Trump Fans Hold “Latino Outreach” Event in Los Angeles: “Operation Taco Bowl”

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This is not a joke.

Presented without comment, except to note that they couldn’t even spell “Aneheim” correctly more than once in their big announcement. Oh, and also? Rape advocate Mike Cernovich is involved in some creepy way.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 28, 2016 • 6:59:08pm

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 28, 2016 • 6:59:32pm

Can we start referring to the Trump campaign as Operation Asso hole?

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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2016 • 6:59:54pm

Project Condescension Outreach is a great success! The Greatest!!

4
freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:01:05pm

P.T. Barnum is alleged to have said “There’s a sucker born every minute”.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:04:15pm

I’d just like to say that I could not possibly give less of a fuck about the Video Music Awards.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:06:00pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Yeah, like who gives a shit about music video awards on a network that doesn’t, you know, show MUSIC VIDEOS anymore??

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:06:42pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

I’d just like to say that I could not possibly give less of a fuck about the Video Music Awards.

Country Music Awards? //

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Joe Bacon  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:09:17pm

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot!

What’s next from the Trumpettes?

A “Soul Bowl” aimed to attract African-Americans?

A “Rice Bowl” aimed to attract Asian-Americans?

A “Halal Bowl” aimed to attract Muslim-Americans?

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:12:34pm
Chanting “Viva Trump,” several dozen Latino supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a peaceful rally Sunday in front of Anaheim City Hall.
latimes.com

HUGE!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:14:03pm

re: #9 jaunte

HUGE! GRANDE!

FTFY

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:15:01pm

¡Colosal!

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:15:17pm

re: #1 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:15:57pm

re: #8 Joe Bacon

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot!

What’s next from the Trumpettes?

A “Soul Bowl” aimed to attract African-Americans?

A “Rice Bowl” aimed to attract Asian-Americans?

A “Halal Bowl” aimed to attract Muslim-Americans?

A “Matzo Bowl” for Jewish-Americans

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:18:14pm

re: #8 Joe Bacon

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot!

What’s next from the Trumpettes?

A “Soul Bowl” aimed to attract African-Americans?

A “Rice Bowl” aimed to attract Asian-Americans?

A “Halal Bowl” aimed to attract Muslim-Americans?

I think you really need to include the cultural appropriation aspect, so…

The Fried Chicken and Waffle Bowl for African-Americans,

the Chop Suey Bowl for Asian-Americans, and

NOTHING! for the Muslim Americans. This is Trump we’re talking about.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:19:14pm

re: #12 FormerDirtDart

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From local DJ Pat O’Day’s Hollywood Reporter bit on KJR:

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:20:29pm
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Belafon  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:29:00pm

Trump’s winning all of the Latinos he’s talked to. He’s at 100%. Definitely going to win all the Mexicans.

//

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lockjawcanbefun  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:31:52pm

re: #8 Joe Bacon

A “Toilet Bowl” for Chuck C. Johnson. Since one should really learn proper bathroom habits somewhere.

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Kragar  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:33:35pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:34:11pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:34:45pm
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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:35:24pm

This weirdness brought to mind another bit of GOP buffoonery—the 2008 campaign’s “B” Girl.

Where Are They Now?

Ashley Todd’s CRNC handler was Ethan Eilon, a long-time stooge from the Dirty Tricks team, who was involved in crap like the Compton Cookouts. He went on to get fired from John Huntsman’s 2011 campaign, recreated himself as a GOP digital consultant and instructor at the Leadership Institute. Recently he and his wife got involved in GOP convention BS:

What The Heck Is Going On With The Virgin Islands Republican Party?
talkingpointsmemo.com

Not looking for “B’ Girl, she was pretty much identified as a sad case with medical problems.

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:35:47pm

Operation Taco Bowl? Holy fucking shit…if this doesn’t tell you he’s trying to lose to Hillary, nothing will.

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:37:28pm

re: #1 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:37:45pm

re: #23 darthstar

Operation Taco Bowl? Holy fucking shit…if this doesn’t tell you he’s trying to lose to Hillary, nothing will.

Hard to tell how far up the Trump food chain this particular idiocy originated.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:38:48pm

Operation Fabulous Bowl - gay American outreach!

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:39:02pm

This is so horseshit. This whole race is a farce. That fucker played everyone. I hope he gets paid well for his efforts. But hey, let’s all pretend he’s a viable candidate for president so people don’t lose interest.

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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:39:02pm

re: #23 darthstar

Operation Taco Bowl? Holy fucking shit…if this doesn’t tell you he’s trying to lose to Hillary, nothing will.

It is breathtakingly stupid.

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:39:18pm

re: #25 Decatur Deb

Hard to tell how far up the Trump food chain this particular idiocy originated.

The top.

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:40:05pm

re: #28 austin_blue

It is breathtakingly stupid.

Everything has been breathtakingly stupid. I have to go make dinner. I’ll be back in a while. This is fucking retarded.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:41:35pm

So is this taco bowl shit actually a real official for real legit Trump campaign event?????

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:42:20pm

re: #27 darthstar

This is so horseshit. This whole race is a farce. That fucker played everyone. I hope he gets paid well for his efforts. But hey, let’s all pretend he’s a viable candidate for president so people don’t lose interest.

like i said this morning (i was up early)

it seems that regardless of how he acts and what he says, trump by virtue of being the nominee of a major political party is treated as a serious candidate and actual potential president

rather than were he just the same private citizen who didnt run for the nomination as the raving loon that he is

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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:42:23pm

re: #29 darthstar

The top.

Somebody signed off on it? Smells like College Republican National Committee stupidity—they like to play the ethnic/race angle.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:44:15pm

re: #33 Decatur Deb

Somebody signed off on it? Smelled like College Republican National Committee stupidity—they like to play the ethnic/race angle.

As I recall, their big thing was affirmative action bake sales and that was even before the R’s went completely wack.

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:45:18pm

re: #33 Decatur Deb

Somebody signed off on it? Smelled like College Republican National Committee stupidity—they like to play the ethnic/race angle.

apparently:

The activist group Latinos for Trump staged “Operation Taco Bowl” in Anaheim, California on Sunday to show their support for Donald Trump. The group opened their rally with a prayer for Mr. Trump and his family, followed by the Lord’s Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.

“Latinos for Trump is a grass-roots effort of proud, America-first Hispanics. We Hispanics sincerely and passionately want Donald Trump elected as the 45th president of America,” noted an initial speaker at the afternoon event.
Find the group at officiallatinosfortrump.com

the washington times.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:45:29pm
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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:47:03pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

Well, I could probably come up with a whole binder full of Republican politicians… .

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:48:41pm

re: #35 dangerman

So, if Latinos For Trump got a couple of dozen attendees at the rally, I wonder how many people are members.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:49:32pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

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What kind of right wing loser has a Twittertag based off the Warren smear?

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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:50:32pm

re: #39 HappyWarrior

What kind of right wing loser has a Twittertag based off the Warren smear?

That guy?

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Jay C  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:50:40pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

Hard to tell: mainly because with Chuck C., one is starting pretty much near rock-bottom anyway…….

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:51:07pm

re: #40 austin_blue

That guy?

Rhetorical question. Seriously what a fucking jackass.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:52:06pm

re: #38 jaunte

So, if Latinos For Trump got a couple of dozen attendees at the rally, I wonder how many people are members.

No indication of numbers or RL identities in the Spanish or English web page, unless I missed it.

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:54:01pm

Christine Teigen, a model, took to Twitter to note how clueless Mr. Trump’s spokeswoman Katrina Pierson is in a series of tweets.

Katrina Pierson responded by retweeting Teigen and thanking her. The exchange between them is hilarious (and shows how clueless Pierson is).

addictinginfo.org

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:54:10pm

re: #38 jaunte

So, if Latinos For Trump got a couple of dozen attendees at the rally, I wonder how many people are members.

“all of them, katie”

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:58:59pm

re: #44 Anymouse

Christine Teigen, a model, took to Twitter to note how clueless Mr. Trump’s spokeswoman Katrina Pierson is in a series of tweets.

Katrina Pierson responded by retweeting Teigen and thanking her. The exchange between them is hilarious (and shows how clueless Pierson is).

addictinginfo.org

That’s hilarious. I honestly would feel kind of bad for Pierson if she weren’t an equally hateful person like her boss is.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 28, 2016 • 7:59:09pm

Option #2 below (quality filter) has drastically improved my Twitter experience. Haven’t needed to try #1 yet as between my preemptive blocking in combination with the quality filter is keeping 99% of the trolls out of my timeline.

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:01:14pm

Huffington Post, in an effort to show how the AP article on the Clinton Foundation was badly written, writes an article that is even more conspiratorial.

huffingtonpost.com;

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Lidane  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:01:16pm

The 2016 RNC autopsy is going to be hilarious. I’m going to enjoy watching Reince try to spin their dumpster fire of a nominee.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:01:46pm
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calochortus  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:02:49pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

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Well, that certainly clarifies things.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:07:48pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

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There’s some serious antisemitism (and lots of other nastiness) going on in his media timeline. Ugh. #Blocked: twitter.com

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Timothy Watson  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:09:19pm

re: #39 HappyWarrior

What kind of right wing loser has a Twittertag based off the Warren smear?

The same idiot who thinks that Massachusetts is going to go for Trump.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:11:08pm

Alrighty then. Laters. //

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:14:13pm

also posted this AM:

an OT observation about the emerging issue re the clinton foundation

my question: in 1997 should the clintons have not set up the foundation which inarguably has saved a large number of lives and made countless other lives significantly better?

i’m not going to lay out the whole logic because i think its patent.
and personally i dont think there will ever be proof of pay to play because it didnt happen. of course theres access. its national and international politics. how naive….

emailgate came out of benghazi and now the server was an “error” which at the time pretty much was common knowledge and no one cared
now its an error that shows poor judgment

speeches - someone hooked onto that, created a new standard. at the time pretty much was common knowledge and no one cared
now its an error that shows poor judgment

the foundation was established in 1997. at the time pretty much was common knowledge and no one cared
now its an error or some kind of new scandal or i dont know what

these -gates are all retro, post hoc ginned up issues that no one could foresee specifically
unless the clintons never left home and did nothing - and of course that would be a different scandal

and if it wasnt this one or the other one or the third, it would be whatever was available that someone could use to create whatever cloud they wanted

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:19:33pm
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Joe Bacon  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:21:26pm

re: #49 Lidane

The 2016 RNC autopsy is going to be hilarious. I’m going to enjoy watching Reince try to spin their dumpster fire of a nominee.

Criswell Bacon Predicts!

The 2016 GOP Autopsy will conclude that the GOP didn’t move far enough to the right to ensure victory…

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Thanos  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:23:02pm

re: #56 jaunte

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Perfect place for a con artist.

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bratwurst  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:25:44pm

What the fucking fuck?

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Joe Bacon  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:27:22pm

re: #59 bratwurst

Wha the fucking fuck?

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What is he doing opening a campaign office in Israel? Isn’t that yet another violation of Federal election laws????????

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Jay C  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:28:19pm

re: #56 jaunte

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IIJM, or is this analogous to The Donald going from playing Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl to doing gigs at the Podunk Bijou, or a rodeo in Wyoming? Admittedly I’ve never heard of this network, but it doesn’t exactly sound very “A-list”….

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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:28:26pm

re: #60 Joe Bacon

What is he doing opening a campaign office in Israel? Isn’t that yet another violation of Federal election laws????????

Lots of dual-citizen absentee ballots.

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:34:47pm

re: #61 Jay C

It may be the only “friendly African American” venue the campaign could find.

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:35:54pm

re: #60 Joe Bacon

What is he doing opening a campaign office in Israel? Isn’t that yet another violation of Federal election laws????????

Well, there is nothing specifically illegal about opening campaign offices in foreign countries, provided you are not taking foreign donations.

One reason to open foreign campaign offices is because there are American voters in those locations.

The Democrats also have committees abroad.
democratsabroad.org

That said, I have no idea why Mr. Trump would need three offices in one country.

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majii  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:43:05pm

re: #63 jaunte

“It may be the only “friendly African American” venue the campaign could find.”

Trump could go speak at almost any predominantly black church in America. He’d be treated cordially, but it wouldn’t mean most of its members would vote for him. Burns is doing this so he can claim that Trump has some support among black church members, but it doesn’t mean what Trump, his campaign staff, and/or his supporters think it means. It basically means that a black congregation would treat him rather well, but it doesn’t necessarily transfer into many votes for him from the members of that particular church. Nathan Deal, our GOP governor, attended a predominantly black church once when he was running for re-election in 2014. He was treated well, but according to exit polls, most blacks here in GA voted for Jason Carter in 2014.

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Targetpractice  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:44:02pm

re: #49 Lidane

The 2016 RNC autopsy is going to be hilarious. I’m going to enjoy watching Reince try to spin their dumpster fire of a nominee.

It’s been said before, but it bears repeating, in six months the GOP will insist to everybody who will listen that Trump was never a Republican and no “true” Republican actually ran this year, so the party is blameless for the loss.

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majii  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:46:07pm

re: #66 Targetpractice

“It’s been said before, but it bears repeating, in six months the GOP will insist to everybody who will listen that Trump was never a Republican and no “true” Republican actually ran this year, so the party is blameless for the loss.”

This is what passes for “accepting responsibility” in the GOP nowadays.

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freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:48:19pm

re: #56 jaunte

They’re all milking the marks for the last penny.

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Targetpractice  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:50:10pm

re: #55 dangerman

also posted this AM:

an OT observation about the emerging issue re the clinton foundation

my question: in 1997 should the clintons have not set up the foundation which inarguably has saved a large number of lives and made countless other lives significantly better?

i’m not going to lay out the whole logic because i think its patent.
and personally i dont think there will ever be proof of pay to play because it didnt happen. of course theres access. its national and international politics. how naive….

emailgate came out of benghazi and now the server was an “error” which at the time pretty much was common knowledge and no one cared
now its an error that shows poor judgment

speeches - someone hooked onto that, created a new standard. at the time pretty much was common knowledge and no one cared
now its an error that shows poor judgment

the foundation was established in 1997. at the time pretty much was common knowledge and no one cared
now its an error or some kind of new scandal or i dont know what

these -gates are all retro, post hoc ginned up issues that no one could foresee specifically
unless the clintons never left home and did nothing - and of course that would be a different scandal

and if it wasnt this one or the other one or the third, it would be whatever was available that someone could use to create whatever cloud they wanted

What you see is one of the “Clinton Rules” in effect. The “Rules” are as such:

Rule #1: If you blow enough smoke, you can insist to the public that there must be a fire somewhere.

Rule #2: Anything done in politics since the days of Cato the Elder are black magic sorcery when a Clinton is involved.

Rule #3: When you blow enough smoke, you can claim that there’s a “climate” of fires.

The media started with the first by insisting that there was something foul happening within the ranks of the Foundation. When they found nothing outwardly wrong, they turned to the second, insisting that the Foundation was up to no good because the Clintons were involved. And now they’re on to the third rule, arguing that the Foundation is tied to the emails and other “scandals” in the way the Clintons won’t “come clean” with the press.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:51:23pm

We are approaching the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Get ready for the RWNJ avalanche…

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Single-handed sailor  Aug 28, 2016 • 8:55:01pm

Where there’s smoke there is a Republican with a fog machine.

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:06:17pm
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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:09:31pm
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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:11:47pm

Nothing on the local LA stations yet.

Damn.

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:13:47pm

JP Mangalindan Senior Correspondent | Yahoo Finance

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Targetpractice  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:14:48pm

After the false alarm at JFK, I’m a bit skeptical.

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electrotek  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:15:49pm

re: #74 austin_blue

Nothing on the local LA stations yet.

Damn.

Nothing on LA Times either.

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:17:53pm

bbc.com

62 yo man arrested for allegedly filling a sex lube dispenser with hydrochloric acid in an Australian sex club.

The club was targeted in the past, and so items they put out have tamper alarms.

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:19:16pm
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gwangung  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:19:19pm

re: #76 Targetpractice

After the false alarm at JFK, I’m a bit skeptical.

Maybe. But, perhaps it’s OK to be conservative here…

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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:20:39pm

re: #77 electrotek

Nothing on LA Times either.

See, this is the problem with the Lamestream Media. They don’t do unconfirmed reports or info without multiple confirmed sources.

Bastards!

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:23:12pm
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freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:23:32pm

That football player who refused to stand for the national anthem really pushed the buttons of the “Patriot” crowd, I see.

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:23:41pm
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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:25:01pm
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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:26:16pm

That LAairportpd tweet feed seems to be the most relevant.

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:27:20pm
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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:29:04pm

re: #87 jaunte

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Something went bang, people panicked? Let’s hope so.

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:29:15pm

Active Zorro Cosplay situation.

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freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:29:21pm

re: #84 jaunte

History is repeating rhyming striking again:

Zorro strikes again: Metro pays $105,000 in lawsuit by costumed character

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:32:00pm

re: #83 freetoken

That football player who refused to stand for the national anthem really pushed the buttons of the “Patriot” crowd, I see.

Wingnuts use selective outrage over various patriotic customs. For example, the fact the Flag Code, which has no legal enforcement mechanism (and would likely violate the I Amendment if it did).

The outrage would be over Title 36, Subtitle I, Part A section 301 United States Code - National Anthem:

A) individuals in uniform should give the military salute at the first note of the anthem and maintain that position until the last note;
(B) members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are present but not in uniform may render the military salute in the manner provided for individuals in uniform; and
(C) all other persons present should face the flag and stand at attention with their right hand over the heart, and men not in uniform, if applicable, should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart; and

(2) when the flag is not displayed, all present should face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the flag were displayed.

However, they will ignore vast sections of the US Flag Code, such as:

(i) The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkin or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.

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freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:34:02pm

Lesson to Americans: No Zorro cosplay! (At least outside of the bedroom…)

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:34:08pm

“…Police responded to multiple 911 calls from multiple locations at the airport about a possible armed suspect, but police have not found any evidence of an armed suspect, a shooting or anyone who was injured, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News.”
nbcnews.com

That seems odd.

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:38:38pm

re: #93 jaunte

“…Police responded to multiple 911 calls from multiple locations at the airport about a possible armed suspect, but police have not found any evidence of an armed suspect, a shooting or anyone who was injured, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News.”
nbcnews.com

That seems odd.

Just spitballing here: could this be something like “swatting” except the airport instead of a celebrity’s house?

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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:43:48pm

re: #94 Anymouse

Just spitballing here: could this be something like “swatting” except the airport instead of a celebrity’s house?

Maybe. Early hours. Certainly something happened, unless the bars were loading up K2 into the highballs.

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:49:40pm

Slow news night. Did someone put Mr. Trump away for the day?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:49:54pm

re: #94 Anymouse

Just spitballing here: could this be something like “swatting” except the airport instead of a celebrity’s house?

Or a bunch of people freaking out and reporting what they heard.

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freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:50:18pm

re: #96 Anymouse

Sunday nights are often slow. Little money to be made by breaking headlines on a Sunday night.

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:52:38pm

re: #98 freetoken

Sunday nights are often slow. Little money to be made by breaking headlines on a Sunday night.

Breaking: World War III Begins, Details on the Morning Edition.

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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:53:49pm

“Loud noises only. No shooting, no injuries.” per LAAPD.

We seem to be front-landed to react to noise with panic.

Sheesh.

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Targetpractice  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:56:19pm

re: #100 austin_blue

“Loud noises only. No shooting, no injuries.” per LAAPD.

We seem to be front-landed to react to noise with panic.

Sheesh.

Just another day in the United States of the NRA, where people have gotten so used to gun violence that they now reflexively react to loud bangs. Not mentioned in any of the stories: The “good guy with a gun” who rushed to confront the “shooter.”

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:57:52pm

Well, if you hear a sound you don’t expect (like a gunshot in an airport, even if it wasn’t really a gunshot), then running seems like a pretty good idea.

Pesky Internet amplifies everything a thousand-fold in a minute.

Around my house, if I hear a gunshot I presume it is a hunter. Unless I hear an automatic weapon or something I will not become concerned about it.

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 28, 2016 • 9:59:53pm

re: #99 Anymouse

Breaking: World War III Begins, Details on the Morning Edition.

Old Canadian joke: “World Ends At Midnight, 12:30 in Newfoundland.”

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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:00:48pm

re: #102 Anymouse

Well, if you hear a sound you don’t expect (like a gunshot in an airport, even if it wasn’t really a gunshot), then running seems like a pretty good idea.

Pesky Internet amplifies everything a thousand-fold in a minute.

Around my house, if I hear a gunshot I presume it is a hunter. Unless I hear an automatic weapon or something I will not become concerned about it.

When I hear a gunshot around my house I assume it’s a wedding reception.

Yee-haw! Y’all watch this shit!

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freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:01:22pm

Ok, here’s some news - The North Pole is turning into slush:

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Targetpractice  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:02:41pm

re: #105 freetoken

Ok, here’s some news - The North Pole is turning into slush:

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Image: osisaf_nh_iceextent_daily_5years_en.png

It snowed somewhere in the world, so your argument is invalid!

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:05:14pm

re: #103 Sherlock Hound

Old Canadian joke: “World Ends At Midnight, 12:30 in Newfoundland.”

Reminds me of a photo on a book cover allegedly shot in Wisconsin:

End of Earth: 2 miles
Upper Peninsula: 4 miles

Voice of America is reporting that the leader of FARC has ordered a permanent cease-fire for his rebel group, and in response the government ordered soldiers to lay down their arms against the group effective Friday.

voanews.com

Colombia will hold a referendum later in the year to accept or reject the peace deal; it is expected to be approved by the voters.

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Targetpractice  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:06:50pm

re: #107 Anymouse

Reminds me of a photo on a book cover allegedly shot in Wisconsin:

End of Earth: 2 miles
Upper Peninsula: 4 miles

Voice of America is reporting that the leader of FARC has ordered a permanent cease-fire for his rebel group, and in response the government ordered soldiers to lay down their arms against the group effective Friday.

voanews.com

Colombia will hold a referendum later in the year to accept or reject the peace deal; it is expected to be approved by the voters.

This year has just been full of surprises. One of those amazing times to be alive, watching old hatreds that our parents and grandparents took for granted finally come to an end.

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:13:43pm

The football controversy, though, that will go on for ages, apparently. VOA is reporting on that too.

“You can become a cop in six months and don’t have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist,” Kaepernick said. “That’s insane. Someone that’s holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.

voanews.com

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freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:14:59pm

On google news I just added Forbes to my personalized list of sources to set at the minimum. For some reason Google kept trying to feed me Forbes stories, and most of them are pretty lame. Perhaps Forbes was always like that, but I never read it back in the print media days.

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freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:17:47pm

List of sources on Google News I’ve set at the minimum:

Fox News
ESPN
mirror.co.uk
Wall Street Journal
telegraph.co.uk
Washington Times
CNN
TIME
USA TODAY
Twitchy
theblaze.com
Daily Mail
Breitbart News
TCC
New York Post
The Federalist
Daily Caller
Forbes
Huffington Post

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:17:57pm

dw.com

Germany’s Vice-Chancellor says that the TTIP deal between the US and EU appears to be dead.

Discussions on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have been unsuccessful, Germany’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Sigmar Gabriel, who is also the country’s vice chancellor, said on Sunday.

“In my opinion the negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody is really admitting it,” Gabriel told German broadcaster ZDF.

“Nothing is moving,” he added.

Mr. Gabriel is the leader of the Social Democrats in Germany. His party is the minor party in Angela Merkel’s coalition government, so he really doesn’t have a final say about this. Nevertheless, it would appear the TTIP is at least bogged down or in trouble.

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:21:22pm

re: #111 freetoken

How do Twitchy and Daily Caller get to be considered “news?”

I don’t do this social media thing like Google News. (How does Google get to be called news?) I just stick with traditional outlets.

I have real subscriptions, to real print publications:

Bridgeport (NE) News-Blade (county newspaper)
Scottsbluff (NE) Star-Herald (daily newspaper)
The Economist
Foreign Affairs
1843 (The Economist’s arts and lifestyle magazine)
Navy Times

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Kragar  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:23:11pm
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freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:23:30pm

re: #113 Anymouse

Google News is a compiler of posts at what it considers “news” web pages, including blogs and press releases. One can adjust the frequency from any source.

The nice thing about Google News is that jumping to a story behind a paywall from Google News often lets one sneak through the paywall.

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:36:31pm

West Germany’s fourth president, Walter Scheel, has died at age ninety-seven.

Mr. Scheel served in the Seventies, and was crucial to opening up negotiations with communist Eastern Europe.

Interestingly, he also released a single while he was in government about children and the disabled which sold 300,000 copies.

dw.com

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:38:13pm

re: #109 Anymouse

He is roughly correct, and it is insane that he is roughly correct.

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teleskiguy  Aug 28, 2016 • 10:48:42pm

What wonderful people these “alt-right” folks are. Here’s one of the loudest ones on Twitter replying to Laura Sesana’s tweet in this article (NSFW: Language):

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freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 11:11:23pm

Not following the hate-right fantasies of the IRAN DEAL!!:

Iran Arrests Person Linked to Negotiations on Nuclear Deal

Iran said on Sunday that a person close to the government team that negotiated its nuclear agreement with foreign powers had been arrested on accusations of espionage and released on bail.

The disclosure, reported in the state news media, appeared to be the latest sign of the Iranian leadership’s frustration over the agreement, which has failed so far to yield the significant economic benefits for the country that its advocates had promised. Iranian officials have blamed the United States for that problem.

[…]

Ayatollah Khamenei, who supported the nuclear agreement, has increasingly denounced what he calls American duplicity in the negotiation and other matters.

In a speech on Sunday reported by the state news media, for example, he criticized the United States for opposing Iran’s purchase of a Russian-made missile-defense system.

[…]

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teleskiguy  Aug 28, 2016 • 11:13:52pm

The county sheriff and his wife on the county airport tarmac last Thursday night:

I did some crack photo analysis. I mean, look at these hands, people.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 28, 2016 • 11:17:15pm

re: #120 teleskiguy

The county sheriff and his wife on the county airport tarmac last Thursday night:

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And that tie! Way too long!

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 11:19:16pm

The difference of course here being Westboro Baptist Church protests the funerals of veterans and says they’re God’s punishment for (insert outrage du jour), while a football player is protesting people being gunned down in the street without just cause:

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Anymouse  Aug 28, 2016 • 11:40:05pm

Herman Cain, who apparently is still a thing amongst conservatives, blamed the Democrats and Hillary Clinton for the massive price rise in the cost of the Epi-Pen.

caintv.com

Well, it’s good to know these things aren’t President Obama’s fault now. /s

An atheist Website disassembles Mr. Cain’s claims (though thinking people don’t need that done for them):

americannewsx.com

The problem though in politics is summed up by the old saw “if you’re explaining, you’re losing.” The truism works whether you are explaining why an opponent’s position is merely wrong, or an outright lie.

At this point, it would appear conservatives are quite willing to simply lie, because they too know that truism.

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freetoken  Aug 28, 2016 • 11:51:37pm

I wonder where children learn these things??

Seventeen Jewish graves desecrated in Belfast cemetery

Seventeen Jewish graves have been destroyed and vandalised in what appears to have been an organised attack inside a Belfast cemetery.

Up to eight youths, some using hammers, attacked the graves in west Belfast on Friday evening, according to a member of the Northern Ireland assembly.

[…]

Democratic Unionist assembly member William Humphrey said he has learned from Belfast city council staff that eight youths were involved and that they used hammers and blocks during the attack. Humphrey said a larger crowd had gone into the cemetery to support the eight youths carrying out the vandalism. […]

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freetoken  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:04:45am
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Targetpractice  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:08:11am

So here at the hotel, we get the USA Today in addition to the Virginia Pilot. Since USA Today’s Friday edition is a weekend edition, people began their weekends to a frontpage story about how Hillary is in “murky waters” with regards to the Clinton Foundation, as if Comrade Combover and the guy the media really wanted (Jeb) have no connections whatsoever to charities.

And today’s front page story, to remind the class where the Clinton Rules got their start? “Clinton Case Echoes Gore Probe,” reminding Americans that the GOP has been trying to railroad the Clintons and anybody associated with them into prison for over 20 years.

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teleskiguy  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:19:14am

Coyotes are loud tonight.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:23:27am

Mr. Johnson, you got a shout out from a commentator at another blog.

The article is Dear Republicans, You Deserve This over at American NewsX.

The comment from a UK national:

I’m not an American, but I’ve been following US politics almost as much as i follow Manchester United and I’ve watched in disbelief in the last 12 years the disintegration of the moral and personal integrity of people on the right culminating with the election of President Obama.

I watched and read in open mouthed disbelief as bills and policies which would usually pass without any kind of questions or obstructions suddenly became contentious talking points. I watch as a republican led House and Senate abandoned any kind of responsibility to try and make the president look bad and yes, I watched in disgust as the right wing embraced the full on overt racism which was always there as a low dog whistle but through the likes of breitbart, hannity, limbaugh, the daily caller, fox nation, and others became a klaxon attached to the warning horn in an aircraft carrier.

If you haven’t read it Google the piece written by Charles Johnson of the website Little Green Football’s in 2009 where he explains why he left the right wing and predicted the direction they’ve now gone in. (emphasis mine)

It might be worth putting up that post again he refers to.

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Single-handed sailor  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:31:03am

re: #127 teleskiguy

Coyotes are loud tonight.

Starting around 2000 we started getting coyote and cougar populations back around Mt. Diablo. Before that, I don’t recall anything except for a cougar sighting in town around 1967 or so. Lots of pets are now being taken by coyote but I have yet to hear them at night. Where I live we mainly have possum, squirrel and skunk; for some reason the raccoons stay away off my street, but I know they live in the storm drains down the hill.

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teleskiguy  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:40:26am

Agence France-Press’ Twitter feed is horrific right now.

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BigPapa  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:49:31am

re: #129 Single-handed sailor

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Single-handed sailor  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:58:44am

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BigPapa  Aug 29, 2016 • 1:03:15am

re: #132 Single-handed sailor

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VegasGolfer  Aug 29, 2016 • 1:06:14am

Operation Taco Bowl Anaheim 8/28/2016
17 fucking views.
I am a hispanic, should i feel sad or feel pity?
I think I am going to mock these misguided so called “my people”
fucking losers.

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Single-handed sailor  Aug 29, 2016 • 1:12:39am

re: #133 BigPapa

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Single-handed sailor  Aug 29, 2016 • 1:13:30am

fuck, close private, dammit

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Single-handed sailor  Aug 29, 2016 • 1:14:57am

PIMF. Goddamn you, Mt Gay rum.

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VegasGolfer  Aug 29, 2016 • 1:15:15am

washingtonpost.com
“The Trumps retained Roy Cohn, a defense attorney who two decades earlier had been a top aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) during his infamous effort to root out communists in government. Cohn portrayed the Trumps as the victims and counter-sued the government, demanding it pay them $100 million for falsely accusing them of discrimination.”

Joseph McCarthy wasn’t a controversonal figure, was he?

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 1:30:28am

re: #134 VegasGolfer

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17 fucking views.
I am a hispanic, should i feel sad or feel pity?
I think I am going to mock these misguided so called “my people”
fucking losers.

Perhaps they are “paid crisis actors” for the Trump campaign? /s

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 29, 2016 • 2:47:05am

Can’t wait for the Operation Spaghetti Bender rally at the Italian Home Club later this week.

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Ming5000  Aug 29, 2016 • 2:47:11am

re: #127 teleskiguy

Coyotes are loud tonight.

Message received! (kidding. just was reminded of this:)

Radio Londres (French for Radio London) was a radio broadcast from 1940 to 1944 from the BBC in London to Nazi occupied France. It was entirely in French and was operated by the Free French who had escaped the German occupation. It served not only to counter the propaganda broadcasts of German-controlled Radio Paris and the Vichy government’s Radiodiffusion nationale, but also to appeal to the French to rise up, as well as being used to send coded messages to the French Resistance.

Blessent mon cœur d’une langueur monotone (“wound my heart with a monotonous languor”) was the specific call to action.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2016 • 2:56:34am

re: #140 Eventual Carrion

Can’t wait for the Operation Spaghetti Bender rally at the Italian Home Club later this week.

At least Operation Drunken Mick will be held in a pub.

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Ming5000  Aug 29, 2016 • 2:59:05am

NYT has an interesting article showing 110 Republicans who will not vote for Trump. The NYT show a timeline of Trump statements and when the GOPers walked away from Trump.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 2:59:36am

re: #128 Anymouse

Mr. Johnson, you got a shout out from a commentator at another blog.

The article is Dear Republicans, You Deserve This over at American NewsX.

The comment from a UK national:

It might be worth putting up that post again he refers to.

True story: the writer of that article, who is the main force behind American News X, is a former student of mine.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 3:02:53am

re: #134 VegasGolfer

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17 fucking views.
I am a hispanic, should i feel sad or feel pity?
I think I am going to mock these misguided so called “my people”
fucking losers.

Los locos y los estupidos.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 29, 2016 • 3:11:15am

re: #142 Decatur Deb

At least Operation Drunken Mick will be held in a pub.

I’m there if he’s buying!

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 3:17:06am

re: #144 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

True story: the writer of that article, who is the main force behind American News X, is a former student of mine.

You have arrived.

I couldn’t blog my way out of a paper bag full of pixels.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 29, 2016 • 3:34:24am
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 3:44:45am

re: #110 freetoken

On google news I just added Forbes to my personalized list of sources to set at the minimum. For some reason Google kept trying to feed me Forbes stories, and most of them are pretty lame. Perhaps Forbes was always like that, but I never read it back in the print media days.

Possibly relevant.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 3:46:01am

The New York Times has an article at this here link of three timelines, divided as two columns with a line down the centre.

On the line is the date of notable events since Mr. Donald Trump announced he would run for President.

To the left is the date and quote of each particularly egregious statement Mr. Trump has made during his campaign.

To the right is the date and name of each Republican official present or past who then chose to either disavow Mr. Trump, or specifically said they would vote for Mrs. Hillary Clinton (highlighted in blue). In some cases, the Times has specific quotes from said Republicans explaining why they disavowed their own candidate.

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 4:25:49am

re: #109 Anymouse

The football controversy, though, that will go on for ages, apparently. VOA is reporting on that too.

“You can become a cop in six months and don’t have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist,” Kaepernick said. “That’s insane. Someone that’s holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.

voanews.com

i used to explain you need more certifications and licenses to be a barber than a scuba instructor or service tech (in fact none)

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 4:36:13am

re: #151 dangerman

i used to explain you need more certifications and licenses to be a barber than a scuba instructor or service tech (in fact none)

Or yoga instructor, or dietician.

On dieticians: I was once taking an anti-depressant MAOI drug prescribed by the Navy (it was a long slog that wound up having nothing to do with depression, the case was finally resolved after years to be hypothyroidism).

At one point, I was hospitalised in the VA for a surgery that would take a three-week recovery. I distinctly noted I was taking the MAOI and the foods on offer I could not eat. I was accused by the hospital dietician of being picky over my food, and that she knew what she was doing.

I went down to the kitchen on the third night to talk to the night chef to straighten the problem out; he pulled up the VA’s own diet card for people taking MAOI medications and attached it to my meal schedule, to ensure I was fed properly.

The dietician came to my bedside the next day with the hospital ombudsman and an HR person accusing me of trying to undermine her job (I was trying to keep from being poisoned by my meals).

After about a week of this nonsense, the hospital decided they didn’t need that dietician (after I continued to pile on information to the ombudsman from the VA itself about MAOI diets).

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 4:41:35am

re: #152 Anymouse

Or yoga instructor, or dietician.

On dieticians: I was once taking an anti-depressant MAOI drug prescribed by the Navy (it was a long slog that wound up having nothing to do with depression, the case was finally resolved after years to be hypothyroidism).

At one point, I was hospitalised in the VA for a surgery that would take a three-week recovery. I distinctly noted I was taking the MAOI and the foods on offer I could not eat. I was accused by the hospital dietician of being picky over my food, and that she knew what she was doing.

I went down to the kitchen on the third night to talk to the night chef to straighten the problem out; he pulled up the VA’s own diet card for people taking MAOI medications and attached it to my meal schedule, to ensure I was fed properly.

The dietician came to my bedside the next day with the hospital ombudsman and an HR person accusing me of trying to undermine my job (I was trying to keep from being poisoned by my meals).

After about a week of this nonsense, the hospital decided they didn’t need that dietician (after I continued to pile on information to the ombudsman from the VA itself about MAOI diets).

sigh. patient <> “stupid”

one more scuba story:

i also used to note that professional liability insurance for cpas ran at something like $30-40k for $1M of coverage.

a scuba instructor could get liability insurance for around $600 for $1m

my conclusion: you can kill people but dont mess with their money

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 4:44:17am

re: #153 dangerman

Well, if you kill ‘em they can’t sue you.

And an awful lot of people that have CPAs on payroll also have enough money to hire really good lawyers.

Sue a scuba diver, you get his scuba gear.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 29, 2016 • 4:47:02am

re: #153 dangerman

sigh. patient <> “stupid”

one more scuba story:

i also used to note that professional liability insurance for cpas ran at something like $30-40k for $1M of coverage.

a scuba instructor could get liability insurance for around $600 for $1m

my conclusion: you can kill people but dont mess with their money

Accounting lawsuits probably tend to rack up a lot of attorney hours and CPAs can get their pants sued off, especially on IPOs because the way the law is written.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 4:49:03am

re: #155 Timothy Watson

Accounting lawsuits probably tend to rack up a lot of attorney hours and CPAs can get their pants sued off, especially on IPOs because the way the law is written.

That’s why we need libertarian style government, so a CPA doesn’t have to worry about pesky regulations and misleading clients. /s

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 4:49:05am

re: #120 teleskiguy

The county sheriff and his wife on the county airport tarmac last Thursday night:

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Trump has misshapen stubby thumbs. They call it “Thumbs Up” for a reason, not “Thumbs Backward”

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 4:50:23am

re: #154 Anymouse

Well, if you kill ‘em they can’t sue you.

And an awful lot of people that have CPAs on payroll also have enough money to hire really good lawyers.

Sue a scuba diver, you get his scuba gear.

could be a few bucks in there :-)

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 4:50:25am

re: #124 freetoken

I wonder where children learn these things??

Seventeen Jewish graves desecrated in Belfast cemetery

Zedushka has cousins in Belfast. His grandmother was born there.

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 4:54:04am

re: #155 Timothy Watson

Accounting lawsuits probably tend to rack up a lot of attorney hours and CPAs can get their pants sued off, especially on IPOs because the way the law is written.

i think i read somewhere once that the vast majority of suits, by number, are tax related, surprisingly not complex issues like audits and ipos, consulting etc.

could be that theres just way more of those type of jobs. and people do have expectations…

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 4:58:57am

re: #13 The Vicious Babushka

A “Matzo Bowl” for Jewish-Americans

Toilet bowl - for the Trump white supremacists. Because all that white porcelain is exactly what these people need.

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darthstar  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:00:44am

Got home yesterday to see my cat strolling down the sidewalk all dirty & shit. Apparently he’s finished slaughtering the mice and gophers around our house and has moved on to the rest of the neighborhood.

Such a good boy. Put down the camera already and help me wipe this shit off.

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:03:43am

just read this at electoral-vote.com on trump’s immigration position:

Katrina Pierson, helpfully explains that, “He hasn’t changed his position on immigration.” Merely that, “He’s changed the words that he is saying.”

so theres that

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:06:06am

re: #134 VegasGolfer

With any group of people sufficiently large, you’ll find outliers. These are the outliers.

That’s why the polls are consistently showing Trump down 70-80+ among blacks or similar levels among Hispanics/Latinos.

There’s serious levels of mistrust there.

Trump says that he’s going to give an immigration speech on Wednesday. I can’t wait. No doubt he’s going to talk about walls, and deportations, and building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude while complaining that the Democrats don’t know and don’t care.

Reality will be a cold mistress to Trump, because any pivot away from the extremist nonsense he sputtered during the primaries will cause him to potentially lose support among his core - the nativists/isolationist/white supremacists who think deportation of millions of people who aren’t lily white should solve everything (costs?! bah, we’ll get Mexico to pay for all of it!). Or, much more likely, Trump will spew some platitudes about how he’s got the plan and it’ll be a super plan, and we’ll deal with all of this in a comprehensive plan (but curiously never actually identify what the plan is with specificity because it’d be the same nonsense he mentioned during the primaries, but enough words differ so that media outlets will claim that he’s pivoted to the generals).

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:11:29am

re: #164 lawhawk

….enough words differ so that media outlets will claim that he’s pivoted to the generals).

Whenever anyone “pivots” for the General Election, the press never asks the obvious question: “Were you lying before, or are you lying now?”

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:13:04am

re: #165 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Whenever anyone “pivots” for the General Election, the press never asks the obvious question: “Were you lying before, or are you lying now?”

In Trump’s case, the answer is both. And neither.

He doesn’t have any actual positions. He’s simply mirroring whatever he thinks his potential supporters want to hear.

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sagehen  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:15:38am

re: #164 lawhawk

Trump says that he’s going to give an immigration speech on Wednesday. I can’t wait. No doubt he’s going to talk about walls, and deportations, and building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude while complaining that the Democrats don’t know and don’t care.

Whereas if he wanted to give an immigration speech that was more welcoming, he could go out to Queens and fill an auditorium with legal immigrants from 30 countries, speaking 30 languages. The range of faces would look like the UN.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:16:54am
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:17:19am

Inciting panic should be considered an act of terrorism.

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darthstar  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:19:24am

re: #169 The Vicious Babushka

Inciting panic should be considered an act of terrorism.

Does this include political tweets?

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:22:01am

re: #164 lawhawk

he’s really painted himself into a no-win

no matter what he says, after the speech, a lot of folks are going to be pissed. just a question of which ones

hes almost better off not giving the speech, continue tweeting away and let everyone argue about what he means

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:23:34am

re: #169 The Vicious Babushka

Inciting panic should be considered an act of terrorism.

I’m beginning to think this is a new campaign—starting rumors of “terrorist attacks” and inducing panics—which will be added to the pants-pissing fraidy-cat right-wingers’ litany of outrages, whether anything actually happened or not.

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:24:23am

re: #166 lawhawk

In Trump’s case, the answer is both. And neither.

He doesn’t have any actual positions. He’s simply mirroring whatever he thinks his potential supporters want to hear.

NYT timeline analysis of his statements

how hes still a viable candidate is astounding - says way more about his supporters than him

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:29:48am

I know there are several people here who are going to love this/

Tea Party activist blames autism after pleading guilty to child porn charges

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:31:30am

re: #173 dangerman

NYT timeline analysis of his statements

how hes still a viable candidate is astounding - says way more about his supporters than him

Politico article proposes that he’s no longer trying to be viable—just to cripple the coming HRC administration:

Trump’s new aim: Poison a Clinton presidency
politico.com

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:40:44am

re: #174 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I know there are several people here who are going to love this/

Tea Party activist blames autism after pleading guilty to child porn charges

There’s that famous conservative personal responsibility in action. Christ.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:41:31am

re: #175 Decatur Deb

Politico article proposes that he’s no longer trying to be viable—just to cripple the coming HRC administration:

Trump’s new aim: Poison a Clinton presidency
politico.com

That makes sense. I’ve been hearing rumors that they’re already prepping for how to obstruct Clinton once in office. Makes the McCarthy, Cantor, and Ryan meeting on 1-20-09 look classy.

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jeffreyw  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:42:11am

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Good morning!

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Joe Bacon  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:43:52am

re: #105 freetoken

Ok, here’s some news - The North Pole is turning into slush:

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Uh-oh! Santa’s workshop is sinking…Fox News blames Obama in 3…2…1…

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sagehen  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:46:04am

re: #178 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

The cat is disgruntled because he has no breakfast.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:46:30am

re: #174 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I know there are several people here who are going to love this/

Tea Party activist blames autism after pleading guilty to child porn charges

The Party of Personal Responsibility (TM) strikes again.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:47:24am

re: #180 sagehen

The cat is disgruntled because he has no breakfast.

My cat is always disgruntled because I am not quite small enough to consume.

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Joe Bacon  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:51:52am

re: #174 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I know there are several people here who are going to love this/

Tea Party activist blames autism after pleading guilty to child porn charges

Let me guess!

The clown got down on his knees in court, begged Jesus to forgive him and the Judge lightened his sentence because he’s Republican…

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:56:34am

re: #183 Joe Bacon

Let me guess!

The clown got down on his knees in court, begged Jesus to forgive him and the Judge lightened his sentence because he’s Republican…

Nah, he blamed his autism for making socialization hard for him. And you know what? Being on the spectrum I can relate to that but there’s NO excuse for child pornography either.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:59:33am

re: #184 HappyWarrior

Nah, he blamed his autism for making socialization hard for him. And you know what? Being on the spectrum I can relate to that but there’s NO excuse for child pornography either.

And yet, despite having difficulty socialising, he was a Tea Party activist? (A community organiser).

I admit I do not know a whole lot about autism, but it occurs to me that community organising is not one of the top jobs for people with that disorder.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 29, 2016 • 5:59:59am

re: #164 lawhawk

[snip]

Reality will be a cold mistress to Trump, because any pivot away from the extremist nonsense he sputtered during the primaries will cause him to potentially lose support among his core - the nativists/isolationist/white supremacists who think deportation of millions of people who aren’t lily white should solve everything (costs?! bah, we’ll get Mexico to pay for all of it!).
[snip]

Well, we did get the Iraqi’s to pay for that war.

//

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:02:21am

re: #164 lawhawk

(cut for brevity and to make pixel confetti)

Reality will be a cold mistress to Trump, because any pivot away from the extremist nonsense he sputtered during the primaries will cause him to potentially lose support among his core - the nativists/isolationist/white supremacists who think deportation of millions of people who aren’t lily white should solve everything (costs?! bah, we’ll get Mexico to pay for all of it!). Or, much more likely, Trump will spew some platitudes about how he’s got the plan and it’ll be a super plan, and we’ll deal with all of this in a comprehensive plan (but curiously never actually identify what the plan is with specificity because it’d be the same nonsense he mentioned during the primaries, but enough words differ so that media outlets will claim that he’s pivoted to the generals).

It might be worse, as when he tried to dip his toe into a more moderate position (and threw Ann Coulter under the bus for her new book signing), a whole lot of his supporters threatened him with more than loss of votes.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:03:17am

re: #185 Anymouse

And yet, despite having difficulty socialising, he was a Tea Party activist? (A community organiser).

I admit I do not know a whole lot about autism, but it occurs to me that community organising is not one of the top jobs for people with that disorder.

Yeah that surprised me as well. Honestly, having never met this guy, I have no idea. Speaking for myself, being a political organizer would be difficult for me. As I said, I can buy the lonely part, that happens way too often on the spectrum but there’s no excuse for what he did and it’s pathetic that he’s using his condition as an excuse. Honestly, aside from the child porn charges, I think the real tragedy is that he was working so much against ACA and people get coverage. Employment and thus insurance is another struggle people have on the spectrum.

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jeffreyw  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:04:13am

re: #180 sagehen

The cat is disgruntled because he has no breakfast.

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Nah, it’s because I told him he has to share the carnitas tacos, or maybe it’s because of the roll your own nature of the offerings.

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:05:02am

re: #178 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

sorry - nope
still doesnt look like breakfast

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SteelPH  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:05:43am

re: #174 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I know there are several people here who are going to love this/

Tea Party activist blames autism after pleading guilty to child porn charges

Boy I can’t wait for anti-vaxxers to latch onto this.
//not enough in the world

For the record, I’m on the spectrum as well.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:06:41am

re: #191 SteelPH

Boy I can’t wait for anti-vaxxers to latch onto this.
//not enough in the world

For the record, I’m on the spectrum as well.

There are a few of us: Me, yourself, Tardis, and I think Sharp has said he is too. Plus FrogBelly and AnonMom’s sons.

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SteelPH  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:07:22am

re: #192 HappyWarrior

There are a few of us: Me, yourself, Tardis, and I think Sharp has said he is too. Plus FrogBelly and AnonMom’s sons.

Yup.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:08:00am

Off-topic, because I am drinking too much whiskey and Kool-Aid:

My local newspaper, the Scottsbluff Star-Herald, has this neat article today on a local national monument.

A unique fossil came home to Agate Fossil Beds National Monument Saturday as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the National Park Service.

The return of the Palaeocastor fossil, which was excavated in 2015, brought a close to a unique chapter in the history of palaeocastor fossils and Daemonelix burrows at Agate.

“Agate is one of the cool areas because of its geology and fossils,” said Ed Welsh, Badlands National Park educator. “It has a fun history.”

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is north of Mitchell in the Panhandle, about one hundred miles from here.

They have an unusual celebration there every year, Boxing Day. (They celebrate it because the woman who lived on the farm that is now Agate was from Canada originally and missed the holiday.)

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:09:22am

re: #185 Anymouse

And yet, despite having difficulty socialising, he was a Tea Party activist? (A community organiser).

I admit I do not know a whole lot about autism, but it occurs to me that community organising is not one of the top jobs for people with that disorder.

i wouldnt make more of this than it is
its just a legal defense. an attempted way out of the legal problem
its not a justification of actuall real life behavior and as has been said its not taking responsibility
and its likely not true as a factual motivator anyway
its merely a legal manipulation

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:09:46am

re: #192 HappyWarrior

There are a few of us: Me, yourself, Tardis, and I think Sharp has said he is too. Plus FrogBelly and AnonMom’s sons.

Gee, can I blame debt on my epilepsy? /s

Robbing a bank on my Duypetren’s Contractures? /s (I can blame my troubles playing my dulcimer on that).

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:09:48am

re: #189 jeffreyw

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Nah, it’s because I told him he has to share the carnitas tacos, or maybe it’s because of the roll your own nature of the offerings.

i’d get it myself if i only had thumbs….

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:10:25am

re: #196 Anymouse

Gee, can I blame debt on my epilepsy? /s

Robbing a bank on my Duypetren’s Contractures? /s (I can blame my troubles playing my dulcimer on that).

I know. It’s absurd.

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sagehen  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:10:29am
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:11:39am
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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:11:46am

I have to skip out… . I have a newsletter to edit and turn in today, and I haven’t started yet … it is due this evening. Bye, y’all.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:12:33am

re: #200 The Vicious Babushka

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I’m getting tired of Trump acting like African-Americans just live in the inner city. This “new” Trump may be even worse than the old one in some ways.

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:12:47am

re: #199 sagehen

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my brother taught a local college course for a couple of years. mostly night school so 25-40 year olds etc.

all tests open book

most still failed (due mostly to laziness and a lack of desire to even read the stuff)

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:12:50am
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Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:13:52am

re: #200 The Vicious Babushka

Nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah…..TRUMPMAN!

*headdesk*

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:13:59am

re: #192 HappyWarrior

There are a few of us: Me, yourself, Tardis, and I think Sharp has said he is too. Plus FrogBelly and AnonMom’s sons.

Granddaughter3 is a 13-yr old. If the Lizards described here are 2-3 on the scale, she is an 8.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:15:20am

re: #202 HappyWarrior

I’m getting tired of Trump acting like African-Americans just live in the inner city. This “new” Trump may be even worse than the old one in some ways.

There were Black people living in my nice suburban subdivision outside of Detroit since the 1960’s (when it was built). We moved here in the ‘80’s.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:15:29am

re: #200 The Vicious Babushka

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Inner-city crime is reaching record levels.

So right-wingers can just say blatantly couterfactual crap like this and nobody will ever call them on it….

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:16:32am

re: #200 The Vicious Babushka

Inner-city crime is reaching record levels. African-Americans will vote for Trump because they know I will stop the slaughter going on!
— Donald J. Trump

Citation needed, please.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:16:41am

re: #207 The Vicious Babushka

There were Black people living in my nice suburban subdivision outside of Detroit since the 1960’s (when it was built). We moved here in the ‘80’s.

I had African-American classmates, friends, teammates on youth sports teams, etc for as long as I could remember. Trump thinks he’s coming off as “caring” but he’s showing how bigoted he is.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:17:14am

re: #208 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

So right-wingers can just say blatantly couterfactual crap like this and nobody will ever call them on it….

Trump pretty much got away with saying what he did about the murder rate so why not another lie?

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:23:47am

What is this shit?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:24:54am

re: #212 The Vicious Babushka

What is this shit?

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Sounds drunk.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:25:39am

re: #212 The Vicious Babushka

What is this shit?

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I guess the help has given Trump back his twitter phone.

/

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:27:26am

re: #212 The Vicious Babushka

What is this shit?

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Trump gets to make up stuff. Clinton has to defend doing the right thing.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:27:55am

re: #212 The Vicious Babushka

What is this shit?

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He’s on quite the derp roll this morning isn’t he?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:28:03am

re: #215 Belafon

Trump gets to make up stuff. Clinton has to defend doing the right thing.

Ain’t that the truth. But both sides ya know.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:29:50am

re: #215 Belafon

Stealing this.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:30:04am

re: #212 The Vicious Babushka

Does anyone know that Crooked Hillary, who tried so hard, was unable to pass the Bar Exams in Washington D.C. She was forced to go elsewhere
— Donald J. Trump

Citation needed, etc. Does Trump not know how to link from his Twitter phone?

Also, where are your tax returns?

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:31:23am

Christ on a pogo stick

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:32:27am

re: #220 The Vicious Babushka

Christ on a pogo stick

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I guess he got some bad news about polls again today. These aren’t the actions of a confident candidate or person in general.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:32:52am

re: #212 The Vicious Babushka

What is this shit?

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Something that’s actually true (amazingly):
snopes.com

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:33:01am

re: #209 Sir John Barron

Citation needed, please.

Inner city crime is actually near multidecade lows. That’s the opposite of what Trump means. Are they up from a year ago? Yes - but still down by massive margins from 5, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, etc.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:33:38am

re: #220 The Vicious Babushka

Says a man who bankrupted a casino. Talk about bad judgement.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:34:36am

re: #224 Dr Lizardo

Says a man who bankrupted a casino. Talk about bad judgement.

It takes a lot of skimming work to do that.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:35:49am

Now would be a good time for Senator Professor Elizabeth Warrenova to start trolling Mr. Trump on Twitter.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:36:15am

LOL

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:38:14am

re: #210 HappyWarrior

I had African-American classmates, friends, teammates on youth sports teams, etc for as long as I could remember. Trump thinks he’s coming off as “caring” but he’s showing how bigoted he is.

There is only one African-American family in my village of 128, which is probably more than he has at his rallies.

I suppose we could “trot them out” to show we care, but the right wing would only be interested in our lesbian rural farmers here (yes, we have them).

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:39:22am

re: #228 Anymouse

There is only one African-American family in my village of 128, which is probably more than he has at his rallies.

I suppose we could “trot them out” to show we care, but the right wing would only be interested in our lesbian rural farmers here (yes, we have them).

Ha! I did see Limbaugh’s crazy rant. Grew up in a town of about 20,000 people. Very diverse all around. I credit it with helping with my attitudes in general.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:41:14am

re: #227 The Vicious Babushka

Again, he’s working on the assumption that all AA people live in inner cities, and all inner cities are crime-ridden hell holes. Then he somehow expects sharing those prejudices will win him votes from the AA community.

smdh

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:41:41am

re: #222 Timothy Watson

Something that’s actually true (amazingly):
snopes.com

Interesting. Though she wasn’t forced to go elsewhere. You can take the exams multiple times if you want.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:41:48am

I’m surprised he didn’t mention Anthony Weiner.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:42:58am

re: #231 Belafon

Interesting. Though she wasn’t forced to go elsewhere. You can take the exams multiple times if you want.

I’m sure the State Department has a lot of successful diplomats who did not pass the Foreign Service Office Exam on their first attempt either.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:44:58am

re: #231 Belafon

Interesting. Though she wasn’t forced to go elsewhere. You can take the exams multiple times if you want.

True, and we were speaking of CPAs earlier, there are people who have had to take different sections of the CPA exam multiple times to pass.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:45:50am

re: #232 Jenner7

I’m surprised he didn’t mention Anthony Weiner.

Now I will have to floss my brain, with the thought that floated through it of them sharing pics for comparisons.

“My hands are bigger than yours!”

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Tigger2  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:45:56am

re: #200 The Vicious Babushka

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:46:44am

Does Trump have a JD? Assuming not.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:46:49am

Her not passing the bar in DC makes me rethink all the accomplishments she’s made over the years.

Trump Train all teh way!

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:47:54am

re: #237 HappyWarrior

Does Trump have a JD? Assuming not.

Only if you put his initials backwards.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:48:41am

re: #233 HappyWarrior

I’m sure the State Department has a lot of successful diplomats who did not pass the Foreign Service Office Exam on their first attempt either.

The FS exam is a killer. I’ve taken it. Six hours, with an hour for lunch. You cannot leave the test area, so you have to bring your own, or if you’re lucky, there’s a cafeteria on site.

I took it when Reagan was prexy. I passed the written test, but balked when the pre-interview information indicated I would have to swear (or affirm) that I would represent and defend the foreign policy of the USA no matter who was in office.

Years passed, and I got to work overseas after all, —- just not in the foreign service.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:49:38am

Li’l Whiplash is freaking out over Colin Kaepernick. Whipsies is so sensitive, he needs a safe space to protect his delicate feels.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:50:15am

Speaking of Anthony Weiner:

wonkette.com

It would appear he has new pictures of his -uh- experience in the New York Post

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:50:29am

re: #240 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The FS exam is a killer. I’ve taken it. Six hours, with an hour for lunch. You cannot leave the test area, so you have to bring your own, or if you’re lucky, there’s a cafeteria on site.

I took it when Reagan was prexy. I passed the written test, but balked when the pre-interview information indicated I would have to swear (or affirm) that I would represent and defend the foreign policy of the USA no matter who was in office.

Years passed, and I got to work overseas after all, —- just not in the foreign service.

I took the test once after graduation. Realized I wasn’t cut for it.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:51:48am
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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:52:01am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

Li’l Whiplash is freaking out over Colin Kaepernick. Whipsies is so sensitive, he needs a safe space to protect his delicate feels.

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Does he realize what a condescending asshole he is? Maybe spend some time with your kids Ben instead of whitesplaining shit to a man you don’t know.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:52:19am

re: #239 Anymouse

Only if you put his initials backwards.

Kajing.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:52:55am

re: #244 lawhawk

No. He went to business school - Wharton. And a bunch of people associated with Wharton have pretty much stated they don’t want anything to do with him.

Yeah, that’s right, it was Romney that was both a MBA and JD who said without any irony in his voice that Obama spent too much time at Harvard.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:54:12am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

Kaepernick Saga Shows How NFL Has Become A Leftist Tool dailywire.com pic.twitter.com
— Ben Shapiro

LOLwhut?

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Timothy Watson  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:54:42am

re: #247 HappyWarrior

Yeah, that’s right, it was Romney that was both a MBA and JD who said without any irony in his voice that Obama spent too much time at Harvard.

And Rick Santorum, who has a MBA and JD, said Obama was a snob for encouraging people to go to college.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:55:39am

re: #245 HappyWarrior

There’s a reason that we only sing the first verse.

If you start looking at the rest of the anthem’s lyrics, especially the third, you realize that Key’s cheering on the death of slaves who thought that the Brits would help free them.

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:56:03am

Re: Kaepernick. I like the idea and I see it whenever people like him make statements about African-Americans being killed or mistreated by the police is “Well why doesn’t he say anything about black on black crime or what happens in black communities.” And frankly, it’s exhausting. Firstly, how do you know he hasn’t? Secondly, the people who do those killings in the cities DO get prosecuted. The reason why BLM exists is because district attorneys offices seldom ever even prosecute cops that kill African-Americans. Thirdly, you can be concerned about two things at the same time. You know kind of like that dumb meme about Obama and the Syrian refugees being fed and bitching why doesn’t Obama care (he does) about homeless vets.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:56:45am

re: #249 Timothy Watson

And Rick Santorum, who has a MBA and JD, said Obama was a snob for encouraging people to go to college.

All of Santorum’s post secondary education are from public institutions too yet he craps on public schools. Hypcorticius Rickus Frothius.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:57:01am

re: #243 HappyWarrior

I took the test once after graduation. Realized I wasn’t cut for it.

I took it expecting to fail. Did no prep at all. It was during a time I was trying to decide my next career move, and a former girlfriend who was in the FS already encouraged me to give it a go.

I was stunned when the letter came inviting me to the interview process. In retrospect, I should have followed up on it, since RR would not have been in office forever, but I ended up in teaching, which I’ve found very rewarding and less perilous than being in the FS.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:57:45am

It would appear that Anthony Weiner has been sexting a Trump supporter gun nut.

nypost.com

As Wonkette put it, Huma Abadin would divorce him if there was a god.

The Post article includes lingerie shots of the woman he allegedly sent photos to.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:58:25am

re: #250 lawhawk

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There’s a reason that we only sing the first verse.

If you start looking at the rest of the anthem’s lyrics, especially the third, you realize that Key’s cheering on the death of slaves who thought that the Brits would help free them.

I actually didn’t know about that, interesting. I knew that Key was a slaveowner but not that. Honestly, the more I learn about the African-American experience in this country, the more I’m disgusting at the status quo that was allowed to exist for years and somewhat still does.

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ObserverArt  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:58:44am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

Li’l Whiplash is freaking out over Colin Kaepernick. Whipsies is so sensitive, he needs a safe space to protect his delicate feels.

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Morning.

Seems to be a big thing in the sport ball world. I have the Dan Patrick show on and it has been the first hour topic.

Ben seems to not understand the NFL and most of the teams probably are pissed at Kaepernick because of all the attention. Lots of the coaches are fairly military oriented and probably hate it all too.

Dan Patrick seems to not like it and says it is not in the spirit of “the team” and if he was coach he’d send Kaepernick to the locker room during the anthem so as to not be a distraction.

Bottom line…NFL football doesn’t like anything getting in the way of the revenue stream.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 6:59:27am

re: #253 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I took it expecting to fail. Did no prep at all. It was during a time I was trying to decide my next career move, and a former girlfriend who was in the FS already encouraged me to give it a go.

I was stunned when the letter came inviting me to the interview process. In retrospect, I should have followed up on it, since RR would not have been in office forever, but I ended up in teaching, which I’ve found very rewarding and less perilous than being in the FS.

Part of my struggle was that my personality just isn’t the best. It’s too bad because I really think it would be a neat job but I am glad it worked out for you in the end. Teaching’s been good to you and you go to travel after all.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:00:42am

re: #251 HappyWarrior

Re: Kaepernick. I like the idea and I see it whenever people like him make statements about African-Americans being killed or mistreated by the police is “Well why doesn’t he say anything about black on black crime or what happens in black communities.” And frankly, it’s exhausting. Firstly, how do you know he hasn’t? Secondly, the people who do those killings in the cities DO get prosecuted. The reason why BLM exists is because district attorneys offices seldom ever even prosecute cops that kill African-Americans. Thirdly, you can be concerned about two things at the same time. You know kind of like that dumb meme about Obama and the Syrian refugees being fed and bitching why doesn’t Obama care (he does) about homeless vets.

Wingnuts only ever remember that homeless vets exist when they want to bitch about refugees.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:00:53am

re: #251 HappyWarrior

(cut) You know kind of like that dumb meme about Obama and the Syrian refugees being fed and bitching why doesn’t Obama care (he does) about homeless vets.

Yup. I was homeless from 1996 to 2007, and I don’t recall Republicans giving a diddly damn about this homeless vet then.

At least they weren’t bashing Gold Star Families then.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:01:13am

re: #258 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts only ever remember that homeless vets exist when they want to bitch about refugees.

Yeah I noticed that as well.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:01:37am

re: #259 Anymouse

Yup. I was homeless from 1996 to 2007, and I don’t recall Republicans giving a diddly damn about this homeless vet then.

At least they weren’t bashing Gold Star Families then.

Exactly.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:02:30am

re: #255 HappyWarrior

A good portion of the modern day institutionalized racism is a consequences of none other than Woodrow Wilson.

It took Eleanor Roosevelt and Truman to bigan the task of unwinding segregation and Jim Crow, starting with expanding role of blacks in the military - desegregating the military, etc. Eisenhower and the courts then took it from there - going after school desegregation, trying to end Jim Crow, etc. But at every step along the way, white racists continued to block efforts, and the arguments today still harken back to those times.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:04:06am

re: #257 HappyWarrior

Part of my struggle was that my personality just isn’t the best. It’s too bad because I really think it would be a neat job but I am glad it worked out for you in the end. Teaching’s been good to you and you go to travel after all.

FS would have been a desk job, albeit in an exotic location with nice bennies. My life would have been completely different — a different wife, different kids, etc., etc. The route I did take has worked out very well (except for the divorce part which in fact still had a silver lining), so I have no regrets.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:04:58am

re: #256 ObserverArt

The NFL thinks of itself as above it all - scandal and controversy, but the reality is that they’re up to their eyeballs in it. Whether you’re talking about the CTE scandal, or that there’s so few minorities at the upper ranks of team ownership/management, despite so many players being minorities, and you’ve got a system ripe for abuse of power and attacking people who question the order of things.

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:05:13am

one sorta good(?) thing about trumps tweetstorms these days

they dont seem to be doing anything to change minds or attract new votes to him

its mostly ineffective bluster

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:05:46am

re: #262 lawhawk

A good portion of the modern day institutionalized racism is a consequences of none other than Woodrow Wilson.

It took Eleanor Roosevelt and Truman to bigan the task of unwinding segregation and Jim Crow, starting with expanding role of blacks in the military - desegregating the military, etc. Eisenhower and the courts then took it from there - going after school desegregation, trying to end Jim Crow, etc. But at every step along the way, white racists continued to block efforts, and the arguments today still harken back to those times.

Yeah, I’m not a big Wilson fan honestly. Agree with you about Eleanor and Truman. They started dismantling the system slowly. But yep, more that changes more that remains the same. I have no doubt that people like BW were telling Jackie Robinson to shut up when he continued to talk about racial discrimination well after his playing days. And you’re right, there’s been efforts everywhere to block progrsss to this day. I’m reading Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns right now and man that’s such a good read, very important for understanding the African-American experience in the past century. I’ll never know what it’s like to be AA but I think by attempting to understand, it works a whole lot better tahn just talking down to people which is what people like Shapiro continue to do.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:07:54am

re: #262 lawhawk

A good portion of the modern day institutionalized racism is a consequences of none other than Woodrow Wilson.

It took Eleanor Roosevelt and Truman to bigan the task of unwinding segregation and Jim Crow, starting with expanding role of blacks in the military - desegregating the military, etc. Eisenhower and the courts then took it from there - going after school desegregation, trying to end Jim Crow, etc. But at every step along the way, white racists continued to block efforts, and the arguments today still harken back to those times.

Hence my paternal grandparents being illegal immigrants (Polish escaping the Nazis when Poles were prohibited from entering the country for being “intellectually inferior” and Rep. Steve King R-IA wanting to deport the grandchildren of “illegal immigrants” including me.)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:08:32am

re: #266 HappyWarrior

I’ve added that book to my Kindle wish list. Thx

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:09:20am

re: #256 ObserverArt

Morning.

Seems to be a big thing in the sport ball world. I have the Dan Patrick show on and it has been the first hour topic.

Ben seems to not understand the NFL and most of the teams probably are pissed at Kaepernick because of all the attention. Lots of the coaches are fairly military oriented and probably hate it all too.

Dan Patrick seems to not like it and says it is not in the spirit of “the team” and if he was coach he’d send Kaepernick to the locker room during the anthem so as to not be a distraction.

Bottom line…NFL football doesn’t like anything getting in the way of the revenue stream.

The militarization/nationalism at professional sporting events is kinda overboard anyway, especially since 911. A lot of times they roll out a flag that’s as big as the field, have some jets flyover, etc.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:09:34am

This is the criminal whose robo-signing scam made thousands of people homeless during the housing crisis of 2008==>

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:10:10am

re: #266 HappyWarrior

I worry for friends and colleagues who are Muslim or black, because the GOP’s strategy is to demonize both and Trump’s leading the way with his bigot brigade.

I can’t possibly begin to step into the shoes of either group, but I can relate what Jews went through before and during WWII and see the parallels - particularly with Muslims who are fleeing war ravaged places in the Middle East.

I can relate to how Jews stepped up to help blacks during the Civil Rights movement, because it was the right thing to do. And we have to continue doing this in every generation because there are those who would revert to the way things were socially because they think that this would empower them.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:10:49am

On the 53rd anniversary of MLK’s “I Have A Dream” speech, Jill Stein Tweeted this==>

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:11:04am

re: #266 HappyWarrior

Yeah I started reading it, probably got about a third of the way through. It’s really good, but I got distracted by other things. Been meaning to get back to it.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:11:25am

re: #268 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ve added that book to my Kindle wish list. Thx

Not a problem. I remembered hearing it won a Pulitzer and it sounded interesting.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:12:28am

re: #267 Anymouse

Hence my paternal grandparents being illegal immigrants (Polish escaping the Nazis when Poles were prohibited from entering the country for being “intellectually inferior” and Rep. Steve King R-IA wanting to deport the grandchildren of “illegal immigrants” including me.)

Nearly every immigrant wave from anywhere but northern Europe (excepting Ireland) has met resistance from nativists. The Irish, the Italians, Eastern Europeans, Mexicans, Asians — the list goes on and on. Yet many did arrive on these shores, and the nation has survived and even thrived.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:13:07am

re: #272 The Vicious Babushka

On the 53rd anniversary of MLK’s “I Have A Dream” speech, Jill Stein Tweeted this==>

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Stein’s almost as dumb as Trump.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:13:29am

re: #271 lawhawk

I worry for friends and colleagues who are Muslim or black, because the GOP’s strategy is to demonize both and Trump’s leading the way with his bigot brigade.

I can’t possibly begin to step into the shoes of either group, but I can relate what Jews went through before and during WWII and see the parallels - particularly with Muslims who are fleeing war ravaged places in the Middle East.

I can relate to how Jews stepped up to help blacks during the Civil Rights movement, because it was the right thing to do. And we have to continue doing this in every generation because there are those who would revert to the way things were socially because they think that this would empower them.

I can relate on a similar scale coming from an Eastern European/Irish Catholic background. What we have to do is listen to people. Condescending tweets like what Shapiro posted aren’t the way to do that. Saying straight up the only reason why Kaepernick is speaking up is because his career has been in decline is just shitty. Ben continues to live in his self created “right wing safe spot” that he created for himself at the Wire though.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:15:25am

re: #273 Sir John Barron

Yeah I started reading it, probably got about a third of the way through. It’s really good, but I got distracted by other things. Been meaning to get back to it.

Ida Mae Brandon sort of reminded me of my grandmother a little bit. Close in age and both lost a parent at a young age. What I love about Wilkerson’s choice is that she did stories about regular people. It’s also a very personal subject for her since her parents migrated from the South too.

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nines09  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:15:35am

re: #271 lawhawk

And the really sad part about that is they get people who would be hurt by their policies to vote for them. Because of fear and ignorance. And that is why they peddle fear and ignorance. It works.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:15:44am

re: #264 lawhawk

The NFL thinks of itself as above it all - scandal and controversy, but the reality is that they’re up to their eyeballs in it. Whether you’re talking about the CTE scandal, or that there’s so few minorities at the upper ranks of team ownership/management, despite so many players being minorities, and you’ve got a system ripe for abuse of power and attacking people who question the order of things.

They insist that they are bearers of part of America”s national identity and our perceived virtues of sportsmanship and fair play, etc.

We need to remind them that they are a collection of businesses who should be treated no differently than any other employers.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:15:50am

re: #272 The Vicious Babushka

On the 53rd anniversary of MLK’s “I Have A Dream” speech, Jill Stein Tweeted this==>

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She can’t be that tone deaf can she?

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:16:20am
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sagehen  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:16:21am

re: #243 HappyWarrior

I took the test once after graduation. Realized I wasn’t cut for it.

A lot of people I went to college with joined the foreign service; very few make a lifelong career of it. Eventually there’ll be a president they don’t like and a policy they can’t support, at which point they go private sector with an American company who does business in the country they’d prefer to live in.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:16:50am

re: #281 HappyWarrior

She can’t be that tone deaf can she?

She’s playing to the animal right activists.

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:18:35am

re: #269 Sir John Barron

The militarization/nationalism at professional sporting events is kinda overboard anyway, especially since 911. A lot of times they roll out a flag that’s as big as the field, have some jets flyover, etc.

robert klein’s “mind over matter” 1974

sports/ pregame

“join us now, in honoring america with the longest known version of the star spangled banner… with anita bryant, the bible, oranges, and the 101st airborne division

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:18:40am

re: #284 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

She’s playing to the animal right activists.

Yeah I figured. You know animal rights is a legit cause but groups like PETA make it look nutty. My brother is something of an animal rights guy but he does it in a sane way. PETA just makes the average onlooker go “Hey Vegans must be nutty people” and that’s just not fair because there are a lot of legitimate concerns brought up by animal rights activists about how we treat animals, how meat is processed, etc.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:19:07am

re: #283 sagehen

A lot of people I went to college with joined the foreign service; very few make a lifelong career of it. Eventually there’ll be a president they don’t like and a policy they can’t support, at which point they go private sector with an American company who does business in the country they’d prefer to live in.

I’ve heard they also get fed up with the idiots who end up as ambassadors and the staff they bring with them, who know little or nothing about the country they are working in.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:19:23am

re: #281 HappyWarrior

She can’t be that tone deaf can she?

re: #284 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

She’s playing to the animal right activists.

She has a Holocaust denier for a VP candidate. She went to Moscow to hang out with their own oligarchs. It ain’t tone deafness.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:19:49am

re: #283 sagehen

A lot of people I went to college with joined the foreign service; very few make a lifelong career of it. Eventually there’ll be a president they don’t like and a policy they can’t support, at which point they go private sector with an American company who does business in the country they’d prefer to live in.

Yep, doesn’t surprise me. I probably wouldn’t have been a fit for it in the end because of that. I can’t imagine having to defend US foreign policy with someone like Trump or even Rubio/Bush.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:20:43am

re: #275 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Nearly every immigrant wave from anywhere but northern Europe (excepting Ireland) has met resistance from nativists. The Irish, the Italians, Eastern Europeans, Mexicans, Asians — the list goes on and on. Yet many did arrive on these shores, and the nation has survived and even thrived.

I was amused (for certain values of “amused”) at Mike Cernovich’s attendance at the Taco Bowl rally yesterday. Hey Mike—how recently would your ideological confrères have wanted you deported, too?

I assume by the spelling he’s a “Bohunk” and not a “Polack” in the lingo of the times—not that it would make much difference.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:22:24am

re: #287 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ve heard they also get fed up with the idiots who end up as ambassadors and the staff they bring with them, who know little or nothing about the country they are working in.

Doesn’t surprise me. I think that would be an easy job to get disillusioned with. The one job I’m glad I never really got into was journalism. There’s a lot about the present state of journalism that I despise. So many huge egos. I talked about this once before but during my later years at college, I was part of a group that was trying to bring attention to how our cafeteria workers were treated on campus. The school newspaper pretty much distorted what the activists were attempting to do. Didn’t hurt that my section editor had left and I didn’t have an as good working relationship with the guy who replaced him.

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:22:31am

re: #286 HappyWarrior

Yeah I figured. You know animal rights is a legit cause but groups like PETA make it look nutty. My brother is something of an animal rights guy but he does it in a sane way. PETA just makes the average onlooker go “Hey Vegans must be nutty people” and that’s just not fair because there are a lot of legitimate concerns brought up by animal rights activists about how we treat animals, how meat is processed, etc.

/rabid fanatics. any kind. toss rational discourse and thinking. no patience

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:23:57am

re: #240 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The FS exam is a killer. I’ve taken it. Six hours, with an hour for lunch. You cannot leave the test area, so you have to bring your own, or if you’re lucky, there’s a cafeteria on site.

I took it when Reagan was prexy. I passed the written test, but balked when the pre-interview information indicated I would have to swear (or affirm) that I would represent and defend the foreign policy of the USA no matter who was in office.

Years passed, and I got to work overseas after all, —- just not in the foreign service.

Sounds like my background: I took and passed twice and went for interviews. Got a 69 the second time (cutoff was 70 points). But yeah, I was not cut out for a life with the foreign service back then when being a safe security risk (basically someone who had lived at home all their life in a small town) outweighed all other professional considerations.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:24:34am

re: #290 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I was amused (for certain values of “amused”) at Mike Cernovich’s attendance at the Taco Bowl rally yesterday. Hey Mike—how recently would your ideological confrères have wanted you deported, too?

I assume by the spelling he’s a “Bohunk” and not a “Polack” in the lingo of the times—not that it would make much difference.

See, that’s what separates me from guys like Cerno. I come from a similar background. (My mom’s grandparents were all Eastern European immigrants) and knowing a little about what they went through. Well it makes me quite empathetic towards today’s immigrants. Plus my brother’s in laws are all immigrants too. My niece is thus the first American born person on her mother’s side and I think that’s just pretty damn cool.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:25:00am

re: #292 dangerman

/rabid fanatics. any kind. toss rational discourse and thinking. no patience

Fanatics ruin everything.

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:26:51am

re: #292 dangerman

/rabid fanatics. any kind. toss rational discourse and thinking. no patience

PETA is a rotten organisation.

huffingtonpost.com (killing of puppies and kittens, NSFW)

They also got dinged for having a walk-in refrigerator (to store animal carcasses in) they claimed on their tax forms.

They also pushed out the Virginia Beach SPCA to run city animal shelters. Turns out they were not interested in adopting out pets, they were interested in killing stray animals.

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:26:56am

re: #295 HappyWarrior

Fanatics ruin everything.

on that position i am adamant!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:27:24am

re: #297 dangerman

on that position i am adamant!

I have no tolerance for intolerance

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:28:20am

re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Zealot!

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Anymouse  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:29:39am

re: #299 lawhawk

Zealot!

You cannot change my mind no matter what you say, fanatics are inflexible and intolerant.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:29:50am

Meanwhile, in South Africa, blacks are still having trouble with stupid rules reminiscent of the apartheid era.

bbc.com

A South African minister has thrown his support behind protesting female students, who accuse their high school of operating a racist hair policy.

Pupils at Pretoria Girls High say they have been repeatedly warned to straighten their hair.

“Schools should not be used as a platform to discourage students from embracing their African identity,” Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa tweeted in support.

The school has not yet commented.

Pretoria High School for Girls (and its partner, Pretoria Boys High School) date back to English rule, and were run by whites when I was in Pretoria and probably still are. Both are very good schools with very diverse student populations, but clearly PHSG has some problems with enforcing its rules.

Disclosure: My daughter attended PHSG while I was teaching at Boys High.

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ObserverArt  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:31:25am

re: #269 Sir John Barron

The militarization/nationalism at professional sporting events is kinda overboard anyway, especially since 911. A lot of times they roll out a flag that’s as big as the field, have some jets flyover, etc.

They are armies of warriors!

They have strategies, offense and defense.

It’s ripe for military overtones.

To me it’s just a game. Not a way of life or a religion.

But Kaepernick saying stuff about police and judges…we can’t have that. If guys beat on their wives and girlfriends or get to driving drunk and tearing up nightclubs in fights…that can be forgiven if the player is good. But open your mouth about politics…no can do!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:33:49am

re: #292 dangerman

/rabid fanatics. any kind. toss rational discourse and thinking. no patience

A lot of people don’t realize that “Animal Rights” (exemplified by PETA) and “Animal Welfare” (exemplified by the SPCA) are different and warring ideologies. A few years ago at the PETA convention (maybe every year, I don’t know) one of their platform planks was “No compromise with animal welfareists.”

Speaking as a staunch animal welfareist, I know where I stand.

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dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:34:10am

re: #302 ObserverArt

They are armies of warriors!

They have strategies, offense and defense.

It’s ripe for military overtones.

To me it’s just a game. Not a way of life or a religion.

But Kaepernick saying stuff about police and judges…we can’t have that. If guys beat on their wives and girlfriends or get to driving drunk and tearing up nightclubs in fights…that can be forgiven if the player is good. But open your mouth about politics…no can do!

just a bunch of guys beating each other up and taking their land

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Timothy Watson  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:34:32am

re: #269 Sir John Barron

The militarization/nationalism at professional sporting events is kinda overboard anyway, especially since 911. A lot of times they roll out a flag that’s as big as the field, have some jets flyover, etc.

All paid for by the Department of Defense too.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:36:32am

Boss shows up at work early, finds no one has come to work that day.

Big trouble, when the boss is the emir of Dubai.

bbc.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:38:31am

re: #305 Timothy Watson

All paid for by the Department of Defense too.

Yeah, I wonder about that. I thought the DOD had to be compensated for flyovers and such. I mean, the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds are not charitable organizations.

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gwangung  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:39:17am

re: #288 Anymouse

She has a Holocaust denier for a VP candidate. She went to Moscow to hang out with their own oligarchs. It ain’t tone deafness.

She had a Juneteenth celebration with an all-white party.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:39:53am

re: #307 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Teams in the five major American sports leagues have taken in more than $10 million in marketing deals with the military since 2012, but the Department of Defense (DOD) can’t account for all of the contracts, much less the money.

The fact that teams like the New York Jets had taken military money to honor hometown troops was revealed this spring, but a report released Wednesday shows that the spending was much larger and much more widespread than originally believed.

In all, the DOD spent $10.4 million on marketing contracts with teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS. This does not count sponsorships in NASCAR, which could total as much as $100 million.

sbnation.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:41:06am

re: #309 Timothy Watson

Well, shit.

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ObserverArt  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:43:15am

re: #305 Timothy Watson

All paid for by the Department of Defense too.

Heh. Your comment reminds me of the different branches of the armed forces spending large sums of money on race car sponsorships in both NASCAR and Indycar.

It turned out to be a waste of money and the government pretty much put a stop to it. The millions they spent could have been better spent on Vet issues.

They thought it would lead to a lot of young men and women race fans marching down to the recruiters and signing up. It didn’t happen.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:47:54am

re: #311 ObserverArt

Heh. Your comment reminds me of the different branches of the armed forces spending large sums of money on race car sponsorships in both NASCAR and Indycar.

It turned out to be a waste of money and the government pretty much put a stop to it. The millions they spent could have been better spent on Vet issues.

They thought it would lead to a lot of young men and women race fans marching down to the recruiters and signing up. It didn’t happen.

Well, the Russians used to be very envious that most of our recruits for Tank School had at least driven a car before—or failing that, a tractor.

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Snarknado!  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:52:54am

re: #266 HappyWarrior

I’m reading Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns right now and man that’s such a good read, very important for understanding the African-American experience in the past century. .

If you want more (temporally, I mean, going back to emancipation and before), I recommend Been in the Storm So Long and Trouble in MInd, both by Leon Litwack.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:52:58am

re: #308 gwangung

She had a Juneteenth celebration with an all-white party.

Jesus.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:54:33am

re: #313 Snarknado!

If you want more (temporally, I mean, going back to emancipation and before), I recommend Been in the Storm So Long and Trouble in MInd, both by Leon Litwack.

Thanks. I’ll look in those too. I’m finally going to read Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man too. I actually read Black Boy in high school and did a paper on Richard Wright in college. Always enjoyed Wright’s writing. It’s a shame he died fairly young because I would have loved to seen his observations about the 1960’s especially.

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Snarknado!  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:56:01am

re: #315 HappyWarrior

Thanks. I’ll look in those too. I’m finally going to read Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man too. I actually read Black Boy in high school and did a paper on Richard Wright in college. Always enjoyed Wright’s writing. It’s a shame he died fairly young because I would have loved to seen his observations about the 1960’s especially.

Well, if you’re going to make a project out of this, don’t forget North of Slavery, also Leon Litwack, about blacks in the antebellum north.

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nines09  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:56:46am

re: #269 Sir John Barron

Yes, it has been overkill. A Big Patriotic Feel Good Let’s Salute Our Veterans affair. And then after the buzz wears off, it’s back to slicing and dicing the benefits and privileges of said Veterans by voting for “not on my dime” deadend grifters. It’s like a big Facebook post; Get this poor Vet a million likes. He’s broke. Type Amen and forward, or burn in Hell. A Veteran who comes home with pieces missing should never have to depend on the kindness of strangers. Or the fundraising of all too many frauds who line their own pockets.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:57:53am

re: #316 Snarknado!

Well, if you’re going to make a project out of this, don’t forget North of Slavery, also Leon Litwack, about blacks in the antebellum north.

I usually go from reading one thing totally different to the next. Before I started on WOS, I read Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and a book about writers and alcoholism. Since I’m also re-watching Band of Brothers again, I’m getting back into WWII history as well. May finally tackle The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:58:52am

re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have no tolerance for intolerance

Honk if you hate noise pollution!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 7:59:36am

re: #317 nines09

Yes, it has been overkill. A Big Patriotic Feel Good Let’s Salute Our Veterans affair. And then after the buzz wears off, it’s back to slicing and dicing the benefits and privileges of said Veterans by voting for “not on my dime” deadend grifters. It’s like a big Facebook post; Get this poor Vet a million likes. He’s broke. Type Amen and forward, or burn in Hell. A Veteran who comes home with pieces missing should never have to depend on the kindness of strangers. Or the fundraising of all too many frauds who line their own pockets.

In the abstract, everyone even right wingers feels for homeless vets but in reality, a lot of us walk in cities and by homeless people and we don’t attempt to empathize with why they may have gotten there. AM talked about having been homeless. That’s something I’ve never lived. Too many people think if someone’s poor, it’s their own damned fault and a punishment. I really hate the Calvinist mentality we have when it comes ot the less well off.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:04:36am

I think it was a Latin American leftist who said this but this said at all- “When I fed the poor, they called me a saint but when I asked why they are poor, they called me a Communist.” That’s pretty much our society too. Many people are okay with helping the poor (though in some cases not even that) but when we start to question poverty, we get called Communists.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:05:31am

BOTH SIDES!!!


“Things don’t have to be equivalent to be pointed out” is Both Siderism in a nutshell.
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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:07:01am

re: #322 A wild WITHAK appeared!

The problem for Clinton team - after Democrats repeatedly pointed to Bannon personal past, going to be hard to argue Weiner is off limits

Who is saying Weiner is off limits? Have at it. He’s been completely dismissed by the left. No one defends the loser. Jebus.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:07:12am

re: #322 A wild WITHAK appeared!

BOTH SIDES!!!

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“Things don’t have to be equivalent to be pointed out” is Both Siderism in a nutshell.

1. Weiner’s running which part of the Clinton campaign?
2. Which part of Bannon’s past is actually in the past?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:07:24am

re: #321 HappyWarrior

Many people are okay with helping the poor (though in some cases not even that) but when we start to question poverty, we get called Communists.

There is only one to that question answer in America: BECAUSE THEY ARE LAZY AND DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT!!!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:07:33am

re: #322 A wild WITHAK appeared!

BOTH SIDES!!!

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“Things don’t have to be equivalent to be pointed out” is Both Siderism in a nutshell.

Pretty much.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:08:21am
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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:08:31am

re: #323 Dr. Matt

Who is saying Weiner is off limits? Have at it. He’s been completely dismissed by the left. No one defends the loser. Jebus.

Seriously. He’s about as a non-entity as you can be in Democratic politics for a former Congressman. He lost big time when he ran for NYC’s mayor.

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ObserverArt  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:09:53am

re: #322 A wild WITHAK appeared!

BOTH SIDES!!!

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“Things don’t have to be equivalent to be pointed out” is Both Siderism in a nutshell.

Nothing like magic balancing a brick in one scale pan with a pebble in the other.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:10:07am

re: #327 Jenner7

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You’re a joke, Rudy. Go away. Goddamn I am sick of this old racist.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:10:44am

re: #324 Belafon

1. Weiner’s running which part of the Clinton campaign?
2. Which part of Bannon’s past is actually in the past?

Another example of using the husband to attack the wife.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:10:56am

The NYT is seriously aggravating. They do great analysis like this, but then reporters like @maggieNYT and @alexburnsNYT have their heads so far up the ass of Both Siderism that they can’t see the forest for the trees.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:11:13am

Go ahead, Weiner’s a prick (joke intended). He’s also not involved with Clinton’s campaign at all from what I know and not nearly at the extent Bannon is. Weiner lost by a lot when he ran for mayor of New York. Why? Because Democrats want nothing to do with his weird fixation on sending his junk.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:11:50am

re: #331 Stanley Sea

Another example of using the husband to attack the wife.

Like how HRC is attacked for Bill’s extra marital affairs.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:12:33am

re: #322 A wild WITHAK appeared!

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:13:48am

Baby Whiplash applauds.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:14:02am

re: #335 lawhawk

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Sure, you can point it out but a disgraced former Congressman acting like a disgraced former Congressman really doesn’t say anything about the Clinton presidential campaign. Meanwhile Trump continuing to employ Bannon the bigoted shit turd does say loads about Trump. Maggie’s doing a great job showing why I got disillusioned with journalism.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:14:16am

re: #333 HappyWarrior

Go ahead, Weiner’s a prick (joke intended). He’s also not involved with Clinton’s campaign at all from what I know and not nearly at the extent Bannon is. Weiner lost by a lot when he ran for mayor of New York. Why? Because Democrats want nothing to do with his weird fixation on sending his junk.

One could see it that way, but mostly it belied a total lack of judgement and discretion

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:14:40am

re: #336 The Vicious Babushka

Baby Whiplash applauds.

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Oh, there’s that “pro-life” agenda.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:15:33am

re: #328 HappyWarrior

Seriously. He’s about as a non-entity as you can be in Democratic politics for a former Congressman. He lost big time when he ran for NYC’s mayor.

Weiner should seriously join the Trump campaign. They ARE a match made in Heaven.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:16:27am

re: #340 Dr. Matt

Weiner should seriously join the Trump campaign. They ARE a match made in Heaven.

I’m honestly surprised Jim Webb hasn’t endorsed him yet though his former adviser is backing him. Mudcat Saunders seems like a bitter man.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:16:29am

re: #340 Dr. Matt

He could be Trump’s hand model

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:17:24am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:17:40am

re: #340 Dr. Matt

That’d be the 2016 equivalent of Matalin and Carville running campaigns for GOP and Dems.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:19:05am

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

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First off, Benghazi wasn’t an embassy, secondly where the fuck were you when all the embassies got attacked in the Bush years at a higher rate than the Obama years, and finally why aren’t you mad at the Republicans in Congress who voted to cut funding to embassies and consulates (which is what Benghazi was, you idiot).Oh and finally, stop using the four dead at Benghazi to push Trump. It’s sick.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:20:16am

re: #335 lawhawk

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Remember, it’s not both sides, it’s Clinton stooping down to Trump’s level because she enjoys it.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:20:49am

Saunders is that Democrat that I believe Breitbart has been using as “proof” that Trump ahs good crossover appeal but here’s the thing. The guy also supported Ken Cuccinelli here too. Yes, he’s advised a lot of Democrats including Mark Warner in this state but it’s also true that he’s trended right in recent years and has a delusional complex about the power of white working class voters.

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fern01  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:21:10am

re: #220 The Vicious Babushka

Christ on a pogo stick

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Cannot cope with the continual name calling. He is talking about the next President of the United States.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:21:35am
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calochortus  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:22:32am

re: #320 HappyWarrior

In the abstract, everyone even right wingers feels for homeless vets but in reality, a lot of us walk in cities and by homeless people and we don’t attempt to empathize with why they may have gotten there. AM talked about having been homeless. That’s something I’ve never lived. Too many people think if someone’s poor, it’s their own damned fault and a punishment. I really hate the Calvinist mentality we have when it comes ot the less well off.

In my limited experience, many homeless (other than the addicted folks) get there by being mildly mentally ill. I base this on a couple homeless people I’ve chatted with over the years. One guy in particular-he’s just not quite on the same page as most people. In many ways probably someone who could live comfortably and safely (for him-I can’t see where he’s a danger to anyone else) in some kind of group situation. But I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t do it, because he sees himself as an individual-there’s no one just like him so he’s not part of any group and their rules. He’s an older guy now, and really lonely. I talk to him now and then, but I no longer try to convince him to work with social services or anything. He really doesn’t listen-he just wants to talk and now and then when I have a good chunk of time to listen to him talk about what’s wrong with the world, I do.

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calochortus  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:23:52am

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

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If Trump can’t prevent one casino bankruptcy…

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:25:27am

Got a retweet from Trump’s “Glass Ceiling Breaking Girl Construction Engineer” who “proves Trump is so great with the womens! So great with the womens!”
She knows what Donald is really like.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:26:05am

Hahahahahahaha!

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:26:41am

Already cited above - Huma and Weiner are separating.

Good. He deserves to be kicked to the curb for his dumbassery. She deserves so much better than him.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:30:28am

re: #354 lawhawk

Already cited above - Huma and Weiner are separating.

Good. He deserves to be kicked to the curb for his dumbassery. She deserves so much better than him.

She really does.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:30:53am

re: #349 Jenner7

Just in: Statement from Huma Abedin announcing separation from Anthony Weiner pic.twitter.com
— Monica Alba (@albamonica) August 29, 2016

He’s an ungrateful little asshole. She gave him chance after chance after chance.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:31:33am

re: #354 lawhawk

She deserves so much better than him.

If I were single…..

/// (<—— not really)

:)

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Stanley Sea  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:32:18am

re: #353 Jenner7

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Hahahahahahaha!

All those poor construction workers to whom he promised jobs. Conned again.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:33:46am

re: #357 Dr. Matt

In what universe would she only be one league above you?

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:35:26am
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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:35:37am

Hillary, get out there and do a press conference to explain your outfit.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:36:24am

re: #359 Belafon

In what universe would she only be one league above you?

Mine.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:40:32am
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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:40:33am

Tea Party activist blames autism after pleading guilty to child porn charges

A longtime conservative activist will spend up to two years in prison after he admitted to collecting hundreds of sexually explicit images of children — but defense attorneys blamed his autism and depression.

2 years? Ugh

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:41:53am

Because everything Huma leads back to Hillary:

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:42:00am

re: #359 Belafon

In what universe would she only be one league above you?

It reminds me of something I once read about the Lottery: the odds are so astronomically against winning that you only slightly increase them by actually BUYING a ticket.

Here, the odds of hooking up with her are so astronomically small that they are only slightly improved by her being single.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:42:57am

National Review has a Pauline Kael moment. No not linking to them.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:43:06am

re: #365 lawhawk

Because everything Huma leads back to Hillary:

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Drudge. Always proving that you can still be a pathetic dick with no growth at all.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:44:29am

re: #367 The Vicious Babushka

National Review has a Pauline Kael moment. No not linking to them.

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NRO would find the same thing too if Rubio, Kasich, or Cruz were the nominee too. Trump’s bad but so are those two. Wait I misread that I think.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:44:41am

HAHAHA

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:45:36am
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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:46:04am

re: #365 lawhawk

Because everything Huma leads back to Hillary:

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Anything to distract from the fact that Trump is getting crushed: realclearpolitics.com

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:46:32am

re: #370 The Vicious Babushka

HAHAHA

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Oh whine some much Nationalist Review about how it’s the media that makes your movement look bad. I think you do it all yourself when you have people like Kevin on staff that want to hang women who get abortions or your asshole founder who was a Jim Crow and Apartheid apologist but hey he spoke well so that made Buckley being a bigoted fucker okay.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:47:23am

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:48:50am

re: #365 lawhawk

Because everything Huma leads back to Hillary:

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What does the headline say? I can’t see the picture.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:48:57am

Ha! John Cole has changed his Twitter name to “Carlos Dangler”.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:49:03am

When did Gandhi or Mandela make illegal contributions to conservative candidates?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:49:03am

re: #374 The Vicious Babushka

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Delusion isn’t healthy Dinesh. I mean I’ve written some stories but I don’t fancy myself Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:50:15am

re: #377 Barefoot Grin

When did Gandhi or Mandela make illegal contributions to conservative candidates?

Or when was our government like Apartheid South Africa or British ruled India. Dinesh is a sad, delusional man. He wants to be the right’s Michael Moore so bad but Moore at least has talent as a film maker.

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wrenchwench  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:50:47am

re: #374 The Vicious Babushka

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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[ I am in the Gandhi-Mandela felon tradition]

An ego so big, the bars can be miles apart while he finishes his 27 years, like Mandela did.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:52:44am

Hillary’s mental health plan

hillaryclinton.com

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:54:52am

Remember when conservatives used to tell us that they were the tough ones and we liberals were the whiny ones? Yeah about that. You got Dinesh who fancies himself a modern day Mandela or Gandhi and unaware of the irony that he belongs to a movement that saw them both as criminals and supported their oppressors. You got NR despite being in publication since my parents were children still whines about the media and how it treats conservatives and conservative candidates even though NRO has done its part to make conservatives appear bigoted to people by well being bigoted. So yeah who’s actually the whiner? The guy upset about injustices in society or the entitled brat writing from NRO about how it’s not fair how conservatives are portrayed even as he writes for a publication that has in the administration of Barack Obama employed white nationalists.

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nines09  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:55:09am

Somewhere today someone will do a report like this; “Hillary Clinton hasn’t answered any questions about her suspected health issues yet. It seems that she is dodging the issue. And in other news, Donald Trump supporters held a gala Taco Bowl celebration showing his support among the Latino population is growing. Back to you, Biff.”

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:56:31am

re: #381 Jenner7

Hillary’s mental health plan

hillaryclinton.com

Too bad this stuff will be ignored by both left and right for various reasons. I said it in the primaries but I liked Clinton more than I did Sanders because I felt she had a truly more inclusive agenda and this health care agenda just re-enforces my view of her as someone who has her eyes on the entire ballfield.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 8:58:56am

re: #377 Barefoot Grin

When did Gandhi or Mandela make illegal contributions to conservative candidates?

When did Gandhi and Mandela commit crimes to benefit rich white people?

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wrenchwench  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:00:08am

re: #384 HappyWarrior

re-enforces my view of her as someone who has her eyes on the entire ballfield.

There’s a lot packed into that image.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:01:54am

re: #386 wrenchwench

There’s a lot packed into that image.

Yes, I was very impressed with how detailed and comprehensive it is.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:03:26am

The part that stood out to me was the part about jobs. Individuals like myself on the Autistic spectrum struggle finding work or are often underemployed. So it’s nice to see a candidate aware of that and addressing it.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:04:30am

ARE.YOU. FUCKING. SERIOUS?

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:05:39am

re: #389 Jenner7

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ARE.YOU. FUCKING.SERIOUS?

What does the picture say?

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:11:10am

Instagram

Meet our new anchor team, Boomer and Michael Phelps! #TODAYShow (photo via @boomerrphelps) #MiniRoom

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:12:26am

re: #390 Belafon

The day after these revelations, Weiner isn’t just facing questions about his political career. He’s facing questions about his parenting skills. And for the third time, his questionable decisions are ensnaring his wife, one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides, by raising questions about her decision to leave their son alone with her husband while she’s on the campaign trail.

washingtonpost.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:13:43am
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HappyWarrior  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:15:54am

re: #393 The Vicious Babushka

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Always a pathetic dick. No, Donald, it’s not an example of bad judgment. Meanwhile you continue to employ racist pig Bannon.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:16:43am

And right on cue, Li’l Whiplash with a burning take

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b.d.  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:21:51am

re: #395 The Vicious Babushka

And right on cue, Li’l Whiplash with a burning take

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How did Donald Trump’s first few marriages work out?

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:23:44am

re: #392 Jenner7

I’d love to figure out a way to turn that paragraph into an ad about double standards.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:26:04am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

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Nyet  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:33:00am

re: #393 The Vicious Babushka

Interesting how he went not for the low-hanging Muslim fruit, but chose to attack the Jewish guy instead.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:43:58am

We should all view Weiner’s actions as an opening to talk about men who can seem to stay faithful to their wife.

Or their second wife.

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freetoken  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:44:58am

re: #383 nines09

Waiting for the day some reporter states that Hillary Clinton has yet to deny that she has stopped beating her grandchild.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:45:57am

re: #392 Jenner7

And for the third time, his questionable decisions are ensnaring his wife, one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides, by raising questions about her decision to leave their son alone with her husband while she’s on the campaign trail.

I am flipping over all the desks.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:46:38am
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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:47:33am

re: #395 The Vicious Babushka

BREAKING: Marriage officiated by Bill Clinton ends poorly.
— Ben Shapiro

BREAKING: You can take the Ben Shapiro out of the Breitbart, but you can’t take the Breitbart out of the Ben Shapiro.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:50:17am

re: #374 The Vicious Babushka

@micahsgrrl @freshfish60 I am in the Gandhi-Mandela felon tradition
— Dinesh D’Souza

Twitter has made some really terrible people become even more terrible.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:50:22am
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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:50:37am

Apparently TGI Friday’s is desperately attempting to remake their image.

Before:

After:

Hopefully they started with the menu.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:51:49am
The [NY]Post did not identify the woman but described her as a “self-avowed supporter of Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association who’s used Twitter to bash both President Obama and Clinton.”

Mr. Weiner, asked by The Post for comment, “admitted he and the woman ‘have been friends for some time,’ ” according to the article.

Mr. Weiner could not immediately be reached for comment on Monday morning.

nytimes.com

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:54:36am

re: #408 Dr. Matt

Apparently TGI Friday’s is desperately attempting to remake their image.

Before:

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Hopefully they started with the menu.

The TGI Friday’s in my town closed after being opened for three years. What I’ve really noticed about most Friday’s in the DFW area is that their service sucks. The waiters take a really long time to get around to you.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:54:58am

re: #353 Jenner7

Trump may be shifting towards building more of a “virtual wall” on the border, reports @halliejackson
— Ari Melber MSNBC

So, like an invisible series of electric rays?

///

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:55:53am

re: #408 Dr. Matt

Apparently TGI Friday’s is desperately attempting to remake their image.

Before:

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Hopefully they started with the menu.

Needs more flair.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:58:28am

re: #327 Jenner7

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Guliani is turning into Trump. Or rather Guliani has always been kind of like Trump.

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:58:39am

re: #408 Dr. Matt

Apparently TGI Friday’s is desperately attempting to remake their image.

Before:

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Hopefully they started with the menu.

Huh. The look was the least of their problems - the menu was worse than usual for a chain restaurant so hopefully they did do something about that. I used to have to hit far too many of that kind of restaurant when I was driving truck and that was my least favorite. Applebee’s, despite it’s boring nature, I found preferable because they at least had a decent burger and that boring sameness meant I knew I’d get it at the end of a too long day.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 9:59:48am

re: #404 Belafon

A comment there:

To be fair, Hillary’s hair stylist’s brother-in-law’s neighbor once jaywalked. How are they going to explain that one away?

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:00:10am

*facepalm*

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nines09  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:01:09am

re: #408 Dr. Matt

One more of the absolute crapshoot restaurants. TGIF or as I like to say, “WTFITS?”

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:01:22am

re: #414 William Lewis

Huh. The look was the least of their problems - the menu was worse than usual for a chain restaurant so hopefully they did do something about that. I used to have to hit far too many of that kind of restaurant when I was driving truck and that was my least favorite. Applebee’s, despite it’s boring nature, I found preferable because they at least had a decent burger and that boring sameness meant I knew I’d get it at the end of a too long day.

And that’s why a lot of those places are popular: when you walk in, you know what you’re getting. Most people don’t want exciting, they want familiar.

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Interesting Times  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:02:48am

re: #404 Belafon

I love the title: Is the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman really this stupid, or just pretending?

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:03:13am

re: #408 Dr. Matt

Apparently TGI Friday’s is desperately attempting to remake their image.

Before:

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Hopefully they started with the menu.

Not a fan anyway, but the new look reminds of the “restaurant” in the retirement community so many of my parents’ friends live in. New catch phrase: “every day is Friday!”

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freetoken  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:03:19am

re: #414 William Lewis

Many years ago I used to go to TGIF because some friends would always go there. Never left much of a positive impression on me, but many of those kinds of franchises are pretty lame when it comes to food and ambience.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:03:20am
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FormerDirtDart  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:03:26am

WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And, in all seriousness…WOW

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:04:23am

re: #420 Barefoot Grin

Not a fan anyway, but the new look reminds of the “restaurant” in the retirement community so many of my parents’ friends live in. New catch phrase: “every day is Friday!”

Yeah the “after” is pretty dreadful.

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freetoken  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:04:57am

re: #424 Sir John Barron

It does look like a cafeteria in a retirement facility.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:05:18am

re: #425 freetoken

It does look like a cafeteria in a retirement facility.

for blind people.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:06:04am

re: #425 freetoken

It does look like a cafeteria in a retirement facility.

It’s like someone in management went to a hospital and said, Yeah this is the kind of look we need to emulate.

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Interesting Times  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:07:34am

re: #422 Jenner7

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One thing I’m noticing with a lot of polls (esp. national ones) is that trump never seems to go above 41% - it’s Hillary’s number that fluctuates widely (though always remaining above his). Besides the Johnson/Stein effect, I wonder if this can be explained by people who’d never vote from trump but can’t quite bring themselves to support HRC. If so, I wonder if the “bandwagon effect” as we get closer to the election might bring them on board (esp. if they consider the alternative)

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:08:11am

re: #420 Barefoot Grin

Not a fan anyway, but the new look reminds of the “restaurant” in the retirement community so many of my parents’ friends live in. New catch phrase: “every day is Friday!”

I thought it looked like a “restaurant” in a Holiday Inn Express where they serve microwave eggs and little boxes of cereal.

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nines09  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:08:31am

re: #427 Sir John Barron

They could run a audio loop from a real hospital, and have alcohol sprayed intermittently for the full on experience. “Fridays! We all end up here!”

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:09:37am
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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:09:39am

re: #429 Dr. Matt

I thought it looked like a “restaurant” in a Holiday Inn Express where they serve microwave eggs and little boxes of cereal.

As long as they have that sausage gravy and biscuits, I’m good.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:10:52am

Oh yeah. I’m calling it now, someone write this down…
Alex Jones: HAARP
re: #423 FormerDirtDart

WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And, in all seriousness…WOW

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:11:08am

re: #418 Belafon

And that’s why a lot of those places are popular: when you walk in, you know what you’re getting. Most people don’t want exciting, they want familiar.

Yep. I became much more understanding of that kind of place when I’d sit down at one after 10 hours on the interstate dodging idiots in autos and other trucks (especially if I had to go through Chicago or St. Louis).

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:13:08am

re: #432 Barefoot Grin

As long as they have that sausage gravy and biscuits, I’m good.

Love-Hate relationship for me: I love sausage gravy and biscuits but my lower GI hates them.

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:14:13am

re: #432 Barefoot Grin

As long as they have that sausage gravy and biscuits, I’m good.

We do gravy & biscuits (I bake them every morning along with muffins, strudel & sometimes herbed american fry type potatoes), eggs, meat & waffles. It is one of the chain’s (AmericInn) selling points and we do it pretty good I think.

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wrenchwench  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:19:32am

re: #411 Sir John Barron

re: #353 Jenner7

Trump may be shifting towards building more of a “virtual wall” on the border, reports @halliejackson
— Ari Melber MSNBC

So, like an invisible series of electric rays?

///

Tried that. Didn’t work. Cost a lot of money.

Project 28

[…]

In September 2006, Boeing won a contractor competition and was awarded a three-year, $67 million contract by the U.S. government to build and operate Project 28.[3] The initial construction phase had an estimated cost of $20 million.[4] Project 28 is the pilot for SBInet, which has a total estimated cost of two to eight billion dollars. If Project 28 is successful, hundreds of towers (an estimate in May 2007 was 850 towers)[5] could be placed on the 6,000 miles (9,700 km) of the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada

[…]

In February 2008, U.S. Representative Chris Carney, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee’s Management, Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee, said the system “works about 30 percent of the time”. During a visit in early January 2008 to El Paso, Carney said that he saw an incident where two illegal immigrants crossed in front of a project camera. Carney said that a technician tried to electronically reposition the camera to track them, but the picture was out of focus, the camera moved too slowly, and the illegal immigrants got away.

[…]

Cancelled:

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday canceled a project to build a technology-based “virtual fence” across the Southwest border, saying that the effort — on which $1 billion has already been spent — was ineffective and too costly.

Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, said she had decided to end the five-year-old project, known as SBI-Net, because it “does not meet current standards for viability and cost effectiveness.” In a statement, Ms. Napolitano said border agents would instead use less expensive technology that is already part of their surveillance equipment, tailoring it to the specific terrain where they will be scouting for illegal border crossers and drug traffickers.

Ms. Napolitano’s decision brought a long-expected close to a project carried out by the Boeing Corporation under a contract first signed in 2005 under President George W. Bush, which had been plagued by delays and cost overruns. Originally estimated to cost more than $7 billion to cover the 2,000-mile length of the border, it was the subject of more than a dozen scathing reports by the Government Accountability Office.

[…]

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:20:25am

re: #364 Dr. Matt

Personal Responsibility!!1!!

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calochortus  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:20:55am

re: #427 Sir John Barron

It’s like someone in management went to a hospital and said, Yeah this is the kind of look we need to emulate.

I thought it looked more like the study area in a library. You know, where no food or beverages are allowed.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:21:22am
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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:21:39am

re: #437 wrenchwench

Was that the system that used the tethered blimps with side scanning radar?

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wrenchwench  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:23:23am

re: #441 William Lewis

Was that the system that used the tethered blimps with side scanning radar?

I was looking for that, but found this alternate fiasco.

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freetoken  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:23:39am

DARVO award winning headline of the day, courtesy of The Federalist:

Hillary Clinton Needs To Stop Promoting The Alt-Right

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Stanley Sea  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:24:07am

re: #431 lawhawk

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Reading the New Yorker article now.

I’ve read Liz Smith for decades.

She’s now 93.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:24:49am

re: #436 William Lewis

We do gravy & biscuits (I bake them every morning along with muffins, strudel & sometimes herbed american fry type potatoes), eggs, meat & waffles. It is one of the chain’s (AmericInn) selling points and we do it pretty good I think.

I love that stuff. I just an a not-so-favorable blood work done, though. Strudel, too—oh, my.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:24:56am

re: #427 Sir John Barron

It’s like someone in management went to a hospital and said, Yeah this is the kind of look we need to emulate.

OTOH, here the Ballard Hospital’s cafeteria got such a good reputation that they opened it up to the outside and turned it into a restaurant.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:25:14am

re: #443 freetoken

DARVO award winning headline of the day, courtesy of The Federalist:

Hillary Clinton Needs To Stop Promoting The Alt-Right

If not talking about them would make them go away they wouldn’t exist in the first place.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:26:06am

re: #447 Belafon

If not talking about them would make them go away they wouldn’t exist in the first place.

Teenagers would never have sex unless we taught them about it in sex ed.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:26:33am

re: #447 Belafon

If not talking about them would make them go away they wouldn’t exist in the first place.

So, not only will racism cease to exist if we stop talking about it, but also the racists themselves will disappear in a puff of logic.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:27:51am

re: #449 A wild WITHAK appeared!

So, not only will racism cease to exist if we stop talking about it, but also the racists themselves will disappear in a puff of logic.

And there would be no police brutality except for BLM propaganda.

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lizardofid  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:28:29am

re: #408 Dr. Matt

Apparently TGI Friday’s is desperately attempting to remake their image.

Before:

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Hopefully they started with the menu.

This was my earliest memory of that concept of joint. And the memories are great!

Chilis back in the day
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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:29:00am

re: #443 freetoken

DARVO award winning headline of the day, courtesy of The Federalist:

Hillary Clinton Needs To Stop Promoting The Alt-Right

Hillary needs to stop pointing out our unsavory elements.

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jaunte  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:30:00am

re: #451 lizardofid

I remember that one.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:33:44am

The TGIFriday’s before picture made me think of Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour. Apparently they’re down to four in California and one in Hawaii. Sad!

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lizardofid  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:34:50am

re: #453 jaunte

I remember that one.

Prices were great too!

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:35:37am
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b.d.  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:35:46am

re: #433 FormerDirtDart

Oh yeah. I’m calling it now, someone write this down…
Alex Jones: HAARP

For once brief moment all of those reindeer were Blitzen.

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freetoken  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:35:58am

Stupidity grows:

More parents believe vaccines are ‘unnecessary,’ while a mumps outbreak grows

The contrast between parents’ attitudes about vaccines today and a decade ago is striking. A survey published Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that more and more moms and dads are refusing the shots for their children.

[…]

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freetoken  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:38:40am
In 2006, the No. 1 reason parents were refusing vaccines was because of concerns about the ingredient thimerosal causing autism. In 2006, 74 said it was about autism. In 2013, that number had declined to 64 percent.

Now more parents are refusing the vaccine on the grounds that they are “unnecessary” — 73.1 percent in 2013 versus 63.4 percent in 2006.

I think I’m about to give up hope for our civilization.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:40:19am

it starts when you’re always afraid
Donald Trump Staggeringly Wrong About Another Thing (Crime). Bet You’re As Shocked As We Were!

These cutesy ‘Abbey Road’ recreations are getting out of hand
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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:40:30am

re: #455 lizardofid

Prices were great too!

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Just don’t forget what your paycheck looked like then too… O_o

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BeachDem  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:41:04am

Total eclipse of the sanity—derp convergence.

Andrea Mitchell (ugh) asks Ann Coulter (double ugh) for her thoughts about Huma and life after Anthony (like Coulter would have some tremendous insight—ugh) and actually says:

But obviously, the news that has just broken about Huma Abedin — I don’t know if you have a comment.”

…It’s hard to figure out what happens in anyone’s personal lives,” Mitchell opined. “But it obviously has political impact, which is why we are talking about it today.”

No, Mrs. Greenspan, you have it backwards—the only reason it will have political impact is because you decided to run your vile mouth about it today.
rawstory.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:41:41am

re: #458 freetoken

Stupidity grows:

More parents believe vaccines are ‘unnecessary,’ while a mumps outbreak grows

It is the convergence of anti-Big Pharma, anti Western Medicine moonbats and anti-government programs, anti-science wingnuts.

Derpidity is starting to reach toxic levels.

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freetoken  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:42:44am

re: #463 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is the convergence of anti-Big Pharma, anti Wesetrn Medicine moonbats and anti-government programs, anti-science wingnuts.

Derpidity is starting to reach toxic levels.

I’ve been sad to see that the UC Youtube channel has been loading up on Chopra crap. I think it all comes from UCSF, though I am not sure.

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freetoken  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:44:00am

SF Gate also just ran a big article by Chopra that I think is indicative of how our society is just running from reality.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:44:58am

re: #465 freetoken

SF Gate also just ran a bit article by Chopra that I think is indicative of how our society is just running from reality.

Because we are taught that we are not only entitled to our own personal opinions, we are entitled to our own personal reality

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:47:32am

re: #462 BeachDem

Andrea Mitchell (ugh) asks Ann Coulter (double ugh)

Dear cable news-people: Why do you book Ann Coulter? Why? What is gained by this?

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:48:41am

re: #458 freetoken

re: #462 BeachDem

I see these two, seemingly unrelated developments, as being of one thread.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:48:44am

re: #467 Sir John Barron

Dear cable news-people: Why do you book Ann Coulter? Why? What is gained by this?

she has a name that people recognize and associate with political commentary.

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freetoken  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:49:39am

re: #466 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So, the University of California is now pushing this stuff on their Youtube channel - a full on advert for Chopra:

Julie learns about the Reversal of Aging - Chopra Centered No. 9

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:49:50am

So he’s saying Donald has Alzheimers?

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Skip Intro  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:50:27am

re: #467 Sir John Barron

Dear cable news-people: Why do you book Ann Coulter? Why? What is gained by this?

She has a book to sell and they have advertising to sell. It’s how people without a shred of decency make a living.

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lizardofid  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:51:06am

re: #461 William Lewis

Just don’t forget what your paycheck looked like then too… O_o

True!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:53:10am

re: #471 The Vicious Babushka

So he’s saying Donald has Alzheimers?

Brexit leader Nigel Farage calls Donald Trump ‘the new Ronald Reagan’

He means the fuzzy, rose-colored-memories-of-Morning-in-America Reagan, not the grew-government-and-sold-arms-to-Iran-to-fund-Contras Reagan.

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Skip Intro  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:56:34am
One of our two major political parties has nominated a megalomaniacal know-nothing for the highest office in the land. He is demonstrably racist, demonstrably unfit for the office, and very nearly demonstrably cuckoo bananas. That is the only story anybody should be covering, and there is no Other Side to it. Both Sides do not nominate Donald Trumps. Elite American political journalism is either unwilling or unable to accept the obvious truth of this.

If The Rules are preventing them from doing so, then The Rules are inadequate to the threat. Maybe we all should go to the beach.

esquire.com

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:57:50am

The librul MSM for ya!!!

Andrea Mitchell pushes Ann Coulter to talk about Huma Abedin’s ‘personal life’ after separation

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Monday urged controversial columnist Ann Coulter to discuss the “personal lives” of Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin.

Just minutes after the news broke that Abedin was separating from Weiner over his latest sexting scandal, Mitchell asked Coulter for a reaction on her MSNBC program.

“Congratulations on your new book, Ann,” Mitchell began. “First, we wanted to talk to you about immigration your take on where [Trump] is going with that. But obviously, the news that has just broken about Huma Abedin — I don’t know if you have a comment.”

“No,” Coulter stuttered, sounding taken aback by the question. “Just that I’m surprised that it took so long.”

“It’s hard to figure out what happens in anyone’s personal lives,” Mitchell opined. “But it obviously has political impact, which is why we are talking about it today.”

If Ann wasn’t pimping her latest written rantings, she would be all over this “news”.

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Single-handed sailor  Aug 29, 2016 • 10:59:51am
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:00:20am
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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:00:24am

re: #475 Skip Intro

One of our two major political parties has nominated a megalomaniacal know-nothing for the highest office in the land. He is demonstrably racist, demonstrably unfit for the office, and very nearly demonstrably cuckoo bananas. That is the only story anybody should be covering, and there is no Other Side to it. Both Sides do not nominate Donald Trumps. Elite American political journalism is either unwilling or unable to accept the obvious truth of this.

Not sure I agree with his qualification of Trump being demonstrably cuckoo bananas.

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Snarknado!  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:02:28am

re: #461 William Lewis

Just don’t forget what your paycheck looked like then too… O_o

True… but I could survive on minimum wage then. Minimally, but I could even eat at places like that once in a while.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:02:50am

re: #476 Dr. Matt

“Congratulations on your new book, Ann,” Mitchell began.

Some day we will look back and wonder in amazement how this nutty country was ever able to elect someone as sane and visionary as Barack Obama.

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Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:03:06am
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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:03:46am

re: #476 Dr. Matt

The librul MSM for ya!!!

Andrea Mitchell pushes Ann Coulter to talk about Huma Abedin’s ‘personal life’ after separation

If Ann wasn’t pimping her latest written rantings, she would be all over this “news”.

So Ann Coulter has some secret knowledge of Mitchell or MSNBC, right? I can’t imagine a sane political or media person booking her.

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Kragar  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:05:17am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:05:36am

re: #449 A wild WITHAK appeared!

As opposed to “radical Islamic terrorists” who will only disappear if mentioned in every sentence Hillary Clinton and President Obama say.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:06:59am

Obviously a mentally disturbed individual, lone wolf. A troubled man, who has led a difficult life….
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Joseph Garguilo
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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:07:31am

re: #486 FormerDirtDart

Obviously a mentally disturbed individual, lone wolf. A troubled man, who has led a difficult life….
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Also, too, probably a false flag.

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Nyet  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:08:25am

re: #471 The Vicious Babushka

Well, Donnie is a showman con, like Ronnie.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:09:56am

re: #488 Nyet

Well, Donnie is a showman con, like Ronnie.

Ronnie at least held elective office before running for POTUS.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:13:19am

re: #423 FormerDirtDart

WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And, in all seriousness…WOW

300 Reindeer killed in Norway! Just what I have been saying. This is why Reindeer WILL VOTE TRUMP! @realDonaldTrump August 29, 2016

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:13:40am

re: #489 The Vicious Babushka

Ronnie at least held elective office before running for POTUS.

Reagan could actually speak pretty well, too.

Trump speaks incoherently in words of one-syllable.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:20:38am

“Performance Art”

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sagehen  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:21:41am

re: #469 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

she has a name that people recognize and associate with political commentary.

Also, she’s blond and has long legs.

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austin_blue  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:22:17am

re: #448 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Teenagers would never have sex unless we taught them about it in sex ed.

And umbrellas cause thunderstorms.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:22:36am

sniff

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:23:14am

re: #494 austin_blue

And umbrellas cause thunderstorms.

And gun-free zones cause mass shootings.

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Jebediah, RBG  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:23:52am

re: #374 The Vicious Babushka

Holy shit, even for him that’s offensive.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:29:44am

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:31:58am

re: #492 The Vicious Babushka

“Performance Art”

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I’d want a refund on my ticket.

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Nyet  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:32:01am

re: #495 Stanley Sea

Mister Gristle
Billy Haisley
8/29/16 1:17pm
Nobody expects the Spanish friend tradition.
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WuTangFlan
Mister Gristle
8/29/16 1:23pm
Pack it up guys, we’re done here.
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desertbruinz
Mister Gristle
8/29/16 1:23pm
Their chief weapon is compassion… and a well-timed cross into the box. Their TWO chief weapons…

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:32:20am

re: #471 The Vicious Babushka

So he’s saying Donald has Alzheimers?

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This weekend on FB, one wingnut, after attacking HRC for “killing 4 Americans in Benghazi” said that Reagan was the best President of his lifetime.

I replied, “You mean the Ronald Reagan who killed TWO HUNDRED FORTY ONE Marines in Beirut?”

He went away after that.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:32:46am

re: #478 The Vicious Babushka

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They started posting SANE articles?

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:33:40am

re: #499 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’d want a refund on my ticket.

Somebody pulled the emergency brake and they were stuck in the middle of the Manhattan Bridge for an hour with no AC, a car full of worms & crickets & one peeing crazy person.

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wrenchwench  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:33:46am

Rebecca Burgess sees a problem with the way many people perceive the autism spectrum. Her resolution? The comic below. The Tumblr user debuted “Understanding the Spectrum” (below), which gets rid of the linear autism spectrum image (i.e. you’re either “not autistic, “very autistic” or somewhere in between) and replaces it with a round spectrum full of several traits or ways the brain processes information.

“I want people to understand that autistic people don’t all fit a stereotype, and show people the consequences of stereotyping,” Burgess, from the U.K., told The Mighty in an email. “[Stereotyping leads to] underestimating the skills of autistic people or not believing someone [who is on the spectrum].”

[…]

Full comic at the link. Also on video at the link.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:36:01am

Ninth grader says she’ll fail high school if she has transgender classmates

I’m willing to lay down a C-note that her parents have a Trump sign on their front lawn and/or bumper sticker on their vehicle.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:36:49am

re: #503 The Vicious Babushka

Somebody pulled the emergency brake and they were stuck in the middle of the Manhattan Bridge for an hour with no AC, a car full of worms & crickets & one peeing crazy person.

Yeah, I fell for it when I posted the story—between that and Trump’s campaign and airport panics, maybe the whole world now is nothing but “performance art”.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:37:08am

re: #504 wrenchwench

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Full comic at the link. Also on video at the link.

I can’t do trivial chit chat (like at social events where a bunch of random people are just hanging around)

It really used to bother me when I was younger that I lacked this particular social skill but now IDGAF.

Does that put me on the spectrum?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:37:38am

re: #505 Dr. Matt

Ninth grader says she’ll fail high school if she has transgender classmates

I’m willing to lay down a C-note that her parents have a Trump sign on their front lawn and/or bumper sticker on their vehicle.

“The trans girl ate my homework!”

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Kragar  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:39:42am

re: #505 Dr. Matt

“I was unable to complete the assignment because I was worried about which bathroom another student in a different class might be using.”

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:41:44am

re: #504 wrenchwench

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Full comic at the link. Also on video at the link.

Interesting.

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wrenchwench  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:42:05am

re: #507 The Vicious Babushka

I can’t do trivial chit chat (like at social events where a bunch of random people are just hanging around)

It really used to bother me when I was younger that I lacked this particular social skill but now IDGAF.

Does that put me on the spectrum?

I don’t know.

I spoke with a guy I used to work for who is in his 60s. He was recently diagnosed as ADHD. He said it explained a lot of what used to be mysteries in his life. My advisor in college was in his 60s when he was diagnosed as dyslexic. Made some of his past more clear to him.

We’re always learning more about ourselves, if we’re the self-aware type.

512
lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:43:59am

re: #509 Kragar

“I was unable to complete the assignment because I was worried about which bathroom a black student in a different class might be using.”

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Change transgender to black or Muslim or Jew and see how quickly the logic falls apart.

513
Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:44:00am

Apple’s iPhone 7 event is happening on September 7th

Apple will hold its next big event on September 7th, when it’s expected to unveil new iPhones and updated Apple Watches. Invitations to the event were sent out this morning, with Apple simply saying “See you on the 7th.”

[…]

This new generation is believed to be extremely similar to last year’s model, with only minor visual differences — such as fewer antenna lines — and one big drawback: the removal of its headphone jack. On the plus side, the new models are expected to be more water resistant, with the larger phone reported to have a dual camera system for taking better photos. Apple may finally do away with the 16GB entry model and move up to a 32GB model as well.

514
The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:45:02am
515
Stanley Sea  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:45:58am
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austin_blue  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:45:59am

re: #510 William Lewis

Interesting.

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My deepest sympathies to you and your family. I’ve known kids who developed that, and it’s brutal to see. Can’t imagine being in the middle of it.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:46:48am

re: #513 Dr. Matt

Apple’s iPhone 7 event is happening on September 7th

I went through two Bluetooth headsets in a month. Luckily I was able to get refunds on both. I don’t think the lack of a headphone jack is going to go over very well.

518
Ziggy_TARDIS  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:46:56am

re: #500 Nyet

Yep, shut down that comment thread, nothing better is coming out of it.

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wrenchwench  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:47:12am

re: #510 William Lewis

Interesting.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:48:01am

re: #507 The Vicious Babushka

I can’t do trivial chit chat (like at social events where a bunch of random people are just hanging around)

It really used to bother me when I was younger that I lacked this particular social skill but now IDGAF.

Does that put me on the spectrum?

I sometimes think that being here is a pretty damned good indicator!

And I’m not just making a joke, because I find it FAR easier to interact with folks online than in person. That may just be introversion, of course, not to do with AS.

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Kragar  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:49:54am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:50:22am

re: #521 Kragar

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“Vote for Pedro!”

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Danack  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:50:25am

re: #513 Dr. Matt

Apple’s iPhone 7 event is happening on September 7th

New macbook pros plx.

I am still using a 2011 mbp - it still works fine, but just getting a bit long in the tooth. I want to get a new 15” one, but there’s no way I’m going to spend that kind of money when a new version is just about to come out.

Also, there’s a good chance to pick up either a second hand existing model at a much lower price, if other people are upgrading.

re: #517 Belafon

I went through two Bluetooth headsets in a month. Luckily I was able to get refunds on both. I don’t think the lack of a headphone jack is going to go over very well.

I doubt it’s going to be a lack of a jack entirely - it just won’t be a 3.5mm jack.

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Nyet  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:50:53am

re: #513 Dr. Matt

More Money™.

525
Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:51:18am

re: #513 Dr. Matt

Apple’s iPhone 7 event is happening on September 7th

Time for me to go get a 6S.

526
Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:52:09am

re: #517 Belafon

I went through two Bluetooth headsets in a month. Luckily I was able to get refunds on both. I don’t think the lack of a headphone jack is going to go over very well.

Yeah. I’m a bit disappointed about that. I still have a 5S and have been waiting for the 7 for the last 6 months because my 5S is starting show its “age”. I may just end up getting the 6 since I want the headphone jack.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:53:14am

re: #523 Danack

I doubt it’s going to be a lack of a jack entirely - it just won’t be a 3.5mm jack.

The lightning port will be dual use for charging or headphones.

528
The Vicious Babushka  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:53:19am

Grrrrrr

I want to be able to listen to Amazon Prime streaming music in the car but my phone (Samsung Galaxy SIII) is “too old” for the version of Android Auto that supports it so I can’t SYNC my phone for stream media, just phone calls.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:54:23am

re: #526 Dr. Matt

Yeah. I’m a bit disappointed about that. I still have a 5S and have been waiting for the 7 for the last 6 months because my 5S is starting show its “age”. I may just end up getting the 6 since I want the headphone jack.

Hell, I still have a 3GS, LOL. I don’t currently use it, but I keep it as strictly a backup phone.

530
jaunte  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:54:37am
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:55:03am

re: #523 Danack

New macbook pros plx.

I am still using a 2011 mbp - it still works fine, but just getting a bit long in the tooth. I want to get a new 15” one, but there’s no way I’m going to spend that kind of money when a new version is just about to come out.

Also, there’s a good chance to pick up either a second hand existing model at a much lower price, if other people are upgrading.

I doubt it’s going to be a lack of a jack entirely - it just won’t be a 3.5mm jack.

There will be Lightning headphones, and Bluetooth headphones. The speculation is on which will ship in the box with the phone, or if either will.

Maybe a new generation of MacBooks will lower the price of some used or refurbed ones—macOS Sierra will abandon my old polycarbonate MacBook, so I’m stuck on El Capitan till I can afford a new computer. IOW approximately never.

532
Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:57:13am

re: #529 Dr Lizardo

Hell, I still have a 3GS, LOL. I don’t currently use it, but I keep it as strictly a backup phone.

I recently stumbled across my 3GS in the back of drawer. I charged it up and it worked fine. The best part was seeing the old and forgotten photos and text messages.

533
Jebediah, RBG  Aug 29, 2016 • 11:57:17am

re: #511 wrenchwench

I’m 51, and my wife and I only recently figured out that I’m more than a bit ADD. I really wish I had been diagnosed as a kid, but it helps explain a fair amount of my history and makes me feel less of a loser about some of it.

534
Nojay UK  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:00:26pm

re: #513 Dr. Matt

Apple’s iPhone 7 event is happening on September 7th

They can’t make the phone thinner if they don’t remove the jack socket and it’s marketing death to make it thicker. I blame Steve Jobs.

535
austin_blue  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:00:57pm

Weathermen wises up.

This is a good article:

cnn.com

536
Jebediah, RBG  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:01:06pm

re: #528 The Vicious Babushka

I’ve still got one of those. Haven’t been able to justify upgrading yet, but I think I’ll be there pretty soon.

537
Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:02:57pm

re: #536 Jebediah, RBG

I’ve still got one of those. Haven’t been able to justify upgrading yet, but I think I’ll be there pretty soon.

A Samsung Galaxy III is what I currently use; I like it. So far (knock on wood) it hasn’t given me a lick of problems. One of the best mobile phones I’ve ever had as far as smartphones go. Some of the old Nokia’s were great - they’d last forever. I still have one of those too.

538
Varek Raith  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:04:15pm

The Onion must hate this election cycle…

539
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:04:31pm

re: #504 wrenchwench

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Full comic at the link. Also on video at the link.

I’m pretty much of the opinion anymore that “neurotypical brains” (aka “normals”) are the outliers and definitely not the majority.
I never could stand being in crowds; when making public appearances I always have to throw up beforehand but once I get to the podium/stage I am somehow sealed off from the audience — they are totally no longer there and everything is OK.
Motor skills? I have been a major klutz all of my life — I’m surprised that I haven’t broken more than two bones in these 64 years. OTOH, I do beautiful calligraphy (if I do say so myself) and can also handquilt stitches so tiny and even that people initially mistake it for machine stitching.
Pisses me off when people use autism as an excuse for being an asshole, because being an asshole requires no excuse other than “you’re an asshole”.

/end of rant

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Kragar  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:06:02pm
541
Jebediah, RBG  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:07:48pm

re: #537 Dr Lizardo

Mine works fine, too, especially for how use it - primarily calls and texts, occasional web reading, and I listen to music on it when I am walking into town to pick up a pizza. I might not bother upgrading until the battery stops holding a charge, because upgrading is so not pressing and money is pretty tight these days for us.

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wrenchwench  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:12:50pm

re: #539 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m pretty much of the opinion anymore that “neurotypical brains” (aka “normals”) are the outliers and definitely not the majority.

The 360 degree spectrum will go 3-D. And have two ‘hemispheres’. Then each of us can be mapped on our own. Personal brain scans!

Each brain is different, just as each individual is.

543
Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:13:05pm

re: #534 Nojay UK

They can’t make the phone thinner if they don’t remove the jack socket and it’s marketing death to make it thicker. I blame Steve Jobs.

I actually wish it was thicker! I purposely buy bulkier cases so I can actually get a grip on it.

544
Varek Raith  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:13:10pm

re: #540 Kragar

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Pshaw, that’s for losers!

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Nyet  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:13:28pm

re: #538 Varek Raith

The Onion must hate this election cycle…

Per aspera ad astra.

546
freetoken  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:17:03pm

re: #540 Kragar

More evidence that Drumpfskind is the pro-wrestling candidate:

Former Trump advisor Sam Nunberg agreed, telling the Post that the GOP candidate wants to be the “showstopper at the Roman Colosseum, the main event at WrestleMania” to Clinton’s “professional and wonky” counterpoint.

547
Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:17:22pm

Hubba, hubba. Nice to meet you

Instagram

Monday motivation 😁🍕 photo credit: @gariblair #deepdish

548
FormerDirtDart  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:19:32pm
549
Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:19:58pm

re: #533 Jebediah, RBG

I’m 51, and my wife and I only recently figured out that I’m more than a bit ADD. I really wish I had been diagnosed as a kid, but it helps explain a fair amount of my history and makes me feel less of a loser about some of it.

ADD is a challege at any age. I was diagnosed around age 11. Sometimes I medicate for it and sometimes I don’t. I’d be happy to share some insights with you.

550
FormerDirtDart  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:21:23pm
551
lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:22:06pm

re: #550 FormerDirtDart

No. Just no. Fuck no. I want a do-over for 2015 and 2016.

552
Varek Raith  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:22:21pm

God dammit.

553
Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:22:28pm

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

554
Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:23:27pm

re: #550 FormerDirtDart

2016 be like: “oh no, I’m not done fucking with you yet!”

555
Ziggy_TARDIS  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:23:55pm
do want to point out that France has never really tried Multi-Culturalism.

Their continuing pressure, and the gradual extinction of Breton, Basque, Occitan, and Corsican is evidence of that. They have been trying to burn off any semblance of minorities in France for some time.

It doesn’t help that Académie Française has political power, and seems to have a single minded obsession with obliterating minority languages and heritage.

I’m not entirely sure how none of these groups haven’t sued France in the European Court of Human Rights, because it seems apparent that they are violating the Human Rights of the local minorities.

556
Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:24:05pm

re: #551 lawhawk

No. Just no. Fuck no. I want a do-over for 2015 and 2016.

He was 83.

557
Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:24:16pm

re: #551 lawhawk

No. Just no. Fuck no. I want a do-over for 2015 and 2016.

Concur.

558
lawhawk  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:24:55pm

re: #556 Belafon

Doesn’t make it any easier.

559
Ziggy_TARDIS  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:25:39pm

re: #550 FormerDirtDart

NOOOOO!

560
jaunte  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:27:44pm

The comic actor, who was twice Oscar nominated, for his role in “The Producers” and for co-penning “Young Frankenstein” with Mel Brooks, usually portrayed a neurotic who veered between total hysteria and dewy-eyed tenderness. “My quiet exterior used to be a mask for hysteria,” he told Time magazine in 1970. “After seven years of analysis, it just became a habit.”
variety.com

561
Belafon  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:28:12pm

re: #558 lawhawk

Doesn’t make it any easier.

I agree. 2016 is just really pointing out that we know a whole lot of people through the media, and we’re getting to the point where a lot of them are dying. I just went an looked up the fact that 55 million people die each year. We just didn’t know the names of them before radio, movies, and television.

562
Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:30:25pm

re: #504 wrenchwench

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Full comic at the link. Also on video at the link.

That’s crazy, the example they use describes me in some ways. I can talk peoples ears off but get me in a loud crowded space and I have a hard time talking/maintaining conversations and usually end up having to leave and go outside where it’s quiet just to keep from freaking out.

563
Nyet  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:30:55pm

re: #550 FormerDirtDart

RIP.

564
Kragar  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:32:11pm
565
Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:32:23pm

re: #550 FormerDirtDart

BREAKING: Gene Wilder, star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and Mel Brooks comedies, is dead at 83, his family says.
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) August 29, 2016]

Dear 2016,

Fuck you.

Me

566
William Lewis  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:32:34pm

re: #550 FormerDirtDart

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Alzhemier’s according to wiki. If so, he’s better off now. No one deserves that :(

567
Dr. Matt  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:33:53pm

I didn’t watch the VMAs, but according to Rolling Stone they never paid tribute to Prince or Bowie. That’s pretty fucked up.

568
Jenner7  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:34:02pm
569
FormerDirtDart  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:35:00pm

President since 1991, the FIRST (only) President of Uzbekistan
He suffered a stroke on 26 Aug (Friday)

570
Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:35:12pm

re: #550 FormerDirtDart

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RIP and thanks for some great memories.

571
Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:35:20pm

re: #550 FormerDirtDart

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Hadn’t realized he was in his eighties.

572
Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:35:57pm

re: #561 Belafon

I agree. 2016 is just really pointing out that we know a whole lot of people through the media, and we’re getting to the point where a lot of them are dying. I just went an looked up the fact that 55 million people die each year. We just didn’t know the names of them before radio, movies, and television.

When I was young, everything seemed permanent. I remember being DEVASTATED by Chet Huntley retiring from the Huntley Brinkley report, when I was 12. It had been on as long as I could remember.

I remember being somewhat unmoved by the deaths of celebrities who were already old when I was a kid, even though Mom and Dad were saddened. After all, those people were old, and, to me, had always been old.

To me, this year feels like the year when MY celebrities are dying off, which is of course completely natural as we age, but now it’s hit MY generation. To realize Gene Wilder was 83 is almost more of a shock than his dying, oddly. Having not seen him in anything in years, he was stuck in his early 40s, in my mind.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:36:38pm

re: #550 FormerDirtDart

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Gene and Gilda, back together again.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:36:40pm

re: #540 Kragar

Trump Isn’t Practicing For Upcoming Presidential Debates, Naturally talkingpointsmemo.com via @TPM
— Kragar

Too busy on Twitter.

575
Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:37:32pm

re: #569 FormerDirtDart

President since 1991, the FIRST (only) President of Uzbekistan
He suffered a stroke on 26 Aug (Friday)

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I’d been reading that he was pretty much at death’s door. I wonder if there’s going to be some kind of power struggle or if had the foresight to plan for an orderly transition?

577
Nyet  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:37:50pm

re: #569 FormerDirtDart

On the one hand it’s good when tyrants suffer. Of course the question is, what’s next…

578
Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:38:04pm

re: #575 Dr Lizardo

I’d been reading that he was pretty much at death’s door. I wonder if there’s going to be some kind of power struggle or if had the foresight to plan for an orderly transition?

Maybe Herman Cain has some input on this….
/////////////////////////

579
Sir John Barron  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:38:12pm

So, the media is taking Hillary’s “Trump and the alt-right” speech pretty seriously, right?

////

580
FormerDirtDart  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:39:27pm
581
Jebediah, RBG  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:39:34pm

re: #549 Eclectic Cyborg
Thanks!
How much benefit would you say you get from medicating?
Any significant drawbacks to the meds?

582
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:40:12pm
583
Varek Raith  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:41:14pm

BBL.
Going to cryogenically freeze myself for the remainder of this crappy year.

584
FormerDirtDart  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:41:23pm
585
Jebediah, RBG  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:43:20pm

re: #562 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Part of why I hate going to bars.

586
William Lewis  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:44:11pm

re: #582 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Sigh. I’d say that but I’ve got a certain level of house cleaning that has to be done before I can have my son come from a home visit from his facility. Seems my usual bachelor pad standard isn’t acceptable to the Ex. Got it about half done with the kitchen (bad) & bathroom (worse) left to go.

587
austin_blue  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:44:22pm

re: #569 FormerDirtDart

President since 1991, the FIRST (only) President of Uzbekistan
He suffered a stroke on 26 Aug (Friday)

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Him I won’t miss. Tyrant.

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Nyet  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:44:50pm

re: #587 austin_blue

Him I won’t miss. Tyrant.

Torturer too.

589
dangerman  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:44:52pm

dont waste the energy

no one is gonna do proper tribute to gene wilder with video clips

just stream all his movies end to end

repeat some of them a few times

590
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:48:13pm

re: #586 William Lewis

Sigh. I’d say that but I’ve got a certain level of house cleaning that has to be done before I can have my son come from a home visit from his facility. Seems my usual bachelor pad standard isn’t acceptable to the Ex. Got it about half done with the kitchen (bad) & bathroom (worse) left to go.

bathrooms are always the worst…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 29, 2016 • 12:53:56pm

re: #580 FormerDirtDart

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Had to remind me that Peter Boyle is gone now, too….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2016 • 1:11:44pm

re: #538 Varek Raith

The Onion must hate this election cycle…

I gave up on the Daily Show because they had it too easy. No need to make jokes, just quote someone verbatim and then cut to John Stewart’s reaction.


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