Awesome New Jam From Bokanté: “Nou Tout Sé Yonn”

Yet another terrific spinoff from the Snarky Puppy nexus
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Bokanté - Nou Tout Sé Yonn
From the album “Strange Circles,” to be released June 2017 on GroundUP Music.

***Please set to HD (or at least 480p).

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Digital: radi.al
Physical: store.groundupmusic.net

Recorded and filmed at Dreamland Studios in West Hurley, New York, in April of 2016.

Written by Michael League & Malika Tirolien.
Music arranged by Michael League.
Vocals arranged and lyrics written by Malika Tirolien.

Produced by Michael League.

Personnel:
Malika Tirolien - vocals & vocal percussion
Roosevelt Collier - lap steel guitar
Michael League - baritone guitar, bass & vocal percussion
Chris McQueen - baritone guitar
Bob Lanzetti - electric guitar
Jamey Haddad - percussion
André Ferrari - percussion
Keita Ogawa - percussion

Engineered and mixed by Nic Hard.
Assisted by Bella Blasko.
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk NYC.
Filmed by Andy LaViolette, Simon C.F. Yu, Yusuke Suzuki, and Michael League.

Facebook - @Bokanté / BokanteMusic
Instagram - @BokanteMusic
Twitter - @BokanteMusic
bokante.com

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LYRICS:

(Creole)

Koutésa x 2

Kouté sa
Siw koupé rasin a piébwa, pié bwa pé ké ripousé
Koutésa
Si ou woté dlo a lanmè la, dézèw ké vin touvéw
Kouté sa
Siw konstrui kaz aw san mason, kaz la pé ké pé diré
Kouté sa
Si ou pa jen planté grèn mango la, pié mango ké disparet

Kouté sa
Siw ka jijé moun ki douvanw, moun dèyèw ké jijéw
Kouté sa
Siw volé voisin aw, on jou on moun ké vin voléw
Kouté sa
Fo ou sonjé sa ou ka simé sé sa ou kay rékolté
Kouté sa
Fo ou sonjé si ou jiré karma, karma ké vin ritouvéw

Sonjé nou tout sé yonn x2

A pa lè ou vwè la riviè kolè
Ou ké vwè rèflè aw, lè ou gadé adan’y
Si ou pa vlé avoué nou tout sé yonn
Nou pé ké pé rivé viv ansanm

(English)

if you cut the roots of the tree
it will never grow again
if you strip the sea of its water
the desert will find you
if you build your house with no foundation
it will not stand for long
if you fail to plant the seed
there will be no mango trees

if you judge the one in front
you will face judgement from the one behind
if you steal from your neighbor
one will steal from you
remember that you get what you give
and that when taunted
karma will find you

remember we are one

a reflection is hard to see
in troubled waters
if you don’t accept that we are one
we will never live in peace

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Birth Control Works  May 7, 2017 • 6:18:40pm
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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 6:19:37pm
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Birth Control Works  May 7, 2017 • 6:20:21pm
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Skip Intro  May 7, 2017 • 6:20:53pm

If you want to get the taste of tRumpshit out of your mouth for just a little while, you can watch President Obama receive and speak at the Profile in Courage Awards RIGHT NOW.

Profile In Courage Award Ceremony with President Barack Obama

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Joe Bacon  May 7, 2017 • 6:21:30pm
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Birth Control Works  May 7, 2017 • 6:21:40pm
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Stanley Sea  May 7, 2017 • 6:25:37pm

majii I was CL’d on the previous thread - I left you a private message. Comment 389. I hope you get it!

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Skip Intro  May 7, 2017 • 6:29:12pm

Re post #4.

Obama’s barrage of complete sentences seen as brutal attack on Trump.

CHICAGO (The Borowitz Report)—In an appearance at the University of Chicago on Monday, former President Barack Obama unloaded a relentless barrage of complete sentences in what was widely seen as a brutal attack on his successor, Donald Trump.

Appearing at his first public event since leaving office, Obama fired off a punishing fusillade of grammatically correct sentences, the likes of which the American people have not heard from the White House since he departed.

“He totally restricted his speech to complete sentences,” Tracy Klugian, a student at the event, said. “It was the most vicious takedown of Trump I’d ever seen.”

“About five or six sentences in, I noticed that all of his sentences had both nouns and verbs in them,” Carol Foyler, another student, said. “I couldn’t believe he was going after Trump like that.”

Obama’s blistering deployment of complete sentences clearly got under the skin of their intended target, who, moments after the event, responded with an angry tweet: “Obama bad (or sick) guy. Failing. Sad!”

newyorker.com

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 7, 2017 • 6:31:18pm

Same as it ever was…..

Dear Millenials: Here’s some rules about politics you may have not been taught in school that you need to understand:

(1) Politics is not a spectator event-you must participate (namely, vote) if you even want to stand a chance of making any change. If you don’t vote, you have zero reason to complain about whatever action the government takes that affects others—including you.

(2) The current politicians in office really don’t care about you as an individual-at all. That’s one reason why they have shafted you and your parents when it came to the whole Student Loan fiasco, while giving the profits to the for-profit educational system (Remember-privatize the profits, socialize the losses….)

I’m A Politician

(3) If you really want to make change, I’m afraid you cannot realy on your current set of Congresscritters to do it. No, Millenials, you are unfortunately going to have to pick up the political mantle from the current corrupted cronies in Congress, clean it up and run with it-and whether you like it or not, some of you will be forced into doing it away.

The mid-terms are coming up in 2018. So-what are you waiting for? What are you going to do to control your own groups destiny?

Think about it-but not too long. Too much time is being lost already.

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Stanley Sea  May 7, 2017 • 6:33:45pm
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Cheechako  May 7, 2017 • 6:34:34pm

re: #6 Birth Control Works

I predicted this a few weeks ago. I do believe two or three Federal/State Grand Juries may be meeting con-currently.

One very important issue to be thinking about: if, as it has been reported, upwards of 40 individuals are being investigated, then indictments of that many people will have a major impact on the operation of our government. Indictments may reach to the highest levels of the White House and Congress. The situation may be crippling.

I hope there’s plans being made for how to handle this situation.

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jaunte  May 7, 2017 • 6:38:29pm
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Stanley Sea  May 7, 2017 • 6:40:21pm

What is it going to TAKE

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jaunte  May 7, 2017 • 6:43:22pm
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scottslemmons  May 7, 2017 • 6:47:35pm

re: #9 Eric The Fruit Bat

Not a millennial:

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Millennials are young and naive, but their political sins are few, compared to the Boomers and X’ers.

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majii  May 7, 2017 • 6:47:42pm

re: #7 Stanley Sea

I did, thanks. I had to retreat for a few days to grieve in private. I’m getting better as the days pass, but I don’t think I’ll ever have another four-legged baby quite like my Winston. We were a perfect fit. I took my baby nearly everywhere I went. He always rode shotgun.

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ipsos  May 7, 2017 • 6:48:37pm

re: #16 majii

(((((majii)))))

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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 6:49:43pm

re: #15 scottslemmons

I believe that some notable fraction of Trump votes was a big “FU” attempt by people who are disgruntled but are not able to identify the source of their deep unhappiness.

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TedStriker  May 7, 2017 • 6:50:24pm

re: #15 scottslemmons

Not a millennial:

Millennials are young and naive, but their political sins are few, compared to the Boomers and X’ers.

Malicious morons in action…

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stpaulbear  May 7, 2017 • 6:51:31pm

re: #15 scottslemmons

Not a millennial:

I hope she’s pissed off. I hope everyone is glad that she’s pissed off. I hope everyone tells her that they’re glad she’s pissed off. Just like she wanted to do to them.

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jaunte  May 7, 2017 • 6:53:01pm
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It’s the ‘Heritage Not Hate” division of Louisiana Trump supporters.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 7, 2017 • 6:53:24pm

re: #9 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Dear Millenials: Here’s some rules about politics you may have not been taught in school that you need to understand:

(1) Politics is not a spectator event-you must participate (namely, vote) if you even want to stand a chance of making any change. If you don’t vote, you have zero reason to complain about whatever action the government takes that affects others—including you.

(2) The current politicians in office really don’t care about you as an individual-at all. That’s one reason why they have shafted you and your parents when it came to the whole Student Loan fiasco, while giving the profits to the for-profit educational system (Remember-privatize the profits, socialize the losses….)

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(3) If you really want to make change, I’m afraid you cannot realy on your current set of Congresscritters to do it. No, Millenials, you are unfortunately going to have to pick up the political mantle from the current corrupted cronies in Congress, clean it up and run with it-and whether you like it or not, some of you will be forced into doing it away.

The mid-terms are coming up in 2018. So-what are you waiting for? What are you going to do to control your own groups destiny?

Think about it-but not too long. Too much time is being lost already.

I posted that same cartoon on FB back in 2014

There are 2 other suggestions that I would add
(4) Do not cast protest votes to express your displeasure with a candidate’s action when you believe that the candidate will win anyway; you may discover that protest votes will in fact affect the outcome of an election, and not in a way favorable to your cause
(5) No candidate is perfect. Don’t get sidetracked by third party candidates who will not win when a major party candidate is a much stronger reflection of your views on important issues.

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Stanley Sea  May 7, 2017 • 6:53:32pm

re: #16 majii

I’m glad it’s getting a little better. Take care of yourself.

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Interesting Times  May 7, 2017 • 6:57:01pm

re: #18 freetoken

I believe that some notable fraction of Trump votes was a big “FU” attempt by people who are disgruntled but are not able to identify the source of their deep unhappiness.

Exactly - these people -_- The “Bernie woulda won” contingent claim that he could have captured these “fuck the system” voters as well. Impossible to prove or disprove that now, but it is something to keep in mind going forward (i.e. is it possible for Dems to peel away enough of these disgruntled crank-types where it counts? If so, how? It’s a question that needs to be addressed as long as ignorant, angry cranks are in the best position to decide US election outcomes)

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jaunte  May 7, 2017 • 7:02:49pm

re: #24 Interesting Times

Exactly - these people -_- The “Bernie woulda won” contingent claim that he could have captured these “fuck the system” voters as well.

All his RW opponent would have needed was the magic word “socialist.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 7, 2017 • 7:03:36pm

I might be late but here’s a cake for a special lizard’s birthday!

happy birthday teleskiguy!
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thedopefishlives  May 7, 2017 • 7:05:09pm

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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 7:05:17pm

It’s a sea star… it’s just shy:

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Patricia Kayden  May 7, 2017 • 7:05:18pm

re: #21 jaunte

Just glad those traitor statues are being taken down from public property in a city which is 60% Black. Good.

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 7:05:31pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Thanks Backwoods_Sleuth.

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jaunte  May 7, 2017 • 7:05:52pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 7, 2017 • 7:06:55pm

re: #16 majii

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FormerDirtDart  May 7, 2017 • 7:11:22pm
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Interesting Times  May 7, 2017 • 7:11:48pm

re: #25 jaunte

All his RW opponent would have needed was the magic word “socialist.”

Absolutely that would’ve worked on the Fox crowd, but maybe the non-voters/3rd-party types would have actually liked it - “Yeah! Fuck the system! Let’s vote for a socialist!” And then you had the handful of BoB’ers who voted trump because they figured he’d wreck everything enough to bring about their revolution. So I don’t know. It’s obvious in hindsight that enough US voters were in the mood to do something crazy, but could that crazy have been harnessed as a force for good instead of evil? Again, I don’t know.

I’ve become so shocked and yet cynical at the state of the US electorate that I wouldn’t put anything past them (remember when I said earlier that a Le Pen-style “single-payer healthcare but for whites only” type would get a horrifically high percentage of the vote, especially in the South? I stand by that. Anti-socialist sentiment is actually code for “We should get stuff but those people shouldn’t.”)

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 7:13:59pm

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calochortus  May 7, 2017 • 7:14:32pm

Greetings all, we’re just back from Paso Robles where we did some wine blending. Fun, educational, and kind of too much wine. I don’t care how much you spit, a lot still seeps in.
Mr. C and I went with our son, daughter and son-in-law and a good time was had by all. We now each have a magnum of our own blend, which is problematic in that one has to get a bunch of people together to drink all this wine in a reasonable length of time, but if it really isn’t all that great, maybe one shouldn’t inflict it on others?

Anyway, the weekend was a nice break from ugly realities, and it was nice to get back and find that Le Pen lost in France.

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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 7:22:28pm

Another instance of the fish species posted downstairs, this time with a good profile:

The laser points are about 4” apart, so it’s not a small fish.

Head on:

You can see a shrimp in the lower right of the image… probably a soon-to-be meal.

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 7:23:36pm

Friend of mine in Bozeman, MT got this placed on her front porch (and all her neighbors too) today.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 7, 2017 • 7:24:31pm

re: #35 teleskiguy

Thinking someone mixed up a work account with a personal one…or accidentally tweeted a text message reply.

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calochortus  May 7, 2017 • 7:24:51pm

re: #38 teleskiguy

Well, that’s charming.

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retired cynic  May 7, 2017 • 7:26:37pm

Heard a man on NPR - Marketplace Weekend today, quoting (I think) a person from Kaiser Health, that the ACHR was the biggest rollback of public services in the history of the country. I hadn’t thought of it that way, but that must be right!

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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 7:26:42pm

Anemones are always fun, and here is a giant one:

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retired cynic  May 7, 2017 • 7:30:00pm

re: #13 Stanley Sea

What is it going to TAKE

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You will be happy to know that it was the lead story on NPR this afternoon. Don’t know about the others, but public media is on it!

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Puss Power  May 7, 2017 • 7:31:14pm

re: #15 scottslemmons

Not a millennial:

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Millennials are young and naive, but their political sins are few, compared to the Boomers and X’ers.

They haven’t been around long enough to have committed many political sins. Give them time.

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BeachDem  May 7, 2017 • 7:32:34pm

re: #38 teleskiguy

Friend of mine in Bozeman, MT got this placed on her front porch (and all her neighbors too) today.

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When you google search that image, you come up with some delightful websites (Stormfront prominently featured) and nothing about the name signed to it other than a bunch of anti-semite raving.

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Shiplord Kirel  May 7, 2017 • 7:33:15pm

re: #10 Stanley Sea

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We have to make sure these collaborators never live this down, like Charles Lindbergh and his cordial meetings with Hitler and Goering. I actually met Lindbergh at Edwards AFB in 1963. His image had benefited from a Cold War rehabilitation but World War II was still a recent memory for the senior AF types. His reception, though polite and respectful, had a decidedly chilly feel to it.

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Stanley Sea  May 7, 2017 • 7:37:52pm

Man

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retired cynic  May 7, 2017 • 7:39:41pm

re: #47 Stanley Sea

Man

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Oh, we are so screwed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 7, 2017 • 7:40:01pm

re: #40 calochortus

Well, that’s charming.

and very old and stinking to highest levels every time it shows up again.

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Skip Intro  May 7, 2017 • 7:42:12pm

re: #47 Stanley Sea

As Winston Churchill said,

“This is not the end. It’s not even the beginning of the end. Motherfuck, it’s not even the end of the beginning!”

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Unshaken Defiance  May 7, 2017 • 7:46:39pm

re: #48 retired cynic

Oh, we are so screwed.

Difficult days to come. But it’s not over.

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 7:46:57pm
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Stanley Sea  May 7, 2017 • 7:48:22pm
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Every one is sane. But us.

The yam stayed on AF1 45 minutes after landing, no reason given.

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Stanley Sea  May 7, 2017 • 7:50:24pm

re: #53 Stanley Sea

must watch.

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retired cynic  May 7, 2017 • 7:51:01pm

re: #52 teleskiguy

I’d be happy to have the marijuana, but they can keep those machetes!

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calochortus  May 7, 2017 • 7:51:03pm

re: #52 teleskiguy

My finger isn’t exactly on the pulse of law enforcement or anything, but really? A street dealer with a few dozen bags of anything doesn’t seem like a major bust.

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 7:53:07pm

re: #56 calochortus

There’s maybe a few ounces there on the table, maybe. I’ve seen more cannabis on friends’ coffee tables than that.

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Skip Intro  May 7, 2017 • 7:54:06pm

re: #53 Stanley Sea

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Every one is sane. But us.

The yam stayed on AF1 45 minutes after landing, no reason given.

Fox “news” was saying nice things about him.

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 8:07:10pm

re: #16 majii

I did, thanks. I had to retreat for a few days to grieve in private. I’m getting better as the days pass, but I don’t think I’ll ever have another four-legged baby quite like my Winston. We were a perfect fit. I took my baby nearly everywhere I went. He always rode shotgun.

{{majii}}

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retired cynic  May 7, 2017 • 8:14:30pm

re: #16 majii

I did, thanks. I had to retreat for a few days to grieve in private. I’m getting better as the days pass, but I don’t think I’ll ever have another four-legged baby quite like my Winston. We were a perfect fit. I took my baby nearly everywhere I went. He always rode shotgun.

You won’t, that’s for sure. But you will have another that is different, and that will be good.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 7, 2017 • 8:15:40pm

re: #60 retired cynic

You won’t, that’s for sure. But you will have another that is different, and that will be good.

the next one will find majii

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 7, 2017 • 8:16:31pm

re: #52 teleskiguy

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 7, 2017 • 8:18:22pm

I’ve shared my life with more furbabies than I could have ever imagined.

I’ve come to realize that the Rainbow Bridge goes both ways for those who are open and waiting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 7, 2017 • 8:19:36pm
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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 8:26:46pm

Another, different, fish with lure:

Close up of the mouth and lure:

Neat thing. Talking heads couldn’t identify.

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retired cynic  May 7, 2017 • 8:27:50pm

re: #65 freetoken

Another, different, fish with lure:

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Neat thing. Talking heads couldn’t identify.

These are sure interesting photos! Thanks!

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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 8:28:40pm

re: #66 retired cynic

Enjoy them before Trump decides NOAA ought to be sold off to some sea-mining company…

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 8:29:27pm
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Romantic Heretic  May 7, 2017 • 8:31:49pm

re: #15 scottslemmons

Not a millennial:

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Millennials are young and naive, but their political sins are few, compared to the Boomers and X’ers.

That’s only because the Millennials haven’t been around that long. Give ‘em time. I’m sure they’ll turn out to be as human as the rest of us.

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 8:34:02pm
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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 8:36:51pm

re: #70 Anymouse

Funny how all these pudgy white male assholes that talk like they have gravel in their mouth all consider themselves the “master race.”

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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 8:37:06pm

These ROVs are currently in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, set up under GWB and expanded by Obama.

Wait till Trump finds out we secured almost 500,000 square miles for preservation against exploitation.

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retired cynic  May 7, 2017 • 8:37:36pm

re: #72 freetoken

These ROVs are currently in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, set up under GWB and expanded by Obama.

Wait till Trump finds out we secured almost 500,000 square miles for preservation against exploitation.

Shhhhhh!

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 8:39:12pm

Out of the blue, Jim Wright gets an insult, then a very long thread of insults and wingnut derp. At the end he points out why he continued to poke this woman.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 7, 2017 • 8:39:17pm

re: #71 teleskiguy

Funny how all these pudgy white male assholes that talk like they have gravel in their mouth all consider themselves the “master race.”

Nobody more desperately need white supremacy. They’re unable to compete otherwise.

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 8:41:16pm

re: #72 freetoken

These ROVs are currently in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, set up under GWB and expanded by Obama.

Wait till Trump finds out we secured almost 500,000 square miles for preservation against exploitation.

It’s already on the list.
sltrib.com (includes list)

The administration said what it was reviewing was monument designations back to 1991. What it’s actually reviewing is monument designations by Democrats.

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BeachDem  May 7, 2017 • 8:41:45pm

re: #55 retired cynic

I’d be happy to have the marijuana, but they can keep those machetes!

Yeah, my thought exactly—the knives are a whole lot more scary than the pot.

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 8:44:40pm
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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 8:45:09pm

re: #76 Anymouse

Today’s dive was in the Jarvis Island unit. Is Trump hoping to reignite delusions of bat guano wealth?

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 8:47:39pm

What he said.

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BeachDem  May 7, 2017 • 8:50:37pm

For those who missed John Oliver tonight, his main story was about net neutrality, and he encouraged everyone to leave comments at the FCC site. After showing all the gymnastics one would have to accomplish to get to the comment page, he announced that he’d bought the domain:

gofccyourself.com

which will take you directly to the comment page, bypassing all of the other crap. He recommends going there and saying we should keep the Title II regulations as they are now written and NOT change to having ISPs regulate themselves.

NOTE—I just tried it and apparently, like in 2014, Oliver has caused the FCC site to crash—I’ll keep trying.

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 8:52:17pm

Privatising the VA … predicted it was coming if wingnuts ever got in power.

Note this is to save $25 million. The Pentagon goes through that in about five minutes. And BRAC didn’t work the way he said it did.

pbs.org (more at PBS)

WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says his department is seeking to close perhaps more than 1,100 VA facilities nationwide as it develops plans to allow more veterans to receive medical care in the private sector.

At a House hearing Wednesday, Shulkin said the VA had identified more than 430 vacant buildings and 735 that he described as underutilized, costing the federal government $25 million a year. He said the VA would work with Congress in prioritizing buildings for closure and was considering whether to follow a process the Pentagon had used in recent decades to decide which of its underused military bases to shutter, known as Base Realignment and Closure, or BRAC.

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retired cynic  May 7, 2017 • 8:55:43pm

re: #82 Anymouse

$25m. How many golf trips for DT?

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 8:56:14pm
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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 8:58:51pm

re: #83 retired cynic

$25m. How many golf trips for DT?

One?

That “seek care in the private sector” is BS passed out to voters who are not veterans.

The VA provides specialised medical care for injury incurred in military operations, and diseases not normally seen in US hospitals. Civilian hospitals by-and-large cannot provide the care or specialties needed for veterans.

The VA also provides programmes for low-income and homeless veterans, and convalescent care for elderly veterans. No profit in that part.

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 9:01:20pm

I’m not sure what “underutilised” means in the context of Shulkin’s statements … I’m guessing my VA clinic that’s only open a few days a week qualifies for that.

250 mile round trips to Cheyenne, then (assuming they don’t close that too).

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 9:03:24pm
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retired cynic  May 7, 2017 • 9:06:05pm

re: #87 Anymouse

And heck, I don’t think stopped playing golf long enough to tweet anything. Probably staff.

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 9:08:32pm

re: #88 retired cynic

And heck, I don’t think stopped playing golf long enough to tweet anything. Probably staff.

“You know, Walter Reed Hospital sure has pretty grounds. Would make a nice golf course.”

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 9:11:06pm
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MsJ  May 7, 2017 • 9:12:45pm

re: #15 scottslemmons

Not a millennial:

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Millennials are young and naive, but their political sins are few, compared to the Boomers and X’ers.

The only “label” that woman needs is ASSHOLE. And they come in all ages, sizes and colors.

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Stanley Sea  May 7, 2017 • 9:12:50pm

Is his mouth open?

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retired cynic  May 7, 2017 • 9:16:43pm

re: #92 Stanley Sea

The responses to the tweet indicates people thought he was watching Obama’s speech. Don’t know if timing works.

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Skip Intro  May 7, 2017 • 9:17:49pm

re: #92 Stanley Sea

Is his mouth open?

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I think he just had sex with himself.

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MsJ  May 7, 2017 • 9:21:11pm

re: #16 majii

I did, thanks. I had to retreat for a few days to grieve in private. I’m getting better as the days pass, but I don’t think I’ll ever have another four-legged baby quite like my Winston. We were a perfect fit. I took my baby nearly everywhere I went. He always rode shotgun.

I saw your original post several hours after you posted it. I can’t imagine. I just can’t.

We have six dogs and my heart absolutely broke for you. I’m so very sorry for your loss.

In time, the pain will recede and the sweet memories will be there, living on forever. Winston will always be with you.

And in time you’ll find another dog who needs a home and needs love and a needs place to lie his or her head, a dog who will never be Winston, but who will love you and you them.

I’ll keep you in my thoughts for a long time.

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MsJ  May 7, 2017 • 9:23:02pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

I might be late but here’s a cake for a special lizard’s birthday!

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I don’t think there’s ever been a better cake for someone in the history of cakes that’s as appropriate as that one.

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Anymouse  May 7, 2017 • 9:24:44pm

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting Group to buy Tribune Company properties.
dailykos.com

If such a deal goes through, then several city folk will get the same propaganda we do here.

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Stanley Sea  May 7, 2017 • 9:25:54pm

re: #93 retired cynic

The responses to the tweet indicates people thought he was watching Obama’s speech. Don’t know if timing works.

Maybe. Wanting to know if O said his name.

Stunted & addled.

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MsJ  May 7, 2017 • 9:30:43pm

re: #71 teleskiguy

Funny how all these pudgy white male assholes that talk like they have gravel in their mouth all consider themselves the “master race.”

Supremacy in their minds only.

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PhillyPretzel  May 7, 2017 • 9:31:26pm

re: #97 Anymouse

Gee. And some folks want to know why I watch PBS and get my information off the internet.

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Joe Bacon  May 7, 2017 • 9:31:54pm

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retired cynic  May 7, 2017 • 9:33:26pm

re: #101 Joe Bacon

Oh, SNORK!

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PhillyPretzel  May 7, 2017 • 9:37:15pm

re: #101 Joe Bacon

That Trump person wishes he had that much hair. /

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 7, 2017 • 9:41:47pm

re: #92 Stanley Sea

It took Ivanka 45 minutes on the phone to help him gain enough courage to do the stairs by himself.

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 9:52:20pm

True story.

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Joe Bacon  May 7, 2017 • 9:59:22pm

I’m watching a movie channel and on comes a commercial with Pat Boone telling people that they need to buy gold because Obama can track where you spend your cash…Pat just needs to Shut The Fudge Up Once And For All!

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Shiplord Kirel  May 7, 2017 • 10:21:19pm

re: #70 Anymouse

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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 10:22:28pm

Delius: Sea Drift - 1959 Beecham (Complete)

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Shiplord Kirel  May 7, 2017 • 10:25:39pm

“President Trump”
AAARRRGGGHHH!
Every time I see that, I feel a little twinge of vertigo, as though it can’t be real. BUT IT IS!

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 10:29:40pm

re: #110 Shiplord Kirel

“President Trump”
AAARRRGGGHHH!
Every time I see that, I feel a little twinge of vertigo, as though it can’t be real. BUT IT IS!

Rod Serling couldn’t have written such fiction.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 7, 2017 • 10:30:41pm

re: #108 Shiplord Kirel

Meal Team 6! The guy in the helmet is apparently wearing a blue tarp in honor of that Bundy-bund martyr whatsisname (can’t remember his name and don’t care enough to look it up).

Lavoy Finicum.

Why do I remember useless shit like that?

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 10:33:41pm

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

Lavoy Finicum.

Why do I remember useless shit like that?

That fucking guy, who almost killed an Oregon State Trooper and pulled a gun on at least four police officers boxing him in. It’s all on film. The FBI put the unedited aerial footage on YouTube.

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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 10:38:44pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

Rod Serling couldn’t have written such fiction.

Oh, but Serling’s most famous creation is all about such fiction.

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 10:47:50pm

THE TWILIGHT ZONE THEME

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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 10:47:55pm

Much of the Twilight Zone is subversive in its politics, but some of it is obvious.

Relevant to our day includes Time Enough at Last. Also see The Whole Truth.

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 10:50:08pm

re: #116 freetoken

Time Enough To Last. I remember almost crying at the end of that episode the first time I saw it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 7, 2017 • 10:52:33pm

re: #116 freetoken

Much of the Twilight Zone is subversive in its politics, but some of it is obvious.

Relevant to our day includes Time Enough at Last. Also see The Whole Truth.

And, if course, The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 7, 2017 • 10:54:14pm

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2017 • 11:08:28pm

re: #38 teleskiguy

Friend of mine in Bozeman, MT got this placed on her front porch (and all her neighbors too) today.

When do they start distributing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2017 • 11:09:26pm

re: #38 teleskiguy

Friend of mine in Bozeman, MT got this placed on her front porch (and all her neighbors too) today.

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may I point out that no Jewish scholar would confuse “humanity’s” with “humanities”…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2017 • 11:15:28pm

re: #71 teleskiguy

Funny how all these pudgy white male assholes that talk like they have gravel in their mouth all consider themselves the “master race.”

Somebody needs to remind them clearly and vocally (as they are not strong on reading) how black people came to be imported to America: to do the work that the white settlers were too lazy to do themselves. They found it easier to buy people and threaten them with hunger, pain or even death if they refused to work for free.

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freetoken  May 7, 2017 • 11:22:50pm

The Obsolete Man is another episode relevant to our discussions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 7, 2017 • 11:24:51pm

re: #123 freetoken

The Obsolete Man is another episode relevant to our discussions.

Part of the traditional job of a politician was to make sure that there was an abundance of well-paid jobs with benefits for poorly trained and educated (white) men.

That is the promise that Trump rode on to victory.

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Scout  May 7, 2017 • 11:42:08pm

re: #116 freetoken

Much of the Twilight Zone is subversive in its politics, but some of it is obvious.

Relevant to our day includes Time Enough at Last. Also see The Whole Truth.

I haven’t seen “Time Enough at Last” since I was a little kid. I had to follow the link to recognize the episode, but instantly remembered it. The part I remember the strongest (apart from the ending, of course) is how his wife took a magic marker to one of his books for no other reason than just to render it so he couldn’t read it — pure malice.

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 11:42:35pm
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wheat-dogg  May 7, 2017 • 11:48:10pm

re: #84 teleskiguy

Now I want to watch Rogue One again.

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Cheechako  May 7, 2017 • 11:52:03pm

re: #127 wheat-dogg

Try here. The first 10 episodes are free:

The twilight Zone

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 11:53:34pm

My birthday was really meh this year. I guess I should get used to it, the more birthdays the more meh and the longer you live.

I wanted to go mountain biking, but it rained most of the day. I got some laundry done. And I looked up and saw the Moon and Jupiter right next to each other.

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teleskiguy  May 7, 2017 • 11:56:04pm

re: #129 teleskiguy

It’s a true Yin Yang. Last year on my birthday I was in Vegas for Umphrey’s McGee.

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wheat-dogg  May 8, 2017 • 12:03:06am

re: #128 Cheechako

Try here. The first 10 episodes are free:

The twilight Zone

Thanks, but I was referring to Star Wars, y’know. ;-)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 12:04:32am

re: #129 teleskiguy

My birthday was really meh this year. I guess I should get used to it, the more birthdays the more meh and the longer you live.

I wanted to go mountain biking, but it rained most of the day. I got some laundry done. And I looked up and saw the Moon and Jupiter right next to each other.

I stopped celebrating birthdays some years ago. Now I just note their passing.

For that, I celebrated my Expat Day this year on March 10th. That is the point at which I had been living outside the USA longer than I ever lived there.

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Cheechako  May 8, 2017 • 12:05:51am

re: #131 wheat-dogg

Thanks, but I was referring to Star Wars, y’know. ;-)

Oops - I though the topic was Twilight Zone. Sorry :(

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wheat-dogg  May 8, 2017 • 12:06:11am

re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I stopped celebrating birthdays some years ago. Now I just note their passing.

For that, I celebrated my Expat Day this year on March 10th. That is the point at which I had been living outside the USA longer than I ever lived there.

I’ll need to live to 104 to see that day, and remain outside the USA that whole time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 12:08:15am

re: #134 wheat-dogg

I’ll need to live to 104 to see that day, and remain outside the USA that whole time.

I left at a much younger age and never went back.

Almost left in 1989, but that was when things really started getting interesting in Germany and Europe in general.

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2017 • 12:10:09am

re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I hear the skiing is good in the Alps. Only been once, for racing.

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wheat-dogg  May 8, 2017 • 12:11:32am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I left at a much younger age and never went back.

Almost left in 1989, but that was when things really started getting interesting in Germany and Europe in general.

Living in France now has a certain je ne sais quoi appeal.

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Nyet  May 8, 2017 • 12:15:12am

The Independent links to HC.

independent.co.uk

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 12:17:07am

re: #137 wheat-dogg

Living in France now has a certain je ne sais quoi appeal.

Germany is kinda boring, but safe. And wages are higher and prices lower than most other European countries. People all along the French border come to Germany to buy their basic groceries.

And things have grown a lot less stodgy, I noticed a real change in society and attitudes after the 2006 World Soccer Cup. They showed the world that they could party as hardy as the rest of Europe, and in a tidy and well organized way.

And I am centrally located here on the Rhine near Mainz: I can be in France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland or the Czech Republic in less than three hours’ drive, the rest of Europe in just a bit more.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 12:34:03am

re: #140 Nyet

Prince Philip is worshiped in this remote island village. Could they soon face a crisis of faith?

There was a bit on FB speculating that one of the reasons that Prince Phillip decided to retire from public life was so that he would not be compelled to meet Donald Trump…

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Shiplord Kirel  May 8, 2017 • 12:49:52am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There was a bit on FB speculating that one of the Reasons Prince Phillip decided to retire from public life was so that he would not be compelled to meet Donald Trump…

The Philip cult is plainly more rational than our own Cargo Cult Christians since Philip is indisputably a real person—indeed, many cult members have actually seen him in person—and he very well could come back and bring them goodies, though the chances of that are fading fast.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 12:52:16am

re: #142 Shiplord Kirel

The Philip cult is plainly more rational than our own Cargo Cult Christians since Philip is indisputably a real person—indeed, many cult members have actually seen him in person—and he very well could come back and bring them goodies, though the chances of that are fading fast.

Donald Trump is more likely to appear in person and take away our health care, consumer protections, clean air and water, and our public education system.

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2017 • 1:28:38am

The poor man’s selfie drone

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Shiplord Kirel  May 8, 2017 • 2:23:43am

Lubbock conservatives are in sackcloth and ashes:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 2:25:47am

re: #145 Shiplord Kirel

In the election for the President of France, Le Pen, a Conservative, has been defeated by Macron, a Socialist, who beat Le Pen by almost 2 to 1.
Why would the French elect a President who wants to keep the borders of France open to anyone who wants enter

Because they are not dickheads.

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Shiplord Kirel  May 8, 2017 • 2:26:03am

re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Donald Trump is more likely to appear in person and take away our health care, consumer protections, clean air and water, and our public education system.

Trump is the Second Coming……

……of Mussolini.

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 2:29:55am

re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because they are not dickheads.

A completely unfathomable position for any conservative.

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 3:06:53am

Today is V-E Day here in Europe, appropriate after last night’s defeat of Le Pen in France.

Here’s a photo I just took. A nice, fascist-free day. Enjoy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 3:13:02am

re: #149 Dr Lizardo

Today is V-E Day here in Europe, appropriate after last night’s defeat of Le Pen in France.

Here’s a photo I just took. A nice, fascist-free day. Enjoy.

Not a holiday in Germany for some reason.

And not a holiday in Russia for the following reason: they celebrate May 9th. Seems that the armistice was signed after 11 pm in Germany, which was already after midnight Moscow time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 3:16:07am

re: #149 Dr Lizardo

Today is V-E Day here in Europe, appropriate after last night’s defeat of Le Pen in France.

Here’s a photo I just took. A nice, fascist-free day. Enjoy.

A buddy of mine in Finland doing Woodie Guthrie in honor of all you fascists bound to lose

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 3:16:21am

re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not a holiday in Germany for some reason.

And not a holiday in Russia for the following reason: they celebrate May 9th. Seems that the armistice was signed after 11 pm in Germany, which was already after midnight Moscow time.

A student of mine had an anecdote; his company is a subsidiary of a German parent company. About 10 years ago, his German boss called; my student was at home, enjoying some fine spring weather and working on his motorcycle. His boss was curious as to why he was home, and not at the office, and when it was explained that May 8 is a state holiday here, he inquired as to which holiday it was.

My student was understandably reluctant to explain, though he did, of course. His German boss took it in stride.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 3:21:48am

re: #152 Dr Lizardo

A student of mine had an anecdote; his company is a subsidiary of a German parent company. About 10 years ago, his German boss called; my student was at home, enjoying some fine spring weather and working on his motorcycle. His boss was curious as to why he was home, and not at the office, and when it was explained that May 8 is a state holiday here, he inquired as to which holiday it was.

My student was understandably reluctant to explain, though he did, of course. His German boss took it in stride.

Germany is not wanting for holidays: they just had May 1st, May 25 is a holiday in most of Germany (Ascension) as is June 5th (Pentecost) and then June 15 ( Corpus Christi, at least in the Catholic parts of Germany)

Always wondered why would they name a holiday after a Town in Texas.

And when is the Feast of St. Lubbock?

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 3:25:11am

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

Germany is not wanting for holidays: they just had May 1st, May 25 is a holiday in most of Germany (Ascension) as is June 5th (Pentecost) and then June 15 ( Corpus Christi, at least in the Catholic parts of Germany)

Always wondered why would they name a holiday after a Town in Texas.

And when is the Feast of St. Lubbock?

Yeah, and they totes forgot the Feast of St. San Antonio!

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Shiplord Kirel  May 8, 2017 • 3:46:33am

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

Germany is not wanting for holidays: they just had May 1st, May 25 is a holiday in most of Germany (Ascension) as is June 5th (Pentecost) and then June 15 ( Corpus Christi, at least in the Catholic parts of Germany)

Always wondered why would they name a holiday after a Town in Texas.

And when is the Feast of St. Lubbock?

I’ll have to look into that. In the meantime, I am thinking about writing a book about my experiences in Lubbock. Working title is Extraordinary Conservative Drunkards and the Madness of Meth.

Maybe not.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 4:20:36am

re: #38 teleskiguy

Friend of mine in Bozeman, MT got this placed on her front porch (and all her neighbors too) today.

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The photo is Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld who passed away in 1990. I cropped the image to remove the anti-Semitic arglebargle and did a search on Tineye.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 4:21:33am

re: #156 The Vicious Babushka

The photo is Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld who passed away in 1990. I cropped the image to remove the anti-Semitic arglebargle and did a search on Tineye.

I assume that this Rabbi was a true Elder of Zion…

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 4:28:17am

re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I assume that this Rabbi was a true Elder of Zion…

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Well, the anti-Semites seem to think he is.

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Romantic Heretic  May 8, 2017 • 4:31:10am

re: #71 teleskiguy

It’s all they’ve got.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 4:32:58am

re: #158 The Vicious Babushka

Well, the anti-Semites seem to think he is.

is that quote from him? A Jewish scholar would be aware of the distinction between “in humanity’s interest” and “in humanities interest”, something that a semi-literate skinhead would not…

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 4:39:04am

re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

is that quote from him? A Jewish scholar would be aware of the distinction between “in humanity’s interest” and “in humanities interest”, something that a semi-literate skinhead would not…

The quote is complete made up anti-Semitic arglebargle. They just grabbed his photo off the Internet.

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 4:45:41am

re: #161 The Vicious Babushka

The quote is complete made up anti-Semitic arglebargle. They just grabbed his photo off the Internet.

Someone probably just googled “Rabbi” or “elder of Zion” and that photo popped up.

Really sick fucks.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 4:46:48am

re: #162 Dr Lizardo

Someone probably just googled “Rabbi” or “elder of Zion” and that photo popped up.

Really sick fucks.

At least it wasn’t my photo.

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 4:47:42am

re: #163 The Vicious Babushka

At least it wasn’t my photo.

LOL!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 4:48:10am

re: #163 The Vicious Babushka

At least it wasn’t my photo.

just Google “castrating Zionist”

/////////(and reference to Woody Allen line about his own mother)

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 4:54:01am

So, I’m hearing on France24 that a battle royale is likely to erupt in the FN; Marine Le Pen wants to rebrand the party and FN is notorious for infighting, so we can likely expect a bloody and bruising battle for the future of that party.

In related news, Germany’s AfD seems to be well into the process of tearing itself apart……at the rate they’re going, they’ll end up like the NPD.

Good riddance.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 4:57:07am

re: #166 Dr Lizardo

So, I’m hearing on France24 that a battle royale is likely to erupt in the FN; Marine Le Pen wants to rebrand the party and FN is notorious for infighting, so we can likely expect a bloody and bruising battle for the future of that party.

In related news, Germany’s AfD seems to be well into the process of tearing itself apart……at the rate they’re going, they’ll end up like the NPD.

Good riddance.

As long as these guys are on the ascendancy, they at least try keep the infighting down to a dull roar.

But the AfD peaked in Germany, and faced with the choice of tempering their tone and drawing more supporters or remaining true to their nationalist, xenophobic ideology, they opted for the latter.

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 5:07:31am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As long as these guys are on the ascendancy, they at least try keep the infighting down to a dull roar.

But the AfD peaked in Germany, and faced with the choice of tempering their tone and drawing more supporters or remaining true to their nationalist, xenophobic ideology, they opted for the latter.

I only read up on it briefly, but I guess there was an AfD party congress quite recently and Frauke Petry stepped down as the party’s candidate for Chancellor because of a power struggle within that party - apparently, the hardcore screwballs carried the day.

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Bubblehead II  May 8, 2017 • 5:19:37am
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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 5:19:42am

Look who’s running scared now

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jeffreyw  May 8, 2017 • 5:31:01am

Flickr

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 5:31:49am

re: #168 Dr Lizardo

I only read up on it briefly, but I guess there was an AfD party congress quite recently and Frauke Petry stepped down as the party’s candidate for Chancellor because of a power struggle within that party - apparently, the hardcore screwballs carried the day.

The Greens once faced a similar watershed, but the “realos” triumphed and they have since been regularly represented in Parliament and even in government.

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 5:36:13am

re: #170 The Vicious Babushka

Look who’s running scared now

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Either the hearing will be a complete dud, or Trump will launch a military strike within minutes of the hearing finishing.

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Joe Bacon  May 8, 2017 • 5:38:26am

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

Germany is not wanting for holidays: they just had May 1st, May 25 is a holiday in most of Germany (Ascension) as is June 5th (Pentecost) and then June 15 ( Corpus Christi, at least in the Catholic parts of Germany)

Always wondered why would they name a holiday after a Town in Texas.

And when is the Feast of St. Lubbock?

We need a US Holiday between President’s Day and Memorial Day. 14 weeks between holidays is too long. Jefferson’s Birthday is April 13th. Need to make that a holiday here!

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Decatur Deb  May 8, 2017 • 5:41:13am

re: #174 Joe Bacon

We need a US Holiday between President’s Day and Memorial Day. 14 weeks between holidays is too long. Jefferson’s Birthday is April 13th. Need to make that a holiday here!

Sounds good. Was it George or Louise who was born on the 13th?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 5:43:01am

re: #174 Joe Bacon

We need a US Holiday between President’s Day and Memorial Day. 14 weeks between holidays is too long. Jefferson’s Birthday is April 13th. Need to make that a holiday here!

Germany has no holidays in the summer months then until October 3rd. The poor people just have to fall back on some of their five to six weeks of vacation…

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 5:44:05am

re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Germany has no holidays in the summer months then until October 3rd. The poor people just have to fall back on some of their five to six weeks of vacation…

Those poor, beleaguered souls.

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Weaselone  May 8, 2017 • 5:45:06am

re: #169 Bubblehead II

Well. Given that Sally Yates was privy to this information for some time prior to meeting with Whitehouse Council and it hadn’t leaked up until then, my guess is that White House Council bares responsibility for it leaking, e.g. they either leaked it directly or the content was shared with or in the presence of someone who leaked it. You know loose lips sink dips and all that.

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 5:46:21am

re: #178 Weaselone

Well. Given that Sally Yates was privy to this information for some time prior to meeting with Whitehouse Council and it hadn’t leaked up until then, my guess is that White House Council bares responsibility for it leaking, e.g. they either leaked it directly or the content was shared with or in the presence of someone who leaked it. You know loose lips sink dips and all that.

Especially when you have an entire administration led by someone who encourages infighting among his subordinates.

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I cannot.  May 8, 2017 • 5:47:20am

re: #173 Timothy Watson

Even money whether he strikes a foreign country, or the Capitol building.

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Bubblehead II  May 8, 2017 • 5:54:12am

re: #178 Weaselone

Well. Given that Sally Yates was privy to this information for some time prior to meeting with Whitehouse Council and it hadn’t leaked up until then, my guess is that White House Council bares responsibility for it leaking, e.g. they either leaked it directly or the content was shared with or in the presence of someone who leaked it. You know loose lips sink dips and all that.

More than likely. With all the infighting of this admin I would’nt doubt it in the least. Pointing finger at Jarred.

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 5:55:09am

re: #169 Bubblehead II

Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Council.

— Donald J. Trump

Maybe the Executive should stay out of the business of the Legislative branch.

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 5:55:52am

re: #182 Sir John Barron

Maybe the Executive should stay out of the business of the Legislative branch.

IOKIYAR

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 6:00:20am

re: #169 Bubblehead II

Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Council.

— Donald J. Trump

Such presidential, very leadership.

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lawhawk  May 8, 2017 • 6:01:31am

Greets and saluts from the Resistance in NYC. Today’s gonna shape up to be one heck of a day for Trump. Sally Yates tesifies, and Trump’s already busy trying to deflect attention and jam the airwaves with his nonsensical ravings.

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He’s already trying to claim that Flynn was a distant rogue who Obama gave security clearance to. Of course, Trump ignores that Obama Admin fired Flynn and Trump hired him almost immediately and put him on the VP short list and in key foreign policy/defense slot - NSA.

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This admin leaks like a sieve. They’re undisciplined, ignorant, corrupt, and compromised. That’s just Trump and his kids. Everyone else is even worse, as Trump’s set up his admin like Survivor meets The Running Man. Everyone is backstabbing and trying to jockey for position/access and will say/do anything to get ahead, even if it means leaking classified info or undermining Trump.

And Trump just blithely continues as if there’s nothing wrong with any of this.

The GOP doesn’t care either - they’ve enabled this compromised regime and just want Trump to sign their burden shifting tax cut plans into law - rolling back decades of progress.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 6:15:41am

re: #185 lawhawk

This admin leaks like a sieve.

Yes, but then they blame it on someone else and whine and complain about what an injustice has been done to them…

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 6:16:29am
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A Mom Anon  May 8, 2017 • 6:23:10am

Good Morning Lizardfolk.

Things here are slowly better. It’s hard though. I miss my grandkids terribly (my daughter on the other hand, well, not so much. She hates me, but cannot give me a good reason for why), everyone is forbiden from talking to me. I miss my kitty cat (Al was 15 and died from kidney failure on April 5th, 5 days after the kids left) a lot too. So it’s been about 6 weeks since my daughter took her kids and left and we’re still sort of punch drunk. The hardest part is seeing other people enjoy their grandkids and I still have trouble with all the “grandma centered” crap in the stores, I feel like setting those displays on fire. I will never see those kids again, at least not before they are adults and decide they want to see me.

I’m still up to my eyeballs in work and chores and home repairs, so I don’t have time to do much more than read what Charles posts and then a quick skim of comments. And so I am off to catch up on chores and then gardening and yard work await. Sending hugs and birthday wishes and congratulations and whatever else applies. Much love to all of you.

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Unshaken Defiance  May 8, 2017 • 6:26:03am

re: #188 A Mom Anon

{{{Hang in there}}} You have a strong soul, very sorry to see you in this pain. You will prevail.

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 6:27:50am

I read a good (very good, actually; five stars) review of Alien: Covenant by Robbie Collin of The Telegraph. And I can say this line really makes me want to see it!

Is it science-fiction or horror? The fundamental difference between those two genres has always lain in their attitude towards the unknown - the former creeps unbidden through the door that swings ajar, the latter bars it with the heaviest furniture to hand - which means it’s both, at least initially. Though the full implications of its final sequence are so purely horrific that I left the cinema feeling (and I mean this in the best possible way) physically sick.

To want more Alien after this – specifically, this ending – would be to want to see something very odd indeed. But Covenant leaves the mythos feeling riper and more vitalised than ever.

Damn. Now I’m curious as hell!

telegraph.co.uk

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Skip Intro  May 8, 2017 • 6:30:23am

Reading through a couple of papers this morning I get the sense that the media is very disappointed LePen lost. They’re optomistic that she’ll be back and are looking fondly towards Austria, where their far right party has a shot.

WTF is going on in this country?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 6:31:12am

re: #191 Skip Intro

Reading through a couple of papers this morning I get the sense that the media is very disappointed LePen lost. They’re optomistic that she’ll be back and are looking fondly towards Austria, where their far right party has a shot.

WTF is going on in this country?

They relish the thought of the EU falling apart, as it stands for everything they oppose.

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 6:33:25am

re: #191 Skip Intro

Reading through a couple of papers this morning I get the sense that the media is very disappointed LePen lost. They’re optomistic that she’ll be back and are looking fondly towards Austria, where their far right party has a shot.

WTF is going on in this country?

Which papers?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 6:35:33am

re: #193 Sir John Barron

Which papers?

This from newsmax:

Le Pen Defeated, But Her Brand of Populism Far From Dead in France

Unbowed Le Pen Looks Ahead to Parliamentary Elections

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Skip Intro  May 8, 2017 • 6:36:41am

re: #173 Timothy Watson

Either the hearing will be a complete dud, or Trump will launch a military strike within minutes of the hearing finishing.

The Republicans will make sure nothing of value is asked or revealed. It’s what they do because Job One is protecting the orange shitgibbon and his Russian handlers.

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Skip Intro  May 8, 2017 • 6:37:27am

re: #193 Sir John Barron

WaPo and SF Chronicle. Not the columnists, the general news sections.

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makeitstop  May 8, 2017 • 6:38:09am

re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This from newsmax:

Well, there’s your problem, right there.

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Skip Intro  May 8, 2017 • 6:38:16am

re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This from newsmax:

Le Pen Defeated, But Her Brand of Populism Far From Dead in France

Unbowed Le Pen Looks Ahead to Parliamentary Elections

That’s not much different from the mainstream papers take.

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 6:38:37am

re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Le Pen Defeated, But Her Brand of Populism Far From Dead in France

Unbowed Le Pen Looks Ahead to Parliamentary Elections

Keep the faith!!!

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FormerDirtDart  May 8, 2017 • 6:41:24am
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Right on cue, and according to plan…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 6:42:58am

re: #198 Skip Intro

That’s not much different from the mainstream papers take.

This is true, and it is an unfortunate fact that 35% seems to be a benchmark throughout much of Europe for nationalist, nativist parties.

Trump was able to parley his initial 35% support into an electoral college win by exploiting a dysfunctional electoral system, a divided party (both the GOP and Democrats) and a fawning, celebrity-obsessed press.

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 6:43:48am

re: #196 Skip Intro

WaPo and SF Chronicle. Not the columnists, the general news sections.

The WashPost’s headline article is about how Macron wins but won’t have much time to celebrate, country divided, etc. They do have a second headline about how the defeat of LePen was larger than expected and a blow to the European far-right. The Fix is predictably all bandwagon-y about how this is an embarrassment for DT. Tomorrow The Fix will be back to saying Dems in Disarray….

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HappyWarrior  May 8, 2017 • 6:43:57am

re: #200 FormerDirtDart

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 6:44:48am

Well this is Fake News

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jeffreyw  May 8, 2017 • 6:45:04am
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Imgur is down for me, I banged on refresh so many times I wore it out. I just remembered I am now a Twitterer and they can host kitteh pics for me! Doh!
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HappyWarrior  May 8, 2017 • 6:45:24am

Why not blame the Congressman who got Flynn appointed to West Point if Donald insists on being disingenuous and what about Mr. And Mrs. Flynn, they knew there was a chance to when he was born, he might do this!

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FormerDirtDart  May 8, 2017 • 6:45:41am

What do older people watch even more than FOX News?
Local news
Control the message

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 6:45:46am

re: #204 The Vicious Babushka

Well this is Fake News

that is such a convincing photoshop job there…

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 6:46:57am

re: #203 HappyWarrior

Takes balls to blame Obama for Flynn who he fucking wanted to be his VP.

DT doesn’t even know who Flynn is. Found him leftover from the Obama Administration. Although Obama fired him. DT doesn’t know who Flynn is. Maybe Flynn was an Obama-mole?

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Barefoot Grin  May 8, 2017 • 6:47:38am

I saw this on Frum’s twitter feed. Pretty funny article by Helen Lewis using France to satirize US media and election:

newstatesman.com

Deep in Macron Country
We must now confront an uncomfortable question. Why did so many French people vote for Emmanuel Macron? Was it a lack of economic anxiety, or a lack of racism?

BY
HELEN LEWIS




As I step off the train in Roquefort, southern France, I sniff the air appreciatively. It’s so good to be out of the Paris bubble, meeting some authentic French people to answer the biggest question in European politics: why did so many people vote for Emmanuel Macron? Was it a lack of economic anxiety, or a lack of racism?

Either way, their concerns deserve to be heard. Some might find them unpalatable, but history has taught us that repressing such views only makes them more virulent. It might not be pleasant to hear them, it might offend our sensibilities, but we have to share our towns and cities with pragmatic centrists, so we must strive to understand them. Too often, during this French presidential cycle, an out-of-touch media elite has failed to understand these people, connected to the political process, broadly trusting of the mainstream media, and what has driven them to vote for a liberal, globalising ex-banker who wants to deregulate the economy…..

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HappyWarrior  May 8, 2017 • 6:48:18am

re: #207 FormerDirtDart

What do older people watch even more than FOX News?
Local news
Control the message

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I’ve never forgotten the terrible way Kerry was treated. I was glad Obama gave him a shot as SOS.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 6:49:05am

re: #209 Sir John Barron

DT doesn’t even know who Flynn is. Found him leftover from the Obama Administration. Although Obama fired him. DT doesn’t know who Flynn is. Maybe Flynn was an Obama-mole?

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At this point, it would be downright unpatriotic not to speculate….

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 6:49:44am

re: #210 Barefoot Grin

I saw this on Frum’s twitter feed. Pretty funny article by Helen Lewis using France to satirize US media and election:

newstatesman.com

Deep in Macron Country
We must now confront an uncomfortable question. Why did so many French people vote for Emmanuel Macron? Was it a lack of economic anxiety, or a lack of racism?

BY
HELEN LEWIS

As I step off the train in Roquefort, southern France, I sniff the air appreciatively. It’s so good to be out of the Paris bubble, meeting some authentic French people to answer the biggest question in European politics: why did so many people vote for Emmanuel Macron? Was it a lack of economic anxiety, or a lack of racism?

Either way, their concerns deserve to be heard. Some might find them unpalatable, but history has taught us that repressing such views only makes them more virulent. It might not be pleasant to hear them, it might offend our sensibilities, but we have to share our towns and cities with pragmatic centrists, so we must strive to understand them. Too often, during this French presidential cycle, an out-of-touch media elite has failed to understand these people, connected to the political process, broadly trusting of the mainstream media, and what has driven them to vote for a liberal, globalising ex-banker who wants to deregulate the economy…..

We need to hear from the Le Pen voters. Why is the France media so biased against real French people?

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 6:50:15am

re: #211 HappyWarrior

I’ve never forgotten the terrible way Kerry was treated. I was glad Obama gave him a shot as SOS.

Sinclair can go suck a big bag of

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HappyWarrior  May 8, 2017 • 6:53:11am

re: #214 Sir John Barron

Sinclair can go suck a big bag of

I got quite involved in the Kerry campaign. What the American people never really learned was that the men that actually served with Kerry on the Swift Boat thought very highly of him. Now I think the Kerry campaign was a little naive thinking that the GOP wouldn’t go after a decorated vet’s service but I didn’t foresee the crap like the Purple Heart bandaids.

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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 6:54:39am

re: #207 FormerDirtDart

What do older people watch even more than FOX News?
Local news
Control the message

I’m just curious if wealthy liberals will ever use their money to respond to this kind of thing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 6:55:36am

re: #215 HappyWarrior

I got quite involved in the Kerry campaign. What the American people never really learned was that the men that actually served with Kerry on the Swift Boat thought very highly of him. Now I think the Kerry campaign was a little naive thinking that the GOP wouldn’t go after a decorated vet’s service but I didn’t foresee the crap like the Purple Heart bandaids.

Karl Rove was an evil fucking genius, and that was his hour of glory…that and defusing the ticking time bomb of Dubya’s Air National Guard service records with a clever disinformation campaign.

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lawhawk  May 8, 2017 • 6:56:51am

re: #209 Sir John Barron

When Trump wanted to know whether a strong or weak US dollar helped the US, Trump called not on his economics advisers like Mnuchin, but Flynn - his NSA.

businessinsider.com

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HappyWarrior  May 8, 2017 • 6:57:48am

re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Karl Rove was an evil fucking genius, and that was his hour of glory…that and defusing the ticking time bomb of Dubya’s Air National Guard service records with a clever disinformation campaign.

I’m glad Rove is pretty much done. Scumbag.

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lawhawk  May 8, 2017 • 6:59:06am
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HappyWarrior  May 8, 2017 • 7:00:05am

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Patricia Kayden  May 8, 2017 • 7:02:42am

re: #90 Anymouse

To be fair, Nancy Pelosi recently said the same thing.

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HappyWarrior  May 8, 2017 • 7:05:44am

re: #222 Patricia Kayden

To be fair, Nancy Pelosi recently said the same thing.

I’m not opposed to welcoming them but they need to understand that we need to support Planned Parenthood and we don’t need government sanctioned guilt trips.

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Barefoot Grin  May 8, 2017 • 7:10:03am

politico.com

Concerning Kushner coordinating with Sinclair for “straighter” coverage of Trump than MSM.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 7:13:37am

re: #223 HappyWarrior

I’m not opposed to welcoming them but they need to understand that we need to support Planned Parenthood and we don’t need government sanctioned guilt trips.

I am “pro-life” in that I support every possible alternative, including contraception and sex education, and want to see abortion considered only as a last resort. But I am not “pro-life” in the sense of banning or criminalizing women who get abortions or doctors/clinics who provide them.

But in the GOP, “pro-life” often also means anti-contraception, anti-sex education, and actively pursuing every means to ban or outlaw access to abortions.

That is a distinction the Democrats must make before welcoming any “pro lifers” into the fold.

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FormerDirtDart  May 8, 2017 • 7:14:00am
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“… More than a quarter of workers age 55 or older say they have less than $10,000 in savings and investments, according to the latest retirement confidence survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Perhaps because of slim nest eggs, nearly a third of workers in that age group say they expect to work until at least 70, if they retire at all. …”

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HappyWarrior  May 8, 2017 • 7:14:13am

re: #225 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am “pro-life” in that I support every possible alternative, including contraception and sex education, and want to see abortion considered only as a last resort. But I am not “pro-life” in the sense of banning or criminalizing women who get abortions or doctors/clinics who provide them.

But in the GOP, “pro-life” often also means anti-contraception, anti-sex education, and actively pursuing every means to ban or outlaw access to abortions.

That is a distinction the Democrats must make before welcoming any “pro lifers” into the fold.

Nailed it.

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wheat-dogg  May 8, 2017 • 7:14:24am

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

that is such a convincing photoshop job there…

Probably read the same How to Photoshop book as some Chinese editors.

More at petapixel.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 7:16:16am

re: #226 FormerDirtDart

“… More than a quarter of workers age 55 or older say they have less than $10,000 in savings and investments, according to the latest retirement confidence survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Perhaps because of slim nest eggs, nearly a third of workers in that age group say they expect to work until at least 70, if they retire at all. …”

That’s me in a nutshell.

I am considering the “Magnum Lotto” retirement plan: buy a lottery ticket every week until I hit retirement age, if I have not won by then, go buy a Magnum .44 and rob a bank.

Heck, even if I get caught, I am at least guaranteed a place to live, meals and medical care for the rest of my days…

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 7:18:02am
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act, which would cut Medicaid considerably and allow insurance companies to charge people with preexisting conditions significantly more for coverage. As a mom of four kids — two with Type 1 diabetes, an unpreventable, incurable and expensive disease — I am terrified that this bill will put my children’s lives at risk if it becomes law.

I will never forget that day in 2012 when our doctor told me and my husband our 2-year-old son had diabetes. At first, we were frightened for his health and future. We knew that if the disease wasn’t managed correctly with the right diet, dosage of insulin and vigilant care, he could not only get very sick, not only potentially lose his sight or a limb — but he could die. We were devastated all over again when our almost-3-year-old daughter also was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes earlier this year. The medications, the insulin pumps and the glucose monitors our son and daughter rely on are necessities. Having them is literally a matter of life and death.

That is why the AHCA worries us so much. I am self-employed, and my husband does not receive insurance through his employer. Our family relies on an HMO plan we purchased on the D.C. “Obamacare” exchange. It costs us about $18,000 a year to insure our family. Even with this coverage, we still spend about another thousand more on health care. The diabetes supplies alone for our two kids cost about $12,000 a year — and, again, we can’t simply look for cheaper options or do without some supplies without seriously jeopardizing their health. When our insurance refused to cover the long-acting insulin my little girl used right after she was diagnosed, we were forced to borrow some from our friends who had extra so we could stabilize her for a month. Then, we had to quickly put her on an insulin pump, which our insurance thankfully did cover, and switch her to the short-acting insulin allowed by our plan.

washingtonpost.com

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scottslemmons  May 8, 2017 • 7:18:48am

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

that is such a convincing photoshop job there…

Apparently part of a lot of neo-Nazis creating fake anti-fascist accounts. >:(

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 7:20:44am

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

that is such a convincing photoshop job there…

You don’t approve of his mad Microsoft Paint skillz?

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FormerDirtDart  May 8, 2017 • 7:30:38am

re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That’s me in a nutshell.

I am considering the “Magnum Lotto” retirement plan: buy a lottery ticket every week until I hit retirement age, if I have not won by then, go buy a Magnum .44 and rob a bank.

Heck, even if I get caught, I am at least guaranteed a place to live, meals and medical care for the rest of my days…

I used to tell everyone I was relying on the “Publishers Clearing House” retirement plan.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 8, 2017 • 7:30:52am

re: #16 majii

I did, thanks. I had to retreat for a few days to grieve in private. I’m getting better as the days pass, but I don’t think I’ll ever have another four-legged baby quite like my Winston. We were a perfect fit. I took my baby nearly everywhere I went. He always rode shotgun.

So glad to hear that you are starting to feel a bit better. You have been on my mind these last few days.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 7:31:59am

The Daily Beast has become increasingly nutty recently.

Now they’re upset that Liberals won’t tolerate bigotry, and imagine that not tolerating bigots is something new.

thedailybeast.com

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 7:32:42am

I don’t think I can listen to one of her songs, but this is pretty nice:

Nicki Minaj is putting some fans on scholarship.

After a fan asked the hip-hop star if she would pay his college tuition on Twitter on Saturday night, Minaj agreed to pay fans’ school costs — on the condition that they show her perfect marks. She wrote , “Show me straight A’s that I can verify w/ur school and I’ll pay it.”

A few dozen fans took Minaj up on the offer, posting screenshots of their grades. Minaj replied individually to some throughout the night and agreed to pay other things like book costs and student loans.

Minaj wrapped up the contest after a few hours, but she promised to do it again in a month or two.

richmond.com

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 7:35:00am

re: #235 Jeff!

The Daily Beast has become increasingly nutty recently.

Now they’re upset that Liberals won’t tolerate bigotry, and imagine that not tolerating bigots is something new.

thedailybeast.com

That’s what happens when they hire someone who wrote for Townhall and The Daily Caller.

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DanielKi  May 8, 2017 • 7:35:35am

Oldie from the previous thread:
re: #407 John Hughes

Registration is not automatic. It’s easier than it used to be, people get automatically registered at majority, but you still have to re-register if you move from one commune to another. You also have to register before the end of the year before the elections, no last-minute registration is possible.

This is somewhat misleading. In Germany, you are required by law to register at your place of residence — within a month if I remember correctly.

There is no separate voter registration. About one month before any kind of vote (election or referendum), you automatically receive a notification letter with the details of your polling place. You can bring that letter with you to the polling place to speed things up, but you can vote without it if you don’t have it with you. All you need is your ID, which is not a problem as it is mandatory to have one.

Also, I think if you are moving around election time and haven’t registered in your new place yet, you’d simply vote in your old place. Or by mail, which does however require an explicit request for the form to vote by mail.

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Barefoot Grin  May 8, 2017 • 7:37:51am

So glad for Angela Rye. I just watched her discuss ACA and AHCA with Kayleigh McEnany on CNN. She handled McEnany’s appeal to talking points about “Obamacare in a death spiral” by repeatedly and calmly pointing out what we’ve been saying: it never had to be this way; if there is a crisis it has been caused by republicans who have done everything in their power to make sure that insurance companies won’t participate. Yep, we need single-payer.

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 7:42:23am

re: #237 Timothy Watson

That’s what happens when they hire someone who wrote for Townhall and The Daily Caller.

Charles Murray, Milo, Ann Coulter, Bret Stephens…They’ve all felt the sting of the ‘open-minded’ liberal lash. And they won’t be the last.

So, Matt Lewis is saying that Milo is a victim here, someone who’s ideas act needs to be given a forum everywhere? This week is getting off to a very derpy start.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 7:42:40am

re: #238 DanielKi

There is no separate voter registration. About one month before any kind of vote (election or referendum), you automatically receive a notification letter with the details of your polling place. You can bring that letter with you to the polling place to speed things up, but you can vote without it if you don’t have it with you. All you need is your ID, which is not a problem as it is mandatory to have one.

I have brought this up a number of times, but a mandatory national ID (one for citizens one for legal resident aliens) and a mandatory registered address would put an end to almost all discussion of voter fraud, welfare or social services fraud, illegal residence, illegal employment, etc.

In Germany, you need to present your ID and registration before opening a bank account, enrolling children in school, registering a car, obtaining a driver’s license, signing a lease or employment contract, opening a mobile phone or land-line account, etc.

There would be no hassle about police asking for proof of residence, everyone who was legally here would have it in their hands or easily available.

And it would be cheaper and more effective than a damn Wall.

Any takers out there?

Hello?

Hello?

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lawhawk  May 8, 2017 • 7:44:04am
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Important note: This is a girl telling off an impersonator. There’s plenty of people online thinking that this was a girl telling off Trump. That’s just not the case.

Trump doesn’t interact with children, let alone black children.
Trump doesn’t interact with pets either. And when he interacts with animals, it doesn’t go well either.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 7:47:26am

re: #242 lawhawk

Important note: This is a girl telling off an impersonator. There’s plenty of people online thinking that this was a girl telling off Trump. That’s just not the case.

Trump doesn’t interact with children, let alone black children.
Trump doesn’t interact with pets either. And when he interacts with animals, it doesn’t go well either.

Exactly. He has enough PR savvy never to expose himself like that.

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wheat-dogg  May 8, 2017 • 7:51:08am

Photography nerds, look upon this photo and weep.

petapixel.com

I can’t imagine how he manages to cart all that equipment, keep it from being stolen or damaged on site, and still make his deadlines.

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 7:51:54am
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wheat-dogg  May 8, 2017 • 7:52:31am

re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Exactly. He has enough PR savvy never to expose himself like that.

Cats would probably spit and hiss at him on sight. Dogs would growl or whimper. Snakes … well, they’d probably see one of their kind and not be bothered.

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Bubblehead II  May 8, 2017 • 7:52:59am

Humor break

How one Musician got revenge on United Airlines.

United Breaks Guitars

United Breaks Guitars Song 2

United Breaks Guitars Song 3 - “United We Stand” on the Right Side of Right

CNN Jeanne Moos reports.

“Guitar Guy” sings about United Airlines damaging Taylor guitar

Something tells me Charles can probably relate.

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wheat-dogg  May 8, 2017 • 7:54:57am

re: #244 wheat-dogg

Photography nerds, look upon this photo and weep.

petapixel.com

I can’t imagine how he manages to cart all that equipment, keep it from being stolen or damaged on site, and still make his deadlines.

Oh, I read the comments and got the answer. He has a team of helpers..

He does have a team of assistants. In the linked Facebook post he wrote, “Huge thanks to my team of assistants from the University of Nebraska, Ole Miss and Western Kentucky—and my old friend Mike Weaver.” That said, I presume most of the bodies are strategically placed around the track and connected to remotes.

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Stanley Sea  May 8, 2017 • 7:55:25am

Good morning!

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FormerDirtDart  May 8, 2017 • 7:57:06am

Expect a renewed rage outbreak from the right in the next day or so, as they become aware the news

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Stanley Sea  May 8, 2017 • 7:57:37am

re: #246 wheat-dogg

Cats would probably spit and hiss at him on sight. Dogs would growl or whimper. Snakes … well, they’d probably see one of their kind and not be bothered.

Scaredy cat! Kitten runs away when she sees Donald Trump

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 7:59:28am

This “lady’s” day is about to go to shit very soon….

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@yashar
WATCH: Muslim woman harassed while standing in line at a #TraderJoes in Reston, Virginia. If you know the harasser, please DM me.

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FormerDirtDart  May 8, 2017 • 8:00:21am

[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]

Damn it

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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 8:00:41am

re: #252 Dr. Matt

This “lady’s” day is about to go to shit very soon….

There’s only so much we can do about Trump as long as Republicans control Congress, but we can make sure this is never allowed to become normal.

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 8:02:13am

re: #250 FormerDirtDart

Expect a renewed rage outbreak from the right in the next day or so, as they become aware the news

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Just wait until the USS Obama is commissioned somewhere in the next decade or so. The seething and fauxrage will be amusing and deafening.

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 8:02:14am

re: #250 FormerDirtDart

Expect a renewed rage outbreak from the right in the next day or so, as they become aware the news

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Who’s scheduled to be at the commissioning ceremony I wonder…

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:03:58am

re: #188 A Mom Anon

Good Morning Lizardfolk.

Things here are slowly better. It’s hard though. I miss my grandkids terribly (my daughter on the other hand, well, not so much. She hates me, but cannot give me a good reason for why), everyone is forbiden from talking to me. I miss my kitty cat (Al was 15 and died from kidney failure on April 5th, 5 days after the kids left) a lot too. So it’s been about 6 weeks since my daughter took her kids and left and we’re still sort of punch drunk. The hardest part is seeing other people enjoy their grandkids and I still have trouble with all the “grandma centered” crap in the stores, I feel like setting those displays on fire. I will never see those kids again, at least not before they are adults and decide they want to see me.

I’m still up to my eyeballs in work and chores and home repairs, so I don’t have time to do much more than read what Charles posts and then a quick skim of comments. And so I am off to catch up on chores and then gardening and yard work await. Sending hugs and birthday wishes and congratulations and whatever else applies. Much love to all of you.

Thanks for the update Mom. Saying hello from Ohio!

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:05:00am

re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This from newsmax:

Le Pen Defeated, But Her Brand of Populism Far From Dead in France

Unbowed Le Pen Looks Ahead to Parliamentary Elections

Newsmax??? There is your problem. /

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 8:05:00am

Hence the BLOTUS tweet rage this morning…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 8:05:33am

re: #255 Dr. Matt

Just wait until the USS Obama is commissioned somewhere in the next decade or so. The seething and fauxrage will be amusing and deafening.

I wish I could have been aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when it arrived to provide tsunami assistance and the captain presented his credentials:

“We’re from the US government and we’re here to help you!”

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:05:45am

re: #258 ObserverArt

Newsmax??? There is your problem. /

Well I see I am late to the party on that line!

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wheat-dogg  May 8, 2017 • 8:06:47am

re: #252 Dr. Matt

This “lady’s” day is about to go to shit very soon….

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“What set you off? Obama?”

No, lady, it was your implying my hijab means I don’t belong here, because I’m not American.

Plus, you need a giant shopping cart for one bag of avocados?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 8:07:03am

re: #258 ObserverArt

Newsmax??? There is your problem. /

I read newsmax for the same reason I used to read Pravda: to find out the party line on any particular issue.

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 8:07:16am

Giant Network Of Tunnels Fills Chicago’s Underground, History Books

In total, 60 miles of tunnels were built starting in 1899 by the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Company, which later became the Chicago Tunnel Company. The tunnel company created “tunnel air,” which was pumped into city buildings like air conditioning, according to atlasobscura.com. The website noted the clay soil removed by hand that made the tunnels was used to build up “low lying areas on the waterfront.”

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 8:09:28am

re: #252 Dr. Matt

This “lady’s” day is about to go to shit very soon….

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BRUHA!

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 8:11:18am

re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have brought this up a number of times, but a mandatory national ID (one for citizens one for legal resident aliens) and a mandatory registered address would put an end to almost all discussion of voter fraud, welfare or social services fraud, illegal residence, illegal employment, etc.

In Germany, you need to present your ID and registration before opening a bank account, enrolling children in school, registering a car, obtaining a driver’s license, signing a lease or employment contract, opening a mobile phone or land-line account, etc.

There would be no hassle about police asking for proof of residence, everyone who was legally here would have it in their hands or easily available.

And it would be cheaper and more effective than a damn Wall.

Any takers out there?

Hello?

Hello?

A national ID would make life too difficult for the Grifters …

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FormerDirtDart  May 8, 2017 • 8:11:31am

re: #253 FormerDirtDart

[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]

Damn it

Tweet got deleted

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 8:12:16am

re: #267 FormerDirtDart

Tweet got deleted

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That made me laugh out loud.

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 8:13:19am

re: #225 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am “pro-life” in that I support every possible alternative, including contraception and sex education, and want to see abortion considered only as a last resort. But I am not “pro-life” in the sense of banning or criminalizing women who get abortions or doctors/clinics who provide them.

But in the GOP, “pro-life” often also means anti-contraception, anti-sex education, and actively pursuing every means to ban or outlaw access to abortions.

That is a distinction the Democrats must make before welcoming any “pro lifers” into the fold.

Pro-Life to the GOP Whackos is forced birth and torture until death for the terminally ill.

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:14:56am

re: #203 HappyWarrior

Takes balls to blame Obama for Flynn who he fucking wanted to be his VP.

I swear this kind of thing happens all the time with Trumps clown show…even with the Republicans like Ryan.

They really do think everyone watches Fox and/or they can’t remember a damn thing after one news cycle.

We are supposed to forget Trump wanted Flynn as his VP.

Just like we are supposed to forget Paul Ryan’s comments about the ACA legislation process and how it was not done on the up and up while they go about doing everything they criticized the Dems for back in 2009.

I guess we are also to forget all of Trump’s fucking shit up so he gets elected again in 2020.

Come on America…let’s show ‘em we haven’t forgotten anything and start booting Republicans out of office everywhere!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 8:15:14am

re: #269 Birth Control Works

Pro-Life to the GOP Whackos is forced birth even in cases of rape and incest, and torture until death for the terminally ill.

FTFY

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 8:16:13am

re: #188 A Mom Anon

{Mom}

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 8:16:20am

re: #271 ObserverArt

I swear this kind of thing happens all the time with Trumps clown show…even with the Republicans like Ryan.

They really do think everyone watches Fox and/or they can’t remember a damn thing after one news cycle.

If that does not work then FAKE NEWS!!!!

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:16:56am

re: #204 The Vicious Babushka

Well this is Fake News

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Original photo:

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Crappy Photoshop fail. They need a pro to do it right. At least they could have tried to add a bit of perspective to the type on the hood.

Damn, you’d think they created the CBS Bush documents or something.

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:21:24am

re: #220 lawhawk

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NO…not more Boris Epshteyn. I thought we were rid of that fool.

Well, there goes more media down the drain.

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makeitstop  May 8, 2017 • 8:22:07am

So, is Carter Page nuts or what?

Page alleged that the Obama administration committed two “preliminary felonies” by leaking information about his ties to Russian officials. He charged that the Obama administration “unlawfully disclosed” his identity in a court filing documenting his 2013 meeting with a Russian spy, where he handed over documents related to the energy business. He also accused the Obama administration of illegally leaking classified information stemming from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant against him after he left the Trump campaign last summer.

Page called these alleged leaks “abuse” and said they contributed to his feeling that he should be able to come before the Senate and testify in open session, rather than do the “forced labor” of turning over all of the requested documents.

Burr and Warner have said they are open to issuing subpoenas if the Trump campaign associates do not comply.

In the letter, Page confirmed he has a legal team working with him to respond to the investigation. He’s already been remarkably eager to speak to the press for someone subject to both FBI and congressional investigation.

I really can’t figure this dude out.

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:23:48am

re: #222 Patricia Kayden

To be fair, Nancy Pelosi recently said the same thing.

I didn’t know the pro-life people were not asked to be a part of the Dem party. I think they fall under Pro-choice. They made their choice…fine. Just don’t make choices for others.

See how easy that is.

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 8:24:04am

re: #272 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

FTFY

Actually, they don’t think consent is necessary —since in their minds a husband can’t rape is wife.

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 8:24:37am

re: #277 makeitstop

So, is Carter Page nuts or what?

I really can’t figure this dude out.

What the fucking fuck is a “preliminary felon[y]”?

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Teukka  May 8, 2017 • 8:24:37am

re: #251 Stanley Sea

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That be an intelligent Feline Overlord.

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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 8:24:42am

re: #277 makeitstop

So, is Carter Page nuts or what?

I really can’t figure this dude out.

If you were as crooked as he is, and knew the shit was about to rain down on you, you’d be trying to do everything possible to make it about other people.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 8:25:29am

re: #277 makeitstop

So, is Carter Page nuts or what?

I really can’t figure this dude out.

I think the trick here is to blow up enough smoke that most people cannot figure out who did what to whom and why what they did was illegal in the first place. Then, even if (hopefully when) they are convicted, they can spin it as political retribution/witch hunt.

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:25:50am

re: #226 FormerDirtDart

“… More than a quarter of workers age 55 or older say they have less than $10,000 in savings and investments, according to the latest retirement confidence survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Perhaps because of slim nest eggs, nearly a third of workers in that age group say they expect to work until at least 70, if they retire at all. …”

In other words…elders got screwed out of what they saw as part of the American Dream.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 8:26:27am

re: #279 Birth Control Works

Actually, they don’t think consent is necessary —since in their minds a husband can’t rape is wife.

And when a woman shows up to a frat party in a short skirt, that is considered “consent”.

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 8:26:33am

re: #280 Timothy Watson

What the fucking fuck is a “preliminary felon[y]”?

Wait, I think I found Page’s lawyer:

that’s why you are the judge and I’m the law-talking guy

(RIP Phil Hartman)

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 8:26:42am

re: #277 makeitstop

So, is Carter Page nuts or what?

I really can’t figure this dude out.

He’s a typical professional victim wingnut. In other words, yes, he is nuts.

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gocart mozart  May 8, 2017 • 8:27:14am
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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 8:28:11am
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Barefoot Grin  May 8, 2017 • 8:28:32am

re: #288 gocart mozart

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I’d go with “Diet Coke, cheeseburger, Fox News.”

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I cannot.  May 8, 2017 • 8:29:12am

re: #277 makeitstop

He is out there where the buses don’t run.

He’s nuttier than Jimmy Carter’s peanut farm.

Either that, or he’s the only smart motherfucker in the whole shitshow, and he’s just pretending to be the craziest one in the batch.

And BTW…WTF IS A “PRELIMINARY FELONY”?! “FORCED LABOR” OF COMPLYING WITH A SUBPOENA?!

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Stanley Sea  May 8, 2017 • 8:29:45am

re: #290 Barefoot Grin

I’d go with “Diet Coke, cheeseburger, Fox News.”

Someone stated that he was probably watching Obama’s Profiles in Courage speech.

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 8:30:22am

re: #288 gocart mozart

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Stanley Sea  May 8, 2017 • 8:31:03am

re: #277 makeitstop

So, is Carter Page nuts or what?

I really can’t figure this dude out.

Doesn’t appear he has quality legal representation, if any at all.

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:31:06am

re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have brought this up a number of times, but a mandatory national ID (one for citizens one for legal resident aliens) and a mandatory registered address would put an end to almost all discussion of voter fraud, welfare or social services fraud, illegal residence, illegal employment, etc.

In Germany, you need to present your ID and registration before opening a bank account, enrolling children in school, registering a car, obtaining a driver’s license, signing a lease or employment contract, opening a mobile phone or land-line account, etc.

There would be no hassle about police asking for proof of residence, everyone who was legally here would have it in their hands or easily available.

And it would be cheaper and more effective than a damn Wall.

Any takers out there?

Hello?

Hello?

One comment: Stop making sense.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 8:31:21am

re: #289 Birth Control Works

BBC News - Facebook publishes fake news ads in UK papers

I do not rely on FB as a source of news, unless it is news about where my friends are hanging out, what they had for dinner or what somebody’s kids/pets did…

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 8:31:21am

re: #174 Joe Bacon

We need a US Holiday between President’s Day and Memorial Day. 14 weeks between holidays is too long. Jefferson’s Birthday is April 13th. Need to make that a holiday here!

Arbor Day is a state holiday in Nebraska. All government offices, many banks, and some businesses are closed.

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Barefoot Grin  May 8, 2017 • 8:31:27am

re: #292 Stanley Sea

Someone stated that he was probably watching Obama’s Profiles in Courage speech.

As Charlie Pierce observed, BHO could “pound Trump into sand” just by giving one speech a week on governing.

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 8:31:32am

re: #290 Barefoot Grin

I’d go with “Diet Coke, cheeseburger, Fox News.”

Diet? Hell no —> President Trump Presses a Button in the Oval Office to Get a Coke

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 8:33:45am

re: #294 Stanley Sea

Doesn’t appear he has quality legal representation, if any at all.

Well, the Obama Administration is still pretty busy I see. According to Wilileaks they interfered on behalf of Macron in the French election and now they’re conducting show trials here?

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 8:34:32am

Did BLOTUS delete both tweets (the snowflake has blocked me):

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Flying Squirrel Girl  May 8, 2017 • 8:34:32am

re: #270 FormerDirtDart

Really, the only consideration by the Trump administration seems to be, “Was Obama for it? Then I’m against it!” and vice versa.

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Barefoot Grin  May 8, 2017 • 8:34:53am

re: #297 Anymouse

Arbor Day is a state holiday in Nebraska. All government offices, many banks, and some businesses are closed.

We had a family reunion at Lied Lodge a few years ago. Nebraska City was a pleasant place, as I recall.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 8:35:11am

re: #300 Sir John Barron

Well, the Obama Administration is still pretty busy I see. According to Wilileaks they interfered on behalf of Macron in the French election and now they’re conducting show trials here?

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They are busy conducting a deep-state, Soros-funded infiltration of the Trump administration.

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caseyjr  May 8, 2017 • 8:36:01am

re: #246 wheat-dogg

Eagle “Uncle Sam” fixin’ to go medieval on Teh Donald
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Eventual Carrion  May 8, 2017 • 8:36:24am

re: #288 gocart mozart

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:36:34am

re: #249 Stanley Sea

Good morning!

The Dodo ✔ @dodo
This little boy JUST found out his mom adopted their foster dog.
1:57 AM - 7 May 2017
2,946 2,946 Retweets 7,705 7,705 likes

Yeah…that got me. Sniff.

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 8:37:18am

HA!

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 8:38:34am

re: #305 caseyjr

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 8:38:42am

What the Last Nuremberg Prosecutor Alive Wants the World to Know

Benjamin Ferencz: They were 3,000 SS officers trained for the purpose, and directed to kill without pity or remorse, every single Jewish man, woman, and child they could lay their hands on.

Shameless Pages Post

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makeitstop  May 8, 2017 • 8:39:38am

re: #288 gocart mozart

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That photo screams ‘barely in control.’

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 8:39:55am

re: #309 The Vicious Babushka

He was afraid the eagle would:
1) Mess his hair up
2) Shit on him

3) grab his gonads

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 8:41:07am

re: #275 ObserverArt

Crappy Photoshop fail. They need a pro to do it right. At least they could have tried to add a bit of perspective to the type on the hood.

Damn, you’d think they created the CBS Bush documents or something.

That didn’t stop a lot of idiots from insisting it’s real in the responses.

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 8:41:16am

re: #309 The Vicious Babushka

He was afraid the eagle would:
1) Mess his hair up
2) Shit on him

3) Shit on his combover.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 8:44:06am

re: #264 Birth Control Works

Giant Network Of Tunnels Fills Chicago’s Underground, History Books

It made quite a mess when work in the river breached those tunnels.
chicagotribune.com

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 8:46:33am

re: #315 Jeff!

It made quite a mess when work in the river breached those tunnels.
chicagotribune.com

I remember.

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FormerDirtDart  May 8, 2017 • 8:47:08am

re: #174 Joe Bacon

We need a US Holiday between President’s Day and Memorial Day. 14 weeks between holidays is too long. Jefferson’s Birthday is April 13th. Need to make that a holiday here!

You can always join me in celebrating Odysseus’ birthday on 14 April…

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 8:47:48am

re: #306 Eventual Carrion

He is standing like my grandpa used to stand after he had downed a few glasses of our strong homemade wine dad would make.

They insist he doesn’t drink, so it’s neurological issues. His brain has seen better days.

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:48:06am

re: #300 Sir John Barron

Well, the Obama Administration is still pretty busy I see. According to Wilileaks they interfered on behalf of Macron in the French election and now they’re conducting show trials here?

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Thanks Obama.

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Eventual Carrion  May 8, 2017 • 8:48:22am

re: #301 Dr. Matt

Did BLOTUS delete both tweets (the snowflake has blocked me):

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Yeah, how the fuck is he able to get away with that kind of shit. 33,000 deleted tweets, PRISON FOR TRUMP! LOCK HIM UP!

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 8:49:40am

What a shitshow

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 8:49:55am

re: #309 The Vicious Babushka

He was afraid the eagle would:
1) Mess his hair up
2) Shit on him

When all it wanted to do was put a couple talons into his eyes.

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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 8:50:48am

re: #322 The Vicious Babushka

What a shitshow

What’s in the picture?

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Stanley Sea  May 8, 2017 • 8:50:52am

re: #322 The Vicious Babushka

What a shitshow

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They projected the yam’s ego problem onto Obama.

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 8:51:35am

re: #322 The Vicious Babushka

What a shitshow

Flynn’s a great guy who did nothing wrong who was done in by the media and the deep state and also DT never hired him doesn’t know who Flynn is, etc.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 8:52:06am

re: #324 Belafon

What’s in the picture?

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 8:53:08am

I’m tired of the “he said, she said” teenage gossip version of news,

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makeitstop  May 8, 2017 • 8:55:35am

Jim Wright provides perspective on Flynn…

Facebook Post

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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 8:55:40am

re: #327 The Vicious Babushka

Alternate universe where Flynn was stripped of his clearance as well: “If Flynn was so bad, why didn’t they prosecute him.”

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mmmirele  May 8, 2017 • 8:57:43am

re: #233 FormerDirtDart

I used to tell everyone I was relying on the “Publishers Clearing House” retirement plan.

That’s how my current “Greedumb Caucus” representative got the money to run for Congress. (Andy Biggs) No lie.

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 8:59:45am

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

DOGGERLAND -n. proper

Things aren’t always what they seem on the surface. Looking at the area between mainland Europe and the eastern coast of Great Britain, you probably wouldn’t guess it had been anything other than a great expanse of ocean water. But roughly 12,000 years ago, as the last major ice age was reaching its end, the area was very different. Instead of the North Sea, the area was a series of gently sloping hills, marshland, heavily wooded valleys, and swampy lagoons: Doggerland.

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 9:02:57am

Ain’t no stopping legalization now!!! Two things consumers demand —fountain of youth and sex.

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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 9:03:32am

re: #332 Birth Control Works

12,000 years ago, not too long before recording history went from story telling to writing. And what does the end of an ice age look like that wipes out that much land? A great flood, the kind Gods bring to almost wipe out humanity.

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 9:04:56am

re: #334 Belafon

12,000 years ago, not too long before recording history went from story telling to writing. And what does the end of an ice age look like that wipes out that much land? A great flood, the kind Gods bring to almost wipe out humanity.

nah, Bible says the rainbow is a visual contract from God that he wouldn’t destroy everyone with water —again. ;0

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 9:07:19am

re: #333 Birth Control Works

Ain’t no stopping legalization now!!! Two things consumers demand —fountain of youth and sex.

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I’m all for ending the insane war on pot, but they used very low doses in this study, far below a recreational or even a typical medicinal dose.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 9:07:32am

re: #335 Birth Control Works

nah, Bible says the rainbow is a visual contract from God that he wouldn’t destroy everyone with water —again. ;0

only if we were not sinful and practiced Free Market economics

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 9:07:55am

re: #333 Birth Control Works

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 9:08:07am
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….likely all of the above…..

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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 9:08:44am

re: #336 Jeff!

I’m all for ending the insane war on pot, but they used very low doses in this study, far below a recreational or even a typical medicinal dose.

And? Why wouldn’t that be a selling point?

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 9:09:50am

re: #336 Jeff!

I’m all for ending the insane war on pot, but they used very low doses in this study, far below a recreational or even a typical medicinal dose.

Moar would be moar better!

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 9:09:52am

re: #340 Belafon

And? Why wouldn’t that be a selling point?

It’s a selling point for this treatment, not legalization, which has many legitimate selling points of its own.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 9:10:09am

re: #336 Jeff!

I’m all for ending the insane war on pot, but they used very low doses in this study, far below a recreational or even a typical medicinal dose.

entry level. slippery slope. can’t have that with the Devil’s own weed

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sagehen  May 8, 2017 • 9:11:00am

re: #335 Birth Control Works

nah, Bible says the rainbow is a visual contract from God that he wouldn’t destroy everyone with water —again. ;0

Says *he* wouldn’t do it again.

Never said he wouldn’t let us do it to ourselves.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 9:11:11am

re: #341 ObserverArt

Moar would be moar better!

I wish.

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 9:11:24am

re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

entry level. slippery slope. can’t have that with the Devil’s own weed

All of God’s creations!

Plus, it is pure organic.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 9:12:35am

re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

entry level. slippery slope. can’t have that with the Devil’s own weed

Wouldn’t the devils weed be addictive, perhaps containing nicotine to take control of people’s minds via physical addiction?

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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 9:13:40am

re: #344 sagehen

Says *he* wouldn’t do it again.

Never said he wouldn’t let us do it to ourselves.

I don’t think any of the stories in the Bible have God saving people from themselves.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 9:14:30am

re: #348 Belafon

I don’t think any of the stories in the Bible have God saving people from themselves.

Bible-god is not the type to help people.

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 9:15:33am

re: #326 Sir John Barron

Flynn’s a great guy who did nothing wrong who was done in by the media and the deep state and also DT never hired him doesn’t know who Flynn is, etc.

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They are lying about Obama again. Security clearances are predicated on need-to-know basis of classified information.

When a person transfers (or in Gen. Flynn’s case, is fired), the security clearance is revoked for administrative reasons (not punitive), or for criminal reasons (violations of security regulations or laws).

The second Flynn was fired, he would have been required to sign at least a paper acknowledging his clearance was revoked for administrative reasons. (Every time I changed military commands, and when I left the Navy, I was required to do the same.)

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 9:16:11am
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Stanley Sea  May 8, 2017 • 9:16:28am

Dana Bash on CNN just said that the yam’s tweet about Sally Yates is witness intimidation from the POTUS & beyond the pale

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Teukka  May 8, 2017 • 9:16:55am

re: #351 Dr. Matt

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makeitstop  May 8, 2017 • 9:17:59am

re: #352 Stanley Sea

Dana Bash on CNN just said that the yam’s tweet about Sally Yates is witness intimidation from the POTUS & beyond the pale

Somehow, I don’t think Ms. Yates will be too intimidated.

At least I hope not.

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 9:18:02am

re: #353 Teukka

His cage has been severely rattled?

To say the least.

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Barefoot Grin  May 8, 2017 • 9:18:51am

re: #349 Jeff!

Bible-god is not the type to help people.

Nothing changes a parent like having a child!

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Stanley Sea  May 8, 2017 • 9:19:59am

re: #354 makeitstop

Somehow, I don’t think Ms. Yates will be too intimidated.

At least I hope not.

Nah, she’s a professional. But in a regular setting the lawyers would be freaking out & throwing out any charges.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 9:19:59am

re: #352 Stanley Sea

Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Counsel.

Dana Bash on CNN just said that the yam’s tweet about Sally Yates is witness intimidation from the POTUS & beyond the pale

It also shows how little DT understands about government, separation of power, role of government agencies, etc.

But heck, that is why people voted for him. They wanted an outsider, businessman and anti-politician in the WH

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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 9:21:34am
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FormerDirtDart  May 8, 2017 • 9:22:41am
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Birth Control Works  May 8, 2017 • 9:28:10am

I have T-Shirts to make

bbl

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austin_blue  May 8, 2017 • 9:32:18am

re: #362 Birth Control Works

I have T-Shirts to make

bbl

You should make one with a head shot of Drumpf and “I yam what I yam”

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FormerDirtDart  May 8, 2017 • 9:33:36am
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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 9:35:46am

re: #364 FormerDirtDart

It’s early, but Democrats should find candidates for those districts and bring them as well.

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 9:36:49am

re: #360 FormerDirtDart

Good thing I moved away from Oklahoma to Nebraska then. /s

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 9:39:45am
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Skip Intro  May 8, 2017 • 9:41:35am

Conservative Columnist George Will Is Joining MSNBC

huffingtonpost.com

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makeitstop  May 8, 2017 • 9:41:49am

re: #367 The Vicious Babushka

Trump admin. now confirms Obama warned Trump about Flynn, but warning sounded like it was said “in jest”

Worst excuse ever.

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Skip Intro  May 8, 2017 • 9:42:06am

re: #368 FormerDirtDart

Future Supreme Court Justice Tiffany.

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lawhawk  May 8, 2017 • 9:42:08am

re: #358 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And an ignorant, fact free, no-talent (except shameless self promotion and con-artistry) assclown whose claim to fame is turning his inherited real estate fortune into a gilded “elite/luxury” good, when he cheaped out regularly and stiffed American workers at every opportunity.

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Barefoot Grin  May 8, 2017 • 9:42:29am

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 8, 2017 • 9:42:30am

Hi Lizards.

The medal for yesterday’s half marathon has a Lizard on it.

Also I managed a new PR of under 2:30 (by less than a minute!) so I’m pretty pleased. That was my goal, after all. :)

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 9:45:45am

re: #370 makeitstop

Worst excuse ever.

Even if President Obama’s statement to Mr. Trump at the time is entirely as Trump claims (it was said in jest), that still does not obviate Trump’s obligation to screen Gen. Flynn.

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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 9:46:13am

re: #367 The Vicious Babushka

Because Obama has made those kinds of jokes before. //

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wrenchwench  May 8, 2017 • 9:46:36am

re: #374 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Hi Lizards.

The medal for yesterday’s half marathon has a Lizard on it.

Also I managed a new PR of under 2:30 (by less than a minute!) so I’m pretty pleased. That was my goal, after all. :)

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 9:48:00am

re: #376 Belafon

Because Obama has made those kinds of jokes before. //

Yeah, I remember all his speeches about how national security is a big joke. /s

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Skip Intro  May 8, 2017 • 9:49:27am

The Trumps’ travel and protection costs, 100 days in: $30 million

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Stanley Sea  May 8, 2017 • 9:49:41am
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Barefoot Grin  May 8, 2017 • 9:49:51am

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 9:52:04am
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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 9:53:12am

NY Times Fails Again

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lawhawk  May 8, 2017 • 9:53:59am

re: #381 Stanley Sea

More evidence Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing, and will undermine those who are competent (or attempting competence) all because they’re seen as disloyal to Trump.

Trump values loyalty more than anything else, especially competence. That’s the takeaway from everything we’ve seen over the first 100+ days.

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 9:54:11am

LOL

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 9:55:03am

re: #367 The Vicious Babushka

Exclusive: Trump admin. now confirms Obama warned Trump about Flynn, but warning sounded like it was said “in jest”

nobody is expected to take anything DT says literally, why should he take anything literally

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 9:55:29am

re: #367 The Vicious Babushka

NBC Investigations ✔ @NBCInvestigates
Exclusive: Trump admin. now confirms Obama warned Trump about Flynn, but warning sounded like it was said “in jest” nbcnews.com …
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Some 10 year old bratty boy somewhere thinks this is great excuse.

Does this not show the lying this Administration is capable of. They lie, then they lie to cover the original lie. And the lies get increasingly more and more lame.

Wait, I take it back. That 10 year old brat…he’d be better at it than “but we thought it was in jest.”

It was in a direct meeting with Trump after the election. Trump should at least know Obama was fearful of a bumbling braggart taking the office so he would be more than serious.

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 9:55:38am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

NY Times Fails Again

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 8, 2017 • 9:55:42am

re: #377 wrenchwench

So beautiful to see that road without any cars on it. Must have been even better in person!

It was amazing. You’re running and all you can hear are the footsteps of the runners around you, and the light is filtering through the trees. I really need to go back up that way and do some hiking.

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Dr. Matt  May 8, 2017 • 9:56:31am

Hellva a swing for such a little fella:
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Stanley Sea  May 8, 2017 • 9:57:07am

re: #385 lawhawk

More evidence Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing, and will undermine those who are competent (or attempting competence) all because they’re seen as disloyal to Trump.

Trump values loyalty more than anything else, especially competence. That’s the takeaway from everything we’ve seen over the first 100+ days.

Yup

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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2017 • 9:58:18am

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Stanley Sea  May 8, 2017 • 9:58:23am

re: #388 ObserverArt

Some 10 year old bratty boy somewhere thinks this is great excuse.

Does this not show the lying this Administration is capable of. They lie, then they lie to cover the original lie. And the lies get increasingly more and more lame.

Wait, I take it back. That 10 year old brat…he’d be better at it than “but we thought it was in jest.”

It was in a direct meeting with Trump after the election. Trump should at least know Obama was fearful of a bumbling braggart taking the office so he would be more than serious.

I thought he was kidding!!

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 9:59:31am
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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2017 • 10:01:29am
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Romantic Heretic  May 8, 2017 • 10:02:50am

re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

3) grab his gonads

You’d need eagle eyes to do that.

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(alpuz)  May 8, 2017 • 10:03:56am

re: #391 Dr. Matt

Hellva a swing for such a little fella:
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Been there. Done that. When they get older you end up w/ a broken… eh, rib.

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ObserverArt  May 8, 2017 • 10:04:10am

re: #369 Skip Intro

Conservative Columnist George Will Is Joining MSNBC

huffingtonpost.com

More changes per Andrew Lack Hack.

But I will grudgingly give Will credit…he has been destroying Trump a lot lately.

In case anyone missed last week’s Will slam on Trump…here is some of it and a link for the rest.

George F. Will: President Trump doesn’t know what it is to know (Commentary)

WASHINGTON — It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about Donald Trump’s inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence.

In February, acknowledging Black History Month, Trump said that “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.” Because Trump is syntactically challenged, it was possible and tempting to see this not as a historical howler about a man who died 122 years ago, but as just another of Trump’s verbal fender benders, this one involving verb tenses.

Now, however, he has instructed us that Andrew Jackson was angry about the Civil War that began 16 years after Jackson’s death. Having, let us fancifully imagine, considered and found unconvincing William Seward’s 1858 judgment that the approaching Civil War was “an irrepressible conflict,” Trump says:

“People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why? People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?”

Library shelves groan beneath the weight of books asking questions about that war’s origins, so who, one wonders, are these “people” who don’t ask the questions that Trump evidently thinks have occurred to him uniquely? Presumably they are not the astute “lot of,” or at least “some,” people Trump referred to when speaking about his February address to a joint session of Congress: “A lot of people have said that, some people said it was the single best speech ever made in that chamber.” Which demotes Winston Churchill, among many others.

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Eventual Carrion  May 8, 2017 • 10:04:31am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 10:05:42am

re: #381 Stanley Sea

The goal is to have a new national security advisor every month.

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Bubblehead II  May 8, 2017 • 10:05:55am

re: #398 goddamnedfrank

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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2017 • 10:07:03am

re: #403 Sir John Barron

The goal is to have a new national security advisor every month.

It’s like drumming for Spinal Tap.

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makeitstop  May 8, 2017 • 10:07:11am

re: #402 Eventual Carrion

He hasn’t eaten a live puppy on TV. So there’s that.

They’ll end up scuttling that feature once they get about 10000 suggestions like this one.

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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 10:09:45am

re: #400 ObserverArt

As this column has said before, the problem isn’t that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something.

Gonna keep this quip around for awhile for whenever I need a laugh.

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Bubblehead II  May 8, 2017 • 10:10:10am

re: #407 TedStriker

True.

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Romantic Heretic  May 8, 2017 • 10:10:21am

re: #335 Birth Control Works

nah, Bible says the rainbow is a visual contract from God that he wouldn’t destroy everyone with water —again. ;0

He never promised not to use fire or any other agency.

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 10:11:32am

A local sheriff’s deputy lauds a law signed by Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts that prevents insurance companies from cancelling the insurance of first-responders shot on the job.

Too bad the Unicameral didn’t think that was appropriate for anyone shot, just first responders, but it is a start.

Deputy Michael Hutchinson of Deuel County (just to my southeast and more rural than my county) was shot four times serving an arrest warrant.

starherald.com

First, Gov. Pete Ricketts signed Legislative Bill 444, which prohibits cities or counties from canceling health insurance for any on-duty first responder or front-line state employee who suffers a serious bodily injury from an assault. That happened April 27.

A week later, Hutchinson received a Public Servant Hero award during the American Red Cross’ Heartland Heroes banquet in Grand Island. The award cited Hutchinson for his “nothing short of extraordinary” dedication in upholding his oath to protect and serve. It was presented Thursday.

Hutchinson, who said he was humbled by the Red Cross recognition, said he was elated that the governor signed LB 444.

(more at the Scottsbluff Star-Herald)

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Romantic Heretic  May 8, 2017 • 10:13:10am

re: #356 Barefoot Grin

Nothing changes a parent like having a child!

As a meme I saw yesterday said, “Having kids is a walk in the park. Jurassic Park.”

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Romantic Heretic  May 8, 2017 • 10:14:25am

re: #361 FormerDirtDart

The yam doesn’t like sharing the spotlight.

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Barefoot Grin  May 8, 2017 • 10:14:29am

Spicer: “we moved up presser so that pool can cover VP Pence’s event.”

Hahahahahahaha. Yes, they’ll be focused on Pence this afternoon….///

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BeachDem  May 8, 2017 • 10:14:56am

I’m pulling for Jon Ossoff—have sent him money twice, but I swear, the hair on fire DCCC must be writing his email headers (these are coming from a bunch of different Ossoff groups—not just his campaign. They need to get it together) The latest ones:

Tragic End
Kiss All Hope Goodbye (that header used twice, on 5/6 and 5/8)
We’ve got NOTHING left
major loss
Tragic Conclusion
We’re PLEADING (SERIOUS)

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 10:15:52am
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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 10:16:46am

re: #415 BeachDem

I’m pulling for Jon Ossoff—have sent him money twice, but I swear, the hair on fire DCCC must be writing his email headers (these are coming from a bunch of different Ossoff groups—not just his campaign. They need to get it together) The latest ones:

Tragic End
Kiss All Hope Goodbye (that header used twice, on 5/6 and 5/8)
We’ve got NOTHING left
major loss
Tragic Conclusion
We’re PLEADING (SERIOUS)

The worst.

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 10:17:46am

re: #414 Barefoot Grin

Spicer: “we moved up presser so that pool can cover VP Pence’s event.”

Hahahahahahaha. Yes, they’ll be focused on Pence this afternoon….///

And whaddya bet the press will be focused on VP Pence’s event as well, instead of the Senate Intelligence Committee?

Maybe Trump is right: It is fake news from the manstream media, propaganda to make Trump normal.

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 10:18:09am

My wife has called me outside to scythe duty on the lawn. Back later… .

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2017 • 10:19:35am
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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2017 • 10:23:07am
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Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2017 • 10:23:25am

re: #419 Anymouse

My wife has called me outside to scythe duty on the lawn. Back later… .

“It’s a Mr. Death. He’s here about the reaping?”

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Weaselone  May 8, 2017 • 10:23:41am

re: #379 Backwoods_Sleuth

Seriously. They watched Hillary walk out to the middle of that huge, empty field, set down a single rake, post “beware of rake” signs everywhere and then walk away smiling. They just couldn’t help themselves. The very next day they were compelled to dash out into that field with smug, reckless abandon, ignoring all the signs and KO themselves by stepping on that rake.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 10:24:57am
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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2017 • 10:25:17am

re: #415 BeachDem

I’m pulling for Jon Ossoff—have sent him money twice, but I swear, the hair on fire DCCC must be writing his email headers (these are coming from a bunch of different Ossoff groups—not just his campaign. They need to get it together) The latest ones:

Tragic End
Kiss All Hope Goodbye (that header used twice, on 5/6 and 5/8)
We’ve got NOTHING left
major loss
Tragic Conclusion
We’re PLEADING (SERIOUS)

They really need to target their shit. Those kind of messages will work on some people and turn others all the fucking way off.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2017 • 10:26:37am

re: #369 Skip Intro

Conservative Columnist George Will Is Joining MSNBC

huffingtonpost.com

Pretty sure NBC’s making programming changes based on assumptions that may have been true before the election, and if Clinton had won. Now? Giving up the chance to be the Voice Of The Resistance to a historically unpopular President and Congress, based on low ratings accumulated back when they were trying to defend the Obama Administration.

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Barefoot Grin  May 8, 2017 • 10:27:07am

re: #422 Blind Frog Belly White

“It’s a Mr. Death. He’s here about the reaping?”

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Jenner7  May 8, 2017 • 10:27:37am

I love the “It’s Obama’s fault, but Flynn did nothing wrong” argument.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2017 • 10:28:02am

re: #424 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2017 • 10:29:30am

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Generally they say, “This is a stupid, stupid man, who only got elected because a little less than half of America is even stupider.”

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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 10:30:15am

re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth

“It’s not our fault we didn’t listen to the people trying to tell us something or didn’t do the vetting that every other administration has done.”

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Stanley Sea  May 8, 2017 • 10:30:30am

Shorter Spicer: “You’ll have to ask them”

What crap.

I tried, click.

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lawhawk  May 8, 2017 • 10:30:49am

re: #422 Blind Frog Belly White

Who served the salmon mousse?

Memorable Movie Deaths #2: Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life: The Salmon Mousse!

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2017 • 10:31:19am

This picture is BEGGING for someone with Photoshop skills to add a smoking joint…

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 8, 2017 • 10:31:43am

re: #411 Anymouse

A local sheriff’s deputy lauds a law signed by Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts that prevents insurance companies from cancelling the insurance of first-responders shot on the job.

Too bad the Unicameral didn’t think that was appropriate for anyone shot, just first responders, but it is a start.

Deputy Michael Hutchinson of Deuel County (just to my southeast and more rural than my county) was shot four times serving an arrest warrant.

starherald.com

(more at the Scottsbluff Star-Herald)

The fact such a bill is even necessary in the first place speaks volumes about how fucked up health care is in this country.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2017 • 10:32:17am

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Who served the salmon mousse?

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lawhawk  May 8, 2017 • 10:32:28am

re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sidesteps Trump vetting?

Because Trump didn’t vet. He figured that Flynn being fired by Obama was proof enough that he was up to Trump’s job of flipping Obama foreign policy/natsec on its ear.

Just ignore the Putin in the room.

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DanielKi  May 8, 2017 • 10:34:25am

re: #440 Blind Frog Belly White

“You didn’t use CANNED SALMON, did you?”

I wish I could ding this up 20 times. I soooo love this movie. :)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2017 • 10:35:11am
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FormerDirtDart  May 8, 2017 • 10:35:47am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2017 • 10:37:46am
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Sir John Barron  May 8, 2017 • 10:38:50am

re: #439 Backwoods_Sleuth

DECISIVE ACTION!!!!

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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 10:39:06am

re: #439 Backwoods_Sleuth

Now we know what “decisive action” means in this administration.

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jaunte  May 8, 2017 • 10:41:02am
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jaunte  May 8, 2017 • 10:41:48am
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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2017 • 10:42:27am

I feel strongly about this.

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Mattand  May 8, 2017 • 10:42:52am

re: #440 Blind Frog Belly White

“You didn’t use CANNED SALMON, did you?”

“Hey! I didn’t eat the mousse!”

re: #442 DanielKi

I wish I could ding this up 20 times. I soooo love this movie. :)

For whatever reason, I always see people shitting on this as the worst of the three Python movies, but I always liked it. It felt the most like the TV show.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2017 • 10:43:22am
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jaunte  May 8, 2017 • 10:44:00am

re: #454 Backwoods_Sleuth

Firing him was a step, Sean.

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DanielKi  May 8, 2017 • 10:44:50am

re: #453 Mattand

For whatever reason, I always see people shitting on this as the worst of the three Python movies, but I always liked it. It felt the most like the TV show.

Really? It’s actually my favorite.

“Hello and welcome to the middle of the film!”
“At least I don’t work for a jew!”

I could go on… :D

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makeitstop  May 8, 2017 • 10:45:55am

re: #455 jaunte

Firing him was a step, Sean.

A ‘decisive action,’ at that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2017 • 10:47:29am
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Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2017 • 10:47:43am

re: #457 DanielKi

Really? It’s actually my favorite.

“Hello and welcome to the middle of the film!”
“At least I don’t work for a jew!”

I could go on… :D

“DON’T JUST STAND THERE GAWPING, LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THE ‘AND OF GOD BEFORE!!!”

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jaunte  May 8, 2017 • 10:47:52am
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DanielKi  May 8, 2017 • 10:47:53am

“Don’t stand there gawping like you’ve never seen the hand of God before!”

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DanielKi  May 8, 2017 • 10:48:53am

re: #460 Blind Frog Belly White

“DON’T JUST STAND THERE GAWPING, LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THE ‘AND OF GOD BEFORE!!!”

God freaking dammit, you beat me to it!
“The question is, does he have my leg?”

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BlueSpotinAL  May 8, 2017 • 10:50:16am

re: #235 Jeff!

The Daily Beast has become increasingly nutty recently.

Now they’re upset that Liberals won’t tolerate bigotry, and imagine that not tolerating bigots is something new.

thedailybeast.com

Author of that piece is also author of a book called Too Dumb To Fail. Must be an autobiography.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2017 • 10:50:21am
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DanielKi  May 8, 2017 • 10:50:43am

“Can we have your liver now?”

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(alpuz)  May 8, 2017 • 10:50:53am

re: #452 goddamnedfrank

Heh, this white boy from Wisconsin did 10 years in the back of the restaurant. I was in the minority for the most part.

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2017 • 10:52:23am
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jaunte  May 8, 2017 • 10:53:23am
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Belafon  May 8, 2017 • 10:54:01am

re: #468 Charles Johnson

“I thought Obama was joking when he said to keep Yates on, that’s why I fired her. He should have done a better job.” - Trump

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Hecuba's daughter  May 8, 2017 • 10:54:23am

re: #415 BeachDem

I’m pulling for Jon Ossoff—have sent him money twice, but I swear, the hair on fire DCCC must be writing his email headers (these are coming from a bunch of different Ossoff groups—not just his campaign. They need to get it together) The latest ones:

Tragic End
Kiss All Hope Goodbye (that header used twice, on 5/6 and 5/8)
We’ve got NOTHING left
major loss
Tragic Conclusion
We’re PLEADING (SERIOUS)

I am being deluged too!! As soon as I send money, there 10 additional pleas + the ones for Montana. And what’s worse multiple mails will come from different sources with the same title and content!

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 10:55:59am

re: #472 Backwoods_Sleuth

Spicer flees briefing as @AprilDRyan tries a third time to ask about HBCUs, and Omarosa’s relationship with Farrakhan

But Trump wanted her to setup a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 10:58:00am

re: #473 Timothy Watson

Omarosa’s relationship with Farrakhan

But Trump wanted her to setup a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus.

Dafuq? That’s a new one; I’ve never heard about that.

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jaunte  May 8, 2017 • 10:58:31am
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Interesting Times  May 8, 2017 • 10:58:36am

re: #415 BeachDem

re: #471 Hecuba’s daughter

Are you donating to the DCCC instead of directly to Jon Ossof’s campaign? I’m pretty sure there was a discussion on LGF earlier about how the DCCC is useless and you’re better off just sending donations directly to someone’s campaign (or through ActBlue, perhaps…)

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2017 • 10:59:21am

re: #472 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Oh, for Pete’s sake! He’s fleeing the interview!”

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 10:59:31am

re: #474 Dr Lizardo

Dafuq? That’s a new one; I’ve never heard about that.

The Juice are upset apparently:
Trump staffer Omarosa Manigault says she has good relationship with Louis Farrakhan

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Skip Intro  May 8, 2017 • 11:00:33am
Beggar’s day may be arriving for a lot of people on Monday afternoon, when former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates takes her turn in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. All weekend, from the peddling of visas by the Kushners, to the babbling of Eric Trump about how central Russian money has been to keeping the family grift afloat, to the clear attempt by the usual cyber-kulaks to ratfck the French election, we have been reminded that the foul tendrils of international criminal oligarchy spread in many directions. We are also reminded that, while Don Junior merely poses atop stumps, Eric is as dumb as one.

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It also seems that the Russia-Trump story is beginning to run in two channels—one, the involvement of Russian money in the president*’s business empire, and two, the effect of that involvement on the policies of the United States now that its president* seems to be in hock to these guys. It is possible that Flynn is the spillway between these two channels, and that may be the story that Sally Yates begins to tell on Monday. We’ll drop by later to see if that’s what happens.

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Jay C  May 8, 2017 • 11:01:02am

re: #468 Charles Johnson

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Also, to me it seems at least one possible explanation is blindingly obvious: if “classified information” was leaked after Sally Yates met with the White House Counsel - mightn’t the WHC - or someone from their office - leaked it? Possibly though carelessness? (which wouldn’t surprise me given that it’s the Trump Administration)

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2017 • 11:02:10am

re: #469 jaunte

Sorry, but I really don’t consider Dworkin to be a credible source, and it pains me to see people citing his unsourced tweets. Joy Reid just retweeted this unsourced claim too. He’s been caught before pushing outright fake news about Trump registering corporations in Russia.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 11:02:11am

I finally got around to doing a page on the HTC Vive VR system.
littlegreenfootballs.com

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Hecuba's daughter  May 8, 2017 • 11:02:11am

re: #476 Interesting Times

Are you donating to the DCCC instead of directly to Jon Ossof’s campaign? I’m pretty sure there was a discussion on LGF earlier about how the DCCC is useless and you’re better off just sending donations directly to someone’s campaign (or through ActBlue, perhaps…)

Everything goes to ActBlue. I have been contributing through links in emails from info@electjon.com.

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 11:02:26am

re: #415 BeachDem

I’m pulling for Jon Ossoff—have sent him money twice, but I swear, the hair on fire DCCC must be writing his email headers (these are coming from a bunch of different Ossoff groups—not just his campaign. They need to get it together) The latest ones:

Tragic End
Kiss All Hope Goodbye (that header used twice, on 5/6 and 5/8)
We’ve got NOTHING left
major loss
Tragic Conclusion
We’re PLEADING (SERIOUS)

I’ve been getting e-mails from a couple candidates here in Virginia for the election this year. I gotten so sick of them that I’ve started unsubscribing to every political e-mail that I get. Getting constant e-mails from someone I’ve donated to and signed-up for is annoying enough, but I also get e-mails from wannabe Delegates running half-way across the state begging for money.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 8, 2017 • 11:02:39am

re: #476 Interesting Times

You can donate directly to the campaign and get 47 bajillion e-mails begging for more money. The DCCC is not the only group that does that.

(Honestly the flood of e-mails you get when you donate is the biggest reason I donate sparingly.)

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Dr Lizardo  May 8, 2017 • 11:03:22am

re: #478 Timothy Watson

The Juice are upset apparently:
Trump staffer Omarosa Manigault says she has good relationship with Louis Farrakhan

Ah, OK.

Like I said, I’d never had that one before.

Anyway, up early for work tomorrow so good night, Lizards.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 11:04:14am

re: #480 Jay C

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2017 • 11:04:59am
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darthstar  May 8, 2017 • 11:05:07am
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Jay C  May 8, 2017 • 11:05:34am

re: #485 klys (maker of Silmarils)

You can donate directly to the campaign and get 47 bajillion e-mails begging for more money. The DCCC is not the only group that does that.

(Honestly the flood of e-mails you get when you donate is the biggest reason I donate sparingly.)

Hear you. After last fall’s election, I had to go through my email and “unsubscribe” to a huge number of sites: not that I’m not still a Democrat, or possible future contributor: it’s just that there’s only SO much junk-mail you should (or can) deal with.

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makeitstop  May 8, 2017 • 11:05:38am

re: #474 Dr Lizardo

Dafuq? That’s a new one; I’ve never heard about that.

April Ryan, not Omorosa.

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Nyet  May 8, 2017 • 11:05:51am

re: #481 Charles Johnson

Sorry, but I really don’t consider Dworkin to be a credible source, and it pains me to see people citing his unsourced tweets. Joy Reid just retweeted this unsourced claim too. He’s been caught before pushing outright fake news about Trump registering corporations in Russia.

He is in it for the $$$ - IMHO.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 11:07:00am

re: #488 Charles Johnson

18 U.S. Code § 1512

This is what got Jared’s dad sent to the slammer.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 8, 2017 • 11:07:17am

re: #490 Jay C

Hear you. After last fall’s election, I had to go through my email and “unsubscribe” to a huge number of sites: not that I’m not still a Democrat, or possible future contributor: it’s just that there’s only SO much junk-mail you should (or can) deal with.

I get really tired of it from non-profits too; it’s not just a politics thing.

I donated to an animal shelter 4 years ago for a friend’s wedding present. I still get physical mail from them.

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Nyet  May 8, 2017 • 11:07:43am

So I was riding in a bus and didn’t want to read Wachsmann’s KL at the moment, so…

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Skip Intro  May 8, 2017 • 11:08:24am

re: #493 The Vicious Babushka

This is what got Jared’s dad sent to the slammer.

“Nothing the president does is illegal” - Dolt 45.

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jaunte  May 8, 2017 • 11:11:08am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 11:11:35am

re: #496 Skip Intro

“Nothing the president does is illegal” - Dolt 45.

If nobody is going to take him to task for it, then yes, he can get away with it.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  May 8, 2017 • 11:12:03am

re: #497 jaunte

…directly contradicting what Spicer said in the presser.

ELL OH ELL

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2017 • 11:13:12am
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Hecuba's daughter  May 8, 2017 • 11:13:33am

re: #188 A Mom Anon

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 11:14:48am

re: #464 BlueSpotinAL

Author of that piece is also author of a book called Too Dumb To Fail. Must be an autobiography.

Even the non-mainstream media is going to try to normalise Trumpism.

In Germany after Hitler’s election, the press that did not toe the mark was shut down.

Here the press is all-concerned about “access.” Despite Trump calling them the lugenpresse and his whole staff spreading multiple lies in the same paagraphs, they are going to insist on a magic-balance fairy right until they are all put out of business.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 8, 2017 • 11:15:43am

re: #494 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I get really tired of it from non-profits too; it’s not just a politics thing.

I donated to an animal shelter 4 years ago for a friend’s wedding present. I still get physical mail from them.

I donate to a few animal shelters and get weekly snail mail solicitations from 6 more.

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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2017 • 11:16:39am

Posted because “Minute Maid Mao.”

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 11:16:49am

re: #484 Timothy Watson

I’ve been getting e-mails from a couple candidates here in Virginia for the election this year. I gotten so sick of them that I’ve started unsubscribing to every political e-mail that I get. Getting constant e-mails from someone I’ve donated to and signed-up for is annoying enough, but I also get e-mails from wannabe Delegates running half-way across the state begging for money.

I told the DCCC to buzz off and they would be reported as spam and to the police as harassment if they ever wrote me again.

After multiple E-mails a day, I started getting multiple telephone calls a day. I finally asked one caller “Who is the Democratic Party supporting for NE-3 in the next election?” Answer: No one.

Fine, I’ll donate to candidates I feel are worthy and cut out the middleman.

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Skip Intro  May 8, 2017 • 11:17:58am

re: #498 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If nobody is going to take him to task for it, then yes, he can get away with it.

Well, no one is, so he can loot and rape and plunder to his shriveled heart’s content. Such an evil bastard, and he’s only going to get worse. Much worse.

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 11:18:30am

re: #485 klys (maker of Silmarils)

You can donate directly to the campaign and get 47 bajillion e-mails begging for more money. The DCCC is not the only group that does that.

(Honestly the flood of e-mails you get when you donate is the biggest reason I donate sparingly.)

I know, it gets really annoying after awhile. If the damn campaigns spent half of that amount of e-mails on events they’re holding, I would be a lot more interested. And hell, with Voter Access Network (VAN), they could even micro-target the e-mails for local events.

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BeachDem  May 8, 2017 • 11:19:09am

re: #471 Hecuba’s daughter

I am being deluged too!! As soon as I send money, there 10 additional pleas + the ones for Montana. And what’s worse multiple mails will come from different sources with the same title and content!

I’m trying to figure out who sold my info to religious foodbank groups. I give to the local foodbank and No Kid Hungry, but I’ve been getting mailings from three different
Christian foodbank groups lately.

Once again, no good deed goes unpunished.

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lawhawk  May 8, 2017 • 11:19:38am

re: #500 Charles Johnson

John Dean…. where oh where is that name from..

Oh yeah, Watergate. Dean knows a thing or two about craven complicity in criminal acts and cronyism.

Trump’s admin is chock full of them. Trump’s guiding principle in hiring people is absolute loyalty to him. Forget competence or knowledge of the jobs sought or that they are properly vetted.

He cares only that they toe his line, whatever reactionary bullshit he’s spewing that day.

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2017 • 11:20:05am
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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2017 • 11:20:35am

Live feed of Sally Yates’ testimony coming up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 8, 2017 • 11:21:28am

re: #506 Skip Intro

Well, no one is, so he can loot and rape and plunder to his shriveled heart’s content. Such an evil bastard, and he’s only going to get worse. Much worse.

The only thing that will cause his people to unseat him is when he blunders into a crisis he truly cannot handle and loses it catastrophically. Then his party will have to act out of self-preservation.

Until then, he can pretty much say and do whatever he wants without fear of being called to answer for it.

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BeachDem  May 8, 2017 • 11:21:54am

re: #476 Interesting Times

Are you donating to the DCCC instead of directly to Jon Ossof’s campaign? I’m pretty sure there was a discussion on LGF earlier about how the DCCC is useless and you’re better off just sending donations directly to someone’s campaign (or through ActBlue, perhaps…)

Nope—directly to his campaign through ActBlue—in fact, I believe I am the one who led the conversation about how useless the DCCC is.

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 11:22:55am

re: #511 Charles Johnson

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I’m not that familiar with security clearances, but I find it hard to believe that the CIA is responsible for conducting background checks…

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Nyet  May 8, 2017 • 11:25:20am

Is there an article where the alt-right twitter tears are collected for our enjoyment?

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calochortus  May 8, 2017 • 11:27:42am

re: #484 Timothy Watson

I’ve been getting e-mails from a couple candidates here in Virginia for the election this year. I gotten so sick of them that I’ve started unsubscribing to every political e-mail that I get. Getting constant e-mails from someone I’ve donated to and signed-up for is annoying enough, but I also get e-mails from wannabe Delegates running half-way across the state begging for money.

I vaguely remember hearing that Obama’s 2008 campaign discovered that you could keep hitting people up for money over and over and they would keep contributing. Even then I thought that was going to come back to bite them in the butt. We’ve pretty much quit giving to political things because I’m not interested in spam and I’m particularly not interested in phone calls.

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 11:27:58am

re: #188 A Mom Anon

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 8, 2017 • 11:29:09am

re: #517 calochortus

I vaguely remember hearing that Obama’s 2008 campaign discovered that you could keep hitting people up for money over and over and they would keep contributing. Even then I thought that was going to come back to bite them in the butt. We’ve pretty much quit giving to political things because I’m not interested in spam and I’m particularly not interested in phone calls.

I will never, ever donate money over the phone.

Ever.

And every phone call makes me less likely to donate to your cause. I wish there was a way to tell campaigns/causes this in a way they would listen.

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 11:30:13am

re: #510 goddamnedfrank

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We have now found a worse Romance story than “Twilight.”

Who would write something like that? That doesn’t even rise to the level of “moran.”

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 11:30:37am

re: #517 calochortus

I vaguely remember hearing that Obama’s 2008 campaign discovered that you could keep hitting people up for money over and over and they would keep contributing. Even then I thought that was going to come back to bite them in the butt. We’ve pretty much quit giving to political things because I’m not interested in spam and I’m particularly not interested in phone calls.

I use Truecaller on Android to filter out people I don’t know, including the DNC beggars.

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calochortus  May 8, 2017 • 11:31:13am

re: #519 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I will never, ever donate money over the phone.

Ever.

And every phone call makes me less likely to donate to your cause. I wish there was a way to tell campaigns/causes this in a way they would listen.

The phone donation was Mr. C. Occasionally he’s a bit unsophisticated about these things…

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calochortus  May 8, 2017 • 11:31:54am

re: #521 Jeff!

I use Truecaller on Android to filter out people I don’t know, including the DNC beggars.

We’re talking about a landline without any fancy things, like caller ID.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 8, 2017 • 11:32:05am

re: #522 calochortus

The phone donation was Mr. C. Occasionally he’s a bit unsophisticated about these things…

It doesn’t matter. You can donate online and they’ll still call and ask for more. Ask me how I know.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 8, 2017 • 11:32:21am

re: #520 Anymouse

We have now found a worse Romance story than “Twilight.”

Who would write something like that? That doesn’t even rise to the level of “moran.”

Maybe that’s a pickup line they learned from reading PUA/MRA sites like Roosh V.

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 11:33:30am

re: #519 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I will never, ever donate money over the phone.

Ever.

And every phone call makes me less likely to donate to your cause. I wish there was a way to tell campaigns/causes this in a way they would listen.

As soon as I get such a phone call (I won’t donate over the phone either … aside from personal information, no credit card, which they also don’t seem to get, that no banks issue nor businesses take credit cards in this area), I ask for the name of the organisation and send them an E-mail telling them I won’t ever donate to their organisation again.

On junk mail, I simply return the Business Reply envelope with the coupon and void written across it with a note to take me off their list.

It takes a bit of time to invest, but you significantly cut down on junk mail and phone calls. Pretty much the only phone calls I get now are family, friends, and scammers (and for them I have a canned air horn).

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 11:35:53am

re: #524 klys (maker of Silmarils)

It doesn’t matter. You can donate online and they’ll still call and ask for more. Ask me how I know.

Oh, I know. I gave $500 total online to Clinton ‘16. They called me up, while I was making phone calls for the campaign for volunteer recruitment, asking for more money. TRIPLE MATCH!!1!!

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  May 8, 2017 • 11:39:07am

re: #523 calochortus

We’re talking about a landline without any fancy things, like caller ID.

Landline? Like back in the 20th century?

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 11:39:47am

re: #523 calochortus

We’re talking about a landline without any fancy things, like caller ID.

But do you have Touch Tone service?

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calochortus  May 8, 2017 • 11:40:33am

re: #528 Jeff!

Landline? Like back in the 20th century?

Exactly like that. ;-) I do have a cell phone, but I only turn it on when I’m out somewhere, if I remember to. Need I say it is not a smart phone?

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2017 • 11:40:47am

re: #529 Anymouse

But do you have Touch Tone service?

Do you have to dial ‘15’ to call long distance?

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calochortus  May 8, 2017 • 11:41:22am

re: #529 Anymouse

But do you have Touch Tone service?

Yes, but we do have our old rotary dial phone too. It works. Why not keep it.

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 11:41:29am

re: #525 The Vicious Babushka

Maybe that’s a pickup line they learned from reading PUA/MRA sites like Roosh V.

Or Daily Stormer

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Timothy Watson  May 8, 2017 • 11:41:36am

re: #531 Blind Frog Belly White

Do you have to dial ‘15’ to call long distance?

It’s not a party line is it?

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Anymouse  May 8, 2017 • 11:42:20am

re: #531 Blind Frog Belly White

Do you have to dial ‘15’ to call long distance?

No, just “1” (but when we first got dial telephone service when I was a teenager, we had to dial “120” and tell the operator our own telephone number for billing purposes)

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calochortus  May 8, 2017 • 11:43:42am

re: #534 Timothy Watson

It’s not a party line is it?

No. I’ve never been on a party line, but then we live on the San Francisco Peninsula, and even as a child we had our very own phone line.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2017 • 11:44:12am

re: #532 calochortus

Yes, but we do have our old rotary dial phone too. It works. Why not keep it.

With Ma Bell, the phones in everyone’s home were company property. You didn’t get to keep them when they replaced them with touch tone.

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calochortus  May 8, 2017 • 11:45:26am

re: #537 Blind Frog Belly White

With Ma Bell, the phones in everyone’s home were company property. You didn’t get to keep them when they replaced them with touch tone.

We bought ours in the mid-80s when we were offered the option.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 8, 2017 • 12:03:17pm

re: #57 teleskiguy

There’s maybe a few ounces there on the table, maybe. I’ve seen more cannabis on friends’ coffee tables than that.

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Major Tom  May 8, 2017 • 12:33:23pm

re: #452 goddamnedfrank

I feel strongly about this.

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I agree. I spent 7 years in 120 degree kitchens.

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retired cynic  May 8, 2017 • 2:36:33pm

re: #476 Interesting Times

Are you donating to the DCCC instead of directly to Jon Ossof’s campaign? I’m pretty sure there was a discussion on LGF earlier about how the DCCC is useless and you’re better off just sending donations directly to someone’s campaign (or through ActBlue, perhaps…)

I’m donating directly to the campaigns, and they keep sending emails about how they are begging, BEGGING, and I won’t answer. I have even written to them in disgust. I guess I should blame Act Blue. Dunno.


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