Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Tear the Roof Off: “Cumberland Gap”

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Muscle Shoals, Alabama band Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit performs ‘Cumberland Gap’ in TV Studio A at KCPT in Kansas City, Missouri.

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1
Shiplord Kirel  Jun 17, 2017 • 10:53:53pm

Lubbock’s Mr. Conservative reaches critical derp-mass, as though the shooter set out to massacre a random baseball practice and just happened to pick one with a GOP congressman present:

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teleskiguy  Jun 17, 2017 • 10:55:54pm
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teleskiguy  Jun 17, 2017 • 11:03:35pm

re: #2 teleskiguy

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Dave In Austin  Jun 17, 2017 • 11:15:00pm

re: #1 Shiplord Kirel

Speaking of Lubbock….. These are some of your neighbors.

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teleskiguy  Jun 17, 2017 • 11:16:26pm

You can only say so much in tweets. Still, I think we may be heading into what @BreeNewsome has called a Second Nadir of Race Relations.

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teleskiguy  Jun 17, 2017 • 11:22:09pm

re: #1 Shiplord Kirel

Lubbock’s Mr. Conservative reaches critical derp-mass, as though the shooter set out to massacre a random baseball practice and just happened to pick one with a GOP congressman present:

It is time for Republicans in Washington to be restored their right to carry weapons for their own protection and for those who are with them.
Apparently the only reason the Capitol Police were at the Republican baseball practice session was the presence of Representative Steve Scalise. Had the police been absent, a great many people would have been murdered.

I love it how this snake oil salesman twists the facts to fit his own narrative. “If Scalise weren’t there…”

Hey asshole, Rand Paul was there too, he was ducking for cover in the dugout during the shooting. He’s a United States Senator from Kentucky. There’s only a hundred of those folks.

I’m fairly certain that even if it was a squad of junior congresscritters playing catch in suburban D.C. there would be some protection from Federal police. This whole “more people would have died if these important people weren’t involved” gobbledegoop sounds like, fuckin’ fuck, dare I say it? FAKE NEWS!

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William Lewis  Jun 17, 2017 • 11:29:10pm

Beautiful piece of music, Charles. Thank​ you for posting it - living in a small tourist trap in Northern Wisconsin where $9.35/hr isn’t enough to live on makes it ring quite true tonight.

All I need is for the rain to stop before I ride my bicycle home and a way to turn that wet annoying ride into vi-IV-I-V gold in the key of G ;)

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 17, 2017 • 11:29:37pm

Scammers gotta scam.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 17, 2017 • 11:31:04pm

re: #8 goddamnedfrank

And a Canadian at that.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 17, 2017 • 11:40:36pm

littlegreenfootballs.com

Birth Control Works posted an article about relaxing restrictions on prescribing certain birth control medications in New Mexico: Specifically, the new regulations allow pharmacists to prescribe them in certain cases, alleviating extra steps and cost in seeing a physician for those prescriptions.

I do not know the incidence of adverse effects of various birth control medications (I assume they are low), as I am not a woman nor do I play one on television.

In respect to cost, time, and fewer hoops to jump through I see this as good.

In the event of adverse effects (if there are any), I see a problem here, as I had to deal with a similar problem in a VA emergency room where a pain medication was prescribed to me that had a black-box warning for epilepsy. I only found out about it when I got home because I looked up the medication on-line and found the warning.

A pharmacist does not necessarily have access to a customer’s medical records, so contraindications for a medication directly prescribed by the pharmacist could go unnoticed.

As I mentioned, I don’t know the incidence of adverse reactions to BC so I could be citing a concern with little merit. In my own case with the pain med, it was because I looked it up myself before taking the drug. I imagine most people just assume that the pharmacist is not going to make a mistake even though the pharmacist has no access to medical records.

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Targetpractice  Jun 17, 2017 • 11:53:23pm

I still cannot believe it’s 2017 and we’ve got commercials promoting the usage of oil.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 17, 2017 • 11:55:13pm

re: #11 Targetpractice

I still cannot believe it’s 2017 and we’ve got commercials promoting the usage of oil.

With the system set up as it is now, it is difficult to avoid using oil.

It’s like the days of the Bell System, where Bell Telephone advertised its service.

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Teukka  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:08:55am

Just a hunch, but I think heads may roll…
Panel maker for London tower gave warning

Diagrams in a brochure dated 2016 for Reynobond tiles reviewed by Reuters show how polyethylene (PE) core tiles are suitable only for buildings of up to 10 metres in height.

“As soon as the building is higher than the firefighters’ ladders, it has to be conceived with an incombustible material,” the brochure says.

The brochure was issued by French-based Arconic Architectural Products, which is responsible for the marketing in Europe of systems produced by US company Arconic, which owns Reynobond.

The Guardian and the BBC have reported in recent days that panels with a PE core were used in a refurbishment of the 24-storey tower bock that was completed last year.

Construction company Rydon Group, which undertook the work, and the local authority which owns Grenfell Tower declined to confirm whether the panels were PE.

[…]

Other diagrams in the Reynobond brochure show that panels with a fire retardant core - the FR model, according to Arconic’s website - can be used for buildings of up to 30 metres tall. Above that height, it says, panels with a non-combustible core - the A2 model - should be used.

Grenfell Tower is over 60 metres tall.

John Cowley, director of Omnis Exteriors which supplied the padding for the refurbishment but did not install it, told the Guardian that the company had been asked to supply the Reynobond PE variant.

The newspaper said the PE panels were £2 ($3.35) cheaper per square metre than the Reynobond FR option.

How much can they have saved? £8,000?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:23:12am

re: #13 Teukka

Just a hunch, but I think heads may roll…
Panel maker for London tower gave warning

How much can they have saved? £8,000?

Well, it’s little comfort to the victims and their families, but one can hope the insurance company for the building says, “Nope.”

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Targetpractice  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:26:37am

re: #13 Teukka

Just a hunch, but I think heads may roll…
Panel maker for London tower gave warning

How much can they have saved? £8,000?

Hey now, that’s £8,000 that might have gone to important places…like padding some execs pockets.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:29:30am

re: #15 Targetpractice

Hey now, that’s £8,000 that might have gone to important places…like padding some execs pockets.

Or perhaps a bribe to a building inspector.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:37:10am

www3.nhk.or.jp

NHK is reporting that in forest fires sweeping central Portugal, at least twenty-four people have been killed, many in their cars trying to escape. The fire is about 200km north of Lisbon. The temperatures in the area topped 40C (104F). Over five hundred firefighters are battling the blaze.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:39:10am

re: #17 Anymouse 🌹

www3.nhk.or.jp

NHK is reporting that in forest fires sweeping central Portugal, at least twenty-four people have been killed, many in their cars trying to escape. The fire is about 200km north of Lisbon. The temperatures in the area topped 40C (104F). Over five hundred firefighters are battling the blaze.

Damn. Sounds like they fell victim to a firestorm.

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teleskiguy  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:39:55am

It is Father’s Day in the Mountain Time Zone.

My father and I, way back when.

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A dark and stormy covfefe  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:41:37am
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Teukka  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:44:44am

re: #14 Anymouse 🌹

Well, it’s little comfort to the victims and their families, but one can hope the insurance company for the building says, “Nope.”

Given that the cladding was installed AMA (against manufacturer advice), it’s likely the insurance company will NOPE. And if they want to score social brownie points, maybe represent the former tenants in court, or make the payout, but to the tenants only.

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Birth Control Works  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:46:40am

Today we hear that a trial for a serial rapist ended in a hung jury and the rapists wife holds a press conference denouncing the prosecutor.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:48:16am

Tropical season is gearing up. The disturbance that moved off the coast of Africa last week is approaching South America, but is expected to turn to the NW and enter the Caribbean Sea with a 50% chance of developing into a tropical storm in five days.

A new disturbance has formed off the coast of Belize. It is expected to move across the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico (potentially threatening the Texas coast). The National Hurricane Center gives an 80% chance to this disturbance developing into a tropical storm in five days. (I might want to give a heads up to my brother-in-law who lives on the Texas coast. He tends not to pay attention to the tropics unless I tell him.)

nhc.noaa.gov

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Birth Control Works  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:50:34am

re: #20 A dark and stormy covfefe

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I certainly understand the outrage.

Haters and criminal opportunists seem to be emboldened since The Election™

This past couple of weeks, crimes have been reported in the “nice” areas of Chicagoland. Some remind of crimes reported in Detroit when I was young.

I.e. criminals coming up to cars at stop lights and robbing drivers. -

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Birth Control Works  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:51:07am

re: #19 teleskiguy

It is Father’s Day in the Mountain Time Zone.

My father and I, way back when.

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you were sooo cute.

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Birth Control Works  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:55:55am

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹

littlegreenfootballs.com

Birth Control Works posted an article about relaxing restrictions on prescribing certain birth control medications in New Mexico: Specifically, the new regulations allow pharmacists to prescribe them in certain cases, alleviating extra steps and cost in seeing a physician for those prescriptions.

I do not know the incidence of adverse effects of various birth control medications (I assume they are low), as I am not a woman nor do I play one on television.

In respect to cost, time, and fewer hoops to jump through I see this as good.

In the event of adverse effects (if there are any), I see a problem here, as I had to deal with a similar problem in a VA emergency room where a pain medication was prescribed to me that had a black-box warning for epilepsy. I only found out about it when I got home because I looked up the medication on-line and found the warning.

A pharmacist does not necessarily have access to a customer’s medical records, so contraindications for a medication directly prescribed by the pharmacist could go unnoticed.

As I mentioned, I don’t know the incidence of adverse reactions to BC so I could be citing a concern with little merit. In my own case with the pain med, it was because I looked it up myself before taking the drug. I imagine most people just assume that the pharmacist is not going to make a mistake even though the pharmacist has no access to medical records.

It is a good thing. The main question they will ask is if the patient is a smoker. BC hormone dosages are much different now than in the past. I pharmacist probably should not the initial prescriber —but if a woman has been on a particular BC for years —there is no reason for her to visit a physican for her annual refill script. I don’t think this will reduce the number of necessary physican wellness visits.

I trust my pharmacist more than I trust most doctors. I’ve worked with her for years.

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Birth Control Works  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:59:02am

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

Nadir

The nadir (UK: /ˈnædɪər/), (US: /ˈneɪdɪər/) (from Arabic: نظير‎‎ / ALA-LC: naẓīr, meaning “counterpart”) is the direction pointing directly below a particular location; that is, it is one of two vertical directions at a specified location, orthogonal to a horizontal flat surface there. Since the concept of being below is itself somewhat vague, scientists define the nadir in more rigorous terms. Specifically, in astronomy, geophysics and related sciences (e.g., meteorology), the nadir at a given point is the local vertical direction pointing in the direction of the force of gravity at that location. The direction opposite of the nadir is the zenith.

Nadir also refers to the downward-facing viewing geometry of an orbiting satellite,[1] such as is employed during remote sensing of the atmosphere, as well as when an astronaut faces the Earth while performing a spacewalk.

The word is also used figuratively to mean the lowest point of a person’s spirits,[2] or the quality of an activity or profession.[3]

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Birth Control Works  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:59:54am

ETYMOLOGY OF NADIR

late 14c., in astronomical sense, from Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic nazir “opposite to,” in nazir as-samt, literally “opposite direction,” from nazir “opposite” + as-samt “road, path” (see zenith). Transferred sense of “lowest point (of anything)” is first recorded 1793.

OPPOSITE OF:

zenith (n.) Look up zenith at dictionary.com
“point of the heavens directly overhead at any place,” late 14c., from Old French cenith (Modern French zénith), from Medieval Latin cenit, senit, bungled scribal transliterations of Arabic samt “road, path,” abbreviation of samt ar-ras, literally “the way over the head.” Letter -m- misread as -ni-.

The Medieval Latin word could as well be influenced by the rough agreement of the Arabic term with classical Latin semita “sidetrack, side path” (notion of “thing going off to the side”), from se- “apart” + *mi-ta-, a suffixed form of PIE root *mei- (1) “to change, go, move.” Figurative sense of “highest point or state” is from c. 1600.

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Birth Control Works  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:02:59am
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teleskiguy  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:07:05am

re: #25 Birth Control Works

you were sooo cute.

😊

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Teukka  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:08:14am

re: #29 Birth Control Works

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Amory Blaine  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:08:30am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:15:40am

Shameless Page Promotion:

Losing My Religion for Equality—Jimmy Carter (goes to the right-hand page of LGF)

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:21:18am

re: #26 Birth Control Works

It is a good thing. The main question they will ask is if the patient is a smoker. BC hormone dosages are much different now than in the past. I pharmacist probably should not the initial prescriber —but if a woman has been on a particular BC for years —there is no reason for her to visit a physican for her annual refill script. I don’t think this will reduce the number of necessary physican wellness visits.

I trust my pharmacist more than I trust most doctors. I’ve worked with her for years.

Fair enough. As I noted, I am not aware of the specific contraindications of BC or if there could be significant problems a pharmacist would not be aware of.

My example of the VA emergency room prescribing me a pain-killer came from a Nurse Practitioner. The VA could not provide a patient information sheet for the drug (they issued it out of their drug locker in the emergency room, not the pharmacy). Thus, that is not the same as a person who has used the same medication for years without complaint.

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Amory Blaine  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:33:47am

Em——————————C ——————————G Em
Hey you, Whitehouse, ha ha charade you are
——————————————————C———- ————-G Em
You house proud town mouse, ha ha charade you are
————-C———————————————————G
You’re trying to keep our feeling off the street
Am
You’re nearly a real treat, all tight lips and cold feet

And do you feel abused

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:42:09am

I kissed my wife and wished her a happy Father’s Day. (::

She asked me if I wanted a black wreath for my upcoming funeral. /s

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:50:15am

Shawnee Mission (Kans.) Parents Question School District’s Purchase of Semi-Automatic Rifles (Goes to the Kansas City Star), more at the link:

Some viewed the investment as excessive at a time when teachers have classroom needs and administrative salaries have swelled. Many couldn’t remember being informed or aware of the purchase in 2015.

“It’s pretty offensive to me as a taxpayer to feel like you don’t have any voice and you are being excluded from decisions that could harm your child or kill them,” said Melissa Patt, the parent of three students in the Shawnee Mission School District. “What else could we be spending our tax dollars on and getting the same safety results? Or is there evidence that it’s worth it?”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:56:55am

Weird Hulu moments:

For the last month or so, all the adverts we get are in Spanish. (Right now my wife is watching a show and she’s getting a Spanish advert for whiskey.)

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:02:20am

This thread, you read it now:

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Amory Blaine  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:27:45am
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JordanRules  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:27:54am

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

Wow!!

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:29:26am

A tsunami has apparently just hit Greenland.

Via GoogleTranslate:

The police report major floods in the Nuugaatsiaq district. Major waves have also hit Uummannaq and Illorsuit.

Senior Prosecutor at Police Liselotte Bøhn says it is not yet clear what the flood is due to.

There are extensive devastations, but it is not yet clear or how many people have been hurt.

A rescue helicopter has been sent from Uummannaq with police, health care and emergency preparedness, and efforts are being made to send additional resources to the area from Kangerlussuaq. The rescue operation is coordinated in cooperation with rescue preparedness and health services.

If you are in the fjord systems around Uummannaq, you must look up the terrestrial network and stay away from the coastline.

KNR sends extra radio at 00.45 and again at 1.00.

knr.gl (original)

Maybe an undersea run-out landslide?

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Amory Blaine  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:34:05am

Under normal circumstances, I would be raging because Clarke was told to stand down. Today? Meh.

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Nyet  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:35:09am

Look at Baked Alaska’s eternally emptily-smiling mug not disfigured by intellect.

Baked Alaska and Based Spartan Cucks

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:37:02am

earthquake.usgs.gov

Well, there was a 5.0 earthquake in Iceland, but that’s on the other side of Greenland from the area affected.

The next nearest earthquakes were in Oklahoma.

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Amory Blaine  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:37:56am

I feel like I’ve wrought out of my soul, the humanity of earths rotation.

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Amory Blaine  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:40:11am

My bizarre work schedule renders me a non person.

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Amory Blaine  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:46:22am
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Shiplord Kirel  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:50:01am

Just saw the Faux news report about protestors disrupting the Julius Caesar production in Central Park. Damned lawless, unbathed, anarchist hippies from mom’s basement; throw a net over the whole mob. Bring out the SWAT team, hose ‘em down with Mace, clear the streets with a whiff of grapeshot, er, tear gas.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 2:59:20am

rawstory.com

Bill Cosby’s spokesperson taunts victims’ attorneys: They should go back to law school.

It would occur to me that since this ended in a hung jury and not a not guilty finding, and that the prosecutor has said he is taking this back to trial, dancing on the emotions of the victims might not be the best strategy.

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Amory Blaine  Jun 18, 2017 • 3:02:50am
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Amory Blaine  Jun 18, 2017 • 3:06:40am
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Amory Blaine  Jun 18, 2017 • 3:22:09am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 3:30:31am
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Dave In Austin  Jun 18, 2017 • 3:49:13am

ManBaby is on the shitter!!

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 3:59:06am

The Right Question (goes to Stonekettle Station)

After Gov. Scott Walker put a (bogus) statement about the ACA on Twitter and Jim Wright went after him, Mr. Wright then posed a question to his followers: Is health care a right?

The idea was to provoke some thought on the issue: if it is not a right, then it can be denied and the numbers of people who die from lack of insurance coverage does not matter. If it is a right, then healthcare cannot be denied.

He alludes to both the IX Amendment and a treaty we signed with the United Nations regarding providing health services to all citizens.

He also notes in his article that out of the thousands and thousands of times that politicians are asked about healthcare, none is ever asked “Do you think healthcare is a right?”

Mr. Wright doesn’t condemn in his article those who do not. He condemns them for not being willing to stand up for their conviction.

He also notes that he got more equivocation from people on the left, who wanted to put qualifications on such a right. (If a right can be qualified, it really isn’t a right. All you have to do is change the qualifications.)

The article is an interesting read.

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Amory Blaine  Jun 18, 2017 • 4:01:38am

re: #57 Dave In Austin

He sounds like a late night TV salesman.

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Nyet  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:01:31am

More to report:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:06:49am

re: #16 Anymouse 🌹

Or perhaps a bribe to a building inspector.

There was a popular board game in Germany that I am still looking for, as it is no longer being made: Pfusch am Bau. Roughly “Fudging the Construction”.

you are given a certain amount of clay (building material) and bid for jobs to build things with it. You can cheat by secretly using bits of wood (substandard material) and wrapping it in clay. There is a Building Inspector whose job it is to poke the clay with a toothpick.

But you can bribe the Inspector. And basically, the game is set up that you cannot win without bribing someone…

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Decatur Deb  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:10:52am

re: #60 Nyet

More to report:

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:11:40am

In weird news:

Maine Runner Drowns Rabid Raccoon in a Puddle after It Attacked Her (goes to the Washington Post)

In a scene she likened to something out of a Stephen King novel, Rachel Borch was out for a run on a wooded trail near her home when she was attacked by a rabid raccoon. Faced with having no other choice, she fought it off, killing it with her bare hands by holding it in a puddle of water as it gripped onto her hand with its teeth and clawed and scratched at her. Borch, who lives in Hope, Maine, told the Bangor Daily News that her run was lovely, ordinary and peaceful … until it wasn’t.

“Imagine the Tasmanian devil,” the 21-year-old said. “It was terrifying.”

(more at the link)

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Decatur Deb  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:14:20am

re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There was a popular board game in Germany that I am still looking for, as it is no longer being made: Pfusch am Bau. Roughly “Fudging the Construction”.

you are given a certain amount of clay (building material) and bid for jobs to build things with it. You can cheat by secretly using bits of wood (substandard material) and wrapping it in clay. There is a Building Inspector whose job it is to poke the clay with a toothpick.

But you can bribe the Inspector. And basically, the game is set up that you cannot win without bribing someone…

Sounds like a training aid for little libertarians.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:18:59am

re: #64 Decatur Deb

Sounds like a training aid for little libertarians.

My wife the ex-Libertarian Party member got a hoot out of that.

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jeffreyw  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:20:17am

Flickr

Good morning!

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:23:50am

Nine-Year-Old Wants to Make Bigfoot State’s Official Cryptid (goes to Crosscut, more at the link):

If any place can claim to be the official home to Bigfoot, it’s Washington state.

That’s why Sen. Ann Rivers, R-La Center, promises to keep trying to make Sasquatch the official state “cryptid” — a critter whose existence has not been sufficiently proven by mainstream science.

The bill was the brainchild of 9-year-old Caleb Davis, who believes in Bigfoot. A lifelong student of Sasquatch along with his dad, he wrote to Rivers, asking her to make Bigfoot the official Washington state cryptid.

Senator Rivers’s bill died in committee, but she intends to revive it in the next legislative session.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:25:52am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹

Nine-Year-Old Wants to Make Bigfoot State’s Official Cryptid (goes to Crosscut, more at the link):

Senator Rivers’s bill died in committee, but she intends to revive it in the next legislative session.

What is the official color of the state’s aura?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:26:21am

Since we’ve been posting electric cello renditions, Montana Skies has a version of Mason William’s “Classical Gas”:

Classical Gas for electric cello and guitar

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Decatur Deb  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:26:56am

re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Alabama State Cryptid is the White Liberal Democrat.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:28:29am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹

Nine-Year-Old Wants to Make Bigfoot State’s Official Cryptid (goes to Crosscut, more at the link):

Senator Rivers’s bill died in committee, but she intends to revive it in the next legislative session.

Teach the controversy!

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Decatur Deb  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:28:51am

re: #69 Anymouse 🌹

Since we’ve been posting electric cello renditions, Montana Skies has a version of Mason William’s “Classical Gas”:

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Video

True to the original, but I miss the strobing History of Art behind the old vid.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:33:09am

re: #72 Decatur Deb

True to the original, but I miss the strobing History of Art behind the old vid.

I once upset my mother’s Irish folk session (they’ve been meeting every week for over twenty-five years) when I was visiting by breaking into “Classical Gas” on the hammered dulcimer.

Burn the heretic!!!

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Decatur Deb  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:34:07am

re: #73 Anymouse 🌹

I once upset my mother’s Irish folk session (they’ve been meeting every week for over twenty-five years) when I was visiting by breaking into “Classical Gas” on the hammered dulcimer.

Burn the heretic!!!

Could see that working.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:35:34am

re: #73 Anymouse 🌹

I once upset my mother’s Irish folk session (they’ve been meeting every week for over twenty-five years) when I was visiting by breaking into “Classical Gas” on the hammered dulcimer.

Burn the heretic!!!

One of my highlights of playing session music came in Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland, at a bluegrass session. One of the customers said how much she appreciated a change from all that “dum-dee-diddly shit” thy are always playing.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:44:05am

re: #13 Teukka

So to save a little bit of money, the put hundreds of lives at risk? Doesn’t make a lick of sense given all the money they’ll have to pay out now for this completely avoidable tragedy.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:45:01am

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹

rawstory.com

Bill Cosby’s spokesperson taunts victims’ attorneys: They should go back to law school.

It would occur to me that since this ended in a hung jury and not a not guilty finding, and that the prosecutor has said he is taking this back to trial, dancing on the emotions of the victims might not be the best strategy.

Yeah that’s pretty stupid given that Cosby was not acquitted and the prosecution intends to try again.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:46:36am

re: #74 Decatur Deb

Could see that working.

The only problem is playing the song in the original keys: (Bb/Eb) - I don’t own a so-called “war dulcimer” because they cost as much as my car. As such, playing the song has me reaching all over the instrument for the proper notes.

I like the song though. For my long-playing, short-selling album, I wrote to Mason Williams’s representative that controls licensing the song for public performance and got a resounding “no” back.

Enya’s firm issued a mechanical license to me for “Lothlorien” however (so that song appears on the album).

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

One of my highlights of playing session music came in Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland, at a bluegrass session. One of the customers said how much she appreciated a change from all that “dum-dee-diddly shit” thy are always playing.

That must have been a gas (not a classical one). One of my highlights playing was playing at the World’s Fair in Seville in 1992. (I was stationed in Rota at the time.) I got free tickets for my family - the command “requested” I go play after I was invited (sort of a good will thing). For that I stuck to public domain music.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:48:25am

re: #1 Shiplord Kirel

Lubbock’s Mr. Conservative reaches critical derp-mass, as though the shooter set out to massacre a random baseball practice and just happened to pick one with a GOP congressman present:

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First off, the shooting was in Virginia not in D.C. Secondly, guns weren’t going to stop this. Idiots like this act like you just pick up a gun and everything’s hunky dory and there’s no chaos at all.

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Nyet  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:48:53am

re: #66 jeffreyw

How in the world is this compatible?

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ObserverArt  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:52:34am

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹

Archaeologists Discover Fully Intact XVII Century Belief System in Ohio Congressman (goes to The Onion)

I knew that had to be about Jim Jordan just from the title.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:53:57am

Well, I’m going to log out now. Something something the sun is up. Catch y’all later, you poor devils.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:54:30am

re: #79 HappyWarrior

First off, the shooting was in Virginia not in D.C. Secondly, guns weren’t going to stop this. Idiots like this act like you just pick up a gun and everything’s hunky dory and there’s no chaos at all.

Every Republican should have been carrying a pistol in their jockstrap!

(Hell, guns are penis replacements for these people anyway so it’s a perfect location!)

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Major Tom  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:54:33am

re: #80 Nyet

How in the world is this compatible?

I agree. I like my protein without sweet.

…I’m sweet enough.

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wheat-dogg  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:55:05am

re: #53 Amory Blaine

Tina Guo is a talented cellist, but the overly dramatic staging (which reminds me of Vanessa Mae’s performances) doesn’t really appeal to me. YMMV

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HappyWarrior  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:56:45am

re: #83 Timothy Watson

Every Republican should have been carrying a pistol in their jockstrap!

(Hell, guns are penis replacements for these people anyway so it’s a perfect location!)

I swear it’s like in their zeal to make this gunz everywhere, they have no idea how these situations would work. It’s like that idiotic cartoon VB has posted by the gun nuts who think armed passengers would have stopped 9/11. I already know it’s a pain to get a small electronic out of my backbag on a plane. It’s an even bigger pain I imagine to just get a gun.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 18, 2017 • 5:57:12am

re: #80 Nyet

How in the world is this compatible?

I dunno, I like sweet and savory breakfasts.

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Nyet  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:05:45am

re: #87 HappyWarrior

I want my dessert apart from my sausages :D

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jeffreyw  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:07:11am

re: #80 Nyet

How in the world is this compatible?

Blueberries work well with sausage, and sausage with eggs. I am mystified by your question, sir.

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wheat-dogg  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:10:29am

re: #88 Nyet

I want my dessert apart from my sausages :D

I’ve had some very good meatballs served with a grape jelly sauce, of all things. Sounds gross till you’ve tried it. Adding hot pepper to the meatballs seems to counteract the sweetness of the jelly.

But these were appetizers, not a main course.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:11:33am

re: #83 Timothy Watson

Every Republican should have been carrying a pistol in their jockstrap!

(Hell, guns are penis replacements for these people anyway so it’s a perfect location!)

Now that gets a little bit kinky when it comes to Cathy McMorris Rogers, Marcia Blackburn and ESPECIALLY Virginia Foxx…

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HappyWarrior  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:12:18am

re: #88 Nyet

I want my dessert apart from my sausages :D

Ah. That makes sense. Hungry for a good breakfast now in any case.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:13:43am

re: #86 HappyWarrior

I swear it’s like in their zeal to make this gunz everywhere, they have no idea how these situations would work. It’s like that idiotic cartoon VB has posted by the gun nuts who think armed passengers would have stopped 9/11. I already know it’s a pain to get a small electronic out of my backbag on a plane. It’s an even bigger pain I imagine to just get a gun.

Yes, everybody get a gun on a plane and open fire. Let them play out a scene from Goldfinger in real life!

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(Bert the Turtle)  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:17:36am

Breakfast sausage w/ locally made maple syrup rules my face.

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jaunte  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:19:13am

Good news, everyone!

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HappyWarrior  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:19:44am

re: #95 jaunte

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Good news, everyone!

Phew, that’s a relief. //

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:21:01am

re: #22 Birth Control Works

Today we hear that a trial for a serial rapist ended in a hung jury and the rapists wife holds a press conference denouncing the prosecutor.

She’ll be really pissed when he’s finally convicted.

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DodgerFan1988  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:23:41am

What’s the difference between Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones?
One is a racist, conspiracy theory pushing, batshit crazy demagogue
and the other is Alex Jones.
huffingtonpost.com

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jaunte  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:28:14am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:29:18am

Louise Mensch just followed me.

Nope.

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sagehen  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:32:24am

re: #43 Dr Lizardo

A tsunami has apparently just hit Greenland.

Via GoogleTranslate:

knr.gl (original)

Maybe an undersea run-out landslide?

Maybe a big sheet of ice broke off something somewhere?

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jaunte  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:34:53am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:42:03am
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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:44:25am
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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:53:37am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:58:31am

he is just soooo freaking jealous:

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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:59:02am

Mornin’ everyone…catching up on the Trump crap…quick review of Hamilton from yesterday though: Holy fucking shit. Worth the $1500 we spent…every cent.

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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:59:43am

Trump’s new lawyer seems nice.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:00:26am

re: #103 The Vicious Babushka

Silly wabbits, Sir Orange has already addressed the fate of his minions.
He’ll wait to make additional statements until he sees a potential advantage to be gained.

As bad as I feel for the families of these deceased sailors, I feel worse that they may likely have to endure a phone call from the Commander and Chief. I can only hope that he is actually capable of projecting some level of empathy in private that he has never shown in public.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:00:27am

re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth

he is just soooo freaking jealous:

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Rasmussen had Clinton up by 2% in the popular vote before the election. So he’s acknowledging that Clinton won the popular vote?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:03:12am

Dropping one more thing before I go to bed, because it is delicious. When wingnuts argue… .

In that ridiculous protest against the trolling of the RWNJ about protesting a Sam Houston monument in Texas that turned out a whole bunch of open-carry people, Oath Keepers, and Nazis, it would appear that the so-called “alt-right” is denouncing the Oath Keepers for trying to kick the Nazis out of their counter-protest of a non-existent protest.

splcenter.org

Oathcucks, LOL (more at SPLC):

An article on AltRight (dot) com titled “Oathkeepers Turn Against the Alt Right” was the first shell fired in a building salvo against Oath Keepers, and was quickly picked up by The Daily Stormer.

These incidents comes on the heels of several other public spats between members of the “Alt Right” and various “Patriot” and militia groups.

Brad Griffin, who writes on Occidental Dissent under the alias Hunter Wallace, has posted accounts of feuds between “Patriot” and militia organizations such as “American Warrior Resistance” and Oath Keepers after disagreements in Gainesville and New Orleans over the past month.

“I’m addressing a group called the American Warrior Revolution, we’re addressing our friends the Oathcucks, and various III% militia groups. We’ve been watching you people since then and we’ve had a little trouble.”

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sagehen  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:08:56am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹

Nine-Year-Old Wants to Make Bigfoot State’s Official Cryptid (goes to Crosscut, more at the link):

Senator Rivers’s bill died in committee, but she intends to revive it in the next legislative session.

Which state gets the chupacabra? California wants dibs on the snipe.

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steve_davis  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:12:13am

re: #27 Birth Control Works

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

The word is also used literally to mean the motherfucker who gave us 8 years of Dubya.

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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:13:08am

Okay…it’s all over…go about your business.

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covfefe  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:13:18am

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Timothy Watson  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:19:44am

re: #109 FormerDirtDart

Silly wabbits, Sir Orange has already addressed the fate of his minions.
He’ll wait to make additional statements until he see a potential advantage to be gained.

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As bad as I feel for the families of these deceased sailors, I feel worse that they may likely have to endure a phone call from the Commander and Chief. I can only hope that he is actually capable of projecting some level of empathy in private that he has never shown in public.

Is Japan paying “its fair share” yet?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:21:08am

More wingnuts going off on more mainstream conservatives (some of whom are also wingnuts).

After the widespread backlash the Southern Baptist Convention received over its rejection of condemnation of the so-called “alt-right” movement (the argument was the condemnation was too broad, potentially implicating conservatives that do not support the so-called “alt right” movement), the SBC went back to the drawing board for a new resolution.

The convention voted formally to “decry every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy as antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ” and to “denounce and repudiate white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as a scheme of the devil,” according to the Associated Press Wednesday.

Richard Spencer weighed in on Tuesday when the SBC rejected the original resolution favourably. Wednesday when they adopted the narrower resolution above, he went ballistic on Twitter, saying the SBC “really excels at submission.”

rawstory.com (considerably more at the link on Mr. Spencer and the wrangling over the resolution passed by the SBC).

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sagehen  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:23:24am

re: #107 darthstar

Mornin’ everyone…catching up on the Trump crap…quick review of Hamilton from yesterday though: Holy fucking shit. Worth the $1500 we spent…every cent.

I’m going on Thursday…

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:24:00am

I’m always amazed at the patience some people possess to complete something like this.

This Kid Built An Incredible Model Of A Boeing Jet From Paper Folders

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:32:25am
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Ace Rothstein  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:35:59am

re: #114 darthstar

Okay…it’s all over…go about your business.

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So Trump hung someone else out to dry, eh? When are they ever going to learn?

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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:39:46am
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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:42:47am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:44:18am
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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:44:47am
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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:49:29am

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

That was actually kind of cute.

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BigPapa  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:57:31am

Trump could, ya know, tweet ‘I have tapes’ or ‘I don’t have tapes’ while on speakerphone with the Secretary of the Navy.

Oh, he can’t. There’s no Secretary of the Navy. He has to pick one.

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BigPapa  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:01:23am

Poignant take on the Megyn Kelley Alex Jones ‘interview’

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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:03:17am

This is so fucking stupid. Clean Tech is moving out of the US. We’re going to be hard pressed bringing that back to this country in the next administration.

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The Major  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:07:51am

We are alll Vir Cotto today: RIP, Stephan Furst:
msn.com

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:09:49am

re: #127 BigPapa

Trump could, ya know, tweet ‘I have tapes’ or ‘I don’t have tapes’ while on speakerphone with the Secretary of the Navy.

Oh, he can’t. There’s no Secretary of the Navy. He has to pick one.

Richard V. Spencer was officially nominated for Secretary of the Navy on June 6, 2017

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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:10:57am

re: #130 The Major

We are alll Vir Cotto today: RIP, Stephan Furst:
msn.com

Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:13:13am
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FormerDirtDart  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:14:08am
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covfefe  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:14:26am

Newt on ABC This Week making a fool of himself.

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BigPapa  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:16:34am

re: #131 FormerDirtDart

QUIT YELLING AT ME!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:21:42am
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MsJ  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:26:09am

re: #90 wheat-dogg

I’ve had some very good meatballs served with a grape jelly sauce, of all things. Sounds gross till you’ve tried it. Adding hot pepper to the meatballs seems to counteract the sweetness of the jelly.

But these were appetizers, not a main course.

Ketchup and grape jelly makes a fabulous meatball sauce (along with some spices). I, too, thought ICK until I tried it.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:26:49am
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MsJ  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:34:08am

re: #109 FormerDirtDart

You are assuming Trump will call the families. I don’t think he would. He doesn’t have the capacity to have empathy to understand that he should make those calls, let alone make them.

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Teukka  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:35:38am

re: #76 Patricia Kayden

So to save a little bit of money, the put hundreds of lives at risk? Doesn’t make a lick of sense given all the money they’ll have to pay out now for this completely avoidable tragedy.

Ever after that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Milton Friedman came up with his damn doctrine (“a company’s only responsibility is to its shareholders”), companies in most of the world have chased short-term profits and savings (=profits) like a drug addict chases the next high.

£8,000 against damages misread statistics say you likely never have to pay. The thing is, if the chance of a major fire is 1:100,000, the longer the building lives without a major fire the greater the risk becomes. And a refurbishment doesn’t change that. And using flammable cladding increases the risk that the fire is a total and utter conflagration when it happens.

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned lies and Statistics.

And the FriedmanAddict Doctrine has infected part of national economists too, they stare themselves blind on short-term savings not realizing that they are expensive as fuck long-term (5x to 20x the saving is not uncommon).

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darthstar  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:44:34am
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MsJ  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:44:39am
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Jay C  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:49:08am

re: #141 Teukka

re: #76 Patricia Kayden

And what makes the Grenfell Tower Fire look even worse (to the public eye, anyway) is that the building’s owner (a Local Council, so presumably responsible to some “taxpayers” somewhere down the line) recently spent £8.6MM* on what was basically a cosmetic refurbishment: whatever the costs of fire-safety improvements or equipment might have been, they will surely seem like petty-cash compared to the costs the 6/14 fire will eventually run up.

*c. $11MM: seems high to me, but I don’t have that good a handle on those types of costs for London. Re-bricking the facade of a similar building in New York runs, I think, something around $3MM (?), which seems like a lot more work than adding the cladding as they did at Grenfell Tower.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:53:22am

re: #143 MsJ

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Nice. Retweeted On Sight.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:55:29am
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Nyet  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:01:17am

I reported this.

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BigPapa  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:02:33am

Watching Sekulow’s Sunday rounds, Chris Wallace really rattled him. What’s funny is Sekulow has more than once prattled about Trump’s effective use of social media but he’s spending all Sunday defend and redirect the conversation because Trump, according to Sekulow, tweeted out a falsehood.

mediaite.com

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jaunte  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:07:52am
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Nyet  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:11:17am

re: #149 jaunte

It’s an honor blocking.

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:16:18am

re: #149 jaunte

It is an honor to be blocked by the uncouth one.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:19:35am

re: #150 Nyet

Being on that list as a citizen just might add one to the list of victims of Trumps violations of those laws that impact Presidential actions, like record keeping etc.
forbes.com

“This Twitter account operates as a ‘designated public forum’ for First Amendment purposes, and accordingly the viewpoint-based blocking of our clients is unconstitutional,” read the letter sent by the Knight First Amendment Institute to Trump on Tuesday. “We ask that you unblock them and any others who have been blocked for similar reasons.”… While social media censorship is still a gray area of the law, there may still be precedent for this type of case. In Davison v. Loudoun County, a Loudoun County, Virginia resident named Brian Davison sued the county’s board of supervisors for deleting a negative comment he made on the chair of the board’s Facebook page. While the chairwoman attempted to have the case dismissed by arguing that the social media page was her personal account, the court refused to dismiss the case and treated the account as an official government page…

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:21:59am

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹

I’m disappointed that the jury was hung. He should have been found guilty given that he has admitted under oath while being deposed that he has given at least one woman drugs so that he could have sex with her. How can someone consent to sex if they’re drugged up? Is he arguing that women are agreeing to be drugged up so he can have sex with them?

Ironic that a man who spent considerable effort telling young Black men to pull up their pants and take responsibility for their lives, couldn’t exercise self control over his own libido. What a way to destroy one’s own legacy.

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ObserverArt  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:22:50am

I caught about 5 minutes of Meet The Chuck and his panel, and that was 5 minutes too much of David Brooks and Danielle Pletka.

I guess since the word around DC Republicans is “there is nothing there” the investigations should stop because all they are doing is drawing in an undisciplined man to overreact and make it look like he is obstructing.

Oh?

And not one point made or question asked about what started this all…Russia, Mike Flynn, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone(ed), Carter Page and Trump people close to all of it.

If there is “nothing there” then why did the undisciplined man start doing all kinds of undisciplined things to attempt to stop the investigations? Don’t over-think it political pundits, sometimes the answer can be so simple. He is doing it because he has a reason for doing it. He isn’t doing it because he is undisciplined, his methods are undisciplined.

I think it is pretty simple and should be for someone with their reputations to figure out. An innocent man, even undisciplined, wouldn’t be going to the lengths to deny, misdirect and yes…obstruct… an investigation into nothing.

Yeah Trump is an ego maniac and he would go to all lengths to make himself look good, but to this length? He isn’t that fucking stupid.

I think Brooks and Pletka and even Amy Walker are too willing to buy the Republican line of nothing there because that is The Great Republican Hope for Trump. They want to obstruct and delay everything so they can continue to fuck us all over for more tax cuts for their big buddies.

All of DC is now in the act of delaying and dodging. They are all obstructing everything. It is a race for Trump to hang on and the Republicans to do as much as they can before this all blows up one way or another.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:24:08am

re: #57 Dave In Austin

“36 new legislative bills signed”

Which 36 new legislative bills has Trump signed? It’s my understanding that he has signed exactly zero legislative bills.

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Pineapple Pizzagate  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:37:38am

re: #95 jaunte

I’ve never seen anyone who looks more like a sleazy shyster than this sleazy shyster.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:39:24am
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BeachDem  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:39:53am

So, here in the other special election that isn’t getting national coverage, the yam did a robocall for the Republican, but never mentioned the guy’s name:

“I need you to get to the polls on Tuesday to vote Republican for Congress. The liberal Democrats think that they have a chance to steal the seat from you.

Is he so busy tweeting crap that he has to do a generic robocall they can run in any district?
thestate.com

I hope that this means they’re scared Archie Parnell might actually win. GO ARCHIE!!

If you haven’t seen it, Archie’s hilarious House of Cards parody spot:

Archie Parnell: A Matador For You (HOC)

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HappyWarrior  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:43:12am

re: #147 Nyet

I reported this.

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BigPapa  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:47:00am

re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth

Article on Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow How to get rich suing for Jesus

On July 31, the day that the Center for Medical Progress was sued over the release of a series of undercover videos targeting Planned Parenthood, Jay Sekulow, a prominent Christian conservative lawyer, released an ad attacking President Obama over his support for the group.
“I call him the defender-in-chief,” said Sekulow, who looks like Saul Goodman with money and a good tailor. Dramatic background music akin to the score of a Hitchcock film played as he attacked Obama for “defending, relentlessly, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in light of all the videos that have been released this week.” The White House’s support for Planned Parenthood, Sekulow argued, was “unthinkable” on its own, but to blame the creators of the sting videos for anything at all, he said, “well, that just doesn’t work.”

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 18, 2017 • 9:55:05am

re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s going to make him a shitload of money from wingnuts when he gets out.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:01:16am

I had the unfortunate pleasure of meeting Jay Sekulow last year. He’s an asshole.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:09:04am
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Dave In Austin  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:11:12am

Morning all. Looks like Jack is getting the crap….

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HappyWarrior  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:12:45am

re: #164 Dave In Austin

Morning all. Looks like Jack is getting the crap….

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Even if he is a vet, he’s still a fucked up person.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:13:36am

re: #155 Patricia Kayden

“36 new legislative bills signed”

Which 36 new legislative bills has Trump signed? It’s my understanding that he has signed exactly zero legislative bills.

He’s renamed a couple post offices.

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Ace-o-aces  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:14:16am
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Ace-o-aces  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:15:16am

re: #155 Patricia Kayden

“36 new legislative bills signed”

Which 36 new legislative bills has Trump signed? It’s my understanding that he has signed exactly zero legislative bills.

“legislative bills” seems kind of redundant. Is there another kind of bill?

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Dave In Austin  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:17:15am

re: #155 Patricia Kayden

“36 new legislative bills signed”

Which 36 new legislative bills has Trump signed? It’s my understanding that he has signed exactly zero legislative bills.

It’s what he thinks that counts as the truth…. Ya know? Alternate Facts and all…

I’ll tell ya, I get home from work in the morning and hit the rack for a few hours. I don’t know what I’m going to wake up too on a daily basis.

Has Donald showed up in his Brawny shirt at Camp David yet?

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:17:36am
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Nyet  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:20:22am

re: #165 HappyWarrior

Not absolute proof, but good evidence still.

And who said vets are supposed to be good, rather than being like all other people?

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The Vicious Babushka  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:21:20am

re: #170 FormerDirtDart

So did he fail the drug test or the ethics check?

Or both?

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HappyWarrior  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:23:37am

re: #171 Nyet

Not absolute proof, but good evidence still.

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And who said vets are supposed to be good, rather than being like all other people?

Exactly.

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Ace-o-aces  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:25:03am

re: #170 FormerDirtDart

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Timothy Watson  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:25:46am

re: #171 Nyet

Not absolute proof, but good evidence still.

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And who said vets are supposed to be good, rather than being like all other people?

No, vets who are Democrats are the evilest people around!1!!

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retired cynic  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:25:47am

And we finish up one week, and get set to start the next on the downward slope:

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HappyWarrior  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:25:59am

re: #174 Ace-o-aces

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Stan will be glad to have him back.

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HappyWarrior  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:26:44am

re: #175 Timothy Watson

No, vets who are Democrats are the evilest people around!1!!

Heh but yeah Sergey, I agree, being a vet isn’t a get out of jail free card for being a jerk.

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mmmirele  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:30:40am

re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth

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My asshat congressman, Rep. Andy “I won $10 million in the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes” Biggs, reposted those videos on his Facebook when they were posted to LiveLeak. I called up Rep. Biggs’ local office and chewed out the aide, pointing out those videos were under a court order not to be disclosed, and did Rep. Biggs, graduate of Brigham Young University Law, not understand that? And maybe I should turn *him* (Rep. Biggs) into the judge as well. I don’t know if anything happened, but it made me feel better.

Yesterday, though, I did agree with Biggs that Bernie shouldn’t have quizzed Russ Vought about his religion. I then went on to point out that Vought, who had recently worked at Wheaton College, would consider Biggs, a Mormon, to be not a Christian and a cultist. I’m pretty sure Biggs doesn’t read his FB, but I want his followers to understand that making common cause with Evangelicals who think you’re going to ultimately burn in hell (and yes I said that) is not terribly smart, IMHO.

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ObserverArt  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:30:45am

re: #172 The Vicious Babushka

So did he fail the drug test or the ethics check?

Or both?

I wonder if the big tough guy basically didn’t want to go through any of it for fear of it all spoiling his image and grift.

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jeffreyw  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:39:19am

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Tacos for lunch

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Dave In Austin  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:51:58am

Did everyone run off to make tacos for lunch?

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Charles Johnson  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:53:30am
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Unshaken Defiance  Jun 18, 2017 • 10:57:32am

re: #183 Charles Johnson
He just keeps pushing.

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Targetpractice  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:00:13am

re: #183 Charles Johnson

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By this point, if you’re on Trump’s legal team, it might be time to consider a career change.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:06:32am

re: #185 Targetpractice

By this point, if you’re on Trump’s legal team, it might be time to consider a career change. repent and get a soul

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William Lewis  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:08:01am

re: #181 jeffreyw

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Tacos for lunch

Probably a bit better than the frozen chicken,bean & rice burritos I’m having. OTOH, they aren’t bad on a bed of rice with some mild red sauce.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:09:08am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:10:15am
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Unshaken Defiance  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:11:13am

Squee! Earlier today- He was being so protective of that paper !

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ObserverArt  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:13:43am

re: #185 Targetpractice

By this point, if you’re on Trump’s legal team, it might be time to consider a career change.

Nah, but better clients are in order.

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Nyet  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:17:19am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

New age in the French politics. I hope Macron does not fuck it up. Big hopes.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:18:06am

re: #148 BigPapa

Watching Sekulow’s Sunday rounds, Chris Wallace really rattled him. What’s funny is Sekulow has more than once prattled about Trump’s effective use of social media but he’s spending all Sunday defend and redirect the conversation because Trump, according to Sekulow, tweeted out a falsehood.

mediaite.com

Sekulow is such a nasty piece of excrement that it’s no wonder he has decided to provide legal defense for Trump’s messiness. I hope that he and his organization are brought down by association with the Trumpster. Now that would be justice.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:20:27am

re: #183 Charles Johnson

LOL!1 But he ran such a well-disciplined presidential campaign where he exhibited self control and great poise. What happened? This is shocking!!

P.S. Where is that elusive pivot that Trump was supposed to do once he got into the White House?

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Targetpractice  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:29:06am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The populist “wave” seems to have been far less than advertised.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:32:51am

Get blocked for just quoting?

Edit-So used the comment to Page feature which worked really well too. No link cause same content

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calochortus  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:32:58am

re: #195 Targetpractice

The populist “wave” seems to have been far less than advertised.

We’ve done the world a favor by showing what happens when you elect idiots. It partly balances out the harm of having elected an idiot.

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ObserverArt  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:34:20am

re: #194 Patricia Kayden

LOL!1 But he ran such a well-disciplined presidential campaign where he exhibited self control and great poise. What happened? This is shocking!!

P.S. Where is that elusive pivot that Trump was supposed to do once he got into the White House?

Pivot? More like plop.

For all the people that thought Trump would be bad; he is worse.

For all the people that thought they could control and get him to do something like a political pivot; he is the worst.

Everyone is losing, everyone knows it and they are all accessing the damage potential.

The party in control acts like they are in denial as a political tactic. How long can they act? They know the damage but how much are they willing to suffer? It’s all in on this one as far as the Republican’s political gamble.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:42:00am

I’m in a friendly discussion on FB with one of my Nephew’s friends, who’s a Libertarian. After a series of unanswered questions/arguments from me, he said, “You’re not making any new arguments.”

I said, “I don’t have to. You haven’t answered the ones I’ve already made.”

I have yet to meet a Libertarian who can answer anything as simple as snow removal from public thoroughfares, without simply making government again.

Oh, and it’s already 91 degrees here. Bleah.

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freetoken  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:48:46am

There is no greater schadenfreude than watching a creationist having to fend off flat-earthers.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:48:47am

Sometimes I suspect the “sources close to the White House” include the bum in Lafayette Park that shared my daughter’s lunch on a field trip.

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calochortus  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:49:38am

re: #199 Blind Frog Belly White

I
I have yet to meet a Libertarian who can answer anything as simple as snow removal from public thoroughfares, without simply making government again.

Oh, and it’s already 91 degrees here. Bleah.

I’m sure it’s totally different-you know, self interested people banding together of their own free will to accomplish something. As long as you don’t call it “government” it can’t be one.

And it’s 95° here. We gave in and turned on the A/C.

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:51:48am
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Single-handed sailor  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:54:19am

warm here too

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:55:57am

It is warm here in Philly too. And there is a storm coming into the area.
forecast.weather.gov

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Decatur Deb  Jun 18, 2017 • 11:57:43am

re: #204 Single-handed sailor

warm here too

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You’re 7.8 degrees warmer than Baja Alabama, if that gives you a warm-and-fuzzy.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:00:24pm

re: #202 calochortus

I’m sure it’s totally different-you know, self interested people banding together of their own free will to accomplish something. As long as you don’t call it “government” it can’t be one.

And it’s 95° here. We gave in and turned on the A/C.

You intrigue me, stranger! Tell me more of this ‘A/C’ you speak of!\
///

This is a 20 year old argument between me and Mrs. FBW. Whenever I say anything about air conditioning, she looks at me like I suggested we swim to China.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:00:46pm

re: #206 Decatur Deb

You’re 7.8 degrees warmer than Baja Alabama, if that gives you a warm-and-fuzzy.

Yeah, but it’s a dry heave.

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makeitstop  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:03:06pm

re: #206 Decatur Deb

You’re 7.8 degrees warmer than Baja Alabama, if that gives you a warm-and-fuzzy.

Only 74 degrees here, but it’s accompanied by what feels like 400% humidity.

The joys of living on a chunk of land that juts out into the ocean…

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freetoken  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:05:25pm

Guys, your “warmth” is only illusory, your own truth, but not the real world…

Here, this narrator sez it best (about 30 seconds in in):

Flat Earth explained, do you think its a conspiracy theory or the truth : A MUST WATCH

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calochortus  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:06:58pm

re: #207 Blind Frog Belly White

You intrigue me, stranger! Tell me more of this ‘A/C’ you speak of!\
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This is a 20 year old argument between me and Mrs. FBW. Whenever I say anything about air conditioning, she looks at me like I suggested we swim to China.

Yah, I know. My parents did it as a retrofit to this house when they got older and just couldn’t take the heat. Even when we moved here 20+ years ago I thought a whole house fan would have been more practical. Now? We’re seeing longer hot spells and we do really appreciate it from time to time. Back in the day, heat was 3 days and done, and we rarely had really warm nights except maybe once in the Fall. The last few years we get 5 day hot spells. This particular heat event started Friday (high 88°) and is now predicted to continue in the 90s until Friday when it will again be 88°. This is weird. So no, nothing could possibly be happening to the climate.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:07:49pm

99 with the humidex on the Gulf Coast today. Thank the lord there’s plenty of good swimming spots around here.

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mmmirele  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:08:35pm

I just checked my Alexa and it’s 100 degrees at noon, with a high of 111 predicted.

Alexa insists on telling me there’s a heat warning in effect until Thursday at 8 pm before giving me any information.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:08:46pm

re: #211 calochortus

One week after we lose the ability to air condition, our town will look like a chunk of downtown Chernobyl.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:14:33pm

I could never have lived in the South before AC.

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De Kolta Chair  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:14:43pm

A humid 82 °F here in NYC. Sounds like we lucked out.

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bratwurst  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:20:32pm
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gocart mozart  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:22:44pm

Question for anyone: is Jason’s Isbell related to the pop singer Scotty Isbell?

I only ask because he followed me for some reason so I followed him back, as is my general policy, but he is such a trump knucklehead I had to unfollow.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:30:17pm

re: #170 FormerDirtDart

Clarke knew he’d be under too much observation in that job. Much harder to murder people legally with that sort of scrutiny.

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De Kolta Chair  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:32:30pm

re: #217 bratwurst

But I’m married. ⊙︿⊙

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Jay C  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:36:02pm

re: #219 Romantic Heretic

Clarke knew he’d be under too much observation in that job. Much harder to murder people legally with that sort of scrutiny.

Either that, or he knew there were going to be some scandals popping up back home that he wouldn’t want to have to deal with as an Administration official.

Either way, good riddance.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:37:42pm

guessing ted was asleep in law school when the actual definition of “free speech” was discussed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:38:36pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:41:20pm
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calochortus  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:41:30pm

re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gee, how did I miss all those important stories?

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freetoken  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:42:48pm

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wait… isn’t this Nellis thing so 2016?

Why is this even going on? Shouldn’t the 15 minutes of fame be up by now?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:49:14pm
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ericblair  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:55:29pm

re: #171 Nyet

Not absolute proof, but good evidence still.

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And who said vets are supposed to be good, rather than being like all other people?

Flag patch is on the wrong arm.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:58:06pm

re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth

Just another example of Trump refusing to take responsibility for anything.

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jaunte  Jun 18, 2017 • 12:59:08pm

#Assad media is reporting that the U.S. military just shot down a #Syria jet near #Tabqa, #Raqqa.
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#pt: Earlier reports claimed a jet had been downed after #Assad regime airstrikes targeted U.S.-backed anti-#ISIS SDF forces near #Tabqa.
……….
BIG pt.2 = The #IRGC launched a series of ballistic missiles frm #Iran at #ISIS targets in east #Syria today.

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BigPapa  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:01:27pm
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Unshaken Defiance  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:08:47pm

re: #230 jaunte

Uh oh. When a ballistic missile launches from Iran and flies in the direction of Israel an awful lot can go badly.

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covfefe  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:12:56pm

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

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A dark and stormy covfefe  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:13:53pm

Some Sunday awesomeness:

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steve_davis  Jun 18, 2017 • 1:35:57pm

re: #119 FormerDirtDart

I’m always amazed at the patience some people possess to complete something like this.

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I’ve never flown commercial. i take it those shitty seats that start behind the grown-up seats are where the Madding Crowd gets stuffed?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 18, 2017 • 3:25:47pm

re: #217 bratwurst

Men should ejaculate at least 21 times per month to reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer.

Well that’s me covered for June already. Guess I could start working on July already…

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MomSense  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:03:55pm

Delurking to say how much I love Jason Isbell. My son (blues guitarist) introduced me to his music. I was a young mom so sometimes it feels like my son and I grew up together. Anyway he sent me this song Children of Children and it makes me tear up every time.
Link

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Decatur Deb  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:15:11pm

re: #237 MomSense

Delurking to say how much I love Jason Isbell. My son (blues guitarist) introduced me to his music. I was a young mom so sometimes it feels like my son and I grew up together. Anyway he sent me this song Children of Children and it makes me tear up every time.
Link

That opened to Speed Trap Town. Photorealistic lyrics, love-child of Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp. Come up and play.

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MomSense  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:33:41pm

re: #238 Decatur Deb

Shoot. Not sure how I did that. I’ll try again.

Link

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Decatur Deb  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:48:33pm

re: #239 MomSense

Shoot. Not sure how I did that. I’ll try again.

Link

Children was good, the next, The Life You Chose is our freakn’ biography. (Met a girl before Elizabethtown went wet, courted in the back of her 66 Mustang, had our first kid when she was 19, still living the life she chose.)

Jason Isbell - The Life You Chose

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MomSense  Jun 18, 2017 • 6:53:25pm

re: #240 Decatur Deb

Another great song. That’s what I love about him. The stories are real and so well told. Did you see his CBS interview? I think it was called the fall and rise of Jason Isbell.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 18, 2017 • 7:00:58pm

re: #241 MomSense

Another great song. That’s what I love about him. The stories are real and so well told. Did you see his CBS interview? I think it was called the fall and rise of Jason Isbell.

Nah. Never heard of him until Charles put him up. There is a great music scene in Muscle Shoals. The Stones have recorded there, and our favorite Auburn girl:

Kate Campbell - Steal Away Trilogy

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MomSense  Jun 18, 2017 • 8:01:11pm

re: #242 Decatur Deb

The Muscle Shoals documentary is one of my favorites.


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