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nines09  Aug 5, 2017 • 9:51:00pm

Young Joe in 2001……Killer. Then he can tear your head off with stuff like this….

Joe Bonamassa

Joe Bonamassa - Jockey Full of Bourbon LIVE at Vienna

Tom Waits

Tom Waits - Jockey Full of Bourbon

Two national treasures.

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JordanRules  Aug 5, 2017 • 10:07:44pm

Finding small pieces of resistance in glorious places…

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freetoken  Aug 5, 2017 • 11:11:14pm

Yesterday UCSD put up the highlights of their summer jazz camp:

Finale Concert 2017 Highlights - UC San Diego Jazz Camp

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 5, 2017 • 11:19:40pm

Here comes the heavy weather again.

wunderground.com

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Kragar  Aug 5, 2017 • 11:33:33pm

Comrade Detective remains hillarious

Chief: “Think this was an inside job?”
Gregor: “Of course not. There is no such thing as a corrupt Romanian Cop.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 5, 2017 • 11:39:59pm

Yikes! Lightning strike right next to my house; my neighbour’s car alarm is going off.

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Kragar  Aug 5, 2017 • 11:42:11pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹

Yikes! Lightning strike right next to my house; my neighbour’s car alarm is going off.

We had some excitement earlier when some kids set off some illegal fireworks a block over.

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 5, 2017 • 11:44:48pm

re: #7 Kragar

We had some excitement earlier when some kids set off some illegal fireworks a block over.

I’m surprised I still have Internet service. That said, a new storm centre formed about two miles north of town, and a large storm covers the sixteen miles between us and the county seat (the centre is eight miles away).

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Kragar  Aug 5, 2017 • 11:46:30pm

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹

I’m surprised I still have Internet service. That said, a new storm centre formed about two miles north of town, and a large storm covers the sixteen miles between us and the county seat (the centre is eight miles away).

We had our windows rattled. Cops sent out 3 cars. Guessing they were worried about the fire risks.

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Kragar  Aug 5, 2017 • 11:58:24pm

re: #5 Kragar

Joseph: “Calm down. Ask yourself what would Lenin do.”
Gregor: “What would Lenin do? Hmmm. What would Lenin do? LENIN WOULD FUCK HIM UP!”

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Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2017 • 11:59:46pm

So Congressional Republicans have signaled they don’t take Trump seriously anymore, Russia has turned on him for refusal to veto the sanctions, his buddies in the business community are hating on him for failure to get their wish list passed, and now approval polls are showing even his dumb white base is beginning to abandon him. Cheeto Benito has pretty much become a lame duck and he hasn’t served a full year in office.

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 12:02:25am

re: #11 Targetpractice

So Congressional Republicans have signaled they don’t take Trump seriously anymore, Russia has turned on him for refusal to veto the sanctions, his buddies in the business community are hating on him for failure to get their wish list passed, and now approval polls are showing even his dumb white base is beginning to abandon him. Cheeto Benito has pretty much become a lame duck and he hasn’t served a full year in office.

Shorter:

GOOD

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 6, 2017 • 1:05:42am

Correction necessary here: British punk singer Peter Bywaters was not detained for impersonating Trump, but for entering the country on a tourist visa when in fact he was on his way to paid engagement: ew.com

In that case, fair dinkum. The video they showed him was just to establish that he was an entertainer and not just a tourist.

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Kragar  Aug 6, 2017 • 1:25:18am
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Kragar  Aug 6, 2017 • 1:28:00am
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Targetpractice  Aug 6, 2017 • 1:30:00am

re: #15 Kragar

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Before Trump: “Those jobs don’t count because they were lost during the recession! He hasn’t created any new jobs since!”

After Trump: “LOOK AT ALL THOSE JOBS HE’S CREATING!!!!”

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Kragar  Aug 6, 2017 • 1:33:27am
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Dr Lizardo  Aug 6, 2017 • 1:33:44am

re: #13 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Correction necessary here: British punk singer Peter Bywaters was not detained for impersonating Trump, but for entering the country on a tourist visa when in fact he was on his way to paid engagement: ew.com

In that case, fair dinkum. The video they showed him was just to establish that he was an entertainer and not just a tourist.

Speaking of music, went to a music festival yesterday - quite good, especially considering that it’s in a small town about 50 kms from where I live.

The headline act was Skinny Lister, from the UK. They’re similar to - and have toured with - Dropkick Murphy’s and Flogging Molly. Great live performers too.

Imgur

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 6, 2017 • 1:33:55am
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Targetpractice  Aug 6, 2017 • 1:40:31am

re: #17 Kragar

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I’m sure she also believes that every single woman who has accused Bill of “rape” is totally legit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 6, 2017 • 2:03:58am

re: #20 Targetpractice

I’m sure she also believes that every single woman who has accused Bill of “rape” is totally legit.

Because only liberals are rapists and or honeypots.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 6, 2017 • 2:49:03am
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Dave In Austin  Aug 6, 2017 • 2:56:59am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 6, 2017 • 3:01:59am

training cats to deal with her future boyfriends’ morning wood?

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 3:42:59am

You’ve heard conspiracy theories in the past: Big (something) doesn’t want you to know (because Rothschilds, government conspiracies, the Illuminati, pick something) about the truth on (climate change, the Sandy Hook Massacre, September 11 Attacks, the fake country of Finland, the flat Earth, &c).

Someone over at Daily Kos created a spoof of a conspiracy theory: Big Astronomy is faking a so-called Solar Eclipse on August 21.

dailykos.com

Yes, THEY are trying to put one over on you. (Watch for someone to pick up on this and believe it)

For the record, I am a “sheeple” who believes the scientific establishment claims of a total eclipse occurring in my village on August 21. As such, we went to Big Internet to purchase #14 welding goggles to view the so-called total eclipse (and to protect our camera’s light sensor).

On a serious note, one should never look at the sun directly nor point a camera with a light sensor at it without protection (aside from the brilliance, the UV light can damage both eyesight and the light sensor). It is okay to look at the sun directly during totality, but not during the partial eclipse portion.

——- ——- ——-

“Many people have only listened to one side of the eclipse debate—the pro-eclipse establishment. They will tell you, as if it’s a proven fact, that there will be an eclipse of the sun on August 21.

But have they given the other side a fair hearing?

They prefer the term “eclipse skeptics,” rather than “eclipse deniers.” They simply haven’t been convinced by the so-called “experts,” whose careers depend on repeating the politically correct line that there is “100% certainty” about a coming eclipse.

The fact is, there actually isn’t a “consensus,” as some claim, that the moon will over-shadow the sun, and it is total arrogance to claim that this “eclipse of the sun” … . (as they’re calling it now — I can remember a time when they were talking about the eclipse of the MOON, the shadow of the earth supposedly blocking out the light of the moon — Why isn’t anyone talking about THAT anymore?) … anyway it’s arrogance to claim that fallible scientists on earth can accurately tell you, with certainty, where the moon will be later in August. Scientists have been wrong before. We need more study. And who’s funding these so-called experts?

When it comes down to it, there’s nothing we can do about the eclipse anyway.

(It’s all a perfectly natural phenomenon, by the way. It’s happened before. You just beat on the drums and it goes away.)”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 6, 2017 • 3:45:37am

re: #25 Anymouse 🌹

You’ve heard conspiracy theories in the past: Big (something) doesn’t want you to know (because Rothschilds, government conspiracies, the Illuminati, pick something) about the truth on (climate change, the Sandy Hook Massacre, September 11 Attacks, the fake country of Finland, the flat Earth, &c).

Someone over at Daily Kos created a spoof of a conspiracy theory: Big Astronomy is faking a so-called Solar Eclipse on August 21.

dailykos.com

Yes, THEY are trying to put one over on you. (Watch for someone to pick up on this and believe it)

For the record, I am a “sheeple” who believes the scientific establishment claims of a total eclipse occurring in my village on August 21. As such, we went to Big Internet to purchase #14 welding goggles to view the so-called total eclipse (and to protect our camera’s light sensor).

On a serious note, one should never look at the sun directly nor point a camera with a light sensor at it without protection (aside from the brilliance, the UV light can damage both eyesight and the light sensor). It is okay to look at the sun directly during totality, but not during the partial eclipse portion.

——- ——- ——-

“Many people have only listened to one side of the eclipse debate—the pro-eclipse establishment. They will tell you, as if it’s a proven fact, that there will be an eclipse of the sun on August 21.

But have they given the other side a fair hearing?

They prefer the term “eclipse skeptics,” rather than “eclipse deniers.” They simply haven’t been convinced by the so-called “experts,” whose careers depend on repeating the politically correct line that there is “100% certainty” about a coming eclipse.

The fact is, there actually isn’t a “consensus,” as some claim, that the moon will over-shadow the sun, and it is total arrogance to claim that this “eclipse of the sun” … . (as they’re calling it now — I can remember a time when they were talking about the eclipse of the MOON, the shadow of the earth supposedly blocking out the light of the moon — Why isn’t anyone talking about THAT anymore?) … anyway it’s arrogance to claim that fallible scientists on earth can accurately tell you, with certainty, where the moon will be later in August. Scientists have been wrong before. We need more study. And who’s funding these so-called experts?

When it comes down to it, there’s nothing we can do about the eclipse anyway.

(It’s all a perfectly natural phenomenon, by the way. It’s happened before. You just beat on the drums and it goes away.)”

Everybody knows that a giant sky-dragon is going to eat the sun and the only way to stop it is to burn all the witches and homosexuals in the village…worked last time.

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 3:47:55am

re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Everybody knows that a giant sky-dragon is going to eat the sun and the only way to stop it is to burn all the witches and homosexuals in the village…worked last time.

Might want to sacrifice a few virgins whilst we’re at it… .

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 6, 2017 • 3:53:11am

re: #27 Anymouse 🌹

Might want to sacrifice a few virgins whilst we’re at it… .

saving those to guarantee a good harvest

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Decatur Deb  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:04:26am

re: #27 Anymouse 🌹

Might want to sacrifice a few virgins whilst we’re at it… .

At these prices…?

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:09:56am

re: #29 Decatur Deb

At these prices…?

I never bought a virgin (except for a virgin drink) so I am not sure of the current market price.

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:13:26am

What on earth has Mike Cernovich been shooting up?

Image of a Twitter post he made, claiming he could teach the NSC how to be l337 haxorz and master memelords.

Image: dcb07ea38683e41192f9cf77c046674205f5960a46dfe08e5a3cdf7e5f90ab3f.jpg

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:18:43am

re: #31 Anymouse 🌹

What on earth has Mike Cernovich been shooting up?

Image of a Twitter post he made, claiming he could teach the NSC how to be l337 haxorz and master memelords.

Image: dcb07ea38683e41192f9cf77c046674205f5960a46dfe08e5a3cdf7e5f90ab3f.jpg

People such as Cernovich see their fantasies of a “white America” slipping away, and just when it seemed to them that it was in their grasp.

Of course, it’s just a fantasy and a delusional one at that. But don’t discount the power of angry, frustrated and disillusioned people. I’m getting the sneaking suspicion that there may well be sporadic violence from RW domestic terrorists in the not-too-distant future. They believe (wrongly, of course) that they’re under siege and it’s almost inevitable that some of them may choose to lash out violently.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:21:28am

re: #32 Dr Lizardo

snip… I’m getting the sneaking suspicion that there may well be sporadic violence from RW domestic terrorists in the not-too-distant future. They believe (wrongly, of course) that they’re under siege and it’s almost inevitable that some of them may choose to lash out violently.

Have you been sleeping under a mountain?

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:22:09am

I presume you mean an uptick in the constant right-wing violence we already have?

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dangerman  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:28:03am

today’s thought / question

think of the unregistered, eligible voters in red states

Are there more r’s or d’s?

is there way to reliably figure this out?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:40:31am

re: #35 dangerman

today’s thought / question

think of the unregistered, eligible voters in red states

Are there more r’s or d’s?

is there way to reliably figure this out?

We have a fairly reliable test in these parts.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:42:36am

I think we will see more than an uptick in RWNJ violence. The scale will be re-calibrated when one of these armed “open carry” demonstrations results in a massacre, probably of Muslims but possibly of a different target group, with immigrants at especially high risk. These events are carefully stage managed but you can’t have hundreds of armed idiots milling around with deadly weapons and not have a mass shootout sooner or later. The dynamics would be reminiscent of an old time lynching, with authorities loathe to use force against white rioters who cannot be stopped any other way.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:43:33am

re: #33 Decatur Deb

Have you been sleeping under a mountain?

I should have said more widespread and, importantly, more organized political violence.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:46:09am

re: #34 Anymouse 🌹

I presume you mean an uptick in the constant right-wing violence we already have?

Hasn’t been any RW violence since…uh…yesterday.

FBI: ‘Improvised explosive device’ caused blast at Bloomington Islamic center

startribune.com

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Decatur Deb  Aug 6, 2017 • 4:48:50am

re: #37 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

I think we will see more than an uptick in RWNJ violence. The scale will be re-calibrated when one of these armed “open carry” demonstrations results in a massacre, probably of Muslims but possibly of a different target group, with immigrants at especially high risk. These events are carefully stage managed but you can’t have hundreds of armed idiots milling around with deadly weapons and not have a mass shootout sooner or later. The dynamics would be reminiscent of an old time lynching, with authorities loathe to use force against white rioters who cannot be stopped any other way.

The police in my city and county might be busy at their meeting of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:07:12am

re: #35 dangerman

today’s thought / question

think of the unregistered, eligible voters in red states

Are there more r’s or d’s?

is there way to reliably figure this out?

On the issue of unregistered voters, you can usually find that out from Secretary of State offices or news reports.

For example, a high percentage of people in my state (Nebraska) are registered to vote.

omaha.com

69% of the registered voters turned out in 2012, 70% in 2008. (Total registered voters in 2016 were 1,211,101. About 200,000 more people are registered as Republicans than Democrats in this state.)

censusviewer.com (statistics of population, statewide and by county, 2016).

There are about 1,360,000 adults 18+ in Nebraska.

There are only two cities in the state with more than 60,000 people (Omaha and Lincoln). Most of the state’s population is rural. For 2016, the turnout was about the same as 2012.

As you can see from our state statistics, nearly everyone who is an adult is already registered. While you could leverage the small percentage who are not registered and the small percentage who voted third party/did not vote, the only way to flip this state is to turn the 60-40 R advantage around.

That means crafting messages and platforms that will appeal to Republicans who feel their party does not speak to them (and running candidates in this state for a change).

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Nyet  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:12:14am

Today.

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Nyet  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:28:06am

Not easy to post photos at LGF from a Windows phone.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:29:43am

re: #42 Nyet

Different town, different country, different decade.

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Nyet  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:30:11am

I’ll spare you the photo of the delicious lamb shank I’m eating. 😉

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Decatur Deb  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:30:58am

Silent On The Lamb.

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Nyet  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:33:12am

re: #46 Decatur Deb

Without the fava beans or Chianti, that I can tell you.

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Nyet  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:34:56am

re: #44 Decatur Deb

Different town, different country, different decade.

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Also different century?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:35:35am

re: #48 Nyet

Also different century?

Millenium, for a fact.

(At least when I was there.)

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Nyet  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:36:44am

re: #49 Decatur Deb

Millenium, for a fact.

Yeah, but you’ve missed such a good opportunity for some quality alliteration.

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Nyet  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:39:22am

re: #49 Decatur Deb

Millenium, for a fact.

Millennium = mille + annus
Millenium = mille + ???

😋

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Decatur Deb  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:40:57am

re: #51 Nyet

anus.

We’re definitely at the wrong end of this one.

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:42:28am

dashboard.securingdemocracy.org

A Website that keeps track of trending agitprop hashtags on Twitter, times mentioned, and percentage change, with charts.

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jeffreyw  Aug 6, 2017 • 5:45:50am

Imgur


Good morning!

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 6:09:32am

New Bare-Chested Putin Photos Released: Aquatic Theme (goes to the Washington Post)

More Putin porn. Paul Ryan had to torture a horse, now he’ll have to do aquatic sports.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 6, 2017 • 6:23:11am

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹

New Bare-Chested Putin Photos Released: Aquatic Theme (goes to the Washington Post)

More Putin porn. Paul Ryan had to torture a horse, now he’ll have to do aquatic sports.

Trump can give him some good phone numbers.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 6, 2017 • 6:41:20am

A heads up for any Lizards who may be WhatsApp users; a friend of mine in Vietnam received the following message this morning her time. She’s reported it to WhatsApp - she suspects its some kind of data mining/hacking/phishing scheme.

She thought it didn’t pass the smell test. And I haven’t received anything like this at all today.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 6, 2017 • 7:06:08am

re: #57 Dr Lizardo

A heads up for any Lizards who may be WhatsApp users; a friend of mine in Vietnam received the following message this morning her time. She’s reported it to WhatsApp - she suspects its some kind of data mining/hacking/phishing scheme.

[Embedded content]

She thought it didn’t pass the smell test. And I haven’t received anything like this at all today.

Nope, weird shitty grammar = scam!

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 6, 2017 • 7:13:23am

Sunday morning singalong?

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Teukka  Aug 6, 2017 • 7:19:37am

Totally Off-Topic, but I came across the soundtrack to “Dunkirk” by Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe and Benjamin Wallfisch: Dunkirk - The Mole - Hans Zimmer (Official Video)

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makeitstop  Aug 6, 2017 • 7:41:59am
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ObserverArt  Aug 6, 2017 • 7:43:36am

Morning!

Anyone happen to be watching Jeff Flake on Meet the Chuck?

I don’t know what to think of the guy and I don’t know him too well.

He seems to be saying some things about the GOP and populism that are correct, but I get the feeling he is shoveling a load that makes him look good, but has nothing behind it to make any change in the Republicans…starting with him.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 6, 2017 • 7:51:32am

You know the Universe is trolling you pretty hard when four of your Powerball numbers are off by one digit and the Power Ball number is your Mega Ball number from Mega Millions.

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ObserverArt  Aug 6, 2017 • 7:53:50am

re: #63 FormerDirtDart

You know the Universe is trolling you pretty hard when four of your Powerball numbers are off by one digit and the Power Ball number is your Mega Ball number from Mega Millions.

The curse of lottery numbers; so close yet so far away.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 6, 2017 • 7:56:39am

re: #63 FormerDirtDart

You know the Universe is trolling you pretty hard when four of your Powerball numbers are off by one digit and the Power Ball number is your Mega Ball number from Mega Millions.

I was going to buy one of each but my wife complained about wasting the money. My son said “but it’s for education”; to which my wife replied, “it’s not helping much if people like your dad are still buying tickets.”

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Teukka  Aug 6, 2017 • 7:57:27am

re: #63 FormerDirtDart

You know the Universe is trolling you pretty hard when four of your Powerball numbers are off by one digit and the Power Ball number is your Mega Ball number from Mega Millions.

Story of my life…

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ObserverArt  Aug 6, 2017 • 7:58:11am

re: #65 Barefoot Grin

I was going to buy one of each but my wife complained about wasting the money. My son said “but it’s for education”; to which my wife replied, “it’s not helping much if people like your dad are still buying tickets.”

Ouch!

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:01:05am

re: #67 ObserverArt

Ouch!

I don’t buy often, and I justify it when I do as brief ticket to fantasyland.

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lizardofid  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:03:07am

re: #68 Barefoot Grin

I don’t buy often, and I justify it when I do as brief ticket to fantasyland.

Fairly inexpensive daydream generator,

Oh, and good morning!

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:03:10am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:10:30am

There! I fixed that sign!

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:10:45am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:11:38am

re: #63 FormerDirtDart

You know the Universe is trolling you pretty hard when four of your Powerball numbers are off by one digit and the Power Ball number is your Mega Ball number from Mega Millions.

I know all too well…😢

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:13:15am

re: #62 ObserverArt

Morning!

Anyone happen to be watching Jeff Flake on Meet the Chuck?

I don’t know what to think of the guy and I don’t know him too well.

He seems to be saying some things about the GOP and populism that are correct, but I get the feeling he is shoveling a load that makes him look good, but has nothing behind it to make any change in the Republicans…starting with him.

Just like every other Republican, Flakey Jeff is Looking Out Only For #1!

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:15:32am

re: #62 ObserverArt

I get the feeling he is shoveling a load that makes him look good, but has nothing behind it to make any change in the Republicans…starting with him.

This. Can’t do long posts from phone, but he votes 95.5% with Trump.

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MsJ  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:15:46am

re: #68 Barefoot Grin

I don’t buy often, and I justify it when I do as brief ticket to fantasyland.

Since I don’t spend a lot on going out, my occasional forays into lottery are chalked up as entertainment.

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stpaulbear  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:21:29am

re: #76 MsJ

Since I don’t spend a lot on going out, my occasional forays into lottery are chalked up as entertainment.

I buy lotto tickets maybe twice a year. I refer to it as my ‘night of hope’.

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MsJ  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:24:10am

re: #71 Joe Bacon 🌹

There! I fixed that sign!

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I added my own commentary.

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garzooma  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:26:50am

re: #63 FormerDirtDart

You know the Universe is trolling you pretty hard when four of your Powerball numbers are off by one digit and the Power Ball number is your Mega Ball number from Mega Millions.

You could be Maureen Wilcox:

Back in 1980, a woman named Maureen Wilcox played the Rhode Island and the Massachusetts lotteries at the same time. And she hit the correct numbers for both. Unfortunately, she picked all the correct Massachusetts numbers on her Rhode Island ticket and all the right Rhode Island numbers on her Massachusetts ticket.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:27:27am

re: #68 Barefoot Grin

I don’t buy often, and I justify it when I do as brief ticket to fantasyland.

The problem is when you stop buying random number tickets, and start playing a regular numbers. How do you stop? How likely are you to jump out a window if you stop playing, and “your” numbers hit….lol

I remember that feeling when my beagle was a puppy, and tore my wallet apart. As mind ran through “jeez, how fast can I get a new ATM card” to “HOLY CRAP, MY $400 MILLION POWERBALL TICKET”

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ObserverArt  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:28:46am

Whos the hell is this David French guy from National Review???

He just said the Democrats problems are their progressives are intolerant for any other ideas.

Whut? I know there are far left progressives that can be very intolerant of any idea not of their own…but I do have a feeling the Republican party has been built on intolerance since the Reagan years. And Trump walked all over the Republicans with that intolerance the Republicans created.

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MsJ  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:40:11am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:48:07am

re: #81 ObserverArt

Whos the hell is this David French guy from National Review???

He just said the Democrats problems are their progressives are intolerant for any other ideas.

Whut? I know there are far left progressives that can be very intolerant of any idea not of their own…but I do have a feeling the Republican party has been built on intolerance since the Reagan years. And Trump walked all over the Republicans with that intolerance the Republicans created.

French had his Andy Warhol 15 Minutes of Fame last year when Kristolmeth tried to get him in the Presidential race…

theatlantic.com

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Jay C  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:50:04am

re: #75 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.

This. Can’t do long posts from phone, but he votes 95.5% with Trump.

Maybe, since Sen McCain is likely to be retiring soon (voluntarily or not), Flake is auditioning for the Designated Senate Maverick role, keeping it at home in AZ….

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:53:21am

re: #84 Jay C

Maybe, since Sen McCain is likely to be retiring soon (voluntarily or not), Flake is auditioning for the Designated Senate Maverick role, keeping it at home in AZ….

Hoping to save his political skin, more likely. He barely got in last time.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:55:36am

re: #83 Joe Bacon 🌹

French had his Andy Warhol 15 Minutes of Fame last year when Kristolmeth tried to get him in the Presidential race…

theatlantic.com

And his wife, Nancy French was Sister Sarah Palin’s ghostwriter.

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sagehen  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:56:36am

re: #62 ObserverArt

Morning!

Anyone happen to be watching Jeff Flake on Meet the Chuck?

I don’t know what to think of the guy and I don’t know him too well.

He seems to be saying some things about the GOP and populism that are correct, but I get the feeling he is shoveling a load that makes him look good, but has nothing behind it to make any change in the Republicans…starting with him.

He’s been saying the right things for a long time; still votes straight party line. (He’s the one who couldn’t go to the convention last summer “because I have to mow my lawn that week.”)

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Stanley Sea  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:56:58am

Norman Lear isn’t going to attend the Kennedy Honors reception to skip the yam

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Aug 6, 2017 • 8:58:38am

Out and about. (Vacation!) Enjoy your Sunday!

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Skip Intro  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:02:42am

re: #88 Stanley Sea

He reminds me of Rush Limbaugh.

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sagehen  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:03:15am

re: #80 FormerDirtDart

The problem is when you stop buying random number tickets, and start playing a regular numbers. How do you stop? How likely are you to jump out a window if you stop playing, and “your” numbers hit….lol

I remember that feeling when my beagle was a puppy, and tore my wallet apart. As mind ran through “jeez, how fast can I get a new ATM card” to “HOLY CRAP, MY $400 MILLION POWERBALL TICKET”

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:06:19am

So, a lazy Sunday afternoon watching Columbo on ČT1 HD. Today’s episode: “By Dawn’s Early Light” first, broadcast October 27, 1974, starring Patrick McGoohan, directed by Harvey Hart.

It’s all in Czech. But good dubbing, I have to say.

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Jay C  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:06:45am

re: #85 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.

Hoping to save his political skin, more likely. He barely got in last time.

Well, [POSTING DISCLAIMERS HERE] - I know little enough about Arizona politics to make an educated guess, but I have been under the impression that even if AZ isn’t quite the deep-red bastion of GOP wingnuttery it’s usually reputed to be, it’s still a hard row for Democrats to hoe. They haven’t, IIRC, had a Dem Governor, Senator or Lege for many years: and unless Flake runs up against a really strong primary challenger (likely to be a rabid Trumperrhoid) or a really attractive Democrat (dunno: do they have any in AZ?), I wouldn’t think he be that easy a “flip”.

Thought the possibility of a second Senate seat on the ballot next November (depending on McCain) makes things interesting.

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Birth Control Works  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:07:21am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:10:59am

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:12:04am

re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg

Nope, weird shitty grammar = scam!

Agree this is a scam. But you should see my legitimate emails from our technology office in India!

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geosherman  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:14:11am

Flickr

Pt. Mugu State Park

Good Day! Something to remind yourself that the natural world has no concept of the crazy world we live in!

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:15:23am

re: #62 ObserverArt

Morning!

Anyone happen to be watching Jeff Flake on Meet the Chuck?

I don’t know what to think of the guy and I don’t know him too well.

He seems to be saying some things about the GOP and populism that are correct, but I get the feeling he is shoveling a load that makes him look good, but has nothing behind it to make any change in the Republicans…starting with him.

He voted in favor of all three McConnell ACA repeal bills. ‘Nough said.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:16:17am

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Targetpractice  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:18:42am

re: #95 Joe Bacon 🌹

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You ever notice that most of those who people who say something to the effect of “Only God can judge me” tend to be insufferable assholes?

Sure it’s just coincidence…/////

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:19:42am

re: #100 Targetpractice

You ever notice that most of those who people who say something to the effect of “Only God can judge me” tend to be insufferable assholes?

Sure it’s just coincidence…/////

And they also got a LOT of skeletons in their closets!

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Decatur Deb  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:21:53am

re: #77 stpaulbear

I buy lotto tickets maybe twice a year. I refer to it as my ‘night of hope’.

We usually buy one when we cross the line to Florida. Express intent: “Move to Florida” (low payout) or “Move everyone to Bassano” (very big payout).

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Birth Control Works  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:24:07am
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jeffreyw  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:27:30am

When you can’t be arsed to make an Alton Brown gyro loaf.

Imgur

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Birth Control Works  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:29:34am

To Catch a Counterfeiter
Nearly all the world’s fake products come from China. America’s oldest private detective agency is on the case.

Some corporations that manufacture in China — Disney, Target, Coca-Cola, Apple, Mattel — rely primarily on in-house brand-protection agents to seize fake goods, investigate counterfeit manufacturers, and take legal action. And as evidenced in various news reports, a slew of other Fortune 1000 companies — reportedly including Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Procter & Gam­ble, and Ford — hire Pinkerton, America’s oldest detective agency, to deploy agents like Azim Uribe.

I told Kevin his watches reminded me of something I’d seen on television a few weeks earlier. Charlie Sheen was on a talk show, recounting the time Donald Trump gave him a pair of diamond-encrusted platinum cuff links that he claimed were from Harry Winston. An appraiser later told Sheen they were nothing more than “cheap pewter and bad zirconia.” No one was surprised by the story, least of all Kevin.

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makeitstop  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:43:47am

Heh. It’s a valid question.

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ObserverArt  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:49:50am

re: #83 Joe Bacon 🌹

French had his Andy Warhol 15 Minutes of Fame last year when Kristolmeth tried to get him in the Presidential race…

theatlantic.com

So, he was a Never Trump candidate. Thanks for the info.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:52:43am

OK, swallow what you’re drinking and put down any glass/cup

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:55:10am

re: #108 FormerDirtDart

Dude looks like a cross between Peter and Michael Bolton from Office Space.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:55:45am

re: #108 FormerDirtDart

OK, swallow what you’re drinking and put down any glass/cup

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Mattand  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:59:08am

re: #83 Joe Bacon 🌹

French had his Andy Warhol 15 Minutes of Fame last year when Kristolmeth tried to get him in the Presidential race…

theatlantic.com

You are doing God’s work.

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Targetpractice  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:59:17am

re: #108 FormerDirtDart

OK, swallow what you’re drinking and put down any glass/cup

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Birth Control Works  Aug 6, 2017 • 9:59:25am

re: #108 FormerDirtDart

OK, swallow what you’re drinking and put down any glass/cup

[Embedded content]

yeah

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:12:31am

re: #103 Birth Control Works

Good tips.

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Targetpractice  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:12:52am

But is PharmaBro getting send to Club Fed? Or federal “Pound-me-in-the-ass” prison? Because I’m sure he doesn’t fear much in the first, besides not getting to shit tweet all day.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:15:15am

re: #115 Targetpractice

But is PharmaBro getting send to Club Fed? Or federal “Pound-me-in-the-ass” prison? Because I’m sure he doesn’t fear much in the first, besides not getting to shit tweet all day.

Fair to say he’s likely confident he’d be going to a Club Fed, minimum security institution.

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Targetpractice  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:16:55am

re: #116 Dr Lizardo

Fair to say he’s likely confident he’d be going to a Club Fed, minimum security institution.

That was my thought as well. He’s a white collar criminal, he has little to fear behind bars. Now send him to supermax and we’ll see how smug he looks after his sentence is over.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:24:01am

re: #117 Targetpractice

That was my thought as well. He’s a white collar criminal, he has little to fear behind bars. Now send him to supermax and we’ll see how smug he looks after his sentence is over.

I was thinking of one of the Federal Prison Camps, which are pretty much low-security facilities and have dormitory-style housing. I’d think not atypical for a non-violent, white-collar offender.

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Birth Control Works  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:24:35am

The Power of Grandmothers

Shameless Pages Post.

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Birth Control Works  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:44:28am

slow day

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:44:42am

re: #120 Birth Control Works

lol. I like the one about being borderline irrational.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:48:07am

re: #122 PhillyPretzel

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Birth Control Works  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:48:24am

WHY THE SCARIEST NUCLEAR THREAT MAY BE COMING FROM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE

Donald Trump’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once campaigned to abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The department’s budget is now on the chopping block. But does anyone in the White House really understand what the Department of Energy actually does? And what a horrible risk it would be to ignore its extraordinary, life-or-death responsibilities?

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:49:09am

re: #123 Stanley Sea

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nines09  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:49:47am

re: #108 FormerDirtDart

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Birth Control Works  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:51:10am
How to stop a virus, how to take a census, how to determine if some foreign country is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon or if North Korean missiles can reach Kansas City: these are enduring technical problems. The people appointed by a newly elected president to solve these problems have roughly 75 days to learn from their predecessors. After the inauguration, a lot of deeply knowledgeable people will scatter to the four winds and be forbidden, by federal law, from initiating any contact with their replacements. The period between the election and the inauguration has the feel of an A.P. chemistry class to which half the students have turned up late and are forced to scramble to grab the notes taken by the other half, before the final. “It’s a source of a lot of the dysfunction in government,” says Max Stier, who runs the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, which, over the past decade, has become perhaps the world’s expert on U.S. presidential transitions. “The wheel comes off the bus at the start of the trip and you never get anywhere.”

re: #124 Birth Control Works

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freetoken  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:52:19am

re: #81 ObserverArt

He just said the Democrats problems are their progressives are intolerant for any other ideas.

That’s a claim that is really being pushed hard by the wingnut faux intelligentsia.

Unfortunately they’ve found some allies in the more hot-button-pushing non-wingnut activists who don’t seem to care about social civility.

As for French - he’s always struck me as a wanna-be. He’s also a step down in writing ability from the days of Buckley.

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calochortus  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:55:53am

re: #121 Birth Control Works

slow day

Not exactly slow, just surprisingly busy.
First I hit the farmers’ market, with a quick stop at the neighborhood market, then I tidied up a few things. My brother came by to return our Forester and retrieve his car (needed the higher clearance vehicle for a trip) so we did that and chatted a bit. In about an hour I need to make a salad for my weaving guild board’s annual changeover-of-the-board-members potluck. Then I will go to the aforementioned potluck. Since I’m retaining my minor position on the board I won’t exactly be bonding with my replacement, but it’s always a fun event.

I hate to drop by, post a couple times and then disappear, but it’s often the way my life is…

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Stanley Sea  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:58:15am

Can’t find Oaktree. Others with better search abilities might, let me know.

Going to finish The Leftovers today.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 6, 2017 • 10:58:38am
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Ace-o-aces  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:00:10am
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Charles Johnson  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:01:22am
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PhillyPretzel  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:01:53am

re: #123 Stanley Sea

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bratwurst  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:02:07am

Maybe Trump should relocate the White House to West Virginia!

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:02:16am

re: #81 ObserverArt

Whos the hell is this David French guy from National Review???

He just said the Democrats problems are their progressives are intolerant for any other ideas.

Whut? I know there are far left progressives that can be very intolerant of any idea not of their own…but I do have a feeling the Republican party has been built on intolerance since the Reagan years. And Trump walked all over the Republicans with that intolerance the Republicans created.

If your definition of progressive is the BernieBro never Hillary wing of the party, that is certainly true. They were a major reason that she lost, they are the ones attacking Tom Perez, and they are going to continue to damage the party. They are as deluded as the Trump supporters.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:03:38am

re: #135 bratwurst

Maybe Trump should relocate the White House to West Virginia!

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Okay, Mr. Gingrich, so find me a state that went exactly 50% for Trump, and then you can go right off and throw yourself out the nearest window.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:03:48am

re: #135 bratwurst

Biased? Is that what Newt is calling it? Oy.

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calochortus  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:04:21am

re: #135 bratwurst

Maybe Trump should relocate the White House to West Virginia!

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Don’t give him ideas.

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Targetpractice  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:04:40am

re: #135 bratwurst

Maybe Trump should relocate the White House to West Virginia!

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So Newt’s argument is…what? That we scrap centuries of jurisprudence and base grand juries (and the subsequent trials) wherever a defendant has the best odds of landing a favorable jury?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:05:16am

re: #138 PhillyPretzel

Biased? Is that what Newt is calling it? Oy.

That talking point came out about 2 hours after the grand jury was impaneled. They’re setting up to invalidate the indictments as partisan hackery.

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Targetpractice  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:06:21am

re: #131 Charles Johnson

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Kelly’s term will end when one of two things finally runs out: His patience or Jared’s excuses.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:06:30am

re: #134 PhillyPretzel

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Kin

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Targetpractice  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:07:25am

re: #141 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

That talking point came out about 2 hours after the grand jury was impaneled. They’re setting up to invalidate the indictments as partisan hackery.

Which is not far removed from their frequent whine that a white cop can’t expect a “fair” trial unless tried in a lily-white suburb far removed from the city where he shot a black man.

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ObserverArt  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:08:30am

I think Newt needs to call a plumber. He’s plugged up again and needs a flush.

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calochortus  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:10:58am

re: #143 Stanley Sea

Kin

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Birth Control Works  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:11:41am

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

A chaebol (/ˈtʃeɪbɒl/, Korean: 재벌, Korean: [tɕɛ̝bʌl] (About this sound listen); from chae “wealth or property” + bol “faction or clan” - also written with the same Chinese characters 財閥 as Zaibatsu in Japan)[1] is a South Korean form of business conglomerate. They are typically global multinationals and own numerous international enterprises,[1] controlled by a chairman with power over all the operations.[1][2] The term is often used in a context similar to that of the English word “conglomerate”. The term was first used in 1984.[1] There are several dozen large Korean family-controlled corporate groups which fall under this definition

business conglomerate or cartel?

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bratwurst  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:12:24am

re: #136 Hecuba’s daughter

If your definition of progressive is the BernieBro never Hillary wing of the party, that is certainly true. They were a major reason that she lost, they are the ones attacking Tom Perez, and they are going to continue to damage the party. They are as deluded as the Trump supporters.

Here is one now!

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ObserverArt  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:12:27am

re: #143 Stanley Sea

Kin

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Birth Control Works  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:12:48am

re: #133 Charles Johnson

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I can’t even type those words

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Targetpractice  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:14:21am

re: #148 bratwurst

Here is one now!

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You know, this shit might have been easier to take if Bernie hadn’t gotten his hand slapped on a monthly basis by the FEC for fraudulent and illegal campaign contributions. It’s a bit hard to claim you’re “clean” of corporate influence when there’s millions in your campaign coffers that come from “voters” that either don’t exist or donated thousands of dollars more than the legal limit to your candidacy.

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Birth Control Works  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:19:41am

I know there are many who don’t like The Young Turks. I find they provide a viewpoint my generation needs to hear.

Dr. Phil Corrects Fox News On Baltimore’s Equality Of Opportunity

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retired cynic  Aug 6, 2017 • 11:29:03am

re: #132 Ace-o-aces

Those knees should not be seen.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 6, 2017 • 12:02:39pm

re: #137 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Okay, Mr. Gingrich, so find me a state that went exactly 50% for Trump, and then you can go right off and throw yourself out the nearest window.

He doesn’t really need to wait for that perfect state. He should just toss himself out the nearest window for the good of humanity.


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