Right Wing Launches Another Fake Outrage Over CNN, Based on Outright Lies

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Here we have the latest right wing fake outrage, as dishonest fake news peddler @JackPosobiec whips up the delusional base into a frenzy with outright lies.

(The dishonest tweet above has now been deleted by Posobiec.)

Two important things to realize:

  1. The guy who posted the "CNN wrestling" video retweeted by Donald Trump ("HanAssholeSolo") is not a "15-year old member of the LGBT community." He's a 37-year old man. This outright lie was invented by Posobiec.
  2. The Reddit user only "apologized" after CNN found out who he was and contacted him. The "apology" was very obviously inspired by fear that his identity was about to be revealed.

Here’s an archive of “HanAssholeSolo’s” posts at Reddit, for reference, in case you didn’t know just how despicable and vile this guy really is.

And on this page he states very clearly that he’s 37 years old.

Also see
Does CNN owe racists anonymity? – ThinkProgress

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:15:08pm

4chan. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:16:58pm

I still think this dude will get doxxed any day now.

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BigPapa  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:23:05pm

Note: the alt-right and that whole hive of scum dox people all.the.damn.time.

So the outrage that CNN would do it is especially rich.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:23:21pm

Karmas a bitch.

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Lidane  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:23:28pm

The MAGA cultist on my FB feed has people posting screenshots of doxxed information about CNN’s reporters currently circulating on /pol/.

These people are crazy.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:24:17pm

re: #3 BigPapa

Note: the alt-right and that whole hive of scum dox people all.the.damn.time.

So the outrage that CNN would do it is especially rich.

They doxx rape victims ffs but oh no it’s not so fun when it might happen to us. Fucking hypocritical scumbuckets.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:24:18pm

re: #3 BigPapa

Note: the alt-right and that whole hive of scum dox people all.the.damn.time.

So the outrage that CNN would do it is especially rich.

Jack Fucking Pieceofshit is doxxing CNN employees at this very moment.

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S'latch  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:29:22pm

A major facet of the current nightmare era is that we are dominated by internet trolls. Trump is like the king emperor of internet trolls.

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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:30:18pm

My new hobby is tweeting slightly modified Elmer Gantry quotes to Mike Huckabee

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:32:03pm

Guess we all need a hobby

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BeachDem  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:33:11pm

Wait—is that actually what Posobiec tweeted? HanAholoSolo?

Because it’s the wrong fucking name.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:35:04pm
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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:35:10pm

re: #11 BeachDem

Wait—is that actually what Posobiec tweeted? HanAholoSolo?

Because it’s the wrong fucking name.

Looks that way. I mean damn if you’re going to claim someone is an innocent victim, at least get the name right, gotta laugh at homophobic right wing pieces of shit trying to make people calling this fuckhead out homophobic too.

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Teukka  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:35:11pm

Just spent some time in the comment field of an article on this precise issue. The alt-righters don’t seem to grasp that people like Anders Behring Breivik and Anton Lundin Petterson behaved more or less like this reddit tRumpkin did before they took to violence. Ever escalating homophobia, misogyny, racism, antisemitism, the works. Until all of a sudden, something bad happens.

The situation is more less like waving a fake firearm which bears a close resemblance to the real thing in front of a police officer. It’s a situation which gets people shot, even here in Sweden. But what happens here is mostly that the police fire warning rounds or come damn close to firing.

Which one of these guns is the real deal?
Click to Reveal

The right one is the real firearm

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:35:41pm

A day without alt right assholes sure would be nice.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:36:10pm

A new venture for weev since Rage Furby and Auernheimer broke up.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:37:07pm

re: #16 Dr. Matt

A new venture for weev since Rage Furby and Auernheimer broke up.

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Scumbags.

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Flying Squirrel Girl  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:40:21pm

Reposting from dead thread.

OT regarding the Trump “sundowning” comments posted earlier:

I’ve watched all 3 of the wandering videos several times today. In each one, Trump is wearing the same expression on his face. When my mom had multiple brain tumors, she had a similar facial expression — very flat affect. It seems like he is behaving the same way she did, sort of on “auto pilot” and just going through the motions.

Not saying he has brain tumors, just making an anecdotal observation about possible cognitive impairment based on my limited experience.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:41:12pm

re: #17 HappyWarrior

Scumbags.

Nazi, vile, soulless scumbags.

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BeachDem  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:41:15pm

Just want to say that the only thing as scary/more scary than the yam’s foreign policy is having Ms. Know-Nothing Nikki Haley dictating foreign policy.

“One of our capabilities lies with our considerable military forces. We will use them if we must, but we prefer not to have to go in that direction,” Haley said.

I know next to nothing about foreign policy, but probably know more than Nikki Haley.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:42:31pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:47:29pm

re: #18 Flying Squirrel Girl

Reposting from dead thread.

OT regarding the Trump “sundowning” comments posted earlier:

I’ve watched all 3 of the wandering videos several times today. In each one, Trump is wearing the same expression on his face. When my mom had multiple brain tumors, she had a similar facial expression — very flat affect. It seems like he is behaving the same way she did, sort of on “auto pilot” and just going through the motions.

Not saying he has brain tumors, just making an anecdotal observation about possible cognitive impairment based on my limited experience.

In addition, Trump seems to have invented ‘sunrising’; posting stuff on Twitter that would be stopped if only somebody close to him had the ability.

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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:50:24pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:52:26pm

re: #22 wrenchwench

In addition, Trump seems to have invented ‘sunrising’; posting stuff on Twitter that would be stopped if only somebody close to him had the ability.

Or “toileting.”

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:53:54pm

re: #23 gocart mozart

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Stop trying to be funny. At least most Dad humor has a point. You’re just a sad hack who wants people to forget you raised a compulsive liar, dog abuser, and then there’s you who blames liberals for the sexual assaults of a family friend.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 5, 2017 • 2:54:11pm

Reminding folks what an asshole Huckabee is!

Mike Huckabee ad produced by Mitt Romney in 2008

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:03:12pm

EPIC PWNAGE

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:03:25pm

Bowling Green, Ohio

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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:06:26pm
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Jebediah, RBG  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:07:14pm

re: #15 HappyWarrior

A day without alt right assholes sure would be nice.

Sounds almost like a bumpersticker…

“A day without alt-right assholes is like… a really nice day!”

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lawhawk  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:10:51pm
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FAKE NEWS!!!!

Wait, you’re reporting that Kansas Sec. State Kris Kobach rejected request by Trump’s voter commission header by Kobach? Where’s the fake news in that.

Fake news is Trump’s way of saying news he doesn’t like or appreciate.

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Mike Lamb  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:11:57pm

re: #16 Dr. Matt

A new venture for weev since Rage Furby and Auernheimer broke up.

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Sure is a good thing that CNN didn’t reveal the person’s identity. Saved CNN a bunch of grief.

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Jay C  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:12:26pm

re: #28 FormerDirtDart

Bowling Green, Ohio

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So: even without going into the issue of the Oaf Keepers having a retail presence in a mall (!) - what sort of “security” are they pretending to “provide”? Are they hired by mall management? (In which case a complaint to said management would be more appropriate than a LTE) Or just random armed wingnuts harassing mall patrons whenever they feel like it? (More complaints warranted!)

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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:13:35pm

re: #26 Joe Bacon 🌹

A lurid right-wing conspiracy theory about the Clintons took off in Arkansas in the ’90s. Unfortunately, this particular conspiracy theory led to death: Two women were raped and murdered in the early 2000s, crimes that would likely not have happened but for the right-wing noise machine churning out Clinton conspiracy theories. From the get-go, the case of Wayne DuMond, of Arkansas, was a strange one. In the mid-80s, DuMond was convicted of raping a teenager named Ashley Stevens in Forrest City, Arkansas. Shortly thereafter, as Gene Lyons of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette recalled in a 2007 retrospective, DuMond became “the Arkansas celebrity inmate of the 1990s.”

From Lyons history:

First, somebody castrated him while he was free on bond awaiting trial. (Local investigators said they suspected drunken self-mutilation, not unknown among sex offenders.) Worse, the local sheriff exhibited DuMond’s testicles in a jar of formaldehyde, an Arkansas-gothic stunt triggering rumors of vigilante justice. Second, DuMond’s victim, who’d recognized her attacker on the street weeks after the crime, was a distant cousin of Clinton. That excited the kinds of conspiracy nuts who circulated Clinton “death lists.” They portrayed DuMond as a victim of the Clinton machine’s satanic wrath. His innocence became an article of faith on the fruitcake right.

It was one of the earliest cases of the Clinton conspiracy theory machine. During Bill Clinton’s tenure as governor of Arkansas, he refused to either pardon DuMond or help him get early release, causing Clinton’s political enemies to float the claim that Clinton was involved in framing an innocent man. (Why Clinton would want the wrong man in jail for his second cousin’s rape has never been explained by the haters.) Likely, due to conservative hatred of Bill Clinton — who drew ire in no small part because of his feminist wife — DuMond because a cause célèbre of the Christian right in Arkansas.

Jay Cole was an Arkansas pastor who made a name for himself in the state with his bombastic hard-right views and TV commercials warning that America had lost its way. He also befriended DuMond, and their relationship became so close that DuMond’s wife lived with the Cole family for a time. “I became his spiritual director,” Cole was quoted as saying in the LA Times. “He was a nice fella, and it was hard to believe he could have done what he was accused of doing. And Wayne claimed to be saved.” Cole was also good friends with Mike Huckabee, and when Huckabee became governor of Arkansas in 1996, the Christian right community started a pressure campaign to get DuMond released from prison. Not that Huckabee needed much goosing to make common cause with conspiracy theorists accusing the Clintons of shady dealings with the DuMond case. While governor, Huckabee wrote to DuMond, expressing his “desire is that you be released from prison”. By then, Bill Clinton was president, and this conspiracy theory made the jump to the national stage.

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lawhawk  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:13:52pm

Heh… the holier than thou Hobby Lobby in hot water importing ancient artifacts from Iraq.

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Earlier today, the United States filed a civil complaint to forfeit thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae. As alleged in the complaint, these ancient clay artifacts originated in the area of modern-day Iraq and were smuggled into the United States through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, contrary to federal law. Packages containing the artifacts were shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (“Hobby Lobby”), a nationwide arts-and-crafts retailer based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and two of Hobby Lobby’s corporate affiliates. The shipping labels on these packages falsely described cuneiform tablets as tile “samples.”

The government also filed a stipulation of settlement with Hobby Lobby, in which Hobby Lobby consented to the forfeiture of the artifacts in the complaint, approximately 144 cylinder seals and an additional sum of $3 million, resolving the civil action. Hobby Lobby further agreed to adopt internal policies and procedures governing its importation and purchase of cultural property, provide appropriate training to its personnel, hire qualified outside customs counsel and customs brokers, and submit quarterly reports to the government on any cultural property acquisitions for the next eighteen months.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:16:57pm

re: #31 lawhawk

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FAKE NEWS!!!!

Wait, you’re reporting that Kansas Sec. State Kris Kobach rejected request by Trump’s voter commission header by Kobach? Where’s the fake news in that.

Fake news is Trump’s way of saying news he doesn’t like or appreciate.

Just wait till the vote on Articles of Impeachment doesn’t go his way - either the House passing, or the Senate convicting!

(A man can dream, can’t he?)

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BeachDem  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:17:10pm

re: #31 lawhawk

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FAKE NEWS!!!!

Wait, you’re reporting that Kansas Sec. State Kris Kobach rejected request by Trump’s voter commission header by Kobach? Where’s the fake news in that.

Fake news is Trump’s way of saying news he doesn’t like or appreciate.

Well, this adds a new, uglier dimension to the voter suppression plans of the yam administration:

Former Department of Justice officials and voting advocates are seriously alarmed over a DOJ letter sent to states last week that they say could signal a forthcoming effort to kick people off voter rolls…

The DOJ sent the letter to 44 states last Wednesday, the same day the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity sent a letter controversially requesting personal voter information. The DOJ letter requests that election officials respond by detailing their compliance with a section of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), which covers 44 states and was enacted to help people register to vote, but also specifies when voters may be kicked off the rolls.

Several experts said it’s difficult not to see the DOJ letter in connection with the commission’s letter as part of a multipronged effort to restrict voting rights…

“These two letters, sent on the same day, are highly suspect, and seem to confirm that the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to suppress the right to vote,” said Vanita Gupta, the CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and former head of DOJ’s civil rights division under President Barack Obama. “It is not normal for the Department of Justice to ask for voting data from all states covered by the National Voter Registration Act. It’s likely that this is instead the beginning of an effort to force unwarranted voter purges…”

huffingtonpost.com

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Jebediah, RBG  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:18:39pm
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Jay C  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:22:42pm

re: #38 Jebediah, RBG

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Well, Jeb: if you are a Republican elected official, the answer to that question is “anywhere from two to six years”.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:23:51pm

re: #39 Jay C

It is a damn shame that you are 100% correct.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:25:17pm

re: #37 BeachDem

Well, this adds a new, uglier dimension to the voter suppression plans of the yam administration:

Former Department of Justice officials and voting advocates are seriously alarmed over a DOJ letter sent to states last week that they say could signal a forthcoming effort to kick people off voter rolls…

The DOJ sent the letter to 44 states last Wednesday, the same day the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity sent a letter controversially requesting personal voter information. The DOJ letter requests that election officials respond by detailing their compliance with a section of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), which covers 44 states and was enacted to help people register to vote, but also specifies when voters may be kicked off the rolls.

Several experts said it’s difficult not to see the DOJ letter in connection with the commission’s letter as part of a multipronged effort to restrict voting rights…

“These two letters, sent on the same day, are highly suspect, and seem to confirm that the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to suppress the right to vote,” said Vanita Gupta, the CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and former head of DOJ’s civil rights division under President Barack Obama. “It is not normal for the Department of Justice to ask for voting data from all states covered by the National Voter Registration Act. It’s likely that this is instead the beginning of an effort to force unwarranted voter purges…”

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I’ve said all along that Republicans are hell bent on forcing all states to use Kobach’s Crosscheck to throw millions of Democrats off of voter rolls.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:26:49pm

re: #29 gocart mozart

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I dunno Donald maybe the fact we actually love our country unlike your father who would sell us to Russia if Putin told him to.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:29:50pm

re: #42 HappyWarrior

I dunno Donald maybe the fact we actually love our country unlike your father who would sell us to Russia if Putin told him to.

You mean who has already sold us out to Russia, don’t you? :-)

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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:35:20pm
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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:36:03pm
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No Depression  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:36:13pm

re: #33 Jay C

So: even without going into the issue of the Oaf Keepers having a retail presence in a mall (!) - what sort of “security” are they pretending to “provide”? Are they hired by mall management? (In which case a complaint to said management would be more appropriate than a LTE) Or just random armed wingnuts harassing mall patrons whenever they feel like it? (More complaints warranted!)

I’m thinking the latter, probably to extort money from mall patrons or harass swarthy furiners.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:38:16pm

re: #44 gocart mozart

That was very good. It just went by a little too fast.

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nowherenorth2  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:39:16pm

Awe the trumps
Lovers of the racists
Loved by the racists

And these people were elected in. That baffles me to this day no matter the studies

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calochortus  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:43:12pm

re: #46 No Depression

I’m thinking the latter, probably to extort money from mall patrons or harass swarthy furiners.

I’m guessing this was related to the fact the Oath Keepers were putting on a Prepper event at the mall and charging admission to that event. Apparently they thought that gave them the right to charge everyone walking through the mall $10/person.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:53:47pm

re: #35 lawhawk

Didn’t Hobby Lobby offer coverage for birth control at one time, but someone decided the CEO (who is a total whackjob) would volunteer to use his company for the lawsuit against the provision in the ACA?

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sagehen  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:57:12pm

re: #50 Ace Rothstein

Didn’t Hobby Lobby offer coverage for birth control at one time, but someone decided the CEO (who is a total whackjob) would volunteer to use his company for the lawsuit against the provision in the ACA?

Same for Notre Dame and Georgetown.

Also… Hobby Lobby’s pension funds were invested in companies that manufacturer contraceptive devices and medications they were opposed to having covered by their self-insurance. And they buy a lot of their crafting supplies from Chinese factories that have mandatory abortions for pregnant employees.

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Jay C  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:58:53pm

re: #50 Ace Rothstein

Didn’t Hobby Lobby offer coverage for birth control at one time, but someone decided the CEO (who is a total whackjob) would volunteer to use his company for the lawsuit against the provision in the ACA?

Wasn’t it the other way round? I thought the deal was that Hobby Lobby’s religious-nut owners decided to front the birth-control-mandate challenge on their own (as much as any Big Hate wingnuts ever mount national campaigns “on their own”)?

HL was known for their overt corporate religiosity (never open on Sunday, etc) well before Obamacare came in…

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 3:59:56pm

re: #51 sagehen

Same for Notre Dame and Georgetown.

Also… Hobby Lobby’s pension funds were invested in companies that manufacturer contraceptive devices and medications they were opposed to having covered by their self-insurance. And they buy a lot of their crafting supplies from Chinese factories that have mandatory abortions for pregnant employees.

That’s right but they’re so moral.//

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:01:35pm

re: #35 lawhawk

Heh… the holier than thou Hobby Lobby in hot water importing ancient artifacts from Iraq.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:03:38pm

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darthstar  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:17:52pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

I still think this dude will get doxxed any day now.

Fuck him. He’s a racist and a bigot.

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EPR-radar  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:18:35pm

re: #36 Blind Frog Belly White

Just wait till the vote on Articles of Impeachment doesn’t go his way - either the House passing, or the Senate convicting!

(A man can dream, can’t he?)

The best part about this scenario would be when tr*mp orders the military to ‘deal with’ Congress, and gets told to fuck off and die because he is no longer commander in chief, and even if he were, such unconstitutional orders by a president would never be followed.

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TedStriker  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:20:30pm

re: #27 The Vicious Babushka

EPIC PWNAGE

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:25:53pm

re: #20 BeachDem

“One of our capabilities lies with our considerable military forces. We will use them if we must, but we prefer not to have to go in that direction,” Haley said.

Boy, she’s puttin’ that learnin’ school degree to good use. Next thing you know, she’ll tell us that government governs stuff.

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ObserverArt  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:25:57pm

Reminder. As mentioned earlier there is a SpaceX launch coming up at 7:38 EDT.

Link to live coverage at SpaceX.

www.spacex.com/webcast

Edit to add EDT!

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:27:29pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:27:36pm

re: #59 Pawn of the Oppressor

Boy, she’s puttin’ that learnin’ school degree to good use. Next thing you know, she’ll tell us that government governs stuff.

Has anyone here ever noticed that her mouth never moves when she speaks? It’s like she’s working on a future job as a ventriloquist when she loses this job at the UN.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:28:48pm

re: #61 goddamnedfrank

I never thought anyone had a more punchable face than Eric or Junior, but this guy, holy shit.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:30:26pm

re: #63 Ace Rothstein

I never thought anyone had a more punchable face than Eric or Junior, but this guy, holy shit.

Oh yes for sure.

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retired cynic  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:31:30pm

re: #31 lawhawk

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FAKE NEWS!!!!

Wait, you’re reporting that Kansas Sec. State Kris Kobach rejected request by Trump’s voter commission header by Kobach? Where’s the fake news in that.

Fake news is Trump’s way of saying news he doesn’t like or appreciate.

Not swearing this is true, of course, but Greg Palast is saying a bunch of those states are sharing or have already shared this, and are just lying at this point.

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ObserverArt  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:31:35pm

Was just reading at the SpaceX link, they will not be recovering the first stage booster this launch. They said it is due to the mission requirements. Sounds like they are having to send this one in a manner that makes recovery difficult.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:31:46pm

Space X launch coming up.

Intelsat 35e Launch Webcast

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:32:14pm

re: #60 ObserverArt

Reminder. As mentioned earlier there is a SpaceX launch coming up at 7:38 EDT.

Link to live coverage at SpaceX.

www.spacex.com/webcast

Edit to add EDT!

Too sunny to see it from Tybee and I don’t think I’d make it down to the beach in time anyway… Webcast it is :)

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bratwurst  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:32:14pm

You know you are a nitwit when you get owned by Chris Cuomo!

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:35:54pm

re: #66 ObserverArt

Was just reading at the SpaceX link, they will not be recovering the first stage booster this launch. They said it is due to the mission requirements. Sounds like they are having to send this one in a manner that makes recovery difficult.

It’s because of the mass and the high orbit required. It will require every bit of fuel in the first stage to reach the required velocity. This may be the last expendable launch before 9-Heavy takes over launches in this mass/orbit class.

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:36:45pm

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:38:43pm

re: #69 bratwurst

You know you are a nitwit when you get owned by Chris Cuomo!

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What’s even funnier? Here in Wisconsin every voter fraud case in the last decade has been committed by Republicans…

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:39:21pm

re: #71 William Lewis

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:40:22pm

re: #72 William Lewis

What’s even funnier? Here in Wisconsin every voter fraud case in the last decade has been committed by Republicans…

Look at what you made us do!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:40:36pm

The GOP probably wishes they could count each Democrat as 3/5 of a person for voting purposes.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:40:37pm

re: #69 bratwurst

Does that count the Iowa woman that tried to vote for Trump twice and was arrested?

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:40:45pm

And they’re off! spacex.com

Routine spaceflight at last. I have waited 60 years to see this.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:41:08pm

re: #74 HappyWarrior

Look at what you made us do!

You jest, but whaddya want to bet that’s actually the response we get? Stupid libruls cheating on elections means that WE had to cheat back just to make it fair!!!!! Also known as the Lance Armstrong defense.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:41:50pm

re: #78 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

You jest, but whaddya want to bet that’s actually the response we get? Stupid libruls cheating on elections means that WE had to cheat back just to make it fair!!!!! Also known as the Lance Armstrong defense.

Yep.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:45:01pm

Breckenridge, CO under the gun tonight. 350 people under mandatory evacuation, residents of *all* of Breckenridge have been told they may need to evacuate soon.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:45:29pm

Aides desperate to get information to Trump in a form he can digest prior to his meeting with Putin are writing tweet length memos. We’ll be lucky if he doesn’t sell Alaska back to the Russians for some magic beans.

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ObserverArt  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:45:31pm

re: #77 Shiplord Kirel

And they’re off! spacex.com

Routine spaceflight at last. I have waited 60 years to see this.

Nice launch. Loved the color of the rocket engine plume against that great blue Florida sky when they switched to the second camera that was a good deal away from the launch site.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:45:32pm

It’s spooky to see how quickly the second stage engine bell turns red and then translucent after it fires. That is some power.

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(Bert the Turtle)  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:45:34pm

So I lasted a little over 50 hours w/ a facebook account. If I’ve learned one thing it’s this: We’re doomed.

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plansbandc  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:48:45pm

re: #68 Pawn of the Oppressor

Always fascinating to watch a launch. Thanks for the link. : )

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:48:56pm

re: #61 goddamnedfrank

That face deserves to be whacked with a pie!

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:48:57pm

re: #77 Shiplord Kirel

And they’re off! spacex.com

Routine spaceflight at last. I have waited 60 years to see this.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:48:58pm

re: #84 (Bert the Turtle)

So I lasted a little over 50 hours w/ a facebook account. If I’ve learned one thing it’s this: We’re doomed.

Sweet Meteor of Death 2020.

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(Bert the Turtle)  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:50:15pm

re: #88 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Sweet Meteor of Death 2020.

Now that’s a band name! Mind if I borrow it?

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:50:23pm

Mars, Schmars. I just want to go visit him in LA to go to Dodger Stadium.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:50:29pm

re: #89 (Bert the Turtle)

Now that’s a band name! Mind if I borrow it?

Be my guest.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:51:33pm

re: #84 (Bert the Turtle)

So I lasted a little over 50 hours w/ a facebook account. If I’ve learned one thing it’s this: We’re doomed.

I shut the whole thing down around August of last year because of the election and I haven’t been back since.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:52:26pm

Meanwhile, this fire burning in my county has grown to 850 acres. It’s burning in the middle of nowhere, no structures threatened.

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nines09  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:55:02pm

Musical interlude…………

The Lovin’ Spoonful - Summer In The City (1966)

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:55:28pm

re: #87 Ace Rothstein

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:57:43pm

re: #86 Joe Bacon 🌹

That face deserves to be whacked with a pie!

I would not waste a good pie on that turdface.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:58:05pm

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

I would not waste a good pie on that turdface.

Of course not, silly. That’s why you use a crappy cheap whipped-cream pie.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:58:46pm

re: #97 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Of course not, silly. That’s why you use a crappy cheap whipped-cream pie.

Yes, a cheap graham cracker crust filled with Cool Whip!

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:59:10pm

re: #97 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Of course not, silly. That’s why you use a crappy cheap whipped shaving-cream pie.

Do NOT put any filling in the pie pan that tastes good.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:59:28pm

re: #99 The Vicious Babushka

Do NOT put any filling in the pie pan that tastes good.

The point is well taken.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 4:59:57pm

re: #97 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Of course not, silly. That’s why you use a crappy cheap whipped-cream pie.

All you need are some coffee filters and cans of Redi Wip.

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ObserverArt  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:00:19pm

re: #99 The Vicious Babushka

Do NOT put any filling in the pie pan that tastes good.

Barbasol Shaving Cream.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:01:20pm

re: #99 The Vicious Babushka

Do NOT put any filling in the pie pan that tastes good.

I disagree. Whipped cream is messier and sticker than shaving cream, IOW a bigger pain in the ass for the recipient of the pie to the face.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:02:09pm

re: #102 ObserverArt

Barbasol Shaving Cream.

Don’t waste money on that Aveeno stuff.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:03:44pm

re: #97 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Of course not, silly. That’s why you use a crappy cheap whipped shaving-cream pie.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:05:25pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

I disagree. Whipped cream is messier and sticker than shaving cream, IOW a bigger pain in the ass for the recipient of the pie to the face.

shaving cream stinks and tastes gawd awful.
a twofer, if you will, of ickness.

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:05:51pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:06:24pm

Photo of George C. Scott on the set of Dr. Strangelove in the “pie fight” scene that was cut from the film.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:07:24pm

THIS THREAD smfh

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ObserverArt  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:10:21pm

I’m getting off on the colors in the second stage engine bell just after they shut it off in their orbit entrance burn. There was cool light grey white to a green blue then a darker grey blue. And at times they were in bands of color. Having cameras on the craft really makes these flights.

Edit to add. Flight coverage finished. Satellite deployment was a success. Another good job by SpaceX.

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Weaselone  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:10:54pm

re: #69 bratwurst

You know you are a nitwit when you get owned by Chris Cuomo!

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It’s not even 10 examples of voter fraud. Most of the points deal with registration issues or what if scenarios based on government screw ups. Even some of the examples of what would actually be fraud are questionable without knowing more about the background.

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nowherenorth2  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:10:57pm

re: #109 The Vicious Babushka

My…god.
To quote spaceballs
I’m surrounded by assholes

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:12:50pm

Blazing Saddles Pie Fight

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nowherenorth2  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:12:51pm

re: #56 darthstar

Fuck him. He’s a racist and a bigot.

I like this line of thinking. I got a bootheel waiting for an interview for racists and bigots and Nazis and the alt right

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nowherenorth2  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:16:21pm

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

And boom.
Lately been down and out. Mel brooks makes me smile

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:17:33pm

re: #109 The Vicious Babushka

THIS THREAD smfh

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It’s not about being PC, it’s about not using a place where innocent people were murdered as a political prop.

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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:17:44pm
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Weaselone  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:21:20pm

re: #118 HappyWarrior

It’s not about being PC, it’s about not using a place where innocent people were murdered as a political prop.

PC can be a little overboard at times, but generally it reduces down to nothing more or less than not being an asshole.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:22:09pm

Speaking of momentous launches:

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As many pedants and others who have nothing better to do have pointed out in the comments, similar attire was seen in Roman times and earlier. As a modern cultural phenomenon, though, it originated 71 years ago today. This was the culmination of a long running move away from the ludicrously over-modest and possibly dangerous public bathing costumes of the 19th century.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:22:26pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:24:34pm

re: #121 Shiplord Kirel

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:26:42pm

re: #123 teleskiguy

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That’s practically no Bikini atoll!

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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:35:50pm

re: #107 Ace-o-aces

There is an actual Holocaust denier in comments. I reported it.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:37:52pm

re: #123 teleskiguy

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The first atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll had occurred just 5 days before designer Louis Réard revealed his skimpy new bathing suit. The first film and pictures of the test had just arrived in France. Réard chose the name almost on the spur of the moment.

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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:40:22pm
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BlueSpotinAL  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:42:34pm

re: #84 (Bert the Turtle)

So I lasted a little over 50 hours w/ a facebook account. If I’ve learned one thing it’s this: We’re doomed.

Abort Launch! ///

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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:42:36pm
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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:43:08pm

re: #121 Shiplord Kirel

The model in the picture was French dancer Micheline Bernardini. She is still with us at age 90 and is an American citizen.

A moment of drollery from the article:

The bikini was a hit, especially among men, and Bernardini received over 50,000 fan letters. (emphasis added)

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:43:36pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:43:58pm

re: #84 (Bert the Turtle)

So I lasted a little over 50 hours w/ a facebook account. If I’ve learned one thing it’s this: We’re doomed.

Hey!! That’s where I see the best dog, cat, and goat videos!!

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:45:14pm

re: #131 goddamnedfrank

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:46:53pm

re: #129 gocart mozart

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Even poor, ugly Goebbels would be embarrassed at this lot. And Heydrich, well, he would probably pull out his pistol and euthanize them on the spot.

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TedStriker  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:48:40pm

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

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Blazing Saddles Pie Fight

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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:49:13pm
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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:54:28pm

Happy 72nd Birthday Debbie Harry
Yin

Blondie - Sunday Girl 1979

Yang

Youtube Video

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:54:51pm

re: #134 Shiplord Kirel

Even poor, ugly Goebbels would be embarrassed at this lot. And Heydrich, well, he would probably pull out his pistol and euthanize them on the spot.

Heydrich. Now he was the one to be really scared of. I tend to think that even though the Czech people paid an insanely heavy price, preventing him from making the final solution more efficient or, worse, taking over from Hitler made it worthwhile in the long run…

But I thank God that I don’t have to make those kind of decisions…

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Charles Johnson  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:58:06pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:58:12pm

re: #129 gocart mozart

I’ve seen the guy in the top middle before

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 5, 2017 • 5:59:28pm
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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:01:57pm

ooh Blondie covering the Velvet Underground at CBGB 1975

Blondie - Femme Fatale - 1975 - CBGB’s

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piratedan  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:06:57pm

re: #69 bratwurst

well, by all means lets legislate a fix for that, right after we tackle the restrictions on semi-automatic weapons owned illegally, shall we?

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:09:00pm

re: #137 gocart mozart

Happy 72nd Birthday Debbie Harry
Yin

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Beautiful then and now. May I look half this good while performing in 18 years…

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gocart mozart  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:09:29pm

Blondie-abilly in Japan

Blondie in Japan - Kidnapper Live 1978

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:15:00pm

When I was a young teen I really loved Debbie Harry’s photo on one of their albums in my brother’s record collection. Ah, for simpler times….

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:18:22pm

Trump’s North Korea policy: “after they invade the south we’ll land at Inchon and cut them in half….”

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:21:03pm

re: #147 Barefoot Grin

When I was a young teen I really loved Debbie Harry’s photo on one of their albums in my brother’s record collection. Ah, for simpler times….

I know. I’m reminded, in ah some ways ;) of the Who song “Pictures of Lilly”…

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Charles Johnson  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:22:45pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:24:05pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:24:52pm

Ha ha!

Gosspaine‏
@Gosspaine

Replying to @mattdpearce
Hammurabi lobby
3:36 PM - 5 Jul 2017

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b.d.  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:25:53pm
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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:29:38pm

One last video from me for now, god Midnight Special was a blast in the pre-MTV days…

Blondie. Heart of Glass at The Midnight Special

Actual _live_ perfomances … we were rich and didn’t know it.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:29:55pm

Wisco’s gonna get whacked tomorrow. Heads up.

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:31:20pm

re: #155 teleskiguy

Starting around 1 am from what I understand. I’ll be at work & watching out for it.

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darthstar  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:34:42pm

re: #58 TedStriker

Speaking of burn…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:41:28pm

re: #149 William Lewis

I know. I’m reminded, in ah some ways ;) of the Who song “Pictures of Lilly”…

And I’ve always been a fan of Who Are You, Magic Bus, Happy Jack, I Can’t Explain, and so relevant now: Won’t Get Fooled Again…

And then there’s this little known one:

The Who - Baba O’Riley (Charlton ‘74)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:44:51pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

And then there’s this little known one:

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And just found this one from just this year!

The Who - Baba O’Riley - Royal Albert Hall, London - April 2017

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:47:11pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:48:29pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:51:09pm

I am now down a Who rabbit hole.
Started with Teenage Wasteland and went gloriously downhill from there.

:D

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freetoken  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:51:43pm

re: #161 teleskiguy

The Hobby Lobby owners are the ones behind putting a Bible museum on the US Mall.

They are also the ones who have claimed to have access to a bunch of ancient manuscripts (Green manuscript collection.)

Now we know how they get their manuscripts.

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freetoken  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:53:15pm

Proving once again that the harder they beat their Bibles, the more likely they are to be guilty of crimes.

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A Cranky One  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:53:27pm

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Charles Johnson  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:53:28pm
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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:54:48pm

re: #163 freetoken

The Hobby Lobby owners are the ones behind putting a Bible museum on the US Mall.

They are also the ones who have claimed to have access to a bunch of ancient manuscripts (Green manuscript collection.)

Now we know how they get their manuscripts.

Here’s Shabby Hab’s own statement on the settlement:
Artifact Import Settlement

Hobby Lobby and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York today announced that they have entered into a settlement agreement concluding an investigation into the importation of certain artifacts.

“We should have exercised more oversight and carefully questioned how the acquisitions were handled,” said Hobby Lobby President, Steve Green. “Hobby Lobby has cooperated with the government throughout its investigation, and with the announcement of today’s settlement agreement, is pleased the matter has been resolved.”

In 2009, Hobby Lobby began acquiring a variety of historical Bibles and other artifacts. Developing a collection of historically and religiously important books and artifacts about the Bible is consistent with the Company’s mission and passion for the Bible. The goals were to preserve these items for future generations, to provide broad access to scholars and students alike to study them, and to share the collection with the world in public institutions and museums.

So, it is just an oversight, the result of inexperience, that ancient cuneiform tablets were labeled as “tile samples.”

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:54:59pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

And I’ve always been a fan of Who Are You, Magic Bus, Happy Jack, I Can’t Explain, and so relevant now: Won’t Get Fooled Again…

And then there’s this little known one:

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I love it. I’ve become a bigger The Who fan over the years. I started with my sister’s “Pinball Wizard” multi-album rock opera and was reminded of it today when the song was on the radio.

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ObserverArt  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:55:10pm

The Who?

Why sure. Here is one that was always an inspiration for me.

The Seeker by The Who

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:55:16pm

re: #163 freetoken

The Hobby Lobby owners are the ones behind putting a Bible museum on the US Mall.

They are also the ones who have claimed to have access to a bunch of ancient manuscripts (Green manuscript collection.)

Now we know how they get their manuscripts.

We know how this ends.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:58:01pm

re: #149 William Lewis

I know. I’m reminded, in ah some ways ;) of the Who song “Pictures of Lilly”…

Oh my…the rabbit hole finds all sorts of treasures!

The Who - Baba o’Riley/Who are You? - Super Bowl XLIV

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b.d.  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:58:42pm

re: #170 The Vicious Babushka

We know how this will end.

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And HanAssSolo was in Raiders of the Lost Ark…..this is all coming together now……..

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 6:58:44pm

re: #170 The Vicious Babushka

We know how this will end.

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The Ethiopian Orthodox Church may want to post more guards around a certain shrine in Axum.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:00:23pm

re: #168 Barefoot Grin

I love it. I’ve become a bigger The Who fan over the years. I started with my sister’s “Pinball Wizard” multi-album rock opera and was reminded of it today when the song was on the radio.

Pinball Wizard is a great piece of music but the rock opera thing kind of set that part of The Who apart from the rest of their really great (and I believe much more important)work.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:02:27pm

Sea And Sand (5.1 Mix)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:03:14pm

I’m tempted to go to HL tomorrow to ask if they have any ancient Iraqi artifact decorations for a gay Muslim 3 year old boy’s birthday party.

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:03:55pm

re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth

Pinball Wizard is a great piece of music but the rock opera thing kind of set that part of The Who apart from the rest of their really great (and I believe much more important)work.

Who’s Next and London Calling are how I survived High School.

Runners up: Quadrophenia, Who Are You, Easter, Horses, Boston & New Day Rising

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:04:21pm

who are you?
tell me, I really want to know.
tell me.
who.
who.
who are you?

tell me, who are YOU?

TELL ME.

I really want to know.

(add lyric should be “show me who you are”…but that’s just me…)

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:05:52pm

re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth

who are you?
tell me, I really want to know.
tell me.
who.
who.
who are you?

tell me, who are YOU?

TELL ME.

I really want to know.

(add lyric should be “show me who you are”…but that’s just me…)

Never forget the lyrics were written after he spent an evening getting plastered with two of his Biggest Fans who happened to be in a little unknown band called the Sex Pistols… ;) He was really freaked by that night.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:06:14pm

ok, I can’t help myself with this one:

The Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again (Live at Kilburn 1977)

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ObserverArt  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:06:36pm

re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth

Pinball Wizard is a great piece of music but the rock opera thing kind of set that part of The Who apart from the rest of their really great (and I believe much more important)work.

I love the Who. I was not immediately sold on Quadrophenia. I liked it, but it didn’t do a lot for me at first. And then the movie came out and it made sense and since then I love both the album and the movie.

For a three piece “rock ‘n’ roll” band to do some of what they did not only separated them from some of their earlier songs but separated them from a lot of the bands of the era.

But if you really consider their albums, they all sort of had themes. And “A Quick One While He’s Away” was their first mini opera. You can get hints of the coming Tommy in it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:06:53pm

re: #180 William Lewis

Never forget the lyrics were written after he spent an evening getting plastered with two of his Biggest Fans who happened to be in a little unknown band called the Sex Pistols… ;) He was really freaked by that night.

:D

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:07:19pm

Bunch of Wholigans around here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:08:32pm

jeebus, listening to the lyrics right now to Won’t Get Fooled Again and o.m.g…

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ObserverArt  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:08:37pm

re: #184 teleskiguy

Bunch of Wholigans around here.

Mods!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:10:53pm

re: #186 ObserverArt

Mods!

Greasers!

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ObserverArt  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:15:16pm

This scene and song.

5:15 - Quadrophenia - The Who

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stpaulbear  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:16:12pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

And I’ve always been a fan of Who Are You, Magic Bus, Happy Jack, I Can’t Explain, and so relevant now: Won’t Get Fooled Again…

And then there’s this little known one:

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I saw The Who live in late 1971 just when Who’s Next came out. As I remember, the songs they played using the tape backgrounds didn’t go very well that night. The show felt like “The Who plays Bumfuck, Nowhere”. They didn’t give a shit.

Bloomington MN really was Bumfuck Nowhere back in 71. It’s close to the airport but it was a suburb that had been cornfields 10 years earlier before. This photo is of the Metropolitan Stadium where the Twins played. The hockey arena where The Who played was built just behind the ballpark. That site is now The Mall of America and Ikea.

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ObserverArt  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:16:27pm

re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth

Greasers!

Rockers.

They had the greaser haircuts. : )

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:16:57pm

BIAB

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:20:34pm
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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:23:40pm

Mods and rockers

Mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early/mid 1960s to early 1970s. Media coverage of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youth, and the two groups became widely perceived as violent, unruly troublemakers.

I remember the media uproar about the 1964 “riots.” It was tumultuous even here in the States.

Sociologist Stanley Cohen’s 21st Century debunking of this uproar actually led him to coin the term “moral panic.”

He concedes that mods and rockers had some fights in the mid-1960s, but argues that they were no different from the evening brawls that occurred between youths throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, both at seaside resorts and after football games. He argues that the UK media turned the mod subculture into a negative symbol of delinquent and deviant status.

Cohen argues that as media hysteria about knife-wielding, violent mods increased, the image of a fur-collared anorak and scooter would “stimulate hostile and punitive reactions”. He says the media used possibly faked interviews with supposed rockers such as “Mick the Wild One”. As well, the media would try to get mileage from accidents that were unrelated to mod-rocker violence, such as an accidental drowning of a youth, which resulted in the headline “Mod Dead in Sea”.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:25:13pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:26:10pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:28:46pm

re: #192 FormerDirtDart

Gearing up for mass casualty wartime. Hide the bodies to keep the war popular.

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whitebeach  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:29:26pm

re: #168 Barefoot Grin

re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Pinball Wizard” is a great song, but it’s not the name of the album or of the “rock opera,” which is Tommy. But you both knew that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:31:15pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:36:39pm

re: #197 whitebeach

“Pinball Wizard” is a great song, but it’s not the name of the album or of the “rock opera,” which is Tommy. But you both knew that.

well, yes, I did know that.
But the great unwashed just know Pinball Wizard…

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freetoken  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:37:35pm

From a while back, in a discussion on science and skepticism, Lawrence Krauss launches into contemporary television science programs and what is wrong with them, something with which I agree and often lament here:

Lawrence Krauss - The Border Between Reason & Nonsense

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:39:52pm

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Kragar  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:46:20pm
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FormerDirtDart  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:48:32pm
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stpaulbear  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:48:38pm

Oh great. It’s just about 10:00 so it’s fireworks time again.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:50:18pm

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even better…get the Welcome to Canada beaver to greet him:

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:51:50pm

re: #204 stpaulbear

Yes the same thing here. Idiots once again setting off fireworks…

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:55:03pm

The 1965 World Book Yearbook, which had 621 pages for coverage of events in the whole universe in 1964, chose to devote about half a page in its Great Britain article to the Mod/Rocker riots.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 5, 2017 • 7:59:41pm

re: #180 William Lewis

Never forget the lyrics were written after he spent an evening getting plastered with two of his Biggest Fans who happened to be in a little unknown band called the Sex Pistols… ;) He was really freaked by that night.

What I loved was the orchestrated hatred of the “dinosaurs” like The Who, Beatles, and Stones. The Sex Pistols played that whole “old guys” (and, what, the Stones were in their mid to late 30s) suck thing while loving Iggy. Then Steve Jones leaked that he was listening to Boston all the while….

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:00:26pm

re: #208 Shiplord Kirel

The 1965 World Book Yearbook, which had 621 pages for coverage of events in the whole universe in 1964, chose to devote about half a page in its Great Britain article to the Mod/Rocker riots.

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stpaulbear  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:01:26pm

I may have missed this posted earlier, but Colorado has decided to turn over voter info to the Trump cartel. You can opt out, but:

“If you believe that you or a member of your household will be exposed to criminal harassment or bodily harm because your voter information is publicly available, you may elect to become a confidential voter,” the official website states.

In a press conference on Wednesday, Colorado’s secretary of state said voters would be required to explain their reason for the request under oath. He said people who typically qualify are domestic violence and/or stalking victims, as well as people with certain careers like law enforcement.

To become a confidential voter, you must go to your local county clerk and recorder’s office, fill out a voter confidentiality form, and pay a $5. Click here for a list of county clerk and recorder offices and contact information.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:04:24pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:09:29pm

niterz, lizardz…

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Charles Johnson  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:16:29pm
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Belafon  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:16:30pm

re: #211 stpaulbear

I may have missed this posted earlier, but Colorado has decided to turn over voter info to the Trump cartel. You can opt out, but:

So, Colorado allows you to smoke marijuana, but will turn over your private information.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:31:43pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:34:48pm

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Belafon  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:39:02pm

re: #218 Barefoot Grin

“Hate speech is protected so shut the fuck up.” Another encapsulation of the Trump era.

They do tend to ignore the part where I have a first amendment right to not have to stick around and listen to you. Which is also what they fail to understand about why prayer is not allowed in school.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:40:30pm

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:41:40pm

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Rich coming from someone who mocked an autistic child. Fuck off Tammy.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:42:17pm

So, in between reading and occasionally posting, I’ve been rooting through a large envelope of family photos taken since my marriage. Fun to see my kids again as infants. And then….Me, with hair, wearing sandals and socks….

I gotta go soak my (now balding) head. Goodnight.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:43:14pm

Is the government attempting to jail this Han loser? Oh they’re not? Then shut your ugly face about how his free speech is being violated.

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BeachDem  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:44:08pm

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retired cynic  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:47:13pm

re: #225 BeachDem

Why, I’m shure! they just had NO idea!

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sagehen  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:52:02pm

So I just turned on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell was telling Nicole Wallace that back when Obama and Trump met in November, Obama warned Trump that North Korea was going to be his most serious foreign policy problem. That they were working on, and close to, an ICBM.

Trump then… didn’t bother to staff up the State Department, or the DoD, and there’s nobody who’s been working on the issue, or researching it, or in any way prepared to offer useful suggestions.

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BeachDem  Jul 5, 2017 • 8:52:52pm

re: #226 retired cynic

Why, I’m shure! they just had NO idea!

Yeah, it was all an innocent mistake, and labeling that box “tiles” (from what I’ve read) was a very simple error—it could have happened to anybody.

Slime. Nothing but slime. Providing birth control would be immoral, but stealing antiquities from a war-torn country? It’s what jeebus told them to do.

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2017 • 9:02:18pm

re: #228 BeachDem

Yeah, it was all an innocent mistake, and labeling that box “tiles” (from what I’ve read) was a very simple error—it could have happened to anybody.

Slime. Nothing but slime. Providing birth control would be immoral, but stealing antiquities from a war-torn country? It’s what jeebus told them to do.

And abortion here is ebil but something to ignore in China because cheap goods for their crappy stores.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 5, 2017 • 9:02:50pm

re: #227 sagehen

So I just turned on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell was telling Nicole Wallace that back when Obama and Trump met in November, Obama warned Trump that North Korea was going to be his most serious foreign policy problem. That they were working on, and close to, an ICBM.

Trump then… didn’t bother to staff up the State Department, or the DoD, and there’s nobody who’s been working on the issue, or researching it, or in any way prepared to offer useful suggestions.

Countries run by insane people were a serious foreign policy problem even when the US wasn’t one of them.

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retired cynic  Jul 5, 2017 • 9:04:33pm

re: #232 Ace-o-aces

Well, the trade had grown that much in the first quarter when he was all for having them try, just last week, wasn’t it?

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 5, 2017 • 9:20:32pm

re: #229 Kragar

Kragar @Kragar_LGF
Fundamentalism, racism, fear & propaganda: An insider explains why rural, Christian white America will never change rawstory.com …
10:44 PM - 5 Jul 2017

“Never” is a long time. Life can change quickly — or slowly — based on totally unexpected events. No one predicted 9/11; it dramatically changed our country and our people. Not all changes are bad or destructive — but we should never assume that current conditions will continue indefinitely.

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Jul 5, 2017 • 9:49:06pm

re: #215 Belafon

So, Colorado allows you to smoke marijuana, but will turn over your private information.

Coming to this late, but… they’ll turn over the public record part, as many other states have said they’ll do.

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makeitstop  Jul 6, 2017 • 5:40:50am

re: #189 stpaulbear

I saw The Who live in late 1971 just when Who’s Next came out. As I remember, the songs they played using the tape backgrounds didn’t go very well that night. The show felt like “The Who plays Bumfuck, Nowhere”. They didn’t give a shit.

Bloomington MN really was Bumfuck Nowhere back in 71. It’s close to the airport but it was a suburb that had been cornfields 10 years earlier before. This photo is of the Metropolitan Stadium where the Twins played. The hockey arena where The Who played was built just behind the ballpark. That site is now The Mall of America and Ikea.

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My wife is headed your way next week. She’s going out to do training and server setup for a tracking system for someone’s public transit system (I’m not sure which town, but she’s staying at a hotel near Mall of America.)

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BroncD  Jul 6, 2017 • 11:10:47am

I don’t know how old the HanAssholeSolo guy really is, but I don’t think the post you linked to is any proof that he’s 37. The “I’m not old I’m 37” comment is a Monty Python reference. Is there any other corroboration anywhere else that he’s actually 37?


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