieutenants on up and start over.

Inexcusable.

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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:23:28pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

I won’t take that bet. I do wonder how the HAW can stand the sight and smell of him.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:23:30pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

I’ll bet Chuck C. Johnson is already trying to dox this woman and find dirt to smear her with.

It’s a day ending in “Y,” so…

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:24:04pm

Apparently Louisiana spends everything left after the graft, corruption, and mis-management, on military gear for shit cops.

Almost won the race to the bottom, gotta keep digging digging digging… Can’t let Mississippi and Alabama keep winnin’ the “Worst State” metrics, you know.

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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:24:55pm

re: #6 Frankie Five Angels

He’ll copy the photo at the top, piss his watermark across it, then claim he’s the first one to identify her.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:25:16pm
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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:25:34pm

re: #7 Pawn of the Oppressor

Apparently Louisiana spends everything left after the graft, corruption, and mis-management, on military gear for shit cops.

Almost won the race to the bottom, gotta keep digging digging digging… Can’t let Mississippi and Alabama keep winnin’ the “Worst State” metrics, you know.

Sounds like North Korea.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:26:30pm

Reminds me of this photo==>

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:26:32pm

re: #7 Pawn of the Oppressor

Apparently Louisiana spends everything left after the graft, corruption, and mis-management, on military gear for shit cops.

Almost won the race to the bottom, gotta keep digging digging digging… Can’t let Mississippi and Alabama keep winnin’ the “Worst State” metrics, you know.

Hey, what about Texas!?!? We’re in to win it!

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scottslemmons  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:27:26pm

Man, look at those cops. They’re terrified of her.

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SoundGuy 2016  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:27:29pm

This really is the Year of the Woman.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:28:32pm

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY BY THE SECOND STUPIDEST CARTOONIST ON THE INTERNET==>

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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:28:57pm

re: #13 scottslemmons

Man, look at those cops. They’re terrified of her.

Death ray glasses, maybe?

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:30:09pm

re: #16 Skip Intro

Death ray glasses, maybe?

Maybe they think she’s Storm, and they are afraid of lighting?

RBS

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:34:51pm
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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:38:45pm

re: #18 Stanley Sea

At this point, the Justice Department needs to come down on the Baton Rouge PD.

Also, I think the Eu should think about some sort of action. In theory, couldn’t they block arms manufacturers based in the EU from selling to organizations, including Police Departments?

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makeitstop  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:39:42pm

I hope everyone in Baton Rouge stays safe. I keep waiting for the inevitable reports of protesters dying at the hands of riot cops. I hope it’s a long wait.

In other news, I just saw an NRA ‘Stop Hillary’ ad on History Channel, and it’s every bit as repulsive as you’d imagine. The video equivalent of a RWNJ web meme, with unflattering pictures and innuendo, topped with a ‘soldier’ claiming he ‘served in Benghazi and ‘his friends didn’t make it home.’

Fuck the NRA.

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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:40:36pm

Hadn’t heard this before.

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Belafon  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:42:14pm

re: #21 Skip Intro

Hadn’t heard this before.

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The same thing happened with another AG, I believe the one from Florida.

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A Cranky One  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:42:58pm

re: #11 The Vicious Babushka

Reminds me of this photo==>

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Reminds me more of this photo:

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:43:20pm

re: #21 Skip Intro

Hadn’t heard this before.

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Yup. Abbot & Bondi.

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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:43:54pm

re: #22 Belafon

I guess I just focused on that one. Nice to have a foundation funded by others to pay your bribes out of.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:44:32pm

Jim Jefferies — Donald Trump (2016)

This is great.

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teleskiguy  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:45:58pm

re: #23 A Cranky One

I’m a fan of the wide angle shot.

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bratwurst  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:46:06pm

re: #21 Skip Intro

Hadn’t heard this before.

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Don’t forget Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi solicited a donation and a group supporting her received one shortly before the Trump University investigation in that state was closed.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:46:13pm

re: #15 The Vicious Babushka

Yeah because cops are above criticism even when they kill people for no justifiable reason. We’re all supposed to just let them keep killing us and keep our mouths shut. Sure. But Tea Baggers can march around with guns unimpeded.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:49:12pm

re: #29 Patricia Kayden

Yeah because cops are above criticism even when they kill people for no justifiable reason. We’re all supposed to just let them keep killing us and keep our mouths shut. Sure. But Tea Baggers can match around with guns unimpeded.

Branco is saying that Obama is inciting the cop killing.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:50:04pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:51:31pm

Utterly determined to ignore all this Pokemon marketing shit all over social media.

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Belafon  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:51:32pm

re: #31 Charles Johnson

I love how these people accept the fact that a cop can shoot them as long as someone finds a good reason later.

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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:52:44pm

re: #33 Belafon

The typical description seems to be a black male between the ages of 16 and 60.

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teleskiguy  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:54:12pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

Eric Cartman watching Chinpokomon

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Timothy Watson  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:54:14pm

re: #33 Belafon

I love how these people accept the fact that a cop can shoot them as long as someone finds a good reason later.

That’s different, they’re white after all.

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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:54:23pm

What you don’t want to do is go read Greg Abbot’s or Dan Patrick’s twitter timeline.

Just don’t do it.

And I really wish Obama wasn’t going to Dallas this week.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:55:20pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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Video

This is great.

Very good. The audience seemed quite receptive. hmm

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Joe Bacon  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:55:48pm

re: #15 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY BY THE SECOND STUPIDEST CARTOONIST ON THE INTERNET==>

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Sick. Just plain sick.

This is why I’m dreading Obama going to the funeral on Tuesday. I fear that a lot of police officers will turn their backs on him as he speaks.

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Belafon  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:55:56pm

re: #37 Skip Intro

What you don’t want to do is go read Greg Abbot’s or Dan Patrick’s twitter timeline.

Just don’t do it.

And I really wish Obama wasn’t going to Dallas this week.

I wish he were coming here under better circumstances, but I think he knows, like DeRay knows, that you can’t let them intimidate you.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:56:44pm

re: #37 Skip Intro

What you don’t want to do is go read Greg Abbot’s or Dan Patrick’s twitter timeline.

Just don’t do it.

And I really wish Obama wasn’t going to Dallas this week.

Remember the Birch flyers before Kennedy’s visit.

my dog.

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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:58:28pm

re: #41 Stanley Sea

VB’s post #15 is what worries me. Dallas holds really bad memories for me.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 6:59:54pm

re: #42 Skip Intro

VB’s post #15 is what worries me. Dallas holds really bad memories for me.

How they twisted his words.

Not smart people and their agitators are insanely dangerous.

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:01:44pm
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SoundGuy 2016  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:03:20pm

On a YouTube bender and I still can’t get my head around the mad brilliance of Jacob Collier:

Jacob Collier “P.Y.T.” @ Summerstage Central Park (live in NYC)

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:05:12pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:06:40pm

re: #39 Joe Bacon

Sick. Just plain sick.

This is why I’m dreading Obama going to the funeral on Tuesday. I fear that a lot of police officers will turn their backs on him as he speaks.

If that’s the worst thing, President Obama will be fine. My worry would be for his safety.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:07:24pm

re: #46 jaunte

Well, that’s nice to hear. Refreshing actually.

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majii  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:08:01pm

re: #39 Joe Bacon

If there’s one thing I know about our president, after watching him for the last seven plus years, is that if some of the police officers do turn their backs to him, he’ll keep on keeping on. What many people don’t understand about him is that he’s withstood worse than they’ve been throwing at him in an attempt to bring him down since 2009. They just don’t know/understand how being born “disadvantaged” in a nation/society can prepare one to withstand what most others cannot. It is a major reason he’s maintained his cool through everything that’s been thrown his way. It’s a learned response to his opponents. LGBTQ Americans, POC, atheists, and others this society relegates to a “disadvantaged” category also possess this strength when dealing with their detractors. It often puzzles others. The reason it does is because they’ve not had to continue living day after day while facing continued, persistent adversity at almost every turn.

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:09:26pm

And how not to do it. (turn down your volume)

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:09:57pm

re: #46 jaunte

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I don’t have to go over to the fetid cesspool of FreeRepugnant to know that the “Proves race and blood are stronger than Law. Gibmedats always stick together” BS will be out in full strength. They have already stared to refer to BLM as “The BLM Terrorist Organization” most of the time.

RBS

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:10:01pm
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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:11:42pm

re: #18 Stanley Sea

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Some amped up officers are going to end up killing an unarmed protester at this rate…or several.

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SoundGuy 2016  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:11:49pm

And now Collier with a microphone and a piano: not 13 instruments and 19 concurrent tracks to freak you the f out:

Jacob Collier Live Session for Jazz FM

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:12:17pm

re: #46 jaunte

Thanks Jaunte for finding these tweets.

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SteelPH  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:12:46pm

re: #53 Aunty Entity Dragon

Some amped up officers are going to end up killing an unarmed protester at this rate…or several.

Exactly as planned, no doubt.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:13:00pm

re: #46 jaunte

Good for Memphis!!

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:13:11pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:16:39pm

re: #54 SoundGuy 2016

And now Collier with a microphone and a piano: not 13 instruments and 19 concurrent tracks to freak you the f out:

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He’s such an amazing talent - I really hope he doesn’t burn out or self-destruct.

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ObserverArt  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:16:53pm

re: #20 makeitstop

I hope everyone in Baton Rouge stays safe. I keep waiting for the inevitable reports of protesters dying at the hands of riot cops. I hope it’s a long wait.

In other news, I just saw an NRA ‘Stop Hillary’ ad on History Channel, and it’s every bit as repulsive as you’d imagine. The video equivalent of a RWNJ web meme, with unflattering pictures and innuendo, topped with a ‘soldier’ claiming he ‘served in Benghazi and ‘his friends didn’t make it home.’

Fuck the NRA.

That has been running here in Ohio for a month or so. The guy that is saying he served in Benghazi is Mark Geist, a co-author of the book 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, that later was made into the movie.

He was a Marine, but I think by Bengahzi he was working for the Annex Security Team which is a contractor I believe. So, was he really serving in Benghazi, or was he was working there as a CIA contractor?

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Belafon  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:18:06pm

If you get a chance, watch the anime The Boy and the Beast. For those of you who are into anime, it’s by the same people who did The Girl who Leapt Through Time.

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retired cynic  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:18:52pm

re: #54 SoundGuy 2016

And now Collier with a microphone and a piano: not 13 instruments and 19 concurrent tracks to freak you the f out:

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Video

These aren’t playing for me. I can see the video still, and click on the button, and they go blank and nothing ever happens. Sad! Mac, Yosemite, Safari.

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bratwurst  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:20:02pm

Hillary should answer for dud movies produced by the entertainment arm of the military-industrial complex?

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retired cynic  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:21:08pm

re: #62 retired cynic

And I can see them if I click the Larger button, and I get a new page on YouTube. That works for me!

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:21:15pm

I’ve posted the pic (with proper accreditation to Bachman / Reuters) on my FB with just the simple comment “This will be the photo of the year when all is said and done”

RBS

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Frenchy  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:21:44pm

re: #15 The Vicious Babushka

Fucking pathetic and shameful.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:21:53pm

O/T

Got back a little it ago from the Grandfather Mtn Highland Games. A little cooked around the edges from too much sun. Great Celtic music, fantastic pipe bands all weekend and our clan tent was a good spot to watch the heavy athletics on the main field this year. I was front sword bearer for our clan this year in the parade of tartans and gave the salute to the reviewing stand with a Claidheamh Mòr great sword. Saw several friends we hadn’t caught up with in years.

Still good to be back home with a our own bed to sleep in, though.

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calochortus  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:22:16pm

re: #63 bratwurst

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Hillary should answer for dud movies produced by the entertainment arm of the military-industrial complex?

Sure. That seems reasonable.
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Belafon  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:22:51pm

re: #63 bratwurst

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SoundGuy 2016  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:24:22pm

re: #63 bratwurst

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Hillary should answer for dud movies produced by the entertainment arm of the military-industrial complex?

John Krasinski is in it as a special forces operative and if you don’t believe it here’s a boot in your ass you pinko commy wuss.

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unproven innocence  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:24:48pm

re: #50 jaunte

And how not to do it. (turn down your volume)

That’s a straight-up massive assault on First Amendment rights.

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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:25:39pm

re: #63 bratwurst

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Hillary should answer for dud movies produced by the entertainment arm of the military-industrial complex?

Ok, I get it. For the next kangaroo court the GOP will play this movie and ask Hillary questions right from the script.

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calochortus  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:25:45pm

We were over on the coast today, south of Half Moon Bay (Año Nuevo for you locals.) There was enough wind to keep the fog offshore where we were-and also enough to just about knock us over from time to time. Still, we had a nice hike, and I think I avoided most of the poison oak. Time will tell.

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majii  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:25:53pm

re: #63 bratwurst

Thanks for posting this. It confirms my thinking that some right-wingers believe things they see in TV series and movies are true when they’re not. One would think that a U.S. senator would know better than to tweet something from a movie and claim a political opponent should answer for what is in it. Cray cray is the only word that comes to mind to describe the reason Cornyn tweeted something so strange.

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Frankie Five Angels  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:25:55pm

re: #63 bratwurst

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Hillary should answer for dud movies produced by the entertainment arm of the military-industrial complex?

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Frankie Five Angels  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:27:06pm
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Belafon  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:28:12pm

Over at Amazon, it says two days until “Prime Day.” Shouldn’t they be holding it on the 11th or 13th instead of the 12th? :)

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:29:06pm

re: #63 bratwurst

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Hillary should answer for dud movies produced by the entertainment arm of the military-industrial complex?

Forget that, she needs to answer why she let aliens attack us on Independence Day.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

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Frankie Five Angels  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:30:14pm

re: #79 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Forget that, she needs to answer why she let aliens attack us on Independence Day.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

THERE ARE QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED!

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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:30:59pm

re: #79 Not a Sparkly Vampire

I’m still pissed off she let John Wayne get killed at the Alamo.

Bitch!

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:31:16pm
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jaunte  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:32:10pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:33:09pm
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Reality Based Steve  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:34:11pm

re: #82 jaunte

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re: #83 jaunte

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Don’t they know that this is totally ruining the RWNJ’s new tactic of referring to BLM as a “Terrorist Group” who wants to kill the police and see the city burn?

RBS

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SoundGuy 2016  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:34:19pm

I’m just loving the juxtaposition between LEO’s ‘keeping the peace’ and the others in siege mentality. It’s really awesome. I hope we can all learn from it.

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:34:40pm

FWIW, ideologically-compatible-with-Drumpfskind PM of Japan’s party got re-elected by a larger than expected margin:

Japan Vote Strengthens Shinzo Abe’s Goal to Change Constitution

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Frankie Five Angels  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:34:47pm

The fact that so many of these cops at these protests are posing for pictures, hugging, smiling with protestors, not only shows their professionalism, I think it shows that maybe they…agree with them?

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:34:52pm

re: #54 SoundGuy 2016

And now Collier with a microphone and a piano: not 13 instruments and 19 concurrent tracks to freak you the f out:

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Video

I’m still not a great fan, HOWEVER - I feel that his artistic voice is clearer when it’s just him and a piano and I appreciate him a little better this way. KISS Principle.

I don’t blame him one bit for playing with layered recordings though. There’s so much recording and production you can do these days with just a computer, a microphone, and the right software, right in your own room by yourself. If you have the talent, damned right, make cool stuff! If I was him, I’d do things like that too.

I can’t say why exactly, but he reminds me of Harry Connick, Jr.

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Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:34:53pm

re: #83 jaunte

It’s always good to remind ourselves of the words of John Roberts:

“Our country has changed,” Roberts wrote in the opinion he delivered that day, Shelby County v. Holder. It has wiped away so much of its racist past that the “extraordinary measures” employed by a key provision of the Voting Rights Act could no longer be justified.

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ObserverArt  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:36:48pm

re: #88 Frankie Five Angels

The fact that so many of these cops at these protests are posing for pictures, hugging, smiling with protestors, not only shows their professionalism, I think it shows that maybe they…agree with them?

Let’s hope. I always try to think eventually the goodness in man will win out. Sad part is you always have to go through so much bad to get to the good. We are nowhere near good at this time.

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mmmirele  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:38:43pm

re: #90 Skip Intro

It’s always good to remind ourselves of the words of John Roberts:

“Our country has changed,” Roberts wrote in the opinion he delivered that day, Shelby County v. Holder. It has wiped away so much of its racist past that the “extraordinary measures” employed by a key provision of the Voting Rights Act could no longer be justified.

I’d like to print those words out on a ream of paper—over and over and over again—and serve them to Roberts, C.J., for dinner. And breakfast. And lunch. For as long as it takes for him to eat them.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:39:04pm

re: #84 Charles Johnson

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wasn’t he the toothless guy against the Steubenville rape victim?

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:40:11pm
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SoundGuy 2016  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:40:37pm

re: #89 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’m still not a great fan, HOWEVER - I feel that his artistic voice is clearer when it’s just him and a piano and I appreciate him a little better this way. KISS Principle.

Honestly he freaks me the F out. But after seeing him on a piano and without missing one note, being as refined as many pros with years of experience… he’s not as scary any more.

Not on the same level, but I saw Chili Peppers in SF around 89 and they were freaking weird to me being a suburban kid bored with metal. I saw them at a show with Primus and Limbomaniacs for the first time, warping me out before RHCP even took the stage.

And I realized the best stuff weirds you out a little at first but then you acclimate.

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:41:52pm

re: #90 Skip Intro

Considering Oklahoma didn’t exist as a state during the Civil War, their commitment to “heritage” is impressive.
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:42:08pm

Awesome Tweetstorm by Goldie Taylor here.

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Belafon  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:43:07pm

re: #96 jaunte

Considering Oklahoma didn’t exist as a state during the Civil War, their commitment to “heritage” is impressive.
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It’s that Sooner heritage: Even the rules set on acquiring land taken from the Indians are too much, we’re gonna break those as well.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:45:06pm

re: #83 jaunte

My Imam and other members of my Mosque up there attended.

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gocart mozart  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:46:02pm

re: #63 bratwurst

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:49:22pm

re: #95 SoundGuy 2016

I watched the clip of him in NYC above and I get the feeling the audience wasn’t sure what to make of him. :) Seeing him do the technical stuff live is impressive too. He’s a bit like a jazz DJ, and his transitions to various instruments are awesome. The only other person I’ve seen do similar things is Reggie Watts. Come to think of it, I wonder if they could do a short bit together, that would be funky.

I was an adolescent with RHCP on the radio (mid-90’s) and I knew their hits by sound, not title, but I’ve gone through all their stuff on iTunes recently and concluded that they’re actually my favorite band and I just didn’t know it. It’s amazing to get to know acts that have been around for DECADES making great stuff.

I’ve been about as musical as a tree stump since I was 14, my voice changed and I lost absolutely all feeling for it, so great musicians are like aliens to me. I don’t understand it, I can only dimly grasp the process, but I’m astonished by complexity and dexterity.

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gocart mozart  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:49:24pm

re: #100 gocart mozart

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gocart mozart  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:50:13pm
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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:51:30pm

re: #103 gocart mozart

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BAYGHAZI?

Pearl Harbor. Never forget! *shakes fist*

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:53:26pm
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stpaulbear  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:55:36pm

re: #89 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’m still not a great fan, HOWEVER - I feel that his artistic voice is clearer when it’s just him and a piano and I appreciate him a little better this way. KISS Principle.

I don’t blame him one bit for playing with layered recordings though. There’s so much recording and production you can do these days with just a computer, a microphone, and the right software, right in your own room by yourself. If you have the talent, damned right, make cool stuff! If I was him, I’d do things like that too.

I can’t say why exactly, but he reminds me of Harry Connick, Jr.

I wish he would play with a band. Being so self-contained isn’t really such a good thing. He could learn a lot from working with other musician.

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Tigger2  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:56:21pm

re: #63 bratwurst

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Hillary should answer for dud movies produced by the entertainment arm of the military-industrial complex?

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Joe Bacon  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:57:56pm
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Targetpractice  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:57:59pm

re: #103 gocart mozart

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We’ll answer for Michael Bay the moment Germany apologies for Uwe Boll!

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CriticalDragon1177  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:58:44pm

Charles Johnson,

Wow! That photo of the girl in the dress and the cops running up to her is real?

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:59:08pm
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Joe Bacon  Jul 10, 2016 • 7:59:45pm

re: #109 Targetpractice

We’ll answer for Michael Bay the moment Germany apologies for Uwe Boll!

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Yes we RAZZIE members stung Uwe Boll good. And we received this reply!

Uwe Boll greets the Razzie Award Committee

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sagehen  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:00:03pm

re: #96 jaunte

Considering Oklahoma didn’t exist as a state during the Civil War, their commitment to “heritage” is impressive.
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Having missed the Civil War, Oklahoma had a lot of catching up to do with their preferred version of race relations:

en.wikipedia.org

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Joe Bacon  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:02:31pm
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BeachDem  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:04:54pm

re: #23 A Cranky One

Reminds me more of this photo:

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And this one:

(Newark 1967/Ferguson 2014)

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stpaulbear  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:05:14pm

re: #102 gocart mozart

How many Michael Bay movies should Clinton answer for, exactly?

I’ll vote for her twice if she apologizes for this one:

Everything Wrong With Armageddon In 14 Minutes Or Less

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:05:37pm

re: #110 CriticalDragon1177

Yes. Baton Rouge.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:06:21pm

re: #82 jaunte

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It is so fucking simple.

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CriticalDragon1177  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:08:47pm

re: #117 GlutenFreeJesus

Yes. Baton Rouge.

Yes, but its hard to believe that its real.

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VegasGolfer  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:11:07pm

So who’s gotten their Citi Costco Visa?
I got it and I was ready to transfer from my chase cards. So I started using it as my daily card.
I was booking a couple of hotel rooms in Chicago, and the card wouldn’t go thru.
After a few tries, I called CS. They said I only had a $1000 limit. (and I had an AMEX Costco for years with way more spending per month than the new limit I was given).
I have a Citi mortgage, and other Citi products and they still wouldn’t up my limit.
So as much as they are boasting how much rebates they are gonna give, if they only approve people for so little credit lines, they don’t have to pay out a lot rebates.
and before anybody tries to say I don’t make enough money or have enough assets, believe me I have more than enough. I think its another way that corporate america scams us and tries to rip us off at any oppotuniy available.

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Joe Bacon  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:13:14pm

re: #120 VegasGolfer

So who’s gotten their Citi Costco Visa?
I got it and I was ready to transfer from my chase cards. So I started using it as my daily card.
I was booking a couple of hotel rooms in Chicago, and the card wouldn’t go thru.
After a few tries, I called CS. They said I only had a $1000 limit. (and I had an AMEX Costco for years with way more spending per month than the new limit I was given).
I have a Citi mortgage, and other Citi products and they still wouldn’t up my limit.
So as much as they are boasting how much rebates they are gonna give, if they only approve people for so little credit lines, they don’t have to pay out a lot rebates.
and before anybody tries to say I don’t make enough money or have enough assets, believe me I have more than enough. I think its another way that corporate america scams us and tries to rip us off at any oppotuniy available.

I dumped Citibank for a Union Plus card when my Dad passed away. They wouldn’t authorize the flight home to Pittsburgh for his funeral. Union Plus did and they gave me a grace period for repayment. I F’N hate Citibank with a passion!

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BeachDem  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:13:40pm

re: #63 bratwurst

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Hillary should answer for dud movies produced by the entertainment arm of the military-industrial complex?

Something else Hillary should answer for #13HoursMovie

OK—Cornyn may have lapped Goehmert for dumbest thing said by a Texan.

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calochortus  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:14:13pm

re: #120 VegasGolfer

I have heard complaints about their new Costco Visas, but I think they’ll take any Visa now, which is handy. I have no idea how much the rebates are for their own cards, though.

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Joe Bacon  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:15:21pm

re: #123 calochortus

I have no problems using my Union Plus Master Card with Costco when I order merchandise through their web page.

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VegasGolfer  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:15:26pm

re: #123 calochortusyes any visa will do.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:16:16pm

HURR HURR HILLARY DOESN’T DESERVE TO BE PREDINEST BECAUSE REASON HURR WHARGLEBARGLE
The most incoherent diatribe you will read all day==>

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Frankie Five Angels  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:16:49pm
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VegasGolfer  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:16:51pm

re: #124 Joe BaconVisa was always accepted. Just not at the warehouse until June

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:17:25pm

re: #89 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’m still not a great fan, HOWEVER - I feel that his artistic voice is clearer when it’s just him and a piano and I appreciate him a little better this way. KISS Principle.

I don’t blame him one bit for playing with layered recordings though. There’s so much recording and production you can do these days with just a computer, a microphone, and the right software, right in your own room by yourself. If you have the talent, damned right, make cool stuff! If I was him, I’d do things like that too.

I can’t say why exactly, but he reminds me of Harry Connick, Jr.

Ah, I love Harry Connick Jr.

Harry Connick Jr. - Recipe For Love

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calochortus  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:18:17pm

re: #124 Joe Bacon

I have no problems using my Union Plus Master Card with Costco when I order merchandise through their web page.

Yeah, I think they’ll take anything for a lot of stuff on the website, but until now it has been AmEx only at the stores. So until now I’ve just been writing checks.

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:18:47pm

re: #126 The Vicious Babushka

She’s losing the critical Nick Gillespie demo.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:19:58pm
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Joe Bacon  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:20:18pm
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:20:34pm

re: #126 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR HILLARY DOESN’T DESERVE TO BE PREDINEST BECAUSE REASON HURR WHARGLEBARGLE
The most incoherent diatribe you will read all day==>

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Even I won’t bother reading that one.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:21:31pm

re: #92 mmmirele

I’d like to print those words out on a ream of paper—over and over and over again—and serve them to Roberts, C.J., for dinner. And breakfast. And lunch. For as long as it takes for him to eat them.

clueless asshole in position so high, so far above.

He’d change his mind following one black person’s account on the twitter.

Nah. He’s eating lobster in some beautiful paid for resort.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:23:35pm

re: #91 ObserverArt

Let’s hope. I always try to think eventually the goodness in man will win out. Sad part is you always have to go through so much bad to get to the good. We are nowhere near good at this time.

Actually there’s a lot of good. The problem is what I call ‘the turd in the punchbowl effect’.

It doesn’t take much to make the whole thing unpalatable.

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BlueSpotinAL  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:25:22pm

re: #120 VegasGolfer

So who’s gotten their Citi Costco Visa?
I got it and I was ready to transfer from my chase cards. So I started using it as my daily card.
I was booking a couple of hotel rooms in Chicago, and the card wouldn’t go thru.
After a few tries, I called CS. They said I only had a $1000 limit. (and I had an AMEX Costco for years with way more spending per month than the new limit I was given).
I have a Citi mortgage, and other Citi products and they still wouldn’t up my limit.
So as much as they are boasting how much rebates they are gonna give, if they only approve people for so little credit lines, they don’t have to pay out a lot rebates.
and before anybody tries to say I don’t make enough money or have enough assets, believe me I have more than enough. I think its another way that corporate america scams us and tries to rip us off at any oppotuniy available.

I have had no problems so far, got a message my limit was X (which is about the same as my previously high Amex limit) after my first payment (it took me a while to figure out that the remaining AMEX bill was part of the current balance on the Costco Visa). It could be a function of what other cards you have. My Costco Visa is the only account I have with with Citi.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:27:14pm
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Romantic Heretic  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:30:30pm

re: #138 The Vicious Babushka

This is assuming President-For-Life Trump will let her leave.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:31:02pm

re: #138 The Vicious Babushka

She damn well better not. If she leaves, that means Trump picks two justices.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:32:37pm

re: #126 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR HILLARY DOESN’T DESERVE TO BE PREDINEST BECAUSE REASON HURR WHARGLEBARGLE
The most incoherent diatribe you will read all day==>

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oh, they made her orange. Wonder why.

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CleverToad  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:32:41pm

re: #138 The Vicious Babushka

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No no no!
We’ll need her worse than ever if Trump gets in.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:37:34pm

re: #142 CleverToad

No no no!
We’ll need her worse than ever if Trump gets in.

Talk about a reason to live.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:40:11pm

re: #119 CriticalDragon1177

Not lately. :-/

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:40:25pm

Night gang, I’m off to bed. Diving today was about what I expected after they got 7 inches of rain in 3 days up there. Bad vis shallow, but better down below the thermoclines around 60 foot or so. Weirdest part was coming up over a ledge into the shallows around 20 foot or so, and there was so much particulate floating in the water and lit by the sun that it was like swimming in a ping-pong ball. Vis was maybe a foot or two, and because light was constant in all directions up, down, left and right you got very disoriented very quickly. Diving with an old buddy who’s also a dive master and two new divers, one just got certified last week. Both of them did much better than their experience would suggest, and both learned some good lessons in conditions that were bad, but weren’t really threatening. Best part, very good company to be around, we had a lot of fun. I got some practice work in for my upcoming training so that was also appreciated.

I”m hoping that the protests that follow will follow the pattern of OK City and Memphis and not Baton Rouge. I hope that all my lizard friends stay safe, warm (but not too hot), and enjoy a nice juicy fly when the oppertunity presents itself.

I’m otter here.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:40:31pm

The Rage Furby couldn’t help himself. He’s gone public on Facebook again, but he’s using his GotNewsDotCom page now.

facebook.com

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VegasGolfer  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:42:17pm

Reported to FB

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:42:18pm

It took me most of yesterday, but I finally wrote a GotNwes post debunking Chuckie’s lies about Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Thanks to snopes.com, it didn’t take as long as usual.

As usual, the trouble with Rage Furby, SMOTI and other RWNJs is they know how to package shit to be retweeted and shared widely. By the time sane and honest people manage to debunk their lies, the lies have already become established as RWNJ canon.

I paged it, too.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:42:58pm

My kitty, not so new anymore. Is just the piece of work I needed in this life. She’s hilarious. She’s a tortoise shell, which has a bit of a rep.

She’ll mew at me for such a long time (with a full bowl of chow) to the point I’m wondering if I’m going to drop down dead in a few.

Nah, she’s just whack.

& beautiful.

Signed,

Cat Lady.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:44:01pm

re: #146 Charles Johnson

The Rage Furby couldn’t help himself. He’s gone public on Facebook again, but he’s using his GotNewsDotCom page now.

facebook.com

I was waiting to see how long he could last not saying something offensive in either Twitter or Facebook. About a month this time?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:45:36pm

re: #116 stpaulbear

I’ll vote for her twice if she apologizes for this one:

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Everything wrong with Armageddon? Apart from the stupid science and a lot of other stuff?

The same thing that’s wrong with just about every “One Guy Sacrifices Himself For Everyone Else Movie” - people tell him not to.

“No, Bruce Willis! Don’t sacrifice yourself so all of humanity might survive! Spare yourself, and you can come home to a dead planet where you’ll die anyway!”

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:45:48pm

re: #150 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I was waiting to see how long he could last not saying something offensive in either Twitter or Facebook. About a month this time?

Yep, about a month and a half.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:46:09pm

Why does Rage Furby love that burning Hindenburg photo so much? Doesn’t he get the connotation that GotNewsDotCom is the airship going down?

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Tigger2  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:46:19pm
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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:48:28pm

re: #148 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It took me most of yesterday, but I finally wrote a GotNwes post debunking Chuckie’s lies about Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Thanks to snopes.com, it didn’t take as long as usual.

As usual, the trouble with Rage Furby, SMOTI and other RWNJs is they know how to package shit to be retweeted and shared widely. By the time sane and honest people manage to debunk their lies, the lies have already become established as RWNJ canon.

I paged it, too.

OMG your graphic!!!!!!!!!

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William Lewis  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:48:56pm

Good night all. It’ll be nice to sleep the night through and know that a certain troll will not be there tomorrow morning stinking the place up.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:49:34pm
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CleverToad  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:50:07pm

Fire season continues apace in Colorado.

The spousal unit just got home awhile ago from taking the kid up for a week at summer camp. Now waiting to hear if the camp will need to be evacuated in the next day or so due to the Hayden Pass fire that’s raging a couple of valleys away — currently at 5000+ acres, 0% containment. They were watching the smoke billow up during the check-in, and hubby came back by a different route than intended to avoid possible detours.

Hoping everyone stays safe up there. Hoping the winds don’t blow the fire south. It’s a very nice, rather old Lutheran summer camp, as in I went there myself in 1969 & 70 and stayed in some of the cabins that are still in use. Would be so hard if they get burned out the same year they finally got to buy the land they’ve been leasing for all these decades.

This is to go with the fires west and north of Denver that Teleskiguy’s been posting about. Rocky Mountain summertime.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:52:06pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:52:56pm

re: #155 Stanley Sea

OMG your graphic!!!!!!!!!

It’s based off one that Rage Furby I think adapted (stole) from one I had used earlier. He conveniently colored his photo blue for me.

Chuck’s

The one I use at GotNwes for “scary {class minority}” articles.

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plansbandc  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:57:45pm

Repost from dead thread because I like it. :D

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teleskiguy  Jul 10, 2016 • 8:58:30pm

re: #159 Charles Johnson

I guess I should append a sarc tag here?

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Stanley Sea  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:00:26pm

I’m going to sign off.

Busy week ahead, I’m going for 9 hours sleep.

Everyone should get 9 hrs.

xxoo

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teleskiguy  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:06:34pm

Y’all need to know this if you don’t.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:07:18pm

Found on Facebook. Don’t mess with armadillos.

Texas man shoots armadillo, bullet ricochets back into his face
Animal’s status unknown because authorities were unable to find it

cbc.ca

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:10:48pm

re: #165 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Found on Facebook. Don’t mess with armadillos.

Texas man shoots armadillo, bullet ricochets back into his face
Animal’s status unknown because authorities were unable to find it

cbc.ca

That story is about a year old. I was not aware that armadillo were already ranging into Tennessee until I saw a roadkilled one by the interstate.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:14:12pm

re: #166 Feline Fearless Leader

That story is about a year old. I was not aware that armadillo were already ranging into Tennessee until I saw a roadkilled one by the interstate.

Sometime in the ’90s we started getting possums here in Washington, most of them like you say, flattened out on the road. I honestly thought they were limited to east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:14:58pm

re: #166 Feline Fearless Leader

That story is about a year old. I was not aware that armadillo were already ranging into Tennessee until I saw a roadkilled one by the interstate.

Sneaky critters, eluding border patrol. Probably trying to steal raccoons’ jobs.
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calochortus  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:17:48pm

re: #167 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

We’ve had possums in CA for many decades, although they’re not native.

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teleskiguy  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:26:17pm
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calochortus  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:26:57pm

Goodnight all. Hasta mañana.

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Alyosha  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:35:47pm

re: #126 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR HILLARY DOESN’T DESERVE TO BE PREDINEST BECAUSE REASON HURR WHARGLEBARGLE
The most incoherent diatribe you will read all day==>

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Wait… I thought the Daily Beast was supposed to be doing the bidding of Chelsea Clinton?

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Dave In Austin  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:36:11pm

re: #165 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Found on Facebook. Don’t mess with armadillos.

Texas man shoots armadillo, bullet ricochets back into his face
Animal’s status unknown because authorities were unable to find it

cbc.ca

A story…. I’m working nites at the ol Data Center. Early this morning about 4am, I was making a pot of coffee in the break room and decided to step outside while it brewed. Typically at nite I see skunks working the curb line, a few evenings back I had a family of 7 trash pandas walk by the windows as I had my 2am meal. This morning I saw something moving out in the grass by the curb that was neither skunk not TP. Only 1 thing left in central Texas, Dillo…..

I have yet to see one up close. I see dead ones all the time and I think the “Necks” in these part go out of their way to run them down. Lots of Frisbee dillos on the roads around here. Anyway, Dillo is busy foraging in the lawn, his snout is buried to his ears. Poking and rooting, I walked right up to him, he’s literally at my feet and still rooting like crazy. I could have snatched him up by the tail but that wasn’t my intent. Instead, I just reached out and lightly smacked the rear of its carapace. Dillos head shot up, it made some sort of frightened sound and he was off towards the fence line like a rocket.

Strange animal. And the armor they carry is dense and hard. Under the right circumstances and the right angle I could see where if could deflect a low velocity round.
Anyway, that was my experience with an armadillo last night.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:41:39pm
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retired cynic  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:42:54pm

re: #166 Feline Fearless Leader

I read that local law enforcement figured he’d made some booboo with his gun, and made up the armadillo part to make it look somewhat better. Sounds about right!

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Jenner7  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:44:38pm

Such a contrast between Dallas PD, posing and engaging with protesters, and LA PD responding in riot gear, arresting people for no reason.

It’s so simple. Give respect to the community, and they will respond in kind. But come out looking for a fight, you’ll get one.

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:45:02pm

[Williams] had posted pictures of her young daughter, India, onto Facebook and the man wrote: “We’ll see how much her life matters soon.. better be careful leaving your info open where she can be found :) hold her close tonight, it’ll be the last time.”

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:51:00pm
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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:51:52pm

re: #173 Dave In Austin

A story…. I’m working nites at the ol Data Center. Early this morning about 4am, I was making a pot of coffee in the break room and decided to step outside while it brewed. Typically at nite I see skunks working the curb line, a few evenings back I had a family of 7 trash pandas walk by the windows as I had my 2am meal. This morning I saw something moving out in the grass by the curb that was neither skunk not TP. Only 1 thing left in central Texas, Dillo…..

I have yet to see one up close. I see dead ones all the time and I think the “Necks” in these part go out of their way to run them down. Lots of Frisbee dillos on the roads around here. Anyway, Dillo is busy foraging in the lawn, his snout is buried to his ears. Poking and rooting, I walked right up to him, he’s literally at my feet and still rooting like crazy. I could have snatched him up by the tail but that wasn’t my intent. Instead, I just reached out and lightly smacked the rear of its carapace. Dillos head shot up, it made some sort of frightened sound and he was off towards the fence line like a rocket.

Strange animal. And the armor they carry is dense and hard. Under the right circumstances and the right angle I could see where if could deflect a low velocity round.
Anyway, that was my experience with an armadillo last night.

You’re lucky you didn’t get faced. In general, when a ‘dillo gets surprised, it’s defense mechanism is to jump vertically about three feet, straight up. This is generally effective in a rural desert environment, but disastrous when scared by a Peter-car while crossing a highway.

I’ve got one living under my laundry shed here in South Austin. Can’t see shit, has fantastic hearing, and when upset, is as fast as a little organic tank-like object can be.

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majii  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:53:00pm

re: #177 jaunte

It takes someone with a depraved personality to attack a a helpless, innocent child no matter the child’s race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, etc.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:53:17pm

Anarchists
Almost as loathsome as Illinois Nazis

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Dave In Austin  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:57:16pm

re: #179 austin_blue

You’re lucky you didn’t get faced. In general, when a ‘dillo gets surprised, it’s defense mechanism is to jump vertically about three feet, straight up. This is generally effective in a rural desert environment, but disastrous when scared by a Peter-car while crossing a highway.

I’ve got one living under my laundry shed here in South Austin. Can’t see shit, has fantastic hearing, and when upset, is as fast as a little organic tank-like object can be.

I work over by the airport where I saw this one. I live out near Jonestown in the country and have never seen one, and I have a huge yard and garden. Plenty of trash pandas and fox but no skunks or dillos.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:58:01pm

re: #180 majii

It takes someone with a depraved personality to attack a a helpless, innocent child no matter the child’s race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, etc.

No, that is a full-blown clinical sociopath in a police uniform. It’s important to make clear definitions of what the threat is, and that man needs to to be fired and shunned for the societal threat that he surely is.

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2016 • 9:59:54pm
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A Cranky One  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:00:34pm

re: #173 Dave In Austin

So you spanked the dillo yesterday?

TMI.

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retired cynic  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:00:49pm

Sick.

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retired cynic  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:03:09pm

re: #186 retired cynic

Sick.

Not Dave in Austin, but the ex-cop outside Kansas City….

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majii  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:06:01pm

re: #183 austin_blue

I chose the adjective concerning his behavior carefully because I didn’t want to draw a conclusion about the guy since I don’t know him. I do know, though, that he should never be employed in any job in which he has contact with the public since it’s obvious that he does not believe in treating everyone he comes into contact with with respect. What angers me most about what he did is that he attacked a defenseless child, the child of a woman who didn’t even know him.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:08:33pm

re: #182 Dave In Austin

I work over by the airport where I saw this one. I live out near Jonestown in the country and have never seen one, and I have a huge yard and garden. Plenty of trash pandas and fox but no skunks or dillos.

I’m surprised! We’ve got both red and grey foxes, ‘coons (duh), ‘possums, and ‘dillos here in Bouldin. The odd coyote, white tail, and skunk have been spotted, but rarely. And one morning I woke up and found a dead six-foot no shit Western Diamondback (the justifiably feared Crotalus Atrox in front of my house. Oh, and a flock of peacocks live at the Green Pasture’s restaurant. They’re a hoot.

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retired cynic  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:10:59pm

re: #189 austin_blue

… dead six-foot no shit Western Diamondback (the justifiably feared Crotalus Atrox in front of my house.

Nope.

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TedStriker  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:12:24pm

re: #189 austin_blue

I’m surprised! We’ve got both red and grey foxes, ‘coons (duh), ‘possums, and ‘dillos here in Bouldin. The odd coyote, white tail, and skunk have been spotted, but rarely. And one morning I woke up and found a dead six-foot no shit Western Diamondback (the justifiably feared Crotalus Atrox in front of my house. Oh, and a flock of peacocks live at the Green Pasture’s restaurant. They’re a hoot.

re: #190 retired cynic

Nope.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:12:50pm

re: #188 majii

I chose the adjective concerning his behavior carefully because I didn’t want to draw a conclusion about the guy since I don’t know him. I do know, though, that he should never be employed in any job in which he has contact with the public since it’s obvious that he does not believe in treating everyone he comes into contact with with respect. What angers me most about what he did is that he attacked a defenseless child, the child of a woman who didn’t even know him.

Exactly. Imagine the mind that could put those letters together and then post it. That’s a classic sociopath. Not a shred of empathy in that human’s soul.

Just bug-shit crazy.

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Kragar  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:16:59pm
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Dave In Austin  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:17:25pm

re: #189 austin_blue

I got Coral snakes….. No Rattlers (yet). Lots of coral snakes…

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retired cynic  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:18:29pm

re: #194 Dave In Austin

I got Coral snakes….. No Rattlers (yet). Lots of coral snakes…

Nope. Absolutely not! (Of course, we have copperheads and a few rattlers, but I encourage black snakes!)

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:23:24pm

re: #191 TedStriker

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We had a twelve inch rain two days before. I took pictures of the rattler and e-mailed them to a herpetologist I knew at UT. He said that they are are very territorial and rarely move more than a couple of miles from where they are born. He suspected that the flooding pushed the snake into the Colorado River from the Wild Basin Nature Preserve and it came back on shore near West Bouldin creek where it was looking for someplace that resembled home when it got gushed in front of my house.

NB: Someone had already cut the rattles off of it by the time I found it. In later conversation, my neighbor (the late and dear) Judy Fowler (RIP) said she had walked her dogs down the street 15 minutes before I found the serpent corpse. Everybody got lucky.

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teleskiguy  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:23:26pm

re: #164 teleskiguy

Captain Beefheart - Orange Claw Hammer

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Lidane  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:38:46pm

re: #194 Dave In Austin

I got Coral snakes….. No Rattlers (yet). Lots of coral snakes…

A friend of mine who recently moved out to the Bellville area posted an image on her FB today of a snake her dogs killed. She wanted to know what it was. It was a coral.

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teleskiguy  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:40:38pm

Apparently those are pants that Frank used to wear and Dweezil found them later.

He’s playing “Muffin Man” in this photo, or close to it.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:41:14pm

re: #198 Lidane

A friend of mine who recently moved out to the Bellville area posted an image on her FB today of a snake her dogs killed. She wanted to know what it was. It was a coral.

I probably relocate 2 a year off my place. If you have lots of brown earth snakes, there will be corals about. That’s there primary food.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:44:43pm

re: #194 Dave In Austin

I got Coral snakes….. No Rattlers (yet). Lots of coral snakes…

The lovely thing about coral snakes is that they are jewel-toned cobras and that you really have to really fuck up to get one of them to get their death juice in you. They have short, fixed fangs and they will invariably flee. The bad things about coral snakes is that if you are stupid enough to get bitten, you’ve got an hour or so to live. Scarlet king snakes are their natural mimics, for defense from predators.

“Red touch yellow, kill a fellow, red touch black, a friend of Jack.”

I’ve only seen two Corals since I moved here, both 4-footers in the Barton Creek green belt. Beautiful creatures. Oddly enough, I’ve never seen a scarlet king snake in Austin.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:50:04pm

re: #201 austin_blue

I don’t think Scarlet kings are endemic to the area. I’ve seen them in the pines in Az. I think there are some other types down by the valley. That also got big indigos down there.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 10:51:46pm

re: #199 teleskiguy

Apparently those are pants that Frank used to wear and Dweezil found them later.

He’s playing “Muffin Man” in this photo, or close to it.

I’ve got a copy of Zappa doing the “Muffin Man” at the Armadillo on CD. The intro is Proustian stream o’ consciousness and hilarious.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:01:52pm

I swear, “Preacher” on AMC is bizarro world.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:06:51pm

re: #204 Dave In Austin

I swear, “Preacher” on AMC is bizarro world.

I watched the first episode, and decided it was not my cup of tea. More interested in watching Dark Matter season 2.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:16:20pm

re: #205 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Is that Netflix?

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Nyet  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:21:31pm

Hey, wheatdog, I noticed that Chucky’s page has changed - earlier he referenced an alleged post saying “Merry Cripmas” or something like that, it’s no longer there. Was it fake?

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:24:31pm
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Nyet  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:24:33pm

Meanwhile I see that the time-outed troll (who has no future here, so that better be a permanent time-out) has lost ~1000 karma points in one day. Must be some sort of a record.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:24:50pm

re: #202 Dave In Austin

I don’t think Scarlet kings are endemic to the area. I’ve seen them in the pines in Az. I think there are some other types down by the valley. That also got big indigos down there.

Probably right. More of a west Texas snake. Still, interesting that the vast majority of ringed snakes in the US mimic Corals.

Exceptions are the king snakes that don’t overlap the coral’s range.

When I was in pilot training in Del Rio, I caught and cataloged a seven foot, six inch Indigo in Quemado. Gorgeous animal. Upset, but didn’t strike once. Got the numbers, released it, no hoo-hoo.

Yep. I’m a herp geek. Once had the record for an Eastern Milk Snake in Virginia at 50”. I was 14 in 1970.

Later that year I got nailed by a Copperhead. Stepped on it in autumn leaves (hunting snakes). If you have never been snake-bit, or given birth, you have no idea what pain is. It’s like a glue gun stuffing napalm into the back of your calf. It’s just relentless agony.

Fortunately, Bethesda was only thirty minutes away. My dad was commanding VMFA-314 in Chu Lai, my mom was frantic, and my lymph system looked like someone had taken yellow highlighters to the insides of may arms, legs, armpits, and groin.

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teleskiguy  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:25:52pm

OK, here goes …

Facebook

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:27:40pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:29:05pm

re: #206 Dave In Austin

Is that Netflix?

Space, Canadian scifi channel

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Nyet  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:31:32pm

Charles, you’re still here, so I wanted to bring a small issue to your attention: in a “pop-up” comment window the link at the comment number is not complete. E.g. if I go to the comment #210 above and click on the #202 button, the link in the window will be littlegreenfootballs.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:36:27pm

re: #206 Dave In Austin

Is that Netflix?

Sorry. It’s also on SyFy.re: #207 Nyet

Hey, wheatdog, I noticed that Chucky’s page has changed - earlier he referenced an alleged post saying “Happy Cripmas” or something like that, it’s no longer there. Was it fake?

Gotnooz still has it. I am pretty sure it was Castile cracking a joke with a friend or a cousin, but who knows? Anyway, it’s irrelevant, except to Chuckie who would probably shit his pants if a real Crip said boo to him.

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majii  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:38:11pm

re: #208 Charles Johnson

Shouldn’t those at Progressives Today stay off Twitter and be trying to raise the money for Michael Strickland’s bail? Since they’re not, I’m going to assume that they really don’t give a d*mn that his *ss is locked up and can’t get out. He’s been a very useful idiot for their cause.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:38:18pm

re: #210 austin_blue

We should get coffee (or something stronger) sometime. I had a box of what ever I found under a log in the garage since I was 4. Herps are a 1st line fascination for me, always have been always will be. I finally got my neighbors to quit killing the rat snakes where I live. What is it about Texans and snakes anyway? I’ve never come across so many pussy’s in all my life. I’m thinking it must be something biblical.

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Nyet  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:38:37pm

re: #215 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Sorry. It’s also on SyFy.

Gotnooz still has it. I am pretty sure it was Castile cracking a joke with a friend or a cousin, but who knows? Anyway, it’s irrelevant, except to Chuckie who would probably shit his pants if a real Crip said boo to him.

Oops, sorry, turns out it’s at the very beginning, so I pretty much scrolled down without noticing it. It doesn’t matter in terms of the shooting, but it does matter in terms of whether snopes is good with their debunking.

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teleskiguy  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:42:11pm

re: #211 teleskiguy

This Facebook post showed up and was scaled correctly in the comment. I embedded the *embed* code.

Facebook is weird and whack-a-doodle with their code because they can be. They’re the ones with a billion users.

And their little nickel-and-dime code bullshit is what it is, total bullshit. They see something like Charles making it easy to post FACEBOOK posts to his own website and FACEBOOK says “we need to make it hard and what the fuck” and I’m all like WHAT THE FUCK?!? Charles is trying to help you, you weirdos!

This comment just reeks of Val-Speak.

Valley Girl

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:45:17pm

re: #214 Nyet

Thanks - fixed.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:45:39pm

Wheat

They are showing some of the flooding in China. Is this affecting you?

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fern01  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:50:39pm

re: #37 Skip Intro

And I really wish Obama wasn’t going to Dallas this week.

For many reasons, I also wish he would not go. Too many memories, too much rah rah rah of LE and it is time someone else took over the mourner in chief position. Maybe the GOP in congress could head down there to see what they have wrought.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:53:21pm

re: #217 Dave In Austin

We should get coffee (or something stronger) sometime. I had a box of what ever I found under a log in the garage since I was 4. Herps are a 1st line fascination for me, always have been always will be. I finally got my neighbors to quit killing the rat snakes where I live. What is it about Texans and snakes anyway? I’ve never come across so many pussy’s in all my life. I’m thinking it must be something biblical.

Ah, it’s Texas. People would rather kill rat snakes than get rid of the wood rats living in their attics.Genesis, dontcha know. Snakes is eeevilll.

But please, let’s get together the next time you wander into The Big City from Jonestown. Many a Pub available in South Austin for a friendly pint.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2016 • 11:57:59pm

re: #222 fern01

For many reasons, I also wish he would not go. Too many memories, too much rah rah rah of LE and it is time someone else took over the mourner in chief position. Maybe the GOP in congress could head down there to see what they have wrought.

That will never happen. The GOP has no standing. They are the instigators, at a very fundamental level. I don’t think the POTUS has a choice. The situation is fraught, and he must speak. Let’s just hope that whatever grassy knolls nearby are secured.

Seriously.

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:00:12am

I notice that while the 2nd amdt. states that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, it says nothing about any right to manufacture and import arms and ammunition. If it were up to me, the gun problem would be solved within a few decades without infringing on the 2nd amdt. rights. ;)

half-/

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teleskiguy  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:07:38am
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fern01  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:10:08am

re: #224 austin_blue

That will never happen. The GOP has no standing. They are the instigators, at a very fundamental level. I don’t think the POTUS has a choice. The situation is fraught, and he must speak. Let’s just hope that whatever grassy knolls nearby are secured.

Seriously.

He has a choice - he always chooses to do what is right rather than what is best for himself. His security detail will earn their salary many times over on Tuesday.

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Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:10:32am

re: #175 retired cynic

I read that local law enforcement figured he’d made some booboo with his gun, and made up the armadillo part to make it look somewhat better. Sounds about right!

The fact that he shot at an armadillo doesn’t mean he hit the armadillo. Odds are the ricochet was off a couple rocks, and he has an inflated sense of his own marksmanship skills.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:33:37am

re: #221 Dave In Austin

Wheat

They are showing some of the flooding in China. Is this affecting you?

Not in my city, but in the towns closer to the Yangtze there are some real problems.

One of my students, who comes from Anhui province to the east, says the government deliberately released water from the dams to minimize flooding in Hunan and Hubei, which meant Anhui bore the worst of it. Anhui is a poorer province than Hunan, so she says poor people get the shaft. Not sure if the water release part is true, but I can believe it.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:35:55am

re: #229 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It seems it’s always the same the world over. Be safe.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:37:07am

re: #230 Dave In Austin

It seems it’s always the same the world over. Be safe.

Thanks.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:40:48am

re: #223 austin_blue

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:52:20am

Real quote from a brogressive at c99:

Former Democrats are linking/quoting National Review and Fox News to each other - You made us do it, DNC!

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:56:46am

re: #233 Nyet

I think probably a lot of us would happily settle for unbiased news sources accurately reporting actual investigative reporting regarding things which affect us or should, especially in areas we’d otherwise be unlikely to hear about.

At any rate, it seems to me that ‘right-wing’ is now basically a term for pathological corporate culture propaganda while ‘left wing’ is simply sane and sustainable. Although for the first time, I am, as you’ve pointed out, reading some FOX stuff and, bizarrely, even something from Breitbart?! without snickering and making faces at the screen. Never thought I’d see the day…

She wouldn’t stop and think just where her hatred of Hillary brought her…

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:01:54am

re: #234 Nyet

Agreed, they are absolutely not our “friends”…
At best they are allies of convenience.

It is unforuntate though that currently we have to rely on some pretty unsavory people to be our allies.

Also, very enlightening.

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:10:00am

Chomsky not pure enough for them:

that really surprised me…
i have a hard time featuring someone who identifies as something of an anarchist urging people to vote for a neoliberal warmonger.

i would have hoped that he would have gotten behind a real people’s uprising and used his gravitas to push hard for it.

perhaps he has just run out of optimism about the american public.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:16:38am

re: #126 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR HILLARY DOESN’T DESERVE TO BE PREDINEST BECAUSE REASON HURR WHARGLEBARGLE
The most incoherent diatribe you will read all day==>

There is something behind this argument, namely that if the GOP had been able to nominate anyone of any stature, Hillary would not be the favored candidate right now.

But they didn’t, and that should say enough in itself…

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austin_blue  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:22:10am

re: #225 Nyet

I notice that while the 2nd amdt. states that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, it says nothing about any right to manufacture and import arms and ammunition. If it were up to me, the gun problem would be solved within a few decades without infringing on the 2nd amdt. rights. ;)

half-/

Welp, it seems to me that the problems is bullets. The second amendment guaranteed the arms at the time, which were single shot pistols and rifles. I have no problems there. In the 1930’s regulations on machine guns were instituted, which have passed muster from the SCOTUS ever since. The problem today is magazines and clips.

In WW2, the M1 30.06 semi-automatic rifle had an 8-round en bloc clip. We beat the Nazis. An officer’s field weapon was a .45 semi-automatic pistol with a 7-round magazine. We beat the Japanese.

My dad was born and grew up in Denver in the 20’s/30’s. He was a hunter and fisherman before he went to war. My first gun was a single-shot .410 shotgun for pheasant shooting. Back then, pheasants could actually be flushed with dogs. I spent my first shooting day pounding the shit out of my 10-year old shoulder. Late in the day, my dad sat behind me and explained how to lead a bird. One of the dogs flushed one and my dad pulled the trigger over my finger, leading the bird correctly, and the bird fell. The next day, I got three birds in six shots.

I eventually graduated to larger guns. We went elk hunting and I used a Remington 700 chambered for 30.06. My dad was clear that if you couldn’t make a kill with two rounds you were a shit hunter.

Now we have the modern age where shooters have the opportunity to duct-tape three thirty round magazines to each other, decreasing reloading time to two seconds or less.

If all internal and external magazines and clips were limited to eight rounds, and possession of clips, or magazines larger than this resulted in an automatic felony conviction resulting in two years in the Federal graybar hotel, do you think this would help?

Or we should go Full Australia?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:24:46am

re: #189 austin_blue

I’m surprised! We’ve got both red and grey foxes, ‘coons (duh), ‘possums, and ‘dillos here in Bouldin. The odd coyote, white tail, and skunk have been spotted, but rarely. And one morning I woke up and found a dead six-foot no shit Western Diamondback (the justifiably feared Crotalus Atrox in front of my house. Oh, and a flock of peacocks live at the Green Pasture’s restaurant. They’re a hoot.

We were just reminiscing about seeing a fox running around in downtown Frankfurt, Germany, last year. Granted, it is surrounded by an extensive green belt, but this was right in the middle of town in front of the opera.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:42:30am

re: #209 Nyet

Meanwhile I see that the time-outed troll (who has no future here, so that better be a permanent time-out) has lost ~1000 karma points in one day. Must be some sort of a record.

But how will we get along without his wisdom to enlighten us? Let’s see…The invasion of Japan would never have happened anyway, so the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the greatest crimes in history, but when the Israelis nuke somebody, that’ll be OK because to suggest otherwise would be anti-semitism. And anybody who wears red or blue are risking getting killed by the Crips or the Bloods respectively.

Did I miss any of his hobby-horses?

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:45:32am

re: #240 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

but when the Israelis nuke somebody, that’ll be OK because to suggest otherwise would be anti-semitism

Wow, I missed it. Did he really say it?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:48:13am

re: #241 Nyet

Wow, I missed it. Did he really say it?

No, no, that’s my extrapolation because everything seems to be anti-semitism. He does seem to think that anything Israel does to “defend themselves” is legit, though.

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:49:19am

re: #242 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

And anybody who critiques any policy is a new Hitler.

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Alyosha  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:50:04am

FUCK SAKE…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:50:19am

To be fair, the only one I was awake to participate in was the atomic bomb/Japanese invasion one—I just read the others after the fact. Seems to be a very sensitive soul….

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:50:58am

re: #244 Alyosha

Murdoch, ‘nuff said.

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:52:08am

re: #244 Alyosha

“Pro-freedom”, uh huh. Except for Muslims.

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Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:53:28am

re: #235 Nyet

Agreed, they are absolutely not our “friends”…
At best they are allies of convenience.

It is unforuntate though that currently we have to rely on some pretty unsavory people to be our allies.

“I’ll never vote for Hillary! Working with people who don’t live up to your moral standards in order to defeat even worse people is not an acceptable course of action. So, in order to defeat Hillary, we’re going to have to work with some pretty unsavory…

…wait a minute…”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:54:01am

re: #243 Nyet

And anybody who critiques any policy is a new Hitler.

and don’t forget that odd subset of Fundamentalists who think all Jews are going to hell unless they find Jesus, but still need Israel in order to fulfill their Biblical End Times prophecies…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:56:07am

re: #243 Nyet

And anybody who critiques any policy is a new Hitler.

When I lost it and flounced from Pharyngula, there was this one constantly-morphing asshole (who never got called on morphing I guess because he always followed his ‘nym with AUM in the Devanagari script) who was just the most sanctimonious sonofabitch I’ve ever seen online. He was gay, so disagreeing with him in any way was homophobia. In fact agreeing with him with insufficient fervor made you worse than Hitler. Every thread would be dominated by his tedious moralizing. I think our boy here was aspiring to a similar position.

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Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:00:02am

re: #238 austin_blue

The second amendment guaranteed the arms at the time, which were single shot pistols and rifles.

This is a poor argument, since they can just respond by asking if the 1st Amendment only applies to methods of free speech available it the time.

I’d say a better argument is that it only specifies that people be able to keep and bear arms, and not that they get to choose what those arms are. Can you in fact buy, keep and carry a selection of revolvers and bolt action rifles? Then congrats, your right to keep and bear is intact. We’ll just be putting all these detachable magazine fed semi-automatics into a furnace now.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:02:19am

re: #251 Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)

This is a poor argument, since they can just respond by asking if the 1st Amendment only applies to methods of free speech available it the time.

I’d say a better argument is that it only specifies that people be able to keep and bear arms, and not that they get to choose what those arms are. Can you in fact buy, keep and carry a selection of revolvers and bolt action rifles? Then congrats, your right to keep and bear is intact. We’ll just be putting all these detachable magazine fed semi-automatics into a furnace now.

What part of “Well regulated militia” do you folks not understand? All of it, obviously.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:02:30am

re: #245 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

To be fair, the only one I was awake to participate in was the atomic bomb/Japanese invasion one—I just read the others after the fact. Seems to be a very sensitive soul….

He was too boring to actually engage, so I just downdinged him and moved down the thread the other night/morning.

I hope I’ve never acted anyway as obnoxious (at least since I was a teenager) as he was acting the other night/morning. The condescending and insulting way he was talking to CL really pissed me off for one.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:05:16am

re: #251 Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)

This is a poor argument, since they can just respond by asking if the 1st Amendment only applies to methods of free speech available it the time.

I’d say a better argument is that it only specifies that people be able to keep and bear arms, and not that they get to choose what those arms are. Can you in fact buy, keep and carry a selection of revolvers and bolt action rifles? Then congrats, your right to keep and bear is intact. We’ll just be putting all these detachable magazine fed semi-automatics into a furnace now.

My argument is that “Arms…necessary to the security of a free State” nowadays might very well include ICBMs with MIRVed warheads. Does anyone advocate everyone being able to “keep and bear” them? No? Then obviously the 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with individual ownership of arms, which is obvious anyway from its clear text.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:05:31am

re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State…

There’s also the fact that the bolded part of the Second Amendment quoted above has been shown by history to be factually wrong. The militia was useless during the War of 1812. Militia members cut and ran at the earliest opportunity during engagements, and most members didn’t bother to maintain the arms they were suppose to.

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Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:05:36am

re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What part of “Well regulated militia” do you folks not understand? All of it, obviously.

The part where the Supreme Court rendered that portion of the amendment effectively moot by declaring bearing arms an individual right?

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:08:18am

re: #250 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

As for Pharyngla, I soured on PZ and his constant preachiness.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:08:19am

re: #255 Timothy Watson

There’s also the fact that the bolded part of the Second Amendment quoted above has been shown by history to be factually wrong. The militia was useless during the War of 1812. Militia members cut and ran at the earliest opportunity during engagements, and most members didn’t bother to maintain the arms they were suppose to.

George Washington was quite irate at the worthlessness of the “Three-Dollar Militia” during the Revolution, too. They’d enlist, collect their $3, desert, enlist, and so on and so on….

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:13:31am

re: #256 Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)

The part where the Supreme Court rendered that portion of the amendment effectively moot by declaring bearing arms an individual right?

It may be an individual right, who knows? But if so, the 2nd Amendment has nothing to say about it, and anybody who thinks it does can’t read—I’m looking at you, Fat Tony.

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:17:48am

re: #259 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well, this seems doubtful to me. I’m not going to engage in a lengthy debate, since I have to go away now anyhoo, but strictly from the POV of language, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,” is a purely informational clause. It doesn’t put, linguistically, any restraints on “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:18:00am

re: #256 Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)

The part where the Supreme Court rendered that portion of the amendment effectively moot by declaring bearing arms an individual right?

There is a difference between an individual right and an unlimited, God-given right, and that is how the NRA is selling it.

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:20:05am

re: #260 Nyet

IOW, the 2nd amdt. contains a logical non sequitur. But that’s neither here, nor there for determining whether the right is individual or not.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:24:48am

re: #212 Charles Johnson

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He was being “menaced” by a “violent mob” of photographers?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:28:10am

re: #263 Timothy Watson

He was being “menaced” by a “violent mob” of photographers?

Maybe they were taking videos of him with their phones in portrait mode. That is annoying….

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:50:47am

re: #260 Nyet

Well, this seems doubtful to me. I’m not going to engage in a lengthy debate, since I have to go away now anyhoo, but strictly from the POV of language, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,” is a purely informational clause. It doesn’t put, linguistically, any restraints on “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”.

I find it hard to believe that they wrote one sentence where one half is just random blathering that has nothing to do with the other half. “Bananas being the highest in potassium of all fruits, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”?

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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 11, 2016 • 2:59:07am

I’ve seen the armored Baton Rouge cops compared to imperial storm troopers, but does anyone else think they also look like Ninja Turtles?

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Dave In Austin  Jul 11, 2016 • 3:38:19am

OK……..

Lets call it. Who will the Golden Yam select for his 2nd??

I say Pence because True Conservative, Blah Blah Blah. And if Donny get his tit in a ringer, and he will eventually. Republicans have their yes man already in place.

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Alyosha  Jul 11, 2016 • 3:53:03am

re: #266 Shiplord Kirel

I’ve seen the armored Baton Rouge cops compared to imperial storm troopers, but does anyone else think they also look like Ninja Turtles?

I see up-armoured Foot Clan.

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Alyosha  Jul 11, 2016 • 3:57:00am
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Ming5000  Jul 11, 2016 • 3:58:14am

re: #120 VegasGolfer

So who’s gotten their Citi Costco Visa?
I got it and I was ready to transfer from my chase cards. So I started using it as my daily card.

I am in the same boat, but I will not use the Citi card. I used Citi once in the far past and have a bad taste in my mouth about them.

patooie.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 11, 2016 • 3:59:31am

Whats the deal with the Costco card?

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freetoken  Jul 11, 2016 • 4:12:04am

re: #255 Timothy Watson

There’s also the fact that the bolded part of the Second Amendment quoted above has been shown by history to be factually wrong. The militia was useless during the War of 1812. Militia members cut and ran at the earliest opportunity during engagements, and most members didn’t bother to maintain the arms they were suppose to.

But… but… but… I thought the founding US documents were from God. How could they have been in error???

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freetoken  Jul 11, 2016 • 4:25:18am

東京の灯よいつまでも.flv

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Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)  Jul 11, 2016 • 4:26:28am

re: #269 Alyosha

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The Bernouts will be bereft, aghast, disconsolate. The cries of “betrayal” and “disloyalty” will be deafening.

I mean, more so than usual.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 4:26:53am

re: #273 freetoken

you have the qualities of a pheasant…

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Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 4:28:14am

re: #274 Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)

Yeah it will be sweet to hear, I have no respect for the hardcore bernouts at all.

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Emptor scriptor Remorse  Jul 11, 2016 • 4:34:43am

Really Don’t Care - Vintage Motown - Style Demi Lovato Cover ft. Morgan James

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Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 4:51:04am
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freetoken  Jul 11, 2016 • 4:57:16am

I see that nationalist-anthropology is still in vogue in China:

178,000 years of Chinese history? That’s really something to chew on

The stone tool cultures, as well as the large volume of ancient human fossils unearthed in China, suggested the modern day Chinese was the result of a seamless evolution in the region. Though the arrival of the African migrants might have introduced some new genes, no replacement or massive extinction had happened, according to Wu and colleagues.

The bolded part is the nationalist part.

It runs contra to what the DNA shows, which is, that modern inhabitants of China are close relatives to the rest of Eurasians (and native Americans.)

Indeed, the reason Denisovan admixture can be detected in East Asians is because the rest of East Asian DNA is so like the rest of the Eurasians and Sub-Saharan Africans, while the Denisovan DNA comes from a lineage which separated from that of us modern humans by about 10x back farther into the past.

This nationalist version of human evolution has stuck around China for a long time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:08:39am

re: #279 freetoken

I see that nationalist-anthropology is still in vogue in China:

178,000 years of Chinese history? That’s really something to chew on

The bolded part is the nationalist part.

It runs contra to what the DNA shows, which is, that modern inhabitants of China are close relatives to the rest of Eurasians (and native Americans.)

Indeed, the reason Denisovan admixture can be detected in East Asians is because the rest of East Asian DNA is so like the rest of the Eurasians and Sub-Saharan Africans, while the Denisovan DNA comes from a lineage which separated from that of us modern humans by about 10x back farther into the past.

This nationalist version of human evolution has stuck around China for a long time.

And the Japanese still refuse to allow any archaeological digs at the tombs of their first Emperors, ostensibly out of respect for their ancestors, but mostly to keep from uncovering the fact that their line of Emperors probably descended from Koreans…

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Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:10:26am

re: #278 Tigger2

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“We still think you ought to be discriminated against, but we’re not currently asking that it be written into the founding document of our government. So vote for us. We’re meeting you f*gs halfway here.”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:13:03am

re: #279 freetoken

I see that nationalist-anthropology is still in vogue in China:

178,000 years of Chinese history? That’s really something to chew on

The bolded part is the nationalist part.

It runs contra to what the DNA shows, which is, that modern inhabitants of China are close relatives to the rest of Eurasians (and native Americans.)

Indeed, the reason Denisovan admixture can be detected in East Asians is because the rest of East Asian DNA is so like the rest of the Eurasians and Sub-Saharan Africans, while the Denisovan DNA comes from a lineage which separated from that of us modern humans by about 10x back farther into the past.

This nationalist version of human evolution has stuck around China for a long time.

As with a lot of Chinese matters, there are two versions of everything. The nationalist “Chinese have always been Chinese — except for the Manchu and Mongols (forget them)” is for the domestic market and for the party to disseminate. Chinese scientists, however, have to work on the international stage, and many of them recognize that DNA markers point to the majority of present day Asians inheriting most of their genes from African migrants. It’s what happens when political forces control scientific investigation.

For H. sapiens to evolve almost independently in two widely separated areas and still remain largely identical genetically defies common sense. If the Chinese model were true, H. sapiens from China would be unable to conceive children with Europeans or Africans, or if they could, the children would be sterile. Such is not the case.

In a similar manner, China is trying to convince the world that it has always claimed the South China Sea and the Spratly Islands as Chinese territory since the Han dynasty 2,000 years ago. Forget the fact that five other nations also have had longstanding claims to the same area, which are recognized internationally.

China’s growing strength needs a smart American president and administration to keep China in check. Electing Trump would either give China free rein in the region, or lead to armed conflict. China is just waiting for the right excuse.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:13:23am

re: #281 Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)

“We still think you ought to be discriminated against, but we’re not currently asking that it be written into the founding document of our government. So vote for us. We’re meeting you f*gs halfway here.”

“we are not running you out of town on a rail or lynching you, so be grateful!”

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freetoken  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:13:42am

re: #280 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And the Japanese refuse to allow any archaelogical digs at the tombs of their first Emperors, ostensibly out of respect for their ancestors, but mostly to keep from uncovering the fact that their line of Emperors probably descended from Koreans…

Some of them, yes, especially the current Abe-philes may like to think that.

But the current emperor himself has stated that his ancestors came from Korea.

The tombs of which you write, the largest of which is in Osaka-fu, are very interesting. I’ve travelled by the one in Sakai though I never got there to visit.

Population genetics studies on the Japanese have shown a north-south cline, in accordance with the geography. They have also shown high similarity, but with differences, to the current Korean population.

It’s pretty clear, at least to non-nationalists, that Korean-peninsula migrations immediately before the appearance of metal working in Japan came from the Korea, with additional population flow coming from China.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:16:01am

re: #284 freetoken

The First People of Japan, the Ainu, have been there longer than the majority population, IIRC. That would suggest the majority group came from somewhere else.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:19:04am

re: #284 freetoken

It’s pretty clear, at least to non-nationalists, that Korean-peninsula migrations immediately before the appearance of metal working in Japan came from the Korea, with additional population flow coming from China.

Which again shows that in order to be a fundamentalist and scriptural literalist, you must be prepared to reject science, history and even basic logic.

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freetoken  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:22:07am

re: #285 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Ainu were not necessarily the first humans on the Japanese islands.

This is one of the interesting mysteries of Japan.

The Ainu are different than the Oceania populations, which moved north from Taiwan into the Japanese islands.

The human past is full of surprises and the more I read about current anthro discoveries the more I get the idea that our population really liked to 1) move around and 2) reproduce, and quickly.

One of the interesting bits I learned from the CARTA symposia is that a human female has children more frequently than chimpanzee mothers, and that chimps stay as infants (that is, nursing from their mothers) longer than humans. This is in addition to the observation that humans stay as children longer than chimps do.

These two observations don’t conflict but tell a really interesting story about us humans - we have relatively large families, compared to the other apes.

Which may help explain why we conquered the world.

The ultimate irony of this is that “19 Kids and Counting” is an example of human evolutionary advantage, coming from Christian fundamentalists.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:23:43am

re: #287 freetoken

The ultimate irony of this is that “19 Kids and Counting” is an example of human evolutionary advantage, coming from Christian fundamentalists.

Yes, especially when you could expect that half of those babies would not survive infancy or early childhood…

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Joe Bacon  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:29:22am

re: #269 Alyosha

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H. A. Goodman’s head explodes in 10…9…8…7…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:29:26am

re: #287 freetoken

The Ainu were not necessarily the first humans on the Japanese islands.

This is one of the interesting mysteries of Japan.

The Ainu are different than the Oceania populations, which moved north from Taiwan into the Japanese islands.

The human past is full of surprises and the more I read about current anthro discoveries the more I get the idea that our population really liked to 1) move around and 2) reproduce, and quickly.

One of the interesting bits I learned from the CARTA symposia is that a human female has children more frequently than chimpanzee mothers, and that chimps stay as infants (that is, nursing from their mothers) longer than humans. This is in addition to the observation that humans stay as children longer than chimps do.

These two observations don’t conflict but tell a really interesting story about us humans - we have relatively large families, compared to the other apes.

Which may help explain why we conquered the world.

The ultimate irony of this is that “19 Kids and Counting” is an example of human evolutionary advantage, coming from Christian fundamentalists.

I’m also fascinated by human migration and evolution. We have learned so much in the last 40 years, not only through DNA research but some amazing archaeological discoveries like Denisovans and H. florensis. And Neandertals are no longer seen as brutish and stupid, but as quite sophisticated creatures.

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Emptor scriptor Remorse  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:30:10am

Environmental Illness

A lot of things caused Susie pain: scented products, pesticides, plastic, synthetic fabrics, smoke, electronic radiation - the list went on. Back in “the regular world”, car exhaust made her feel sick for days. Perfume gave her seizures.

Then she uprooted to Snowflake, Arizona.

“I got out of the car and didn’t need my oxygen tank,” she said, grinning at me in the rearview mirror. “I could walk.”

There are about 20 households where she now lives. Like Susie, most of the residents in Snowflake have what they call “environmental illness”, a controversial diagnosis that attributes otherwise unexplained symptoms to pollution.

I think someone wrote a song (not to minimize her pain and suffering)

Dire Straits - Industrial Disease (1982)

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:32:11am

re: #21 Skip Intro

Hadn’t heard this before.

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Well, big dog Clinton did talk to Lynch.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:33:49am

Duterte in the Philippines is proving himself to be a lunatic.

The number of criminals that have been killed extra-judicially since he was inaugurated is horrifying. Here is hoping he gets impeached.

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Joe Bacon  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:40:25am

re: #293 Ziggy_TARDIS

Duterte in the Philippines is proving himself to be a lunatic.

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The number of criminals that have been killed extra-judicially since he was inaugurated is horrifying. Here is hoping he gets impeached.

He’s a preview of what a Trump Presidency would be…

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:44:49am

re: #280 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And the Japanese still refuse to allow any archaeological digs at the tombs of their first Emperors, ostensibly out of respect for their ancestors, but mostly to keep from uncovering the fact that their line of Emperors probably descended from Koreans…

Though this emperor (Heisei) has acknowledged that there is Korean blood in the imperial lineage.

eta: sorry, I see that freetoken already posted this.

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Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:46:30am
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freetoken  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:48:04am

We often sneer at creationists for their lack of knowledge about biology and other sciences, and sure, why not, let’s sneer….

However, it would be wrong to assume that only creationists lack understanding about science and in particular about evolution.

An item that has popped up in a couple of general media outlets illustrates this:

Humans are still evolving: study

Have we stopped evolving? Whether the human race is still adapting to our surroundings is heavily debated - and now fresh genetic analyses by Harvard University’s Jonathan Beauchamp suggest natural selection still has a part to play.

Some people suggest human evolution came to a standstill between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago when modern humans emerged and started to control their surroundings.

[…]

The problem with this author, who is a journalism student, is that she has equated evolution with natural selection.

Natural selection is just one mechanism by which evolution works.

She doesn’t define evolution. The best contemporary definition of evolution that I can find is change in a population. And by change is meant change as observable in DNA.

Second story on this item:

Some Humans in America Are Still Evolving

Homo sapiens made it this far because evolution — driven by natural selection — weeded out the people and their genes that couldn’t deal with the pressures of the world around them; think scarce food, unimpressed mates, and rampant disease.

But whether modern humans, coddled as we are by grocery stores and expensive healthcare, are still evolving is up for debate. In a new paper published Friday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a Harvard University economist argues that natural selection is still driving human evolution — at least in a handful of Europeans living in America.

[…]

Ok, so the problem here is the click-bait headline. But that headline just repeats what the story tells (which I boldfaced.)

While the Inverse article author seems a bit more circumspect in discussing evolution than the cosmosmagazine author, the Inverse article strikes me that it too is accepting a definition of “evolution” that is a mere cultural blip and not a real change in H. sapiens.

Unfortunately the paper in PNAS is not yet available.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:50:45am

Takamatsuzuka tomb in Asuka really shows the connections among aristocracy across east Asia.

en.wikipedia.org

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A Mom Anon  Jul 11, 2016 • 5:56:48am

Back to the photo above, does it look to anyone else like the cops directly facing the young woman are about to fall over backwards? They look like she could just push them over with her index finger.

The amount of gear these people are using/wearing is insane. I know tensions are high and shit, but when I see cops dressed like this I don’t feel at all safe. I feel like they’re trying to start shit. I know they have a shit job sometimes, but at what point is it enough already?

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:04:57am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.

Mexico reasserts that they’re not paying for any wall. Trump continues to keep that as a cornerstone of his immigration policy (and now has Rudy making all kinds of idiotic statements on his behalf - either justifying them or feeding him the policy positions himself). And Jim Hoft continues to show that he can’t help but lie:

He headlines that Milo and Coulter are doing border wall construction. They’re doing nothing of the sort. They’re the figureheads/spokeshacks for Breitbart clothing line.

They’re modeling clothing.

It was a photo op that has nothing to do with wall building other than Breitbart trying to make stacks of money off the ignorant rubes that they serve on a daily basis.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:08:52am

re: #300 lawhawk

Assholes. Meanwhile, people who are really trying to start legit businesses are struggling, kids go hungry because it’s summer and there’s no school lunches, I could go on.

(edit:) That’s the closest either of those two creepy fucks will ever get to actually getting their hands dirty. You know, like ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION WORKERS DO.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:14:09am

re: #151 Blind Frog Belly White

Everything wrong with Armageddon? Apart from the stupid science and a lot of other stuff?

The same thing that’s wrong with just about every “One Guy Sacrifices Himself For Everyone Else Movie” - people tell him not to.

“No, Bruce Willis! Don’t sacrifice yourself so all of humanity might survive! Spare yourself, and you can come home to a dead planet where you’ll die anyway!”

Oh, I don’t know……..the ending of the original Gojira - where the scientist, Dr. Serizawa, sacrifices his own life so that no one else will learn the secret of his weapon, the Oxygen Destroyer, wasn’t too bad. He wanted to ensure that his “doomsday weapon” would never be used again, so he used the one and only functioning OD, burned all of his papers and notes, and then took the secret to his grave, destroying Godzilla to boot.

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jeffreyw  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:16:14am

Imgur


Good morning!

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William Lewis  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:16:37am

re: #151 Blind Frog Belly White

Everything wrong with Armageddon? Apart from the stupid science and a lot of other stuff?

The same thing that’s wrong with just about every “One Guy Sacrifices Himself For Everyone Else Movie” - people tell him not to.

“No, Bruce Willis! Don’t sacrifice yourself so all of humanity might survive! Spare yourself, and you can come home to a dead planet where you’ll die anyway!”

OTOH, Deep Impact took the same idea and actually made an interesting film out of it. I especially appreciated the end where the two faced the tsunami with honor and courage.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:17:20am

re: #300 lawhawk

PHOTO OF THE DAY=> Milo and @AnnCoulter Doing Border Wall Construction @Nero t.co via @gatewaypundit
— Jim Hoft

Hoft, Milo, and Coulter, A trio of super derp.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:18:09am

re: #151 Blind Frog Belly White

Everything wrong with Armageddon? Apart from the stupid science and a lot of other stuff?

The same thing that’s wrong with just about every “One Guy Sacrifices Himself For Everyone Else Movie” - people tell him not to.

“No, Bruce Willis! Don’t sacrifice yourself so all of humanity might survive! Spare yourself, and you can come home to a dead planet where you’ll die anyway!”

To be a little fair to the movie, someone was going to be sacrificed. Bruce took Ben’s place.

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Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:19:41am

re: #305 Sir John Barron

All of them would probably die if they had to do an honest days work like building a wall.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:20:35am

re: #289 Joe Bacon

H. A. Goodman’s head explodes in 10…9…8…7…

“Hillary will be indicted, soon…I have been perfectly validated…my sources confirm Hillary to be arrested by State Department….”

/

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:23:14am

re: #146 Charles Johnson

The Rage Furby couldn’t help himself. He’s gone public on Facebook again, but he’s using his GotNewsDotCom page now.

facebook.com

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The comments on his post about suing Twitter are priceless.

Barbara Radwan-Wiehe
Barbara Radwan-Wiehe So you think you should be allowed to use Twitter to solicit funds to “take out @deray”?? Creep.
Like * Reply * 3 * 17 hrs
Marty Friese
Marty Friese Good luck with that, clown.
Like * Reply * 8 hrs
Angel Graham
Angel Graham You still don’t understand how Freedom of Speech works, do you? Twitter is a PRIVATE COMPANY>The 1st Amendment covers you for Free Speech in relation to the GOVERNMENT! Grow up little boy. You’re so laced up on something that your shit is sticking to the floor.
Like * Reply * 4 hrs
Usman Bello
Usman Bello Are there lawyers out there that take payment in floor feces?
Like * Reply * 3 hrs

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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:24:37am

re: #285 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The First People of Japan, the Ainu, have been there longer than the majority population, IIRC. That would suggest the majority group came from somewhere else.

The only reason I know anything at all about the Ainu is because of crossword puzzles. Astonishing really, how often it comes up.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:26:38am

re: #267 Dave In Austin

OK……..

Lets call it. Who will the Golden Yam select for his 2nd??

I say Pence because True Conservative, Blah Blah Blah. And if Donny get his tit in a ringer, and he will eventually. Republicans have their yes man already in place.

What happened to Newt? Did he contradict The Donald somehow?

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:27:44am

The Tech Industry is continuing to cause problems in the Bay Area.

Iris Milano could hardly sleep after she got the news that her family would be kicked out of their two-bedroom apartment in San Jose.

“You’re always thinking and worrying. It’s something that is always with me,” said Milano, 47, a skin-care technician who lives with her husband and 14-year-old son in an apartment protected by rent control in the northern California city. “We are being forced to move. This is our home.”

Milano, who is originally from Venezuela and has lived in the area for 13 years, is one of roughly 670 tenants who are being displaced from their homes in what local housing advocates believe to be Silicon Valley’s largest-ever mass eviction of rent-controlled tenants.

The 216-unit complex called the Reserve Apartments that is being demolished to make way for a development of market-rate housing - located five miles away from Apple’s headquarters, 14 miles away from Google and 20 miles away from Facebook - is the latest example of rising income inequality in a region home to many of the world’s wealthiest technology companies.

We need more laws in regards to making sure there is affordable housing.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:28:52am

re: #212 Charles Johnson

I guess “mobbed” = not being attacked by anybody within 20’ of you.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:30:43am
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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:34:28am

re: #314 Charles Johnson

Let alone that the video evidence shows there was no mob, no threat other than their idiot extremist co-blogger pulling an unlicensed gun on the crowd.

The only one doing the menacing was their co-blogger.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:36:36am
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Charles Johnson  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:37:23am
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William Lewis  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:39:48am

re: #317 Charles Johnson

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Heh. First you would need a mob. Then you’d actually need a reporter. Since neither were present…

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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:40:31am

re: #312 Ziggy_TARDIS

The Tech Industry is continuing to cause problems in the Bay Area.

We need more laws in regards to making sure there is affordable housing.

The best way to make sure there’s affordable housing, is to build lots more housing. If that 216-unit complex is being replaced by a 640-unit complex, then yes it’s sad she has to move but c’mon. 200 families who can’t afford desirably-located homes do not outweigh 640 families who can.

All they’re owed is relocation assistance (enough to cover first&last&security deposit move-in fees for their new place, plus moving costs), and good public transportation so they can stay at their job (even if the commute is going to be longer now).

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:41:55am

re: #1 Frankie Five Angels

Correct it to “Photo of the Year.”

I hope they brought enough police.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:42:10am

re: #319 sagehen

The best way to make sure there’s affordable housing, is to build lots more housing. If that 216-unit complex is being replaced by a 640-unit complex, then yes it’s sad she has to move but c’mon. 200 families who can’t afford desirably-located homes do not outweigh 640 families who can.

All they’re owed is relocation assistance (enough to cover first&last&security deposit move-in fees for their new place, plus moving costs), and good public transportation so they can stay at their job (even if the commute is going to be longer now).

Why not have the people who are coming in make the commute? They could build the 640 unit dwelling further out.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:43:10am

re: #321 Belafon

Why not have the people who are coming in make the commute? They could build the 640 unit dwelling further out.

Been here long?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:43:51am
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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:44:23am

re: #319 sagehen

The thing is, this has never actually brought the rents down. They keep building new housing, but the new housing being built is luxury housing. Hence, no new affordable housing is being built, so you have 600 new people in the area, and more people looking for something, or becoming homeless.

There need to be restrictions on luxury apartments and housing. We are only building for the richest now. I certainly do not trust the tech industry anymore.

This is why I have begun to go more deeply into Socialism. The market is not working.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:45:17am

re: #253 Timothy Watson

The condescending and insulting way he was talking to CL really pissed me off for one.

And, SteelPH, who is never anything but polite and thoughtful.

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Mattand  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:46:25am

re: #302 Dr Lizardo

Oh, I don’t know……..the ending of the original Gojira - where the scientist, Dr. Serizawa, sacrifices his own life so that no one else will learn the secret of his weapon, the Oxygen Destroyer, wasn’t too bad. He wanted to ensure that his “doomsday weapon” would never be used again, so he used the one and only functioning OD, burned all of his papers and notes, and then took the secret to his grave, destroying Godzilla to boot.

The first Godzilla movie is criminally underrated as a great film, period. People get stuck on the guy in the rubber suit, and shoot past the whole allegory of Godzilla as the contents of the atomic Pandora’s Box man has opened.

Plus, the acting is superb. No camp is involved. You really believe these people are in a life-and-death struggle with a force of nature that could wipe everyone out.

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Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:47:21am
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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:49:20am

re: #321 Belafon

Why not have the people who are coming in make the commute? They could build the 640 unit dwelling further out.

So making 640 people do a long commute is more fair than making 216 do it?

I suppose another alternative is building 850 units, and the original 216 can come back (with subsidized rent) in a couple of years when construction is complete.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:49:37am

re: #326 Mattand

The first Godzilla movie is criminally underrated as a great film, period. People get stuck on the guy in the rubber suit, and shoot past the whole allegory of Godzilla as the contents of the atomic Pandora’s Box man has opened.

Plus, the acting is superb. No camp is involved. You really believe these people are in a life-and-death struggle with a force of nature that could wipe everyone out.

The first time I saw the “original”, it was the 1956 Americanized version….the one where they added in Raymond Burr as a journalist.

But then, many years later, I had the chance to see the 1954 Japanese original, and yes, it really was brilliant as hell. Solid allegorical film.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:51:33am

re: #328 sagehen

So making 640 people do a long commute is more fair than making 216 do it?

I suppose another alternative is building 850 units, and the original 216 can come back (with subsidized rent) in a couple of years when construction is complete.

So those 216 people can join the homeless community? I hear they look out for one another, and have secret symbols for finding the best dumpsters to eat out of.

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unproven innocence  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:51:41am

Facebook vows to only delete graphic live video used to mock victims
Facebook Live terms clarified after video of black man fatally shot by police.
by Tom Mendelsohn (UK) - Jul 11, 2016 9:11am EDT Excerpt:

Facebook has been forced to restate its live video rules after footage of a black man being shot and killed by police officers during a routine traffic stop in the US was viewed by millions—before being removed and returned under mysterious circumstances.

The company insists it will only remove a video of someone’s death if it has been “used to mock the victim or celebrate the shooting.”

It remains to be seen whether this is a good or workable policy. Suppose the next “police shoot and kill X in …” video were subsequently linked and/or posted all over some/any right-wing hate sites. Would Facebook™ then have a clear excuse to remove it?

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:54:16am

re: #331 unproven innocence

Facebook vows to only delete graphic live video used to mock victims
Facebook Live terms clarified after video of black man fatally shot by police.
by Tom Mendelsohn (UK) - Jul 11, 2016 9:11am EDT Excerpt:

It remains to be seen whether this is a good or workable policy. Suppose the next “police shoot and kill X in …” video were subsequently linked and/or posted all over some/any right-wing hate sites. Would Facebook™ then have a clear excuse to remove it?

We can rely on their editorial responsibility to balance sensationalism and the public interest.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:54:51am

re: #328 sagehen

So making 640 people do a long commute is more fair than making 216 do it?

I suppose another alternative is building 850 units, and the original 216 can come back (with subsidized rent) in a couple of years when construction is complete.

So, kicking 216 people out of a place they’ve established roots and connections is more fair than making new people commute a little bit more? Your argument sounds a bit too much like arguing that taxing the wealthy a bit more is less fair than making sure everyone has “skin in the game.”

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Bass Reeves  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:55:19am

re: #328 sagehen

I do think the better point is that the more housing isn’t actually more ‘affordable’ housing, it’s just more housing at a price point that these people can’t afford. If you want to set the market price at what the tech industry can afford, you’re going to have start paying those people in the service industry a LOT more, or you will have to figure out some way not make people homeless. The 216 people who can’t afford 2k a month for rent certainly don’t need to add another hour to their commute via public transportation to work at a job that doesn’t pay them enough to live near the area where they work.

I understand, the ‘market’ won’t do this. The ‘market’ doesn’t have to. But yeah, maybe government (local and state) could work on the issue.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:55:42am

re: #327 Tigger2

Judge rules that being a #SovereignCitizen does not protect you from being pulled over #sovcit #sovcitpa t.co
— Wartime Consigliere

Crap. What about the Constitution? I am Sovereign, hear me roar!

/

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Skip Intro  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:56:09am

re: #311 Sir John Barron

What happened to Newt? Did he contradict The Donald somehow?

Yeah, he said something nice about black people. He didn’t mean it, but tRump is too dense to get the subtlety.

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Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:56:13am

re: #265 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I find it hard to believe that they wrote one sentence where one half is just random blathering that has nothing to do with the other half. “Bananas being the highest in potassium of all fruits, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”?

It might seem like random blathering now because the historical circumstances have changed. Back then it made sense in their heads. The fact remains is that the 2nd amdt’s language is not restrictive. It doesn’t say the right pertains to “the members of the aforementioned well-regulated militia”. Even if they intended to restrict this right to militia members - which I doubt - they still wrote something entirely else. They probably assumed that the people keeping arms would be conductive to the existence of a well-regulated militia. But them being a well-regulated militia is clearly not a prerequisite to bearing arms as the text stands.

Compare it to marriage whose purpose was long thought to be for child-bearing and rearing, even though childless couples were still allowed to remain married.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:56:34am

re: #334 Bass Reeves

I do think the better point is that the more housing isn’t actually more ‘affordable’ housing, it’s just more housing at a price point that these people can’t afford. If you want to set the market price at what the tech industry can afford, you’re going to have start paying those people in the service industry a LOT more, or you will have to figure out some way not make people homeless. The 216 people who can’t afford 2k a month for rent certainly don’t need to add another hour to their commute via public transportation to work at a job that doesn’t pay them enough to live near the area where they work.

I understand, the ‘market’ won’t do this. The ‘market’ doesn’t have to. But yeah, maybe government (local and state) could work on the issue.

Maybe the coders can learn to clean their own fucking toilets.

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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:57:09am

re: #330 The Vicious Babushka

So those 216 people can join the homeless community? I hear they look out for one another, and have secret symbols for finding the best dumpsters to eat out of.

See my #319. They wouldn’t be homeless.

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Skip Intro  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:58:33am

re: #313 GlutenFreeJesus

I guess “mobbed” = being attacked by nobody within 20’ of you.

They were armed with loaded flags. He was in fear for his life because all he had was a gun and six clips.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 11, 2016 • 6:59:45am

re: #339 sagehen

See my #319. They wouldn’t be homeless.

Here is what you said:

200 families who can’t afford desirably-located homes do not outweigh 640 families who can.

Then you said something about “relocation farther away” which really means “dump them out in the middle of nowhere & make them find their own way back to their low-wage jerbs”

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:00:05am

re: #339 sagehen

Oh, so they would need to commute likely more than an hour, and pay out the nose to do so?

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:01:05am

re: #341 The Vicious Babushka

You do this is a much nicer way than I do, so I will let you handle it.

My way tends to be more personal and harsh, and that causes burned bridges. Go VB!

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:04:01am

THANKS OBAMA….
oh wait…
shit…
how do I spin this…
oh yeah…
IT’S ALL LIES…
The metrics we’ve used for decades no longer count…

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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:04:38am

re: #341 The Vicious Babushka

Here is what you said:

Then you said something about “relocation farther away” which really means “dump them out in the middle of nowhere & make them find their own way back to their low-wage jerbs”

Or build enough new units close by.

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Joe Bacon  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:05:00am

re: #311 Sir John Barron

What happened to Newt? Did he contradict The Donald somehow?

I WANT NEWT!!!!! 😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏

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Skip Intro  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:07:30am

So this morning the S&P has hit an all time high. Yet today, like every day RW media will keep talking about the horrible Clinton/Obama economy.

Want to see what a horrible economy looks like? Go back to 2007 under C+ Agustus.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:08:41am

re: #345 sagehen

But right now, no one is doing that. The focus at this point is on building luxury and high priced housing. Not to mention, how many homes and apartments in the higher priced cities are being purchased by people overseas who never use them as some sort of investment vehicle.

Here’s an idea. A massive tax/price penalty if someone purchases something other than a primary home in a high density area.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:09:46am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:10:51am

re: #345 sagehen

Or build enough new units close by.

There is no profit in building affordable housing when so many wealthy are clamoring for that prime location.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:11:04am

re: #347 Skip Intro

So this morning the S&P has hit an all time high. Yet today, like every day RW media will keep talking about the horrible Clinton/Obama economy.

Want to see what a horrible economy looks like? Go back to 2007 under C+ Agustus.

They can completely ignore it in favor of the new issue: Obama is putting a target on every cop’s back.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:11:57am

re: #349 Charles Johnson

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LOL I see a “violent mob” of 4 (count ‘em) people, including one old man.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:12:30am

re: #344 FormerDirtDart

THANKS OBAMA….
oh wait…
shit…
how do I spin this…
oh yeah…
IT’S ALL LIES…
The metrics we’ve used for decades no longer count…

And who do you think controls the Stock Market and Wall Street? Obama and the Clintons.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:12:41am

re: #352 The Vicious Babushka

LOL I see a “violent mob” of 4 (count ‘em) people, including one old man.

Yep. Looks like PT should cut down on the spanking.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:13:17am

re: #347 Skip Intro

And, I haven’t even checked to see what everyone was saying, just predicted it…
re: #344 FormerDirtDart

THANKS OBAMA….
oh wait…
shit…
how do I spin this…
oh yeah…
IT’S ALL LIES…
The metrics we’ve used for decades no longer count…

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Lancelot Link  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:13:24am

re: #316 Dave In Austin

@JohnCornyn
Something else Hillary should answer for #13HoursMovie

Something else John Cornyn should answer for #ManosTheHandsOfFate

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:15:19am

re: #356 Lancelot Link

Something else John Cornyn should answer for #ManosTheHandsOfFate

Have wingnuts gone back to Benghazi!!! already?

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Alephnaught  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:17:05am

re: #348 Ziggy_TARDIS

But right now, no one is doing that. The focus at this point is on building luxury and high priced housing. Not to mention, how many homes and apartments in the higher priced cities are being purchased by people overseas who never use them as some sort of investment vehicle.

We’re already seeing that in London.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:19:42am

What is this stupid meme that wingnuts keep repeating like it is divine Troof?

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:20:53am

re: #352 The Vicious Babushka

LOL I see a “violent mob” of 4 (count ‘em) people, including one old man.

An old man who’s simply taking photos of what’s going on… Yeah, that’s a mob.

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:21:47am

re: #353 Sir John Barron

No… the Stone Cutters… and they’re responsible for Steve Guttenberg too.

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:23:59am

This is yet another reason to demand consolidation of police departments across the nation, to eliminate private prisons, and reduce the corruption/graft/personal profit from incarcerations. It’s an industry that requires a steady influx of people, and when the local cops are benefiting from incarcerations, they do what they have to in order to make sure that they maintain their revenue streams.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:24:44am

re: #360 The Vicious Babushka

You literally stood in front of the caskets of slain servicepeople and lied to their parents. t.co
— Ben Shapiro

I guess the order came down from wingnut headquarters to beat the dead Benghazi horse again until morale improves.

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Kryptik: Just Done With It.  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:24:51am

re: #293 Ziggy_TARDIS

Duterte in the Philippines is proving himself to be a lunatic.

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The number of criminals that have been killed extra-judicially since he was inaugurated is horrifying. Here is hoping he gets impeached.

I don’t have anywhere near the level of contact with family back there as my parents or my older sister do, but I would hope most of them are kind of terrified at this guy. At the very least, my dad would probably disown him as Visayan.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:27:02am

Random wingnut with racist handle chimes in.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:28:39am
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Kryptik: Just Done With It.  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:28:57am

re: #366 Charles Johnson

Random wingnut with racist handle chimes in.

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Sadly, this is just another demonstration of why video proof is nowhere near as bulletproof as it should be. People will invent alternate realities to explain away the things right in front of their faces to fit it into their perfect narrative.

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:29:26am

re: #366 Charles Johnson

Justifiable self-defense with an illegal firearm…

Just ignore that he was the one who was inciting others, hoping to spark a conflict, and he’s the one who pulled the illegal gun.

Other than that… he was in the right… /

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:29:44am

re: #367 Charles Johnson

There’s that three year old mentality from the right we all know and love.

//

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:30:08am

re: #291 Emptor scriptor Remorse

A lot of things caused Susie pain: scented products, pesticides, plastic, synthetic fabrics, smoke, electronic radiation - the list went on. Back in “the regular world”, car exhaust made her feel sick for days. Perfume gave her seizures.

Then she uprooted to Snowflake, Arizona.

“I got out of the car and didn’t need my oxygen tank,” she said, grinning at me in the rearview mirror. “I could walk.”

I recall moving from Frankfurt to a small village of 200 souls. Waiting for my daughter with the school bus, I could smell the school bus when it pulled away…then I recalled living on a main road in Frankfurt where at least 200 buses a day went past.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:32:32am

There’s a college building in China that looks like a giant toilet.

today.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:32:49am

re: #327 Tigger2

Judge rules that being a Sovereign Citizen does not protect you from being pulled over

You know, if you are going to declare yourself exempt from laws, then you also invalidate your Constitutional rights and protections. Can’t have it both ways, you crackerjackers…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:32:52am

re: #360 The Vicious Babushka

He meant to link to Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

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lizardofid  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:37:01am

Good morning Lizardom.

I don’t know if it’s been posted here, forgive me if it has, but I find this little opinion piece on the recent events so spot on, on several points. Dale is a local sportscaster.

Hansen Unplugged: ‘An attack on our basic humanity’

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:39:43am

re: #375 lizardofid

Good morning Lizardom.

I don’t know if it’s been posted here, forgive me if it has, but I find this little opinion piece on the recent events so spot on, on several points. Dale is a local sportscaster.

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I’ll have to watch it later, but Dale is the loudmouth guy that gets things right often enough that channel 8 puts up with his abrasiveness and drinking. And I’m glad they do.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:40:52am

re: #372 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

There’s a college building in China that looks like a giant toilet.

today.com

It’s an in joke, because the school specializes in wastewater treatment and the like. At least it’s not one of the rectangular concrete edifices all over China.

Our campus got a new classroom building three years ago, with all new wet, language and computer labs. It’s shaped like a big C, with an open air walkway connecting the two arms in the third floor. Compared to the older buildings on campus, it looks modern and not like standard Communist Chinese design.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:41:30am

re: #364 Sir John Barron

I guess the order came down from wingnut headquarters to beat the dead Benghazi horse again until morale improves.

Of course it’s completely bogus.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:43:46am

re: #376 Belafon

It’s only 2 and a half minutes Make time. “Our lieutenant governor is a fool”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:44:20am

Rage Furby was predicting the imminent demise of Twitter as its share price headed to $14. Today it’s trading at $17. He might be a Bill Kristol in training.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:45:16am

re: #378 The Vicious Babushka

Of course it’s completely bogus.

But wingnuts know for sure. //

Also, one thing we do know for sure, Marco Rubio is a douchecanoe.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:45:35am

re: #379 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

It’s only 2 and a half minutes Make time. “Our lieutenant governor is a fool”

It’s not me, it’s work.

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lizardofid  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:45:50am

re: #376 Belafon

I’ll have to watch it later, but Dale is the loudmouth guy that gets things right often enough that channel 8 puts up with his abrasiveness and drinking. And I’m glad they do.

Pretty solid description. I would have to agree. I think Dale is like a lot of us, in that as he got old he started reflecting back over his life, and wasn’t real proud of some of what he saw.

; )

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:48:33am

LOLWUT

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:49:13am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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It’s turtles scams all the way down.

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calochortus  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:49:54am

re: #334 Bass Reeves

I do think the better point is that the more housing isn’t actually more ‘affordable’ housing, it’s just more housing at a price point that these people can’t afford. If you want to set the market price at what the tech industry can afford, you’re going to have start paying those people in the service industry a LOT more, or you will have to figure out some way not make people homeless. The 216 people who can’t afford 2k a month for rent certainly don’t need to add another hour to their commute via public transportation to work at a job that doesn’t pay them enough to live near the area where they work.

I understand, the ‘market’ won’t do this. The ‘market’ doesn’t have to. But yeah, maybe government (local and state) could work on the issue.

The problem is that this is a highly desirable area to live in with or without high tech jobs. One of the reasons is that we haven’t built on every scrap of land, and while we are liberally provided with freeways (which are often gridlocked at rush “hour”) we haven’t paved over every inch yet.
Build more housing sounds great, but then those people need to get to work. Public transit stinks. There are something like 24 transit agencies in the greater Bay Area. Their systems don’t link up well, if at all. Fixing it would be massively expensive. I’d be happy to pay into an upgrade, but I don’t think even a simple majority is interested.
In any event, I’m not sure you could build the area out to where housing costs would drop, and I’m not sure where we would get the water to service those households.

For the record, I think housing prices are insane. I think wistfully of when I went to school with daughter of the contractor who built the house I live in, and my best friend’s mom up the street was a teacher. These folks couldn’t afford to buy a house here now. I couldn’t.

I don’t know how to fix it. Socialism isn’t likely to be the answer as it isn’t going to change people’s desires and unless people buy into it big time, there will be ways around whatever “solution” is found.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:50:15am

re: #380 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Rage Furby was predicting the imminent demise of Twitter as its share price headed to $14. Today it’s trading at $17. He might be a Bill Kristol in training.

I bought a few shares at 15. so far, I’m making a modest profit (on paper), but hoping for a takeover/buyout of the company.

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CuriousLurker  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:51:42am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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OMG, a “resurrection seed.”

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:52:39am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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Dear lord.

I swear, Trump is Gavin Belson from “Silicon Valley”.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:53:55am

re: #387 I Would Prefer Not To

I bought a few shares at 15. so far, I’m making a modest profit (on paper), but hoping for a takeover/buyout of the company.

It’s inevitable. Twitter will not disappear, because it fills a niche and has too many loyal users to leave out in the cold. The question is, who will buy it?

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:55:36am

re: #390 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Alphabet comes to mind. So too does Alibaba, but I think Alphabet is the better fit.

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calochortus  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:56:03am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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So, if I understand correctly, you give her a bunch of money and then God will do whatever He wants anyway. She specifically mentions that if you aren’t healed it’s because you “prayed out of ignorance” of God’s plan.

Sounds like solid theology to me.
/

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:56:12am

re: #391 lawhawk

Alphabet comes to mind. So too does Alibaba, but I think Alphabet is the better fit.

It’s what I’m hoping.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 7:58:00am

I have just finished season 2 of Person of Interest. I can’t believe I hadn’t paid it any attention before. Strong premise, good writing and acting, and the story arcs are well managed.

Amy Acker, whom I’ve only seen once or twice on TV, is kinda scary as Root.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:00:17am
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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:01:06am

re: #390 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’s inevitable. Twitter will not disappear, because it fills a niche and has too many loyal users to leave out in the cold. The question is, who will buy it?

Google, of course. Don’t they buy everything?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:02:20am

re: #391 lawhawk

Alphabet comes to mind. So too does Alibaba, but I think Alphabet is the better fit.

Alibaba has the funds, but I’d be wary of letting a Chinese firm run Twitter. The Chinese government would insist on censoring (or continuing to block) Twitter on the mainland, and even if it didn’t, I would use Twitter as an intelligence gathering network on dissidents. Probably they already do that, but Alibaba would be more cooperative in sharing data than Jack Dorsey & Co.

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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:02:20am

re: #394 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I have just finished season 2 of Person of Interest. I can’t believe I hadn’t paid it any attention before. Strong premise, good writing and acting, and the story arcs are well managed.

Amy Acker, whom I’ve only seen once or twice on TV, is kinda scary as Root.

And the pre-Empire Taraji P Henson is awesome.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:03:52am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

America.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:04:47am

re: #398 sagehen

And the pre-Empire Taraji P Henson is awesome.

Agreed. She does an excellent job playing a straight-arrow cop who is willing to bend the rules quite a bit for the greater good. Digging up Still’s body and saving Elias were big surprises for me.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:09:39am
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FormerDirtDart  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:13:03am
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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:13:35am

re: #402 FormerDirtDart

Thought he was hanging on till September.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:14:33am

re: #344 FormerDirtDart

THANKS OBAMA….
oh wait…
shit…
how do I spin this…
oh yeah…
IT’S ALL LIES…
The metrics we’ve used for decades no longer count…

[Embedded content]

I remember back when there was a budget surplus under Clinton and Rush Limbaugh came on to tell us that it was immoral for the government to take more money from us than it needs to operate…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:14:54am

re: #403 Sir John Barron

Thought he was hanging on till September.

It seems Teresa May will be the next PM, as her rival quit the race. I guess Cameron wants to get out quick and let her take over.

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freetoken  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:15:35am

re: #405 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It seems Teresa May will be the next PM, as her rival quit the race. I guess Cameron wants to get out quick and let her take over.

Rats, ships, sinking, etc.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:17:44am

re: #406 freetoken

Rats, ships, sinking, etc.

If I were a British citizen, I’d be right pissed at the politicians who set this whole Brexit nonsense in motion, and then all bailed when they realized what a total cock-up they made of it.

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Lidane  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:20:16am

Caribou Barbie is bleating again:

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:20:51am

re: #406 freetoken

Rats, ships, sinking, etc.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:22:37am

Speaking of cock-ups, China is building an enormous “Muslim theme park” in the middle of nowhere in hope of luring wealthy Middle Eastern tourists. It’s an expansion of the existing Hui Culture Park.

shanghaiist.com

So far, no one’s coming.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:26:29am

re: #408 Lidane

Caribou Barbie is bleating again:

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Hey, you know who else called people of a different ethnicity sub-human?

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Lidane  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:27:55am

Livetweets from the GOP platform committee meeting:

As usual, the GOP has its hand on the pulse of America. They’re focused on the important stuff.

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unproven innocence  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:28:56am

re: #398 sagehen

And the pre-Empire Taraji P Henson is awesome.

My adult daughter only gave into my urging her to watch Person of Interest when I recently bought her Season1 of Empire. So far, she’s not regretting it.

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Alyosha  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:29:39am

re: #337 Nyet

It might seem like random blathering now because the historical circumstances have changed. Back then it made sense in their heads. The fact remains is that the 2nd amdt’s language is not restrictive. It doesn’t say the right pertains to “the members of the aforementioned well-regulated militia”. Even if they intended to restrict this right to militia members - which I doubt - they still wrote something entirely else. They probably assumed that the people keeping arms would be conductive to the existence of a well-regulated militia. But them being a well-regulated militia is clearly not a prerequisite to bearing arms as the text stands.

English is my mamaloshn so I use loanwords whenever I can to hide my ignorance.
I couldn’t find the non sequitur myself but it makes sense now.
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to have a firmer grasp on the analytical aspects of my own language, let alone be able to tease apart the idiomatic speech of, say, a Russian. But in their own tongue.
Do you think in different languages according to need? Since the construct of language itself gives greater definition to thought itself?
Sorry to gush XD

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:30:04am

re: #412 Lidane

Livetweets from the GOP platform committee meeting:

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As usual, the GOP has its hand on the pulse of America. They’re focused on the important stuff.

Small government, just big enough to fit in your underwear.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:31:52am

re: #412 Lidane

Livetweets from the GOP platform committee meeting:

As usual, the GOP has its hand on the pulse of America. They’re focused on the important stuff.

If they would use the correct term, Illuminati, rather than UN, their platform would make more sense.

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austin_blue  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:32:37am

re: #232 Dave In Austin

Got your #’s. I’ll be in touch.

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Lidane  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:33:18am

Also, this:

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Dr. Matt  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:33:57am

re: #412 Lidane

Amdmt to call internet porn a public health crisis passed
— Liz Goodwin (@lizcgoodwin) July 11, 2016

Porn is a “public health crisis” but gun-related deaths, murders, and suicides is the price we pay for “Freedom”. Fucking assholes.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:40:27am

re: #408 Lidane

Caribou Barbie is bleating again:

“Retirement” has not been a good career move for Palin.

See also: Schilling, Curt.

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Lidane  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:41:06am

*facepalm*

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:41:47am

re: #419 Dr. Matt

Porn is a “public health crisis” but gun-related deaths, murders, and suicides is the price we pay for “Freedom”. Fucking assholes.

Internet porn just killed 5 cops in Dallas, after killing 49 at an Orlando nightclub.

/

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:42:27am

re: #421 Lidane

*facepalm*

A digital, virtual wall, made out of Internet material, that will zap people who try to cross.

/

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:43:11am

re: #423 Sir John Barron

A digital, virtual wall that will zap people who try to cross.

/

I’ve seen it on TV!

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unproven innocence  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:43:29am

re: #421 Lidane

*facepalm*

I thot he said it was gonna cost just $4b $8b $12b.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:43:36am

re: #423 Sir John Barron

A digital, virtual wall, made out of Internet material, that will zap people who try to cross.

/

It’ll be a series of tubes….

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:44:26am

re: #402 FormerDirtDart

Yeah, Theresa May will be the next PM.

And the Brexiteers are livid.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:44:47am

re: #419 Dr. Matt

Amdmt to call internet porn a public health crisis passed
— Liz Goodwin (@lizcgoodwin) July 11, 2016

Can they pass an amendment to call ISIS “Radical Islamic Terrorism”? That will end ISIS for sure.

/

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austin_blue  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:45:00am

re: #421 Lidane

*facepalm*

Headline!

Mexican President Happy To Pay For Trump’s Digital Border Wall

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:48:30am

We can’t get high speed internet access to people in rural areas and virtual internet monopolies exist in many areas stifling competition.

But yeah, lets build a digital fucking wall.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:49:08am

re: #410 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Maybe if they built an ark…

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unproven innocence  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:50:05am

re: #429 austin_blue

Headline!

Mexican President Happy To Pay For Trump’s Digital Border Wall

Maybe it will just scramble the GPS data on smart phones so no one will be able to figure out which way is North. /

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Kryptik: Just Done With It.  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:50:08am

re: #408 Lidane

Caribou Barbie is bleating again:

“‘These are thugs’: Palin demands media quit calling Black protesters ‘people’

Fixed that for you, Raw Story, since that’s the obvious end game for them straight up.

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Skip Intro  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:51:22am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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Or $114.40 or $44.00 but not $11.44. I guess that the processing costs eat into the profit if they go that low.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:53:05am

re: #433 Kryptik: Just Done With It.

Fixed that for you, Raw Story, since that’s the obvious end game for them straight up.

Can’t understand why conservatives do so poorly among minority populations.

//

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:53:18am

re: #349 Charles Johnson

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Now, now - I’m sure HE felt frightened. After all, he’s a chickenshit racist little turd who probably got scared by all those black people being near him. And he probably made an ass of himself to draw negative attention, then thought when he pulled his gun out, the cops would help HIM.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:53:31am

re: #408 Lidane

Caribou Barbie is bleating again:

Just a few months ago the Palin et al assholes were cheering on the Bundy terrorists.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:54:09am

re: #431 GlutenFreeJesus

Maybe if they built an ark…

Most of the locals would have no idea what it is, unless they had some dim memories of learning “Christian fairytales” in school or if they were Christian or Muslim.

Not many Jews around these parts.Only in the big cities.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:54:12am

re: #417 austin_blue

10/4…

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:54:19am

re: #423 Sir John Barron

A digital, virtual wall, made out of Internet material, that will zap people who try to cross.

/

re: #424 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

re: #425 unproven innocence

re: #429 austin_blue

Key technologies of the “Wall” systems are being beta tested across the country right now

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:54:21am

re: #434 Skip Intro

Or $114.40 or $44.00 but not $11.44. I guess that the processing costs eat into the profit if they go that low.

You’d think no one would be stupid enough to pay attention to someone who said goofy stuff like this, but…..

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:55:07am

re: #436 Blind Frog Belly White

Now, now - I’m sure HE felt frightened. After all, he’s a chickenshit racist little turd who probably got scared by all those black people being near him. And he probably made an ass of himself to draw negative attention, then thought when he pulled his gun out, the cops would help HIM.

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Funny thing is, not all of them were black. It was a pretty diverse group of people.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:55:21am

re: #437 Dr. Matt

Just a few months ago the Palin et al assholes were cheering on the Bundy terrorists.

That’s different. The Bundys are patriot freedom fighters, just like the Tea Party.

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:55:34am

re: #421 Lidane

*facepalm*

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well, I hear the Mexicans are pretty good at tunnels when it comes to sneaking across the border.
A virtual wall should be a piece of cake for them since the Internet is nothing more than “a series of tubes”. Same thing…right?
RIGHT??!!??

////////////////////////////

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:56:32am

re: #437 Dr. Matt

Just a few months ago the Palin et al assholes were cheering on the Bundy terrorists.

Remember when Black Lives Matter thugs occupied that nature reserve on federal land for over a month and totally wrecked the place?

That was great.

/

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:56:48am

OK, bedtime for me. Later everyone!

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:57:27am

re: #423 Sir John Barron

A digital, virtual wall, made out of Internet material, that will zap people who try to cross.

/

Tron

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unproven innocence  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:58:42am

re: #447 Eventual Carrion

Tron

How do we get there? Do you have a plan?
… We Jump.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:59:00am

re: #443 Sir John Barron

That’s different. The Bundys are patriot freedom fighters, just like the Tea Party.

/

Hey, diversity is scary! You know, white genocide and all that because not enough white people are fucking other white people and having white babies.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:59:26am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 8:59:36am

re: #444 Backwoods_Sleuth

well, I hear the Mexicans are pretty good at tunnels when it comes to sneaking across the border.
A virtual wall should be a piece of cake for them since the Internet is nothing more than “a series of tubes”. Same thing…right?
RIGHT??!!??

////////////////////////////

Not if the tubes go through the wall…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:00:25am

re: #412 Lidane

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:00:30am

re: #444 Backwoods_Sleuth

well, I hear the Mexicans are pretty good at tunnels when it comes to sneaking across the border.
A virtual wall should be a piece of cake for them since the Internet is nothing more than “a series of tubes”. Same thing…right?
RIGHT??!!??

////////////////////////////

I’ve been busy planting a “seed” online, on how to defeat tunnels under the “Wall”

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:01:50am

The right wing mantra has been that since Ferguson crime rates are up, there’s a war on cops, and that stop and frisk was critical to the drop in crime.

NYC continues to prove all kinds of evidence that every aspect of the right wing take on criminal justice is wrong.

For all that ails the NYPD (particularly on use of force), it still gets some things right - and the NYPD is being forced to address its shortcomings. The NYPD training is in process of being upgraded, and NYPD officers are trained far better than those thousands of local police departments.

If anything, the ongoing BLM movement is putting the spotlight on the fact that there’s simply too many local departments, and these fiefdoms operate with impunity and as their own money-raisers. Consolidation would improve law enforcement considerably, as well as provide cost savings. We saw this with Ferguson, where seemingly every town/hamlet in greater STL area had own police force, and the STL county police were overlaid on top of that. Consolidating the local police forces would eliminate waste, graft, and could impose better accountability - but only when local governments demanded better accountability.

Localities however don’t want to lose the revenue gained from having a police force that essentially act like a tax enforcement operation to gin up revenues from fees/fines on minority populations.

Just another aspect of the law enforcement/criminal justice system that has to be changed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:02:07am

“But it means Heritage…”

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:02:22am

re: #445 Sir John Barron

Remember when Black Lives Matter thugs occupied that nature reserve on federal land for over a month and totally wrecked the place?

That was great.

/

Yes, but these thugs are blocking traffic!!!!! Where is MLK when we need him?!?!?! Oops!

Let’s go to @RepJohnLewis for comment:

And we all know what happened after that photo was taken.

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:04:28am

Meanwhile, it appears all the weekend talk about Trump’s so-called VP vetting is going to come to a head tomorrow.

My odds?

Newt’s at 2-5
Reek (aka Gov. Christie) is 3-1.
Pence is 7-1.
Palin is 20-1.
Ivanka is 10-1.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:05:43am

re: #410 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Speaking of cock-ups, China is building an enormous “Muslim theme park” in the middle of nowhere in hope of luring wealthy Middle Eastern tourists. It’s an expansion of the existing Hui Culture Park.

shanghaiist.com

So far, no one’s coming.

maybe they should build an ark…

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:07:36am

re: #458 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

maybe they should build an ark…

There are multiple flood stories. They should build a park for their version. And someone should build a theme park based on the version mentioned in Gilgamesh.

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Skip Intro  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:08:10am

I think I see where they got the inspiration for their outfits.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:09:08am

re: #419 Dr. Matt

Porn is a “public health crisis” but gun-related deaths, murders, and suicides is the price we pay for “Freedom”. Fucking assholes.

Because as Ted Cruz can tell you, genital self-stimulation is not a constitutional right, but gunfucking is

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:10:44am

re: #457 lawhawk

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Meanwhile, it appears all the weekend talk about Trump’s so-called VP vetting is going to come to a head tomorrow.

My odds?

Newt’s at 2-5
Reek (aka Gov. Christie) is 3-1.
Pence is 7-1.
Palin is 20-1.
Ivanka is 10-1.

He’s not picking Ivanka. I’ll go with Pence. He needs someone with experience.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:11:04am
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Alephnaught  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:13:15am

David Cameron’s last act as PM- humming the West Wing theme to himself?

Just as well he left the mic on, so we can hear for ourselves…

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Dr. Matt  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:14:24am

re: #461 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because as Ted Cruz can tell you, genital self-stimulation is not a constitutional right, but gunfucking is

I’m willing to bet that the person(s) including the anti-porn amendment has an extensive cache of porn hits on their laptop.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:16:28am

re: #465 Dr. Matt

I’m willing to bet that the person(s) including the anti-porn amendment has an extensive cache of porn hits on their laptop.

and I don’t want to think about what (or who) they have in their cellars…

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Joe Bacon  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:19:51am

re: #466 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and I don’t want to think about what (or who) they have in their cellars…

They probably have a big stack of bodybuilding magazines with worn out pages…

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:20:58am

A reminder that the House is likely to remain in GOP hands:

All the more reason to make sure that turnout helps diminish the GOP stranglehold there. And to keep turning out so that the midterms continue rolling back the GOP hold on Congress…

Every election matters.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:21:41am

re: #63 bratwurst

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:22:27am
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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:23:08am

re: #469 Jebediah, RBG

No, Transformers, Dark of the Moon. Or was that Armageddon?

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Dr. Matt  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:24:11am

re: #468 lawhawk

A reminder that the House is likely to remain in GOP hands:

All the more reason to make sure that turnout helps diminish the GOP stranglehold there. And to keep turning out so that the midterms continue rolling back the GOP hold on Congress…

Every election matters.

Democratic Voters can’t seem to learn that midterms are just as important as a presidential election. If only the Left were as disciplined as the Right.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:25:58am

re: #472 Dr. Matt

Democratic Voters can’t seem to learn that midterms are just as important as a presidential election. If only the Left were as disciplined as the Right.

The GOP understands grassroots campaigning and getting people convinced that everything that deviates from their preconceived notions of how America should be is an existential threat.

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:27:37am

re: #471 lawhawk

No, Transformers, Dark of the Moon. Or was that Armageddon?

No, Armageddon was a story of how outsourcing govt work to the private sector can save the world from destruction.

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:27:51am

If Trump says something, particularly a statistic, odds are that it’s a pants on fire lie. In fact, that should be the default position - Trump lies, and he should be forced to prove that whatever he says is factually correct.

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CuriousLurker  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:30:37am

CNN did an interesting piece on Dallas police chief David Brown over the weekend. He’s see a lot of tragedy in his life: He grew up in a rough area in Dallas and understands first-hand what it’s like to distrust the police, but decided he wanted to make a difference so he joined the DPD in 1983. Five years later—in 1998—a former partner died in the line of duty. In 1991, his younger brother was killed by drug dealers in Phoenix. A few weeks after he was sworn in as chief in 2010, a young father and a police officer in nearby Lancaster were gunned down—the killer was his son, David Brown Jr. An autopsy showed he had PCP, marijuana and alcohol in his system

The newly minted Dallas police chief was at a loss for words.

“My family has not only lost a son, but a fellow police officer and a private citizen lost their lives at the hands of our son,” Brown told his department, according to The Dallas Morning News. “That hurts so deeply I cannot adequately express the sadness I feel inside my heart.”

More: Dallas police chief’s storied career marked by tragedies

Now this with the death of five officers. I can’t even imagine how much this is breaking his heart.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:31:10am

re: #441 Sir John Barron

I was listening to NPR one day and they had a story about a study by Microsoft of the people who fall for scams. Basically the scammer (and if you’ve seen Wolf of Wall Street it touches on this too) is looking for just the right amount of smartness/dumbness to capitalize upon. It’s a big enough world that even though the percentage of these people is low, there are enough who think they can make money. Rich people are generally too smart to fall for scams, poor people are too poor to have anything to take. You need just the right mix.

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:31:31am

re: #464 Alephnaught

Could just as well have been Benny Hill theme for how he and the rest of the pro-Brexit idiots have conducted themselves.

Not a single one of them is willing to lead the exit.

Not a single of them is willing to accept that the Brexit was built on a lie - including the claim that the NHS would benefit from the withdrawal.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:32:52am

re: #475 lawhawk

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If Trump says something, particularly a statistic, odds are that it’s a pants on fire lie. In fact, that should be the default position - Trump lies, and he should be forced to prove that whatever he says is factually correct.

Apparently, Rudy gets his statistics from the same place as Donald:

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calochortus  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:33:17am

re: #477 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

I was listening to NPR one day and they had a story about a study by Microsoft of the people who fall for scams. Basically the scammer (and if you’ve seen Wolf of Wall Street it touches on this too) is looking for just the right amount of smartness/dumbness to capitalize upon. It’s a big enough world that even though the percentage of these people is low, there are enough who think they can make money. Rich people are generally too smart to fall for scams, poor people are too poor to have anything to take. You need just the right mix.

And often the right mix includes just a touch of larceny in their soul. “I need to hide a billion dollars and I’ll pay you 1% to help” doesn’t appeal to a truly honest person.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:33:32am

re: #479 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently, Rudy gets his statistics from the same place as Donald:

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His ass?

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calochortus  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:35:01am

re: #479 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently, Rudy getsfailed his statistics class from the same place as Donald:

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Fixed

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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:36:29am

re: #255 Timothy Watson

There’s also the fact that the bolded part of the Second Amendment quoted above has been shown by history to be factually wrong. The militia was useless during the War of 1812. Militia members cut and ran at the earliest opportunity during engagements, and most members didn’t bother to maintain the arms they were suppose to.

The most notorious example was at the Battle of Bladensburg in Maryland in 1814. A large force of militia and some regulars, including Marines and sailors from the Washington Navy Yard, confronted a much smaller British force that had landed a few days earlier and was pushing inland. The militia fled practically at the first shot, leaving the regulars in a hopeless position, and moving British officer George Gleig to quip, “Never did men with arms in their hands make better use of their legs.”
Part of the mob fled through Washington DC, alerting President Madison that his plans for a stand in the city were hopeless, and giving him and his wife Dolley time to escape.
The British entered Washington that night and burned the White House and other public buildings.

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:37:22am

Laying the groundwork for a justified homicide - claim that the victim of an officer involved shooting appeared to look like a suspect in a crime - even though the person was never suspected and had no felony record.

We see this time and again. Cops will ultimately claim justified use of force for the flimsiest of reasons, and prosecutors and/or juries go along with it.

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unproven innocence  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:37:29am

re: #474 Franklin

No, Armageddon was a story of how outsourcing govt work to the private sector can save the world from destruction.

I thot it had a very simple message. The surviving contractors were motivated in part by a promise of no taxes for life. Therefore, Tax cuts can solve any problem.

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Lidane  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:37:36am

re: #479 Backwoods_Sleuth

On a related note, Giuliani is free to eat a bag of dicks. Racist asshole.

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Lidane  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:37:46am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:38:30am

re: #486 Lidane

On a related note, Giuliani is free to eat a bag of dicks. Racist asshole.

There is a 99% chance that he blows goats…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:38:34am
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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:38:55am

re: #478 lawhawk

Could just as well have been Benny Hill theme for how he and the rest of the pro-Brexit idiots have conducted themselves.

Not a single one of them is willing to lead the exit.

Not a single of them is willing to accept that the Brexit was built on a lie - including the claim that the NHS would benefit from the withdrawal.

There’s going to be a rather large dose of irony when the vote for Brexit leads to the UK being even more integrated into Europe. Luckily, the British are good with irony.

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Skip Intro  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:39:49am

re: #465 Dr. Matt

I’m willing to bet that the person(s) including the anti-porn amendment has an extensive cache of porn hits on their laptop.

Will tRump have to burn his copy of the Paris Hilton video porn that he and his wife liked to watch?

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:39:57am

re: #479 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Rudy-Trump convergence has been going on for a while. They’re sharing the same fact-free BS for a while.

Recall too that in all those photos trying to link Trump to Clinton, you see who else is standing there - Rudy (along with Joe Torre - not pictured in this version, and Bloomberg) - via NYDN:

They’ve been rubbing shoulders for years. And now it appears Rudy’s been whispering in his ear on various policy aspects.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:40:15am

re: #462 I Would Prefer Not To

He’s not picking Ivanka. I’ll go with Pence. He needs someone with experience.

Not Flynn.

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Lidane  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:40:23am

re: #484 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Laying the groundwork for a justified homicide - claim that the victim of an officer involved shooting appeared to look like a suspect in a crime - even though the person was never suspected and had no felony record.

We see this time and again. Cops will ultimately claim justified use of force for the flimsiest of reasons, and prosecutors and/or juries go along with it.

Somehow, the cop screaming “Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!” in a panic after he shot Philando Castile doesn’t seem to follow his logic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:41:39am
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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:42:02am

re: #484 lawhawk

Laying the groundwork for a justified homicide - claim that the victim of an officer involved shooting appeared to look like a suspect in a crime - even though the person was never suspected and had no felony record.

We see this time and again. Cops will ultimately claim justified use of force for the flimsiest of reasons, and prosecutors and/or juries go along with it.

Which ought not to stand. The only reason the officer should have fired a shot would have been an immediate threat to his life or someone else’s. Since the man was sitting in the vehicle, not doing much, there was no reason for the cop to fire.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:43:07am

re: #484 lawhawk

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Laying the groundwork for a justified homicide - claim that the victim of an officer involved shooting appeared to look like a suspect in a crime - even though the person was never suspected and had no felony record.

We see this time and again. Cops will ultimately claim justified use of force for the flimsiest of reasons, and prosecutors and/or juries go along with it.

And the “alpha males” of society who allegedly make up the police in this country are scared shitless of any black male they encounter.

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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:44:35am

re: #487 Lidane

Huckabee has to be pissed that he ran his Christianist/populist campaign eight years too early.

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calochortus  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:45:00am

re: #497 Timothy Watson

And the “alpha males” of society who allegedly make up the police in this country are scared shitless of any black male they encounter.

Pro tip: If you need a firearm to be an alpha male, you’re not an actual alpha male.

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lizardofid  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:46:13am

re: #476 CuriousLurker

CNN did an interesting piece on Dallas police chief David Brown over the weekend. He’s see a lot of tragedy in his life: He grew up in a rough area in Dallas and understands first-hand what it’s like to distrust the police, but decided he wanted to make a difference, so he joined the DPD in 1983. Five years later—in 1998—a former partner died in the line of duty. In 1991, his younger brother was killed by drug dealers in Phoenix. A few weeks after he was sworn in as chief in 2010 a young father and a police officer in nearby Lancaster were gunned down—the killer was his son, David Brown Jr. An autopsy showed he had PCP, marijuana and alcohol in his system

Now this with the death of five officers. I can’t even imagine how much this is breaking his heart.

He’s been the right person for Dallas, and never more than right now. I don’t know if the CNN piece mentioned it, but the chief has had to fend off detractors recently. Thankfully the mayor has had his back. Dallas is better off for it. His programs that promote de-escalation have born fruit.

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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:46:37am

re: #499 calochortus

Pro tip: If you need a firearm to be an alpha male, you’re not an actual alpha male.

Bonus Pro tip: If you have to do stuff to prove you’re an alpha male, you’re not an alpha male.

502
Stanley Sea  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:47:47am

My never ending question. Was the cop tested for steroids?

Doubt it.

503
lizardofid  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:51:32am

re: #502 Stanley Sea

My never ending question. Was the cop tested for steroids?

Doubt it.

I think you are so correct to ask.

504
Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:52:02am

I thought he was pulled over for broken tail light?

505
Lidane  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:53:42am

Wheee!

506
Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:53:51am

re: #504 Jenner7

I thought he was pulled over for broken tail light?

507
Skip Intro  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:54:08am

re: #504 Jenner7

He was pulled over for driving while black. He didn’t have a broken tail light.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:54:18am

re: #502 Stanley Sea

My never ending question. Was the cop tested for steroids?

Doubt it.

Every cop involved in a discharge of their weapon should be subject to immediate drug and alcohol testing. If you have done nothing wrong you shouldn’t have a problem with it, right?

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BeachDem  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:54:30am

re: #489 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Is the GOP platform also going to include alchemy, witch burning and recognition of the flatness of the Earth? Doesn’t seem like much of a stretch for them.

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ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:54:47am

re: #489 Backwoods_Sleuth

Zeke Miller ✔ @ZekeJMiller
.@tperkins introduces conversion therapy amendment, which passes the GOP Platform subcommittee.
12:04 PM - 11 Jul 2016
77 77 Retweets 17 17 likes

Are they building a political platform or is it more a document to capture the fevered ramblings of a fundamentalist insane asylum?

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calochortus  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:54:51am

re: #505 Lidane

Wheee!

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Will they provide any money to harden the electrical grid?

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Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:55:17am

re: #511 calochortus

No

513
calochortus  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:56:03am

re: #512 Tigger2

No

Of course not.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:56:11am

re: #505 Lidane

Wheee!

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SCIENCE!!111!!!

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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:56:38am

re: #505 Lidane

Wheee!

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I don’t know… I watched Dark Angel back in the day, and looking back, it looks less dystopian than it used to.

// (because, obviously)

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Skip Intro  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:56:53am

I think moving away from an earth centered universe really pissed god off. The GOP should demand that their Texas subsidiary require all school book publishers to remove this blasphemy and get us right with god.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:57:20am

re: #510 ObserverArt

Are they building a political platform or is it more a document to capture the fevered ramblings of an fundamentalist insane asylum?

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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:58:43am

re: #509 BeachDem

Is the GOP platform also going to include alchemy, witch burning and recognition of the flatness of the Earth? Doesn’t seem like much of a stretch for them.

they can’t include alchemy… once we go back to the gold standard you can’t have people out there trying to turn lead into gold. And witch burning is a bit too graphic, they’ll probably go with the duck test first (due process and all that). As for the flat Earth, just give them time…

519
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:58:48am
520
Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:59:14am
521
danarchy  Jul 11, 2016 • 9:59:40am

re: #478 lawhawk

Could just as well have been Benny Hill theme for how he and the rest of the pro-Brexit idiots have conducted themselves.

Not a single one of them is willing to lead the exit.

Not a single of them is willing to accept that the Brexit was built on a lie - including the claim that the NHS would benefit from the withdrawal.

I thought Cameron was anti-brexit?

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No Depression  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:02:06am

re: #479 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently, Rudy gets his statistics from the same place as Donald:

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That isn’t just racist; it’s stupid as fuck too. If black children really did have a 99% chance of killing each other, black people would cease to exist in this country.

523
calochortus  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:03:50am

OK, time to get back to work. Later, all.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:04:25am

re: #520 Franklin

Hold on to your butts nuts…

525
Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:04:37am

re: #519 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:04:54am

Thank you GOP platform committee…Shit show starting earlier than expected!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:05:44am

These are pretty cool, but they are so fast, most people never get to see them:

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:06:07am

re: #522 No Depression

That isn’t just racist; it’s stupid as fuck too. If black children really did have a 99% chance of killing each other, black people would cease to exist in this country.

I think he means, a black persons killer has a 99% chance of being black. Stat is inflated, but is consistent for all races (white killing white, etc).

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gocart mozart  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:06:12am

re: #366 Charles Johnson

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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:07:19am

re: #521 danarchy

I thought Cameron was anti-brexit?

Sorta kinda.

He offered the referendum as an election promise, to hold off challenges from the right. But he never thought it would pass.

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CuriousLurker  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:07:38am

re: #500 lizardofid

He’s been the right person for Dallas, and never more than right now. I don’t know if the CNN piece mentioned it, but the chief has had to fend off detractors recently. Thankfully the mayor has had his back. Dallas is better off for it. His programs that promote de-escalation have born fruit.

Thanks, no, I wasn’t aware of that. Kudos to the mayor for having his back. He deserves it, as do the citizens of Dallas.

532
No Depression  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:08:14am

re: #528 Franklin

I think he means, a black persons killer has a 99% chance of being black. Stat is inflated, but is consistent for all races (white killing white, etc).

It ain’t my fault he’s an inarticulate fucknugget.

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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:09:20am

re: #531 CuriousLurker

Thanks, no, I wasn’t aware of that. Kudos to the mayor for having his back. He deserves it, as do the citizens of Dallas.

talkingpointsmemo.com

Brown said that while the Dallas community, mayor and other city officials have given his department “all the support we need,” he believes Americans demand too much of local police departments.

“We’re asking cops to do too much in this country. We are. We’re just asking us to do too much,” he said. “Every societal failure, we put it off on the cops to solve. Not enough mental health funding. Let the cop handle it. Not enough drug addiction funding. Let’s give it to the cops.”

“Here in Dallas, we’ve got a loose dog problem,” Brown went on. “Let’s have the cops chase loose dogs. You know, schools fail. Give it to the cops. Seventy percent of the African-American community is being raised by single women. Let’s give it to the cops to solve that, as well. That’s too much to ask. Policing was never meant to solve all of those problems.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:09:30am
535
ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:11:34am

Just took a look at that Gate Pudnut’s image of Milo and Anne Coulter in those nifty t-shirts.

That shovel is a great prop. It looks like it hasn’t seen actual digging in 50 years or more. Hoft must have found it in someones old barn. The rust color shows it hasn’t been used or it would be polished by the dirt/stones, etc. And the edge isn’t even sharp and since it looks like it is chipped, I’m thinking it is so rusty that one good thrust into some actual dry soil and it will bust in half.

But damn…what fine conservative models! And they have that whole professional model pose going.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:11:40am

re: #533 sagehen

It’s a lot like asking troops to be nation builders.

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:12:24am

re: #532 No Depression

It ain’t my fault he’s an inarticulate fucknugget.

That’s a Fact.

Just looked at some murder statistics:

White murder victim: murderer was white 83% of the time
Black murder victim: murderer was black 90% of the time.

So, nowhere near 99% and wether you are white or black, your murderer is almost exclusively going to share the same skin pigmentation as you.

538
lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:12:31am

re: #521 danarchy

He’s the nitwit who decided the way to address Brexit was to hold the referendum. So, he’s responsible for the ensuing shitshow.

539
Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:12:32am

re: #527 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s not that far from here. About 50-odd kilometers (35 or so miles).

540
The Vicious Babushka  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:14:29am

Baby Whiplash’s (aka Asscrack The Insignificant) most insane wharglebargle EVAH in which he claims to know what is “best” for The Blacks and of course what all “Leftists” think.

I KNOW WHAT LEFTISTS ARE THINKING
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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:15:39am

re: #537 Franklin

Which further makes sense since the overwhelming majority of homicides are the result of people who know each other - family, friends, colleagues. They’re people known to each other. Most people are not assaulted or killed by people who don’t know them.

The people the gun nuts have to fear are their own family/friends - there isn’t some armed horde just waiting over the horizon to come and kill them, rape them, or steal their stuff.

But most gun sales are predicated on the threat of The Other.

542
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:18:29am

re: #510 ObserverArt

Are they building a political platform or is it more a document to capture the fevered ramblings of a fundamentalist insane asylum?

since they already have a candidate who captures the fevered ramblings of a fundamentalist insane asylum, they should have a platform to match

543
Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:18:29am

re: #517 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yes, it’s so natural for people to walk around in public armed to the teeth…

544
dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:18:59am

“There’s even a greater fear,” one Republican National Committee member said. “What if he really gets elected? Now what do we do?”

Other Republicans are less shy about that possibility. It would be a catastrophe, they say, and it cannot be allowed to happen.

“Whatever Hillary Clinton’s faults, she’s not ignorant or hateful or a nut,” wrote Mark Salter, who was a senior strategist to Arizona Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. “She acts like an adult, and understands the responsibilities of an American president.”

In such a partisan time, and with as polarizing an opponent as Clinton, relatively few Republicans are likely to openly back the other side. Preventing Trump from remaking the party in his own image, however, is a much more readily accepted goal across the GOP’s spectrum.

“This is a pivotal moment in history,” said Kendal Unruh, the Colorado leader of the “Free the Delegates” movement to encourage fellow delegates to modify the convention rules in the coming week to dump Trump.

Yet reaching a consensus on what should replace Trump’s agenda could prove more difficult than imagined ― for the same reasons that Trump was able to win the nomination in the first place. Trump’s victories in the primaries revealed an enormous gulf between what GOP leaders believe their voters want and what those voters actually want.

All of Trump’s rivals for the nomination hit the usual themes that appeal to the Republican “three-legged stool.” They warned social conservatives about threats to religious freedom, guaranteed economic conservatives big tax cuts and rallied foreign-policy conservatives with promises of a more aggressive use of the military.

Meanwhile, Trump smashed the stool until it shattered, focusing his campaign largely on building a wall along the United States’ border with Mexico, raising tariffs, and bombing and torturing terrorists and their families.

The message resonated with the rarely acknowledged fourth leg of that allegorical stool: a segment of the white population, disproportionately Southern and disproportionately undereducated, that has little interest in lower capital gains taxes or fewer business regulations.

Rather, Trump’s racially tinged promise to “make America great again” harkens back to a time when a high school diploma, and sometimes not even that, was all that was necessary to make a middle-class living in a country that was overwhelmingly white.

“What they want to do is go back to 1956. And it’s just not going to happen,” said Mac Stipanovich, a longtime Republican consultant who served as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign manager in 1994. “If that’s who we are, then we’re headed for the ash heap of history.”

m.huffpost.com

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lizardofid  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:20:01am

re: #531 CuriousLurker

Thanks, no, I wasn’t aware of that. Kudos to the mayor for having his back. He deserves it, as do the citizens of Dallas.

Most of his problems are like every other big city chief in the country. Trying to implement community policing, under budget restraints, spreads the force thin, and that creates friction. Also, moral is a constant battle, when suburban departments are always ready to offer the best you train up, a nice raise to defect.

546
FormerDirtDart  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:21:17am

I’m pretty damn sure I read yesterday that he specifically said that women should be able to “choose”

547
Thanos  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:21:31am

re: #506 Belafon

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There’s a whole narrative building in the RW blogosphere right now to discredit Reynolds, they are also trying to say that she lied, that Philando had his gun on his lap, that he was a crip, that he didn’t really have a permit, that Reynolds is just a liar etc. etc. The main place it’s emanating from is Conservative Treehouse, and SNOPES has done some work to debunk their BS, but it’s still spreading widely through the breitbartosphere and Facebook.

snopes.com

snopes.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:21:45am

re: #540 The Vicious Babushka

Evidenceless?? Is that even a damn word?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:21:56am

re: #517 Backwoods_Sleuth

GOP draft platform: “We support the public display of the Ten Commandments as a reflection of … our country’s Judeo-Christian heritage.”

I remember when Dubya came out in favor of that. Then some journalist, who obviously had a couple semesters of comparative religions or linguistics under his belt asked “Which translation”.

To which Dubya replied, “The standard one”, I assume that in his uncritical pea brain that meant the King James translation…he left without expounding on his answer.

550
SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:22:23am

re: #544 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

The Republicans’ problem is that it isn’t just Trump and his minions who want to turn back the clock to an America that never existed, and they can’t deal with it.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:23:58am

re: #549 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I remember when Dubya came out in favor of that. Then some journalist, who obviously had a couple semesters of comparative religions or linguistics under his belt asked “Which translation”.

To which Dubya replied, “The standard one”, I assume that in his uncritical pea brain that meant the King James translation…he left without expounding on his answer.

“The one that I read, OK?!”

/

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:24:45am

re: #546 FormerDirtDart

I’m pretty damn sure I read yesterday that he specifically said that women should be able to “choose”

“Yeah, well, whatever.”

/

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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:24:59am

re: #536 Belafon

It’s a lot like asking troops to be nation builders.

And this stat, “Seventy percent of the African-American community is being raised by single women”, is our own fault too.

Those unmarried parents, the “single mothers”, it’s not that the men are a bunch of ex-boyfriends who skipped off. 80% of unmarried black fathers are involved in their children’s lives, they buy groceries and read bedtime stories and go to the kids’ Little League games.

But since black guys are 4 times more likely than white guys to be arrested for drugs (even though they use at the same rate), and anybody with a record the whole family is ineligible for public housing, food stamps, student loans, city and county job training programs, etc, it’s just math that the family is better off if Dad and Mom are live-in boyfriend/girlfriend, instead of husband and wife.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:25:02am

re: #546 FormerDirtDart

I’m pretty damn sure I read yesterday that he specifically said that women should be able to “choose”

they should be able to choose between being barefoot and pregnant until menopause or going to a nunnery…

555
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:25:03am
556
Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:25:07am

re: #544 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

There’s a party that wants to make it easier for people to earn a living, to pay for any education they need, and recognizes the need for a minimum standard of living. What these people are hoping for though, by voting for Republicans instead of Democrats, is that we can go back to the 1950s by being openly mean to minorities again, by reintroducing segregation and sanctifying racism.

557
Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:25:39am

re: #544 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Hope I’m around to put the first shovel full of dirt on the ashes because Stipanovich that is who your party is.

558
Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:26:24am

re: #555 Backwoods_Sleuth

Chief Brown on what he’d like President Obama to say: I’m not gonna chime in on what he should say. He’s the President, for God’s sake.
— meta

See how divisive Obama is?

/

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:26:30am

re: #544 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

“There’s even a greater fear,” one Republican National Committee member said. “What if he really gets elected? Now what do we do?”

Other Republicans are less shy about that possibility. It would be a catastrophe, they say, and it cannot be allowed to happen.

“Whatever Hillary Clinton’s faults, she’s not ignorant or hateful or a nut,” wrote Mark Salter, who was a senior strategist to Arizona Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. “She acts like an adult, and understands the responsibilities of an American president.”

In such a partisan time, and with as polarizing an opponent as Clinton, relatively few Republicans are likely to openly back the other side. Preventing Trump from remaking the party in his own image, however, is a much more readily accepted goal across the GOP’s spectrum.

“This is a pivotal moment in history,” said Kendal Unruh, the Colorado leader of the “Free the Delegates” movement to encourage fellow delegates to modify the convention rules in the coming week to dump Trump.

Yet reaching a consensus on what should replace Trump’s agenda could prove more difficult than imagined ― for the same reasons that Trump was able to win the nomination in the first place. Trump’s victories in the primaries revealed an enormous gulf between what GOP leaders believe their voters want and what those voters actually want.

All of Trump’s rivals for the nomination hit the usual themes that appeal to the Republican “three-legged stool.” They warned social conservatives about threats to religious freedom, guaranteed economic conservatives big tax cuts and rallied foreign-policy conservatives with promises of a more aggressive use of the military.

Meanwhile, Trump smashed the stool until it shattered, focusing his campaign largely on building a wall along the United States’ border with Mexico, raising tariffs, and bombing and torturing terrorists and their families.

The message resonated with the rarely acknowledged fourth leg of that allegorical stool: a segment of the white population, disproportionately Southern and disproportionately undereducated, that has little interest in lower capital gains taxes or fewer business regulations.

Rather, Trump’s racially tinged promise to “make America great again” harkens back to a time when a high school diploma, and sometimes not even that, was all that was necessary to make a middle-class living in a country that was overwhelmingly white.

“What they want to do is go back to 1956. And it’s just not going to happen,” said Mac Stipanovich, a longtime Republican consultant who served as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign manager in 1994. “If that’s who we are, then we’re headed for the ash heap of history.”

m.huffpost.com

That’s exactly what Trump’s voters want. To go back in time when even a modest job, such as being a baker - as my father was - meant middle-class success. On a baker’s salary, he paid a mortgage (until 1976), my mom was a housewife, I wanted for nothing, and we took trips to Sweden every five years or so during my childhood (and once to Egypt!) and usually every summer, we drove around the USA, seeing something new.

Those days are gone. And yes, my dad never even went to college. He was a high-school grad, that’s it. But those days won’t return, no matter how much Trump’s voters may want them to.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:26:34am

re: #556 Belafon

There’s a party that wants to make it easier for people to earn a living, to pay for any education they need, and recognizes the need for a minimum standard of living. What these people are hoping for though, by voting for Republicans instead of Democrats, is that we can go back to the 1950s by being openly mean to minorities again, by reintroducing segregation and sanctifying racism.

they think there is a causal relationship between minorities advancing and them declining…

561
Lidane  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:26:56am
562
sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:27:43am

re: #537 Franklin

So, nowhere near 99% and wether you are white or black, your murderer is almost exclusively going to share the same skin pigmentation as you.

Because your murderer is almost always going to be a family member, neighbor, former friend, or somebody else who you already know pretty well. That’s why cops don’t go looking for random strangers as suspects until they’ve already looked at everybody you’ve regularly spent time with.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:29:19am

re: #510 ObserverArt

Are they building a political platform or is it more a document to capture the fevered ramblings of a fundamentalist insane asylum?

- constitutional amendment mandating u.s. population cannot be less than 55% european-american

- manufacturing required to be brought back to u.s. to provide well paid blue collar jobs to americans while at the same time not impacting profits of manufacturers or increasing prices - solution: china and vietnam will pay for it

- medicare part G public health gun program: compulsory subsidized guns required to be issued to all schoolchildren and liberals

- phrases “season’s greetings” and “happy holidays” crminalized as hate speech

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:29:53am

re: #458 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

China has treated Muslims poorly throughout history.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:30:30am

re: #540 The Vicious Babushka

The Buzzword of ‘Systemic Racism’ Is BS That Hurts Black People t.co pic.twitter.com
— Ben Shapiro

Yeah, black people, listen up. Ben is greatly concerned about your welfare and freedom.

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:30:42am
567
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:31:00am

re: #564 Ziggy_TARDIS

China has treated Muslims poorly throughout history.

Do they not have their own troublesome Muslim minority in Xinkang province?

568
Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:31:08am

re: #563 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

It would be funny if it weren’t so damned plausible.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:31:17am

re: #561 Lidane

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It’s been reported that he and his family have received death threats in the past few days. No elaboration on the content of the threats, though. Still, I expect comments like this will have gun-rights folks screaming “he’s politicizing a tragedy!” and it wouldn’t surprise me if the threats were from such folk.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:32:35am

re: #563 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

- constitutional amendment mandating u.s. population cannot be less than 55% european-american

- manufacturing required to be brought back to u.s. to provide well paid blue collar jobs to americans while at the same time not impacting profits of manufacturers or increasing prices - solution: china and vietnam will pay for it

- medicare part G public health gun program: compulsory subsidized guns required to be issued to all schoolchildren and liberals

- phrases “season’s greetings” and “happy holidays” crminalized as hate speech

I am going to add the “magnum lottery” pension system: buy a lottery ticket every week until you retire. If you haven’t won by then, buy a gun and rob a store. Even if you get caught, you have free housing, food and medical care for the rest of your life

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:33:06am

re: #564 Ziggy_TARDIS

China has treated Muslims poorly throughout history.

There was that period of openness and tolerance in the early Tang dynasty until the An Lushan Rebellion….

572
Shiplord Kirel  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:34:35am

Yecchh!
Idiot compares Trump to Wendell Wilkie.
Before Trump, there was Wendell Willkie

The Republican Party once chose a presidential nominee who was successful in business but had never held political office. Who went from being a Democrat to a Republican, but was a maverick in his new party. He would often speak off the cuff, was not much of a churchgoer, had what one historian called “a magnetic personality” and was not always faithful as a husband.

He was definitely a dark horse when he began his campaign against veteran candidates but won the GOP nomination in defiance of the political establishment, with what one observer called “a tendency to make his own decisions in his own good way.”

He wasn’t Donald Trump.

No, he sure as hell wasn’t. Wilkie was an internationalist visionary and a social liberal who helped dismantle Indiana’s once powerful Ku Klux Klan, became the first major party presidential candidate to address the NAACP convention, and helped FDR pass Lend-Lease. His book, One World, recounts his travels on behalf of Roosevelt during World War II, and lays out his proposals for a new international order.

Some freepers see through it as well:

More attempts to spread irrelevant slime on Trump.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:36:52am

re: #567 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yep.

Also doesn’t count the multiple times the Hui have been massacred. Though the Hui are now friendly to the Central Government and are displacing the Uyghurs in Turkestan.

574
Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:39:24am

re: #572 Shiplord Kirel

More attempts to spread irrelevant slime on Trump.

LOL

575
Mattand  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:41:22am

re: #488 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is a 99% chance that he blows goats…

It’s irresponsible to not ask this question. Repeatedly.

576
gocart mozart  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:43:54am

re: #349 Charles Johnson

577
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:44:56am

Donald is having a veterans rally in Virginia Beach at the moment.
Christie is with him:

578
KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:45:17am

re: #576 gocart mozart

shouldn’t a “violent mob” be, you know, violent? Or does violent in this case mean “not white”?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:46:31am

hmmmmm

wonder what that’s about.

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nines09  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:46:34am

re: #577 Backwoods_Sleuth

Donald is having a veterans rally in Virginia Beach at the moment.
Christie is with him:

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The old “When in doubt fire 8 warning shots into them?”

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:46:37am
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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:46:42am

MSNBC was in the middle of interviewing DeRay and they told him to hold on while they play Trump, who is talking about cops right now. He’s clearly reading from a teleprompter.

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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:48:04am

He’s getting better at reading off a teleprompter.

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jaunte  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:48:10am
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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:48:42am

“I am the law and order candidate.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:48:55am

re: #579 Backwoods_Sleuth

ahhh…BLM rally in Louisville.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:49:12am

re: #581 The Vicious Babushka

Wow, they really tried to throw Alex Jones at you?

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jaunte  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:49:30am
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Mattand  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:50:12am

re: #577 Backwoods_Sleuth

Donald is having a veterans rally in Virginia Beach at the moment.
Christie is with him:

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God, you people have no idea how much I despise the fact Christie is our governor. Refusing to vote for this opportunistic jackass twice is one of the more brilliant political moves I’ve ever made in my life.

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gocart mozart  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:51:01am

re: #479 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:51:04am
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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:51:34am

There is a certain thinking among Republicans/conservatives that part of the problem is that people don’t “fear” the police. (I’ve actually heard this from family members, which is really annoying considering half my family came from Cuba.) Of course, it’s lost on many of them that we have a name for societies where people fear the police, they’re called “police states.”

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Timothy Watson  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:51:42am

re: #515 KGxvi

I don’t know… I watched Dark Angel back in the day, and looking back, it looks less dystopian than it used to.

// (because, obviously)

I also support genetic engineering if it results in more women who look like Jessica Alba.

//

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:52:21am
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jaunte  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:52:32am
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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:53:28am
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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:54:09am
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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:54:15am

re: #593 Timothy Watson

I also support genetic engineering if it results in more women who look like Jessica Alba.

//

Let us also no over look the fact that Dark Angel also gave us Valarie Rae Miller…

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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:55:09am

So, I guess they are done speaking with DeRay. They made it sound they’d come back to him, but now went to Chris Jansing.

Ugh.

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:55:12am

re: #593 Timothy Watson

I also support genetic engineering if it results in more women who look like Jessica Alba.

//

Yea, but when you modify to get the “Alba Look Gene” activated, you also have the unfortunate side effect of strongly activating the “Alba Acting Ability Gene”. I’m not sure that’s a trade-off the world is ready for.

RBS

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nines09  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:55:38am

re: #592 KGxvi

There is a certain thinking among Republicans/conservatives that part of the problem is that people don’t “fear” the police. (I’ve actually heard this from family members, which is really annoying considering half my family came from Cuba.) Of course, it’s lost on many of them that we have a name for societies where people fear the police, they’re called “police states.”

Yes. Part of the problem is they didn’t have enough respect beat into them. Or manhandled enough. It’s a whole new world as you speak with the nice officer with his hand on his pistol. And he’s apparently had a bad day. Or his wife left. Or ran off with a guy who looks like you. Or something.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:55:44am
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jaunte  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:56:30am

re: #602 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s loaded with something.

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ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:56:32am

So I just flipped to The Don.

He is making fun of politicians reading off teleprompters as he badly reads off a teleprompter.

This is the state of politics in America. It sure does suck bigly or big league.

And they just cut away from him on MSNBC. Good.

And we are one week from Cleveland.

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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:57:36am

re: #593 Timothy Watson

I also support genetic engineering if it results in more women who look like Jessica Alba.

//

I’ll withhold support until I know what the men are going to look like.

But just as a general rule… I wouldn’t want to have to compete with too many Jessica Albas for the available men.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:57:36am

*thud*

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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:57:40am

re: #601 nines09

Yes. Part of the problem is they didn’t have enough respect beat into them. Or manhandled enough. It’s a whole new world as you speak with the nice officer with his hand on his pistol. And he’s apparently had a bad day. Or his wife left. Or ran off with a guy who looks like you. Or something.

Or just had some “testosterone therapy”

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:57:50am

re: #595 jaunte

Trump: I am the candidate of compassion.

Now, now, you just might chase off your Base.

/

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Mattand  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:58:03am

re: #592 KGxvi

There is a certain thinking among Republicans/conservatives that part of the problem is that people don’t “fear” the police. (I’ve actually heard this from family members, which is really annoying considering half my family came from Cuba.) Of course, it’s lost on many of them that we have a name for societies where people fear the police, they’re called “police states.”

Years ago, I read a piece in, I think, the Sunday edition of the Philly Inquirer. They were following a family who had a couple generations of cops. They were from the Northeast section of the city, which is predominantly white.

The one quote that sticks with me to this day is one of the younger sons regretting that people didn’t fear the police like they did in his father’s or grandfather’s day. That’s really stuck with me over the years. Again, it’s been a while and maybe I’m missing context, but to this guy, being a cop meant making people afraid of you.

I want to think that’s not the norm, but given the rep of the Philly PD since I was a kid, I may be being naive. I’m certainly not looking forward to the convention. The cops went out of there way to piss all over civil liberties for the GOP one in 2000; I can’t see this one being any different.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:58:09am

re: #595 jaunte

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“Why did you withdraw promised medical help for your nephew?”

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:58:54am

Am seriously considering using a couple of small rubber bands to either pull my beard down into a tight chin ponytail, or possibly forking it into 2 separate ones coming down.

That is all.

RBS

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:59:16am

re: #592 KGxvi

There is a certain thinking among Republicans/conservatives that part of the problem is that people don’t “fear” the police. (I’ve actually heard this from family members, which is really annoying considering half my family came from Cuba.) Of course, it’s lost on many of them that we have a name for societies where people fear the police, they’re called “police states.”

That’s also their approach to Foreign Policy, that other nations don’t respect us because they’re not afraid of us. That’s why they love Trump’s saber rattling, bully boy act. They want a world where everyone else is too afraid not to do what we want.

Hell, it’s their approach to their own god, that we should be ‘godfearing’. And they want a god who punishes the wicked, defined as ‘the people who make me uncomfortable’.

This is what stupid, scared people want - somebody to make it all better by getting rid of the people and things that scare them, and ideally with a lot of violence.

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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:59:45am
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sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:59:46am

re: #611 Reality Based Steve

Am seriously considering using a couple of small rubber bands to either pull my beard down into a tight chin ponytail, or possibly forking it into 2 separate ones coming down.

That is all.

RBS

Reconsider.

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 11, 2016 • 10:59:48am

re: #605 sagehen

I’ll withhold support until I know what the men are going to look like.

But just as a general rule… I wouldn’t want to have to compete with too many Jessica Albas for the available men.

Sid Haig. (or me, we’re interchangeable)

RBS

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:00:33am
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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:01:07am

re: #605 sagehen

I’ll withhold support until I know what the men are going to look like.

But just as a general rule… I wouldn’t want to have to compete with too many Jessica Albas for the available men.

It’ll be like the Twilight Zone episode… we’ll have five models to choose from.

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Mattand  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:02:06am

re: #611 Reality Based Steve

Am seriously considering using a couple of small rubber bands to either pull my beard down into a tight chin ponytail, or possibly forking it into 2 separate ones coming down.

That is all.

RBS

Go the forking route, but grow them longer and tip them with sharp blades. Then when your enemies attack you (as they most certainly will), you can whip your head around and disembowel them before they even know what’s happening.

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jaunte  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:02:36am

re: #606 Backwoods_Sleuth

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*thud*

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Stanley Sea  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:02:57am

re: #611 Reality Based Steve

Am seriously considering using a couple of small rubber bands to either pull my beard down into a tight chin ponytail, or possibly forking it into 2 separate ones coming down.

That is all.

RBS

Two braids with beads on the ends.

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Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:03:18am

re: #602 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:03:38am

re: #620 Stanley Sea

Two braids with beads on the ends.

I’ve got somebody who has offered to do that for me.

RBS

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:04:06am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:04:23am

re: #620 Stanley Sea

Two braids with beads on the ends.

The Khal Drogo look. But can he go shirtless, like the Dothraki?

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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:05:04am

re: #619 jaunte

Oooh, can I steal that?

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gocart mozart  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:05:11am
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jaunte  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:05:23am

re: #625 Jenner7

Sure, send it around.

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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:05:43am

re: #624 Blind Frog Belly White

The Khal Drogo look. But can he go shirtless, like the Dothraki?

And here I was thinking the (book version) Daario Naharis. Depending on the original color, the blue could be fairly easy.

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Kragar  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:06:23am
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gocart mozart  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:06:41am
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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:06:44am
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gocart mozart  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:08:17am
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Charles Johnson  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:08:45am

Facebook Post

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jaunte  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:09:04am

re: #629 Kragar

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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:09:13am

re: #629 Kragar

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I AM THE LAW!! AND THERE WILL BE ORDER!! THERE WILL BE SO MUCH ORDER, FOLKS, YOU’RE GOING TO GET TIRED OF IT, OK? BELIEVE ME, THERE WILL BE LAW AND THERE WILL BE ORDER. GET IN LINE OR GET PUT DOWN

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:09:34am

Ann Coulter has a new “book” out called In Trump We Trust.

The wingnut movement has gone off the rails. If they were ever on any rails to begin with.

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:10:31am

re: #624 Blind Frog Belly White

The Khal Drogo look. But can he go shirtless, like the Dothraki?

I can, but it’s not ‘exactly’ the same look. Ok, it’s not anything like the same look.

RBS

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Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:10:59am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:11:16am

re: #628 KGxvi

And here I was thinking the (book version) Daario Naharis. Depending on the original color, the blue could be fairly easy.

I’m glad that the showrunners decided to go with a different look for him. When I read the description in the book, and how Danaerys finds him so handsome, I was…bemused.

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ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:11:40am

Today must be Trump pivot day.

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:11:45am

re: #630 gocart mozart

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And that, my friends, is what we call a ‘Service Ace’

RBS

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:11:46am

re: #615 Reality Based Steve

Sid Haig. (or me, we’re interchangeable)

RBS

You look like Sid Haig? That’s awesome!

Sid Haig. Or RBS.
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:12:59am

re: #629 Kragar

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Well, to be fair, that’s kinda what George Wallace had in mind in 1968 when he ran as the Law’N’Order candidate.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:13:06am

re: #639 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m glad that the showrunners decided to go with a different look for him. When I read the description in the book, and how Danaerys finds him so handsome, I was…bemused.

I watched S6 first, then started watching from the beginning; I think Daario #1 is closer to the book portrayal (in looks at least) but I think I prefer Daario #2.

The difference was a little jarring.

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jaunte  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:13:21am
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Mattand  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:13:28am

re: #636 Sir John Barron

Ann Coulter has a new “book” out called In Trump We Trust.

The wingnut movement has gone off the rails. If they were ever on any rails to begin with.

I think the hard part for Coulter when she write a new book is that her doctors only allow her so much finger paint at a time.

At this point, for America to be safe, we need the absolute destruction of the Republican party. Bunch of fucking lunatics at this point.

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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:14:34am

re: #639 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m glad that the showrunners decided to go with a different look for him. When I read the description in the book, and how Danaerys finds him so handsome, I was…bemused.

I think it would have just taken too much time to explain the Tyroshi practice of coloring hair when there’d been no real Tyroshi presence on the show.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:14:45am

re: #635 KGxvi

I AM THE LAW!! AND THERE WILL BE ORDER!! THERE WILL BE SO MUCH ORDER, FOLKS, YOU’RE GOING TO GET TIRED OF IT, OK? BELIEVE ME, THERE WILL BE LAW AND THERE WILL BE ORDER. GET IN LINE OR GET PUT DOWN

Also the Constitution. It’s great. All 18 articles. We’re gonna follow the Constitution, believe me.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:15:11am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:15:22am

re: #646 Mattand

I think the hard part for Coulter when she write a new book is that her doctors only allow her so much finger paint at a time.

At this point, for America to be safe, we need the absolute destruction of the Republican party. Bunch of fucking lunatics at this point.

Trump has allowed Coulter to come out as her true self. Hitherto, she’s had to mute her racism, but now she can totally let her (Confederate)flag fly.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:15:58am

re: #649 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“We’ll make the principal turn the soda machine back on during school hours!”

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:16:35am

re: #643 Blind Frog Belly White

Well, to be fair, that’s kinda what George Wallace had in mind in 1968 when he ran as the Law’N’Order candidate.

Oooohhh, that sounds like it could be a tasty hashtag:

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Teukka  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:17:27am

Lawn Order?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:17:56am

re: #652 Franklin

Oooohhh, that sounds like it could be a tasty hashtag:

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Now I want some tasty hash! Preferably corned beef hash.

Crispy on the outside.

With an egg.

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:18:18am

re: #642 Dr Lizardo

You look like Sid Haig? That’s awesome!

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With the short beard.
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KGxvi  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:18:25am

re: #649 Backwoods_Sleuth

Modern day Bonus Army?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:19:52am
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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:20:22am
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:20:24am

re: #655 Reality Based Steve

Yes, you’ve got that Sid Haig thing going on! Magnificent!

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:20:36am

i for one welcome our candidate supporting article 12 of the constitution

i am however a little afraid of what it will say when he writes it

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:20:56am

re: #653 Teukka

Lawn Order?

“We have no leadership on lawns. No leadership. Dandelions aren’t afraid of us anymore. I’ll be the Lawn Order President, okay? Okay? Lawns will be in perfect order, believe me folks! The Garden Gnomes will all be WHITE, and the Lawn Jockeys will all be BLACK. We’ll make lawns great again!”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:21:51am

re: #655 Reality Based Steve

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I’m thinking more Mick Fleetwood than Sid Haig.
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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:21:58am

Trying to start the #GeorgeWallaceOrDonaldTrump hashtag but I think it’s a non starter. George Wallace was an asshole, a racist and just about the worst human in America. But that is where the similarities end. Wallace was smart and well spoken. Donald Trump, is neither of those things.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:22:41am

re: #657 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Didn’t the wingnuts say the same thing about Obama?

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:23:51am

re: #661 Blind Frog Belly White

“We have no leadership on lawns. No leadership. Dandelions aren’t afraid of us anymore. I’ll be the Lawn Order President, okay? Okay? Lawns will be in perfect order, believe me folks! The Garden Gnomes will all be WHITE, and the Lawn Jockeys will all be BLACK. We’ll make lawns great again!”

“And cops will be able to remove any protesters from lawns, no matter what the owner says.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:24:23am
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Belafon  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:24:30am

re: #663 Franklin

Trying to start the #GeorgeWallaceOrDonaldTrump hashtag but I think it’s a non starter. George Wallace was an asshole, a racist and just about the worst human in America. But that is where the similarities end. Wallace was smart and well spoken. Donald Trump, is neither of those things.

I think that would require a whole lot of knowledge of history.

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Reality Based Steve  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:24:48am

Well, I’m off to Fedex store (Kinkos) to punch holes in a 350 page document to put it in binder. I wonder if they can do it, or if I have to do it 12 pages at a time by hand. Probably stop at the Noodle Express place next door to it for a lunch.

BBL

RBS

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:25:37am

re: #666 Backwoods_Sleuth

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A fairly conservative Dem, but if it puts a majority in the Senate, I’ll take it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:26:11am

re: #668 Reality Based Steve

Well, I’m off to Office Depot to punch holes in a 350 page document to put it in binder. I wonder if they can do it, or if I have to do it 12 pages at a time by hand. Probably stop at the Noodle Express place next door to it for a lunch.

BBL

RBS

“I’m sorry, sir. We tried to use a laser to cut the holes, but it lit your paper on fire and now it’s all burned up.”

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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:26:26am

Welp, gotta get off this couch and clean house. BBL.

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Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:26:59am

re: #669 InfidelOfFreedom

A fairly conservative Dem, but if it puts a majority in the Senate, I’ll take it.

Yep, another vote for a good SCOTUS Justice.

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:27:23am
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Kragar  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:27:30am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:29:07am

re: #672 Tigger2

Yep, another vote for a good ANY SCOTUS Justice.

FTFY

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:29:27am

re: #673 Franklin

I’m literally tearing up reading some of these letters….great stuff.

It’s true that we face discrimination for being Asian in this country. Sometimes people are rude to us about our accents, or withhold promotions because they don’t think of us as “leadership material.” Some of us are told we’re terrorists. But for the most part, nobody thinks “dangerous criminal” when we are walking down the street. The police do not gun down our children and parents for simply existing.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:29:44am

re: #674 Kragar

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Wasn’t that the thing King John signed at Runnymede?

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Tigger2  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:30:28am

re: #675 Blind Frog Belly White

FTFY

Good=Not Rightwing.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:31:15am

re: #674 Kragar

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I went to a “gourmet” butcher shop (because I was in the neighborhood) the other day and asked if they had hanger steak (expecting the negative). The guy just stared at me blankly. He thought I was making it up.

ANyway, I’m making a note of this recipe. Thanks.

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:32:20am
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FormerDirtDart  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:32:39am

re: #657 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, yet another sign Trump doesn’t have a clue

Personal anecdote: I was approved for a SECRET clearance, before entering active duty, while I was in the ‘Delayed Entry Program’, because I had a police record and had to request a morals waiver.

Donald doesn’t understand that Hillary has never actually been charged with a crime

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jaunte  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:32:41am

re: #677 Blind Frog Belly White

Wasn’t that the thing King John signed at Runnymede?

His version used lampreys instead of anchovies.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:32:47am

re: #679 Barefoot Grin

I went to a “gourmet” butcher shop (because I was in the neighborhood) the other day and asked if they had hanger steak (expecting the negative). The guy just stared at me blankly. He thought I was making it up.

ANyway, I’m making a note of this recipe. Thanks.

Costco’s got ‘em.

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Kragar  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:33:36am

re: #679 Barefoot Grin

Gourmet meaning they’ll charge you $8 a pound for hamburger meat because they read the cow bed time stories every night before they killed it.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:33:47am

re: #669 InfidelOfFreedom

Yeah. Majority is what’s important right now. We will worry about Better Dems later.

Besides, he is nowhere near as bad as Tulsi Gabbard.

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:34:00am

re: #681 FormerDirtDart

Yeah, yet another sign Trump doesn’t have a clue

Personal anecdote: I was approved for a SECRET clearance, before entering active duty, while I was in the ‘Delayed Entry Program’, because I had a police record and had to request a morals waiver.

Donald doesn’t understand that Hillary has never actually been charged with a crime

GOP doesn’t care that she hasn’t been charged. They’ve already convicted her.

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:34:33am

MHP has landed at BET

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Kragar  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:35:36am
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Eventual Carrion  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:35:41am

re: #541 lawhawk

Which further makes sense since the overwhelming majority of homicides are the result of people who know each other - family, friends, colleagues. They’re people known to each other. Most people are not assaulted or killed by people who don’t know them.

The people the gun nuts have to fear are their own family/friends - there isn’t some armed horde just waiting over the horizon to come and kill them, rape them, or steal their stuff.

But most gun sales are predicated on the threat of The Other.

Yeah, bet many of them end up buying and gifting the firearm that ends up killing them.

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Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:35:57am

“Some say”

Let’s just call that person Donald T. Wait, too obvious. OK, how about D. Trump?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:36:45am

re: #686 lawhawk

GOP doesn’t care that she hasn’t been charged. They’ve already convicted her.

That’s the great advantage of just KNOWING who’s been bad or good. Saves the trouble of a trial.

A wingnut friend of mine once told me it didn’t bother him that a number of people condemned to death for murder had been exonerated, because he figured it they’d gotten that far into the criminal justice system, they were probably guilty of SOMETHING.

I had no response for that. It was just too mindboggling.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:37:19am

re: #690 Franklin

“Some say”

Let’s just call that person Donald T. Wait, too obvious. OK, how about D. Trump?

The fainting couches industry is just trying to drum up business.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:38:17am

re: #684 Kragar

Gourmet meaning they’ll charge you $8 a pound for hamburger meat because they read the cow bed time stories every night before they killed it.

Yep, and pretty much everything was pre-marinaded.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:38:42am

re: #690 Franklin

“Some say”

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Let’s just call that person Donald T. Wait, too obvious. OK, how about D. Trump?

But Alito showed gravitas when he did this:

Justice Alito: State of the Union “Close-Up”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:39:40am

re: #693 Barefoot Grin

Yep, and pretty much everything was pre-marinaded.

“You want some extra salt with that?”

If you have actual ‘gourmet’ meat, you don’t really need a marinade.

696
Timothy Watson  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:39:45am

re: #693 Barefoot Grin

Yep, and pretty much everything was pre-marinaded.

Because the last time I had a hamburger, you know what I thought? “This doesn’t have enough salt in it.”

Not.

697
Franklin  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:40:46am

#BlueLivesMatter hashtag is getting owned right now. And I’m here for it.

698
Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:42:24am

I know it’s the toughest building in the county, but I hate it when the NWS includes our nuke plant in the severe weather warning.

699
gocart mozart  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:42:30am

re: #632 gocart mozart

700
Nyet  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:42:36am

Trump loves veterans. In fact, he loves them so much he’ll make sure to create many, many new ones.

701
SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:44:44am

re: #668 Reality Based Steve

Maybe you could find an open carry nut to shoot three holes in your pile of paper.

702
Timothy Watson  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:47:24am
A central Virginia sheriff’s office is warning residents that searching for Pokemon is not a valid excuse for trespassing.

Writing on its official Facebook page, the Goochland Sheriff’s Office linked a rise in trespassing and suspicious activity reports over the weekend to Thursday’s release of the popular Pokemon Go smartphone game.

The “augmented reality” game encourages players to wander in the physical world in order to find and catch new Pokemon on their screens.

wtop.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:48:19am

heh

704
Sir John Barron  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:48:47am

re: #702 Timothy Watson

A central Virginia sheriff’s office is warning residents that searching for Pokemon is not a valid excuse for trespassing.

Well, that does it. The authorities are completely out of control now.

/

705
jaunte  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:48:57am

re: #701 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Maybe you could find an open carry nut to shoot three holes in your pile of paper.

.223 bullet diameter is 5.7 mm, but the hole punch standard is 6.5mm.

706
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:50:52am
707
jaunte  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:51:16am

Pokemon Wanderjahr

708
sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:51:52am

re: #617 KGxvi

It’ll be like the Twilight Zone episode… we’ll have five models to choose from.

Battlestar Galactica had 12. See how technology has advanced?

709
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:53:59am

re: #592 KGxvi

There is a certain thinking among Republicans/conservatives that part of the problem is that people don’t “fear” the police. (I’ve actually heard this from family members, which is really annoying considering half my family came from Cuba.) Of course, it’s lost on many of them that we have a name for societies where people fear the police, they’re called “police states.”

It is government tyranny when it is directed at Patriots occupying federal property, but just maintaining Law and Order when it comes to , er, um, other groups…

710
ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:55:00am

re: #703 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

Josh Marshall ✔ @joshtpm
ICYMI: A major Trump bulk email vendor cut off his access to their platform for out of control spamming >> talkingpointsmemo.com …
1:14 PM - 11 Jul 2016
17 17 Retweets 14 14 likes

The Trump campaign may have a hard time finding anyone to allow them to bulk email. Once you are labeled as a spammer it can be tough getting anyone to touch your emails.

It once again displays Trump just does what he wants and doesn’t care about any laws, procedures, etc.

711
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:55:07am

re: #611 Reality Based Steve

Am seriously considering using a couple of small rubber bands to either pull my beard down into a tight chin ponytail, or possibly forking it into 2 separate ones coming down.

That is all.

RBS

have you considered a chin bun? bound to be the next men’s fashion trend

712
sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:55:47am

re: #629 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Also praised Kim Jong Un, for how well he consolidated his power (by killing his uncles and cousins)

713
dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 11, 2016 • 11:57:37am

re: #611 Reality Based Steve

Am seriously considering using a couple of small rubber bands to either pull my beard down into a tight chin ponytail, or possibly forking it into 2 separate ones coming down.

That is all.

RBS

you could study pharaohs for beard control fashion tips

714
Jebediah, RBG  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:08:43pm

re: #471 lawhawk

I figured that “The Cow Jumped Over the Moon” is simple enough for him to follow.

715
sagehen  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:09:34pm

re: #688 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Remind me again how many Palins have been arrested?

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danarchy  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:09:48pm

re: #611 Reality Based Steve

Am seriously considering using a couple of small rubber bands to either pull my beard down into a tight chin ponytail, or possibly forking it into 2 separate ones coming down.

That is all.

RBS

Ah the Captain Lou Albano look, a bold choice.

717
Eventual Carrion  Jul 11, 2016 • 12:15:48pm

re: #551 Sir John Barron

“The one that I read, OK?!”

/

Well, at least the parts they had read and “explained” to them.

718
Eventual Carrion  Jul 11, 2016 • 1:09:11pm

re: #657 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

So now Obama WAS eligible to be president and could have passed the background check? I’m confused, or is The Donald?

719
Romantic Heretic  Jul 11, 2016 • 3:57:14pm

re: #309 I Would Prefer Not To

The comments on his post about suing Twitter are priceless.

Angel Graham
Angel Graham You still don’t understand how Freedom of Speech works, do you? Twitter is a PRIVATE COMPANY>The 1st Amendment covers you for Free Speech in relation to the GOVERNMENT! Grow up little boy. You’re so laced up on something that your shit is sticking to the floor.
Like * Reply * 4 hrs

That’s my wife. No wonder I love her so much.


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