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Charles Johnson  Dec 15, 2016 • 8:40:37pm
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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Dec 15, 2016 • 8:44:40pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Matt Boyle is not an editor, he’s a propagandist. Breitbart is not a news outlet, they are a piece of shit Nazi outlet specializing in spewing hatred and lies.

But to answer the first question: he, they and Trump hate this country.

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darthstar  Dec 15, 2016 • 8:46:10pm

Company party tonight. I wished the chairman of the board a Merry Christmas, then rememebered he’s Israeli. We both smiled and said Happy Holidays to each other.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 15, 2016 • 8:50:53pm

Daisy Ridley has produced a film about the Mongolian eagle girl.

bbc.com

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 8:51:39pm

Tips For Surviving A Blizzard

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The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)  Dec 15, 2016 • 8:52:32pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Because a Russia Today editor would be a little too blatant?

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Lidane  Dec 15, 2016 • 8:53:14pm
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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Dec 15, 2016 • 8:53:27pm

This was not me today.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 15, 2016 • 8:59:08pm

re: #8 Myron Falwell (no relation)

This was not me today.

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I honestly had a friend with a convertible who had to drive with the top down in winter because the ragtop lifting motors had burned out or something. He dressed like an Eskimo and ran the heater full blast.

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darthstar  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:00:48pm

re: #8 Myron Falwell (no relation)

This was not me today.

[Embedded content]

This is why god made the Internet.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:10:24pm

re: #10 darthstar

This is why god made the Internet.

“Cleveland vs. The World” 😉

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The Ghost of Senator Incatatus  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:12:27pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:15:51pm

re: #9 wheat-dogg

I honestly had a friend with a convertible who had to drive with the top down in winter because the ragtop lifting motors had burned out or something. He dressed like an Eskimo and ran the heater full blast.

The heater core in my MGB broke one cool Autumn evening in Ithaca(the windows all fogged up INSTANTLY). I couldn’t afford to replace it for a couple months, so I had no heater at all in an Ithaca winter.

Turns out that no matter how shallow you breathe, it still freezes on the windshield in front of you.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:18:05pm

re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea

Well played sir!

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Dave In Austin  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:18:31pm

re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea

Very Funny…….

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darthstar  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:21:59pm

re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea

I find this theologian has some very interesting thoughts on God and the nature of the internet.

Dude…you fuckin’ rick rolled me? This close to Jesus’ birthday? That’s fucked up.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:25:56pm

Noooooo! No no no …..

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Belafon  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:27:57pm

re: #17 Dave In Austin

What is going on?

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Stanley Sea  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:29:46pm

re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea

Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say good bye.

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The Ghost of Senator Incatatus  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:29:46pm

re: #16 darthstar

Dude…you fuckin’ rick rolled me? This close to Jesus’ birthday? That’s fucked up.

Only one I’ve ever done.

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darthstar  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:30:31pm
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Dave In Austin  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:32:07pm

re: #18 Belafon

What is going on?

Nazi Fuck….. Now they wear ties….

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Belafon  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:35:46pm

re: #22 Dave In Austin

Nazi Fuck….. Now they wear ties….

So we’re rooting for the guy in the beard?

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Dave In Austin  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:37:10pm

re: #24 Belafon

So we’re rooting for the guy in the beard?

Yep, the regular twitter post sums it up

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Belafon  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:39:11pm

re: #25 Dave In Austin

For some reason, with chrome on android, a video in a tweet takes over everything but the buttons and I can’t click anything to get to the tweet.

I finally did a retweet and saw it.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:42:16pm

Always cool to see new chairlifts being load-tested with kegs.

Facebook Post

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Dave In Austin  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:43:31pm

re: #26 Belafon

Just click the tweet bird and it brings up the content,

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Kragar  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:45:17pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:45:54pm

re: #29 Kragar

My surprise, etc, etc.

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retired cynic  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:49:39pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

My surprise, etc, etc.

There hasn’t been a one of these that I can stand.

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:50:29pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:51:41pm

Wait. WHAT?

Isn’t that, like, illegal or something? Like not fucking ADMISSIBLE? So anything they might have found couldn’t be used?

They need to close the NYC office of the FBI, fire the top brass and disperse the agents among the other offices.

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:51:56pm

re: #29 Kragar

Just… there are no words to describe the depravity we’re seeing coalesce in the most destructive force I think humanity has ever seen. This is gut wrenching. I know humans can be evil but… I can’t even.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:52:10pm

re: #32 E Deploribus Unum

You’re an Islamophobic piece of shit.

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:56:20pm
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The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:57:08pm

re: #32 E Deploribus Unum

They can march next to the NAZIs. Also, fuck off.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:57:31pm

re: #32 E Deploribus Unum

Coming soon to a kind-hearted liberal city near you:

express.co.uk

Rack ‘em stack ‘em and get ‘em the hell out of here.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:57:43pm

re: #36 E Deploribus Unum

We’re going to fucking go there? So what should happen you festering pus bag? Outlaw Islam?!? Fuck you. FUCK YOU!

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 9:58:34pm

re: #36 E Deploribus Unum

I’m not cutting off the heads of Christians and throwing gays off of rooftops in the name of allah. Your anger is greatly misdirected.

It is entirely directed appropriately. You are magnifying their hate. You are them. How dare you point a finger. Look in a mirror.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:00:08pm

Don’t feed the troll. Don’t feed the troll. Don’t feed the troll. Don’t feed the troll.

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:01:05pm
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:01:47pm

re: #41 teleskiguy

Don’t feed the troll. Don’t feed the troll. Don’t feed the troll. Don’t feed the troll.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:03:22pm
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The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:03:34pm

re: #36 E Deploribus Unum

I’m not cutting off the heads of Christians and throwing gays off of rooftops in the name of allah. Your anger is greatly misdirected.

Congratulations, you’re better than viscious murderers. Your mother must be so proud.

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:03:50pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:04:19pm

re: #42 E Deploribus Unum

I thought you were a regular reader of LGF. You’d know that by now if you were. Instead, you’re just a hateful fucking troll shitting on this blog.

Hey! Did you know Christians are guilty of wholesale slaughter and butchery over the years? No, you didn’t because you’re a fucking hateful moron.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:04:40pm

re: #46 E Deploribus Unum

On a lighter note: Anybody see Rogue One tonight?

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William Lewis  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:04:42pm

re: #36 E Deploribus Unum

Take your genocide excusing ass back to Breitbart/Stormfront/whatever Nazi slime pit you crawled out of.

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The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:05:13pm

re: #42 E Deploribus Unum

Touchy subject eh?

Considering we have a president elect looking to make lists and deny basic rights, yeah. Yeah it is, dipshit.

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The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:06:37pm

re: #46 E Deploribus Unum

On a lighter note: Anybody see Rogue One tonight?

No, sorry, you don’t get to just hang out now. Fuck off.

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William Lewis  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:06:44pm

re: #46 E Deploribus Unum

On a lighter note: Anybody see Rogue One tonight?

Yeah. The Nazis lost the battle again and decent people got the plans to stop them from winning the war.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:07:46pm

Downding and ignore.

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:08:08pm
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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:08:37pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:09:29pm

re: #54 E Deploribus Unum

You know how to spell? It’s “accepting.” Fucking imbecile.

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TedStriker  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:10:24pm

re: #47 teleskiguy

I thought you were a regular reader of LGF. You’d know that by now if you were. Instead, you’re just a hateful fucking troll shitting on this blog.

Hey! Did you know Christians are guilty of wholesale slaughter and butchery over the years? No, you didn’t because you’re a fucking hateful moron.

Stinky will make quick work of them soon enough.

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:10:26pm
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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:10:38pm

re: #54 E Deploribus Unum

And I thought all you good lefties were open minded and excepting of all ideas and viewpoints! That totally came out of left field (Pun intended).

Then lets explore yours, shall we? Please tell us why you wish you hurt a population of people who have no wish to do harm?

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:11:17pm
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William Lewis  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:12:20pm

re: #56 teleskiguy

You know how to spell? It’s “accepting.” Fucking imbecile.

Now now, no need to give him that much credit…

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:12:45pm

re: #33 Blind Frog Belly White

Wait. WHAT?

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Isn’t that, like, illegal or something? Like not fucking ADMISSIBLE? So anything they might have found couldn’t be used?

They need to close the NYC office of the FBI, fire the top brass and disperse the agents among the other offices.

Not sure, since the devices were no longer in her or Weiner’s possession when the second search warrant was sought and the second warrant technically didn’t target Abedin or Weiner. They’d already surrendered them in the investigation of Weiner’s texting of an underage girl, and the new warrant was sought to expand the search for any emails they might be able to tie into the security investigation of Clinton’s server. A better inquiry is into the affidavits that were signed justifying that warrant, since those affidavits would necessarily have asserted a strong likelihood of the searches unearthing evidence of a crime, evidence that never materialized.

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:13:02pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:13:40pm

re: #54 E Deploribus Unum

And I thought all you good lefties were open minded and excepting of all ideas and viewpoints! That totally came out of left field (Pun intended).

You have no fucking idea. How do you know that I am a dyed-in-the-wool liberal? Did you know that I own guns? Did you know that I actually prefer a less-obtrusive government and lower taxes for working stiffs? Did you know that one of my favorite presidents is Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican?

Of course you didn’t, ‘cause you’re a fucking troll, a worthless sack of bloated protoplasm.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:14:04pm

re: #60 E Deploribus Unum

Thanks friend.

Ain’t my friend, fuckface.

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:14:45pm
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TedStriker  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:15:03pm

re: #64 teleskiguy

You have no fucking idea. How do you know that I am a dyed-in-the-wool liberal? Did you know that I own guns? Did you know that I actually prefer a less-obtrusive government and lower taxes for working stiffs? Did you know that one of my favorite presidents is Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican?

Of course you didn’t, ‘cause you’re a fucking troll, a worthless sack of bloated protoplasm.

The shitstain isn’t worth your or anyone else’s time, except Stinky’s; just downding and report any untoward posts.

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:15:48pm
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William Lewis  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:16:35pm

Sigh, where did DF leave the troll grill? Ah, there it is. I’ll get the charcoal going so that once Stinky does the appropriate thing, we can have a cookout. Who wants to get the sides?

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:16:52pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:16:58pm

re: #67 TedStriker

The shitstain isn’t worth your or anyone else’s time, except Stinky’s; just downding and report any untoward posts.

Yeah, I know. I said it in my #41 and until now wasn’t adhering to my own advice.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:18:21pm

re: #68 E Deploribus Unum

What kind of gun(s) do you own?

Why should I tell a stupid asshole like you that stuff?

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TedStriker  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:19:09pm

re: #71 teleskiguy

Yeah, I know. I said it in my #41 and until now wasn’t adhering to my own advice.

Just ignore ‘em…they’ll either get tired of talking to themselves or they’ll decide to go ballistic, ensuring a quick, permanent exit from LGF.

They’re just shitposting, trying to get a rise.

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:19:15pm
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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:20:34pm

re: #63 E Deploribus Unum

Why do you assume I want to harm anyone? I am intrigued by this.

Fair enough. Let’s talk about it. What are you so afraid of?

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[deleted]  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:20:37pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:20:51pm

re: #74 E Deploribus Unum

You first, fucknut. You got an assault rifle? Does it make you feel funny like when you climbed the ropes in gym class?

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:21:56pm

I’m so bad at ignoring trolls. :(

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TedStriker  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:22:09pm

re: #77 teleskiguy

You’re letting them get under your skin.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:23:08pm

Time for a musical interlude.

Zoloft

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TedStriker  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:25:02pm

re: #79 TedStriker

You’re letting them get under your skin.

Speaking of which:

Frank Sinatra - “Got You Under My Skin” (Concert Collection)

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:26:17pm

Oy! The stoner is right, damn it!

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:27:19pm

re: #82 teleskiguy

Oy! The stoner is right, damn it!

[Embedded content]

I raise my pipe to Mr. Chong.

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:28:58pm

re: #76 E Deploribus Unum

I’m pretty calm, not going to go ballistic over the petty insults. Still, I expect I’ll be kicked off for having an opposing point of view soon enough.

I have invited you to share your viewpoint yet… crickets. Please share them. You don’t wish to talk to me?

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:30:29pm

re: #83 allegro

I raise my pipe to Mr. Chong.

He’s still with us, even through a bout of colorectal cancer.

If I don’t have weed and I’m with a group of people and I want to smoke, I ask “Who has the Chongables?”

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:32:10pm

And Stinky has whacked the Deplorable fuckstick out of this here classy joint! Good riddance.

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William Lewis  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:32:21pm

re: #76 E Deploribus Unum

No, you’ll be give the boot for being a nazI troll. Your options are irrelevant in light of your demonstrated behavior.

No one will miss you unlike some who walked away.

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:33:17pm

re: #85 teleskiguy,

He’s still with us, even through a bout of colorectal cancer.

If I don’t have weed and I’m with a group of people and I want to smoke, I ask “Who has the Chongables?”

Oh no! I did not know that. Being a survivor of the same - 6 years now - I hope he has a similar outcome. I love that man.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:35:34pm

re: #86 teleskiguy

I threw a DM to Charles…….

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:37:12pm

re: #88 allegro

Oh no! I did not know that. Being a survivor of the same - 6 years now - I hope he has a similar outcome. I love that man.

He’s currently cancer free, after about a year and a half of treatment. He was diagnosed in the middle of his stint with Dancing With The Stars. Fun Fact: Tommy Chong is the oldest contestant of Dancing With The Stars, he was 76 when he entered.

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:40:13pm

re: #90 teleskiguy

He’s currently cancer free, after about a year and a half of treatment. He was diagnosed in the middle of his stint with Dancing With The Stars. Fun Fact: Tommy Chong is the oldest contestant of Dancing With The Stars, he was 76 when he entered.

I didn’t know he was that old. Dayum. I still remember being a teenager in Chicago in my best friend’s 1956 Tempest (that farted) in the cold of winter hearing Cheech and Chong for the first time. We had to pull the car over we were laughing so hard.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:41:15pm

re: #91 allegro

I didn’t know he was that old. Dayum. I still remember being a teenager in Chicago in my best friend’s 1956 Tempest (that farted) in the cold of winter hearing Cheech and Chong for the first time. We had to pull the car over we were laughing so hard.

He’s 78 now. Tommy Chong is almost 80! Yikes!

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:43:06pm

Speaking of guns I just started refinishing the side by side barrels on a Pedersoli 20 gauge black powder howdah pistol with Laurel Mtn Forge Barrel Brown. Sanded it in stages down to 500 grit and put the first application on an hour and a half ago. The basic idea to slowly cover the piece in a fine layer of rust. Anybody else ever use this stuff?

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:44:13pm

re: #92 teleskiguy

He’s 78 now. Tommy Chong is almost 80! Yikes!

Younger than my best friend. Freaks me out having an 80 year old best friend. I was in my 20s when we met more than 35 years ago. We’re still rockin. Well to a lot of opera, but that counts too. Doesn’t it?

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William Lewis  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:49:24pm

re: #93 goddamnedfrank

Not that particular one. Be interested in hearing how it goes.

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:51:59pm

YouTube and alcohol is the greatest threat to sleep ever.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:52:30pm

It’s so good!!

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 10:56:29pm

I think Kurt Eichenwald is the Woodward-Bernstein of this age. Rock on Kurt. History is with you.

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:02:49pm

Chilling… what movie is this from?

Beethoven - Symphony No.7 - Allegretto

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:04:22pm
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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:11:58pm

re: #100 teleskiguy

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And the baby grand piano in the background. For appearance. You know Trump doesn’t know chopsticks from Bach. It’s there collecting dust and rusting strings.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:17:28pm

re: #101 allegro

When have we seen a picture of Trump’s golden apartment with a book on a table? I’ll wait.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:21:57pm

re: #102 teleskiguy

See, that’s a thing that really scares me. We’ll have a president pretty soon who is contemptuous of reading and learning.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:22:28pm
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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:25:24pm

re: #102 teleskiguy

When have we seen a picture of Trump’s golden apartment with a book on a table? I’ll wait.

If he wasn’t such a destructive force I would feel such great pity for him. He’s never known great literature, music, architecture or anything that elevates humanity because he’s so obsessed with himself and his daddy/mamma issues that he cannot rise above his insecurities. But then, if he could, he wouldn’t be so destructive. He cannot tolerate true greatness.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:39:13pm

re: #102 teleskiguy

When have we seen a picture of Trump’s golden apartment with a book on a table? I’ll wait.

There are a couple.

That second pic shows a $15K signed limited edition version of Taschen’s Muhammed Ali tribute book in its presentation box, with Neil Leifer’s famous 1966 photo on the cover. It’s sole purpose there is to demonstrate that Trump can drop $15K on a coffee table book.

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:43:12pm

re: #106 goddamnedfrank

There are a couple.

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That second pic shows a $15K signed limited edition version of Taschen’s Muhammed Ali tribute book in its presentation box, with Neil Leifer’s famous 1966 photo on the cover. It’s sole purpose there is to demonstrate that Trump can drop $15K on a coffee table book.

Vanity Fair? Haha. The table he displays the Ali book on is much too small design-wise. He gets that wrong too.

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teleskiguy  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:46:56pm

Teton Pass between Jackson, WY and Victor, ID got buried in 20 feet of snow yesterday, most likely a skier-caused avalanche. They searched all day for any burials, so far so good, nobody is missing thus far.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:49:40pm

re: #106 goddamnedfrank

I really want one of these signed Leifer prints tbh. Anybody want to give me $10K to invest in a 20x24” piece of history?

Anybody?

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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:51:01pm

The piece on my YouTube now is Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu, the damnedest - and most exquisite - piece ever written. I could play the left hand, I could play the right hand, but could never master both together. Different timing in both. Dastardly. And breathtaking in its beauty.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:54:31pm

I made the mistake of looking at a relative’s Facebook post on politics and the Russian situation, where somehow the Russian interference is okay because Hillary’s State department did the same thing in Russia in 2011. Or something.

I didn’t look too closely because I don’t want to raise my blood pressure.

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Kragar  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:55:34pm
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allegro  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:56:34pm

re: #112 Kragar

Well, this should go over well.

Donald Trump’s pick for US ambassador in Israel says he’ll work from Jerusalem

Thinking that bullying the world will work.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:56:56pm

re: #111 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I made the mistake of looking at a relative’s Facebook post on politics and the Russian situation, where somehow the Russian interference is okay because Hillary’s State department did the same thing in Russia in 2011. Or something.

I didn’t look too closely because I don’t want to raise my blood pressure.

I ignore most all politics on FB and have deleted people who overdo it. FB is about cute animal/kiddie photos or finding out what your friends and family are up to. It is certainly NOT a source of news, and if you have political opinions to vent, there are plenty of political blogs.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:58:55pm

Charles, after comment 74 there seems to be an open italic tag that has infected the entire thread, even the comment and karma numbers.

Lemme see if I can close it.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2016 • 11:59:49pm

re: #115 goddamnedfrank

Charles, after comment 74 there seems to be an open italic tag that has infected the entire thread, even the comment and karma numbers.

Lemme see if I can close it.

Looks like Charles beat me to it.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:00:39am

All the comments are in italics now.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:00:39am

re: #116 goddamnedfrank

Looks like Charles beat me to it.

I don’t know. For me it only infected the one comment.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:02:53am

Weird, for a second when I reloaded it looked like the open italic tag was closed below klys’ #111. Now it’s back.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:03:37am

Where is your God now!

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Ace-o-aces  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:03:52am

Sigh…This is getting tiresome.

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Ace-o-aces  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:05:15am
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Dave In Austin  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:08:44am

Nice…. Reported

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:09:26am

re: #122 Ace-o-aces

Jesus fucking christ.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:11:19am

re: #113 allegro

Thinking that bullying the world will work.

Trump’s main goal to drive up oil prices, that’s the main task Putin has given him. The easiest way to do that is to toss a grenade into the Israeli / Palestinian status quo and forever destroy any hope of a two state solution. The second easiest way is to get into a shooting war with Iran that closes off the Straight of Hormuz. My guess is that both options will be implemented before 2017 is over.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:12:28am

re: #123 Dave In Austin

Nice…. Reported

It is mistaken and misleading to talk about a “New Cold War”: Putin’s ambitions have very little to do with those of the ex USSR. He is more about re-establishing the Russian Empire.

And now with a blithering puppet ninny running the USA, he has considerably less to impede him.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:13:05am
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Ace-o-aces  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:13:29am

Look it up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:13:48am

re: #125 goddamnedfrank

Trump’s main goal to drive up oil prices

And then the blame will be placed on Obama for not opening up more domestic drilling/fracking/pipelines during his administration…

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:14:33am

re: #125 goddamnedfrank

Trump’s main goal to drive up oil prices, that’s the main task Putin has given him. The easiest way to do that is to toss a grenade into the Israeli / Palestinian status quo and forever destroy any hope of a two state solution. The second easiest way to to get into a shooting war with Iran that closes off the Straight of Hormuz. My guess is that both options will be implemented before 2017 is over.

I think you are entirely correct. Add China to the mix as well. Worldwide chaos. He and his cronies are intent on a world wide deep depression to maximize their ability to own the planet.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:15:56am

I’m threatening UpChuck and he’s reporting me to Twitter Support! Oh Noes!

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:19:14am

The Deplorables are already sneaking into my mentions. UpChuck strikes again.

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:20:18am

re: #132 teleskiguy

The Deplorables are already sneaking into my mentions. UpChuck strikes again.

A pissant. Why give so much energy to it?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:20:42am

re: #130 allegro

I think you are entirely correct. Add China to the mix as well. Worldwide chaos. He and his cronies are intent on a world wide deep depression to maximize their ability to own the planet.

And crack down on dissenters (aka “terrorists and traitors”) just as they all said Obama was gonna do it.

Thank god for those FEMA camps, all stocked and ready.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:22:12am

re: #133 allegro

A pissant. Why give so much energy to it?

Because he ain’t going away. Ignoring him won’t help, it’ll embolden him. Vigilance is key with a fucking nazi like UpChuck, especially on the Internet.

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:23:29am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And crack down on dissenters (aka “terrorists and traitors”) just as they all said Obama was gonna do it.

Thank god for those FEMA camps, all stocked and ready.

Only if they will let me take my motorhome. I have it all comfy and cute already.

//// trying not to freak out again tonight

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:28:15am
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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:28:27am

Reloaded the page, every comment from #74 on is in italics.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:31:01am

re: #135 teleskiguy

Because he ain’t going away. Ignoring him won’t help, it’ll embolden him. Vigilance is key with a fucking nazi like UpChuck, especially on the Internet.

I think engaging him directly gives him the validation he craves. Just wait for him to fuck up and then report him. The easiest way I’ve found is that he usually can’t go long without trying to taunt DeRay, which ties directly into the reason for his original suspension and always results in an instant boot.

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Jack Burton  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:31:14am

re: #138 teleskiguy

Reloaded the page, every comment from #74 on is in italics.

Several of them were for me as well, but as soon as I hit “New Comments” when one popped up, they all went back to normal.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:32:16am

re: #139 goddamnedfrank

I said this upthread, second time I’ve said it tonight, I’m so bad at ignoring trolls!

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:35:21am

re: #138 teleskiguy

Reloaded the page, every comment from #74 on is in italics.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:37:53am
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Single-handed sailor  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:52:21am

re: #65 teleskiguy

Ain’t my friend, fuckface.

that doesn’t work with the script. he can’t come back with, “I ain’t your fuckface , pal.”

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:53:56am

re: #144 Single-handed sailor

that doesn’t work with the script. he can’t come back with, “I ain’t your fuckface , pal.”

“I think you heard me just fine, punchy.”

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:56:28am

re: #85 teleskiguy

He’s still with us, even through a bout of colorectal cancer.

If I don’t have weed and I’m with a group of people and I want to smoke, I ask “Who has the Chongables?”

we call them “cheesy combustibles” in honor of Monty Python.

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 12:57:53am

re: #146 Single-handed sailor

we call them “cheesy combustibles” in honor of Monty Python.

I call them “suckies”. It’s an allegro thing that my friends find endearing.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:06:58am

In case anybody here didn’t know that UpChuck is a fascist tire fire:

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:07:45am

re: #147 allegro

I call them “suckies”. It’s an allegro thing that my friends find endearing.

Which just outed me to those I have referred this blog but never told them my screen name.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:08:34am
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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:11:45am

re: #150 teleskiguy

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All critters are aggressive when food is involved. Humans are very much included.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:15:39am

re: #151 allegro

All critters are aggressive when food is involved. Humans are very much included.

Just wait until climate change starts affecting our food supplies…

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:16:51am

re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just wait until climate change starts affecting our food supplies…

The next true World War will be over water.

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:17:56am

re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just wait until climate change starts affecting our food supplies…

It won’t take that long.

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:18:17am

re: #154 teleskiguy

The next true World War will be over water.

Yeah, that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:18:29am

re: #154 teleskiguy

The next true World War will be over water.

water to irrigate crops

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:24:42am

I’m a wildlife biologist, a predator and populations specialty. I work within ecosystems, typically limited in scope but encompassing regarding species and resources. As predators, we are the first to go. I’ll leave that there.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:31:34am

re: #154 teleskiguy

The next true World War will be over water.

Wasn’t that the gist of “Waterworld”?

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:33:47am
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Alyosha  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:37:21am

re: #158 allegro

I’m a wildlife biologist, a predator and populations specialty. I work within ecosystems, typically limited in scope but encompassing regarding species and resources. As predators, we are the first to go. I’ll leave that there.

Predators who mostly get their grain-fed meat in plastic packages. Alot of climate change denialists I’ve met think of the problem as one of longer, hotter summers with other causes, if they even think of it at all.

Food security doesn’t even factor into it.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:37:55am

re: #159 Myron Falwell (no relation)

Wasn’t that the gist of “Waterworld”?

Totally underrated film, IMHO.

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:52:55am

OK, I won’t leave it there. Frogs. Cute little frogs. Frogs are elemental predators, though we typically think of them as prey (and they are of larger predators, thus a vital step in the food chain). They are enormous predators of insects, the basics of dry land food source. They are the canaries in the mines and they are diminishing at alarming rates worldwide. This has been going on for quite some time but few pay attention even though we have been sounding the alarms. This is very, very serious… but frogs. Who cares about frogs? (Besides wrenchwench) We think we’re above this, immune. Stupidly. We are so fucked and we ignore this.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 1:55:01am

re: #163 allegro

BEES

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:00:08am

re: #164 teleskiguy

BEES

Yeah, honey bees too, though arguably less important. They are essential to our variety of food, in our fruits and veggies, but not necessarily to our survival.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:01:19am

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Alyosha  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:03:58am

re: #163 allegro

I seem to remember that Alex Jones was getting all worked up about Obama turning all the frogs gay :)

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:05:03am

re: #167 Alyosha

I seem to remember that Alex Jones was getting all worked up about Obama turning all the frogs gay :)

vine.co

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Alyosha  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:14:42am

re: #168 teleskiguy

I’m the pope or that’s not a man possessed by the spirit of scientific inquiry.

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:15:35am

re: #161 Alyosha

Predators who mostly get their grain-fed meat in plastic packages. Alot of climate change denialists I’ve met think of the problem as one of longer, hotter summers with other causes, if they even think of it at all.

Food security doesn’t even factor into it.

You are so correct. We think of climate change only how it affects us and we think, OK we got AC so what if it gets hotter? We have been trained to believe we aren’t critters and part of the natural world and thus not dependent on it. We believe we can control it to our advantage. We can’t. With every species that goes extinct which is happening at a shocking rate, our survival is ever more threatened. I explain our natural world as a giant brain. We can lose individual cells of it and survive just fine. When we lose chunks of it, whole sections of it, as in species extinction, we start to lose effectiveness. Lose too much, we die. We are at a precipice, a real sharp drop now. The sea rise is a big issue but we will not survive as a species for that to be the major issue.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:23:15am

re: #170 allegro

You are so correct. We think of climate change only how it affects us and we think, OK we got AC so what if it gets hotter? We have been trained to believe we aren’t critters and part of the natural world and thus not dependent on it. We believe we can control it to our advantage. We can’t. With every species that goes extinct which is happening at a shocking rate, our survival is ever more threatened. I explain our natural world as a giant brain. We can lose individual cells of it and survive just fine. When we lose chunks of it, whole sections of it, as in species extinction, we start to lose effectiveness. Lose too much, we die. We are at a precipice, a real sharp drop now. The sea rise is a big issue but we will not survive as a species for that to be the major issue.

The highlighted part is especially true of creationists/ID people. They believe that humans are divinely created as separate from all the other species which came before Adam in Genesis., and further that God will protect his children from catastrophe. So, they discount as mere silliness all the scientific evidence that points to serious, worldwide catastrophes as temperatures increase, and seem unconcerned about certain species becoming extinct.

Combine that attitude with the sincere expectation that Jesus is coming any day now to take all the chosen into heaven and you can see that they really could care less what happens to the Earth and the poor schmoes left behind. Rather, the attitude is take everything out we can get now before it’s too late to enjoy it.

Aside from wacky weather, no one in the USA has been seriously disadvantaged by global warming — yet. They may start to pay attention when sea levels start rising and their beach front homes are partly underwater.

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Jayleia  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:25:29am

re: #171 wheat-dogg

On the plus side, we lose most of Florida and the related…interesting people and events originating there…

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Alyosha  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:26:25am

WELL IF CANARIES ARE USED AS AN INDICATION OF DANGER THEN HOW COME THEY’RE FUCKIN’ THRIVING?! CHECKMATE, LIBTARD!!!

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:26:58am

re: #172 Jayleia

On the plus side, we lose most of Florida and the related…interesting people and events originating there…

I dunno. Smarter Florida Man™ may just move north into Georgia.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:28:15am

re: #173 Alyosha

WELL IF CANARIES ARE USED AS AN INDICATION OF DANGER THEN HOW COME THEY’RE FUCKIN’ THRIVING?! CHECKMATE, LIBTARD!!!

If we came from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys? Evilution is a hoax!

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:31:03am

Rising sea temperatures are also messing up commercial fishing, as cold water species move deeper or further away to find more hospitable climes. They’re replaced with warm water species which may not be profitable or tasty.

See also, overfishing tuna.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:34:09am
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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:36:24am

This is a parody account, it is also truthful.

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:36:30am

re: #171 wheat-dogg

The highlighted part is especially true of creationists/ID people. They believe that humans are divinely created as separate from all the other species which came before Adam in Genesis., and further that God will protect his children from catastrophe. So, they discount as mere silliness all the scientific evidence that points to serious, worldwide catastrophes as temperatures increase, and seem unconcerned about certain species becoming extinct.

Combine that attitude with the sincere expectation that Jesus is coming any day now to take all the chosen into heaven and you can see that they really could care less what happens to the Earth and the poor schmoes left behind. Rather, the attitude is take everything out we can get now before it’s too late to enjoy it.

Aside from wacky weather, no one in the USA has been seriously disadvantaged by global warming — yet. They may start to pay attention when sea levels start rising and their beach front homes are partly underwater.

You point out what I started to but refrained. Our attitudes in the west (excepting Native American which has it completely right) are christian based and thus, fucked up in this regard. Christianity, IMO, has been the most destructive force in history in that it has taught us that we are above and not a part of our natural world. Most people are horrified when I say we’re animals just like all other animals. OMG. They are insulted in the extreme. This attitude is our doom.

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William Lewis  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:42:00am

Some forms of Christianity teach that. It is especially prevalent in the fundamentalism that infests much of western Christianity but not everyone of us is antisciece or think we are not as much a part of the world as the rest of creation.

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Alyosha  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:44:06am

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Jayleia  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:47:29am

re: #181 Alyosha

His newest profile looks like…umm…trying to be nice…a severely disabled person, wearing tribbles that had been cross-bred with porcupines on his face.

That boy just ain’t right.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:49:58am

re: #181 Alyosha

You better hope a lot of people post a lot of stuff real fast and scroll that off the screen or I’mma downding you.

//

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:55:03am

re: #182 Jayleia

His newest profile looks like…umm…trying to be nice…a severely disabled person, wearing tribbles that had been cross-bred with porcupines on his face.

That boy just ain’t right.

He’s going for the homeless guy look.

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allegro  Dec 16, 2016 • 2:58:08am

re: #177 teleskiguy

It’s late and I’m on a roll, shall we discuss the whole alpha thing? If I may stroke a bit, I’m one who helped trash the concept as he’s using it based on my doctorate thesis in 1984. His alpha thing is based on the wolf pack theory of old, that there is this superior male in a wolf pack made up of non-related wolves that somehow come together as a group and one guy is stronger and more testosterone charged who dominates and all others, lesser others (all male of course because females don’t rate) who bow to this dominance (beta males, in his world). Total bullshit. A wolf pack is a family unit. Dad and Mom and kids. Parents rule, just like human family units. Mom and Dad are alphas in this definition because they dominate in the hierarchy. Just like people. It has nothing to do with strength or superiority.

And in those packs it’s the females who rule. Alpha male submits more often than not.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 3:00:33am

I’m amused by all the self-described alpha males who endlessly complain how put upon they are by Hollywood, Social Justice Warriors, women and POC.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 3:04:06am

Someone’s going to die soon. Two already have.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 3:14:23am

I’m also amused by the MRA and white supremacist types who analyze every single movie as some kind of commentary on how marginalized white men are. They freaked out about Heimdall being played by an AA actor, and the leads in Star Wars VII being an AA guy and a young woman. Now they’re bitching (pun intended) because the lead in Rogue One is female and some of the bad guys are, like, bad white GUYS.

Meanwhile, I go to a movie to be entertained, maybe educated, or moved emotionally, and I don’t care who or what the lead actors are. I judge a movie by the acting, the writing, the camera work, etc., not the color or gender of the leads.

There’s a bazillion Hollywood movies over the last 100 years of cinema starring white men in leading roles. If I want to be “inspired” by some “alpha white male,” it’s not especially hard to find them in movies — or TV shows, FTM.

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Jayleia  Dec 16, 2016 • 3:21:55am

re: #188 wheat-dogg

I’m also amused by the MRA and white supremacist types who analyze every single movie as some kind of commentary on how marginalized white men are. They freaked out about Heimdall being played by an AA actor, and the leads in Star Wars VII being an AA guy and a young woman. Now they’re bitching (pun intended) because the lead in Rogue One is female and some of the bad guys are, like, bad white GUYS.

Never mind that the bad guys in Star Wars have always been predominantly white guys, and I believe that was in no small part because the Empire was explicitly designed to remind people of nazis.

I will give CCJ the tiniest bit of undeserved and completely wrong credit, I believe movies like Star Wars do inspire people to “fight the power”, but it wasn’t “young white boys” that were inspired. It was people.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 3:23:11am

I apologize for the racial epithet.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 3:27:47am

re: #190 teleskiguy

I apologize for the racial epithet.

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You know, you’ll be the one suspended now, while Chuck skates by free.

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teleskiguy  Dec 16, 2016 • 3:32:54am

re: #191 wheat-dogg

You know, you’ll be the one suspended now, while Chuck skates by free.

We shall see. I’m not too worried about my Twitter account.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 16, 2016 • 3:56:55am

Feels like -20F says the teevee. “Global warming is a hoax!” say Trumpsters.

It could be 55F on Sunday.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 16, 2016 • 4:05:52am
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Lupin  Dec 16, 2016 • 4:13:37am

To the person who inquired yesterday: the part of Southern France we live in (the Aude) is a lefty bastion. The National Front holds sway further east, in the Provence/Cote d’Azur area.

Due to internecine divisions between social-right (Marine Le Pen) and alt.right (her niece), the FN is down a bit lately. That said, the seemingly only viable alternative right now seems the Thatcherite Fillon (presently polling at 67% vs 33% for the FN in the second Round) due to massive disorganization & disillusionment on the Left.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 4:46:42am

Trump is trying to deflect, as usual.

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Emptor scriptor Remorse  Dec 16, 2016 • 4:55:23am

-8 here in Saratoga Springs NY. Even my husky-lab pup doesn’t like to go out.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 4:55:54am

Awkward…

Facebook Post

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meteor  Dec 16, 2016 • 4:58:10am

I missed the weirdo. He already got deleted.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:00:11am

re: #198 Timothy Watson

I see the Trump team vetted their entertainment choices about as well as Cabinet officers. I predict the Conservative Christians who support Trump, and went ballistic over transgender kids using bathrooms at school, will ignore this entire issue.

I hope performing at the inauguration doesn’t tank this girl’s singing career.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:06:31am
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jeffreyw  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:07:54am

Imgur


Good morning!

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:20:14am

re: #29 Kragar

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Dangerous move.

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TedStriker  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:20:24am

re: #99 allegro

Chilling… what movie is this from?

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Video

Knowing

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:20:59am

Trump showing desperation, or another diversion from more serious matters?

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:23:15am

re: #188 wheat-dogg

I’m also amused by the MRA and white supremacist types who analyze every single movie as some kind of commentary on how marginalized white men are. They freaked out about Heimdall being played by an AA actor, and the leads in Star Wars VII being an AA guy and a young woman. Now they’re bitching (pun intended) because the lead in Rogue One is female and some of the bad guys are, like, bad white GUYS.

Meanwhile, I go to a movie to be entertained, maybe educated, or moved emotionally, and I don’t care who or what the lead actors are. I judge a movie by the acting, the writing, the camera work, etc., not the color or gender of the leads.

There’s a bazillion Hollywood movies over the last 100 years of cinema starring white men in leading roles. If I want to be “inspired” by some “alpha white male,” it’s not especially hard to find them in movies — or TV shows, FTM.

Their boycott of the last Star Wars movie was a huge failure. It’s currently the highest grossing movie in American history.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:24:42am

re: #205 wheat-dogg

That’s a bit hard to believe given that Trump supporters wouldn’t like Ice T based on his cop killer song and him being a Black rap singer.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:26:16am

Is this enough??

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:26:53am

re: #206 Patricia Kayden

Their boycott of the last Star Wars movie was a huge failure. It’s currently the highest grossing movie in American history.

There aren’t enough of them to make much of a difference, really. Most are such SF nerds they would go see the movie anyway, but pretend to their buddies that they didn’t.

Meanwhile, I’m boycotting all Trump properties, and refuse to spend $50K to have coffee with Ivanka. That’ll teach ‘em!

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:27:17am

re: #208 Dave In Austin

Is this enough??

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What’s that emblem the guy on the left is wearing on his shirt? Flag of Ireland?

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Decatur Deb  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:27:17am

re: #205 wheat-dogg

Trump showing desperation, or another diversion from more serious matters?

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Timeline shows the comment was a joke. IceT doesn’t realize that all statements about
Trump are equally believable.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:27:43am

re: #208 Dave In Austin

Old photo. He’s posted it before, but it makes it clear who the poster is.

On second thought, it might be a new one. He did post a photo with him and his buddies brandishing weapons back before he was suspended back in the day.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:28:38am

assholes==>

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:29:49am

re: #213 The Vicious Babushka

assholes==>

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This is some serious 1984 BS.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:30:29am

re: #210 The Vicious Babushka

yep

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:30:32am

re: #200 wheat-dogg

I hope performing at the inauguration doesn’t tank this girl’s singing career.

Yeah, when I first heard her name, I read her bio and she didn’t seem like an ideologue, so hopefully she doesn’t get misdirected anger at her.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:31:12am

re: #196 wheat-dogg

Trump is trying to deflect, as usual.

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“illegally”? What statute would that violate?

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:32:30am

re: #211 Decatur Deb

Timeine shows the comment was a joke. IceT doesn’t realize that all statements about
Trump are equally believable.

I hope Trump sees it then. He’ll probably go after Ice T in a tweetstorm.

re: #207 Patricia Kayden

That’s a bit hard to believe given that Trump supporters wouldn’t like Ice T based on his cop killer song and him being a Black rap singer.

Maybe Ice T was being sarcastic. Trump is pretty desperate to find A-listers for the inauguration entertainment. It’s still believable he would have called Ice T.

Honestly, it’s hard to tell what’s truth and what’s fiction nowadays.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:33:46am

re: #217 Timothy Watson

“illegally”? What statute would that violate?

The Don’t Hurt Trump Statute of 2016, as imagined by Donald J. Trump.

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makeitstop  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:34:58am

re: #205 wheat-dogg

Trump showing desperation, or another diversion from more serious matters?

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I think T is just playing.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:37:06am

re: #208 Dave In Austin

Is this enough??

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Where was that photo taken? And how is that rifle California legal?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:38:54am

re: #210 The Vicious Babushka

What’s that emblem the guy on the left is wearing on his shirt? Flag of Ireland?

Yeah that’s the Irish tri-color which is actually about unity- Green for Catholics, white for Peace between the two groups, and Orange for Protestants.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:40:46am

re: #219 wheat-dogg

The Don’t Hurt Trump Statute of 2016, as imagined by Donald J. Trump.

I believe the Brazille leaks happened at one of the primary debates. There’s a big goddamn difference between that and a foreign power hacking and trying to influence election results and the Orange One knows it.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:40:58am

re: #221 Timothy Watson

Where was that photo taken? And how is that rifle California legal?

Chuck lives in CA, but who knows where the photo was taken.

Also, I find it hard to take anyone wearing plaid pants seriously.

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Emptor scriptor Remorse  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:41:35am

I know you are but what am I!?

The United States must either stop accusing Russia of meddling in its elections or prove it, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was “indecent” of the United States to “groundlessly” accuse Russia of intervention in its elections, Russian state news agency Tass reported.

President Barack Obama on Thursday vowed retaliatory action against Russia for its meddling in the US presidential election last month.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:41:39am

re: #224 wheat-dogg

Chuck lives in CA, but who knows where the photo was taken.

Also, I find it hard to take anyone wearing plaid pants seriously.

Those are PJ bottoms. Even more risible.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:42:09am

re: #223 HappyWarrior

I believe the Brazille leaks happened at one of the primary debates. There’s a big goddamn difference between that and a foreign power hacking and trying to influence election results and the Orange One knows it.

I doubt he does. He’s such a narcissist that every slight is tantamount to a national security issue.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:42:31am

re: #227 wheat-dogg

I doubt he does. He’s such a narcissist that every slight is tantamount to a national security issue.

True enough.

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wheat-dogg  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:42:53am

re: #226 The Vicious Babushka

Those are PJ bottoms. Even more risible.

Oh. So the boys were having a slumber party. How adorable.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:45:00am
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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:46:55am

re: #230 Dave In Austin

Actually I have seen the “replace” plan on Paul Ryan’s website and it’s a bunch of bullshit as you probably suspect. HSA’s and bullshit worthless policies “sold across state lines, no regulations!” that cover nothing.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:48:30am

re: #231 The Vicious Babushka

Actually I have seen the “replace” plan on Paul Ryan’s website and it’s a bunch of bullshit as you probably suspect. HSA’s and bullshit worthless policies “sold across state lines, no regulations!” that cover nothing.

And you will never see your Dr. again.

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Jayleia  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:49:42am

re: #227 wheat-dogg

And on January 20th, every slight WILL be a national security issue.

Media: Why did you order the nuclear bombardment of South Bend, Indiana?
Trump: Did you read their editorials? So unfair. I opened up the libel laws just like I said I would.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:49:56am

re: #232 Dave In Austin

And you will never see your Dr. again.

HURR HURR THATS OBUMBA’S FAULT!!!!!111!!

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:50:18am
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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 5:55:47am

re: #235 Timothy Watson

One thing I don’t like about the Facebook embeds: The height parameter for the headline results in it being truncated most of the time.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:09:55am

re: #235 Timothy Watson

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I like Herring a lot. Don’t know if he could win state wide running for governor but he’s a good one.

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:15:15am

re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I ignore most all politics on FB and have deleted people who overdo it. FB is about cute animal/kiddie photos or finding out what your friends and family are up to. It is certainly NOT a source of news, and if you have political opinions to vent, there are plenty of political blogs.

The question becomes, how to you let your friends and family know about the shit that Trump is trying to bring on the world?

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makeitstop  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:19:05am

So did Obama do that morning show this morning, or did that get cancelled when he announced the press conference?

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:19:28am

re: #237 HappyWarrior

I like Herring a lot. Don’t know if he could win state wide running for governor but he’s a good one.

I honestly think he would do better than Northam will but that might be because it’s hard to get news coverage as Lieutenant Governor.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:20:03am

re: #238 Belafon

The question becomes, how to you let your friends and family know about the shit that Trump is trying to bring on the world?

If you wanna do it over FB, then go ahead. I just delete political posts and block those who get too carried away with them.

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:34:25am

Quieter than usual this morning.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:36:29am

re: #235 Timothy Watson

“But regulation is killing jobs and our economy! Without restrictions, unemployment would be at -2983.98% and we’d all be rich!”

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:37:12am

re: #242 Belafon

Quieter than usual this morning.

Yeah, really quiet in my office today too. I guess some people are heading out on the roads/airports for the holidays.

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:38:12am

re: #235 Timothy Watson

What does the post say?

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Franklin  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:46:27am

re: #205 wheat-dogg

Trump showing desperation, or another diversion from more serious matters?

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I believe he’s joking.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:48:07am

Some of Charles’ longstanding advice:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:50:08am

re: #248 Timothy Watson

Data Doctors: Want to avoid getting hacked? Start lying online

I put nothing on FB unless I am okay with the thought that the whole world could find out about it…

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:50:21am

re: #163 allegro

Raises hand.

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darthstar  Dec 16, 2016 • 6:55:35am
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makeitstop  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:03:20am

And then there’s this…

Alex Jones Threatens To Sue Facebook Over New Initiative To Fight Fake News, Which He Claims Is A CIA Plot

Like Charles said last night - they’re going to fight this because they know it’s going to hurt their influence and their bottom line.

Let him sue. He’s made enough money that he can afford to waste some, I reckon.

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:04:43am

re: #252 makeitstop

And then there’s this…

Alex Jones Threatens To Sue Facebook Over New Initiative To Fight Fake News, Which He Claims Is A CIA Plot

Like Charles said last night - they’re going to fight this because they know it’s going to hurt their influence and their bottom line.

Let him sue. He’s made enough money that he can afford to waste some, I reckon.

Had Hillary won, this wouldn’t even be newsworthy.

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scottslemmons  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:05:08am

re: #252 makeitstop

And then there’s this…

Alex Jones Threatens To Sue Facebook Over New Initiative To Fight Fake News, Which He Claims Is A CIA Plot

Like Charles said last night - they’re going to fight this because they know it’s going to hurt their influence and their bottom line.

Let him sue. He’s made enough money that he can afford to waste some, I reckon.

I bet Facebook can afford much better lawyers. And discovery will be a bitch for Jones.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:08:22am

re: #254 scottslemmons

I bet Facebook can afford much better lawyers. And discovery will be a bitch for Jones.

I’d love to see Jones ruined and exposed as a fraud that pushes lies to keep his ignorant listeners scared.

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scottslemmons  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:10:06am

re: #255 HappyWarrior

I’d love to see Jones ruined and exposed as a fraud that pushes lies to keep his ignorant listeners scared.

Well, the True Believers would never desert him. But he deserves to be tossed in the Jim Bakker/Jimmy Swaggart pile.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:10:58am

re: #256 scottslemmons

Well, the True Believers would never desert him. But he deserves to be tossed in the Jim Bakker/Jimmy Swaggart pile.

Absolutely

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:13:52am

re: #252 makeitstop

And then there’s this…

Alex Jones Threatens To Sue Facebook Over New Initiative To Fight Fake News, Which He Claims Is A CIA Plot

Like Charles said last night - they’re going to fight this because they know it’s going to hurt their influence and their bottom line.

Let him sue. He’s made enough money that he can afford to waste some, I reckon.

It just occurred to me that this is part of the Trump group’s attempt to discredit the CIA. I get images of Erdogan and Chavez with these things.

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makeitstop  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:21:52am

re: #258 Belafon

It just occurred to me that this is part of the Trump group’s attempt to discredit the CIA. I get images of Erdogan and Chavez with these things.

They certainly are putting in work on trying to make people distrust the intel agencies who are working for us.

I’m sure that the CIA sees what they’re trying to do here. And I hope their pushback is massive and devastating. I’d like to see guys like Jones ruined once and for all, to be honest.

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sagehen  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:27:36am

re: #259 makeitstop

They certainly are putting in work on trying to make people distrust the intel agencies who are working for us.

I’m sure that the CIA sees what they’re trying to do here. And I hope their pushback is massive and devastating. I’d like to see guys like Jones ruined once and for all, to be honest.

It’s times like this I wish Olivia Pope’s father was really there to deal with this shit.

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scottslemmons  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:31:40am

re: #259 makeitstop

They certainly are putting in work on trying to make people distrust the intel agencies who are working for us.

I’m sure that the CIA sees what they’re trying to do here. And I hope their pushback is massive and devastating. I’d like to see guys like Jones ruined once and for all, to be honest.

It’ll be interesting if they arrest or burn every American who had contact with Russian intelligence. Trump wouldn’t prosecute them, of course, but if the feds get the evidence out there before Trump takes office, it’ll drop his approval even further — and I’m sure the statute of limitations for espionage is a few decades long…

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sagehen  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:35:56am

re: #261 scottslemmons

It’ll be interesting if they arrest or burn every American who had contact with Russian intelligence. Trump wouldn’t prosecute them, of course, but if the feds get the evidence out there before Trump takes office, it’ll drop his approval even further — and I’m sure the statute of limitations for espionage is a few decades long…

and here’s TPM on why we can’t expect the FBI to do jack shit

talkingpointsmemo.com

With the dirty play of the special agents in the New York field office, Comey’s July tongue-lashing, his outrageous late October letter to Congress and then this, it’s hard to have much of any trust that the FBI is a fair-minded custodian of the immense power it wields.

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makeitstop  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:41:03am

re: #262 sagehen

and here’s TPM on why we can’t expect the FBI to do jack shit

talkingpointsmemo.com

The FBI is completely compromised in my view, from Comey on down. Way too many ideologues running free throughout the organization. We should expect them to do nothing to resolve any of this, if not actively try to thwart investigations.

The CIA is going to have to save themselves from the beating they’re currently taking. And if that means taking down a large chunk of the FBI, so be it.

And once again I sit here amazed that I’m actually pulling for the CIA, but they may be the only hope we’ve got left.

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:41:20am

re: #262 sagehen

and here’s TPM on why we can’t expect the FBI to do jack shit

talkingpointsmemo.com

We are certainly going to have our work cut out for us. The advantage is that most people in the country already don’t like Trump, and the election hasn’t changed that. I also take comfort in the biker dude higher up yelling in the face of the neo-Nazi. I suspect he’d cuss all day about Clinton, but we could agree that some things just shouldn’t happen in this country.

One of the other things I worry is that we’re going to get tricked into calling Trump out enough times for false things that people grow tired of it.

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Big Beautiful Door  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:42:01am

re: #231 The Vicious Babushka

Actually I have seen the “replace” plan on Paul Ryan’s website and it’s a bunch of bullshit as you probably suspect. HSA’s and bullshit worthless policies “sold across state lines, no regulations!” that cover nothing.

Here is the diabolic GOP plan. They will quickly repeal Obamacare next year, but repeal won’t go into effect for a couple of years. Because insurance companies know the exchanges are going away, lots of them will quit offering plans on the exchanges, premiums will soar, and many places will have no plans to choose from. Republicans will say this proves that Obamacare was failing, so its a good thing they repealed it, and most people will believe them. Then whatever craptastic replacement the GOP manages to come up with will look good by comparison. I can see it like its already happened.

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mmmirele  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:43:58am

re: #252 makeitstop

And then there’s this…

Alex Jones Threatens To Sue Facebook Over New Initiative To Fight Fake News, Which He Claims Is A CIA Plot

Like Charles said last night - they’re going to fight this because they know it’s going to hurt their influence and their bottom line.

Let him sue. He’s made enough money that he can afford to waste some, I reckon.

This case will be drop-kicked out of court on a motion for summary judgment. That’s because Jones is on Facebook at Facebook’s suffrance. It’s not like Facebook is the government. None of his rights are being infringed. If he wants something different, he can start the Gab version of Facebook.

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Big Beautiful Door  Dec 16, 2016 • 7:49:49am

The real reason the GOP is repealing Obamacare is that the members of the 0.1% will get a $200k tax cut thanks to repeal.

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makeitstop  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:08:32am

I keep thinking about this upcoming press conference and wondering what Obama’s strategy will be.

I imagine that he’ll lay out the details of the Russian hacking and what we know in much greater detail, and take pains to answer every question in as much detail as he can in order to put out all the information that he can.

But I’m also half-expecting him to try and goad Trump into doing something so blatantly petty and potentially unconstitutional (like getting pissed and threatening to arrest Obama or something equally crazy) that people will finally begin to focus on just how out of his mind Trump really is.

And those electors had damn well better be watching.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:10:06am

re: #224 wheat-dogg

Chuck lives in CA, but who knows where the photo was taken.

Also, I find it hard to take anyone wearing plaid pants seriously.

As Steve Martin warned us 30 years ago—Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid!

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Skip Intro  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:17:19am

So much bullshit so early in the morning. Time to take a break.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:19:09am

So Morning Joke and Meek-Uh are whining because people are saying such nasty things about them kissing His Ass-Holeynesses ass 24/7…

talkingpointsmemo.com

Boo f’n hoo. So glad I got rid of the cable box!

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:19:13am
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makeitstop  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:20:05am

re: #272 The Vicious Babushka

China’s navy has seized an unmanned, underwater U.S. Navy vehicle in international waters of South China Sea.

Oh, shit, here we go.

Thanks, Trump.

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ObserverArt  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:20:32am

Wow…looks like there was a fishing tournament overnight.

After reading some of the stuff, a thought occurred. All the people that respond to Trump’s Tweets…do they really think Trump reads any of those comebacks?

I doubt it. As thin as his skin is I would bet his account in monitored by others or all replies are deleted straight-away so he doesn’t see them. He couldn’t handle it.

That…or this could happen…

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gocart mozart  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:20:35am
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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:22:07am

re: #274 ObserverArt

Wow…looks like there was a fishing tournament overnight.

After reading some of the stuff, a thought occurred. All the people that respond to Trump’s Tweets…do they really think Trump reads any of those comebacks?

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He does quote-retweet random racist eggs, so there’s that.

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DuckDharma  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:25:17am

the acct that threatened elliott lusztig was finally suspended today

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:28:38am

Baby Whiplash was appointed Ambassador to Israel? How did I miss that?

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jeffreyw  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:33:20am

re: #267 Big Beautiful Door

The real reason the GOP is repealing Obamacare is that the members of the 0.1% will get a $200k tax cut thanks to repeal.

$200K to the .1% is loose change you would throw in a jar. The reason they don’t like Obamacare is the same reason they don’t like labor unions. O-care is empowering, and it shifts a bit of the power towards the worker and away from the top.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:43:09am

re: #258 Belafon

It just occurred to me that this is part of the Trump group’s attempt to discredit the CIA. I get images of Erdogan and Chavez with these things.

The only time the CIA is doing a praiseworthy job is when it is waterboarding terror suspects…

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:46:26am

my surprise let me show you it

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:47:56am

re: #281 The Vicious Babushka

Report: Donald Trump is not planning to divest himself from his businesses

we can build the trump memorial in emolument valley

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:50:35am

re: #281 The Vicious Babushka

my surprise let me show you it

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King of Vaporware.

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makeitstop  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:50:47am

Where is everybody today?

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Stanley Sea  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:54:38am

re: #284 makeitstop

Where is everybody today?

Too much work. We’re supposed to be closed the week between Christmas & New Year.

We’ll see if I can get this massive pile on my desk completed by then. UGH

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:54:57am

re: #186 wheat-dogg

“INORITE! What a bunch of shit. Asshole white guys being evil and getting off on hurting others? When does that ever happen?!”

For a high-IQ specimen of the Master Race, that boy is about as sharp as a wet sack of potatoes.

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Jayleia  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:55:06am

re: #284 makeitstop

Where is everybody today?

We’re warming up our block fingers for after Obama’s little talk at 2:15 about Russia…

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(alpuz)  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:55:45am

re: #251 darthstar

I don’t get it.

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makeitstop  Dec 16, 2016 • 8:57:11am

re: #285 Stanley Sea

Too much work. We’re supposed to be closed the week between Christmas & New Year.

We’ll see if I can get this massive pile on my desk completed by then. UGH

I feel that. I was hoping for a staycation for the last week of the year, but I keep getting more work. My bank account will like it a lot, but my dream of a quiet holiday week is circling the drain at this point.

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Stanley Sea  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:07:47am

re: #289 makeitstop

I feel that. I was hoping for a staycation for the last week of the year, but I keep getting more work. My bank account will like it a lot, but my dream of a quiet holiday week is circling the drain at this point.

I’m going to take it no matter what. Salary girl. I can also back date things to December when I do them in January!

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Joe Bacon  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:08:39am

re: #284 makeitstop

Where is everybody today?

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makeitstop  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:11:13am

re: #291 Joe Bacon

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:11:26am

So, Ducktales is getting a revival. Let’s see who they got for the various characters….

All-New “DuckTales” Cast Sings Original Theme Song | Disney XD

Yep, David Tennant is Scrooge McDuck. I love Disney, and the original Ducktales, so I might have to catch this.

Other thoughts.

Does that mean we might get David Tennant in Kingdom Hearts III.

Or, perhaps we might get David Tennant as Cait Sith in the FFVII Remake?

Some of you are probably asking, why Cait Sith? Well, a recent re-translation of the game did find that, if it was done properly, Cait should have have a Scottish Accent.

Considering the success of Final Fantasy XV, and the level of fame FFVII has, they may be able to pull in some huge names for FFVII. I would also be over the moon if they could get Capaldi.

Before and After 2: Final Fantasy VII - Retranslation Project

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Stanley Sea  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:13:01am
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scottslemmons  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:13:27am

re: #291 Joe Bacon

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scottslemmons  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:17:33am

Off-topic, I reckon, but here’s excerpts from comic book artist Nicola Scott about the recent petition that got Wonder Woman’s honorary UN ambassadorship revoked.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:19:33am

re: #293 Ziggy_TARDIS

I should not that retranslation project took 5 years to complete, though he did some overly-technical translations with some things.

Also, it most definitely was Aerith. The way it was written in Japanese, the ending for her name was the same as Sephiroth’s.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:19:36am
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Arkansawyer  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:20:31am

re: #293 Ziggy_TARDIS

I’ve been thinking about getting back into the FF series since XV came out. I’m needing a good game that I can spend a lot of hours on. Been wanting to get the remaster of Skyrim, but I hear it’s having issues. I’ll wait for then to patch out the problems. It’s a long time until RDR 2 gets here, so I need something to fill the void.

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gocart mozart  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:20:43am

Dear Twitter,

Here is an actual open Nazi on twitter. What is your position on Naziism: are you for it, against it, or indifferent to it? If I or someone else were to ridicule him a bit too harshly, will you ban us? I would like you to be clear on your policy.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:21:54am

Damn! The Breaking News App and site is shutting down!

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:23:22am

re: #299 Arkansawyer

Final Fantasy VII has aged gracefully, though you definitely want to play it with a controller.

I would recommend either the Steam Version, or the upcoming PS4 re-release.

The Remake should be here next year, or the following.

The translation has the awful mistakes out, but it is still inaccurate. In terms of English Translations, they are all sort of weird. For Final Fantasy XV, the English Translation made Gladiolus an asshole, for example.

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gocart mozart  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:25:34am

Perusing the Nazi’s twitter feed, I came across this:

I’m rooting for injuries.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:26:18am

re: #300 gocart mozart

We all know that if Jack Dorsey and others actually made a serious effort to purge the platform of any and all Nazis and Nutzis, they would gain infinite respect (plus increase in valuation that the company could be sold to a larger entity).

But they are acting as enablers and as such are 100% complicit in the destruction of our moral fiber. I don’t think that anyone in Twitter, let alone Jack, will ever learn that lesson.

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Arkansawyer  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:26:36am

re: #302 Ziggy_TARDIS

Never actually played VII, so I’ll robably check it out. Last I played was VIII. That’s was nearly 15 years ago.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:26:49am

re: #303 gocart mozart

Perusing the Nazi’s twitter feed, I came across this:

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I’m rooting for injuries.

Like you ever debate people face to face. I hate Shapiro but Duke is a cancer of this country while Whiplash is just a whiny brat.

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Stanley Sea  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:28:03am
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Citizen K  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:29:20am

But please, tell me Hillary ignored policy and didn’t talk about economic issues enough…

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:30:40am

re: #305 Arkansawyer

VIII was also badly translated in English. Squall is comes off as less of an asshole in every other translation, and more just a teenager with a more issues than National Geographic.

It seems like the Localization teams for English don’t quite get the plots and decide to spin things up. This is a chronic problem. FF9 had a similar one. Not sure about 10 or 13.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:31:45am

re: #308 Citizen K

My dad, who used to be quite racist, has done a 180.

He now thinks all American National media is consciously racist.

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Arkansawyer  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:35:19am

re: #309 Ziggy_TARDIS

You ever play Legend of Dragoon? That one had me hooked in my early teen years.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:35:30am

re: #308 Citizen K

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But please, tell me Hillary ignored policy and didn’t talk about economic issues enough…

Good research.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:36:29am

re: #310 Ziggy_TARDIS

My dad, who used to be quite racist, has done a 180.

He now thinks all American National media is consciously racist.

My dad was never really racist but after seeing 13, he got a whole new understanding of BLM and the AA community.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:36:43am

re: #303 gocart mozart

Perusing the Nazi’s twitter feed, I came across this:

I’m rooting for injuries.

Such a “debate” turns Baby Whiplash into a sympathetic figure and falsely establishes himself as a “reasonable conservative.”

So I have no doubt that he would agree to it.

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Citizen K  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:38:13am

re: #310 Ziggy_TARDIS

re: #313 HappyWarrior

That’s heartening. It feels so painfully rare to see things swing that way, when it feels like there’s a storm of swings the complete opposite way of people becoming more racist and conservative out of nowhere.

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wrenchwench  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:39:09am

re: #310 Ziggy_TARDIS

My dad, who used to be quite racist, has done a 180.

He now thinks all American National media is consciously racist.

People can change for the better! There’s hope!

Any idea what did it?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:40:35am

re: #315 Citizen K

That’s heartening. It feels so painfully rare to see things swing that way, when it feels like there’s a storm of swings the complete opposite way of people becoming more racist and conservative out of nowhere.

Dad’s always been more or less liberal but he was just awe struck after watching that documentary. There was so much he didn’t know.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:40:37am

re: #313 HappyWarrior

I think that it was the crap from news stations about Muslims, versus what I have taught him, and the way OKC’s Muslim community treated me.

Though he does think that I am too harsh on radicals. My logic is that the Wahhabis, Qutbists, Deobandis, and the like are deviations from Islam. And they need to be handled the same way the Ottomans handled these nutcases 200 years ago, during the Ottoman-Saudi War.

re: #311 Arkansawyer

I haven’t. Where is it available.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:41:13am

re: #303 gocart mozart

Perusing the Nazi’s twitter feed, I came across this:

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I’m rooting for injuries.

Won’t stop L’il Benjyboy from kissing every alt-Right ass he can get his hands on!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:42:17am

re: #318 Ziggy_TARDIS

I think that it was the crap from news stations about Muslims, versus what I have taught him, and the way OKC’s Muslim community treated me.

Though he does think that I am too harsh on radicals. My logic is that the Wahhabis, Qutbists, Deobandis, and the like are deviations from Islam. And they need to be handled the same way the Ottomans handled these nutcases 200 years ago, during the Ottoman-Saudi War.

I can’t imagine why anyone would think you are too harsh when it comes to people you disagree with.

/ (do I even need?)

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:42:44am

re: #318 Ziggy_TARDIS

I think that it was the crap from news stations about Muslims, versus what I have taught him, and the way OKC’s Muslim community treated me.

Though he does think that I am too harsh on radicals. My logic is that the Wahhabis, Qutbists, Deobandis, and the like are deviations from Islam. And they need to be handled the same way the Ottomans handled these nutcases 200 years ago, during the Ottoman-Saudi War.

I think with my Dad is that he’s constantly trying to understand people better.

I haven’t. Where is it available.

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wrenchwench  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:43:21am

re: #318 Ziggy_TARDIS

I think that it was the crap from news stations about Muslims, versus what I have taught him, and the way OKC’s Muslim community treated me.

Ah, the old, ‘One of those others is kinda like me’

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:43:59am

re: #319 Joe Bacon

Won’t stop L’il Benjyboy from kissing every alt-Right ass he can get his hands on!

Nah Joe, Benny is a special case that actually thinks the all right is left wing even though he loved Milo for a long time.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:45:47am

re: #322 wrenchwench

Ah, the old, ‘One of those others is kinda like me’

Whatever it takes.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:46:49am

re: #322 wrenchwench

I also taught a bit about the history I knew at the time between the Protestants and the Ottomans, then the Moroccan-American Alliance. Namely the fact that Morocco was the most loyal ally to us during the Civil War. They stood up for us against the UK and France, which was a dangerous thing to do back then.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:48:32am

re: #323 HappyWarrior

Nah Joe, Benny is a special case that actually thinks the all right is left wing even though he loved Milo for a long time.

Happy, guys like Benjy, Milo, Alex Jones and the rest of the BreitFART liars make me wish that we had British libel laws here in the US so these Kochsuckers would be endlessly dragged in court.

BTW—Anyone have an update on Ginger Snapped’s no show yesterday?

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wrenchwench  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:48:39am

re: #325 Ziggy_TARDIS

I also taught a bit about the history I knew at the time between the Protestants and the Ottomans, then the Moroccan-American Alliance. Namely the fact that Morocco was the most loyal ally to us during the Civil War. They stood up for us against the UK and France, which was a dangerous thing to do back then.

He’s fortunate to have a son who can broaden his mind.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:49:57am

re: #308 Citizen K

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But please, tell me Hillary ignored policy and didn’t talk about economic issues enough…

But there was an empty tRump podium to watch!!

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wrenchwench  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:50:39am

re: #324 HappyWarrior

Whatever it takes.

This one is difficult to arrange to happen. Takes a fortunate circumstance.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:51:52am

re: #328 Eventual Carrion

But there was an empty tRump podium to watch!!

And we only heard about when she had negative comments about Trump, leading people to assume that is all she ever talked about…

The Russians were the least significant of the factors that lead to Trump’s victory…

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Joe Bacon  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:52:34am

re: #328 Eventual Carrion

But there was an empty tRump podium to watch!!

And they’re still doing that. Nauseates me how these Press Whores are in constant asskissing mode when it comes to Trump!

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:53:49am

re: #327 wrenchwench

Thanks!

I am still amazed Morocco did that. That was practically asking to be colonized, and yet, they did it anyway. That took some cojones on the part of Muhammad IV.

This dovetails into why I don’t like Free Trade. On one hand, there needs to be adjustible trade tariffs to account for currency and economic manipulation by various states.

On the other hand, I think in case of nations need to be pulled up, or for loyal allies, the trade terms should be such that you are encouraging business to make American goods in those nation. Morocco is not too poor, but they lag behind the rest of North Africa because of a lack of resources. Plugging them into our economy would be a massive boost. Encourage companies to move their factories to Morocco under a special trade agreement, that also covers worker safety and wage laws.

Edit: Missed a very important word.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:53:59am

Don’t tell Trump…

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HappyWarrior  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:55:10am

re: #329 wrenchwench

This one is difficult to arrange to happen. Takes a fortunate circumstance.

Yeah.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:55:12am

re: #333 Eclectic Cyborg

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Don’t tell Trump…

Let me guess! Fox is blaming Obama…

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:56:00am

re: #333 Eclectic Cyborg

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Don’t tell Trump…

I like the use of the word “steals” here versus “captures” in other versions.

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Bass Reeves  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:57:44am

Having a 990/1000 Gamerscore for FFXV on Xbox One (beat the game, and about half of the post game dungeons) my advice is:

If you don’t have it now, wait until the first patch and maybe the DLC. The story is very poorly told, the camera is a mess. 8/10 would play again, but the patch is going to fix a couple of story issues, and Chapter 13 was *awful*.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 9:58:51am

re: #331 Joe Bacon

And they’re still doing that. Nauseates me how these Press Whores are in constant asskissing mode when it comes to Trump!

I had somehow hoped that the media would come to realize that DT was ratings gold regardless of whether they were trashing him or fawning over him. But they are not about to quit idolizing him now that he has won.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:03:05am

re: #337 Bass Reeves

My feeling is that XV is that it is the best FF game since X.

But VII, VIII, and X remain at the top, tied in quality for various reasons. VII because of the emotions it brings out and characters, VIII for its sophistication and world building (Not to mention a story than that takes time to eat up and the metaphysics of Time Travels being explored in a way we would see again until Moffat’s Doctor Who 11 years later), and X because it is good, but also one of the very few instances of a East Asian High Fantasy works.

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wrenchwench  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:03:10am

re: #332 Ziggy_TARDIS

Thanks!

I am still amazed Morocco did that. That was practically asking to be colonized, and yet, they did it anyway. That took some cajones on the part of Muhammad IV.

I think you mean ‘cojones’.

The seated guy here is on a cajon, I think. In some other performances, a woman dances on one.

Las Cafeteras “Trabajador, Trabajadora” at Tropico de Nopal.

(Excuse me for skipping the rest of your comment.)

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:03:32am

re: #340 wrenchwench

Yep. Fixing that.

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wrenchwench  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:04:45am

re: #341 Ziggy_TARDIS

Yep. Fixing that.

That pencil makes us look good. It’s like make up.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:05:38am

re: #342 wrenchwench

What did you think of the rest of the comment?

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wrenchwench  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:08:15am

re: #343 Ziggy_TARDIS

What did you think of the rest of the comment?

International trade is a little beyond me right now. I have more opinions than information.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:08:18am

While we are talking about hilariously awful translations in Final Fantasy, let’s me show you an explanation of the worst in FF history. The Spanish Translation of VII:

In Spain, Ahriman was translated to Alemania, Spanish for Germany. Also, the translators managed to call Aeris both a woman and a man in the very same dialog box, multiple times (and did that to Tifa and Jesse, and probably any female character, too). And Allévoy, a typo of Allá voy (Here I come) is an actual meme. Sífilo is a meme too; it’s one of many typos of Sephiroth/Sefirot that happens to look (and sound) very similar to syphilis. Also, when you talk with a child in Costa del Sol, he says, more or less It hurts when you kick [the ball] with your bare feet; in Spanish, it got translated to It hurts when you kick me with your bare feet. Yuffie says let’s go instead of let go to Don Corneo’s henchmen, and the time when she says GROSS-NESS is just untranslated. Oh, and Absorb MP materia, in some games, had the description text: Summons Knights of the Round Table. Spanish translation for FFVII was horribly catastrophic. It could have its own wiki.

However, there is a punch line:

Strangely enough, in the aforementioned horrible spanish translation, Cloud correctly indicates Barret to NOT attack the Guard Scorpion when its tail is up. Guess even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:09:51am

Final Fantasy VI was awesome too. How can you not love the Opera House and a character with an attack dog?

It also had one of the series best villains IMO.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:10:25am

re: #345 Ziggy_TARDIS

While we are talking about hilariously awful translations in Final Fantasy, let’s me show you an explanation of the worst in FF history. The Spanish Translation of VII:

However, there is a punch line:

…keeping your eye on the camel, paste down the edge of the sailor’s uniform until the word “Maudling” is almost entirely obscured…

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Bass Reeves  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:11:12am

re: #339 Ziggy_TARDIS

I agree, I actually got too bored to finish XII and XIII, but then I refused to play X-2 on general principle. XV did the business enough for me to consider going back to XIII (although it’s not on Xbone). I actually went back and bought the earlier ones for mobile devices, which is kind of hilarious and makes me feel old.

I just had a discussion at work with a guy who played XI, which I skipped. However, we both played XIV, so that was fine.

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electrotek  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:12:36am

re: #318 Ziggy_TARDIS

I think that it was the crap from news stations about Muslims, versus what I have taught him, and the way OKC’s Muslim community treated me.

Though he does think that I am too harsh on radicals. My logic is that the Wahhabis, Qutbists, Deobandis, and the like are deviations from Islam. And they need to be handled the same way the Ottomans handled these nutcases 200 years ago, during the Ottoman-Saudi War.

I haven’t. Where is it available.

Speaking of the Ottomans, it makes me laugh so much when these same Wahabi/Salafi nutcases wax lyrical about the rule of the Ottomans. When these same people would have been locked up by Ottoman rulers for advocating sedition.

They have their own ideas and perceptions about the Ottomans that is clearly not rooted in reality. Neither the Da’esh concept or the Hizb-ut-Tahrir concept for a khilafat come anywhere close to what the Ottomans held during their rule.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:13:47am

re: #346 Eclectic Cyborg

Kefka is over-rated. He’s just the Joker with Magic.

Not to mention the loads and loads of characters means character development is small for any of them.

In Japan, VI is ignored, with V being considered the best of the Nintendo era games.

Also, the constant bashing of VII, VIII, and X from the fans of VI has turned me off from ever playing the game. 6’s fans are the video game equivalent of the Tea Party, or the Berners.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:14:27am

GoDaddy is being annoying as shit sending me notifications about domains/hosting that don’t expire for two months.

So, I’m being passive-aggressive and refusing to renew until a couple days beforehand.

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Citizen K  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:15:29am

Motherfuckers went after Kurt Eichenwald again with strobing tweets for the express purpose of triggering his epilepsy, and succeeded. He’s forcing himself to go low profile while he’s processing legal charges apparently.

As could be expected…the responses are filled with similar attempts at epilepsy induction.

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ObserverArt  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:16:38am

re: #291 Joe Bacon

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Bass Reeves  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:16:56am

re: #350 Ziggy_TARDIS

The main problem with XV is the character development happened offscreen from the game. Kingsglaive and the anime are somewhat mandatory watching to understand character backstory, and some characters literally disappear offscreen without and explanation. When all that is patched, it will be better than X for me.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:17:21am

re: #353 Citizen K

Motherfuckers went after Kurt Eichenwald again with strobing tweets for the express purpose of triggering his epilepsy, and succeeded. He’s forcing himself to go low profile while he’s processing legal charges apparently.

As could be expected…the responses are filled with similar attempts at epilepsy induction.

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He ought to consider legal action/ADA complaint against Twitter for designing a platform that allows something like that to happen.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:19:26am

He’s back.

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ObserverArt  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:19:40am

re: #298 Myron Falwell (no relation)

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I just do not understand why you want to put “I’m an asshole” in big letters down the side of your van.But hey, it does give everyone an indication of who you are.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:20:08am

I know I missed it somewhere here… but… Chuck has been suspended. Again.

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Citizen K  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:21:59am

re: #356 Timothy Watson

He ought to consider legal action/ADA complaint against Twitter for designing a platform that allows something like that to happen.

He does appear to want to subpoena Twitter, at least for identity for the sake of the suit, so he’s laying some responsibility at their feet at least.

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gocart mozart  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:22:05am

At least some good news.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:23:15am

re: #350 Ziggy_TARDIS

Honestly V through VIII were some of the high points of the series. I also think III is criminally underrated.

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:23:20am

re: #353 Citizen K

Motherfuckers went after Kurt Eichenwald again with strobing tweets for the express purpose of triggering his epilepsy, and succeeded. He’s forcing himself to go low profile while he’s processing legal charges apparently.

As could be expected…the responses are filled with similar attempts at epilepsy induction.

He can still investigate and post tweets, he just won’t be able to read replies.

Somehow, we all have to be the guy with the beard yelling in the Nazi’s face.

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MsJ  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:25:44am

re: #281 The Vicious Babushka

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:25:51am

I wonder how we could do a Twitter gofundme, buy it out, and clean it up. If a couple billion people donated a few dollars each, we could take care of it.

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electrotek  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:27:42am

Has anyone heard about the 12 year old boy who attempted to detonate a homemade nail bomb in Germany today?

Jesus, 12 fucking years old. I just can’t even.

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makeitstop  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:27:50am

re: #357 Myron Falwell (no relation)

He’s back.

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Best news I’ve heard all day.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:28:26am

re: #348 Bass Reeves

I liked XIII, but they did something very stupid.

A good chunk of the story and back story was told in Elder Scrolls format. You know, where the information is in books? Yeah, much of XIII was in a sort of Datalog in the menu page. I have XIII-2 and Lightning returns. Will have to play through them, but won’t do so until I get every trophy in XIII.I do want to note that everywhere outside the English Speaking world thinks of XIII more highly, so I think there might be translation problems again.

In regards to the remake of VII, 2 more things need a remake or re-release.

Before Crisis was a very decent game, but was never released in the US. You could now release or minorly remake it.

And DIrge of Cerberus, for all it’s flaws, I think told a decent story, but was mired down in low-res graphics, and the fact that Dirge of Cerberus was the first non-RPG Square-Enix made. It should have been built in a much different way, that could be done now? Devil May Cry-esque preferably, because Vincent, even in the original, was a weird and creepy in his powers. He was able to jump several times his height and glide in the original game, and Advent Children showed him to be not anywhere approaching human in capabilities.

I mean, come the fuck on, he can turn himself into a non-corporeal form. Beginning at 2:55

Final Fantasy Advent Children Cloud’s Fight Scenes 03

And he can do other weird shit. Like Riding thermals, and phasing from location to location, I think?

Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children - Battaglia finale contro Ultima Weapon/Bahamut

Yes, I fully accept the Compilation. The reason is that FFVII’s glaring flaw was world-building we know very little about what happened in the world before the game, and the ending was so open ended that anything could be done with it. In short, it is the perfect game to build a franchise around.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:28:55am

re: #366 electrotek

Has anyone heard about the 12 year old boy who attempted to detonate a homemade nail bomb in Germany today?

Jesus, 12 fucking years old. I just can’t even.

Read about it on BBC this morning. I can’t even either.

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harlequinade  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:29:20am

re: #365 Belafon

Jaiku

Open source. Better than Twitter in every way.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:29:35am

re: #349 electrotek

The Ottomans were stunningly progressive in a lot of ways.

Well, at least until that asshole AbdulHamid II came into power.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:29:47am

re: #340 wrenchwench

I think you mean ‘cojones’.

The seated guy here is on a cajon, I think. In some other performances, a woman dances on one.

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(Excuse me for skipping the rest of your comment.)

I have a friend that got a cajon, they are pretty cool. First saw one a few years ago being played by a christian band at a local coffee house.

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electrotek  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:30:17am

re: #371 Ziggy_TARDIS

The Ottomans were stunningly progressive in a lot of ways.

Well, at least until that asshole AbdulHamid II came into power.

Even Abdul Hamid II was supportive of the arts and culture, which the “music is haram” types can’t comprehend.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:30:34am

re: #362 Eclectic Cyborg

You missed X!

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:30:36am

re: #366 electrotek

Has anyone heard about the 12 year old boy who attempted to detonate a homemade nail bomb in Germany today?

Jesus, 12 fucking years old. I just can’t even.

What’s the juvenile justice system like in Germany?

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:30:55am

re: #370 harlequinade

Jaiku

Open source. Better than Twitter in every way.

Yeah, but you’re not buying the code, you’re buying the eyeballs.

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electrotek  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:31:57am

re: #369 GlutenFreeJesus

And not a recent arrival either. The kid was born in Germany.

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Stanley Sea  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:34:57am
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Ziggy_TARDIS  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:34:58am

re: #373 electrotek

That basically makes him President Shinra.

Who, come to think of it, is a 100% match to Trump.

Final Fantasy VII - Sector 7 Plate Collapses

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harlequinade  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:35:53am

re: #376 Belafon

Take credit card details. Make it clear that there is a zero tolerance policy. Infractions are met with a credit card ban, a fine of 1000 currency units of the strongest currency at the time of the offence, and advertise as “Like Twitter. But without the racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism and floor shitters”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:36:31am
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BlueSpotinAL  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:36:38am

People you should never agree to a debate with: Liars. I think that about covers it.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:38:12am

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ObserverArt  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:40:40am

re: #351 Timothy Watson

GoDaddy is being annoying as shit sending me notifications about domains/hosting that don’t expire for two months.

So, I’m being passive-aggressive and refusing to renew until a couple days beforehand.

That happened to me with Network Solutions. They used to be okay, and then web.com bought them and turned them into high pressure jackasses.

So I contacted DreamHost where I have some sites hosted and found I could transfer the domains over to them for like 1/3 the cost of Network Solutions and they list the info privately for no additional cost which Network solutions charged another $10/$15 for.

Now I have the sites and the domains all at the same company. Much easy to deal with it all. So far DreamHost has been great. Easy to deal with, good online dashboard to work the sites, etc. Love me some DreamHost!

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gocart mozart  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:42:00am

Great long thread worth reading. Also worth following her, I just did.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:43:31am

re: #383 Barefoot Grin

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Teukka  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:43:38am

re: #383 Barefoot Grin

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Big Beautiful Door  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:45:37am

re: #314 Myron Falwell (no relation)

Such a “debate” turns Baby Whiplash into a sympathetic figure and falsely establishes himself as a “reasonable conservative.”

So I have no doubt that he would agree to it.

The correct response to a debate challenge from David Duke is to tell him to go slither back under whatever rock he crawled out from. You don’t dignify scum sucking racists by debating them.

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Kragar  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:46:46am

Keith is out of fucks to give

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:46:58am

re: #364 MsJ

So Americans get to pay taxes to line Trump’s personal pockets

It is what we voted for.

I hope that this will someday lead to very strict rules about politicians and personal finances, but for the time being it is Trumparanza.

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Citizen K  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:46:58am

re: #385 gocart mozart

Great long thread worth reading. Also worth following her, I just did.

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Read it. Her second point is…Ugh. Not in the bad way, just that subject makes my hackles raise because of how much I hate it.

The Neo-Calvinistic prosperity theology is one of the most absolute rank things about the strain of Conservative Evangelism that’s seeped into nearly every facet of America today. The absolute slavish fealty to enforcing Alger-esque ‘bootstraps’ mentality as if it was THE one true path to salvation, and if you failed, you clearly failed because you’re a bad person and God Hates You.

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:47:20am

re: #383 Barefoot Grin

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:47:33am

re: #375 Timothy Watson

What’s the juvenile justice system like in Germany?

humane, if underfunded

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Kragar  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:48:00am
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Kragar  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:48:21am
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Barefoot Grin  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:49:01am

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Teukka  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:49:27am

re: #392 Belafon

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Franklin  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:49:39am

re: #389 Kragar

Keith is out of fucks to give

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My actual reaction when I read that. Bravo.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:50:50am

re: #395 Kragar

• Trump gets elected
• Trump repeatedly offends China
• China does thing it didn’t do under 2.9K days of Obama
• Critics: It’s Obama’s fault

It was pointed out that one thing that Putin would just love to see is a rise in oil prices.

Well, leaders who make comments leading to political instability and military threats drive up oil prices.

Then: Presto! It’s Obama’s fault for not drilling more domestically and building more pipelines…

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jaunte  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:51:12am

re: #395 Kragar

U.S. Demands Return of Drone Seized by Chinese Warship

“The Bowditch, an oceanographic ship, was operating in international waters and carrying out scientific research, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a potentially delicate international incident.”

“Defense officials said on Friday that they were trying to determine if the seizure of the underwater drone had anything to do with Mr. Trump’s comments.”

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mmmirele  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:51:53am

re: #391 Citizen K

Read it. Her second point is…Ugh. Not in the bad way, just that subject makes my hackles raise because of how much I hate it.

The Neo-Calvinistic prosperity theology is one of the most absolute rank things about the strain of Conservative Evangelism that’s seeped into nearly every facet of America today. The absolute slavish fealty to enforcing Alger-esque ‘bootstraps’ mentality as if it was THE one true path to salvation, and if you failed, you clearly failed because you’re a bad person and God Hates You.

And Jesus never taught it. But you never would know it by looking at so many of his American followers. Which is why it confuzzles them when I tell them I follow Jesus, but I don’t do church, because church is generally full of people who worship wealth and power, men who think women should STFU and leaders who will cover up child sexual abuse with regularity.

I don’t claim to be perfect, and I sure as hell don’t have it right, but I do know that Jesus didn’t spend his time cozying up to wealth and power. If he did, we wouldn’t know him at all today because he would have been some stooge to Herod or Pilate or the chief temple priest.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:54:48am

re: #391 Citizen K

The Neo-Calvinistic prosperity theology is one of the most absolute rank things about the strain of Conservative Evangelism that’s seeped into nearly every facet of America today. The absolute slavish fealty to enforcing Alger-esque ‘bootstraps’ mentality as if it was THE one true path to salvation, and if you failed, you clearly failed because you’re a bad person and God Hates You.

And it leads to the perverse (as in Paul Ryan-esque) notion that the best way to help the poor is to force them to learn self-reliance and person initiative…by denying them any form of government aid or assistance.

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jaunte  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:55:12am
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Barefoot Grin  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:56:18am

Pontius Pilate: “I don’t want to crucify him, but it’s what the people want; I’m sorry, but he has to go….”

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:56:34am

re: #388 Big Beautiful Door

The correct response to a debate challenge from David Duke is to tell him to go slither back under whatever rock he crawled out from. You don’t dignify scum sucking racists by debating them.

Baby Whiplash’s primary vanity is that he can “debate” anyone and destroy them with his Magickal Talking Points!!!!

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scottslemmons  Dec 16, 2016 • 10:59:28am

re: #401 mmmirele

And Jesus never taught it. But you never would know it by looking at so many of his American followers. Which is why it confuzzles them when I tell them I follow Jesus, but I don’t do church, because church is generally full of people who worship wealth and power, men who think women should STFU and leaders who will cover up child sexual abuse with regularity.

I don’t claim to be perfect, and I sure as hell don’t have it right, but I do know that Jesus didn’t spend his time cozying up to wealth and power. If he did, we wouldn’t know him at all today because he would have been some stooge to Herod or Pilate or the chief temple priest.

I’m honestly a bit astonished the GOP hasn’t pushed a new Republican-Approved Bible that takes out the stuff they don’t want and shoehorns in lots of wealth-worship, pro-authoritarianism, and white supremacy. We’re at the point right now where most churches would welcome the change, unfortunately.

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ObserverArt  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:00:34am

So, the President’s presser is about to get underway. I hope it is a good one. We need it…very, very…very much!

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:01:52am

re: #384 ObserverArt

I have been cheesed off at Network Solutions as well. Thanks for the tip!

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:02:01am

re: #407 ObserverArt

So, the President’s presser is about to get underway. I hope it is a good one. We need it…very, very…very much!

It won’t influence Trumpanistas, but it will be heard very clearly around the world by serious people.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:02:25am

re: #406 scottslemmons

I’m honestly a bit astonished the GOP hasn’t pushed a new Republican-Approved Bible that takes out the stuff they don’t want and shoehorns in lots of wealth-worship, pro-authoritarianism, and white supremacy. We’re at the point right now where most churches would welcome the change, unfortunately.

Andrew Schlafly tried to do exactly that:
rationalwiki.org

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Kragar  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:03:03am
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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:03:21am

re: #406 scottslemmons

I’m honestly a bit astonished the GOP hasn’t pushed a new Republican-Approved Bible that takes out the stuff they don’t want and shoehorns in lots of wealth-worship, pro-authoritarianism, and white supremacy. We’re at the point right now where most churches would welcome the change, unfortunately.

One would think that Jerry Falwell and Franklin Graham are already working on that.

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Belafon  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:03:39am

re: #411 Kragar

What is it?

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gocart mozart  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:04:08am

re: #407 ObserverArt

Live feed here
time.com

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:04:21am

re: #413 Belafon

What is it?

White-out conditions.

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Citizen K  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:04:41am

re: #401 mmmirele

And Jesus never taught it. But you never would know it by looking at so many of his American followers. Which is why it confuzzles them when I tell them I follow Jesus, but I don’t do church, because church is generally full of people who worship wealth and power, men who think women should STFU and leaders who will cover up child sexual abuse with regularity.

I don’t claim to be perfect, and I sure as hell don’t have it right, but I do know that Jesus didn’t spend his time cozying up to wealth and power. If he did, we wouldn’t know him at all today because he would have been some stooge to Herod or Pilate or the chief temple priest.

My deal is, I’m a lapsed Catholic. I became lapsed during, of all things, time in a Catholic High School, with a Theology teacher who I’m pretty sure was a literal Hippie (he was definitely an activist and had pictures of his time protesting the School of the Americas in the 80s). I lapsed not because I didn’t believe in the philosophies of the bible, but the mysticism. I felt that following it because chiding from above rather than because you were actually a good person really didn’t mean much. I took the idea of ‘you will know them by their deeds’ to heart, and more and more I found myself being unable to reconcile the hypocrisy regarding those who thumped the Bible, Catholic or Protestant. And on top fo that, those who took the Bible LITERALLY and simply refused to see the inconsistencies within it, often in the same book.

Those who preach prosperity theology, and those who use Christian as a tribal identifier are the exact sort of people Jesus preached against, so damn often.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:05:45am

re: #411 Kragar

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“Climate Change will be GREAT!!!” is the new “Climate Change is a HOAX!!!”

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Shiplord Kirel  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:06:25am

re: #411 Kragar

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Bad for bears too. No wonder Bryan is so enthusiastic.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:06:44am
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gocart mozart  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:07:05am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:07:37am

re: #419 Charles Johnson

BAM. Chuck C. Johnson’s 25th Twitter account is now suspended. So pathetic. He’s also been suspended by Facebook 4 times this year, 6 total.

because wimpy liberals feel threatened by strong alpha males?

/

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Kragar  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:08:55am
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calochortus  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:10:35am

re: #422 Kragar

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“Find coverage” no matter what the price, I’m sure. Great plan.

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Citizen K  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:11:11am

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

because wimpy liberals feel threatened by strong alpha males?

/

MRA types tend to be the kind that never live up to their own damn myths, no matter how much they delude themselves into believing they do. The kind that preaches about how women really “deserve” to get treated in order to keep them in line, but couldn’t hold down a romantic partner of any sort for any period of time even if they paid them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:12:55am

re: #422 Kragar

G.O.P. plans to replace actual health coverage with the ability to “find coverage.” Not joking.

The insurance equivalent of “right to work” legislation.

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jaunte  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:12:58am

re: #422 Kragar

GOP, from their private yacht, applauds plan to allow Titanic steerage passengers to “swim freely.”

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electrotek  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:14:54am

re: #424 Citizen K

MRA types tend to be the kind that never live up to their own damn myths, no matter how much they delude themselves into believing they do. The kind that preaches about how women really “deserve” to get treated in order to keep them in line, but couldn’t hold down a romantic partner of any sort for any period of time even if they paid them.

And they think they can lecture Muslims on how to treat women.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:15:31am

re: #426 jaunte

GOP, from their private yacht, applauds plan to allow Titanic steerage passengers to “swim freely.”

I read today—maybe here—that the combined wealth of Trump’s cabinet is more that the combined wealth of the bottom one-third of all Americans. Can’t verify, but rings true.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:16:58am

re: #428 Barefoot Grin

I read today—maybe here—that the combined wealth of Trump’s cabinet is more that the combined wealth of the bottom one-third of all Americans. Can’t verify, but rings true.

I think it was mentioned yesterday here.

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jaunte  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:19:06am

re: #428 Barefoot Grin

From TheHill

thehill.com

“…The 17 people filling President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet and similar positions earn more money than a third of households in America combined, Quartz reported Thursday.

The amount of wealth possessed by the 17 picks, at least $9.5 billion, is greater than the 43 million least wealthy households in America.”

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calochortus  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:20:24am

On an unrelated topic, I just finished installing a dimmer switch on the kitchen light (over the table) without electrocuting myself, starting a fire-or doing it upside down or backwards. Yay me. The only wrinkle was that it is a 3-way switch and hence slightly more complicated than just a straight swap.

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Sir John Barron  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:21:56am

re: #423 calochortus

“Find coverage” no matter what the price, I’m sure. Great plan.

and no matter what exclusions apply.

Can’t believe libtard Dems never thought of this great idea. The best idea.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:23:58am

re: #411 Kragar

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Also have been back and forth with people that say, “Well the heat will thaw out all that land that has been covered by ice and snow, so more land to cultivate!”. To which I try to explain to them that that might be true in 100 years or so, but right off it will be barren land with no topsoil suitable for cultivation.

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Khal Wimpo (no longer entitled to his own facts)  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:30:23am

re: #384 ObserverArt

That happened to me with Network Solutions. They used to be okay, and then web.com bought them and turned them into high pressure jackasses.

So I contacted DreamHost where I have some sites hosted and found I could transfer the domains over to them for like 1/3 the cost of Network Solutions and they list the info privately for no additional cost which Network solutions charged another $10/$15 for.

Now I have the sites and the domains all at the same company. Much easy to deal with it all. So far DreamHost has been great. Easy to deal with, good online dashboard to work the sites, etc. Love me some DreamHost!

Be careful. We’ve had some serious problems with Dreamhost recently. We were totally unable to update the installations of WP, or the plug-ins, or hell, even to upload a new picture.

The .tmp directory had filled up, and they had to go in an manually delete everything in it because reasons.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:31:38am

re: #422 Kragar

Code for Emergency Room.

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ObserverArt  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:40:28am

re: #434 Khal Wimpo (no longer entitled to his own facts)

Be careful. We’ve had some serious problems with Dreamhost recently. We were totally unable to update the installations of WP, or the plug-ins, or hell, even to upload a new picture.

The .tmp directory had filled up, and they had to go in an manually delete everything in it because reasons.

Heh. I just did a Google search for “what causes a web server to fill up a temp directory” and the first entry was this: Link

Shared servers with other users not cleaning up their directories cause them to fill and lock up. I understand the issue. That is one reason I do monthly backups of all my files for the site and daily backups of SQL databases (weekly for sites that are less critical, like a business site with no blog or forum).

If I ever have a site go down, I have everything to bring it up again…hopefully. Going to the next level of private hosting would prevent that.

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MsJ  Dec 16, 2016 • 11:42:36am

re: #385 gocart mozart

Great long thread worth reading. Also worth following her, I just did.

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ditto


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