Wednesday Night Jam: Beck, “Wow”

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This excellent new video from Beck serves to introduce a new feature at LGF: if an article contains a YouTube or Vimeo video, and you scroll down past it (for example, to read comments), the video will automatically shrink to a smaller size and jump down to the bottom right of the page, where it will stay anchored and continue playing. So you can now watch videos from the post — like a live stream of a debate or speech — and read/post comments at the same time.

Lyrics:
Giddy up, giddy up
Giddy up, giddy up

Wanna move into a fool’s gold room
With my pulse on the animal jewels
Of the rules that you choose to use to get loose
With the luminous moves
Bored of these limits, let me get, let me get it like

Wow!
It’s like right now
It’s like wow!
It’s like right, right now
It’s like wow!
It’s like right now
It’s like wow!
It’s like right now
Oh wow

It’s my life, your life
Live it once, can’t live it twice
So nice, so nice
Smooth like a tidal wave, take you on a getaway
My friends, your friends
Living every day like it’s just about to end
Now we’re pissin’ in the wind cause it’s so pine fresh
Right now
Yeah I, I wanna get it like

Wow!
It’s like right now
It’s like wow!
It’s like
Giddy up!
Wow!
It’s like right now
Wow!
Oh wow, it’s like right now

It’s your life
Falling like a hot knife
Call your wife; secular times, these times
My demon’s on the cell phone
To your demons, nothing’s even right or wrong
It’s irrelevant, elephant in the room goes boom
Standing on your lawn doin’ jiu jitsu
Girl in a bikini with the Lamborghini shih tzu

It’s your life
You gotta try to get it right
Look around, don’t forget where you came from
It’s just another perfect night
We’re gonna take it around the world
We’re gonna take it around the world
Ride these wild horses
Ride these wild horses
We’re gonna take it around the world

Like
Wow, wow, wow
Like
Giddy up!
Giddy up!
Wow!

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338 comments
1
jaunte  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:41:45pm

Nice feature!

2
teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:42:51pm

Charles is a one man coding wizard. This is legit!

3
danarchy  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:44:02pm

Is there a way to make it go away if you don’t want to watch the video?

4
allegro  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:44:28pm

That is so fucking cool.

5
teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:44:50pm

Now, if one wanted to close out the video in the right hand corner, how would one do that?

6
Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:45:30pm

Sweet-tho a dispatch button would be useful.

7
A wild WITHAK appeared!  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:45:30pm

I love this. (Both the video, and the new feature.)

8
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:46:48pm

There’s no way to get rid of it? It’s intruding into the posts.

9
Charles Johnson  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:53:12pm

It isn’t quite ready yet, but there will be a way to make the video go away.

10
Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:54:05pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Sweet.

11
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:54:33pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

It isn’t quite ready yet, but there will be a way to make the video go away.

Thx—I had the page zoomed to 120%. Going back to 100% got the posts out from behind it.

12
allegro  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:57:53pm

This feature is going to make the debates a blast! Thanks Charles!

13
teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2016 • 8:58:47pm

I mean, with the video window there, it really doesn’t impede all that much on the screen. Very cool. And the theory is sound. We’ll have a video right there to comment on in real time, in re: speeches, debates, etc.

Maybe it doesn’t bother me as much as others because I am a subscriber, which cleans up the website considerably. Seriously y’all, throw Charles some coin for a subscription if you can, the LGF experience is way slicker and *faster*.

14
BeachDem  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:01:03pm

And for the 78billionth time:

CNN panel bursts into laughter as Kayleigh McEnany…
says something else incredibly idiotic (it’s a day ending in y)
rawstory.com

15
danarchy  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:03:13pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

I mean, with the video window there, it really doesn’t impede all that much on the screen. Very cool. And the theory is sound. We’ll have a video right there to comment on in real time, in re: speeches, debates, etc.

Maybe it doesn’t bother me as much as others because I am a subscriber, which cleans up the website considerably. Seriously y’all, throw Charles some coin for a subscription if you can, the LGF experience is way slicker and *faster*.

It is not so bothersome, but it is just right there and far too easy to click on by mistake. Since I occasionally read LGF at work, accidentally starting a video will get a bunch of heads popping up over cubes.

16
retired cynic  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:05:00pm

re: #15 danarchy

It is not so bothersome, but it is just right there and far too easy to click on by mistake. Since I occasionally read LGF at work, accidentally starting a video will get a bunch of heads popping up over cubes.

Keep sound on mute?

17
Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:06:24pm

re: #2 teleskiguy

Charles is a one man coding wizard. This is legit!

Just call him Charles the Grey

18
teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:07:30pm

re: #15 danarchy

It is not so bothersome, but it is just right there and far too easy to click on by mistake. Since I occasionally read LGF at work, accidentally starting a video will get a bunch of heads popping up over cubes.

Meh. Charles is workin’ on it. It’ll be an On/Off thing before you know it. I mean, Charles is good at this shit.

Speaking of which, this is the only website out of many that I frequent that is *constantly* improving. There was a time when you couldn’t even post Instagram photos. Now it’s easy peasy! And on and on.

Thank you, Charles, you fuckin’ dork!

19
Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:08:56pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

Agreed. I love all the new toys.

20
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:10:24pm

John Cole on Ivanka’s implication that no one has ever dealt with child care before:

The serious balls on these fucking people. Hillary Clinton has spent her entire life, as have thousands of others, working on these issues. The fucking Children’s Defense Fund was created in 1973, eight years before this halfwit was born. Hillary was working at the Children’s Defense Fund while in law school before this silver spooned shitheel gasped her first breath.

Put aside the fact that the Trump proposal is a god damned joke, Clinton has been advocating for this shit for decades. Ivanka Trump is the asshole freshman who skips half the fucking semester in her Poly Sci 100 class, and then writes a paper on a policy like she was the first person who ever thought about.

These fucking assholes.

21
retired cynic  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:12:09pm

re: #20 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

John Cole on Ivanka’s implication that no one has ever dealt with child care before:

That summarizes the situation quite well!

22
Teukka  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:13:37pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

It isn’t quite ready yet, but there will be a way to make the video go away.

*Phew*

At least the controls are still working, and it isn’t this song.

Amazing Horse | 10 Hours

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MsJ  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:14:04pm

re: #20 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Ivanka skipped more than half…and scored an
F- to boot. She couldn’t even figure out HOW vote in the primary and we are supposed to take this half-witted bullshit as gospel.

Fuck all the trumps. Every damned last one of them.

24
Teukka  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:15:55pm

re: #23 MsJ

Fuck all the trumps. Every damned last one of them.

There isn’t enough money in the entire universe to even make me consider doing that.

25
Stanley Sea  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:16:00pm

re: #14 BeachDem

And for the 78billionth time:

CNN panel bursts into laughter as Kayleigh McEnany…
says something else incredibly idiotic (it’s a day ending in y)
rawstory.com

Bless her heart.

26
Nyet  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:16:34pm

dailykos.com

27
MsJ  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:16:47pm

re: #24 Teukka

There isn’t enough money in the entire universe to even make me consider doing that.

Sideways with a chain saw?

28
Teukka  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:17:20pm

re: #27 MsJ

Sideways with a chain saw?

While in a duck pit?

Now you’re talking…

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Teukka  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:18:27pm

re: #28 Teukka

While in a duck pit?

Now you’re talking…

Can the chain be dull and rusty?

30
Stanley Sea  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:18:28pm

re: #15 danarchy

It is not so bothersome, but it is just right there and far too easy to click on by mistake. Since I occasionally read LGF at work, accidentally starting a video will get a bunch of heads popping up over cubes.

Charles is hopefully figuring out the reduce window. It will be epic for the debates, but I just typed behind the window & have no idea if I typo’d.

OK, I scrolled up & could see everything. Patience grasshopper lizards.

31
wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:21:26pm

The Chinese video sites have this feature, too. There is usually an X visible to close the extra video window.

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:23:49pm

Hey Charles, just a little nit-pick housekeeping. In our RSS Feed, we should get rid of Gawker (they’re gone) and replace it with Stonekettle Station?

33
klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:24:10pm

re: #31 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Chinese video sites have this feature, too. There is usually an X visible to close the extra video window.

I have an x but it currently does nothing.

That’s okay though. Work in progress and all that.

34
wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:24:34pm

re: #25 Stanley Sea

Bless her heart.

It’s a mute point, she says.

35
jaunte  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:25:06pm

An X appears, as if by magic.

36
wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:25:11pm

re: #33 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I have an x but it currently does nothing.

That’s okay though. Work in progress and all that.

I have no X. I haz a sad.

37
klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:25:31pm

re: #36 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I have no X. I haz a sad.

Refresh and you too can join the useless x club.

38
jaunte  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:25:32pm

re: #36 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Reload, and get an X.

39
jaunte  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:26:22pm

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

40
Dave In Austin  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:26:29pm

X ed out. And the x remains

41
teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:26:35pm

re: #38 jaunte

Reload, and get an X.

Yes. See? That quick! How many keyboards does Charles go through in a year?

42
klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:26:58pm

re: #40 Dave In Austin

X ed out. And the x remains

Haha, refresh again and now the x goes too!

43
BeachDem  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:27:32pm

Just in case anyone was wondering why the comments from the Oz audience were generally idiotic and all over the place (he weights 236, no 267)

Attendance was restricted to staffers, friends and families for the special taping

politico.com

44
jaunte  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:27:39pm

Ooh a working X!

45
klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:27:53pm

re: #42 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Haha, refresh again and now the x goes too!

Also this feature is going to be so useful during the debates.

I’d just resorted to opening the video in another window and simply listening to the sound. I really appreciate the forward progress.

46
wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:28:01pm

Ha! My X works!

Thanks Obama!

/

47
Charles Johnson  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:29:00pm

Yep, you now have a close button on the anchored video.

48
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:30:32pm

And there it went! Danke Sehr!

49
teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:31:00pm

re: #40 Dave In Austin

T’is a twee little X, innit?!?

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Spinal Tap - Gimme Some Money

50
VegasGolfer  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:37:15pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

Yep, you now have a close button on the anchored video.

A swipe to the right on my iPad would be kewl.

51
Dave In Austin  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:37:23pm

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52
Teukka  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:39:48pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

Yep, you now have a close button on the anchored video.

Awww Yissss!

53
darthstar  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:47:06pm

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

54
darthstar  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:48:27pm

Looks like Twitter’s a bit fucked up right now…hopefully it will show later.

55
austin_blue  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:54:37pm

So, Trump is the fattest man to run for President since William Howard Taft (aka The Walrus).

Cholesterol levels released, or any blood work? Nope. Cardiac stress test released? Nope.

Thank you, mainstream media, for reporting the facts. Oh, wait, there are no facts for Trump!

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2016 • 9:59:42pm

re: #55 austin_blue

Oh, wait, there are no facts!

BRING ON THE CRAZY!

57
Apocalypse  Sep 14, 2016 • 10:07:45pm

re: #55 austin_blue

Even McCain released proper records; given it was evident his health wasn’t the best, he still did release them.

Then he chose Palin, then his health didn’t matter as much. He chose her.

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austin_blue  Sep 14, 2016 • 10:13:05pm

re: #55 austin_blue

So, Trump is the fattest man to run for President since William Howard Taft (aka The Walrus).

Cholesterol levels released, or any blood work? Nope. Cardiac stress test released? Nope.

Thank you, mainstream media, for reporting the facts. Oh, wait, there are no facts for Trump!

re: #56 teleskiguy

Well, yeah, that’s the point. His medical information release wasn’t a medical information release.

Hillary’s release, on the other hand, was comprehensive.

Of course, the gaspers are saying that Hillary’s data is fake.

There is just no rectifying the stupid , here.

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2016 • 10:15:03pm

re: #58 austin_blue

Someone get me an ice pack.
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austin_blue  Sep 14, 2016 • 10:16:30pm

re: #59 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

My head hurts.

Wonder why?

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Targetpractice  Sep 14, 2016 • 10:23:37pm

re: #57 Apocalypse

Even McCain released proper records; given it was evident his health wasn’t the best, he still did release them.

Then he chose Palin, then his health didn’t matter as much. He chose her.

Well, as I noted the other day, even when McCain “released” his records, he really didn’t. He just invited a handful of reporters his campaign trusted to sit in a room for 3 hours with 8 years (1,170+ pages) worth of medical records with no cellphones, no internet access, and the documents couldn’t leave the room. So there really was no “release,” just what the various reporters could take down either by hand or on their laptops in 3 hours or less.

62
Trumpia est omnis divisa in duo calathi(Sophist)  Sep 14, 2016 • 10:44:02pm

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 14, 2016 • 10:47:33pm

re: #55 austin_blue

So, Trump is the fattest man to run for President since William Howard Taft (aka The Walrus).

Cholesterol levels released, or any blood work? Nope. Cardiac stress test released? Nope.

Thank you, mainstream media, for reporting the facts. Oh, wait, there are no facts for Trump!

In order for me to work in China, I had to get a full physical exam: EKG, blood work, chest X-ray, urine sample, vision and hearing tests. My LPN was concerned about a blip in my EKG (possibly caused by the allergy meds I was on), so she scheduled me for a treadmill stress test. I passed all the tests.

That was just to work in China as an English teacher. Seems to me someone seeking to be president should also submit to a full physical exam *and* share the results.

Mostly, I would like to see Trump wheezing on the treadmill. I doubt he even walks very far.

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Targetpractice  Sep 14, 2016 • 11:46:03pm

So in the past week, Trump has insulted our military and intelligence community, he’s been found to have used his “Foundation” to pay off politicians and launder money for his own pockets, and now Newsweek hit him with a metric ton of shady business connections.

But Hillary got overheated and admitted she has pneumonia, so she’s the one having “bad week” which we’re told will only further hurt her poll numbers and it’s all her fault.

It’s a wonder I don’t have an ulcer the size of the Hope Diamond by now.

65
Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 12:29:49am

I counted 8 King stories here.

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

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Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 12:31:01am

ok, refusing to embed is a new one.

67
Botsplainer  Sep 15, 2016 • 1:19:21am

re: #55 austin_blue

So what’s even worse than the notion of any aspect of a Trump presidency (which would in and of itself be an unparalleled disaster) would be the specter of the backup plan - the presidency of his successor, that God-humping mediocrity Mike Pence.

Some Trumpists work as support staff for other lawyers in my office, and I’m acquainted with others who are lower middle class white people. To a one, they won’t care about any revelation about Trump. To them (and they won’t overtly say it) but listening to everything they ever talk about, the thing is purely about sticking it to “them n*****s and the s***s and the gays and the Jews”. Pure racial and cultural animus on behalf of those older lizard brain notions of white supremacy. Oh, they’ll deny it, but I see the bright light in their eyes on this stuff.

I count my mother among them with the grand vision of “saving younger white people from their own naïveté by reinstalling the older superior culture”. Dad isn’t among them, but he won’t speak up much.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 2:06:33am

re: #67 Botsplainer

So what’s even worse than the notion of any aspect of a Trump presidency (which would in and of itself be an unparalleled disaster) would be the specter of the backup plan - the presidency of his successor, that God-humping mediocrity Mike Pence.

Remember the offer he was purported to have made to Kasich and the fact that DT would soon get bored with the grinding mechanics of actually being President, he would quickly hand over operations to Pence and spend his time out there looking and acting “presidential” for all to admire.

69
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 2:13:12am

The only Trumpists I can begin to understand are the ones who feel that America is bound to collapse sooner or later, and that electing DT will just speed up the inevitable and allow us to hit bottom and start the process of recovery.

Not that I agree with them, but at least it is based on pessimistic cynicism and not xenophobic bigotry.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 15, 2016 • 2:21:48am

Trump challenges Lincoln—Can he fool enough of the people enough of the time?

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Trumpia est omnis divisa in duo calathi(Sophist)  Sep 15, 2016 • 2:24:22am

re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The only Trumpists I can begin to understand are the ones who feel that America is bound to collapse sooner or later, and that electing DT will just speed up the process and allow us to hit bottom and start the process of recovery.

Not that I agree with them, but at least it is based on pessimistic cynicism and not xenophobic bigotry.

It’s also based on an accurate measure of Trump’s capabilities and disposition.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 15, 2016 • 2:24:51am

Young Chinese actress, 26, dies of lymphoma after refusing chemo and instead getting Traditional Chinese Medicine therapies.

shanghaiist.com

When the TCM therapies were not working, her sister finally put her foot down and convinced Xu Ting to undergo chemo. But, by that time, her immune system was shot to hell and she died in considerable pain soon after.

TCM advocates, predictably, offered argle-bargle about how the TCM wasn’t done right, should have been used in combination with modern therapies, etc.

In the early days of the PRC, there were few doctors in rural areas, and little medicine and equipment for them. So Mao pushed the idea of TCM as a replacement for Western medicine, and now Chinese and many people worldwide believe that acupuncture, taiji, cupping, massage, wacky herbs, and other TCM methods will cure every damned illness on the planet.

My student, Carla, died at age 25 from osteosarcoma. She was getting chemo and TCM for the nausea. When she got pregnant, the family and doctors suspended the chemo, fearing it would harm the fetus. The decision doomed both her and the baby, because she died within four months.

Chemo sucks, but cancer sucks more.

73
Timothy Watson  Sep 15, 2016 • 2:41:09am

re: #67 Botsplainer

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Alyosha  Sep 15, 2016 • 2:44:38am

Welp, Twitter imbeds still having issues.

Duterte killed justice official, hitman tells Philippine senate.

sbs.com.au

Matobato said that in 1993, he and other members of the death squad were on a mission when they approached a road blocked by the vehicle of an agent from the justice department’s National Bureau of Investigation.

A confrontation degenerated into a shootout. Rodrigo Duterte, mayor of the southern city of Davao at the time, then arrived on the scene, Matobato said.

“Mayor Duterte was the one who finished him off. Jamisola (the justice department official) was still alive when he (Duterte) arrived. He emptied two Uzi magazines on him.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 2:51:54am

re: #74 Alyosha

Duterte killed justice official, hitman tells Philippine senate.

sbs.com.au

A confrontation degenerated into a shootout. Rodrigo Duterte, mayor of the southern city of Davao at the time, then arrived on the scene, Matobato said.

“Mayor Duterte was the one who finished him off. Jamisola (the justice department official) was still alive when he (Duterte) arrived. He emptied two Uzi magazines on him.”

Robert Zimmerman meets Donald Trump…

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Alyosha  Sep 15, 2016 • 3:16:48am

re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I’m sure you meant George ;)

I’d also have accepted any number of curse-words in lieu of a Christian name.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 3:23:19am

re: #76 Alyosha

I’m sure you meant George ;)

I’d also have accepted any number of curse-words in lieu of a Christian name.

Lord, I got the Zimmerman Blues

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 15, 2016 • 3:23:42am

re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Robert Zimmerman meets Donald Trump…

I think Robert was the holo doctor on Star Trek: Voyager.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 3:25:56am

re: #78 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I think Robert was the holo doctor on Star Trek: Voyager.

Bob Dylan’s real name…

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dangerman  Sep 15, 2016 • 4:07:49am

re: #46 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Ha! My X works!

Thanks Obama!

/

my “ex” never worked

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 15, 2016 • 4:15:25am

re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Bob Dylan’s real name…

That’s right. The Voyager doctor only had a last name, Dr. Zimmerman.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 15, 2016 • 4:43:52am

re: #80 dangerman

my “ex” never worked

I feel your pain.

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makeitstop  Sep 15, 2016 • 5:33:47am

So, today we start our vacation. Next time I check in, it’ll be from somewhere in Boston. It’ll be nice to get away for a bit.

Click to Reveal

Saddening the event somewhat - our cat Pippin passed suddenly last night. He was 13, and had been sick with the coin-toss of IBS or cancer. He seemed to have been feeling better, but last night I went to the basement and found him. He was gone.

He was my little buddy - the second cat my wife and I got together, and he was the cat I pegged as having a sense of humor. He could always make me laugh.

I’ll miss that little guy. Good kitty.

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Joe Bacon  Sep 15, 2016 • 5:33:57am

re: #67 Botsplainer

So what’s even worse than the notion of any aspect of a Trump presidency (which would in and of itself be an unparalleled disaster) would be the specter of the backup plan - the presidency of his successor, that God-humping mediocrity Mike Pence.

Some Trumpists work as support staff for other lawyers in my office, and I’m acquainted with others who are lower middle class white people. To a one, they won’t care about any revelation about Trump. To them (and they won’t overtly say it) but listening to everything they ever talk about, the thing is purely about sticking it to “them n*****s and the s***s and the gays and the Jews”. Pure racial and cultural animus on behalf of those older lizard brain notions of white supremacy. Oh, they’ll deny it, but I see the bright light in their eyes on this stuff.

I count my mother among them with the grand vision of “saving younger white people from their own naïveté by reinstalling the older superior culture”. Dad isn’t among them, but he won’t speak up much.

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 5:35:16am

Once again, we see the double standards on reporting with Clinton and Trump.

People bitch and kvetch that Clinton is secretive and isn’t releasing all kinds of medical records, yet we know she’s released her BP, cholesterol, medication list, etc.

Trump? Not a single actual figure other than his weight, from which we know that he’s got a BMI of over 34, which makes him obese. That’s hardly a paragon of health.

But the media isn’t exactly clamoring for the full details, and they’re content to let the sham-doc Oz rely on the buffoonish Dr. Bornstein for his medical details.

This is the same Bornstein who concocted the original to whom it my concern in 5 minutes without the slightest bit of irony in that it read like something a 2d grader might write about their own health - complete with the lack of medical terms (or accuracy in terms such as using positive in the wrong way).

Instead, we get a nonstop barrage of how Clinton needs to be more forthcoming about her pneumonia even as Trump’s shielding all details of his health from public view.

Not only are we seeing run of the mill double standards, but it’s the misogynistic double standards to boot.

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Sherlock Hound  Sep 15, 2016 • 5:43:57am

re: #83 makeitstop

Sorry about Pippin. {{{}}}

This is a great time of year for Boston. It’s very crisp this morning. We are bracing for our big tourist season in two weeks.

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jeffreyw  Sep 15, 2016 • 5:46:00am

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 5:46:31am

So, Trump admits that he wouldn’t have shared details of his medical records if they were bad. Since he didn’t reveal everything, what’s he hiding.

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

Trump tells Fox he wouldn’t have shared the results of his physical if they were bad. - @kylegriffin

By his own admission, he’s hiding something.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 5:50:57am

re: #88 lawhawk

So, Trump admits that he wouldn’t have shared details of his medical records if they were bad. Since he didn’t reveal everything, what’s he hiding.

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

By his own admission, he’s hiding something.

But Hillary is so secretive!

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:01:20am

One of the anchors on the local ABC morning news was doing the political round up. He talked about Hillary, and then said “And yesterday, Donald Trump had his………chat about his health with Dr. Oz.” I loved the long pause.

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jeffreyw  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:07:02am

Imgur


Good morning!

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:19:12am

re: #91 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Either everyone went to get whatever you have in the picture (I can’t see imgur at work), or they passed out from it.

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Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:21:40am

Awesome Charles.

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:24:01am

So, Trump had what would be a good zinger, which I’m recalling from memory:

It used to be that cars were built in Flint and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico. Now cars are built in Mexico and you can’t drink the water in Flint.

Cars (trucks) are still built in Flint - the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra. And it’s still iffy to drink the water in Mexico. But why you can’t drink water in Flint is the result of GOP Gov. Snyder’s decision to switch water supplies, fail to properly treat the water, and then do nothing while people got sick and poisoned from lead contamination. The water still isn’t safe to drink, and we’re coming up on a year since this was all exposed for the world to see.

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jeffreyw  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:24:01am

re: #92 Belafon

It is a little slow this morning.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:24:32am

Who watched South Park last night? Great opening episode.

Donald Trump does not exist in the South Park universe. In the last season he was portrayed as a Canadian dictator who was assassinated by Mr. Garrison, so Garrison is running for President as the GOP candidate.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:25:20am

re: #94 lawhawk

So, Trump had what would be a good zinger, which I’m recalling from memory:

It used to be that cars were built in Flint and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico. Now cars are built in Mexico and you can’t drink the water in Flint.

Cars (trucks) are still built in Flint - the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra. And it’s still iffy to drink the water in Mexico. But why you can’t drink water in Flint is the result of GOP Gov. Snyder’s decision to switch water supplies, fail to properly treat the water, and then do nothing while people got sick and poisoned from lead contamination. The water still isn’t safe to drink, and we’re coming up on a year since this was all exposed for the world to see.

Trump started ranting about how the Flint water situation was Hillary’s fault when the pastor stepped in and told him to shut the fuck up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:26:03am

re: #94 lawhawk

So, Trump had what would be a good zinger, which I’m recalling from memory:

It used to be that cars were built in Flint and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico. Now cars are built in Mexico and you can’t drink the water in Flint.

Is it not easier for all involved to just have the jobs moved to Mexico so the Mexicans don’t have to come here to take them from us?

/

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:27:00am

re: #97 The Vicious Babushka

Trump started ranting about how the Flint water situation was Hillary’s fault when the pastor stepped in and told him to shut the fuck up.

In other words, that Pastor was a better moderator than most TV journalists…

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:28:37am

re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In other words, that Pastor was a better moderator than most TV journalists…

She wasn’t afraid her commercial sponsors would pull out.

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:29:46am

re: #97 The Vicious Babushka

Yeah, I’ve seen reports about that. Trump seems to have ignored/forgotten/doesn’t care that it was Rick Synder (R-Lead) and his emergency manager who forced Flint off the Detroit water supply, refused to act when reports arose about issues with water quality, and then dragged his feet for months as the evidence flooded in that he poisoned the city of Flint. Heck, GM had to switch water supplies because the water was causing corrosion problems for their manufacturing processes (which goes back to Trump’s claim that cars aren’t built in Flint anymore).

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:30:24am

re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That’s what Trump thought when he had his clothing line made there (and China) among other places.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:30:25am

re: #100 Belafon

She wasn’t afraid her commercial sponsors would pull out.

Anything to keep those sponsors stuffed in deep…

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Timothy Watson  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:30:25am

re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In other words, that Pastor was a better moderator than most TV journalists…

The really crazy thing from this week was that it was Wolf Fucking Blitzer of all people who managed to pin down Mike Pence on David Duke.

It’s a mad, mad world…

Mad World - Gary Jules

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Sir John Barron  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:42:26am

re: #20 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

John Cole on Ivanka’s implication that no one has ever dealt with child care before:

This is extremely shrill.

Which warrants the appropriate upding.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:49:17am

Well I just dropped a whopping $25 in Hillary’s donation hopper so we can all rest easy, she’ll win by a landslide.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:51:33am

Whoops==>
Donald Trump Jr. spills the beans, reveals real reason his father won’t release tax returns

Trump Jr. didn’t mention the audit but said that his father would not release his tax returns during the election because it would create a “distraction” and people would have a lot of “questions.”

When asked why his father has not released his tax returns as presidential candidates have traditionally done, Trump Jr. said, “Because he’s got a 12,000-page tax return that would create … financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from (his father’s) main message.”

The fact that Trump’s tax returns would be a subject of discussion is precisely why they should be release. Among other things, his tax returns would provide a clearer picture of the many conflicts between a Trump administration and his business interests.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:51:57am

Tweets not embedding, I haz a sad :(

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:53:45am

This is insane==>

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Timothy Watson  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:54:19am

re: #109 The Vicious Babushka

This is insane==>

[Embedded content]

And unbelievably fugly.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:55:07am

re: #109 The Vicious Babushka

This is insane==>

[Embedded content]

Of course it’s insane. You should be able to see the wall from space.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:55:46am

re: #111 Decatur Deb

Of course it’s insane. You should be able to see the wall from space.

I think you can.

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:56:46am

re: #107 The Vicious Babushka

Why to release (but he wont):
1) identifies just how good a businessman he truly is/isn’t;
2) identifies his effective and marginal tax rates;
3) identifies how charitable he truly is (and truly isn’t);
4) identifies conflicts of interest, business relationships, shell corps, and who he does business with re: investments, debts, obligations, etc.;
5) identifies business structures not immediately visible given that his corporations are closely held, so we can get an idea to the self-dealing involved to plump up his “value”; and
6) identifies the value of his “brand name” and trademark deals, which I tend to think is the main source of his income these days since he has limited real estate portfolio and most of his deals involve licensing his name to stuff others built.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:58:32am

re: #112 Timothy Watson

I think you can.

Ah. Of course. Couldn’t find the embiggen button. So it’s photorealism, then.

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Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:58:53am

re: #108 The Vicious Babushka

Tweets not embedding, I haz a sad :(

yep just noticed that.

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:59:02am

re: #109 The Vicious Babushka

This is insane==>

[Embedded content]

It’s post San Andreas earthquake.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 15, 2016 • 6:59:52am

re: #114 Decatur Deb

Ah. Of course. Couldn’t find the embiggen button. So it’s photorealism, then.

And Trump managed to levitate the Statue of Liberty a couple hundred miles offshore and embiggen it by 2x or 3x its original size.

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Skip Intro  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:01:20am

re: #117 Timothy Watson

And Trump managed to levitate the Statue of Liberty a couple hundred miles offshore and embiggen it by 2x or 3x its original size.

They don’t call him god-emperor for nothing.

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Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:01:37am

Let’s do it this way.

User Actions
Follow

Donald Trump Jr.Verified account
‏@DonaldJTrumpJr
The new aristocrats are in DC. They steal, lie, and take from hardworking Americans. Clinton part of the ruling class. Trump for the people.

jim ‏@jlcoffeecup 10m10 minutes ago
@DonaldJTrumpJr Your Dad and your Family are aristocrats Donnie you assholes don’t care about the common people.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:02:37am

re: #107 The Vicious Babushka

Whoops==>
Donald Trump Jr. spills the beans, reveals real reason his father won’t release tax returns

Media: why is Hillary so secretive and not transparent like Trump?

/

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Sir John Barron  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:08:06am

re: #119 Tigger2

Let’s do it this way.

User Actions
Follow

Donald Trump Jr.Verified account
‏@DonaldJTrumpJr
The new aristocrats are in DC. They steal, lie, and take from hardworking Americans. Clinton part of the ruling class. Trump for the people.

jim ‏@jlcoffeecup 10m10 minutes ago
@DonaldJTrumpJr Your Dad and your Family are aristocrats Donnie you assholes don’t care about the common people.

Jr. is worse than his old man, if that’s possible.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:10:11am

re: #109 The Vicious Babushka

This is insane==>

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Wonder why Trump doesn’t have a big picture of his fat, flabby grandmother arms and his tiny hands?

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Le Lapin Tueur  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:10:45am

re: #109 The Vicious Babushka

This is insane==>

You misplet “repulsive” or alternatively, “repugnant”

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:11:12am

re: #121 Sir John Barron

It takes a lot of balls to claim others are aristocrats when you live in a gilded tower and gold plate every surface you come into contact with, as the Trumps do.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:12:44am

Donald Trump, Interrupted. He Calls Flint Pastor Who Cut In ‘a Nervous Mess.’

Mr. Trump addressed the awkward exchange in an interview on Fox News on Thursday, suggesting that Pastor Timmons had a political agenda.

“Everyone plays their games, it doesn’t bother me,” Mr. Trump said, claiming Pastor Timmons was shaking when she came up to him.

He added: “She was so nervous, she was like a nervous mess. I figured something was up.”

Mr. Trump has shown more discipline on the campaign trail in recent weeks, but his criticism of the pastor demonstrated that he is still willing to push back against perceived slights. Mr. Trump also allowed himself to belittle Mrs. Clinton’s recent illness at a rally on Wednesday night, suggesting that she could not stand for such an event and that she was probably “lying in bed.”

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Sir John Barron  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:14:38am

re: #125 The Vicious Babushka

Donald Trump, Interrupted. He Calls Flint Pastor Who Cut In ‘a Nervous Mess.’

such very presidential leadership classy

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:14:55am

Fuckery, Fox news style:

Fox5NY ‏@fox5ny 2m2 minutes ago
At 236 lbs., Trump says he would like to lose weight: Before his highly anticipated interview with GOP presid…

Except yesterday, it was reported that he was 264, not 236, which puts his BMI at 34.1 - obese.

Who’s lying?

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:15:21am

re: #125 The Vicious Babushka

Trump lied about what happened in that Flint church, per @scottdetrow, who was there. n.pr

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:15:45am

re: #126 Sir John Barron

such very presidential leadership classy

Attacking a pastor on television, yet the evangelicals will still line up behind him (and many other religious faithful as well).

Gaaaa. At least I’m not a hypocrite.

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sagehen  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:16:26am

re: #91 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Maybe you can start a photo series that combines puppies/kittens and breakfast… the cute little pink tongue lapping at liquid egg yolks from sunny side up, a furry ear dragging through the butter, kitty claws pulling the sausage off the plate…

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:21:03am

They’re still going at it:

Orange Conservative ‏@ACommonSenseWay Sep 10

Orange Conservative Retweeted Lori Hendry

OMG the “GoldStarFamilies” please speak up - now that’s a downright despicable thought about #HillaryBigotry

Orange Conservative added,
Lori Hendry @Lrihendry
When Hillary called #DonaldTrump supporters deplorables, racists, and haters, how many ‘Gold Star’ families did she offend?

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Teukka  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:22:19am

re: #131 Anymouse

They’re still going at it:

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

Still issues with embedding tweets. Charles?

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:23:58am

re: #131 Anymouse

Hey Lori, only half of them. /s Are you a racist and hater, or are you just supporting one?

And this Gold Star Family member was not offended by Mrs. Clinton, my entire family was offended by Mr. Trump and his New York campaign manager spreading lies about the Khan family.

Trump’s campaign manager in New York alluded to Mr. and Mrs. Khan (and by extension all of us) of being supporters of terrorism. You okay with that?

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Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:25:05am

Is the tweet problem just on LGF I can post a tweet on FB.

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:28:28am

re: #134 Tigger2

Is the tweet problem just on LGF I can post a tweet on FB.

Twitter probably changed it’s algorithm again, and Charles doesn’t stay awake 24/7 satisfying our every need and urge.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:28:49am

Another dingbat that doesn’t understand what a Gold Star Family is: Tweet shows a meme of those killed in Benghazi.

No love for the scores killed under President Geo. W. Bush, though.

Deanna Ortner ‏@dlortner 2h2 hours ago

@JoinBrigade @matthewmahan @realDonaldTrump Hillary repeatedly calls #Benghazi #GoldStarFamilies liars. No apology!

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Timothy Watson  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:29:03am

re: #135 Belafon

Twitter probably changed it’s algorithm again, and Charles doesn’t stay awake 24/7 satisfying our every need and urge.

How dare he!1!!

///

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ObserverArt  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:29:05am

Hey! Got a busy morning…but I awoke today to this rant from Donny Deutsch ripping on Trump this morning on Morning Joke in the first 20 minutes I sometimes watch. Glad I saw this today…thought others might want to see it. Back later after some meetings. His rant is about 4 minutes in, but the whole segment is pretty good.

Iframe

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Stanley Sea  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:29:31am

re: #127 lawhawk

Fuckery, Fox news style:

Fox5NY ‏@fox5ny 2m2 minutes ago
At 236 lbs., Trump says he would like to lose weight: Before his highly anticipated interview with GOP presid…

Except yesterday, it was reported that he was 264, not 236, which puts his BMI at 34.1 - obese.

Who’s lying?

CNN said 236 this morning. I was like WHA?

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Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:30:06am

re: #135 Belafon

Twitter probably changed it’s algorithm again, and Charles doesn’t stay awake 24/7 satisfying our every need and urge.

Well that’s just not right. //////

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:30:30am

There are liberals there posting though to counter the conservaderp:

(Shows picture of a pocket US Constitution)

Isaac R. ‏@icenycbx 12h12 hours ago

Finally my pocket Constitution arrived. Thank you @ACLU and thank you Mr Khan. #GoldStarFamilies

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:30:37am

re: #139 Stanley Sea

CNN said 236 this morning. I was like WHA?

The camera takes off 28 pounds.

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Mike Lamb  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:30:42am

Drumpf’s tax returns are just too complicated, donchaknow. Us plebes couldn’t possibly understand.

I’m sure Hillary’s just popped out on a 1040EZ….

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:32:49am

re: #143 Mike Lamb

Drumpf’s tax returns are just too complicated, donchaknow. Us plebiscite couldn’t possibly understand.

I’m sure Hillary’s just popped out on a 1040EZ….

Hillary pays people to make sure they’re correct. Trump (almost) pays people to make sure he gets money.

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:33:35am

re: #139 Stanley Sea

washingtonpost.com

According to the Washington Post, Trump is 236 and 6’3”. That’s a far cry from what was reported yesterday.

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:37:46am

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Stanley Sea  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:41:01am

re: #145 lawhawk

washingtonpost.com

According to the Washington Post, Trump is 236 and 6’3”. That’s a far cry from what was reported yesterday.

I think they based it on what a person in the audience recalled? Maybe now they’ve viewed the actual show.

Whatever, don’t believe any piece of paper provided by Trump.

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Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:42:55am

Elizabeth Warren ‏@SenWarren 7m7 minutes ago
I’ve asked @TheJusticeDept to investigate its inability to prosecute the FCIC’s referrals. bit.ly

Elizabeth Warren ‏@SenWarren 3m3 minutes ago
I’ve also asked the @FBI to release its investigation materials related to FCIC referrals. bit.ly

Elizabeth Warren ‏@SenWarren 5m5 minutes ago
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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:45:57am

More on political double standards. Women running for POTUS have to be perfect, while men can skip around their foibles, issues, etc.

bostonglobe.com

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Jayleia  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:47:35am

re: #146 lawhawk

That actually looks more like a doctor’s note. But it’s still something provided by one of Trump’s people, therefore it must be assumed to be of…umm…dubious truthiness.

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allegro  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:50:00am

re: #91 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Sometimes you really piss me off. *wiping away drool, telling my stomach to STFU*

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:50:32am

OT: Diabetic Cat update

Well, it’s been almost a week since Felix Randomkitty was determined to be diabetic. He’s not really happy with insulin shots, but his activity level seems to be up (and his flooding the litterbox with pee seems to be down).

I learned something interesting. The vet in Scottsbluff is sixty miles away. We have a livestock vet (who will see small animals) sixteen miles away in Bridgeport, so my wife and I dropped in yesterday to ask her about obtaining diabetic cat food and insulin from her (shorter drive).

She said she would inquire from the Scottsbluff vet to see if the dry cat food she sells would be an acceptable substitute for the Purina DM canned food the Scottsbluff vet recommended.

As for insulin, she noted she doesn’t deal with insulin at her office, as she mostly deals with cows, horses, llamas, and sheep. The feed store does not either. She can get it, but it would be extremely expensive. She recommended an alternative.

She said the local human pharmacy will fill prescriptions for insulin for pets, provided they are provided by a DVM. She noted that at the local pharmacy insulin is far cheaper than she can get it (and it is the same drug for a cat or a human).

Huh. Didn’t know pharmacies could fill pet prescriptions. I will call the local pharmacy and find out if he will accept the prescription from the Scottsbluff vet for syringes and insulin.

In the meantime, here is Felix Randomkitty, ready to go to Canada with us this summer (he didn’t get to go… .)

Just zip it up after you feed me.
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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:52:30am

I’m 6’3” and 230. No way Trump is 236. No. fucking. Way.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:54:43am

re: #153 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m 6’3” and 230. No way Trump is 236. No. fucking. Way.

My son is about 6’2” and 220. Trump isn’t even close to that. (Where’d my son get that? I am 5’10” and 120.)

155
austin_blue  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:59:28am

re: #63 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

In order for me to work in China, I had to get a full physical exam: EKG, blood work, chest X-ray, urine sample, vision and hearing tests. My LPN was concerned about a blip in my EKG (possibly caused by the allergy meds I was on), so she scheduled me for a treadmill stress test. I passed all the tests.

That was just to work in China as an English teacher. Seems to me someone seeking to be president should also submit to a full physical exam *and* share the results.

Mostly, I would like to see Trump wheezing on the treadmill. I doubt he even walks very far.

Trump’s idea of exercise is to stumble and fall into a coma.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 7:59:56am

In response to another conservative post on the Gold Star Family hashtag (they aren’t giving this up): A meme showing a picture of Donald Trump standing in front of a flag with the caption: “I’m not voting for a Republican or a Democrat. I’m voting for an American.”

What. Going birther on Hillary Clinton?

Response:

bryan_blanc
‏@bryan_blanc

@Stevenwhirsch99 What kind of American: disrespects #goldstarfamilies #women #disabled #POWs #Veterans #Fireman #LGBT #Latinos #BLM

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Mattand  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:01:17am

re: #146 lawhawk

Maybe there’s a medical reason for it, but I still got a chuckle out of the fact that Prince Tinyhands had to have his testosterone count included in the report.

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Mattand  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:02:32am

re: #154 Anymouse

My son is about 6’2” and 220. Trump isn’t even close to that. (Where’d my son get that? I am 5’10” and 120.)

I’m 6 foot and 220 lb. I’m not buying it, either.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:02:45am

re: #146 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Given his age, weight and high-end (presumably fasting) glucose level, why wasn’t an A1c test completed?

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:02:51am

Former House Speaker John Boehner is taking a job as director at the tobacco company that makes Camel and Newport.

Of course he is.

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Mattand  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:05:14am

re: #160 lawhawk

Former House Speaker John Boehner is taking a job as director at the tobacco company that makes Camel and Newport.

Of course he is.

He’ll be in charge of the division that sells cigarettes to armed anti-abortion protesters who also show up with their weapons at polling places.

You can’t get more Republican than that.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:06:33am

re: #160 lawhawk

Former House Speaker John Boehner is taking a job as director at the tobacco company that makes Camel and Newport.

Of course he is.

He would have been better off taking a job as a taste tester at a liquor company.

Mr. Boehner is from Ohio, not a particularly well-known tobacco growing region. Do you suppose the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company wants someone who knows Congress, or someone who has demonstrated his ability to lead a sometimes fractious and large organisation? /s

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:08:47am

re: #159 Timothy Watson

Given his age, weight and high-end (presumably fasting) glucose level, why wasn’t an A1c test completed?

Trump taking a test for a pilot’s license to fly an A-1C is almost as scary as him running for President;

en.wikipedia.org

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Timothy Watson  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:10:16am

re: #163 Anymouse

Trump taking a test for a pilot’s license to fly an A-1C is almost as scary as him running for President;

en.wikipedia.org

I was thinking of this!
en.wikipedia.org

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:17:19am

re: #164 Timothy Watson

I was thinking of this!
en.wikipedia.org

I was just pulling your chain. Maybe Trump is scared of needles?

In the meantime, ICE granted a stay of removal to deport a Gold Star Mother. Her daughter, Army Captain Jennifer Moreno, was killed in Afghanistan, who entered a booby-trapped area to provide medical aid to a wounded member of her unit.

Her son is currently in the US Army, having served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. As noted in the petition to ICE, she has already endured more sacrifice than most American citizens would ever know, and splitting up the remainder of her family by deporting her would be exceptionally cruel.

change.org

Donald Trump of course would have her shipped out; she’s an illegal, get her out of here.

The petition, recently completed, details Captain Moreno’s service and her family’s struggle to avoid deportation of her mother.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:23:28am

In reply to CNN Politics
TPH ‏@TPH_news 48m48 minutes ago

@CNNPolitics First Gold Star Families and especially Gold Star mothers, now female pastors. @realDonaldTrump must really hate women.

167
Great White Snark  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:23:47am

Makes this Los Angeles native and music lover very sad. Place is going all high rise it seems.

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

WTF Twitter?

factmag.com

Iconic LA record store Amoeba Music sold to make way for luxury tower with rooftop pool BY APRIL CLARE WELSH, SEP 13 2016

On top of that Vin Scully will not be calling the playoffs. Retiring well after a wonderful career.

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Snarknado!  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:27:44am

re: #152 Anymouse

I had to fill prescriptions for one of my cats at the local pharmacy a few years back — that was the first time I learned that was doable. I had to make up a DOB for her (a stray) and give her a surname (mine, of course). I think this is recent, though, as I was able to get everything I needed from the vet for a “previous” cat. That one nearly bankrupted me.

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:29:51am

Trump Jr.: Media Would Be “Warming Up The Gas Chamber” If GOP Did What Hillary Did

WTF is wrong with the Trump family? Lead poisoning? Chemical imbalances? Seriously, these people aren’t right in the head.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:31:01am

Has the media taken a different tone with Trump yet?

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:32:16am

re: #168 Snarknado!

I had to fill prescriptions for one of my cats at the local pharmacy a few years back — that was the first time I learned that was doable. I had to make up a DOB for her (a stray) and give her a surname (mine, of course). I think this is recent, though, as I was able to get everything I needed from the vet for a “previous” cat. That one nearly bankrupted me.

I was not aware you could do such a thing.

I’ve rarely dealt with vets as my pets have all been generally healthy, only requiring rabies shots. The only time before Felix Randomkitty’s diabetes issue came up that a pet need a vet was when my (now deceased) guinea pig needed emergency caesarian surgery. (The vet did the surgery free; she told me she’d never done a surgery like that on a guinea pig before and had to go “by the book” during the surgery. She felt both bad about not being up to speed on guinea pigs and happy she pulled it off using the how-to manual.)

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Snarknado!  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:32:37am

re: #169 lawhawk

Trump Jr.: Media Would Be “Warming Up The Gas Chamber” If GOP Did What Hillary Did

WTF is wrong with the Trump family? Lead poisoning? Chemical imbalances? Seriously, these people aren’t right in the head.

They probably have to display total loyalty and devotion to stay on his good (money-providing) side.

When you sell your soul, you can’t keep part of it back.

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:33:09am

time.com

15 year old pepper sprayed at a Trump rally in Wisconsin. Are we deplorable yet?

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:33:48am

re: #169 lawhawk

Trump Jr.: Media Would Be “Warming Up The Gas Chamber” If GOP Did What Hillary Did

WTF is wrong with the Trump family? Lead poisoning? Chemical imbalances? Seriously, these people aren’t right in the head.

Another not-so-subtle dogwhistle to his neo-Nazi supporters.

And what did Mrs. Clinton allegedly do to hurt Junior’s fee-fees now?

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:34:55am

re: #169 lawhawk

Trump Jr.: Media Would Be “Warming Up The Gas Chamber” If GOP Did What Hillary Did

WTF is wrong with the Trump family? Lead poisoning? Chemical imbalances? Seriously, these people aren’t right in the head.

What did Hillary do?

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Snarknado!  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:35:27am

re: #171 Anymouse

I lost two cats very young for cats, one to kidney failure (that was the bankrupting one) and one to cancer, so I know more than I want about cat medicine.

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Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:35:29am

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Timothy Watson  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:35:32am

re: #173 lawhawk

time.com

15 year old pepper sprayed at a Trump rally in Wisconsin. Are we deplorable yet?

From March.

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Jayleia  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:36:07am

re: #174 Anymouse

They aren’t using dog whistles anymore, they’re using the bass speakers from a death metal band.

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:36:24am

Trump Jr. earlier retweeted America’s most prominent neo-Nazi academic. Today, he likened media treatment of his dad to the Nazi Holocaust. - @Yair_Rosenberg 1m

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:37:08am

re: #175 Belafon

What did Hillary do?

She breathed.

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Snarknado!  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:42:52am

Interesting take on coverage of the candidates on NPR this morning. A reporter (I had just woken up, so I don’t remember who) said the media was covering Clinton like a future president and Trump like a sideshow event because they expect her to win. It doesn’t explain the outright lies, of course.

Oh, and another heartening moment: there was a story about the candidates’ electoral college paths to the presidency. First Hillary , and they went over how she might pull it off by several different tracks. Then that other guy, and the analysis concluded, “I really can’t see any path for him to win.” Yum.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:43:01am

re: #176 Snarknado!

I lost two cats very young for cats, one to kidney failure (that was the bankrupting one) and one to cancer, so I know more than I want about cat medicine.

My condolences on your loss.

On Trump, Jr:

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Snarknado!  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:44:24am

re: #183 Anymouse

Thanks, but it’s been years (10 and 17), so I’m pretty much over it. My current cat is 14 and healthy (touch wood).

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lizardofid  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:45:31am

re: #167 Great White Snark

Hey, GWS,

You remember much about downtown LA, maybe late 70’s?

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Targetpractice  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:45:45am

re: #182 Snarknado!

Interesting take on coverage of the candidates on NPR this morning. A reporter (I had just woken up, so I don’t remember who) said the media was covering Clinton like a future president and Trump like a sideshow event because they expect her to win. It doesn’t explain the outright lies, of course.

Oh, and another heartening moment: there was a story about the candidates’ electoral college paths to the presidency. First Hillary , and they went over how she might pull it off by several different tracks. Then that other guy, and the analysis concluded, “I really can’t see any path for him to win.” Yum.

The media did the same shit in 2000, sure that Dubya could not win when Gore had all the advantages (popular boss, southern roots, booming economy, etc), then found themselves gobsmacked when it came down to a contested recount in FL.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:45:49am

re: #182 Snarknado!

Interesting take on coverage of the candidates on NPR this morning. A reporter (I had just woken up, so I don’t remember who) said the media was covering Clinton like a future president and Trump like a sideshow event because they expect her to win. It doesn’t explain the outright lies, of course.

Because any sane, rational person who lives outside the Conservative Media Bubble sees Hillary as a politician and Trump as a sideshow.

A man with no background of elective office, no legislative or administrative record to refer to? A man who has appeared on reality TV, beauty pageants and professional wrestling shows? How else do you treat a figure like that, GOP nomination notwithstanding?

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:49:08am

re: #169 lawhawk

Trump Jr.: Media Would Be “Warming Up The Gas Chamber” If GOP Did What Hillary Did

WTF is wrong with the Trump family? Lead poisoning? Chemical imbalances? Seriously, these people aren’t right in the head.

Wait, what? Where did he say this?

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:50:01am

re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because any sane, rational person who lives outside the Conservative Media Bubble sees Hillary as a politician and Trump as a sideshow.

A man with no background of elective office, no legislative or administrative record to refer to? A man who has appeared on reality TV, beauty pageants and professional wrestling shows? How else do you treat a figure like that, GOP nomination notwithstanding?

And yet roughly 40% of people will vote for Trump - that’s his ceiling. And a slightly higher percentage will vote Clinton (her floor). That’s gobsmacking because objectively this shouldn’t be a contest. Media coverage is definitely spinning this as a horse race.

Heck, we’ve got journalists who are saying that they’d vote Trump, just to be able to cover his fuckery for the next four years. You want to talk about irresponsibility, that’s it. This is a media that comes up with all manner of euphemism to avoid calling Trump lies a lie (stretching the truth, when it was an indisputable lie; e.g. that Clinton didn’t have a child care plan - it was on her site for months).

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:50:33am

re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Speaking of not understanding governance, I thought it was illegal to promise people positions (especially this guy):

Trump Wants to Nominate Peter Theil to Supreme Court (goes to Huffington Post)

Donald Trump has made it clear he will nominate Peter Thiel to the Supreme Court if he wins the presidency, Thiel has told friends, according to a source close to the PayPal co-founder.

Trump “deeply loves Peter Thiel,” and people in the real estate mogul’s inner circle are talking about Thiel as a Supreme Court nominee, a separate source close to Trump told The Huffington Post. That source, who has not spoken to Trump directly about Thiel being nominated to the Court, cautioned that Trump’s offers often fail to materialize in real life.

Gaaaa… . Theil knows jack about the law. While there is nothing in the law or Constitution that requires a person to have any particular training in law or governance, Mr. “I don’t believe in democracy” Theil would be a stunning choice for the Court.

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Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:51:17am

re: #184 Snarknado!

Thanks, but it’s been years (10 and 17), so I’m pretty much over it. My current cat is 14 and healthy (touch wood).

The cat I had the longest lived just under 23 years, I really missed him after getting to spend that long of time with him.

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:52:55am

re: #188 The Vicious Babushka

philadelphia.cbslocal.com

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:53:00am

re: #188 The Vicious Babushka

Wait, what? Where did he say this?

He said it on a Philadelphia radio station:

forward.com

(with link to the audio recording embedded in the article)

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:53:30am

re: #190 Anymouse

Speaking of not understanding governance, I thought it was illegal to promise people positions (especially this guy):

Trump Wants to Nominate Peter Theil to Supreme Court (goes to Huffington Post)

Gaaaa… . Theil knows jack about the law. While there is nothing in the law or Constitution that requires a person to have any particular training in law or governance, Mr. “I don’t believe in democracy” Theil would be a stunning choice for the Court.

I’ve heard that, but how do you enforce it?

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:56:19am

re: #194 Belafon

I’ve heard that, but how do you enforce it?

How do you enforce what? You mean offers of offices prior to election? Well, that is what the Federal Election Commission is supposed to do, with its guaranteed deadlock 3-3 decision powers (meaning nothing will happen).

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Sir John Barron  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:56:23am

re: #169 lawhawk

Trump Jr.: Media Would Be “Warming Up The Gas Chamber” If GOP Did What Hillary Did

WTF is wrong with the Trump family? Lead poisoning? Chemical imbalances? Seriously, these people aren’t right in the head.

WTFITS?

197
Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:57:02am

Full Frontal ‏@FullFrontalSamB 3m3 minutes ago
We got an exclusive first look at Trump’s medical records.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:57:27am

re: #192 lawhawk

tRumsterfire, Jr.:

He hasn’t been a politician his whole life.

He has never been a politician.

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:58:36am

re: #190 Anymouse

Thiel would be an interesting choice, given that he’s gay, and conservatives absolutely hate the LGBT movement and all it represents - particularly SSM and extending equal rights and protections to gays. That’d make his choice odd to say the least.

He knows nothing about the law, let alone the specific issues that are frequently raised at the Court procedurally or substantively. He has no background to vet for purposes of a confirmation hearing, other than how he bankrolled Hogan’s suit against Gawker and running a business (where he’s got lawyers working for him and giving him legal advice).

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 8:59:55am

Donald Trump Jr.
✔
@DonaldJTrumpJr

Proud to be watching my father lay out a bold vision to get Americans working again. We stand with the worker, not big party donors!

Follow
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@DonaldJTrumpJr Your dad is a draft dodging coward that insults veterans. Make him apologize to McCain and Gold Star Families. Coward!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:04:52am

Keep in mind that if some disaster befalls the country and DT is elected, he will quickly get tired of the daily grind of governing and frustrated with the fact that the President cannot just snap his fingers and get things done like he could as president of a company.

He will then hand things over to Mike Pence to run and spend his time flying about on AF1, meeting with his new head-of-state buddies (mostly foreign dictators and strongmen) all while threatening our former friends and newly-made enemies.

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Targetpractice  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:06:48am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Keep in mind that if some disaster befalls the country and DT is elected, he will quickly get tired of the daily grind of governing and frustrated with the fact that the President cannot just snap his fingers and get things done like he could as president of a company.

He will then hand things over to Mike Pence to run and spend his time flying about on AF1, meeting with his new head-of-state buddies (mostly foreign dictators and strongmen) all while threatening our former friends and newly-made enemies.

So basically it’ll be the 00s all over again, Dick running the show while Dubya plays the part of the meat puppet.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:08:09am

re: #202 Targetpractice

So basically it’ll be the 00s all over again, Dick running the show while Dubya plays the part of the meat puppet.

Dick Cheney is not a Dominionist. Pence would be worse. He wants to see Jesus’s second coming in his lifetime. Cheney had no interest in imposing a theocratic state.

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Targetpractice  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:09:48am

re: #203 Anymouse

Dick Cheney is not a Dominionist. Pence would be worse. He wants to see Jesus’s second coming in his lifetime.

And say what we will about Dubya, he at least gave the semblance of having impulse control. God knows what 4 years under a president who swears retribution for any perceived slight will do for us on the world stage.

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:12:07am

re: #204 Targetpractice

And say what we will about Dubya, he at least gave the semblance of having impulse control. God knows what 4 years under a president who swears retribution for any perceived slight will do for us on the world stage.

“Either you’re with me or get out of Iraq” was at least a warning.

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EPR-radar  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:15:09am

re: #199 lawhawk

Thiel would be an interesting choice, given that he’s gay, and conservatives absolutely hate the LGBT movement and all it represents - particularly SSM and extending equal rights and protections to gays. That’d make his choice odd to say the least.

He knows nothing about the law, let alone the specific issues that are frequently raised at the Court procedurally or substantively. He has no background to vet for purposes of a confirmation hearing, other than how he bankrolled Hogan’s suit against Gawker and running a business (where he’s got lawyers working for him and giving him legal advice).

Thiel has a JD, and clerked for a judge for a year. So he’s not completely clueless about law. The real issue is that Thiel is such a raving RWNJ that he makes Robert Bork look like a moderate, liberal jurist.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:15:29am

re: #205 Belafon

“Either you’re with me or get out of Iraq” was at least a warning.

So was “you’re with us or you’re against us.”

edition.cnn.com

Yup, I was “against America” because I did not accept the rationale of going into the Iraq War or ignoring Hans Blix on his inspections of Iraq.

I am so tired of this “liberals hate America” stuff I have been putting up with ever since I voted for Jimmy Carter.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:15:49am

re: #203 Anymouse

Dick Cheney is not a Dominionist. Pence would be worse. He wants to see Jesus’s second coming in his lifetime. Cheney had no interest in imposing a theocratic state.

And pass laws banning anal sex and all those whose lifestyles make them prone to it…he has a bit of a hangup about that.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:16:29am

re: #206 EPR-radar

Thiel has a JD, and clerked for a judge for a year. So he’s not completely clueless about law. The real issue is that Thiel is such a raving RWNJ that he makes Robert Bork look like a moderate, liberal jurist.

He’s not a RWNJ: He’s worse. He is a Libertarian (large L). My ex-Libertarian wife is quite familiar with his positions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:16:42am

re: #204 Targetpractice

And say what we will about Dubya, he at least gave the semblance of having impulse control. God knows what 4 years under a president who swears retribution for any perceived slight will do for us on the world stage.

And he had some sense of what it meant to serve in public office and work with other branches of government.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:18:36am

re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And pass laws banning anal sex and all those whose lifestyles make them prone to it…he has a bit of a hangup about that.

With his carpetbagger daughter running for the House in Wyoming now (last round of elections she lost the Republican primaries over a fishing license claiming an address in Wyoming when she lived in Washington DC) and likely to win, I get to live downwind of the stench. (There is zero chance a Democrat will win Wyoming’s House race.)

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Poligeek  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:18:50am

I realize this is an impossibility, but why can’t the news networks (and I mean, all of them - yes, even you MSNBC.. you cover this dolt just as often as Fox does) say they refuse to cover ANY Trump event live until / when Trump releases his tax returns? Because I’ve been watching Cheeto Jesus babble to the Economic Club of New York spouting lie after lie here for the last 10 minutes, and NO ONE CALLS HIM ON IT IN REALTIME. Its aggravating beyond belief. :-/

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:18:51am

re: #206 EPR-radar

Missed that he had a JD. Then I retract that he knows nothing.

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Targetpractice  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:18:52am

The truly scary thing to contemplate is if Trump wins, odds are that the GOP will keep Congress. And with a Republican in the White House, you can bet they will not waste time ending the last vestiges of the filibuster. They’ve a wish list longer than War and Peace and would love nothing more than to see it become a reality. About the only thing in that scenario that would stop them is the “Freedom Caucus” arguing with the leadership over just how tightly to turn the screws.

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BeachDem  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:19:02am

re: #125 The Vicious Babushka

Donald Trump, Interrupted. He Calls Flint Pastor Who Cut In ‘a Nervous Mess.’

I’m so glad he “allowed himself” to belittle Hillary. What a guy.

Great reporting NYT—“Real news deserves real journalism.”//
(That they’re using that as their tag line to promote subscriptions—it is to laugh.)

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EPR-radar  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:20:06am

re: #204 Targetpractice

And say what we will about Dubya, he at least gave the semblance of having impulse control. God knows what 4 years under a president who swears retribution for any perceived slight will do for us on the world stage.

The War of the Mean Tweet about President Trump’s D*** Size sounds like such a good cause to spend lives on. ////

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:20:26am

re: #195 Anymouse

How do you enforce what? You mean offers of offices prior to election? Well, that is what the Federal Election Commission is supposed to do, with its guaranteed deadlock 3-3 decision powers (meaning nothing will happen).

Yeah, that’s what I meant. I’m just curious what a functional Election Commission would be able to do to Trump. I just don’t see “you’re disqualified from running for president” as being enforceable, as is “we fine you $300 Million.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:22:03am

re: #207 Anymouse

So was “you’re with us or you’re against us.”

edition.cnn.com

Yup, I was “against America” because I did not accept the rationale of going into the Iraq War or ignoring Hans Blix on his inspections of Iraq.

I am so tired of this “liberals hate America” stuff I have been putting up with ever since I voted for Jimmy Carter.

You mean Trump was against America before he decided to start making it great?

And don’t forget the argument that environmentalists are all anti-capitalist tree-hugging whackos who want us to live in lean-tos and wipe our butts with tree leaves instead of toilet paper.

When a lot of environmentalists are promoting new and modern technology that is much more efficient than the outdated, filthy technologies were are dependent on.

And all I want from a Free Market is to ensure that the market price of a product reflects its true cost, including disposal and environmental costs, and not just what it costs the producer, who then privatizes the profits while socializing the downstream costs.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:22:19am

re: #216 EPR-radar

The War of the Mean Tweet about President Trump’s D*** Size sounds like such a good cause to spend lives on. ////

The War of Jenkins’ Ear

en.wikipedia.org

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BeachDem  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:22:27am

re: #127 lawhawk

Fuckery, Fox news style:

Fox5NY ‏@fox5ny 2m2 minutes ago
At 236 lbs., Trump says he would like to lose weight: Before his highly anticipated interview with GOP presid…

Except yesterday, it was reported that he was 264, not 236, which puts his BMI at 34.1 - obese.

Who’s lying?

AOTK—his hand-picked audience of staffers, family and friends obviously have the attention span of a fruit fly. Hearing all of the various description (riveting reporting, CNN), it was like Rashomon (or Rashomoron) writ large.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:24:56am

re: #213 lawhawk

Missed that he had a JD. Then I retract that he knows nothing.

He knows how to put a chill on Freedom of the Press. Gawker was hardly a first-rate news source, but it was Peter Theil’s monomania over an unflattering article there from years ago that had him finance the destruction of Gawker.

There were no good actors in the Hulk Hogan case. That said, the victim was the I Amendment.

Theil took out Gawker because he could, and because he had money. He did not bring a suit himself (something Libertarians are supposed to be big on).

Theil is on record saying he is opposed to democracy: Those with property and money should be the ones making policy.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:26:05am

re: #203 Anymouse

Dick Cheney is not a Dominionist. Pence would be worse. He wants to see Jesus’s second coming in his lifetime. Cheney had no interest in imposing a theocratic state.

Jesus drives a taco truck.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:26:57am

re: #221 Anymouse

Theil is on record saying he is opposed to democracy: Those with property and money should be the ones making policy.

That is fully in keeping with the spirit of Citizens United

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:27:48am

OMG Trump’s economic speech is full on nuts rn.

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:29:45am

re: #224 blueraven

OMG Trump’s economic speech is full on nuts rn.

He is going to massively expand military, cut taxes by 4.4T, and pay for it with “pro growth” policies.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:29:58am

re: #224 blueraven

OMG Trump’s economic speech is full on nuts rn.

Did he plagiarize Kenny Rogers?

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:30:52am

re: #174 Anymouse

Another not-so-subtle dogwhistle to his neo-Nazi supporters.

And what did Mrs. Clinton allegedly do to hurt Junior’s fee-fees now?

Exist.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:31:23am

re: #221 Anymouse

There were no good actors in the Hulk Hogan case. That said, the victim was the I Amendment.

Agreed. Hulk Hogans movies are terrible.

/

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:32:26am

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

You mean Trump was against America before he decided to start making it great?

And don’t forget the argument that environmentalists are all anti-capitalist tree-hugging whackos who want us to live in lean-tos and wipe our butts with tree leaves instead of oilet paper.

When a lot of environmentalists are promoting new and modern technology that is much more efficient than the outdated, filthy technologies were are dependent on.

And all I want from a Free Market is to ensure that the market price of a product reflects its true cost, including disposal and environmental costs, and not just what it costs the producer, who then privatizes the profits while socializing the downstream costs.

I live in a very sparsely populated area, with little infrastructure (the only other place in town besides my house that has an Internet connexion is the village Public Library, there is no public transport, it is miles from anywhere).

I agree with the environmentalist supporters we need to move away from destructive technologies and energy sources. However, they do not address the tens of millions of people just like me who cannot use an electric car because the next town is too far away, or how to raise crops, or provide public transport to an area of 90,000 square miles with a population of maybe 20,000.

“Limousine Environmentalists” (typified by Dr. Jill Stein) do not address the real issues of infrastructure and sparse populations in rural areas (that produce her food).

The nearest city bus is sixty miles from my home. Cell service is available sixteen miles away. My village tried a recycling programme; we got virtually everyone in the village on board with going to a single collection point to collect recyclables. Turned out the company that did it for a year under contract lost money (because we are too far from a city over 1,000 people).

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:32:30am

re: #225 blueraven

Really hoping Clinton’s poll numbers go back up soon.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:33:47am

re: #230 Ziggy_TARDIS

With any luck she will smash Trump in the first debate and get a boost from that.

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Targetpractice  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:33:57am

re: #225 blueraven

He is going to massively expand military, cut taxes by 4.4T, and pay for it with “pro growth” policies.

Ah, so basically the same Republican “plan” that they’ve sold since Moby Dick was a minnow. Cut taxes, spend massively, and deregulate everything with the expectation that the economy will boom so strongly that the policies will pay massive dividends. Funny how no Republican can make that shit work past the last year in office…

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:35:33am

re: #231 Eclectic Cyborg

With any luck she will smash Trump in the first debate and get a boost from that.

She’ll do great, but the media will play the one time she clears her throat ad nauseam and call it a death rattle.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:35:38am

re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is fully in keeping with the spirit of Citizens United

And the Libertarian Party.

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:36:24am

re: #232 Targetpractice

Ah, so basically the same Republican “plan” that they’ve sold since Moby Dick was a minnow. Cut taxes, spend massively, and deregulate everything with the expectation that the economy will boom so strongly that the policies will pay massive dividends. Funny how no Republican can make that shit work past the last year in office…

Also, he will not touch “entitlements”, which is a departure from republican orthodoxy.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:36:50am

re: #169 lawhawk

Trump Jr.: Media Would Be “Warming Up The Gas Chamber” If GOP Did What Hillary Did

WTF is wrong with the Trump family? Lead poisoning? Chemical imbalances? Seriously, these people aren’t right in the head.

Projecting like an IMAX in Outer Space, again.

The only people screaming for executions are Trump surrogates screaming for execution of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:38:46am

re: #235 blueraven

Also, he will not touch “entitlements”, which is a departure from republican orthodoxy.

So he would preserve the tax break structure of entitlements for defence contractors and other corporations?

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:39:35am

re: #160 lawhawk

Former House Speaker John Boehner is taking a job as director at the tobacco company that makes Camel and Newport.

Of course he is.

Yeah, he worked for them while in office too. So why not.

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Targetpractice  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:40:11am

re: #233 Barefoot Grin

She’ll do great, but the media will play the one time she clears her throat ad nauseam and call it a death rattle.

Ayep. What should be a debate about the issues and seeing how the candidates deal with unscripted questions will turn into a discussion about how pale she looks, how she looks like she’s sweating more than he is, how he looks so healthy compared to her, and most especially looking for any sign of stumbling or weakness.

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EPR-radar  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:41:14am

re: #239 Targetpractice

Ayep. What should be a debate about the issues and seeing how the candidates deal with unscripted questions will turn into a discussion about how pale she looks, how she looks like she’s sweating more than he is, how he looks so healthy compared to her, and most especially looking for any sign of stumbling or weakness.

Anything to avoid reporting on the fact that Trump is Satan’s Anus.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:42:31am

Trump’s bold claims about his new tax plan don’t add up

Trump’s original tax plan proposed having just three tax brackets set at 10, 20, and 25 percent, which would have meant bringing the top rate paid by the wealthiest down from 39.6 percent. The new plan tweaks those levels, bringing them in line with the plan put forward by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and House Republicans, making them instead 12, 25, and 33 percent.

But much of the rest of Trump’s plan remains intact, including reducing the corporate tax rate to 15 percent, the lowest proposed by any Republican who ran this cycle; repealing the estate tax that’s levied on the richest 0.2 percent of Americans; adding “millions” more to the ranks of people who are too poor to owe federal income taxes; and getting rid of carried interest loophole hedge fund managers use to pay lower taxes while still reducing the capital gains tax that allows those who make money from investments to pay a lower rate.

Trump claims that under this updated plan, “The greatest percentage reduction in tax bill goes to lower income taxpayers.” But it’s hard to see how. Under his original proposal, two different analyses found that, with everything taken together, the rich would make off with the most benefits by far. One found that the top fifth of the richest Americans would get more than two-thirds of the benefits, while the poorest fifth would get 0.8 percent. The other found that the top 1 percent would see its income increase the most, by over 21 percent, while the poorest would get the least.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:44:08am

Stonekettle responds to the latest hair-on-fire tweet from Rep. Steve King (R-deport them all and let God sort them out):

Stonekettle
‏@Stonekettle

Stonekettle Retweeted USA TODAY

This is what terrorized looks like

Brown people = ISIS! BLM = ISIS! Refugees = ISIS! Not GOP = ISIS!
ISIS! ISIS!

Stonekettle added,
USA TODAY @USATODAY
GOP Rep. Steve King on Kaepernick: His activism is “sympathetic to ISIS” usat.ly

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lawhawk  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:45:25am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

Basic math.

If you’re making between $37k and $90k, you aren’t getting a tax cut. Your rate is stuck in the 25% band. You get a slight break if you’re in the 28% bracket - a 3 point cut, and again in the 33% bracket you get a 8 point cut. But if you’re in the 39.6% bracket, your taxes are chopped by 6.6 points.

This is the kind of screwball math we’ve come to expect from the GOP.

The middle class is widely considered to be between $40-50k and $140k (the Pew definition). IOW, they get shafted by Trump’s plan.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:47:36am

USA Today on Steve King’s comments that Jim Wright roundly mocked:

usatoday.com (article continues at link)

Rep. Steve King appearing on Newsmax. I suppose that’s better than Stormfront.

No stranger to controversial comments, Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King spoke out against protests by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, going as far as to say Kaepernick’s silent protests are “activism that’s sympathetic to ISIS.”

“When he steps out on the stage, the world stage, he’s taking advantage of that and he’s undermining patriotism,” King said during an interview on NewsmaxTV.

“I understand that he has an Islamic girlfriend that is his fiancée and that this has changed him and has taken on some different political views along the way,”

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:47:40am

re: #243 lawhawk

Basic math.

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If you’re making between $37k and $90k, you aren’t getting a tax cut. Your rate is stuck in the 25% band. You get a slight break if you’re in the 28% bracket - a 3 point cut, and again in the 33% bracket. But if you’re in the 39.6% bracket, your taxes are chopped by 6.6 points.

This is the kind of screwball math we’ve come to expect from the GOP.

I would love for Clinton to present that plan and then say “And we’re still not sure if Trump will be affected by it.”

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:49:37am

re: #244 Anymouse

USA Today on Steve King’s comments that Jim Wright roundly mocked:

usatoday.com (article continues at link)

Rep. Steve King appearing on Newsmax. I suppose that’s better than Stormfront.

If you’re patriotism is so weak that someone not standing for the national anthem undermines it, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with.

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:50:15am

Dem supporters: Why don’t you ask Trump about his tax returns?
Media: We do, he brushes us off. Wont answer.
Dems: Well, keep pushing it.
Media: Nobody cares. It is not an issue.

Grrrrr! They let him get away with murder. If they keep pushing it, it will be NEWS. People will care.

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:52:33am

But Colin Powell said something, something about Hillary. Let’s hear all the hot takes on that!

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:52:41am

re: #246 Belafon

If you’re patriotism is so weak that someone not standing for the national anthem undermines it, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with.

When I stand and salute (as a veteran) for the National Anthem, I am proud a parent can chase her child who gets away, a protester can sit, or a vendor at a parade can still sell beer.

I care about the First Amendment, not empty platitudes from fear-mongering politicians like Steve King who want to deport me.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:53:09am

Re: Kaepernick

I really hate these people because Patriotism at gunpoint (and make no mistake that IS what they are doing here) is the complete antithesis of American ideals.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:53:18am

re: #152 Anymouse

I was getting drugs for some of my cats at the local CVS pharmacy. It turns out a lot of human drugs were tested on cats at one time, so there are a lot of humans drugs that can be used on cats with very small dosages. (I had a cat taking Prednisone for his periodic asthma attacks for instance. And Chat Noir has an inhaler for that reason as well.)

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Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:53:20am

re: #246 Belafon

If you’re patriotism is so weak that someone not standing for the national anthem undermines it, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with.

I have been to many ballgames and NASCAR races and a lot of people don’t stand for the National Anthem.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:54:13am

re: #252 Tigger2

I have been to many ballgames and NASCAR races and a lot of people don’t stand for the National Anthem.

/s That’s the time you go get a hot dog or a beer. The race or game isn’t on.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:55:06am

“Welcome to America, the land of the free!
Now stand the fuck up when the anthem plays…or else.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:55:42am

re: #231 Eclectic Cyborg

With any luck she will smash Trump in the first debate and get a boost from that.

She will most likely trounce him thoroughly but the press will report it as a draw…balance and all. And god forbid if she coughs, drinks or wipes her forehead.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:56:14am

How many of these so-called patriots stand when they hear the National Anthem on the radio or television? The Flag Code does not differentiate between TV and a football game live. It says you’re supposed to stand.

I’ll bet the number approaches zero. But goddam are they butthurt when someone chooses not to do so when their PC fee-fees are hurt.

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allegro  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:56:35am

re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

She will most likely trounce him thoroughly but the press will report it as a draw…balance and all. And god forbid if she coughs, drinks or wipes her forehead.

They’ll be monitoring the ladies room as well, timing her pee break.

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:58:17am

Eric Trump Don Jr.: Media would be “warming up the gas chamber” if GOP acted like Hillary.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:58:21am

re: #250 Eclectic Cyborg

Re: Kaepernick

I really hate these people because Patriotism at gunpoint (and make no mistake that IS what they are doing here) is the complete antithesis of American ideals.

He is tampering with one of the things that is Holy unto them: the integrity of Native American Ballsport. They are not going to let him get away with that unpunished.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:58:40am

re: #244 Anymouse

No stranger to controversial comments, Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King spoke out against protests by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, going as far as to say Kaepernick’s silent protests are “activism that’s sympathetic to ISIS.”

OFFS

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Timothy Watson  Sep 15, 2016 • 9:58:41am

re: #257 allegro

They’ll be monitoring the ladies room as well, timing her pee break.

And God forbid if she goes to the bathroom during a break like she did during one of the Democratic debates.

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:01:56am

“Please stand for the national anthem, but only if you could sit there and not be worried about what other people think of you.”

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:02:23am

re: #258 blueraven

Eric Trump: Media would be “warming up the gas chamber” if GOP acted like Hillary.

Correction: Don Jr

“The media has been her number one surrogate in this. Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest, but the media has built her up,” Trump said on WPHT radio. “They’ve let her slide on every indiscrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing. If Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now.

“

Read more: politico.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:02:47am

re: #249 Anymouse

When I stand and salute (as a veteran) for the National Anthem, I am proud a parent can chase her child who gets away, a protester can sit, or a vendor at a parade can still sell beer.

I care about the First Amendment, not empty platitudes from fear-mongering politicians like Steve King who want to deport me.

I cannot recall the quote, but I saw it here: People who do not understand what things like patriotism, manhood or Christianity really mean and stand for are often the ones who cling to the subjective and arbitrary symbols we have come to attach to them (flag lapel pins, guns, Nativity scenes on public property, etc.)

They grow inordinately upset when someone does not treat these arbitrary symbols in the manner they think they are due.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:03:16am

“Please stand, or sit, or kneel, or whatever the hell else you like while the National Anthem is played”

—last night’s South Park.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:03:25am

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:03:53am

re: #266 Dave In Austin

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

Embedding isn’t working.

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:04:11am

Never trust the patriotism of a mob. - Me

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:05:05am

re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He is tampering with one of the things that is Holy unto them: the integrity of Native American Ballsport. They are not going to let him get away with that unpunished.

He’s tampering with too many things at once: Quarterbacking while black, “disrespect” of the third verse of the National Anthem, protesting while black, calling out police violence, and not being politically correct.

(Like most things projected by conservatives, it is they who want to impose political correctness. Stand for the National Anthem or you’re just like ISIS and undermining American FREEDOMMMMMM!!!!!111Uno!!111!1!12!££1!!!!!!

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EmmaAnne  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:05:05am

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Dave In Austin  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:05:45am

video.gq.com

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:06:17am

Why I am so close to panicking.

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

How do I contact for the Clinton Campaign in Dallas?

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BeachDem  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:06:21am

I think we need something sweet:
World’s Oldest Man Is Finally Getting His Bar Mitzvah At Age 113
Mazel tov, Yisrael

Back in 1916, Kristal missed out on his ceremony after his mother died and his father was drafted into the Russian army. He survived World War I and then internment in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He lost his first wife and their two children in the Holocaust and later moved to Israel.

huffingtonpost.com;

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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:07:26am

re: #83 makeitstop

Condolences on your loss. I’m sure he had as good a time with you as you did with him. You gave him a happy life, and in a bit you will be able to smile when you think about him. I hope you get to that point soon, because it really does suck to lose a buddy. Sp sorry…

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:07:34am

re: #272 Ziggy_TARDIS

Why I am so close to panicking.

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

do I contact for the Clinton Campaign in Dallas?

Because you’re always this close to panicking.

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sagehen  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:09:48am

re: #194 Belafon

I’ve heard that, but how do you enforce it?

There’s no way to keep a president from nominating anyone to the Supreme Court. The Senate can vote down the nominee (Bork); the Senate can refuse to even vote on the nominee (Garland), but they can’t stop the President from nominating Incitatus if he wants to.

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Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:10:26am

re: #272 Ziggy_TARDIS

I don’t like the current polls, but I also know that they can go either way in the remaining time. Relax.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:10:41am

re: #240 EPR-radar

Actually. I think Trump has Satan for his anus.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:12:49am

re: #276 sagehen

There’s no way to keep a president from nominating anyone to the Supreme Court. The Senate can vote down the nominee (Bork); the Senate can refuse to even vote on the nominee (Garland), but they can’t stop the President from nominating Incitatus if he wants to.

And promising to nominate, I believe, is different than promising a direct appointment that does not require confirmation.

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:12:53am

re: #272 Ziggy_TARDIS

Take a look at the headline from four years ago, an image of which is here: balloon-juice.com.

Edited.

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:12:58am

re: #272 Ziggy_TARDIS

Why I am so close to panicking.

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

How do I contact for the Clinton Campaign in Dallas?

Go to the website and click on volunteer. Get to work. Panic doesn’t help.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:14:19am

re: #272 Ziggy_TARDIS

One thing to keep in mind: polls skew older (they are landline based) and thus trend conservative more strongly than the general electorate.

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Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:14:26am

re: #272 Ziggy_TARDIS

It is in any case not the time to panic. It may come when the probability is a coin toss. Right now Hillary is still winning.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:14:29am

re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I cannot recall the quote, but I saw it here: People who do not understand what things like patriotism, manhood or Christianity really mean and stand for are often the ones who cling to the subjective and arbitrary symbols we have come to attach to them (flag lapel pins, guns, Nativity scenes on public property, etc.)

They grow inordinately upset when someone does not treat these arbitrary symbols in the manner they think they are due.

My picture appears in the local paper every year, which throws the “liberals hate America” statement out the window. It gives my county (and the whole Nebraska Panhandle) a different view of someone slightly to the right of Trotsky.

The village board several years ago made me Flag Committee chairman (charged with ensuring the village flags are properly displayed at full or half-staff, maintained, &c).

The other duty is the annual village parade (a local deal, covered by the local press). As a disabled vet, village board member, and flag committee chairman, I march at the head of the parade, with the National Ensign. (I am flanked by a volunteer who displays the state flag.)

I am out with hair down to my waist, in a three-piece business suit, disabled Navy veteran, wearing my Gold Star Family Pin and a USO hat, marching down the main street at the head of the parade with the flag (every year since 2012).

It is well-known around here just how liberal I am; I would like to think that eases opinions of Democrats and liberals a bit in this uber-conservative part of my state.

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BeachDem  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:15:32am

re: #272 Ziggy_TARDIS

Why I am so close to panicking.

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

do I contact for the Clinton Campaign in Dallas?

hillaryclinton.com

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sagehen  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:15:44am

re: #199 lawhawk

He knows nothing about the law, let alone the specific issues that are frequently raised at the Court procedurally or substantively. He has no background to vet for purposes of a confirmation hearing, other than how he bankrolled Hogan’s suit against Gawker and running a business (where he’s got lawyers working for him and giving him legal advice).

Theory: Thiel would be supportive of Trump’s desire to “open up the 1st Amendment and make it easier to sue the media if you don’t like what they write about you.”

The NYT isn’t bothered by this, because they know how much Trump hates Jeff Bezos and they imagine he’ll put WaPo out of business and let NYT be the only newspaper of record. They don’t for a minute believe they’d be on the chopping block too — which they should really reconsider, since Carlos Slim is their biggest shareholder and he’s Mexican and Trump hates him almost as much as he hates Bezos.

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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:15:59am

re: #167 Great White Snark

NOOOOO
fuck no not ameoba!
god damn it

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Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:16:37am

re: #282 Eclectic Cyborg

One thing to keep in mind: polls skew older (they are landline based) and thus trend conservative more strongly than the general electorate.

Pollsters now usually either include cell phones or “overweight” the younger people when they can’t get enough cell phone data.

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Poligeek  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:17:55am

So, I’ve taken to tweeting to anyone in the news I can think of, this simple message

“Just tell Trump NO MORE COVERAGE until he reveals taxes. FORCE THE ISSUE!”

But, since I have no twitter clout, I doubt I’ll even get a read, let alone a response. I just don’t understand why the media can’t do this.. they have ALL the control here. :-/

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Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:18:57am

re: #289 Poligeek

So, I’ve taken to tweeting to anyone in the news I can think of, this simple message

“Just tell Trump NO MORE COVERAGE until he reveals taxes. FORCE THE ISSUE!”

But, since I have no twitter clout, I doubt I’ll even get a read, let alone a response. I just don’t understand why the media can’t do this.. they have ALL the control here. :-/

Because that’s not how it works.

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:19:18am

re: #288 Nyet

Pollsters now usually either include cell phones or “overweight” the younger people when they can’t get enough cell phone data.

Right. The only polls that don’t use cell phones are the totally automated ones, because robocalls are illegal to cell phones.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:19:35am

re: #288 Nyet

Pollsters now usually either include cell phones or “overweight” the younger people when they can’t get enough cell phone data.

So how would they poll an area like this, that only has landlines? Young people have them too, if they want to use the telephone (the alternative is to drive sixteen miles into town to use a cell phone).

That said, I have not been polled by anyone in the four years I’ve lived here.

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Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:21:10am

re: #292 Anymouse

So how would they poll an area like this, that only has landlines? Young people have them too, if they want to use the telephone (the alternative is to drive sixteen miles into town to use a cell phone).

That said, I have not been polled by anyone in the four years I’ve lived here.

If the polling firm is doing its job properly, it has the data like this (the percentage of the landlines to cells etc.). Nobody said polling is easy ;)

294
Poligeek  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:21:19am

re: #290 Nyet

Because that’s not how it works.

As true as that is, you’d hope that SOMEONE would take a damn stand, already.. le sigh.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:22:29am

re: #291 blueraven

Right. The only polls that don’t use cell phones are the totally automated ones, because robocalls are illegal to cell phones.

My “land line” is now actually a cell phone (stationary cellular device that stays in my home) to which we transferred our land line number a number of years ago. I wonder if it’s robo-callable, legally. (Illegally, it certainly is…)

296
EmmaAnne  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:24:00am

re: #283 Nyet

It is in any case not the time to panic. It may come when the probability is a coin toss. Right now Hillary is still winning.

I’d go further and say it is never time to panic. How does it help? The only thing it can do is freeze you in place so you can’t do the things you otherwise could do to keep the awful thing from happening.

My mom used to work for a doctor who, when patients asked her if they should worry about this or that, always said “don’t worry.” Because however serious it is or isn’t, worrying doesn’t help.

So I try to interrupt the worrying by doing something, as my meme above indicates. Don’t panic. Get out the vote.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:25:03am

re: #293 Nyet

You’d be amazed at the number of “city folk” travelling along US-26 (the Oregon Trail, which goes to Yellowstone National Park) that stop in to our general store asking why they cannot get cell service for the last fifty miles.

Gregg Carlstrom ‏@glcarlstrom 2h2 hours ago

@Yair_Rosenberg on the bright side, at least this will confuse his supporters who don’t think the gas chambers existed

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:27:00am

Anti-Defamation League asking Trump Jr for a retraction of gas chamber comment.

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Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:27:04am

re: #294 Poligeek

As true as that is, you’d hope that SOMEONE would take a damn stand, already.. le sigh.

That will never happen for minimum 3 reasons: blackmailing someone with the lack of coverage is not how journalism has ever or will ever work; while it’s possible to lessen the coverage, it’s impossible (for an honest journalist) to ignore such a figure altogether, because you have to report at least on the most important events, and the likelihood of Trump being a part of at least one such an event is practically 100% this season; and it might only work if all of them decided to do that at once.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:28:35am

re: #285 BeachDem

It says the nearest field office is in OKC.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:29:27am

re: #295 A wild WITHAK appeared!

My “land line” is now actually a cell phone (stationary cellular device that stays in my home) to which we transferred our land line number a number of years ago. I wonder if it’s robo-callable, legally. (Illegally, it certainly is…)

Nope. It’s a cell phone, regardless of whether you move it or not.

The reason it is illegal to call cell phones with telemarketing or robo-calls is many cell companies charge by the byte or by the minute.

It is an extension of the law that made junk faxes illegal in Connecticut. A funny story there: When the state was considering making junk faxes illegal (because the owner has to pay for the paper), the advertising industry ran a campaign to pillory senators’ and representatives’ fax machines with messages to defeat the bill.

That cost the state a whole bunch of money. The junk fax bill sailed through the Connecticut Legislature.

Calling cell phones is based on that idea, that lots of people pay to receive telephone calls or text messages.

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Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:30:16am

re: #296 EmmaAnne

You’re right of course, but we’re all built differently, some will panic at some point, so let it at least be some sort of a “reasonable” point, iykwim.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:31:08am

re: #302 Nyet

It’s more that I feel there wouldn’t be a place in the world for me if Trump wins.

304
allegro  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:32:14am

re: #298 blueraven

Anti-Defamation League asking Trump Jr for a retraction of gas chamber comment.

I don’t get the demand for retraction/apology. What’s the point? It will never be at all sincere. Just call the offenders assholes who are too stupid to breathe and be done with it.

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Kragar  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:32:25am

[Can’t find this tweet right now.]

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:32:36am

re: #301 Anymouse

Nope. It’s a cell phone, regardless of whether you move it or not.

The reason it is illegal to call cell phones with telemarketing or robo-calls is many cell companies charge by the byte or by the minute.

It is an extension of the law that made junk faxes illegal in Connecticut. A funny story there: When the state was considering making junk faxes illegal (because the owner has to pay for the paper), the advertising industry ran a campaign to pillory senators’ and representatives’ fax machines with messages to defeat the bill.

That cost the state a whole bunch of money. The junk fax bill sailed through the Connecticut Legislature.

Calling cell phones is based on that idea, that lots of people pay to receive telephone calls or text messages.

I’d just be curious if there’s any mechanism for changing a given number’s status from “land line” to “cell phone” in the phone companies’ lists given the number portability thing that happened a few years ago, and whether the various telemarketing and polling setups get that updated status.

In any case, I’m one of those damned [almost-]Millenials with no land line to his name, and in its stead, six mobile phones…

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:33:17am

re: #303 Ziggy_TARDIS

It’s more that I feel there wouldn’t be a place in the world for me if Trump wins.

Come to the Nebraska Panhandle: I doubt Trump even knows we exist out here (despite being the House district most likely to vote for him).

Miles and miles of nothing but tumbleweeds and cattle. Some of the lowest property costs and crime rates in the nation. (We had a murder a couple months ago: That was the first since 1936.)

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Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:33:54am

re: #303 Ziggy_TARDIS

If Trump wins, we’re all fucked, in some way or another, some more, some less, but fucked nevertheless.

309
blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:34:44am

re: #300 Ziggy_TARDIS

It says the nearest field office is in OKC.

Surely there is a Dallas County Democratic party location. You can go bundle materials to go out to battleground states. You can join others (or work on your own) to make calls to swing states. Just do something.

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allegro  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:35:27am

re: #303 Ziggy_TARDIS

It’s more that I feel there wouldn’t be a place in the world for me if Trump wins.

There’s no place in this world for anyone but the place we create for ourselves. You are not a special snowflake.

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:35:59am

re: #306 A wild WITHAK appeared!

I’d just be curious if there’s any mechanism for changing a given number’s status from “land line” to “cell phone” in the phone companies’ lists given the number portability thing that happened a few years ago, and whether the various telemarketing and polling setups get that updated status.

In any case, I’m one of those damned [almost-]Millenials with no land line to his name, and in its stead, six mobile phones…

I have a dial telephone. I also have a card above my telephone as a reminder that we now have 911 service (it was only recently started here).

Should I feel old?

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:36:11am

re: #309 blueraven

Surely there is a Dallas County Democratic party location. You can go bundle materials to go out to battleground states. You can join others (or work on your own) to make calls to swing states. Just do something.

Here

dallasdemocrats.org

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BeachDem  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:37:25am

re: #300 Ziggy_TARDIS

It says the nearest field office is in OKC.

Huh? Did you put in a Dallas zip code—try these
hillaryclinton.com

facebook.com

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Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:37:51am

re: #309 blueraven

Surely there is a Dallas County Democratic party location. You can go bundle materials to go out to battleground states. You can join others (or work on your own) to make calls to swing states. Just do something.

Dallas County Democratic Party (with contacts, and requests for volunteers to do about everything imaginable):

dallasdemocrats.org

Dallas County Democratic Party
4209 Parry Ave
Dallas, TX 75223
Office:[no phone numbers allowed]
Fax:[no phone numbers allowed]

Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM

We look forward to hearing from you!

315
Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:39:01am

re: #303 Ziggy_TARDIS

Muslims and Hispanics will of course bear the brunt of it. I don’t want to compare my “Russian” angle with yours, since yours is more immediate, but I still have a hope of seeing a democratic Russia in my lifetime, and a Trump presidency lessens this probability significantly.

316
klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:40:49am

Sky is still up there.

Election hasn’t been lost yet.

If you cannot look at the polls without losing your head, stop looking at the damn polls.

317
ObserverArt  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:42:03am

re: #247 blueraven

Dem supporters: Why don’t you ask Trump about his tax returns?
Media: We do, he brushes us off. Wont answer.
Dems: Well, keep pushing it.
Media: Nobody cares. It is not an issue.

Grrrrr! They let him get away with murder. If they keep pushing it, it will be NEWS. People will care.

The part of your comment I put in bold type is exactly what idiot exRNC Chairman Michael Steele said on Morning Joke right before I switched channels to local news this morning.

His twist on it was off Donnie Duetsch’s comments I posted earlier today upthread with the video from the show.

He claimed the voters in America do not care because they are not demanding to see Trump’s taxes…only the media types.

I’d like to know what voters he is talking about?

Oh wait…that would be the Deplorables!

318
Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:42:04am

re: #313 BeachDem

I put in my Dallas area zip code.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:42:44am

re: #314 Anymouse

I will go there.

320
Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:42:54am

re: #303 Ziggy_TARDIS

It’s more that I feel there wouldn’t be a place in the world for me if Trump wins.

Given any thought to claiming Asylum in Canada?

321
Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:43:22am

Looking at the Dallas County (Tex.) Democratic Party, they are a whole lot better organised than my county (which hasn’t updated its Website since 2011 and finally pulled it down a couple weeks ago).

My county Democratic Party is depending on my former Libertarian Party wife to create something resembling a Website. (My wife runs a Webhosting service; she offered to host the Morrill County Democratic Party free, as well as write them a new Website, which she is in the process of doing).

322
Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:43:52am

re: #316 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Sky is still up there.

Election hasn’t been lost yet.

If you cannot look at the polls without losing your head, stop looking at the damn polls.

I remember all the running around and hair pulling going on at this time during Obama’s reelection campaign.

323
Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:45:25am

re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg

If these stories are still true, that is not an option.

Last week a story in the Ottawa Citizen told the story of 17-year-old Lewis Crowe. Because he has autism the Canadian Government has banned Lewis from living in Canada and in order to visit the country he needs special permission from the immigration department.

To make things worse, his father and stepmother have also been refused permanent resident cards due to the fear that they will bring Lewis with them. This is after the Crowe’s told Canadian Immigration Officials that Lewis would stay with his biological mother in England and has long-term plans to enroll in a residential college for individuals with learning disabilities. The article continues to rip the immigration department for being cruel and cold hearted.

As Lewis’s “autism spectrum disorder might reasonably be expected to cause excessive demand” on Canada’s health and social services, immigration officials ruled he was “inadmissible … on health grounds.”

324
ObserverArt  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:45:45am

re: #256 Anymouse

How many of these so-called patriots stand when they hear the National Anthem on the radio or television? The Flag Code does not differentiate between TV and a football game live. It says you’re supposed to stand.

I’ll bet the number approaches zero. But goddam are they butthurt when someone chooses not to do so when their PC fee-fees are hurt.

Heh…the guys on the Dan Patrick show on NBC Sports were talking about that. They were wondering if it is such a big deal shouldn’t you have to stand up at home too…every time.

One of the dudes said he is usually standing…out in the kitchen grabbing a beer and making a snack.

As we’ve said before…it is forced “going through the motions” rote behavior.

And if I recall, it wasn’t something that was always done in our history.

325
klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:45:50am

re: #322 Tigger2

I remember all the running around and hair pulling going on at this time in Obama’s reelection campaign.

I missed it because I didn’t start lurking until just after the election. (You can even check my sign-up date!)

Probably for the better. My tolerance can be …somewhat lower when it comes to repeated panicking despite objective evidence suggesting there’s no need. I’m a big advocate of a) taking care of one’s mental health and b) putting energy that would otherwise be spent panicking toward productive use.

326
Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:46:03am

re: #322 Tigger2

The media wasn’t nearly so blatantly in Romney’s corner though.

327
Tigger2  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:47:41am

re: #326 Ziggy_TARDIS

The media wasn’t nearly so blatantly in Romney’s corner though.

They were up there pretty good I remember getting very pissed off at the MSM.

328
Nyet  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:48:39am

re: #326 Ziggy_TARDIS

The media wasn’t nearly so blatantly in Romney’s corner though.

While “the media”, as an aggregate, isn’t Clinton’s friend, they sure aren’t Trump’s.

329
Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:48:49am

re: #323 Ziggy_TARDIS

That story is from 2011. Might still be worth taking a look into.

330
Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:48:50am

re: #322 Tigger2

I remember all the running around and hair pulling going on at this time in Obama’s reelection campaign.

I recall reading somewhere that this time in 2012, President Obama was not doing as well against Gov. Romney as Sec’y Clinton is doing now against Mr. Trump.

The airwaves were once considered “the commons,” and thus non-partisan and non-advertised news services were the entry price for networks to gain control over various frequencies for broadcast.

The DuMont Television Network (which became Metromedia which was bought by Rupert Murdoch to start FOX when DuMont went bankrupt) broadcast the entire McCarthy hearings commercial-free.

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ObserverArt  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:50:26am

re: #291 blueraven

Right. The only polls that don’t use cell phones are the totally automated ones, because robocalls are illegal to cell phones.

Not necessarily. I have a cell phone, but I used my old land line number when I went cell only. Big mistake. I get robo calls all the damn time.

I wish there was a way to make that true.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:50:29am

re: #329 Eclectic Cyborg

That story is from 2011. Might still be worth taking a look into.

I tried to click through to find more information and the initial news story isn’t there anymore. However, there’s a number of questions that I have including where on the spectrum the teen in question fell that the story leaves unanswered.

333
The Vicious Babushka  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:51:35am

re: #247 blueraven

Dem supporters: Why don’t you ask Trump about his tax returns?
Media: We do, he brushes us off. Wont answer.
Dems: Well, keep pushing it.
Media: Nobody cares. It is not an issue.

Grrrrr! They let him get away with murder. If they keep pushing it, it will be NEWS. People will care.

Nobody cares about Hillary’s goddamn emails but that hasn’t stopped media from making a BIG FREAKING THING out of it.

334
ObserverArt  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:52:15am

re: #308 Nyet

If Trump wins, we’re all fucked, in some way or another, some more, some less, but fucked nevertheless.

Vote for Trump…fuck all!

335
Anymouse  Sep 15, 2016 • 10:56:15am

re: #323 Ziggy_TARDIS

Five year old blog post, which does not correlate with Canadian immigration law.

cic.gc.ca

Your refugee claim may not be eligible for referral to the IRB if:

You have been recognized as a Convention refugee by another country to which you can return;
You have already been granted protected person status in Canada;
You arrived via the Canada-United States border;
You are not admissible to Canada on security grounds, or because of criminal activity or human rights violations;
You made a previous refugee claim that was found to be ineligible for referral to the IRB;
You made a previous refugee claim that was rejected by the IRB; or
You abandoned or withdrew a previous refugee claim.

Please see the IRB website to find out more about making an asylum claim in Canada.

In addition, people who are subject to a removal order cannot make a refugee claim.

Note: This is from the Canadian government, not a blog. Canada does not ban people from immigration due to disability. Canada’s only concern is if you would become a drain on its social welfare net (note Sarah Palin used Canada’s health care system while governor of Alaska).

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 15, 2016 • 11:03:40am

re: #263 blueraven

Correction: Don Jr

“

Read more: politico.com

I really wonder what reality did to the Trump’s that made them so estranged of each other,

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blueraven  Sep 15, 2016 • 11:10:12am

re: #328 Nyet

While “the media”, as an aggregate, isn’t Clinton’s friend, they sure aren’t Trump’s.

They may not be his friend, but he is a master of manipulating them. Just look how he handled this “health” issue. Going to dr oz, making a spectacle, dragging out the “suspense”. The MSM has been absolutely breathless in the coverage.

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retired cynic  Sep 15, 2016 • 3:46:30pm

re: #291 blueraven

Right. The only polls that don’t use cell phones are the totally automated ones, because robocalls are illegal to cell phones.

Hah!


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