Friday Night Blues: Joe Bonamassa, “Never Make Your Move Too Soon”
Joe Bonamassa, ladies and gentlemen, killing another blues classic with his excellent band. Love those singers. (Joe’s solo tastes a bit like jazz to me.)
Joe Bonamassa, ladies and gentlemen, killing another blues classic with his excellent band. Love those singers. (Joe’s solo tastes a bit like jazz to me.)
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?).
re: #1 PhillyPretzel
I restored your ad-free access - it’s good until 2017-09-05.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
Thank you very much Charles. :)
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.
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.
“She’s nasty but I can be nastier”- Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton https://t.co/74SO21zrxI
— carolynryan (@carolynryan) October 1, 2016
Whew! Can relax now.
State of Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea strategic donkey reserve is sound, citizens are assured.
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) September 29, 2016
@tonyschwartz https://t.co/3u4vBFpz2e
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) October 1, 2016
Time travel to 2018 somewhat unnerving. pic.twitter.com/dMLbEXd9P3
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) October 1, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Eric Trump’s ‘charity’ spent $880K at family-owned golf resorts https://t.co/VTiQ7AHz9m
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) October 1, 2016
re: #8 Charles Johnson
That Trump person is throwing a hissy fit.
This is irresponsible. Republicans should get in front of it. https://t.co/BE4BSiX80S pic.twitter.com/WCvr4q2J3b
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) October 1, 2016
@NoahCRothman Hah! Good luck with that. https://t.co/4W9irMCaqe
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 1, 2016
@realDonaldTrump #CloseYourAccount
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) October 1, 2016
I’ll say it again. I don’t think this election will be close.
re: #9 gocart mozart
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(i still won)
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.
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?
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.
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?
I’m just gonna go ahead and upding the OP before I even listen to it. That young feller can play blues pretty OK!
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.
re: #23 Eric The Fruit Bat
American politics often has been a wild ride.
Perhaps what we are sensing is what Marshall McLuhan described?
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.
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.
re: #29 mmmirele
9 emails in 24 hours? It sounds like an intern on caffeine.
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.
.@newtgingrich: “You can’t tweet at 3 o’clock in the morning. Period. There’s no excuse, ever, not if you’re going to be POTUS.” #Hannity pic.twitter.com/F7nA2MTw8w
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 1, 2016
Tweeting at 3 am is the red line for Newt. Not the bigotry, not the racism, not the white supremacists. Tweeting at 3 am. @FoxNews
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 1, 2016
re: #30 PhillyPretzel
9 emails in 24 hours? It sounds like an intern on caffeine.
Same here after donating twice.
Me and my family finding out while eating on the beach in Malibu that there’s an imminent earthquake alert in LA. #SanAndreas pic.twitter.com/n5iRQy7vSe
— Josh Gad (@joshgad) September 30, 2016
So presidential. Not. So sad. No wonder Newt loves him so much; they’re brothers under the sin.
Seven years ago, Trump called on Carrie Prejean to release a sex tape she made at age 17. https://t.co/sfzIbdAUDv
— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) October 1, 2016
Hey @TuckerCarlson, do you know that your @DailyCaller now is @RadixJournal-lite platform for white supremacists and anti-Semites?
— Apperception (@syntheticunity) September 30, 2016
I bet he did not know that https://t.co/ZhASKPUjRZ
— Radix Journal (@RadixJournal) September 30, 2016
Not good https://t.co/Cbns87I7jv
— Upulie Divisekera (@upulie) October 1, 2016
Bees added to US endangered species list for the first time https://t.co/WAtdnxXr9z
— The Guardian (@guardian) October 1, 2016
*groan*
We have corralled an uncooperative suspect, he will be interviewed by an InvestiGATOR. Suspect caught trying to escape to the Caimans. pic.twitter.com/EfSYI7cZl3
— Thornton Police Dept (@ThorntonPolice) September 30, 2016
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.
re: #42 teleskiguy
Sorry, but that is beautiful!
re: #43 Ziggy_TARDIS
I thought it corny. Then again, I’m not known for a dry sense of humor.
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.
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.
Matthew is now a Category 5 Hurricane, the first since Felix over 9 years ago.
Sean Hannity confirms my theory that Trump’s “strategy” with the infidelity stuff is to push millennials 3rd party.
— digby (@digby56) October 1, 2016
So fucking stupid.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
@Green_Footballs Except Gingrich was supporting Trump & Fox was all over rehashing Bill’s affairs, tying to Hillary. Today. What changed?
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 1, 2016
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.
re: #35 teleskiguy
@ScottAdamsSays Someone doesn’t understand the difference between fear and mocking. You’re supposed to understand words. Apparently not.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 1, 2016
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.
Looks like the October Surprise might be a Hurricane.
re: #48 goddamnedfrank
And I am 90% sure this will not work.
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.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) October 1, 2016
re: #58 goddamnedfrank
@goddamnedfrank It’s a damn good thing these taint weasels don’t multiply when they get wet.
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 1, 2016
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.
re: #54 Ziggy_TARDIS
Let’s just hope this sucker changes direction and skips past us.
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?
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.
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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re: #63 De Kolta Chair
Actually, I don’t think they care whether you panic or not. Outrunning them is probably your best bet.
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.”
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 hannityMany 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.
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.
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.
re: #65 piratedan
the check bounced….
More likely never delivered. Only chumps actually pay people. /
re: #74 MsJ
loyalty… she is such a fickle beast… :-)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fall pron!
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
re: #79 majii
In the new Trump era of returned greatness, adultery is fine (for men).
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.
re: #80 Jenner7
Though, I will be sure to never buy from Ben & Jerry’s.
re: #83 De Kolta Chair
Maybe you can talk about it once it’s over.
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.
7. “Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, dude, at least it’s an ethos.” https://t.co/CiWVx6KyfA
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) October 1, 2016
Tomorrow’s front page:
TRUMP’S PORN TAPE
- Donald’s tiny part in Playboy video
- Uses wee hours to rip beauty queenhttps://t.co/csImRvTXCm pic.twitter.com/2PiacTJviE— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) October 1, 2016
Trump camp is promoting this leaked Clinton remark about Bernie supporters. Do Bernie people see this remark as bad? https://t.co/mswADkD6xP pic.twitter.com/k4vxXJYq2b
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 1, 2016
Comment is pretty tame. Trump campaign desperate.
Can we just please snuggle this hedgehog? 💆 (via @roqchams) pic.twitter.com/er1zPYrXSr
— Twitter Video (@video) September 27, 2016
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.
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.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
Damn. That’s one fat hedgehog.
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.
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.
@ddale8 Nah. This is the one that’s less than great. pic.twitter.com/Mv3FBQkGHI
— William Bohl (@BreakTheHuddle) October 1, 2016
She says more…
Still not seeing how offensive it is. But, I have no fucks to give about pouty, spoiled millennials.
re: #96 MsJ
Damn. That’s one fat hedgehog.
No shit! My thoughts exactly. Cut back on the super-sized meal worm buffet, dude.
We have permanently breached the symbolic 400ppm threshold for the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere this week https://t.co/ul4YI2sWkc
— DeSmogBlog (@DeSmogBlog) October 1, 2016
“Snowball” @JimInhofe vows help for Flint after blaming #obama’s “climate agenda” for #Flint https://t.co/ueSQPN5Cne
— Dwayne aKa Mustafa (@ODDwayne) September 23, 2016
2. “Shut the fuck up, Donny!” https://t.co/EidCkMZ1sS
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) October 1, 2016
Cats who love toothbrushes. 😻 #VideoOfTheDay (via @free_pinz) pic.twitter.com/yiE28HUWsh
— Twitter Video (@video) September 18, 2016
1. This tweet from July 20, 2016 holds up well. https://t.co/UN06gCapK7
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) September 30, 2016
2. I don’t like saying “I told you so” but … I told you so. https://t.co/VO2alCrEnQ
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) September 30, 2016
Supporters of the Republican nominee for President of the United States are sending me PornHub links in an effort to back up his 3 AM tweet.
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) September 30, 2016
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
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.
Weak, pathetic, small https://t.co/8WClGxkuVS
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 1, 2016
re: #110 Charles Johnson
OK, I’ll admit it. That is one of the cutest cat videos I’ve ever seen.
With winds of 160mph #HurricaneMatthew is now the 1st category 5 storm in the Atlantic since Felix in 2007. Category 1 to 5 in just 33 hours pic.twitter.com/GymfswXdkX
— Mike Thomas (@MikeTFox5) October 1, 2016
re: #118 jaunte
I know a lot of folks from Jamaica. This shit is scaring me.
re: #109 De Kolta Chair
Later lizards, and btw Jim Steranko, you are a god
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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.
re: #114 Dave In Austin
Donald Trump opens a new line of attack on Hillary Clinton: Her marriage. https://t.co/VTnl44Y5Lt via @patrickhealynyt @maggienyt pic.twitter.com/QkjMDZwe7Q
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) October 1, 2016
Maggie Haberman-again.
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.
Chris Matthews is right https://t.co/H8wwQxzcLI pic.twitter.com/9TVXLHWX8x
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) September 30, 2016
@TheFix So, you believe racism and ethnic nationalism is Patriotism. Good to know where you stand, pig.
— Richard Wierengo (@The_War_TARDIS) October 1, 2016
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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re: #124 Targetpractice
Maggie Haberman is just an awful journalist.
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.
re: #123 Ziggy_TARDIS
That does answer some questions about some media’s soft coverage of him.
Apparently, Cilliza and Matthews are White Supremacists.
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.
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.
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.
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?
re: #134 Ziggy_TARDIS
Your though processes are getting seriously distorted and need calibration immediately.
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.
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…
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.
re: #139 William Lewis
They put on a wonderful live show!
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
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.
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! “
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.
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!
re: #144 BeachDem
She should be fired for incompetence-and the NYTimes editorial board needs some serious delousing.
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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re: #146 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
THAT’S THE SURFACE OF A COMET!
THAT’S THE SURFACE OF A COMET!
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.
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.
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.
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.
re: #146 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I am mesmerized by this photograph.
Jaw. On. Floor.
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.
re: #148 Targetpractice
Surface of a comet, or a set from an episode of Star Trek. You be the judge!
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Here’s a series of 15 images from 22.9 km to ~20 m. The final image is kind of blurry.
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.
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.”
Somebody has a really good idea how to rehab Penn Station:
re: #35 teleskiguy
.@ScottAdamsSays pic.twitter.com/i9lYjQmGcS
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 1, 2016
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.
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.
Strangely, he references Daily Kos in the threat, which first brought up Doug Applegate’s advert.
For those who might still be awake in the northern States. And have clear skies.
re: #166 Cheechako
For those who might still be awake in the northern States.
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?
As America Sleeps, @realDonaldTrump Seethes on Twitter: https://t.co/bfECFdXDpg? #p2 #ImWithHer #ctl pic.twitter.com/gy1qyfFYEy
— (((R.Saddler))) (@Politics_PR) October 1, 2016
If Clinton can find a new private citizen like Machado or Khan to get under Trump’s skin every week until the election, she’ll win in a walk
— Damion Schubert (@ZenOfDesign) October 1, 2016
re: #162 sagehen
Somebody has a really good idea how to rehab Penn Station:
Some other plans:
PENN 2023
Envisioning a New Penn Station, the Next Madison
Square Garden, and the Future of West Midtown
Penn 2023
Madison Square Garden:
Shaping the Future of West Midtown
re: #167 Anymouse
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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.
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.
Here’s the aurora website so you can keep up to date on the aurora forecasts:
re: #173 Cheechako
Here’s the aurora website so you can keep up to date on the aurora forecasts:
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.)
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.
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.
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.)
Mr. Trump’s new outreach programme for women voters? /s
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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.
Keith Olbermann on the surest way to gauge support for Hillary Clinton: Betting markets.
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”:
re: #183 Single-handed sailor
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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.
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.
re: #184 Single-handed sailor
Did you put that in the private brackets because it is scary? /s
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
Saturday artwork. Had my mom come by with my D50. Enjoy.
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re: #181 Anymouse
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
re: #192 goddamnedfrank
It was useful in gauging the debate effect, as KO points out - strips away the online polls spin.
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.
I drank a lot last night, @realDonaldTrump, and even I decided tweeting at 3 a.m. about women who wouldn’t sleep with me was a bad idea.
— Joe Cunningham (@JoePCunningham) September 30, 2016
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…
re: #122 Eric The Fruit Bat
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.
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).
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.
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:
Sometimes the “wow” tell for cognitive dissonance is at the end. (This guy just realized his side are Nazis) https://t.co/9HtlO0Cmfw
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) September 29, 2016
The guy is downright creepy. I wouldn’t feel safe around him in person.
I didn’t think Lee Camp’s avi could become even douchier, but here’s the new one:
The pure essence of a BernieBro.
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.
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.
re: #204 Anymouse
That was my impression, but I’m biased…
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:
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.
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:
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.
Just noticed this, shamelessly plugging what Thanos paged:
GOP Blocks Probes Into Trump-Russia Ties
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.
re: #209 Teukka
Just noticed this, shamelessly plugging what Thanos paged:
GOP Blocks Probes Into Trump-Russia Ties
The party of appeasers.
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.
re: #211 Nyet
The party of appeasers.
<question type=’rhethorical’>How much more obvious does the stink have to get?</question>
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well you totally knew this was coming @realDonaldTrump - you calling ANYONE a “fat pig” is the pot calling the kettle black. #DBagDonald pic.twitter.com/gjirznJG0O
— Montel Williams (@Montel_Williams) October 1, 2016
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
re: #221 BeenHereAwhile
Burton, what a creepy fellow. Totally bought the blood libel accusation, wrote a book about it.
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
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.
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.
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:
re: #226 Nyet
Yeah. An attempt at systematizing these stats:
Ah ho worries then
As I said I didn’t review where this started
Meanwhile seven more or less
If You Tell Me You Are Supporting Trump, I Already Know Seven Things About You
Briefly back, because I found this:
Colorado state representative Gordon Klingenschmitt (R-Dominionist): Demonic Spirits At ABC Are ‘Bringing Sodomy’ Upon America
(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.”
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).
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?
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.
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.
re: #233 Anymouse
Neither for me, but I can access it from the DK frontpage.
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.
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
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.).
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
re: #249 Shiplord Kirel
The whole issue is posted here:
Pappy’s Golden Age Comic Blogzine: Andy’s Atomic Adventures
re: #249 Shiplord Kirel
More nuclear madness from the 50s:
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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!
So, how is it iTunes Windows version is now 177MB? How much code is needed to catalog and play music? WTF.
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).
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.
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.
.@RealDonaldTrump losing his mind anew on this issue central to the preservation of this democracy. https://t.co/uiMT5stlLV pic.twitter.com/ruhuW8ujmR
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 1, 2016
@KeithOlbermann @realDonaldTrump Called it three days ago.https://t.co/KgYe02F1wU
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 1, 2016
So who besides me thinks Trump was full of shit when he said he’d accept the results of the election if he lost?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 29, 2016
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.
If Trump were to win, Republicans would blame Obama & Democrats for not warning them he was unbalanced.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 1, 2016
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.
re: #253 Nyet
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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?
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.
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.
As for me, I’m gonna watch Luke Cage, episode 2.
Milo Yiannopoulos is a Perez Hilton wannabe? LOL! Sorry dude, you’ll never be Perez cuz he’s cool, you are a dud. https://t.co/3mT9vENZDk
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 1, 2016
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.
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.
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.
re: #63 De Kolta Chair
Upding for “… swelling up to the size of three Orson Welles’”
Wake Co NC voted absentees 39 days pre-elex:
2016 1,912
D 42.8%
R 29.6%
U 27.4%
2012 272
D 30.5%
R 44.9%
U 24.6%
up 602%, 27% swing to D— Gerry Cohen (@gercohen) October 1, 2016
#OlderPeoplesDay
This lady feeding a squirrel using a marionette of herself is still my favourite older person. pic.twitter.com/cQ3Spjk9Do— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) October 1, 2016
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.
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.
.@realdonaldtrump’s family values - pressuring his future wife to pose for Playboy. https://t.co/APHzmSODGS
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 1, 2016
And @realDonaldTrump shows complete and utter disdain for any woman who stands up to him or resists his urges w/ body shaming and slurs
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 1, 2016
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Heh.
Despite others reporting, a spokesperson for the Trump campaign says Nigel Farage is not involved in the Republican nominee’s debate prep
— John Santucci (@JTSantucci) October 1, 2016
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.
re: #281 lawhawk
Trump says not to believe sources in his campaign, so this means Farage *is* helping him.
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.
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.
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.
Donald mocks EVERYONE! Gold Star Families, Handicapped Journalists, even you @KellyannePolls :) @HillaryClinton @ABC
— Scott (@sgfunn) October 1, 2016
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.
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.
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).
Republican women, great example - I’ve come to admire Hillary Clinton. What on earth happened? - Washington Post https://t.co/iN08Xcvyyb
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) October 1, 2016
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.
re: #291 Tigger2
Hillary has proven herself to be the Hermione Granger of Washington.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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
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
Exciting news! @TheAthensNEWS has endorsed Hillary as the best choice for Ohio and our nation: https://t.co/LiKOiCMB9F #OHHillYes pic.twitter.com/bV7xYMZxTu
— Hillary for Ohio (@HillaryforOH) October 1, 2016
re: #287 Anymouse
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…HUGE @HillaryClinton Caught again mocking Americans; she hates coal miners, baristas, Sanders idealists https://t.co/kWguQZ1bY9 #FeelTheBern
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) October 1, 2016
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?
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”
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
Now I am sick, which will impede on a large number of things today, unless it resolves itself in the next few hours.
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
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.
HeHeHe Hillary’s trolling the Trump.
It’s 3:20am. As good a time as any to tweet about national service. https://t.co/6hRCC16UiV
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 1, 2016
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?)
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.
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
re: #310 Anymouse
They should start taxing all religious orgs.
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.
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.
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.
/
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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point being theyve decided what’s more important and it’s not “the message”. its the money
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
re: #322 Nyet
Damnit, you took what I was going to say. :P
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.
re: #325 Ziggy_TARDIS
You have a bigger problem with fundamentalist woo, Europe has a problem with New Age woo.
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.
re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germany better be able to hold off the Fuckwit wave.
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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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.
re: #329 Ziggy_TARDIS
Though EU is undeniably better on the issue that matters the most: AGW.
re: #330 Ziggy_TARDIS
Unfortunately, Merkel’s CDU has been losing seats to the local nationalists in recent local elections.
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.
Born before women could vote, Ruline just cast her ballot for Hillary in Iowa today. Join her: https://t.co/tTgeqxNqYm pic.twitter.com/LQ1qozY3NH
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 29, 2016
Mark Kirk lied repeatedly about facing enemy fire and serving in combat. Watch & RT our latest ad. #ILSEN pic.twitter.com/ucbRI235iO
— Tammy Duckworth (@TammyforIL) October 1, 2016
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.
Racist Trump twitter has come up with a new coded way to share racial slurs w/ each other and avoid account suspension. pic.twitter.com/J4AmaHFVCd
— Alex Goldman (@AGoldmund) October 1, 2016
Spread the word! These putrid assholes are trying to hide, so let’s pick up all the rocks they could hide under. https://t.co/hcfRK4wdXq
— Richard Wierengo (@The_War_TARDIS) October 1, 2016
In case you were wondering whether Reince has a threshold below which he won’t go… https://t.co/VWIZnFPVWS
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 1, 2016
RNC memo: We have questions about Bill Clinton’s half-brother https://t.co/yLujDs5gfx
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 1, 2016
Looks like CNN is trying to tighten up the race again.
In which CNN Senior Producer, @CNNSotu w/ @jaketapper posts misleading tweet. https://t.co/oI4EPqIjSB
— Gus Taco Trucks™ (@Gus_802) October 1, 2016
Caught on Tape-Clinton sees herself occupying center-right, views Bernie people as baristas dreaming of Scandinavia. https://t.co/POJG3zPwvx
— Edward Mejia Davis (@TeddyDavisCNN) October 1, 2016
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.
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.
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.
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.
You know, I’ll never forgive Boris for the Brexit, but I just might become less allergic to him.
Russia ‘in danger of becoming a pariah nation,’ says Boris Johnson
Russia could be guilty of war crimes in Syria, says Boris Johnson
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.
re: #343 Ziggy_TARDIS
Looks like CNN is trying to tighten up the race again.
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I’m no barista, but I did marry a woman of Scandinavian descent, so I suppose that’s not entirely inaccurate.
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?
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).
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.
re: #352 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Yeah, that is exactly what I was thinking of, on a far larger scale.
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! :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
re: #367 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Not the primaries. She voted in the general.
Yeah I see that now. Awesome.
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.
So some guy started a satirical Histreepix profile to mock the bot History in Pictures
A funeral for a tank, WWII. 1941. pic.twitter.com/Uo7RAcy3FN
— Histry in Pictures (@Histreepix) September 1, 2016
And the bot picked up one of his pics:
During the Great Depression, sly American poachers could sell patently photoshopped grasshoppers for up to $4. 1937. pic.twitter.com/p9EWp7WGYE
— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPix) September 28, 2016
It Speaks Volumes. pic.twitter.com/e96tMxi9Pk
— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) October 1, 2016
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.
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.
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.
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.
re: #370 darthstar
So some guy started a satirical Histreepix profile to mock the bot History in Pictures
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With so many men absent during the Second World War, the crucial task of mansplaining often fell to women. pic.twitter.com/O9aiIOpKsn
— Histry in Pictures (@Histreepix) February 22, 2016
re: #273 darthstar
#OlderPeoplesDay
This lady feeding a squirrel using a marionette of herself is still my favourite older person. pic.twitter.com/cQ3Spjk9Do— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) October 1, 2016
A piece of the story…
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!!
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. //
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.
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.
re: #383 Romantic Heretic
I tend to prefer the Rashidun Caliphate, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Ottoman Caliphate, and the Savafid Empire.
Going to bed. I’ll see everyone later when the Earth rotates another 120 degrees or so.
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!!!
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”.
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.
US official: Hackers targeted election systems of 20 states: https://t.co/kMQTTUOhmw pic.twitter.com/1BcQqpupQP
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) October 1, 2016
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…
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.
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.
We’re going to have four years of a shit show no matter what.
Racist Trump twitter has come up with a new coded way to share racial slurs w/ each other and avoid account suspension. pic.twitter.com/J4AmaHFVCd
— Alex Goldman (@AGoldmund) October 1, 2016
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.
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.…HUGE @HillaryClinton Caught again mocking Americans; she hates coal miners, baristas, Sanders idealists https://t.co/kWguQZ1bY9 #FeelTheBern
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) October 1, 2016
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.
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.
I’m a twitchy insomniac, easily enraged. Give me nukes! https://t.co/x1NE2SFbKl
— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 30, 2016
1985 Jerry Falwell marches on 7-11 for selling Playboy.
2016 His son endorses candidate who appeared in Playboy video pic.twitter.com/cxlzidcGO0— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) October 1, 2016
With all available advertising time fully booked between now & election day, the media can pivot to responsibility, tell truth about Trump.
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) October 1, 2016
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.
Nobody here was “having fun” except for Trump. pic.twitter.com/uklRuFJaus
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 1, 2016
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!
Yes it’s caturday but could not resist.
Christie’s political team had plan to dole out 9/11 artifacts in exchange for endorsements in early primary states: https://t.co/iJNdqreIiu
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) October 1, 2016
.@realDonaldTrump had the lowest expectations ever for a presidential #debate, and yet he somehow still managed to not meet them.
— Speaker Cruz (@HavanaTed) October 1, 2016
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.
Please proceed, Cheeto Jesus.
Donald Trump opens new line of attack on Hillary Clinton: her marriage https://t.co/3HTDoYlPrh
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 1, 2016
Trump says 50% of his thought process in debate consumed by faulty mic. Just the quality we want in a president juggling multiple crises
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 1, 2016
Has there ever been a group less qualified to lecture anyone on women, wives and weight than @realDonaldTrump and his fat philanderers club? pic.twitter.com/yqmXwY4pCD
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) October 1, 2016
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./
@KellyannePolls @HillaryClinton So stupid. She was expressing sympathy and support for millennials, not “mocking” them, you hack. https://t.co/MoWdWgR5IK
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 1, 2016
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.
Only Clinton responds to the New England Journal of Medicine request to share health care vision https://t.co/3s01aUjh9p
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) October 1, 2016
Because Trump has no healthcare plan.
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
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.
@KellyannePolls I especially enjoy how you use #FeelTheBern, when you work for a far right demagogue utterly opposed to Bernie’s ideals.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 1, 2016
re: #421 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because his marriages are/were totally pristine
Rumors now circulating Trump may be in the market for wife number 4! pic.twitter.com/eLgoS8SYGy
— philip harris (@pharris830) October 1, 2016
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
re: #420 jaunte
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Because Trump has no healthcare plan.
Brawndo. It’s what makes plants grow.
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.
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…
A chart of issues and positions: Clinton, Johnson & Trump. #Vote pic.twitter.com/qvAmRmQQrd
— RiotWomenn (@riotwomennn) October 1, 2016
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! : )
.@chrisfluming is truly one of my very favorite comedic minds. here is his spot-on take on gary johnson: https://t.co/zz8qdDSAmS
— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) October 1, 2016
One of house music’s greatest acts paying their respects to France:
Farley Jackmaster Funk to release track supporting victims of French terror attacks https://t.co/FTY8BIjSZV pic.twitter.com/Frh6yxrwn5
— Resident Advisor (@residentadvisor) September 28, 2016
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.
OK, transitioning to couch and ball game
Let’s Go Mets
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
How dare Hillary Clinton call these lovely folks “deplorable?!” pic.twitter.com/LWrmQIqqPu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 1, 2016
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
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.
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 etchillary has an 8 year buffer
is “known” and has lots of government experience, even if they dont like the resultsand 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.
re: #417 Charles Johnson
How in the world could anyone interpret what Clinton said as that? Oh, yeah. A dumbass that works for Trump.
re: #442 MsJ
I would click on “Reply w/ Quote”
re: #439 Dr. Lexus
Sean Duffy is a reality star himself, so he is a bit unmoored from reality.
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.
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?
re: #405 sagehen
Good luck with that, Bruce.
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
Hillary Clinton’s words. She expressed sympathy for millennials and praised their idealism. No “mocking” here. pic.twitter.com/SnH2MbFIN8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 1, 2016
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
re: #450 Charles Johnson
Looks like our media is trying to narrow the election again.
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. : )
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.
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.
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.
re: #460 William Lewis
You do have a point there.
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.
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.”
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
So far, three of them have fulfilled his wishes—they are just as repulsive as he is.
re: #472 Dave In Austin
I have not noticed. I will road test it in my iphone (SE) tomorrow.
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.
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.
Trump fans are acting even more like a swarm of enraged hornets than usual today.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 1, 2016
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.
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.
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.
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?
I’m not shocked.
White supremacist tells @LATimes: “Every alt-right Nazi I know is volunteering for Trump” https://t.co/IzxD84uU91 pic.twitter.com/NhAPYkeZJz
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) October 1, 2016
2: issue intentionally ambiguous statement eliding that he created the problem himself. Ie. They were bullied and caved. In any case…
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 1, 2016
3: whole thing is silly since everyone cld hear him fine. Hillz slapped him around and that wounded fragile ego.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 1, 2016
Nah, nothing fishy here.
Man shoots and kills wife, blames his fear of Black Lives Matter https://t.co/vLSsTTpJB6
— E James (@jawja100) October 1, 2016
re: #482 Stanley Sea
@jawja100 If he was trained by certain police departments I’d believe him. Almost. https://t.co/ytAHwBAdlj
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) October 1, 2016
re: #456 Ziggy_TARDIS
Looks like our media is trying to narrow the election again.
Looks like you are fond of conspiracy theories.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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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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?