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PhillyPretzel  Sep 30, 2016 • 6:45:43pm

Charles I just closed my Pay Pal account and they have cancelled my subscription. The silly folks have just sent me 3 emails stating the fact. I know I paid and you saved it in you DB (data base?).

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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 6:50:38pm

re: #1 PhillyPretzel

I restored your ad-free access - it’s good until 2017-09-05.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 30, 2016 • 6:51:18pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Thank you very much Charles. :)

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darthstar  Sep 30, 2016 • 6:51:25pm

iPhone update:
1. Installed iTunes on my work Windows box (Fuck you, Apple, fuck you hard)
2. Entering “restore mode” 2.3GB download of iOS 10.0.2 (did I already say “Fuck you, Apple?”)
3. Waiting for download, then install of new OS…I feel like a fucking genius.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 6:55:35pm

Some major enhancements to our extensions to Twitter’s embedded tweets:

If the tweet contains an animated GIF, it will now have an “Images” button that lets you open the animated GIF in a popup.

Even better, if the tweets contains a video, you can now open the video in a popup at full size. Usually much higher resolution that the embedded version.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 6:55:56pm
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Great White Snark  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:00:13pm

Whew! Can relax now.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:00:43pm
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gocart mozart  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:00:48pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:02:19pm
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FormerDirtDart  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:02:51pm
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PhillyPretzel  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:04:27pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

That Trump person is throwing a hissy fit.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:04:30pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:06:30pm

I’ll say it again. I don’t think this election will be close.

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dangerman  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:06:34pm

re: #9 gocart mozart

[Embedded content]

[Embedded content]My microphone didn’t work. Questions were unfair. Hillary was so mean. The media ganged up on me. It wasn’t my fault. BTW, I hate fat people

(i still won)

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:06:38pm

re: #14 Great White Snark

perfect.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:07:52pm

Watching Lawrence O’Donnell with the wife. Sharing looks over the value of a vagina. I’m not sure what Donald paid, but I didn’t. It was a vow of love.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:08:02pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

The wimps that run Penn State should be forced to resign (and be sued) for the pathetic settlement they made and destruction of great legacy

Woah, they shouldn’t resign because they condoned three decades of child abuse but because they settled a lawsuit?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:20:14pm

re: #15 teleskiguy

I’m not that confident as you are, sad to say. As I said in a downstairs post, unless a major event happens, I see this as another BRExit.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:21:27pm

re: #20 Eric The Fruit Bat

Based on what?

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William Lewis  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:21:42pm

So, as I sneak off to work here’s a wee dram of a bit of country music… a wee dram of thunderbird wine that is ;)

Thunderbird Wine

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:22:17pm

re: #21 Ziggy_TARDIS

This is an emotion election, not a fact election

As Chez said in his podcast, this is a FUCK YOU election. How else can you explain the two most unpopular candidates as the satandard bearers for both major parties?

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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:23:33pm

I’m just gonna go ahead and upding the OP before I even listen to it. That young feller can play blues pretty OK!

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Decatur Deb  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:25:47pm

re: #15 teleskiguy

I’ll say it again. I don’t think this election will be close.

It’s going to be closer than I like.

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freetoken  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:28:02pm

re: #23 Eric The Fruit Bat

American politics often has been a wild ride.

Perhaps what we are sensing is what Marshall McLuhan described?

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:29:04pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

“She’s nasty but I can be nastier”- Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton

I think the word that best applies to him is skanky.

On second thought, make that skanky ho.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:31:59pm

re: #26 freetoken

en.wikipedia.org

Possibly.

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mmmirele  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:33:15pm

It’s not like I wasn’t going to donate, and it’s not like I don’t have it in my head that I will probably run my donations to Clinton up to the legal limit, but holy moly, nine emails from the Clinton campaign in the last 24 hours? Yes, I got the message and I plunked more in the pot. Now just go out and crush him like a bug, Hills, just like you did on Monday.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:36:44pm

re: #29 mmmirele

9 emails in 24 hours? It sounds like an intern on caffeine.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:37:26pm

As my contribution to the Friday Nite Flights, here’s the great Lazy Lester, aka Leslie Johnson, from back in 1958

I’M A LOVER, NOT A FIGHTER - Lazy Lester [Excello 2143] 1958

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freetoken  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:37:43pm

re: #28 PhillyPretzel

I believe that McLuhan would have been quite fascinated with the 2016 election and how we got to where we are today in American politics.

He further claims that the “artist picks up the message of cultural and technological challenge decades before its transforming impact occurs” and so “the artist is indispensible in the shaping and analysis and understanding of the life of forms, and structures, created by electric technology” (65). But by “artist” McLuhan does not mean just the person who formally engages in some artistic endeavor as a profession but the person of “integral awareness,” a point he makes clear when he says: “The artist is the man, in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness” (65). Thus, the artistic perspective serves as an antidote to media narcosis because it allows us to see the big picture and the interrelationship among things, as well as to anticipate technological changes, and their social and cultural implications, before they happen.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:44:50pm
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Timothy Watson  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:45:03pm

re: #30 PhillyPretzel

9 emails in 24 hours? It sounds like an intern on caffeine.

Same here after donating twice.

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:48:19pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:48:39pm
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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:49:40pm

So presidential. Not. So sad. No wonder Newt loves him so much; they’re brothers under the sin.

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philosophus invidius  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:50:13pm
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Belafon  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:50:46pm
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whitebeach  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:53:43pm

OK, so a paraphrase of probably the best bumper sticker of my time, coincidentally the last time prior to now when David Duke featured in national news, the Edwards/Duke Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1991. The scare quotes are advised. We all know who the real “crooked” is this time around.

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:55:31pm

*groan*

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:56:28pm

re: #41 teleskiguy

Caption for the video: We have corralled an uncooperative suspect, he will be interviewed by an InvestiGATOR. Suspect caught trying to escape to the Caimans.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:57:37pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

Sorry, but that is beautiful!

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:58:33pm

re: #43 Ziggy_TARDIS

I thought it corny. Then again, I’m not known for a dry sense of humor.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:59:02pm

re: #25 Decatur Deb

But, at the same time, we should be able to win, given Trump’s inability to control himself, and the fact that the demographics in the US are going to be harsher for Trump than the UK’s were for Brexit. And Brexit only just barely won.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 7:59:37pm

re: #39 Belafon

That sucks. Last month I was the recipient of 7 or 8 bee stings in a matter of a few seconds — plus a wasp sting from some wacko wasp who felt left out of the fun I guess — seriously wasp what was up with that??? — and it only took three days to recover (thanks in great part to Quaker Oats baths), but I still wish the bees all the best, bad ass little sons of drones though they may be.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:03:13pm

Matthew is now a Category 5 Hurricane, the first since Felix over 9 years ago.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:03:21pm

So fucking stupid.

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:03:28pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:03:55pm

re: #47 Ziggy_TARDIS

Matthew is now a Category 5 Hurricane, the first since Felix over 9 years ago.

I have friends and co-workers in Jamaica. Yeah, I’m worried.

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:04:05pm

re: #34 Timothy Watson

Same here after donating twice.

Four times for me.

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:05:45pm

re: #35 teleskiguy

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calochortus  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:06:01pm

re: #46 De Kolta Chair

That sucks. Last month I was the recipient of 7 or 8 bee stings in a matter of a few seconds — plus a wasp sting from some wacko wasp who felt left out of the fun I guess, seriously wasp what was up with that??? — and it only took three days to recover (thanks in great part to Quaker Oats), but I still wish the bees the best, bad ass little sons of drones though they may be.

Wasps and yellowjackets tend to get crabby in the Fall. They start to disperse from their nests, the queens winter over somewhere, but the workers are on their own and unlikely to survive terribly long. They seem to randomly attack at this point. At least there aren’t a bunch of them together out to get you-just the individuals.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:07:21pm

Looks like the October Surprise might be a Hurricane.

Again.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:07:53pm

re: #48 goddamnedfrank

And I am 90% sure this will not work.

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jaunte  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:08:18pm

re: #53 calochortus

I was wondering what was happening to make them so aggressive. My dog and I both got stung this afternoon. She decided nature was angry today, so she stayed in all afternoon and had a nap.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:09:47pm

re: #52 MsJ

And this is the guy who claims he understands psychology.

Riiiiight…..

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:09:48pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:11:31pm

re: #58 goddamnedfrank

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calochortus  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:12:03pm

re: #56 jaunte

I was wondering what was happening to make them so aggressive. My dog and I both got stung this afternoon. She decided nature was angry today, so she stayed in all afternoon and had a nap.

I’m not a yellowjacket fan. I know they’re part of the ecosystem and all that, but you’d think they could be replaced by something less unpleasant.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:13:03pm

re: #54 Ziggy_TARDIS

Let’s just hope this sucker changes direction and skips past us.

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Belafon  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:14:49pm

re: #55 Ziggy_TARDIS

And I am 90% this will not work.

It’s not even that low. How many millenials have heard of Hannity?

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:18:10pm

re: #53 calochortus

Wasps and yellowjackets tend to get crabby in the Fall. They start to disperse from their nests, the queens winter over somewhere, but the workers are on their own and unlikely to survive terribly long. They seem to randomly attack at this point. At least there aren’t a bunch of them together out to get you-just the individuals.

Good points, and as my nephew said as I was swelling up to the size of three Orson Welles’, “They can sense panic, so stay perfectly still,” which is great advice I will try to recall next time a swarm of bees is surrounding me like a herd of Pennywises dragging me down the sewer grate.

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:19:04pm

re: #62 Belafon

It’s not even that low. How many millenials have heard of Hannity?

And how many millennials:
- will blame her for him
- are thoroughly offended by sex
- care about others sex lives
- know or care about hannity

Many will see trump as bullying her, even as she dissects him (which I fully expect she will do).

The only points he may score are for her defending rapists (which I’ll assume is true). That said, this is how our justice system works.

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piratedan  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:19:44pm

re: #49 MsJ

the check bounced….

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:19:52pm

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calochortus  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:20:17pm

re: #63 De Kolta Chair

Actually, I don’t think they care whether you panic or not. Outrunning them is probably your best bet.

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b.d.  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:21:03pm

CLASSIEST PRESIDENT EVER!

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whitebeach  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:21:04pm

re: #62 Belafon

It’s not even that low. How many millenials have heard of Hannity?

Well, if somehow Le Gros Orange is elected, everybody will have heard of Hannity when the proverbial 3 a.m. call comes on the red phone in the White House and the prez answers and says, “Call Sean Hannity.”

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calochortus  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:22:10pm

re: #64 MsJ

And how many millennials:
- will blame her for him
- are thoroughly offended by sex
- care about others sex lives
- know or care about hannity

Many will see trump as bullying her, even as she dissects him (which I fully expect she will do).

The only points he may score are for her defending rapists (which I’ll assume is true). That said, this is how our justice system works.

She was appointed by the judge. She really couldn’t get out of it. There was an odd response when discussing certain aspects of the case some time later, in that she laughed.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:23:22pm

Here’s the latest update to the Topps Garbage Pail Kids limied edit card set.

Go check ‘em out! They even included 400-lb Hacker Earl and 2nd “Allepo” Gary Johnson.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:24:41pm

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:25:30pm

re: #61 Eric The Fruit Bat

Unfortunately, the cone keeps clicking to the west more and more. Half of the Southern tip of Florida is now underneath it.

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:26:42pm

re: #65 piratedan

the check bounced….

More likely never delivered. Only chumps actually pay people. /

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piratedan  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:28:39pm

re: #74 MsJ

loyalty… she is such a fickle beast… :-)

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:31:12pm

Bernie surrogates are still in a snit:

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders’ top surrogates aren’t ready to back Hillary Clinton — despite some requests from the campaign — and say they are using their political capital to push for Sanders’ core priorities, campaign finance reform, instead.

In an interview, Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen, a close ally of Sanders, told BuzzFeed News that Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook reached out to him after the Democratic primary was over to talk about a potential endorsement. “It was short,” Cohen said of the conversation, saying simply that he declined to endorse.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:31:19pm

re: #62 Belafon

It’s not even that low. How many millenials have heard of Hannity?

The real question is how many millenials will condemn Hillary for fighting for her marriage. As it relates to known mistresses like Flowers and Lewinski they absolutely will not give a shit, the moral failing was Bill’s, it’s far in the past and those women knew they were rubbing another woman’s rhubarb.

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:31:56pm

re: #75 piratedan

loyalty… she is such a fickle beast… :-)

Especially when it’s bought and not earned.

And bought on credit. Then filed bankruptcy so it’s not actually paid.

Loyalty. Bah.

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majii  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:34:44pm

re: #49 MsJ

“Today. What changed?”

Gingrich is always a day late and a dollar short on just about everything. Gingrich knows that he has a sordid history in regard to affairs and wives that’s very similar to Trump’s, and maybe, just maybe, he doesn’t want us to start talking about that. We already know that while he was trying to impeach former Pres. Clinton for the Lewinsky incident, he was bonking Callista and cheating on his second wife. Sometimes things have to get personal before some people decide to monitor, and restrict, their own words and behavior. Gingrich cannot have missed the fact that after he joined Trump in criticizing Ms. Marchado, some information began to emerge discussing what he, Trump, and Giuliani have in common, or that every bit of it is true. He can’t return to the 1990s and Bill Clinton without having the media delve into what he was also doing then.

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Jenner7  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:34:46pm

re: #76 Eric The Fruit Bat

At this point, who cares. If Busters are still upset, they simply won’t vote for her. There’s nothing she can do at this point.

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:37:44pm

Fall pron!

Instagram

Sweaty-faced and fatigued after 10+ hours on the move but still stoked and smiling. Can’t wait for another long day in the mountains. Training for #skiaoraki16! 📷 @rob.lea

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philosophus invidius  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:39:29pm

re: #79 majii

In the new Trump era of returned greatness, adultery is fine (for men).

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:41:15pm

Forget the bee stings, that’s old news. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been serving jury duty on a very odd case that is right up NPR’s alley, “serial” wise. Can’t talk about it beyond that of course, but it’s been wacky.

And one thing I’ve been noticing: the crime rate in Manhattan is so low that we’re practically the only major case going on in 100 Centre Street, which is a huge courthouse right next door to the Tombs, and which you’ve probably seen in several of Sidney Lumet’s films like Twelve Angry Men, Serpico, and Prince of the City (which if you haven’t seen, do so asap. A very overlooked flick, and a great “underbelly of the city” type movie). Most days, the joint is a ghost town.

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:41:37pm
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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:41:40pm

re: #80 Jenner7

Though, I will be sure to never buy from Ben & Jerry’s.

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prairiefire  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:43:42pm

re: #83 De Kolta Chair

Maybe you can talk about it once it’s over.

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:44:24pm

re: #79 majii

Stonekettle said it best. Seriously, read this.

stonekettle.com

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:44:53pm

TPM: Rudy Stumbles Outside the Race War Bubble

Salient snippet:

The article doesn’t say precisely what Giuliani said. But these three paragraphs give some flavor.

First, a bit of credit where it’s due. As far as I can tell, the only mention of this incident comes in The New York Observer, which is of course owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law and is now wildly pro-Trump. It also has as its Chief Editor, Ken Kurson, who had a long professional association with Giuliani prior to taking over The Observer. It’s not where I would have expected to see this story. Maybe in the old Observer; not this Observer. In any case, back to our story.

The remarks Giuliani made to the Commercial Finance Association Thursday have not been publicly reported. But an attendee told the Observer the crowd was “shocked” by Giuliani’s comments and that some people began complaining about his speech almost immediately after it was over.
“Rudy talked about immigration and made a really, really inappropriate comment about the quote-unquote Mexicans in the kitchen at the Waldorf,” the attendee said. “It was bad. You could hear a pin drop. I think he was looking for applause.”

A second person in attendance also recalled a remark about Mexicans coming to the country to work illegally in kitchens.

Most of the rest of the email was devoted to expressing the organization’s abhorrence of racism in all forms. So presumably they got an earful that Rudy was pretty racist.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:44:54pm
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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:47:57pm

re: #86 prairiefire

Maybe you can talk about it once it’s over.

Sure thing.

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:48:03pm
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Jenner7  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:48:09pm

Comment is pretty tame. Trump campaign desperate.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:48:36pm
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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:49:12pm

re: #92 Jenner7

That will cause some of the more reflexive to get angry, but I honestly don’t think they would support her anyway.

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:50:27pm

re: #92 Jenner7

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Comment is pretty tame. Trump campaign desperate.

Not just tame but accurate and it shows understanding, possibly empathy, depending on how you read it.

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:51:23pm

re: #93 Charles Johnson

Damn. That’s one fat hedgehog.

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TedStriker  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:51:32pm

re: #85 Ziggy_TARDIS

Though, I will be sure to never buy from Ben & Jerry’s.

Doesn’t really matter much, since Unilever’s owned the brand for years.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:52:02pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

/////

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bmoak  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:53:05pm

re: #85 Ziggy_TARDIS

Though, I will be sure to never buy from Ben & Jerry’s.

Ben & Jerry’s is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever. Ben Cohen is no longer affiliated with the company.

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Jenner7  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:53:31pm

She says more…

Still not seeing how offensive it is. But, I have no fucks to give about pouty, spoiled millennials.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:53:39pm
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austin_blue  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:54:07pm

re: #96 MsJ

Damn. That’s one fat hedgehog.

No shit! My thoughts exactly. Cut back on the super-sized meal worm buffet, dude.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:55:25pm

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austin_blue  Sep 30, 2016 • 8:56:09pm

re: #98 De Kolta Chair

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And remember, nobody fucks with the Jesus.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:01:06pm

re: #39 Belafon

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All kidding aside, this is a very good thing.

Thanks Obama, sir.

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jaunte  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:05:20pm
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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:05:23pm

Btw, does anyone else think Joey Bonamassa looks more like John Hiatt every day?

Not that that’s a bad thing.

Speaking of whom, check out this “action”

Little Village ‘The Action’ Nick Lowe, John Hiatt, Ry Cooder and Jim Keltner

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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:11:11pm
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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:19:00pm

Later lizards, and btw Jim Steranko, you are a god

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Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:19:10pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:19:15pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:26:55pm

Well, anyway….

I was really sweating the debate, what with the polls constantly getting worse and worse, and all the pressure. I managed not to hear anything about how it came out, and didn’t start reading about it (here, of course) until late the next day. Took me till last night to catch up with the comments again.

I’m feeling much better now, and my confidence in the Clinton campaign’s ability to see this through is much higher.

They knew the monster’s every trick
They knew his secrets every stitch
All of it had been a game
Nothing but a charlatan

procol harum the idol

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:27:30pm

re: #106 jaunte

The sooner Inhofe retires the better. He’s damn luck he didn’t get his private pilot’s license revoked for that stunt he pulled a number of years back on that closed runway.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:30:08pm
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Dr. Lexus  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:30:16pm

Carved a pumpkin tonight.

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:30:29pm

re: #110 Charles Johnson

OK, I’ll admit it. That is one of the cutest cat videos I’ve ever seen.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:30:41pm

re: #112 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well, anywho…

Procol Harum - Conquistador (1972)

;-)

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jaunte  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:33:22pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:37:04pm

re: #118 jaunte

I know a lot of folks from Jamaica. This shit is scaring me.

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whitebeach  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:40:37pm

re: #109 De Kolta Chair

Later lizards, and btw Jim Steranko, you are a god

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Unh-uh.

When I was a kid I saw this horrible thing at a Saturday matinee (anybody remember those?) where this diver, complete with a bell helmet, is backing away in terror from a huge attacking octopus. It looked so real. Years later I learned how it was done. The scene was shot in an aquarium, complete with fake coral and other props. The stuntman diver approached the octopus with hands raised and leaning backward as if in fearful self-defense. The octopus, being an intelligent and gentle creature, backed away, waving its tentacles and then releasing a little ink before definitively fleeing the scene. For the movie, they simply ran the whole thing backward. Voila. Killer octopus attacking innocent diver.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:43:04pm

re: #114 Dave In Austin

Maggie Haberman-again.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:49:17pm

WaPo: Chris Matthews sumps up Donald Trump’s Appeal:

A lot of this support for Trump, with all his flaws which he displays regularly, is about the country — patriotic feelings people have, they feel like the country has been let down. Our elite leaders on issues like immigration, they don’t regulate any immigration it seems. They don’t regulate trade to our advantage, to the working man or working woman’s advantage. They take us into stupid wars. Their kids don’t fight but our kids do.

It’s patriotic. They believe in their country. …. [There is a] deep sense that the country is being taken away and betrayed. I think that is so deep with people that they’re looking at a guy who’s flawed as hell like Trump and at least it’s a way of saying I am really angry about the way the elite has treated my country. And it’s so deep that it overwhelms all the bad stuff from Trump. It’s that strong. It’s a strong force wind.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:49:20pm
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Targetpractice  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:50:03pm

re: #121 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Maggie Haberman-again.

And it will be ever bit as effective and successful as the Battle of the Bulge was for the Reich.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:51:53pm

re: #124 Targetpractice

Maggie Haberman is just an awful journalist.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:54:10pm

re: #122 Eric The Fruit Bat

Those people who believe like that need to be shunned and ostracized from society.

That is the best part about immigration. We can simply let people in to replace the trash.

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whitebeach  Sep 30, 2016 • 9:55:53pm

re: #125 Eric The Fruit Bat

Maggie Haberman is just an awful journalist.

FTFY.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:00:28pm

re: #123 Ziggy_TARDIS

That does answer some questions about some media’s soft coverage of him.

Apparently, Cilliza and Matthews are White Supremacists.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:01:40pm

re: #123 Ziggy_TARDIS

From the same article:

So, every time a newspaper endorses against Trump or a celebrity says how dumb he is or a member of the Republican foreign policy establishment condemns him, it cements many people’s belief that what Trump has been saying all along is right. If the elites think Trump is stupid or out of touch (or both), then those same elites think the same things about the average Joe. About you.

The resentment and anger those feelings fuel is why, at some level, it doesn’t matter what Trump says or does. It’s beside the point for many of these people. The point is that he is the channeling of all of their distaste for the state of the country — and the elites who they believe have created it.

Those emotions are why Trump is still within shouting distance of Hillary Clinton despite running one of the least strategic campaigns in modern memory. And it’s why he still has a chance to win despite everything that he has done wrong over these past many months.

Of coures the irony is that Trump bribes uses those very same elites to get his way to get all of the things done to get his properties built. THAT is the thing that needs to be driven home to the Trumpenteriat.

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austin_blue  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:01:47pm

re: #118 jaunte

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Wilma.

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:02:02pm

re: #126 Ziggy_TARDIS

Those people who believe like that need to be shunned and ostracized from society.

re: #128 Ziggy_TARDIS

Apparently, Cilliza and Matthews are White Supremacists.

No. Fuckin’ NO. Here, I’ll post this every time I see you posting dumb hateful shit.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:03:13pm

re: #128 Ziggy_TARDIS

Dude. Seriously. Take a break, and if you haven’t heard about this, read the Wikipedia entry about one of the few non-Muslims to have ever made the pilgrimage to Mecca.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:08:02pm

Apropos of nothing, lately I’ve lost my mind and have been listening to mid and late sixties Mel Tormé. If you like wild horn charts, he’s your man, and this is one of his best. Enjoy and sweet dreams. Did I mention I’ve lost my mind? Thanks Mel!

Take A Letter Maria

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:08:39pm

re: #131 teleskiguy

re: #132 Eric The Fruit Bat

I feel anyone who shows any kindness to Trump supporters should be blasted.

And those statements stray incredibly close to sympathy for White Supremacist thought, or worse.

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makeitstop  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:13:04pm

re: #133 De Kolta Chair

Apropos of nothing, lately I’ve lost my mind and have been listening to mid-sixties Mel Tormé. If you like wild horn charts, he’s your man, and this is one of his best. Enjoy and sweet dreams. Did I mention I lost my mind?

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The Velvet Fog…

I always automatically think of this when someone mentions Mel Torme.

SCTV National Anthem

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:13:13pm

re: #133 De Kolta Chair

Apropos of nothing, lately I’ve lost my mind and have been listening to mid-sixties Mel Tormé. If you like wild horn charts, he’s your man, and this is one of his best. Enjoy and sweet dreams. Did I mention I’ve lost my mind?

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Been watching Night Court a lot lately?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:17:52pm

re: #134 Ziggy_TARDIS

Your though processes are getting seriously distorted and need calibration immediately.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:18:16pm

re: #135 makeitstop

The Velvet Fog…

I always automatically think of this when someone mentions Mel Torme.

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Since you’re still here—I dropped a comment in the dead thread saying how sorry I am about your loss. I went through the same thing earlier this month and it does get a little easier to remember the good times instead of the sadness.

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William Lewis  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:18:30pm

re: #133 De Kolta Chair

Apropos of nothing, lately I’ve lost my mind and have been listening to mid-sixties Mel Tormé. If you like wild horn charts, he’s your man, and this is one of his best. Enjoy and sweet dreams. Did I mention I’ve lost my mind?

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Not one of my favorites, but I dug out my father’s copy of Whipped Cream by Herb Alpert so who am I to say anything? Love that Tijuana brass…

Herb Alpert The Tijuana Brass A Taste of Honey

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:19:30pm

re: #134 Ziggy_TARDIS

The bile you spewed tonight still doesn’t pass the T-H-I-N-K test, especially the last four points:

T-True
H-Helpful
I-Inspiring
N-Necessary
K-Kind

To tell you the truth I get tired of your shit you post here. You need to grow the fuck up.

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retired cynic  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:21:34pm

re: #139 William Lewis

They put on a wonderful live show!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:25:11pm

re: #139 William Lewis

And speaking of the the album…from 2012:
Herb Alpert’s ‘Whipped Cream Lady’ now 76, living in Longview and looking back

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retired cynic  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:26:41pm

re: #141 retired cynic

They were all the rage when I was young; I ushered a big show they did at the Assembly Hall in Champaign Urbana, and my brother and his friends had a ‘brass’ band. My brother was the trombone. They had tight black pants, and white shirts with frills and ruffles, and a black string tie. The kids weren’t even bad! Ah, memories! I’d better finish my Jack and get to bed before I can’t get there.

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BeachDem  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:27:19pm

re: #121 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Maggie Haberman-again.

I love (hate) how Maggie has to delineate each and every allegation the Trump gang makes, even offering “deep background description” about each player, i.e. this one was the one who was looking into allegations about Vince Foster’s death and that one is married to Paula Jone’s lawyer and the other one wrote a book about allegations by Broaddrick and Willey.

But Clinton, according to dear Maggie, “dismissed” things as part of a right wing conspiracy (about which she was 100% correct) and claims that Mrs. Clinton worked to discredit women involved with her husband were only “disputed.”

Maggie has a way with words, but we’re onto you, girlfriend! “

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William Lewis  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:32:18pm

re: #139 William Lewis

That reminds me of how one afternoon, Id listened to Whipped Cream and wanted something else like it so I flipped through his records and saw a cover that caught my eye. I’d never heard of the performer at that point so I threw it on and my oh my was that a surprise.

Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis.

About as different as you can get but I loved it and that cemented most of my preferences in jazz.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:33:33pm

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from 16 km away—about 600 m across the picture. We’ll get much closer pictures as they’re processed. Good work, Rosetta!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:34:27pm

re: #144 BeachDem

She should be fired for incompetence-and the NYTimes editorial board needs some serious delousing.

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Targetpractice  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:34:57pm

re: #146 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from 16 km away—about 600 m across the picture. We’ll get much closer pictures as they’re processed. Good work, Rosetta!

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Surface of a comet, or a set from an episode of Star Trek. You be the judge!

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:35:15pm

re: #146 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

THAT’S THE SURFACE OF A COMET!

THAT’S THE SURFACE OF A COMET!

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Nyet  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:38:16pm

re: #128 Ziggy_TARDIS

That does answer some questions about some media’s soft coverage of him.

Apparently, Cilliza and Matthews are White Supremacists.

There you go again.

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BeachDem  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:38:25pm

re: #147 Eric The Fruit Bat

She should be fired for incompetence.

Early in the campaigns, she was covering Clinton and my claim to fame was being interviewed by her for an article. Granted, my 20 minute interview was reduced to about 4 words in the article, but she seemed a whole lot more objective back then.

She seems to have caught the MoDo disease, and couches every article making excuses for Trump’s behavior and finding something negative to say about Clinton.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:41:25pm

re: #149 teleskiguy

THAT’S THE SURFACE OF A COMET!

THAT’S THE SURFACE OF A COMET!

You’ll appreciate this: On the livestream last night one of the ESA scientists said the material of the comet was 70% void volume and about the consistency of really dry snow.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:44:16pm

re: #152 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

You’ll appreciate this: On the livestream last night one of the ESA scientists said the material of the comet was 70% void volume and about the consistency of really dry snow.

Sounds like a nice object to drop on Sen. Inhofe.

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:46:11pm

re: #146 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I am mesmerized by this photograph.

Jaw. On. Floor.

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:46:15pm

re: #146 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from 16 km away—about 600 m across the picture. We’ll get much closer pictures as they’re processed. Good work, Rosetta!

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It looks like the east side of the Sierra, like around East Portal to Mt Whitney.

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:53:39pm

re: #148 Targetpractice

Surface of a comet, or a set from an episode of Star Trek. You be the judge!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:57:09pm

re: #128 Ziggy_TARDIS

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 30, 2016 • 10:59:02pm

Here’s a series of 15 images from 22.9 km to ~20 m. The final image is kind of blurry.

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 11:04:41pm

re: #158 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Here’s a series of 15 images from 22.9 km to ~20 m. The final image is kind of blurry.

Unbelievable. Those are probably the most amazing photographs I’ve ever laid my eyes on. Absolutely incredible.

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teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2016 • 11:10:06pm

re: #152 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

You’ll appreciate this: On the livestream last night one of the ESA scientists said the material of the comet was 70% void volume and about the consistency of really dry snow.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 30, 2016 • 11:11:09pm

Boomberg Businessweek: Hot Mess: How Goldman Sachs Lost $1.2 Billion of Libya’s Money
When Wall Street’s most aggressive bank took on the world’s most incendiary client, someone was going to make a killing.

Salient snippet:

Pentreath and Kabbaj took a short taxi ride to the Al-Fateh Tower, a two-pronged structure of stupendous ugliness that loomed over Tripoli in a style that might be called totalitarian postmodern. The LIA’s offices were on the 22nd floor. Usually, Kabbaj was shown right in, but this time he and Pentreath were kept waiting for what felt like hours, watched over by an oversize portrait of Qaddafi in military garb. Something wasn’t quite right. Finally, as Kabbaj was called into a boardroom next to Zarti’s office, he recognized three bankers from the French bank Société Générale—Goldman’s main rival for the LIA’s cash. He saw with alarm that they were holding term sheets for Goldman deals and grinning at him as he walked past.

Kabbaj steeled himself and began to address Zarti. The LIA’s day-to-day chief was 38, with plump features, thinning black hair, and a Marlboro Red forever at his lips. He glowered as Kabbaj said that Goldman had some great new trading ideas. Zarti cut him off, saying he wanted to talk about deals that had already been done. Kabbaj started drawing on a whiteboard, running through basic concepts like how options could be “in the money” or “out of the money,” and Pentreath began a technical explanation of the derivatives.

Zarti again interrupted. “Youssef,” he said, “I’m asking you.” Before Kabbaj could say much more, Zarti exploded. Screaming in a mix of English and Arabic, he accused Kabbaj of deceiving the LIA into deals it didn’t understand. He called Goldman “a bank of Mafiosi” and said that he could behave like a Mafioso, too. He stormed out of the room, leaving Kabbaj, Pentreath, and a clutch of LIA staffers in a Marlboro haze.

Shaken, Kabbaj asked Zarti’s aides what had just happened. None had an answer. After a few minutes, Zarti burst back in, angrier than ever. Catherine McDougall, an Australian lawyer who was in the office that day, later recalled Zarti’s words as along the lines of “F—- your mother, f—- you, and get out of my country.” Kabbaj and Pentreath packed up their things.

Zarti followed them into the corridor. If Kabbaj didn’t make amends, he shouted, “we will go after your own family in Morocco!” The Al-Fateh Tower elevators were agonizingly slow to arrive. “What are you still doing here? Get out of my building!” Zarti screamed. He told Pentreath that if he didn’t get in the lift soon, he’d throw him out the window.

Kabbaj was white with shock. Zarti had saved his most chilling remark for him. “You are only a Moroccan here in Libya,” he said. “I can make you disappear, and nobody will ever hear back from you.”

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sagehen  Sep 30, 2016 • 11:15:28pm

Somebody has a really good idea how to rehab Penn Station:

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Kragar  Sep 30, 2016 • 11:26:40pm
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FormerDirtDart  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:17:09am

re: #162 sagehen

Somebody has a really good idea how to rehab Penn Station:

I kind of like it. I question how they’ll keep that multi-story terrarium reasonably cool during the height of summer though.

I also like the concept of moving the Garden to the Post Office annex. The idea of retaining the Farley & annex facade is appealing to me. Though, they would likely have add structure on top of the current footprint.

I do have concerns about the person flow of event attendees. The current infrastructure pretty much feeds right into MSG now. Not insurmountable, but something that would need to thoroughly planned for.

Also, local businesses would be effected. Even the small one block move west could seriously reduce traffic to establishments slightly north and south on 7th Ave, and anything east.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:18:11am

Darrel Issa (R-Calif) threatens to sue retired Marine colonel Doug Applegate (D) for a political advert against Issa questioning how he got so rich in Congress.

dailykos.com

Strangely, he references Daily Kos in the threat, which first brought up Doug Applegate’s advert.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:26:56am

re: #166 Cheechako

For those who might still be awake in the northern States.

Forecast: Auroral activity will be high(+). Weather permitting, highly active auroral displays will be visible overhead from Inuvik, Yellowknife, Rankin and Igaluit to Vancouver, Helena, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Bay City, Toronto, Montpelier, and Charlottetown, and visible low on the horizon from Salem, Boise, Cheyenne, Lincoln, Indianapolis and Annapolis.

I was just outside in the village park raising the flag from half-staff. The Northern Lights here are low on the horizon but pretty kewl.

Was there a solar flare or something recently?

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Dave In Austin  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:27:31am
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Ubiq  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:37:58am
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Cheechako  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:39:25am

re: #167 Anymouse

I

Was there a solar flare or something recently?

I suspect there was. Good aurora displays usually occur 2-4 days after a major solar flare.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:43:05am

re: #97 TedStriker

Doesn’t really matter much, since Unilever’s owned the brand for years.

Look on the far right. Unilever owns several ice cream brands, including Breyer’s, which used to be the premium, all-natural brand back when I was a kid. Now it’s dreck.

Here’s one I found for beers. SAB Miller and AB In Bev will merge later this month.

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Cheechako  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:46:09am

Here’s the aurora website so you can keep up to date on the aurora forecasts:

Aurora Forcasts - Alaska Geophysical Institute

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:49:54am

re: #173 Cheechako

Here’s the aurora website so you can keep up to date on the aurora forecasts:

Aurora Forcasts - Alaska Geophysical Institute

Well, the map shows the curve of the low horizon aurora well south of the Nebraska Panhandle. That ‘splains why I can see it.

Thanks.

Last year my wife and I were driving home in the middle of the winter and there was a spectacular aurora, about 30 degrees up in the sky and greenish-white.

When I was a teenager is the first time I remember seeing an aurora (in Michigan). I went outside to deliver newspapers, and the aurora was coloured and about 45 degrees or so, and intensely bright. Scared the P out of me. (I don’t recall seeing one before that.)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:55:46am

re: #139 William Lewis

Not one of my favorites, but I dug out my father’s copy of Whipped Cream by Herb Alpert so who am I to say anything? Love that Tijuana brass…

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Video

I had that album, too! Or rather my dad did, and I inherited it. Wish I had kept it.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:56:56am

re: #174 Anymouse

Well, the map shows the curve of the low horizon aurora well south of the Nebraska Panhandle. That ‘splains why I can see it.

Thanks.

Last year my wife and I were driving home in the middle of the winter and there was a spectacular aurora, about 30 degrees up in the sky and greenish-white.

When I was a teenager is the first time I remember seeing an aurora (in Michigan). I went outside to deliver newspapers, and the aurora was coloured and about 45 degrees or so, and intensely bright. Scared the P out of me. (I don’t recall seeing one before that.)

In 1980, I think it was, I was working graveyard and was walking around the building when the whole western sky lit up with a bright flash. The weather was perfectly clear. We had thunderstorms occasionally of course, but it was always overcast and raining buckets. I have to admit lightning never entered my mind. I jumped behind one of the pylons and started counting seconds waiting for the shock wave.

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Cheechako  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:57:44am

Signing off to see if I can see the aurora. The last few nights have been clear but I have a well lighted park behind my house and a couple of mountains not too far away that block the view when the aurora is just above the horizon.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:59:25am

re: #175 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I had that album, too! Or rather my dad did, and I inherited it. Wish I had kept it.

My mother has every Herb Alpert album he released except Rise. (I have Rise.)

Youtube Video

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:08:09am

Mr. Trump’s new outreach programme for women voters? /s

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:11:06am

re: #162 sagehen

Somebody has a really good idea how to rehab Penn Station:

I like the proposal. It reminds me of the spacious, well lit train stations for the high speed rail in China.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:18:18am

video.gq.com

Keith Olbermann on the surest way to gauge support for Hillary Clinton: Betting markets.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:19:04am

re: #178 Anymouse

My mother has every Herb Alpert album he released except Rise. (I have Rise.)

I have digital versions of most of them now. Years after Tijuana Brass was popular, I read about how the band was formed, and how the music managed to blend pop, jazz, Latin and mariachi sounds to create something new and very popular. None of them were Hispanic.

Though some adopted a prototypical physical appearance, no one in Alpert’s band was actually Hispanic. Alpert used to tell his audiences that his group consisted of “Four lasagnas, two bagels, and an American cheese”:

en.wikipedia.org

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:22:50am
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Single-handed sailor  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:29:19am

re: #183 Single-handed sailor
A bigger image that’s live you can refresh the page about once a minute to get a new image below.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:33:40am

re: #182 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I have digital versions of most of them now. Years after Tijuana Brass was popular, I read about how the band was formed, and how the music managed to blend pop, jazz, Latin and mariachi sounds to create something new and very popular. None of them were Hispanic.

en.wikipedia.org

My late parents had this album in the record collection:

It was a promo album that Taco Bell used to give out during the late 1960s. I wish I’d kept it, actually - it was in excellent condition.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:35:54am

re: #184 Single-handed sailor

Did you put that in the private brackets because it is scary? /s

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:42:29am

Donald Trump is claiming he will match donations to his campaign.

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I thought he was going to self-fund it? /s

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Teukka  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:05:41am

Saturday artwork. Had my mom come by with my D50. Enjoy.

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Imgur

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:17:23am

re: #181 Anymouse

video.gq.com

Keith Olbermann on the surest way to gauge support for Hillary Clinton: Betting markets.

Yep. He’s not the first person to use this as an indicator and it makes sense too. Unless the race is really close. Betfair totally blew it with Brexit.

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freetoken  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:19:55am

re: #165 Anymouse

Car Thief is vulnerable this year, and he knows it. I’m not in that district, but I hope that many will turn out and vote Car Thief out of office.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:21:43am

Two items:

1) My representative Adrian Smith (R-NE3) had a letter in the local paper where he claimed no one has a right to kneel during the National Anthem. That has been followed for a couple days by people in support of Mr. Smith’s position (including one person who was in the Navy for four years trying to conflate what is in the Flag Code with what is in the Uniform Code of Military Justice - the rules about the flag in the UCMJ are absolutely enforceable on military personnel, the Flag Code has no enforcement authority, and the Supreme Court has already ruled on such things).

I would write, but the paper will only print one letter every thirty days and I just had one printed.

2) joemygod.com

The creator of the Pepe the Frog cartoon is voting for Hillary Clinton.

“I’ve seen outrageous stuff involving Pepe online before, but I try not to dwell on it. I blame Trump for all of this, because he kind of looks like this smug Pepe meme. Now it’s just this runaway train. But the people who are driving this train are these anonymous Internet trolls who don’t stand for anything except for nihilism and getting a rise out of whatever racist or sexist or disgusting thing they can do. It’s just an idiotic joke… I’m voting for Hillary for sure. I was a big fan of Bernie, but that fizzled out, so I’m all Hillary 2016.”

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:26:01am

re: #189 Nyet

Yep. He’s not the first person to use this as an indicator and it makes sense too. Unless the race is really close. Betfair totally blew it with Brexit.

The Brexit polling was tight, much more sparse compared to the US and probably due to that sparsity the polling in the UK has a history of increased unreliability. Garbage in, garbage out. With more information to work with betting markets become more rational, but I still wouldn’t put them above any of the big three statistical aggregation models.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:26:24am

re: #191 Anymouse

I feel bad for the guy, just like feel bad for the Buddhists whose swastika was repurposed by the alt-right of old.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:28:42am

re: #192 goddamnedfrank

It was useful in gauging the debate effect, as KO points out - strips away the online polls spin.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:30:23am

re: #193 Nyet

I feel bad for the guy, just like feel bad for the Buddhists whose swastika was repurposed by the alt-right of old.

Well, he no longer draws the Pepe the Frog cartoon; several years ago he started illustrating children’s books. He says he has moved on from Boys Club (the comic in which Pepe appears) and tries not to think about it too much.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:31:51am
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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:32:48am

Who has a sane, minimally partisan and also compact source on Clinton’s role in the Honduran crisis (aside from wikipedia)? The bros are still whining about it and I don’t have time to go in-depth…

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EPR-radar  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:34:05am

re: #122 Eric The Fruit Bat

WaPo: Chris Matthews sumps up Donald Trump’s Appeal:

IMO the Matthews/Cillizza thesis accounts for some of Trump’s appeal, but the fact that Trump won the GOP primary by out-bigoting and out-assholing the other GOP candidates can’t be forgotten.

Yes, it sucks that the elites are disconnecting themselves from the rest of society. That is not a justification for an eruption of bigotry and aggressive stupidity like the Trump campaign.

Most of this disconnection of the elites from everyone else is result of ever-increasing plutocracy. The obvious remedy is to reduce wealth/income inequality, rather than stoke bigotry and division among those who work for a living.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:38:54am

re: #198 EPR-radar

Agreed on the first two paragraphs. The core nationalist sentiment is at least as much a driving force as the “elite disconnect”, and it remains to be seen how much the latter is just an excuse to go full scale racist. So the Matthews-Cillizza analysis is lacking (albeit calling them “white supremacists” for being wrong is idiotic and irresponsible).

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:39:16am

re: #198 EPR-radar

IMO the Matthews/Cillizza thesis accounts for some of Trump’s appeal, but the fact that Trump won the GOP primary by out-bigoting and out-assholing the other GOP candidates can’t be forgotten.

Yes, it sucks that the elites are disconnecting themselves from the rest of society. That is not a justification for an eruption of bigotry and aggressive stupidity like the Trump campaign.

Most of this disconnection of the elites from everyone else is result of ever-increasing plutocracy. The obvious remedy is to reduce wealth/income inequality, rather than stoke bigotry and division among those who work for a living.

I think the demographic they describe is heavily overrepresented in the polls. Being unemployed or underemployed or employed with miserable on-call hours, they’re sitting by their landline phones a lot more than most.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:43:34am

Scott Adams, who pretended to be a forced-Hillary-supporter for a while (it was always with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge) now calls Hillary supporters Nazis:

The guy is downright creepy. I wouldn’t feel safe around him in person.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:49:46am

I didn’t think Lee Camp’s avi could become even douchier, but here’s the new one:

Image: jDtICjYs.jpg

The pure essence of a BernieBro.

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Trumpia est omnis divisa in duo calathi(Sophist)  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:58:53am

re: #149 teleskiguy

THAT’S THE SURFACE OF A COMET A SOUNDSTAGE IN HOLLYWOOD!

///

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:05:29am

re: #197 Nyet

Who has a sane, minimally partisan and also compact source on Clinton’s role in the Honduran crisis (aside from wikipedia)? The bros are still whining about it and I don’t have time to go in-depth…

There is no compact source, because the problem in Honduras was extremely complicated.

There is nothing wrong with the Wikipedia article, as all of it is sourced to original reporting.

I presume if you are dealing with a particular dudebro, ask what his specific objection to the USA or other actors’ responses were, hunt down that action in the Honduras article, then find the original source for the Wikipedia entry.

en.wikipedia.org

As for Hillary Clinton’s involvement in the constitutional crisis that lead to the coup and exile of the Honduran President, her role was to suggest mediation talks (hardly warmongering), after Zelaya came to Washington. Clinton’s role was to help set up negotiations in Costa Rica, which the US did not participate in. The Costa Rican President was the mediator. The talks failed, due to the differences between Zelaya and the coup government, not from anything we did.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:07:13am

re: #204 Anymouse

That was my impression, but I’m biased…

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:10:01am

So knowing how guys like Adams tick, I expected some playing around with Holocaust denial too. Because the model of thinking involved, say, in his evolution “skepticism”, as well as his desire to be some sort of a heretic, usually also leads to “Holocaust skepticism”. I couldn’t find anything on his blog, but then I stumbled on the RationalWiki article, which says that this post was deleted from his blog:

web.archive.org

I’d also like to know how the Holocaust death total of 6 million was determined. Is it the sort of number that is so well documented with actual names and perhaps a Nazi paper trail that no historian could doubt its accuracy, give or take ten thousand? Or is it like every other LRN (large round number) that someone pulled out of his ass and it became true by repetition? Does the figure include resistance fighters and civilians who died in the normal course of war, or just the Jews rounded up and killed systematically? No reasonable person doubts that the Holocaust happened, but wouldn’t you like to know how the exact number was calculated, just for context? Without that context, I don’t know if I should lump the people who think the Holocaust might have been exaggerated for political purposes with the Holocaust deniers. If they are equally nuts, I’d like to know that. I want context.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:24:46am

re: #206 Nyet

So knowing how guys like Adams tick, I expected some playing around with Holocaust denial too. Because the model of thinking involved, say, in his evolution “skepticism”, as well as his desire to be some sort of a heretic, usually also leads to “Holocaust skepticism”. I couldn’t find anything on his blog, but then I stumbled on the RationalWiki article, which says that this post was deleted from his blog:

web.archive.org

He has a problem with large round numbers, but wants to simplify a complex problem (WW2 and the Axis powers’ role in the Holocaust) but wants it in a neat easily understood package.

It is the same sort of bad thinking that leads to vaccine, evolution, or climate science “scepticism.” Not all things, not even historic things, can be reduced to simple answers. The same applies to the discussion above about Honduras.

Over-simplification of a problem is a sign of muddy thinking (see creationism).

The Nazis were very thorough at documenting the numbers of people put through their concentration and death camps. The numbers come from that documentation. However, the tranche of documentation is huge. To point Mr. Adams at a summary sheet of “these are all the people we killed from 1933 to 1945, Mein Fuhrer” is not going to happen.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:27:50am

Aurora are waking up in Alaska.

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Teukka  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:27:57am

Just noticed this, shamelessly plugging what Thanos paged:
GOP Blocks Probes Into Trump-Russia Ties

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:29:59am

re: #207 Anymouse

The Nazis were indeed very thorough but most of the documentation was destroyed, we only have fragments of it, which is why we can only rely on the quite crude demographic data for the whole number, which will always have a margin of error of hundreds of thousands - which is why I, for example, always say “between 5 and 6 million”. There is a whole range of numbers in the literature (Hilberg’s estimate was 5.1 million).

“6 million” is indeed a “media number”, but you can’t go on explaining the complexities involved each time you mention it, so while it is indeed a simplification, it’s an inevitable one.

All of this Adams could have learned by googling around a bit.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:30:59am

re: #209 Teukka

Just noticed this, shamelessly plugging what Thanos paged:
GOP Blocks Probes Into Trump-Russia Ties

The party of appeasers.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:32:19am

Mr. Adams also skirts conspiracy theory: That a huge number of military investigators, former Nazi officials, courts, and governments all worked together to cover up the “actual” number of people estimated killed in the Holocaust. A conspiracy so vast that it would be impossible to maintain.

Mr. Adams is not going to get a perfect number of Jews, Poles, atheists, disabled, dissidents, and others killed by Hitler’s government and allied governments. The estimates come from the testimony and documentation available after the war. He wants a pat answer, in the same way climate science deniers want a pat answer.

Just because he doesn’t understand it (or doesn’t want to understand it) doesn’t make it true. It is more of the anti-intellectualism and disdain for experts that conservatives in our country have long mollycoddled.

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Teukka  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:34:20am

re: #211 Nyet

The party of appeasers.

<question type=’rhethorical’>How much more obvious does the stink have to get?</question>

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:34:20am

re: #210 Nyet

The Nazis were indeed very thorough but most of the documentation was destroyed, we only have fragments of it, which is why we can only rely on the quite crude demographic data for the whole number, which will always have a margin of error of hundreds of thousands - which is why I, for example, always say “between 5 and 6 million”. There is a whole range of numbers in the literature (Hilberg’s estimate was 5.1 million).

“6 million” is indeed a “media number”, but you can’t go on explaining the complexities involved each time you mention it, so while it is indeed a simplification, it’s an inevitable one.

All of this Adams could have learned by googling around a bit.

But you can’t trust Wikipedia.

Nevermind that everything in Wikipedia leads back to original sources.

Adams doesn’t want to learn it. Adams already knows what he knows, and that is the Holocaust is either inflated or a hoax. It is very difficult to argue with true believers (try it with a religious person sometimes; Holocaust denial is a religion too).

Saying “show me the proof” is nothing more than deflection. He knows the proof is there; he doesn’t believe the proof.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:35:48am

re: #214 Anymouse

But you can’t trust Wikipedia.

Nevermind that everything in Wikipedia leads back to original sources.

Indeed. Wiki is often a poor source in itself, but a good springboard for further research.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:37:39am

re: #215 Nyet

Indeed. Wiki is often a poor source in itself, but a good springboard for further research.

It’s not a poor source, it’s a second source.

Second sources are good for your average everyday discussion or argument, but are not normally accepted for rigorous study or debate.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 3:39:42am

re: #216 Anymouse

It’s not a poor source, it’s a second source.

Second sources are good for your average everyday discussion or argument, but are not normally accepted for rigorous study or debate.

I did not say it’s a poor source. I said it’s often a poor source, and it is.
E.g for years hundreds of wikipedia articles relied on a Holocaust denial website scrapbookpages, with editors apparently unable to differentiate between a legitimate source and something some person with a grudge posted online.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 4:03:50am

Don’t you dare fact-shame Donald Trump!

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 4:11:25am
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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 4:19:05am

Off to bed … pain meds making me sleepy.

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 1, 2016 • 4:29:15am

re: #132 Eric The Fruit Bat

Dude. Seriously. Take a break, and if you haven’t heard about this, read the Wikipedia entry about one of the few non-Muslims to have ever made the pilgrimage to Mecca.

These two books of Burton’s travels to Al-Madinah and Meccah in 1853 are a good read:

-Whether telling of the crowded caravan to Mecca, engaging in minute analysis of Bedouin [as well as Syrian, Persian, Afghan] character, waxing lyrical about a desert landscape, or reporting conversations with townsfolk or fellow pilgrims, Burton gives us a vivid picture of the region and its people-

Richard Burton
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah (Volume 1)
Revised ed. Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0486212173, ISBN-10: 0486212173

Richard Burton
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah (Volume 2)
ISBN-13: 978-0486212180, ISBN-10: 0486212181

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 4:34:53am

re: #221 BeenHereAwhile

Burton, what a creepy fellow. Totally bought the blood libel accusation, wrote a book about it.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 4:56:23am

re: #206 Nyet

Re this ” I’d also like to know how the Holocaust death total of 6 million was determined”

I’m just jumping in so forgive if I misinterpret

I assume this is referring to Jews only
There were another 7-14 million non active soldier-combatants exterminated or killed

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:00:51am

re: #222 Nyet

Burton, what a creepy fellow. Totally bought the blood libel accusation, wrote a book about it.

Sorry, I missed that part in the two books I listed.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:03:20am

re: #224 BeenHereAwhile

Sorry, I missed that part in the two books I listed.

No problem, it doesn’t mean the books are worthless, just something to keep in mind.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:04:39am

re: #223 dangerman

Re this ” I’d also like to know how the Holocaust death total of 6 million was determined”

I’m just jumping in so forgive if I misinterpret

I assume this is referring to Jews only
There were another 7-14 million non active soldier-combatants exterminated or killed

Yeah. An attempt at systematizing these stats:

holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com

holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:11:50am

re: #226 Nyet

Yeah. An attempt at systematizing these stats:

holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com

holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com

Ah ho worries then
As I said I didn’t review where this started

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:13:36am
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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:16:08am

Briefly back, because I found this:

Colorado state representative Gordon Klingenschmitt (R-Dominionist): Demonic Spirits At ABC Are ‘Bringing Sodomy’ Upon America

rightwingwatch.org

(with video of Klingenschmitt’s unhinged rant on his programme):

On a recent episode of his “Pray In Jesus Name” program, Religious Right activist and Colorado state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt railed against the ABC television network for developing a new drama about the “fictional town of Grace, Missouri [that] centers on a family of adult siblings whose lives are upended when their stalwart minister father reveals to his family that he is gay.”

“ABC News [sic] is defaming and attacking the true church by mocking the Bible and even mocking pastors who denounce homosexuality,” Klingenschmitt complained, before reciting the biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah as a warning.

“Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah? Because of the sin of homosexuality,” he declared. “So, if you’re a pastor of a megachurch and you don’t believe the Bible, beware; you’re bringing sodomy and maybe the consequences thereof upon America, and we discern that demonic spirit inside of the producers at ABC television.”

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:17:48am

re: #228 dangerman

No.6 is bogus, being a real Christian doesn’t depend on voting for Trump (unless one accepts the false rosy-positive picture of Christianity).

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:19:13am

re: #222 Nyet

Burton, what a creepy fellow. Totally bought the blood libel accusation, wrote a book about it.

Didn’t Burton also publish an expurgated version of the 1,001 Nights?

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:20:51am

re: #231 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Didn’t Burton also publish an expurgated version of the 1,001 Nights?

You mean “un…”? Consider Burton’s sex-notoriety.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:21:15am

re: #230 Nyet

No.6 is bogus, being a real Christian doesn’t depend on voting for Trump (unless one accepts the false rosy-positive picture of Christianity).

The link to Daily Kos doesn’t work for me.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:21:59am

re: #233 Anymouse

Neither for me, but I can access it from the DK frontpage.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:23:41am

re: #232 Nyet

You mean “un…”? Consider Burton’s sex-notoriety.

Honesty, I know very little about Sir Richard Burton the writer, and only a bit more about Sir Richard the actor.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:25:17am

re: #230 Nyet

No.6 is bogus, being a real Christian doesn’t depend on voting for Trump (unless one accepts the false rosy-positive picture of Christianity).

I read it as opposite. How does a religious person support someone who does so many things personally that are so anathema to religion and is not repentant or ashamed but brazen

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:26:30am

re: #236 dangerman

I read it as opposite. How does a religious person support someone who does so many things personally that are so anathema to religion and is not repentant or ashamed but brazen

Same logic could be applied to our candidates (abortion, homosexuality, etc.).

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:32:20am

re: #234 Nyet

Neither for me, but I can access it from the DK frontpage.

I can’t find it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:32:30am

re: #236 dangerman

I read it as opposite. How does a religious person support someone who does so many things personally that are so anathema to religion and is not repentant or ashamed but brazen

They’re hypocrites?

Or perhaps just stupid.

Support for Trump from the Religious Right just tells me the RR leaders are only in politics to acquire power and influence — they don’t care how they achieve it. As for their flocks, such people are not known for being free or independent thinkers. If Pastor Bob says any Republican is blessed by the Lord, and any Democrat is a tool of Satan, they’ll vote for the Republican without much thought, even if that Republican is a philandering, pathological liar who can’t tell Second Corinthians from Five Guys.

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jeffreyw  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:33:09am

Imgur


Good morning!

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:34:31am

re: #239 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

RRs vote because of the SCOTUS.

The only false Christians are people who say they are Christians but secretly belong to another religion or to no religion at all.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:41:45am

re: #241 Nyet

RRs vote because of the SCOTUS.

The only false Christians are people who say they are Christians but secretly belong to another religion or to no religion at all.

Sure, they’re hoping that Roe v. Wade will be overturned — it’s the modern version of the Holy Grail for the RR. Plus, they want same-sex marriage banned, and probably interracial marriage, too, for good measure.

How much do you know about the Seven Mountains and Dominionism?

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:43:37am

re: #233 Anymouse

The link to Daily Kos doesn’t work for me.

Sorry can’t fix it from my phone

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:43:43am

dailykos.com

I found it.

As for number 6 (you aren’t really a Christian), that falls in the “no true Christian” fallacy department.

Virtually every Christian sect feels the others “are not true Christians” in one way or another. I would argue that things like supporting the death penalty and such are hallmarks of Christianity over two thousand years. As for Trump and his casinos, I don’t know of any place in Jesus’s words in the New Testament where he condemns gambling. As for not asking forgiveness, that was a feature of the Catholic Church for a millennium and a half, where a person only confessed sins on their death bed.

Christians who claim every Muslim on the planet should be calling out the few in their midst who do harm to others, those are hypocrites (which Jesus did condemn). If they demand every Muslim on the planet call out the crimes of a few, I figure that as an atheist I should expect the same from Christians. They do not demand every Christian publicly call out evil done in their name; many tacitly support it (bombing abortion clinics, &c).

Since so many are hypocrites anyway, supporting Trump is nothing compared to that. (Besides, there is always the fallback position of so many Christians: We’re not perfect, just forgiven. Presumably they forgive Trump.)

Christianity has supported genocide in its past, even in this country’s history. Trump calling for things that come close to it (banning Muslims is only a short step to killing Muslims) is actually central to Christianity, not an aberration.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:44:40am

Here’s a new link

Link

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b.d.  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:45:22am

Good Morning Lizards

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:48:23am

re: #246 b.d.

Good Morning Lizards

[Embedded content]

Certainly less controversial than #6

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:49:16am

re: #244 Anymouse

Modern liberal versions of Christianity look more like a historical aberration.

And to anyone who claims to be able to differentiate between false and real Christians (with the exception of the objectively clear cases, like e.g. the Marranos), I can only say: on what basis? On the basis of your own interpretations of the Christian Scriptures? Why would another sect accept them? And are you sure that yours doesn’t suffer from the cafeteria approach?

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Shiplord Kirel  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:49:21am

More nuclear madness from the 50s:


The Vault of the Atomic Space Age
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Shiplord Kirel  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:53:41am

re: #249 Shiplord Kirel

The whole issue is posted here:
Pappy’s Golden Age Comic Blogzine: Andy’s Atomic Adventures

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 5:58:13am

re: #249 Shiplord Kirel

More nuclear madness from the 50s:

[Embedded content]

The Vault of the Atomic Space Age

The nuclear propaganda from the government was miles away from the nuclear reality that scientists (and witnesses to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts) understood. Even the concept that America could survive a nuclear war was insane.

Unfortunately, idiots like Ted Cruz believe nukes are like conventional bombs, and have no long-term effects, so sure! let’s drop a couple nukes on ISIS!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:01:34am

So, how is it iTunes Windows version is now 177MB? How much code is needed to catalog and play music? WTF.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:02:55am
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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:04:17am

re: #251 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The nuclear propaganda from the government was miles away from the nuclear reality that scientists (and witnesses to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts) understood. Even the concept that America could survive a nuclear war was insane.

Unfortunately, idiots like Ted Cruz believe nukes are like conventional bombs, and have no long-term effects, so sure! let’s drop a couple nukes on ISIS!

Not just Senator Cruz; Donald Trump wants to know if we have nukes why can’t we use them? Dominionists like Rick Santorum and Rick Perry who want to get into a religious war with Muslims in the Middle East would be hard pressed not to bring about the Armageddon in the Apocalypse (Revelation) either (they might see it as doing God’s work).

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:10:54am

re: #248 Nyet

Modern liberal versions of Christianity look more like a historical aberration.

And to anyone who claims to be able to differentiate between false and real Christians (with the exception of the objectively clear cases, like e.g. the Marranos), I can only say: on what basis? On the basis of your own interpretations of the Christian Scriptures? Why would another sect accept them? And are you sure that yours doesn’t suffer from the cafeteria approach?

Modern “liberal” versions of Christianity only exist because the whole religion was dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era by the Enlightenment.

Without a secular state to impose restrictions on what they can do now, the most fundamentalist and violent of the sects would overwhelm the others again and reimpose theocratic governance.

Contrary to the feel-good narrative about the Puritans coming to Massachusetts to escape persecution, the real reason they came was to set up a theocracy (which they did). Puritans (Congregationalists) tortured, exiled, or killed outright Baptists, Quakers, or anyone else not a Puritan.

It was the Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut who stumped hard for a clause in the Bill of Rights to include separation of church and state, because they were weak and needed government protection. Baptists today want to tear out the same separation because they no longer need protection, they wish to rule.

The American Family Association right now is stumping to have the Johnson Amendment removed the tax code so they can politick from the pulpit; a large number of various denominations of churches are right in there with them.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:12:43am

re: #254 Anymouse

Not just Senator Cruz; Donald Trump wants to know if we have nukes why can’t we use them? Dominionists like Rick Santorum and Rick Perry who want to get into a religious war with Muslims in the Middle East would be hard pressed not to bring about the Armageddon in the Apocalypse (Revelation) either (they might see it as doing God’s work).

That particular reliance on Revelation as a roadmap for the future scares the living shit out of me. Some guy hallucinating on ergot or whatever two millennia ago has been taken as a literal prediction of the End of Days, which some equally insane modern nuts would like to happen sooner rather than never.

Plus, there are radical Muslims with a similar expectation of a Final Showdown, and they’d also be more than happy to accelerate the timeline.

Trump would drop a nuke without a thought, because he never takes responsibility for any decision he makes.

To paraphrase Tom Lehrer,

Once they go up, who cares where they come down?
That’s not my department, says Donald the Clown.

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darthstar  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:13:41am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:17:33am

re: #256 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

That particular reliance on Revelation as a roadmap for the future scares the living shit out of me. Some guy hallucinating on ergot or whatever two millennia ago has been taken as a literal prediction of the End of Days, which some equally insane modern nuts would like to happen sooner rather than never.

Remember, lotsa of folks who are adamant about supporting Israel do not care about Jews or Judaism, they just need a resurgent Israel to fulfill their End-Times Prophecies.

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darthstar  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:19:07am
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Decatur Deb  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:20:16am
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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:20:35am

re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Some say that Evangelicals are behind Israel for the wrong reasons: they see Israel’s existence as a necessary precursor for Armageddon and the second coming of Christ, visions which do not include a place for Jews. These religious beliefs, however, speak to an unknown future (indeed one that Jews do not envision). Meanwhile, the very real present is one in which Evangelical leaders are educating their publics about the importance of Israel’s existence, security and well-being, that no amount of public relations and advertising budgets could buy.

archive.adl.org

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:21:02am

re: #253 Nyet

[Embedded content]

That’s a good EP. I like it and I’m looking forward to their next album. I’m wondering if “Square Hammer” is a hint of the musical direction they’re moving in?

Ghost - Square Hammer

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b.d.  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:21:37am

Yesterday I told my office to put me down as being on vacation November 9th because I’m getting drunk on election night no matter what the outcome.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:22:38am

re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember, lotsa of folks who are adamant about supporting Israel do not care about Jews or Judaism, they just need a resurgent Israel to fulfill their End-Times Prophecies.

Many also believe that once every person on Earth is made a Christian, Jesus will descend from Heaven and bring forth a New Eden.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:24:59am

As for me, I’m gonna watch Luke Cage, episode 2.

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MsJ  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:30:26am
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Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:30:31am

re: #190 freetoken

Car Thief is vulnerable this year, and he knows it. I’m not in that district, but I hope that many will turn out and vote Car Thief out of office.

And note that it’s a *threat* to so. Probably a “please proceed” moment for Issa since discovery for an actual lawsuit would probably turn up a lot of contribution and other activity he would prefer not to see the light of day.

And I doubt that the threat would have much effect on Applegate since I expect that someone with money will have his back for the legal fees.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:34:29am

re: #198 EPR-radar

IMO the Matthews/Cillizza thesis accounts for some of Trump’s appeal, but the fact that Trump won the GOP primary by out-bigoting and out-assholing the other GOP candidates can’t be forgotten.

Yes, it sucks that the elites are disconnecting themselves from the rest of society. That is not a justification for an eruption of bigotry and aggressive stupidity like the Trump campaign.

Most of this disconnection of the elites from everyone else is result of ever-increasing plutocracy. The obvious remedy is to reduce wealth/income inequality, rather than stoke bigotry and division among those who work for a living.

Yes. But the playbook for the elites to win the class war says to stoke the bigotry and division among the workers in order to keep they divided against themselves by convincing them that there is a race war going on.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:45:34am

re: #252 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So, how is it iTunes Windows version is now 177MB? How much code is needed to catalog and play music? WTF.

It bloated enough that I no longer run it. My older laptop here cannot run it and a browser (Chrome or Firefox) at the same time. Literally so much memory usage between the two that any music I try to play stutters.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 1, 2016 • 6:55:02am

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice, for they shall have their fill.
but
Thou shalt be careful to guard thy 501(c)(4).

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plansbandc  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:15:06am

re: #63 De Kolta Chair

Upding for “… swelling up to the size of three Orson Welles’”

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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:18:41am
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darthstar  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:18:58am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:24:57am

re: #269 Feline Fearless Leader

It bloated enough that I no longer run it. My older laptop here cannot run it and a browser (Chrome or Firefox) at the same time. Literally so much memory usage between the two that any music I try to play stutters.

Ha. I tried to upgrade, and the download choked. So I said forget it.

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lawhawk  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:28:30am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Kinda soggy here in the region, but it’s okay. We need the rain. Meanwhile, Trump’s past continues to get dug up.

You really have to wonder why none of the GOPers in the clown bus ever bothered to do any of this. Why did none of the media do this while Trump was surging in the primaries? This would have been useful to them to blunt his ascendancy.

Guess they weren’t that opposed to Trump after all. Style versus substance, and on the substance, Trump truly is one of them. Deplorable.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:30:12am

re: #274 Alephnaught

Hmmm…

“Ukip denies that Nigel Farage is coaching Donald Trump for next debate”

Trump being coached by Farage, Trump being coached by Steve Bannon of Breitbart, Breitbart London supports Ukip, another foreigner fiddling in our electoral process, with Breitbart the apparent go-between.

The GOP really doesn’t care about any of this do they? Refusing to open a congressional investigation of all the alleged Russian connexions between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin; now there is apparently a connexion between Ukip and their candidate. (It would be irresponsible to speculate whether Breitbart is mixing funds in the UK and the USA to support Trump’s campaign.)

Conservatives really care more about winning than either the integrity of our political process or our nation. Win at all costs.

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lawhawk  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:30:43am

By the way, we’ve got a SMOTI - Bill Mitchell convergence. You knew the derpularity was going to happen. It took Trump to get there.

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lawhawk  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:31:37am

re: #277 Anymouse

Doesn’t particularly matter, given that Trump doesn’t listen to anyone other than the voices in his head. Attention span of a gnat, but target fixation means that he’ll probably spend half the next debate attacking Miss Universe and Bill Clinton, not Hillary Clinton.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:32:12am

re: #276 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Kinda soggy here in the region, but it’s okay. We need the rain. Meanwhile, Trump’s past continues to get dug up.

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You really have to wonder why none of the GOPers in the clown bus ever bothered to do any of this. Why did none of the media do this while Trump was surging in the primaries? This would have been useful to them to blunt his ascendancy.

Guess they weren’t that opposed to Trump after all. Style versus substance, and on the substance, Trump truly is one of them. Deplorable.

Each one of them was utterly convinced that he (or she) was going to win the primary, and that no one in their right mind would support Trump anyway, so why bother digging up his salacious past for oppo purposes?

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lawhawk  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:32:35am

Heh.

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lawhawk  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:33:25am

re: #280 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

They didn’t want to piss off his supporters; they needed the votes, so they wouldn’t want to attack too badly.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:33:51am

re: #281 lawhawk

Trump says not to believe sources in his campaign, so this means Farage *is* helping him.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:35:24am

re: #283 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Trump says not to believe sources in his campaign, so this means Farage *is* helping him.

Yeah, but then again, there’s that word “prep,” which doesn’t seem to belong in the same universe as Trump.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:39:56am

re: #282 lawhawk

They didn’t want to piss off his supporters; they needed the votes, so they wouldn’t want to attack too badly.

Sadly true, as well. But some of those early supporters have woken up, smelled the coffee, and realized Trump is a fucking maniac. I mean, how many times in history have so many conservative newspapers broken with decades of tradition and endorsed a Democrat, and how many times have former Republican presidents all but endorsed a Democrat candidate?

If the GOP had had a little more backbone and a little more sense for long-term strategy, they could have kicked Trump out of the running well before the primary. But as usual, they were going for the short term goal of winning the White House back, no matter who was in the driver’s sear.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:40:29am

re: #284 Barefoot Grin

Yeah, but then again, there’s that word “prep,” which doesn’t seem to belong in the same universe as Trump.

“Perp” is more like it.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:40:38am
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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:42:33am

re: #280 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Each one of them was utterly convinced that he (or she) was going to win the primary, and that no one in their right mind would support Trump anyway, so why bother digging up his salacious past for oppo purposes?

Even as a very minor politician, the first thing I learned about politics is you do opposition research on yourself first, then on opponents. You may not need to use the research against your opponents, but you have to prepare for what your opponents might use against you.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:43:54am

re: #288 Anymouse

Even as a very minor politician, the first thing I learned about politics is you do opposition research on yourself first, then on opponents. You may not need to use the research against your opponents, but you have to prepare for what your opponents might use against you.

Trump apparently thinks his record is as clean as a whistle.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:52:37am

re: #289 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Trump apparently thinks his record is as clean as a whistle.

He does. His record with women means he is a winner. His ability to weasel out of contracts and taxes means he is a winner. Everything he does to his supporters means they will be winners too.

Trump is a fascist, and fascism is a cult. The Republican Party being dragged along behind Mr. Trump (except for a few notable exceptions like Ben Sasse) means they are part of the cult too.

The first rule of cults is defend your cult’s leader and see all outsiders as the enemy. That started back when President Reagan moved on the idea that liberals were the enemy and not simply the loyal opposition. It got worse with President GW Bush’s “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” and all the “take back our country” nonsense we’ve been hearing since President Obama was first elected. (Take back from who? The majority who voted for him? President Obama has tried to be everyone’s president whether they voted for him or not; not like GHW Bush and his “atheists cannot be patriotic and should not be citizens” remark).

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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:53:07am
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sagehen  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:53:58am

re: #283 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Trump says not to believe sources in his campaign, so this means Farage *is* helping him.

He also denied Roger Ailes was helping him, and we know that was a lie.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:55:59am

re: #291 Tigger2

Hillary has proven herself to be the Hermione Granger of Washington.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 7:57:47am

Another scandal for Trump. Though, the other scandals are so huge, this one will disappear.

If you’ve been wondering just who the Donald J. Trump Foundation does cut a check for when it’s not paying off Donald J. Trump’s bills or buying football helmets for Donald J. Trump or paying for giant ego-boasting portraits of Donald J. Trump, here’s your answer.

His monetary support for the conspiracy theory came in the form of a $10,000 check to an anti-vaccine charity run by former Playboy model and television host Jenny McCarthy.

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:02:43am

re: #294 Ziggy_TARDIS

Another scandal for Trump. Though, the other scandals are so huge, this one will disappear.

Maybe he should have sent the money to Dr. Jill Stein.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:04:30am

re: #255 Anymouse

….
The American Family Association right now is stumping to have the Johnson Amendment removed the tax code so they can politick from the pulpit; a large number of various denominations of churches are right in there with them.

if it were truly that important, they can politic from the pulpit right now…

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:05:26am

Also, Howard Dean is doubling down on his doubling down about his Trump is a cokehead tweet.

I do actually think Trump was under some form of chemical enhancement.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:11:12am

re: #257 darthstar

“We’ll have to see”]

So the man knows how to build up the tension “Will he mention it or won’t he?” “If so, how?”.

Because he knows that these are the things that interest viewers about the debates, certainly not the issues.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:13:06am

re: #276 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Kinda soggy here in the region, but it’s okay. We need the rain. Meanwhile, Trump’s past continues to get dug up.

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You really have to wonder why none of the GOPers in the clown bus ever bothered to do any of this. Why did none of the media do this while Trump was surging in the primaries? This would have been useful to them to blunt his ascendancy.

Guess they weren’t that opposed to Trump after all. Style versus substance, and on the substance, Trump truly is one of them. Deplorable.

i think the gop and candidates fell down on the job - figured he just didnt have a chance and wasnt going to amount to anything

im sure some of the media was that hes good for business - i also think they saw some of this as so “obvious” and low hanging that to pile on so early woudl have been seen as a heavy hand on the scale

and maybe they also figured hed never actually win against anyone sane- either at the primary or general level
(though of course “media” is not a monolith)

never mind that any one of a thousand things hes said or done divided again by 1000 would have sunk anyone else

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:16:01am

re: #285 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Sadly true, as well. But some of those early supporters have woken up, smelled the coffee, and realized Trump is a fucking maniac. I mean, how many times in history have so many conservative newspapers broken with decades of tradition and endorsed a Democrat, and how many times have former Republican presidents all but endorsed a Democrat candidate?

If the GOP had had a little more backbone and a little more sense for long-term strategy, they could have kicked Trump out of the running well before the primary. But as usual, they were going for the short term goal of winning the White House back, no matter who was in the driver’s sear.

i believe that’s zero times

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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:16:41am
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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:17:39am

re: #287 Anymouse

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[Embedded content]Who else does @HillaryClinton ridicule behind closed doors for $$$? Bonus: she mocked Bernie’s plan for free college & free healthcare.

mocking someone’s ideas is not mocking the person
its kinda the opposite of an ad hom…

do we really gotta keep doing this and correcting everything they say?

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:18:22am

re: #288 Anymouse

Even as a very minor politician, the first thing I learned about politics is you do opposition research on yourself first, then on opponents. You may not need to use the research against your opponents, but you have to prepare for what your opponents might use against you.

“know your opposition”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:18:22am

re: #297 Ziggy_TARDIS

Also, Howard Dean is doubling down on his doubling down about his Trump is a cokehead tweet.

I do actually think Trump was under some form of chemical enhancement.

It is every bit as valid as any claims the Trump campaign have made about Hillary

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:18:39am

Now I am sick, which will impede on a large number of things today, unless it resolves itself in the next few hours.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:19:06am

re: #302 dangerman

mocking someone’s ideas is not mocking the person
its kinda the opposite of an ad hom…

do we really gotta keep doing this and correcting everything they say?

since they twist everything they say, then yes

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:19:15am

re: #302 dangerman

mocking someone’s ideas is not mocking the person
its kinda the opposite of an ad hom…

do we really gotta keep doing this and correcting everything they say?

KellyAnne also overuses the word HUGE, like her boss.

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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:20:53am

HeHeHe Hillary’s trolling the Trump.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:20:53am

re: #293 Ziggy_TARDIS

Hillary has proven herself to be the Hermione Granger of Washington.

demonstrating my lack of connection, i had to google her
(someone’s favorite world leader i never heard of?)

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Anymouse  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:21:49am

re: #296 dangerman

if it were truly that important, they can politic from the pulpit right now…

Not legally. The Johnson amendment prohibits 501(c)3 organisations and churches from engaging in politics.

The reality is the IRS doesn’t enforce it well. What churches want is the Johnson Amendment entirely repealed, thereby removing the restriction of churches from endorsing or opposing candidates.

en.wikipedia.org (description of amendment)
irs.gov (specific application of amendment, and prohibited activities).

The first two paragraphs from the IRS page:

Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Contributions to political campaign funds or public statements of position (verbal or written) made on behalf of the organization in favor of or in opposition to any candidate for public office clearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity. Violating this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise taxes.

Certain activities or expenditures may not be prohibited depending on the facts and circumstances. For example, certain voter education activities (including presenting public forums and publishing voter education guides) conducted in a non-partisan manner do not constitute prohibited political campaign activity. In addition, other activities intended to encourage people to participate in the electoral process, such as voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives, would not be prohibited political campaign activity if conducted in a non-partisan manner.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:24:42am

re: #304 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is every bit as valid as any claims the Trump campaign have made about Hillary

i think that’s what dean’s trying to do.
“im doing exactly what trumps campaign is doing, so if you cant accept what i’ve said, you cant accept any of their “suggestions” either

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:25:08am

re: #310 Anymouse

They should start taxing all religious orgs.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:25:59am

re: #309 dangerman

demonstrating my lack of connection, i had to google her
(someone’s favorite world leader i never heard of?)

The actress who played Hermione, Emma Watson, may well turn out to be a world leader of some sort.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:27:53am

re: #306 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

since they twist everything they say, then yes

for me it’s like thinking finally, finally, finally, we put bigfoot, horoscopes, flat earth, homeopathy, and hundreds of other things to bed. finally.

and then someone pops up and do we have to reexplain from scratch or cant we just dismiss them as fools.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:31:09am

re: #314 dangerman

for me it’s like thinking finally, finally, finally, we put bigfoot, horoscopes, flat earth, homeopathy, and hundreds of other things to bed. finally.

and then someone pops up and do we have to reexplain from scratch or cant we just dismiss them as fools.

Because in America, anybody’s viewpoint is as good as anyone else’s. We do not trust elites, especially liberal elites.

/

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:31:33am

re: #310 Anymouse

Not legally…..

i’m sorry i left out the /s and was a bit too circumspect

re: #270 Decatur Deb

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Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice, for they shall have their fill.
but
Thou shalt be careful to guard thy 501(c)(4).

point being theyve decided what’s more important and it’s not “the message”. its the money

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:33:45am

re: #309 dangerman

Hermione Granger is a character in Harry Potter, and one of the 2 closest friends.

She is also almost always the smartest person in the room, and a decent leader, but has to deal with opposition from society because of who she is.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:34:48am

re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because in America, anybody’s viewpoint is as good as anyone else’s. We do not trust elites, especially liberal elites.

/

granted though anti-science, psi, woo, ufos, mysticism, miracles, etc are an equal opportunity world-wide thing

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:37:12am

Have watched a couple of videos of Ruline Steininger. She’s not only adorable, she’s more full of energy than I am right now, and has a sharp presence of mind at her 103 years on this planet.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:37:30am

re: #318 dangerman

granted though anti-science, psi, woo, ufos, mysticism, miracles, etc are an equal opportunity world-wide thing

Granted, it is universal, but we have a particular strain of it in America.

I think it is rooted in our historical sense of cultural and technical inferiority towards Europe: they might be smarter and more cultivated than us, but we held ourselves as morally superior.

Of course, it is all bullshit, but DT as a viable presidential candidate is proof of how strong that anti-intellectual streak still is.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:38:38am

While Noor Tagouri is getting attacked by some of the softer-headed, self-righteous members of our community for her choice in interview places, this is what she actually does.

The Trouble They’ve Seen: The Forest Haven Story

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:39:31am

re: #320 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Dunno, as you know, homeopathy and other kinds of so-called “alternative medicine” are all the rage in Europe.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:40:24am

re: #320 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The irony now is that Europe is almost as anti-Science as we are these days. Look at the hysteria against GMOs, and the anti-Vaccine issues, especially in France. And the reflexive anti-Nuclear thought.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:40:42am

re: #322 Nyet

Dunno, as you know, homeopathy and other kinds of so-called “alternative medicine” are all the rage in Europe.

*Groan* tell me about it. Homeopathy is huge here in the Czech Republic.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:40:54am

re: #322 Nyet

Damnit, you took what I was going to say. :P

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:41:16am

re: #317 Ziggy_TARDIS

Hermione Granger is a character in Harry Potter, and one of the 2 closest friends.

She is also almost always the smartest person in the room, and a decent leader, but has to deal with opposition from bigoted wizard society because of who she is — the magical daughter of two muggles (non-magical persons). Bigots don’t believe that someone not descended from wizard stock is really a wizard.

Edited for added clarity.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:42:22am

re: #325 Ziggy_TARDIS

You have a bigger problem with fundamentalist woo, Europe has a problem with New Age woo.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:42:44am

re: #323 Ziggy_TARDIS

The irony now is that Europe is almost as anti-Science as we are these days. Look at the hysteria against GMOs, and the anti-Vaccine issues, especially in France. And the reflexive anti-Nuclear thought.

It is spreading, yes. Not as bad in Germany, where they still have a healthy respect for education, science and culture.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:43:05am

re: #327 Nyet

They are both fucking stupid.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:43:28am

re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Germany better be able to hold off the Fuckwit wave.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:45:45am

re: #321 Ziggy_TARDIS

While Noor Tagouri is getting attacked by some of the softer-headed, self-righteous members of our community for her choice in interview places, this is what she actually does.

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I follow some Muslim threads on Instagram. The people are follow generally support Tagouri’s appearance in Playboy, but some of the comments made about her have been just plain disgusting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:46:33am

re: #330 Ziggy_TARDIS

Germany better be able to hold off the Fuckwit wave.

they have done admirably well: imagine what America would like with three million refugees running about, which would be the equivalent share of what the Germans have (over one million in the past year alone)

Part of it is just the German respect for authority, which has its positive and negative aspects, but they do understand that someone with a degree or qualification in a particular field of specialty probably has a more valid opinion in that area than someone who read something they saw posted on FB.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:46:35am

re: #329 Ziggy_TARDIS

Though EU is undeniably better on the issue that matters the most: AGW.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:46:58am

re: #330 Ziggy_TARDIS

Unfortunately, Merkel’s CDU has been losing seats to the local nationalists in recent local elections.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:47:46am

re: #334 Eric The Fruit Bat

Unfortunately, Merkel’s CDU has been losing seats to the local nationalists in recent local elections.

A natural result of her refugee policies.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:48:07am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:48:19am
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BlueSpotinAL  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:49:53am

Oktoberfest

Good morning!

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:51:09am

re: #331 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

She has been incredibly nice and kind to me, and has always listened to me and my issues.

So, I tend to be a defender. Also, there is a hypocrisy here. Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali both did interviews with Playboy. Back when it had nudity.

I notice that OKC’s community tends to support her, while Dallas’ does not. However, Dallas’ community tends to be more self-righteous and cliquey, and there is a massive vainglorious streak in this community too. I notice a lot of need to show off, with expensive watches, expensive cars, and a need to be constantly fashionable. This community has no right to criticize Noor, because she is a far better Muslim than 90% of Muslims in the Dallas area.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:52:20am

re: #333 Nyet

Most definitely.

re: #334 Eric The Fruit Bat

AfD is straying awfully close to Neo-Nazi.

re: #335 Nyet

I would say her constant push for Austerity is equally to blame.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:53:53am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:54:47am
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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:55:20am

Looks like CNN is trying to tighten up the race again.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:55:55am

re: #340 Ziggy_TARDIS

I would say her constant push for Austerity is equally to blame.

Not in this election. She has already admitted that her mistakes during the crisis led to the defeats we’ve seen so far.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 8:57:46am

re: #344 Nyet

Frankly, the US needs to take in more refugees.

The US has space, and there are cities that could be revived with refugees. Detroit and Cleveland are 2. There are others.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:03:00am

re: #345 Ziggy_TARDIS

Frankly, the US needs to take in more refugees.

The US has space, and there are cities that could be revived with refugees. Detroit and Cleveland are 2. There are others.

There’s a story circulating on Facebook and elsewhere about a refugee Syrian tailor who saved a Chinese-Canadian bride’s wedding by fixing her broken zipper. Rather than repair the zipper, he sewed her into her gown! He and his family live right next door to the bride’s family.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:04:36am

Here’s the story.

bbc.com

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:06:05am

re: #346 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

That story was awesome!

Personally,I would start with Detroit. There is already a sizable community of Arabs nearby to help them acclimate, and the newly-open areas could be used to do some really interesting stuff in terms of development.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:07:21am

re: #348 Ziggy_TARDIS

That story was awesome!

Personally,I would start with Detroit. There is already a sizable community of Arabs nearby to help them acclimate, and the newly-open areas could be used to do some really interesting stuff in terms of development.

Another coincidence: his family name is Dudu, the bride’s surname is Du.

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darthstar  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:07:50am

re: #343 Ziggy_TARDIS

Looks like CNN is trying to tighten up the race again.

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In Hillary’s defense, many of her supporters act like they think Bernie’s supporters are just baristas dreaming of Scandinavia.

I’m no barista, but I did marry a woman of Scandinavian descent, so I suppose that’s not entirely inaccurate.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:08:39am

re: #348 Ziggy_TARDIS

That story was awesome!

Personally,I would start with Detroit. There is already a sizable community of Arabs nearby to help them acclimate, and the newly-open areas could be used to do some really interesting stuff in terms of development.

Did you see the story at BBC about the Italian town that revived itself by taking in refugees?

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:09:53am

What’s wrong with becoming like Scandinavia? They’re socially responsible capitalist countries.

It’s not like anyone is proposing to turn to socialism (which historically doesn’t work out for the average citizen).

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HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:10:45am

re: #336 Nyet

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I hope she gets to vote for her. My grandmother was around the same age and would have loved to voted for HRC.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:11:34am

re: #352 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yeah, that is exactly what I was thinking of, on a far larger scale.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:11:52am

re: #354 HappyWarrior

I hope she gets to vote for her. My grandmother was around the same age and would have loved to voted for HRC.

She has already voted for her! :)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:11:53am

re: #354 HappyWarrior

I hope she gets to vote for her. My grandmother was around the same age and would have loved to voted for HRC.

She voted early, saying at her age she didn’t want to leave anything to chance.

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Alephnaught  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:12:02am

re: #277 Anymouse

Trump being coached by Farage, Trump being coached by Steve Bannon of Breitbart, Breitbart London supports Ukip, another foreigner fiddling in our electoral process, with Breitbart the apparent go-between.

The GOP really doesn’t care about any of this do they? Refusing to open a congressional investigation of all the alleged Russian connexions between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin; now there is apparently a connexion between Ukip and their candidate. (It would be irresponsible to speculate whether Breitbart is mixing funds in the UK and the USA to support Trump’s campaign.)

Conservatives really care more about winning than either the integrity of our political process or our nation. Win at all costs.

The thing is, I’m not too sure Farage’s performance in the TV debates was much of a game changer in the Brexit vote. (In fact, I think he was pretty much a junior partner in the Brexit camp, compared to, say, Boris Johnson.)

When you look at his actual TV debate performances, he only really decisively won in the debates where his only opponent was the then Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg, which was the UK equivalent of Trump debating Jeb!

In the cross-party debates, it didn’t go to well, with him fighting for airtime with his fellow Brexiters, whilst being hammered by likes of SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and in particular, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson. Both were experienced debaters, and weren’t willing to let Farage of the hook. The polls for that debate had both as the winners for that debate, and yet, like the previous debates, it didn’t make any impact on the opinion polls.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:12:35am

re: #356 Nyet

She has already voted for her! :)

Didn’t know that early voting started already. Or you mean the primaries. Seriously though. What an ad.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:12:36am

re: #353 Nyet

That is a reasonable end goal, but not reasonable in the short term.

This coming from someone who believes some sectors of the economy are better off state-owned. Any movement would need to be gradual.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:13:17am

re: #357 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

She voted early, saying at her age she didn’t want to leave anything to chance.

Yeah completely understandable. I hope she gets to see it. Couldn’t help but to think of my Nana as I already said watching that.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:13:19am

re: #359 HappyWarrior

Google ;)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:13:23am

re: #355 Ziggy_TARDIS

Yeah, that is exactly what I was thinking of, on a far larger scale.

It would take a clever mayor and/or city council to make it happen. I have no doubt the refugees would make it work from their end.

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darthstar  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:13:41am

Best ex-president ever. Though I suspect Obama will also be a great ex-president. Bill’s been pretty good, and the elder Bush worked with him starting the foundation.

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:14:13am

re: #360 Ziggy_TARDIS

This coming from someone who believes some sectors of the economy are better off state-owned.

Sure didn’t work out well for Venezuela.

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sagehen  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:15:22am

re: #317 Ziggy_TARDIS

Hermione Granger is a character in Harry Potter, and one of the 2 closest friends.

She is also almost always the smartest person in the room, and a decent leader, but has to deal with opposition from society because of who she is.

Hermione is the only reason Harry lived through seven books.

It’s not just that she’s the smartest — she’s focused, disciplined, and when she does her homework she goes an extra mile to exceed the requirements.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:17:54am

re: #359 HappyWarrior

Didn’t know that early voting started already. Or you mean the primaries. Seriously though. What an ad.

Not the primaries. She voted in the general.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:18:23am

re: #367 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Not the primaries. She voted in the general.

Yeah I see that now. Awesome.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:19:13am

re: #366 sagehen

Hermione is the only reason Harry lived through seven books.

It’s not just that she’s the smartest — she’s focused, disciplined, and when she does her homework she goes an extra mile to exceed the requirements.

Hermione was a wizardry wonk.

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darthstar  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:19:21am

So some guy started a satirical Histreepix profile to mock the bot History in Pictures

And the bot picked up one of his pics:

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:22:57am

re: #369 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Hermione was a wizardry wonk.

Trump is a Grand-Wizardry wank.

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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:24:56am
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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:25:47am

re: #366 sagehen

Yep. My point exactly.

re: #363 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yep. You would first need to start development in the areas nearest to Dearborn, and then work towards the major parts of city itself that are still inhabited., then fill the rest of the city,

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:26:15am

So, I’mma watch the 1995 film Safe, which I never did get all the way through previously. I’ve heard many good things about it.

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:28:50am

re: #317 Ziggy_TARDIS

Hermione Granger is a character in Harry Potter, and one of the 2 closest friends.

She is also almost always the smartest person in the room, and a decent leader, but has to deal with opposition from society because of who she is.

Often because of her ‘race’ because both her parents were ‘Muggles’, that is people without magic ability.

The Potter books are surprisingly deep for literature ostensibly aimed at young adults.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:28:54am

re: #371 Nyet

Trump is Gilderoy Lockheart.

Or, in FFVII terms, Trump is probably Heidegger. I would have said President Shinra, but even he is mildly competent. Heidegger is incompetent in every time he shows up in the FFVII universe.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:30:02am

re: #375 Romantic Heretic

I admit I prefer them to Tolkien.

Probably because of the assumed goodness of elitism in those books, the idea things were better in the past, and a massive, latent racism.

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Teukka  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:30:03am

re: #370 darthstar

So some guy started a satirical Histreepix profile to mock the bot History in Pictures

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Hilarious :)

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Skip Intro  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:30:59am
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FormerDirtDart  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:31:44am

re: #273 darthstar

A piece of the story…

Ricky & Doris: An Unconventional Friendship in New York City. With Puppets!

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sagehen  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:36:09am

re: #375 Romantic Heretic

Often because of her ‘race’ because both her parents were ‘Muggles’, that is people without magic ability.

The Potter books are surprisingly deep for literature ostensibly aimed at young adults.

House Elf Lives Matter!!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:37:01am

re: #373 Ziggy_TARDIS

Yep. My point exactly.

Yep. You would first need to start development in the areas nearest to Dearborn, and then work towards the major parts of city itself that are still inhabited., then fill the rest of the city,

Every RWNJ’s worst nightmare. //

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:39:59am

re: #320 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My favourite writer describes Western civilization as a giant inferiority complex. We are the barbarians who destroyed Rome. Since then we have been trying to recreate it and so obtain Rome’s cachet as a Great Empire for ourselves.

It’s why so much of our architecture is Roman in nature. Why some nations trying to claim Rome’s legitimacy name their leaders some variation of ‘Caesar’ (Kaiser, Czar).

That inferiority complex seems to have gotten worse the farther in space and time Rome occupies from the nations trying to claim its heritage.

If that hypothesis is true, and I think there is some legitimacy to it, it seems to me that the US, and Russia, are the latest inheritors of that inferiority complex. It’s why they tend to be so aggressive towards other nations. Why they are always trying to prove they are ‘great’.

Personally if we wanted to use an ancient empire as a role model I’d prefer we use the Achaemanid Empire.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:41:18am

re: #381 sagehen

In the end, that actually ended up helping!

I remember during 2008, me and some friends were doing this with Harry Potter characters.

I came up with the following analogy:

Barack Obama was Kingsley Shacklebolt

Joe Biden was (I think?) Mad-Eye Moody.

John McCain was Cornelius Fudge.

Sarah Palin was Dolores Umbridge.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:43:38am

re: #383 Romantic Heretic

I tend to prefer the Rashidun Caliphate, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Ottoman Caliphate, and the Savafid Empire.

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Varek Raith  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:50:00am

I feel the need to go on a rant…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:50:02am

Going to bed. I’ll see everyone later when the Earth rotates another 120 degrees or so.

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Jayleia  Oct 1, 2016 • 9:50:43am

re: #385 Ziggy_TARDIS

I tend to prefer the Rashidun Caliphate, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Ottoman Caliphate, and the Savafid Empire.

AAAHHH!!! HE WANTS CALIFATES!!! AAAHHH!!!

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:00:25am

re: #383 Romantic Heretic

Not that I agree with this “hypothesis” in any way, but it’s interesting that many Russian nationalists call Moscow “the Third Rome”.

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darthstar  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:01:25am

re: #380 FormerDirtDart

A piece of the story…

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Video

Awesome…thanks for that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:02:38am

re: #389 Nyet

Not that I agree with this “hypothesis” in any way, but it’s interesting that many Russian nationalists call Moscow “the Third Rome”.

They felt that after the fall of Rome and Constantinople, thy were the last bastion of “True Christianity” in the world.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:03:51am
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darthstar  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:06:43am

re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth

So when Hillary wins Trump can say it was rigged or hacked and we’ll have another four years of shit show.

Or things turn out okay, Hilllary wins, Trump goes into hiding due to his legal woes, and the world moves on…

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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:08:24am

re: #393 darthstar

So when Hillary wins Trump can say it was rigged or hacked and we’ll have another four years of shit show.

Or things turn out okay, Hilllary wins, Trump goes into hiding due to his legal woes, and the world moves on…

I hope for the second one.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:18:43am

re: #393 darthstar

So when Hillary wins Trump can say it was rigged or hacked and we’ll have another four years of shit show.

Or things turn out okay, Hilllary wins, Trump goes into hiding due to his legal woes, and the world moves on…

Trump will pull a Gerard Depardieu and go to Russia.

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Varek Raith  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:22:01am

We’re going to have four years of a shit show no matter what.

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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:22:25am
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Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:22:44am

I don’t know how I did it, but I’m watching Safe on my TV via an HDMI cable, and I’m typing here on my laptop without seeing the film. I didn’t mirror the displays.

Could someone among the more computer proficient explain how I did this? So I know for the future? :D

I run Ubuntu 14.04.

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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:27:57am

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ObserverArt  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:30:25am

re: #287 Anymouse

Kellyanne Conway ✔ @KellyannePolls
Who else does @HillaryClinton ridicule behind closed doors for $$$? Bonus: she mocked Bernie’s plan for free college & free healthcare.

She mocked it so damn much she put it in her platform, is mentioning it in stump speeches and even Bernie talk about her stand on it out of the trail.

Yep, mockin’ it all the way.

What you got Kellyann? Nothing.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:30:58am

It’s everywhere. I feel like Rowdy Roddy Piper in ‘Them’.

You will be assimilated.

All I can think is, “Ice cream, Mandrake! Children’s ice cream!”

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:32:51am

re: #401 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s everywhere. I feel like Rowdy Roddy Piper in ‘Them’.

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I am here to chew bubblegum eat pumpkin spice ice cream and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubblegum pumpkin spice ice cream.

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sagehen  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:33:10am
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De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:34:31am
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sagehen  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:34:31am
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Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:37:38am

re: #377 Ziggy_TARDIS

I admit I prefer them to Tolkien.

Probably because of the assumed goodness of elitism in those books, the idea things were better in the past, and a massive, latent racism.

The past might have been better if you just considered LOTR since The War of the Ring was essentially the twilight of the elven civilizations on Middle Earth. If you have read more of the materials, especially the stories in the Silmarillion you can see that Middle Earth was messed up from Day 1 and that the elves managed to screw themselves over repeatedly due to being greedy, egotistical, and as “human” as the race that followed them.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:37:55am
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ObserverArt  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:39:27am

re: #301 Tigger2

Hillary for Ohio @HillaryforOH
Exciting news! @TheAthensNEWS has endorsed Hillary as the best choice for Ohio and our nation: hrc.io #OHHillYes
11:15 AM - 1 Oct 2016
35 35 Retweets 45 45 likes

Cool. Even though she still seems to be down a few points in the polls, it looks like the Ohio newspapers are out to help her.

I still await The Columbus Dispatch. Will they have the guts to take a stand and endorse Clinton too, or will they go the foolish route and endorse Johnson?

Then of course, they could stick with Trump and come up with some dodgy reason he can be controlled and made into the leader we all need (gag). This would not surprise me in the least.

Maybe the Cincinnati Enquirer going with Hillary will put a little pressure on them to do the right thing.

Come on Ohio…let’s get our shit together!

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Great White Snark  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:40:35am

Yes it’s caturday but could not resist.

MP4 Video

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:42:05am
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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:42:18am
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Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:43:09am

re: #396 Varek Raith

We’re going to have four years of a shit show no matter what.

And Trump can run again in 2020 if the grift was profitable enough this year. And he’ll have four more years of activities by Hillary to point to. And there are good odds the GOP faithful will have learned nothing in the interim. And Trump will once again tell them what they want to hear.

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Frankie Five Angels  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:45:39am

Please proceed, Cheeto Jesus.

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sagehen  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:46:35am
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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:47:01am
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ObserverArt  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:48:36am

You know, I just read that oh-so-revealing Politico article that Kellyanne Conway seems to be making a big deal of.

I wonder why Kellyanne doesn’t really capture the whole gist of her conversation.

That would be this sentence at the (surprise!) bottom of the article: “I think we all should be really understanding of that,” Clinton said.

Oh my…she thinks her campaign needs to be understanding of why the young crowd that followed Bernie feels the way they do.

And then she worked to put many of those ideas into the platform and chose to work with Bernie once she had the nomination.

Damn that Hillary./

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Charles Johnson  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:49:13am
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Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:50:54am

re: #406 Feline Fearless Leader

And now my brain dredges up this amusing horror.

J. R. R. Tolkien vs George R. R. Martin. Epic Rap Battles of History. Season 5

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:51:02am

re: #417 Charles Johnson

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Well, you have to remember her boss has no sympathy for “losers” so she probably can’t imagine anyone mentioning millennials having to live in their parent’s basement with any kind of sympathy.

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jaunte  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:52:15am

Because Trump has no healthcare plan.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:52:39am

re: #413 Frankie Five Angels

Please proceed, Cheeto Jesus.

Donald Trump opens new line of attack on Hillary Clinton: her marriage

because his marriages are/were totally pristine

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ObserverArt  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:54:18am

re: #327 Nyet

You have a bigger problem with fundamentalist woo, Europe has a problem with New Age woo.

So there’s a lot of woo woo going round.

No good in all that woo.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:54:34am
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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:54:58am

re: #421 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

because his marriages are/were totally pristine

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:56:52am

re: #421 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

because his marriages are/were totally pristine

With a straight face he said that he has a great marital history.
O_o

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BigPapa  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:57:38am

re: #420 jaunte

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Because Trump has no healthcare plan.

Brawndo. It’s what makes plants grow.

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Big Beautiful Door  Oct 1, 2016 • 10:58:34am

re: #418 Romantic Heretic

And now my brain dredges up this amusing horror.

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Video

That was pretty awesome.

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plansbandc  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:01:32am

re: #372 Tigger2

Been getting a barrage of OMG!!!!1111 Hillary is going to take the womenz gunz away NRA ads here. Really fucking stupid and annoying. Pandering to the idiots among us.

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FormerDirtDart  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:01:54am

re: #420 jaunte

Only Clinton responds to the New England Journal of Medicine request to share health care vision

Because Trump has no healthcare plan.

On day one, we’re getting rid of Obamacare…On day one
Then we’re gonna have the best plan…a tremendous plan…we’ll have a great plan…
…Believe me folks…

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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:04:42am
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ObserverArt  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:05:13am

re: #368 HappyWarrior

Yeah I see that now. Awesome.

She’s freaking great. It sure would be nice to see the young folk of this country take in Ruline Steininger’s story. Heck, I’m 62 and being younger I love her story too! : )

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FormerDirtDart  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:05:51am
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electrotek  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:08:49am

One of house music’s greatest acts paying their respects to France:

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ObserverArt  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:12:24am

re: #393 darthstar

So when Hillary wins Trump can say it was rigged or hacked and we’ll have another four years of shit show.

Or things turn out okay, Hilllary wins, Trump goes into hiding due to his legal woes, and the world moves on…

I think the Republican will just be glad to see him gone.

As I posted the other day, I suspect Hillary will have a bit better chance to get more done and have less resistance as compared to the crap they all gave Obama.

At some point the Republicans are gonna realize they need to have better than 20% approval ratings. Add those into the dance with Trump and they will need to get something done if they even hope to hold onto congress. They can’t fuck around forever…it will catch up to them.

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FormerDirtDart  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:13:15am

OK, transitioning to couch and ball game
Let’s Go Mets

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:17:44am

re: #434 ObserverArt

I think the Republican will just be glad to see him gone.

As I posted the other day, I suspect Hillary will have a bit better chance to get more done and have less resistance as compared to the crap they all gave Obama.

At some point the Republicans are gonna realize they need to have better than 20% approval ratings. Add those into the dance with Trump and they will need to get something done if they even hope to hold onto congress. They can’t fuck around forever…it will catch up to them.

obama came after bush, when they thought theyd have the presidency locked virtually forever - shock
and he had “no experience”
and is AA etc

hillary has an 8 year buffer
is “known” and has lots of government experience, even if they dont like the results

and women are a less offensive minority than blacks /s

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Charles Johnson  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:19:45am
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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:19:48am

re: #422 ObserverArt

So there’s a lot of woo woo going round.

No good in all that woo.

heartening to see this group knows what the word means

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Dr. Lexus  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:23:34am

Rep. Sean Duffy: Voters don’t care ‘a whole lot’ about Donald Trump’s Miss Universe comments

One of Donald Trump’s strongest allies in Wisconsin says he doesn’t think voters care “a whole lot” about comments the Republican presidential candidate has made about a former beauty pageant winner, including a set of recent tweets encouraging voters to “check out (her) sex tape.”

“I don’t think it changes the viewpoint of many voters,” said U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy on a call with reporters Friday morning.

Duffy said voters are focused on the economy, jobs and national security, arguing Trump’s positions on those issues are resonating with voters in Wisconsin and throughout the country.

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ObserverArt  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:24:00am

re: #436 dangerman

obama came after bush, when they thought theyd have the presidency locked virtually forever - shock
and he had “no experience”
and is AA etc

hillary has an 8 year buffer
is “known” and has lots of government experience, even if they dont like the results

and women are a less offensive minority than blacks /s

Yep. Pretty much my post from the other day. And one other thing I added…she can backdoor many a Republican by taking her ideas to the women. Then the grandmothers, aunts, wives, daughters, nieces and other female relatives and friends can gang up on them.

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Frankie Five Angels  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:24:58am

re: #417 Charles Johnson

How in the world could anyone interpret what Clinton said as that? Oh, yeah. A dumbass that works for Trump.

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MsJ  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:27:09am

re: #407 Charles Johnson

How do you RT a video?

Here’s a screenshot. I can’t find a RT button.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:29:40am

re: #442 MsJ

I would click on “Reply w/ Quote”

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:33:51am

re: #439 Dr. Lexus

Sean Duffy is a reality star himself, so he is a bit unmoored from reality.

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sagehen  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:34:37am

re: #436 dangerman

and women are a less offensive minority than blacks /s

Women are certainly less mysterious and exotic.

Lots of conservatives have never met a black person other than the caddy or parking lot attendant. The only hispanics they’ve ever spoken to were the nanny and gardener.

But many of them have wives, girlfriends, sisters. And almost all of them had mothers.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:36:23am

re: #440 ObserverArt

Yep. Pretty much my post from the other day. And one other thing I added…she can backdoor many a Republican by taking her ideas to the women. Then the grandmothers, aunts, wives, daughters, nieces and other female relatives and friends can gang up on them.

Did I just “my sweet Lord” you?

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jeffreyw  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:36:40am

Imgur


Got soup?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:37:23am

re: #405 sagehen

Good luck with that, Bruce.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:37:31am

re: #441 Frankie Five Angels

How in the world could anyone interpret what Clinton said as that? Oh, yeah. A dumbass that works for Trump.

They don’t expect it to be taken seriously.
Only that it sticks

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Charles Johnson  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:41:28am
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BeachDem  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:43:13am

re: #400 ObserverArt

She mocked it so damn much she put it in her platform, is mentioning it in stump speeches and even Bernie talk about her stand on it out of the trail.

Yep, mockin’ it all the way.

What you got Kellyann? Nothing.

And once Politico got the clicks they craved, they changed the article and added a disclaimer:

Editor’s note: The headline and lede of this story have been changed to better reflect Clinton’s tone.

Ah yes, her “tone,” that’s what was so important—not the fact that she wasn’t ever really mocking anyone.

A. She said “They feel they got their education and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves. And they don’t see much of a future….I think we all should be really understanding of that.”

B. This was in February, in the heat of the primaries—she was fucking running against Bernie—I thought actually thought it was pretty mild.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:45:36am

re: #442 MsJ

How do you RT a video?

Here’s a screenshot. I can’t find a RT button.

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If you click the Twitter bird logo at bottom right, then click the timestamp it goes to Twitter’s web site and you can retweet from there.

I think videos did previously have an RT button. Not sure why it’s missing now.

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Jay C  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:46:57am

re: #434 ObserverArt

I think the Republican will just be glad to see him gone.

As I posted the other day, I suspect Hillary will have a bit better chance to get more done and have less resistance as compared to the crap they all gave Obama.

At some point the Republicans are gonna realize they need to have better than 20% approval ratings. Add those into the dance with Trump and they will need to get something done if they even hope to hold onto congress. They can’t fuck around forever…it will catch up to them.

Maybe it’s just my Inner Cynic talking, but except for your first point, I couldn’t disagree more. Thanks to their finely-honed skills at gerrymandering (and their near-total lock on a lot of statehouses, which isn’t going to change any time soon), the GOP is going to have a built-in institutional advantage in Congress for at least six more years - a long time in political terms. AND: approval ratings notwithstanding (“20%” would be a considerable improvement!), it’s hard to see where ANY Republican Senator or Rep is going to have ANY incentive to be anything other than maximally obstructive to President Clinton 45. It’s a nice thought that utterly failing at the job of governance will lead to negative electoral consequences at the ballot box, but the history of the Republican Party in recent years (2008 maybe excepted) seems to be one long refutation of that notion.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:48:50am

re: #447 jeffreyw

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Got soup?

I’m just about to make a batch of cheesy chicken enchilada soup. Yes, it’s now that chilly out.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:50:14am

re: #450 Charles Johnson

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As opposed to someone who imagines those with computer skills to all weigh 400# and work from the sofa.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:51:17am

re: #450 Charles Johnson

Looks like our media is trying to narrow the election again.

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ObserverArt  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:56:20am

re: #446 dangerman

Did I just “my sweet Lord” you?

We can split the royalties.

I need to get Sagehen in on the deal too. : )

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:57:03am

re: #453 Jay C

Maybe it’s just my Inner Cynic talking, but except for your first point, I couldn’t disagree more. Thanks to their finely-honed skills at gerrymandering (and their near-total lock on a lot of statehouses, which isn’t going to change any time soon), the GOP is going to have a built-in institutional advantage in Congress for at least six more years - a long time in political terms. AND: approval ratings notwithstanding (“20%” would be a considerable improvement!), it’s hard to see where ANY Republican Senator or Rep is going to have ANY incentive to be anything other than maximally obstructive to President Clinton 45. It’s a nice thought that utterly failing at the job of governance will lead to negative electoral consequences at the ballot box, but the history of the Republican Party in recent years (2008 maybe excepted) seems to be one long refutation of that notion.

The only thing I would add is that Clinton knows this going in. I love Obama, but I think he was a little naive believing that Republicans in congress would do their jobs and work with him. I think she’s going to play hardball.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 1, 2016 • 11:58:16am

Kevin Drum, Mother Jones: Trump is predictable and controlablle, On the other hand, he’s also predictable and controllbale.

Salient snippet:

For months, liberals have been afraid that Trump might be smarter than he seems. Once the primary was over, he’d be able to remake himself as a normal person for a few consecutive months, and that might be enough to convince fence-sitters that he was presidential material. And for a while, after he brought Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway on board, it looked like that might happen. Trump calmed down and allowed his team to guide him. He started picking up a few points in the polls. Democrats were getting scared.

If he had kept that up, this might have turned into a real nailbiter of an election. And that was the real fear. Trump can, in fact, be predictable and controllable in a good way, and if he had managed to keep up that facade from Labor Day to Election Day, he might have fooled a fair number of people into voting for him. Fortunately, he couldn’t keep up the act, and within a few weeks he once again became predictable and controllable in a bad way.

In the end, Trump’s inability to play a role for even a few weeks in a row might be the only thing that saves us from a Trump presidency. That’s a little too close for comfort.

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William Lewis  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:04:21pm

re: #406 Feline Fearless Leader

The past might have been better if you just considered LOTR since The War of the Ring was essentially the twilight of the elven civilizations on Middle Earth. If you have read more of the materials, especially the stories in the Silmarillion you can see that Middle Earth was messed up from Day 1 and that the elves managed to screw themselves over repeatedly due to being greedy, egotistical, and as “human” as the race that followed them.

The Oath of Fëanor for example.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:06:18pm

re: #460 William Lewis

You do have a point there.

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:06:52pm

re: #447 jeffreyw

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Got soup?

yup. making red beans and rice
sorta like soup

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dangerman  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:08:05pm

off to mow the lower 40, er 1/2 acre

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ObserverArt  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:08:31pm

re: #453 Jay C

Maybe it’s just my Inner Cynic talking, but except for your first point, I couldn’t disagree more. Thanks to their finely-honed skills at gerrymandering (and their near-total lock on a lot of statehouses, which isn’t going to change any time soon), the GOP is going to have a built-in institutional advantage in Congress for at least six more years - a long time in political terms. AND: approval ratings notwithstanding (“20%” would be a considerable improvement!), it’s hard to see where ANY Republican Senator or Rep is going to have ANY incentive to be anything other than maximally obstructive to President Clinton 45. It’s a nice thought that utterly failing at the job of governance will lead to negative electoral consequences at the ballot box, but the history of the Republican Party in recent years (2008 maybe excepted) seems to be one long refutation of that notion.

Ask yourself why so many actual Republican politicians crashed and burned in the primaries and allowed Trump to trash them. The people that give them those less than 20% approval ratings and did not want them as the candidate for President are speaking to them.

Yeah, they have gerrymander some sweet spots but people are getting sick of the Republibums they voted in. They may vote for new Republibums to replace the old, but it will come with expectations.

It is another reason there are now so many independents. The pure party politics are not working.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:10:12pm

TPM: Trump pressured Marla Maples to pose for Playboy

“Notably, she did resist Trump’s insistence that she accept Playboy magazine’s million-dollar centerfold offer. “Trump himself was on the phone negotiating the fee,” rememeber a top Playboy editor. “He wanted her to do the nude layout. She didn’t.” (“I’m thankful for my body, but I didn’t want to exploit it,” Marla offers. “How would I ever be taken seriously.”

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Dave In Austin  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:16:02pm

re: #463 dangerman

off to mow the lower 40, er 1/2 acre

Watchin mine grow today. Teh hammock calls!

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scottslemmons  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:21:17pm

re: #413 Frankie Five Angels

Please proceed, Cheeto Jesus.

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Likelihood that Trump has already cheated on Melania: probably pretty high.

Likelihood that if Trump has already cheated on Melania, the Clinton campaign is waiting for him to bring up the Clintons’ marriage so they can ask the other woman to stand up in the audience and wave: also probably pretty high.

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Poligeek  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:22:22pm

re: #467 scottslemmons

Likelihood that Trump has already cheated on Melania: probably pretty high.

Likelihood that if Trump has already cheated on Melania, the Clinton campaign is waiting for him to bring up the Clintons’ marriage so they can ask the other woman to stand up in the audience and wave: also probably pretty high.

If this happens, I might reconsider my whole position on that “Is there a God?” thing :)

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HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:27:13pm

re: #450 Charles Johnson

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I figured. Of course, the diehard Bustesr want this to be her Romney 47% momemnt but it’s actually the opposite and I say that as a millenial who has has ahard time finding a job.

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BeachDem  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:34:50pm

So classy:
“When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass—a good one!—there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left,” Trump told Vanity Fair around the time.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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BeachDem  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:37:22pm

Good news/bad news:

Trump had wanted a big family, according to the profile of his marriage in 1990. He wanted five kids to ensure that “one will be guaranteed to turn out like me,” he reportedly said.

talkingpointsmemo.com

So far, three of them have fulfilled his wishes—they are just as repulsive as he is.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:42:01pm

Is it me or does iOS 10 eat the battery?

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:43:56pm

re: #472 Dave In Austin

I have not noticed. I will road test it in my iphone (SE) tomorrow.

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Stanley Sea  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:45:34pm

re: #467 scottslemmons

Likelihood that Trump has already cheated on Melania: probably pretty high.

Likelihood that if Trump has already cheated on Melania, the Clinton campaign is waiting for him to bring up the Clintons’ marriage so they can ask the other woman to stand up in the audience and wave: also probably pretty high.

I actually can imagine Melania stepping out on Trump with a young artist in the Village.

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MsJ  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:50:16pm

re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth

I would click on “Reply w/ Quote”

That’s an option but it doesn’t put the tweet at first level where people can see that it’s a video…it puts it as a link.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:51:23pm
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goddamnedfrank  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:52:20pm

re: #474 Stanley Sea

I actually can imagine Melania stepping out on Trump with a young artist in the Village.

Mark Cuban would be the best option. Class 5 Shitstorm.

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allegro  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:53:21pm

re: #471 BeachDem

Good news/bad news:

Trump had wanted a big family, according to the profile of his marriage in 1990. He wanted five kids to ensure that “one will be guaranteed to turn out like me,” he reportedly said.

talkingpointsmemo.com

So far, three of them have fulfilled his wishes—they are just as repulsive as he is.

And then rejects the mother of his children because he could never be sexually attracted to a woman who has had children. I can’t even.

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MsJ  Oct 1, 2016 • 12:55:00pm

re: #452 Charles Johnson

If you click the Twitter bird logo at bottom right, then click the timestamp it goes to Twitter’s web site and you can retweet from there.

I think videos did previously have an RT button. Not sure why it’s missing now.

I only see a logo on the left which isn’t clickable. I get the same behavior on my laptop, too.

While the Quote function is nice, RT is better. BTW, this I only on some videos like the one in 407. Was that a tweet or from YouTube directly?

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Tigger2  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:01:19pm

I’m not shocked.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:01:39pm
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Stanley Sea  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:06:11pm

Nah, nothing fishy here.

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Great White Snark  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:17:11pm

re: #482 Stanley Sea

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Nyet  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:19:37pm

re: #456 Ziggy_TARDIS

Looks like our media is trying to narrow the election again.

Looks like you are fond of conspiracy theories.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:21:47pm

Afternoon Lizardim from the incredibly gorgeous wild north country. It is a perfect day today, so I thought I’d spend it out in Mrs. Fish’s big brown Lincoln, enjoying the new repairs. Ahahaha, NOPE. Apparently, the misery of the rest of my week has spread to my garage, as well; the ol’ beastie broke down at exactly the wrong spot, requiring a tow home literally a measly 1/4 mile. She’s resting now while I prepare to acquire replacement parts to get her up and going again. In other news, work has been a series of unfortunate events, starting with my clients visiting the new office space and ending with a dumpster-fire of a production deployment that required back-to-back emergency hotfixes, and I’m not even sure it’s entirely stable (and won’t know until Monday morning). I’m ready for a break. From life. How go things among the lizardfolk on this picture-perfect fall Saturday afternoon?

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stpaulbear  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:28:19pm

re: #485 thedopefishlives

I agree. The weather in the Twin Cities is perfect today. I was out running errands and took a drive around White Bear Lake. I may take my scooter out for a ride before the sun goes down. The days are getting shorter very fast now.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:30:27pm

re: #479 MsJ

I only see a logo on the left which isn’t clickable. I get the same behavior on my laptop, too.

While the Quote function is nice, RT is better. BTW, this I only on some videos like the one in 407. Was that a tweet or from YouTube directly?

I can’t control what’s in the tweet itself - that comes from Twitter and I can’t change it. The buttons underneath are my additions - I hadn’t thought about adding a retweet option because it’s already in most embedded tweets. But maybe I’ll do that for video tweets.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 1, 2016 • 1:32:24pm

re: #486 stpaulbear

I agree. The weather in the Twin Cities is perfect today. I was out running errands and took a drive around White Bear Lake. I may take my scooter out for a ride before the sun goes down. The days are getting shorter very fast now.

Great day for golf - the Ryder Cup is going on over at Hazeltine, in Chaska, not too far from the fishbowl. It would’ve been fun to go over there and watch some of the greats, but given the U.S.’s recent history in the event, it would’ve been mostly depressing to watch.

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ObserverArt  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:06:17pm

I have a technical question for anyone that understands Google Android operating systems. I will put it in a private tab so the members that don’t want their eyes glazing over with tech crap will not have a long comment to scroll past.

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ObserverArt  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:09:53pm

re: #485 thedopefishlives

Afternoon Lizardim from the incredibly gorgeous wild north country. It is a perfect day today, so I thought I’d spend it out in Mrs. Fish’s big brown Lincoln, enjoying the new repairs. Ahahaha, NOPE. Apparently, the misery of the rest of my week has spread to my garage, as well; the ol’ beastie broke down at exactly the wrong spot, requiring a tow home literally a measly 1/4 mile. She’s resting now while I prepare to acquire replacement parts to get her up and going again. In other news, work has been a series of unfortunate events, starting with my clients visiting the new office space and ending with a dumpster-fire of a production deployment that required back-to-back emergency hotfixes, and I’m not even sure it’s entirely stable (and won’t know until Monday morning). I’m ready for a break. From life. How go things among the lizardfolk on this picture-perfect fall Saturday afternoon?

Some days, eh?


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