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Barefoot Grin  Aug 19, 2017 • 5:30:55pm

Beautiful. I’m looking over at my Telecaster and asking: “why can’t you do that?”

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Dr. Matt  Aug 19, 2017 • 5:30:57pm
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Unabogie  Aug 19, 2017 • 5:35:05pm

People should read this, from Stonekettle.

stonekettle.com

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jaunte  Aug 19, 2017 • 5:36:47pm
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Unabogie  Aug 19, 2017 • 5:40:32pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 19, 2017 • 5:41:01pm

re: #5 Unabogie

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I wish they could make up their minds. Pick the CSA flag or the American flag. You can’t have both.

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stpaulbear  Aug 19, 2017 • 5:42:12pm

re: #4 jaunte

Eline de Bruijn @debruijneline
Replying to @debruijneline and 3 others
They said they have zip ties to do citizens arrest and that they have been communication with @DallasPD

Yeah, I can imagine what the DallasPD told them.

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 5:43:39pm
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Barefoot Grin  Aug 19, 2017 • 5:50:04pm

re: #8 teleskiguy

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Beautiful. Monet, van Gogh, and others were inspired in their art by east Asia, especially the famous woodblock artists of 19th century Japan.

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 5:53:50pm
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ObserverArt  Aug 19, 2017 • 5:58:05pm

re: #8 teleskiguy

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Impressionists were so good at capturing light. The Monet is a great example.

The other thing…all of those brush and palette knife strokes are contained on what is really not a big canvas. 3 by 3 foot.

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jaunte  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:01:27pm
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A Cranky One  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:01:49pm

re: #1 Barefoot Grin

Beautiful. I’m looking over at my Telecaster and asking: “why can’t you do that?”

Funny. My Telecaster is crying and saying “why can’t you do that?”

Sometimes I watch guitarists and am motivated to go work harder to improve my playing. Other times I watch guitarists and simply despair, knowing that never in a million years of practicing could I do that.

But I mainly play as stress relief. I’ve found that playing requires enough concentration to push all my annoyances into the background. Needless to say, the guitar collection has been getting a real workout in the last 7 months.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:02:14pm

re: #1 Barefoot Grin

Beautiful. I’m looking over at my Telecaster and asking: “why can’t you do that?”

Like we say in Archery, “You need to fix the nut behind the riser”.
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Stanley Sea  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:09:27pm

Going to theater under the stars - Sunset Boulevard. Our picnic is to die for.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:11:17pm

re: #4 jaunte

Wow, that outfit. Ski goggles, a bike helmet , lame ass Camo and an iphone sticking out from a sorry looking vest.

Yeah, this guy is ready for action…

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jaunte  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:14:52pm
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Belafon  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:15:11pm
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William Lewis  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:15:50pm

re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg

Wow, that outfit. Ski goggles, a bike helmet , lame ass Camo and an iphone sticking out from a sorry looking vest.

Yeah, this guy is ready for action…

If I ever decide to be tacticool, it’ll be circa 1600 with a nice side sword, dagger & buckler arrayed over period cloths and a nice tankard of mead at the nearest RenFest. I’ll accomplish more doing that these numbnuts ever will.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:16:04pm

re: #17 jaunte

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Tell me Joe, did you object when the people of the Eastern bloc tore down Communist statues? Did you object when Saddam Hussein’s statue came down in Baghdad? Really just shut the fuck up and actually think about why people have a problem with these statues rather than being the whiny pathetic loser that you are.

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nowherenorth2  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:16:16pm

re: #17 jaunte

Exactly. Exactly.

Dude doesnt understand a thing

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HappyWarrior  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:17:34pm

re: #21 nowherenorth2

Exactly. Exactly.

Dude doesnt understand a thing

It was such poetic justice that Tammy Duckworth ended his political career.

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jaunte  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:17:39pm
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nowherenorth2  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:18:31pm

re: #20 HappyWarrior

You. You get it. Thank you. Sometimes sanity is other people who you agree with.

Just..that tweet is the dumbest thing I have read other than his secession tweet.

He can secede himself to the bottom of the ocean.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:18:39pm

Choose the American flag, Confederate flag, or Nazi flag but you can’t choose the latter two and the first one.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:20:02pm

re: #24 nowherenorth2

You. You get it. Thank you. Sometimes sanity is other people who you agree with.

Just..that tweet is the dumbest thing I have read other than his secession tweet.

He can secede himself to the bottom of the ocean.

Seriously, it’s ridiculous. This whole idea that if we get rid of the statues, we’re ignoring history. Ignoring history is to do what our jackass President did and equate Lee to Washington. Every last state in the Union sent volunteers to defend the Union in 1861. Walsh should know better being from the land of Lincoln but he’s a bigoted old bastard.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:21:50pm

re: #25 HappyWarrior

Choose the American flag, Confederate flag, or Nazi flag but you can’t choose the latter two and the first one.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:23:05pm

re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg

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At least the more honest Confederates at the time chose ot leave the US never to return after the CSA lost or shot themselves like Edmund Ruffin. And the Nazis, they literally declared war on this country.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:27:34pm

re: #17 jaunte

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jaunte  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:28:18pm

Near Bastrop, TX

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HappyWarrior  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:30:05pm

Do those with a problem taking down CSA memorials and statues object to what was done after the end of communism? Would they object if when communism falls in Cuba if things celebrating the Castros were removed. Did they object to Saddam’s statue going down in Baghdad?

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nowherenorth2  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:31:22pm

re: #26 HappyWarrior

I get it. As a certified teacher of social studies I get it big time. Our current presidetriment-to-society is a joke. Joe Walsh is a joke as well. Both of them are idiots and do not realize that there is history to be learned and statues are a remnant and show great things or bad things that a country does. You dont need the statues. We know about history from first and second hand accounts and oral history, not fucking statues.

I have heard trump supporters say the past is the past and it should stay there as we can’t learn anything from it. I told one that the last few times we had a business man in the oval office, the country was massively screwed over with great recessions. Shut down to leave it in the past.

Also, I live near the akwasasne Mohawk reservation. Some one mentioned imminent domain may happen sometime (for what I have no idea). My friend freaking blew up and stated that that was a terrible idea and that it will never happen. History has no statues to show that the reservation lost a lot of land due to imminent domain and that many of the akwasasne know the past and what that entails. No statues or books commemorating that bit of history.

Also come on…those statues were for Jim crow. Joe Walsh and presidetriment are just fucking racists.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:33:47pm

re: #32 nowherenorth2

Maybe we should start calling him Joke Walsh?

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:34:41pm

re: #32 nowherenorth2

If the past should be the past then why are they so worked up over taking down Confederate monuments? Aren’t they in the past?

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nowherenorth2  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:35:29pm

re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg

I like that. That’s good.

Joke Walsh. Sued for not paying child support. Believe more taxes is theft. And then goes to court to say he is unemployed when he was no longer a congressman.

Your tea party conservative, joke

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nowherenorth2  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:37:41pm

re: #34 Patricia Kayden

Those people are just idiots. Like the fake militia. You know. We have thst picture from earlier.
3 percenters. 3 percent of knowing anything relevant about our country.

I dont get the statues commemorating thing personally. Maybe these people are visual learners.

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451_Montag  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:44:00pm

Just got back from seeing Dunkirk.

Just wow.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:44:05pm

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:46:53pm

re: #4 jaunte

This afternoon in Dallas

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Governor Abbott should appoint a special committee of MLM executives, faith healers, supplement salesmen, and other Republican healthcare experts to investigate this epidemic of micro-penis syndrome among the faithful. Could it be Soros? Chemtrails? Chinese satellites?

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:50:00pm

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Dave In Austin  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:50:25pm
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Patricia Kayden  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:51:33pm

re: #38 Blind Frog Belly White

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And he’s pretty darn handsome to boot. I’d love to see his statue all over the place. It’s strange how this country has celebrated the treasonous pro-slavery a-holes more than those who fought for the Union.

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jaunte  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:51:48pm

And doesn’t forget to demonize Shakespeare In The Park.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:52:21pm
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Patricia Kayden  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:55:12pm

re: #41 Dave In Austin

Oh lawd!! Please no. Just no.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:56:32pm

Fuck Andrew Sullivan. That is all. I was done with him long ago, and he’s only getting worse. Just fuck this guy.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:57:00pm

re: #43 jaunte

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And doesn’t forget to demonize Shakespeare In The Park.

The same KKK that loves the guy you nominated for President?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:57:23pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Fuck Andrew Sullivan. That is all. I was done with him long ago, and he’s only getting worse. Just fuck this guy.

Never been a fan.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:58:33pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:58:54pm

re: #42 Patricia Kayden

And he’s pretty darn handsome to boot. I’d love to see his statue all over the place. It’s strange how this country has celebrated the treasonous pro-slavery a-holes more than those who fought for the Union.

Yeah the men who fought for the Union to me seem forgotten. Damn shame.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 19, 2017 • 6:59:52pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

How many hunger strikes did this man participate in?

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:05:01pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

I stopped reading his crap a few years ago, but I *had* to see what you were talking about.

Folks, Andrew Sullivan called Fuckface Von Clownstick a “genius” in his latest swill of a column.

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calochortus  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:05:08pm

re: #51 Dave In Austin

How many hunger strikes did this man participate in?

Edited: Apparently I haven’t been keeping up…

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calochortus  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:05:55pm

re: #52 teleskiguy

I stopped reading his crap a few years ago, but I *had* to see what you were talking about.

Folks, Andrew Sullivan called Fuckface Von Clownstick a “genius” in his latest swill of a column.

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Thanks for taking one for the team.

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William Lewis  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:05:58pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room tonight. I know the South very well. I spent twenty years there one night.

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant and this white waitress came up to me and said, “We don’t serve colored people here.” I said, “That’s all right. I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.”

Then these three white boys came up to me and said, “Boy, we’re giving you fair warning. Anything you do to that chicken, we’re gonna do to you.” So I put down my knife and fork, I picked up that chicken and I kissed it. Then I said, “Line up, boys!”

Dick Gergory

RIP

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:06:07pm
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calochortus  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:07:39pm

re: #53 calochortus

Just one, over the Vietnam War, I think? Didn’t he say he’d never do it again, not even if the military invaded Harlem-or something to that effect?

So I looked it up and I guess he got into fasting for other reasons later in life.

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BeachDem  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:10:22pm

re: #52 teleskiguy

I stopped reading his crap a few years ago, but I *had* to see what you were talking about.

Folks, Andrew Sullivan called Fuckface Von Clownstick a “genius” in his latest swill of a column.

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To take that bad taste out of your mouth…

Pulling no punches

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Dave In Austin  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:12:39pm

Enjoy…….

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Charles Johnson  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:19:00pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:19:41pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Fuck Andrew Sullivan. That is all. I was done with him long ago, and he’s only getting worse. Just fuck this guy.

He’s back in his full Tory mode. Frankly he’s been on my Shaving Cream list ever since he was one of the lead assholes who torpedoed Hillary’s health care plan.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:20:39pm

re: #60 Charles Johnson

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But julian Assange is a hero!

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calochortus  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:22:53pm

Gah, electricity seems a little unstable. I think I’ll log off for a while.

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jaunte  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:24:51pm
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jaunte  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:25:48pm

Small group of antifa radicals appears to be mad at the police, hanging around late to make trouble.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:27:08pm
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:30:44pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

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dangerman  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:31:50pm

re: #64 jaunte

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Dude it doesn’t matter what the war was about

They left and took up arms against the u.s. and the Constitution
“The south” was not the United states
They attacked the United states

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:32:12pm
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Interesting Times  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:32:43pm

Ha:

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:40:51pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

So, D. D’Souza thinks the evil “Democrat Party” managed to take over every state government in the south, set up its headquarters in Richmond and persuade a million southerners to fight for them, often with no pay, no shoes, and rags for uniforms; and all this against the will of these selfsame southerners? If so, he must believe that these southerners were the weakest willed and most gullible people in history.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:50:00pm

re: #71 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

So, D. D’Souza thinks the evil “Democrat Party” managed to take over every state government in the south, set up its headquarters in Richmond and persuade a million southerners to fight for them, often with no pay, no shoes, and rags for uniforms; and all this against the will of these selfsame southerners? If so, he must believe that these southerners were the weakest willed and most gullible people in history.

Well, the weakest and most gullible people alive today actually believe the bullshit that adulterous convicted felon utters. And he will continue to utter it until Mercer cuts off his sweet wingnut welfare!

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:52:30pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

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So if the Confederacy was Democratic, why are modern day Republicans the ones so passionately defending its monuments now? I’m not aware of any Democrats who are protective of all things related to the Confederacy.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:54:06pm

re: #73 Patricia Kayden

So if the Confederacy was Democratic, why are modern day Republicans the ones so passionately defending its monuments now? I’m not aware of any Democrats who are protective of all things related to the Confederacy.

Dinesh D’Adulterer will point out one “Democrat” supporting The Confederacy—a certain Milwaukee Sheriff…

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:55:00pm

RIP, Mr. Gregory…

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:55:15pm

A real thing my old hairdresser saw in Montana today.

Yup, DB’s 4 LIFE definitely drive Hummers.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:55:57pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

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Oh!! Remember reading his autobiography back in the day. May he R.I.P.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:57:16pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

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Dinesh D’Screwloose is like the David Avacado Wolfe of politics.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2017 • 7:59:30pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

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Wait, what?

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Charles Johnson  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:01:08pm
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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:04:02pm

I don’t know. Y’all think this might be construed as fat shaming?

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:10:39pm

So last night I started reading Greg Iles Mississippi Blood, the final installment of his Natchez trilogy.

700 pages, each one a turner.

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:11:09pm
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BigPapa  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:15:44pm

Dick Gregory passed at 84. He had a great run.

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Skip Intro  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:22:49pm

Ok, fun’s fun, but this is going too far.

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NoSoapForYou  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:25:23pm
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KingKenrod  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:28:36pm

It’s easy to see how D’Souza bumbled his way into a felony. He really is the most aggressively stupid right-wing nitwit out there.

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:32:49pm

Judging from the way this country heeds warnings, I’m expecting a shitload of newly blind people on Monday.

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ipsos  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:34:02pm

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Interesting Times  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:35:49pm

re: #88 teleskiguy

Judging from the way this country heeds warnings, I’m expecting a shitload of newly blind people on Monday.

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:36:48pm

re: #90 Interesting Times

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:38:06pm

re: #88 teleskiguy

Judging from the way this country heeds warnings, I’m expecting a shitload of newly blind people on Monday.

It’ll be like Day Of The Triffids.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:40:14pm
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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:40:28pm

re: #92 Blind Frog Belly White

It’ll be like Day Of The Triffids.

I had to look that up. More reading I need to do. Not a bad thing.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:41:36pm

re: #94 teleskiguy

I had to look that up. More reading I need to do. Not a bad thing.

Or watching. There’s a movie and 2 TV productions.

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:42:45pm

re: #95 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Or watching. There’s a movie and 2 TV productions.

I like reading source material then seeing other mediums, a habit I picked up in college.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:43:11pm

re: #88 teleskiguy

Judging from the way this country heeds warnings, I’m expecting a shitload of newly blind people on Monday.

Please NO! Last thing we need at work is a spike in blind disability applications!

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:44:25pm

re: #97 Joe Bacon 🌹

Please NO! Last thing we need at work is a spike in blind disability applications!

OY! Never thought of it that way! Shit, it occurred to me that I have a friend who works in Social Security Administration in the Los Angeles area.

Eek!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:44:43pm

re: #94 teleskiguy

I had to look that up. More reading I need to do. Not a bad thing.

The book is a classic of “After The End of the World” Science Fiction. Don’t bother with the 1963 movie.

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:47:41pm
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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Aug 19, 2017 • 8:59:02pm

re: #99 Blind Frog Belly White

The book is a classic of “After The End of the World” Science Fiction. Don’t bother with the 1963 movie.

The movie is (unintentionally) funny.

Everything John Wyndham wrote is worth reading, and I’ve never seen a movie based on one of them that came close in quality.

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 9:10:55pm

It’s the late shift, so I’m posting some frog porno.

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sagehen  Aug 19, 2017 • 9:26:58pm

re: #100 teleskiguy

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 19, 2017 • 9:48:57pm

Local news:

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:01:02pm

The YouTube channel Cult of Dusty (a liberal atheist who has the misfortune of both those qualities and being from Mississippi) weighs in the point of the white supremacist rallies. (He normally weighs in on religious issues).

He is a white man who grew up during the end of Jim Crow (which is partly what shaped his liberal outlook).

(20:45, NSFW for coarse scary four-letter words)

The REAL Reason For These Rallies!

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:03:26pm

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹

I remember that dude! He moved to Denver and his output of videos went way down. He got a ton of grief for doing a video where he smoked DMT on camera and proceeded to talk.

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:07:53pm

re: #106 teleskiguy

I remember that dude! He moved to Denver and his output of videos went way down. He got a ton of grief for doing a video where he smoked DMT on camera and proceeded to talk.

His thoughts in the video are interesting (and delivered with his usual Southern drawl animated speech style)

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Belafon  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:13:40pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:17:11pm

Someone from here took a photo yesterday of I-25 south of Fort Collins and posted it to Faceplant. It was a massive northbound traffic jam.

The resident captioned it: Traffic heading north bound I-25 south of Ft. Collins!!! They’re coming for us!!

Local information about the eclipse, including tonight’s movie in the park across the street from my house. (Beauty and the Beast) My wife obtained a public showing license for the public library from the MPAA (turns out as long as a library is not using showings for fundraising, the license is free.)

facebook.com

Feed going on tomorrow at the Diner. We’ll be there …

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Pineapple Pizzagate  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:17:49pm

re: #52 teleskiguy

Folks, Andrew Sullivan called Fuckface Von Clownstick a “genius” in his latest swill of a column.

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Belafon  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:20:13pm

re: #108 Belafon

Info on that picture: it was taken in Charlottesville the Tuesday after the big rally. Confederate boy had two large weapons. The woman is named Lara Rogers. dailyprogress.com

Edit: the guys name is Allen Armentrout.

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BeachDem  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:21:42pm

re: #82 The Vicious Babushka

So last night I started reading Greg Iles Mississippi Blood, the final installment of his Natchez trilogy.

700 pages, each one a turner.

I wondered if you had read it yet. I had to re-read the last 100 pages of the preceding one just to keep all the characters straight.

(I’m on the third of the Linwood Barkley Promise Falls trilogy. Amazingly, I kind of read most of his others in random orders, but managed to always have read the ones that told earlier stories before the later ones, just by coincidence. I do thank you for recommending him.)

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Belafon  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:27:26pm

My plans to attend the Dallas rally were thwarted when we found out a friend of ours slipped in the kitchen and tore ligaments in the quadriceps of both legs. Surgery is tomorrow. We’ve been trying to help the family, which included taking the mother-in-law to the airport.

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:30:16pm

re: #113 Belafon

My plans to attend the Dallas rally were thwarted when we found out a friend of ours slipped in the kitchen and tore ligaments in the quadriceps of both legs. Surgery is tomorrow. We’ve been trying to help the family, which included taking the mother-in-law to the airport.

I’m sorry to hear about your friend, and hope s/he has a speedy recovery.

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:34:37pm

Funny how the only person besides Fuckface Von Clownstick in the picture that doesn’t have an ‘X’ on his head is the one person he can’t fire.

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BeachDem  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:37:48pm

re: #93 Blind Frog Belly White

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The WaPo article about it is delicious. (Fahrenthold, of course.)

Trump’s club had lost nine of the 16 galas or dinner events that it had been scheduled to host during next winter’s social “season” in Palm Beach. At least three other groups have also canceled charity luncheons there this week…

Lois Pope, a Mar-a-Lago member and philanthropist who heads the Lois Pope Life Foundation and Leaders In Furthering Education, said she had told her foundation’s board to move its well-known December gala from the club…

Big Dog Ranch Rescue said Friday it would no longer hold an upcoming event at the club and would instead move it to the group’s facility nearby. Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, was scheduled to co-chair the event.

And much more…

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electrotek  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:40:05pm

Just got back from the rally here in Dallas. It was pretty peaceful here, but since I’m too brain-dead to form my thoughts, I’ll just repost my friend’s post which is pretty much in line with what I witnessed:

Quick update on my rally experience tonight….
I went there to capture photos, so I left my personal opinions on all topics to myself.

The large rally at City Hall Plaza was peaceful from what I saw. The vast majority of people came to that event, listened to the speakers, and went home.

But I didn’t stay around that area long as I wanted to see more action up close, so I walked to Pioneer Cemetery where one of the Confederate statues was under guard by Texas State Troopers. For most of the evening, a few dozen people were gathered here, often having debates. Mostly peaceful. Sometimes heated.

However, once the main rally ended, a group that I’d classify as troublemakers (maybe Antifa, or just kids looking to make a scene) descended upon this area. Most had their faces covered, which was “prohibited” at the main rally. They came with megaphones and chants and hot tempers. There were scuffles.

I was right next to one of these fights and was hit in the face with a full water bottle. No big deal, but fuck these people for coming to these things just to start shit. Mind you, it was only a few dozen from the crowd of 2,000+, but still. I heard a taser go off at one point. Some people were dragged behind the police barricade. People were throwing shit at the cops and chanting bullshit. This group definitely didn’t represent what the
rally was about. But, I stayed around… because photos.

I’m home now and will begin the post-processing. Whew.

PS: Props to Dallas Police, as always, for being a peaceful force in the midst of nonsense. And to all the assisting agencies as well. The City had dumptrucks blocking roads and DART buses blocking the plaza. Lots of barricades. Lots of public safety presence. A+

On another note, I was upset at seeing discarded water bottles at the cemetery so I stayed and picked up as many as I could before I left. I’m not a fat of littering trash at a cemetery, so have some respect for the dead.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 19, 2017 • 10:51:08pm

re: #92 Blind Frog Belly White

It’ll be like Day Of The Triffids.

My triffid is ready.

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:01:34pm

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retired cynic  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:03:16pm

re: #119 teleskiguy

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:10:42pm

re: #120 retired cynic

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retired cynic  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:12:29pm

re: #121 teleskiguy

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:14:57pm

re: #122 retired cynic

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retired cynic  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:16:48pm

re: #123 teleskiguy

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:23:18pm

re: #124 retired cynic

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retired cynic  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:25:32pm

re: #125 teleskiguy

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:30:34pm

re: #126 retired cynic

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retired cynic  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:31:54pm

re: #127 teleskiguy

I worry for children today, but as long as there are bright, kind people still coming along, there is hope for the future of mankind.

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electrotek  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:37:23pm
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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:38:26pm

OMG! Almost too good to be true!

BREITBART-TEXAS HAS ITS OFFICES IN LUBBOCK!

Yes, not Austin or Dallas or Houston but Lubbock!
The yokel managing director is one Brandon Darby and he has a whole gang of variously titled folk helping him turn out Texas-related material for the right-wing rag of choice.
m.facebook.com

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:40:01pm

re: #128 retired cynic

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retired cynic  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:41:52pm

re: #131 teleskiguy

Love it!

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electrotek  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:43:33pm

Facebook Post

My homie’s photos from the Dallas rally.

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electrotek  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:44:19pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:48:31pm

Chiquita Bananas has a really bizarre advert cashing in on the eclipse:

Chiquita | Banana Sun Announcement

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teleskiguy  Aug 19, 2017 • 11:57:32pm

meteor didn’t like the frog porno.

I get downdings.

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teleskiguy  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:00:29am
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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:01:48am

re: #136 teleskiguy

meteor didn’t like the frog porno.

I get downdings.

I didn’t ding it either way, because I edit regular porn Romance novels. (Someone around my town has to do it.)

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:03:14am
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teleskiguy  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:03:26am

re: #138 Anymouse 🌹

I didn’t ding it either way, because I edit regular porn Romance novels. (Someone around my town has to do it.)

Ya gotta make a living somehow.

Did you see this?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:16:20am

re: #64 jaunte

Man who will only ID himself at Lucas tells me he came bc ancestors fought for Confederacy. Insists war had other causes besides slavery.

That in itself is true. But it quickly mutates into “The Civil War was not about slavery at all!”

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teleskiguy  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:22:54am

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

“The Civil War was not about slavery at all!”

STATES RIGHTS! TARIFFS!

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:34:09am

re: #142 teleskiguy

STATES RIGHTS! TARIFFS!

And yet every state secession document, the CSA Constitution, and CSA VP Alexander Stephens’s “Cornerstone Speech” all explicitly claim slavery (and its Biblical blessing) as the reason for their secession.

Funny thing, they don’t mention things like “states’ rights” or “tariffs.” They do mention slaves were an incredibly valuable commodity worth fighting for.

The traitorous rebels were quite clear the war was about slavery, but today? You can’t explain it; might be slavery, might be something else.

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teleskiguy  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:36:42am

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹

The one-volume Oxford History of the Civil War - entitled “Battle Cry of Freedom,” written by James McPherson - should be required reading in secondary U.S. history courses.

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:37:32am

Look at these dipshit ammosexuals:

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:40:44am

re: #145 electrotek

Look at these dipshit ammosexuals:

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Lots of tacticool gear, not too much tactical ability on display.

And “protect both sides” is the new euphemism for “intimidate one side?”

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freetoken  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:49:12am

re: #145 electrotek

Did you know there is a Facebook group called “AmmoSexual”?

facebook.com

It looks like a pretty dead Community.

There’s also a group called “Ammosexuals”:
facebook.com

It’s more openly erotic, but it is not very active.

This is America.

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:49:59am

This woman was given a state funeral with a 21 gun salute by the Pakistani military for her courageous efforts in ending leprosy.

The only non-Muslim to ever given such a prestigious treatment. The only other two who received similar treatment was the founder of Pakistan himself and Abdul Sattar Edhi:

May she rest in peace

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:50:16am

re: #147 freetoken

Did you know there is a Facebook group called “AmmoSexual”?

facebook.com

It looks like a pretty dead Community.

There’s also a group called “Ammosexuals”:
facebook.com

It’s more openly erotic, but it is not very active.

This is America.

I hate Facebook sometimes.

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Kragar  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:50:46am

re: #145 electrotek

“Protect Both Sides” = “Intimidate the Cops into not doing their jobs”

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freetoken  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:51:50am

re: #149 electrotek

The reason those Communities have so few posts is, I supposed, that any active group or community of said interests would soon run afoul of the Facebook standards.

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:10:50am

Dog eat dog:

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teleskiguy  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:18:10am

Some weekend metal.

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teleskiguy  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:19:37am

re: #153 teleskiguy

Never mind. YouTube has blocked this music from LGF, for some reason.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:25:41am

Ha! Knew it all along!

Facebook Post

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sagehen  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:36:19am

re: #135 Anymouse 🌹

Chiquita Bananas has a really bizarre advert cashing in on the eclipse:

[Embedded content]

A pretty good eclipse parody thingy….
theatlantic.com

The Eclipse Conspiracy

The scientists are all talking like it’s a sure thing.

On August 21, the “moon” will pass between the Earth and the sun, obscuring the light of the latter. The government agency NASA says this will result in “one of nature’s most awe-inspiring sights.” The astronomers there claim to have calculated down to the minute exactly when and where this will happen, and for how long. They have reportedly known about this eclipse for years, just by virtue of some sort of complex math.

This seems extremely unlikely. I can’t even find these eclipse calculations on their website to check them for myself.

the whole thing’s worth reading, it’s not long

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teleskiguy  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:36:39am

We’re going to war.

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:40:07am

re: #156 sagehen

A pretty good eclipse parody thingy….
theatlantic.com

The Eclipse Conspiracy

the whole thing’s worth reading, it’s not long

LOL, “eclipse truthers.”

On the other hand, I haven’t run across a story about the eclipse that conforms to Rule 34 yet. Is that the exception that proves the rule, or am I just not twisted enough. (now I have to go look)

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:42:34am

report plz

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:46:24am

*yawn

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sagehen  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:54:49am

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹

LOL, “eclipse truthers.”

On the other hand, I haven’t run across a story about the eclipse that conforms to Rule 34 yet. Is that the exception that proves the rule, or am I just not twisted enough. (now I have to go look)

Pokeman fanfic has a fair number of sun/moon stories.

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:55:15am

The regressive left is alive and well.

Who is this far-left racist trash, you may ask?

Executive Director, @knowyourix. Editor, @Feministing. Formerly at @CarnegieEndow.

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Pineapple Pizzagate  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:59:35am

re: #130 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

OMG! Almost too good to be true!

BREITBART-TEXAS HAS ITS OFFICES IN LUBBOCK!

Yes, not Austin or Dallas or Houston but Lubbock!
The yokel managing director is one Brandon Darby and he has a whole gang of variously titled folk helping him turn out Texas-related material for the right-wing rag of choice.
m.facebook.com

Brandon Darby is someone to be wary of; he’s a long-time agent provocateur, like a less inept version of James O’Keefe.

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teleskiguy  Aug 20, 2017 • 1:59:41am

re: #159 Nyet

Sergey, you’ve been doing quite well with identifying stupid cocksuckers lately, with positive results (banned accounts and such)! Thank you for your internet esacpades, wading into the toxic swamps takes the proper hip-waders and breathing apparatus.

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 2:06:18am
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Pineapple Pizzagate  Aug 20, 2017 • 2:17:47am

re: #165 Nyet

Probably the only guy who writes for both David Duke dot com and Counterpunch

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 2:21:03am

re: #166 Pineapple Pizzagate

And for many “respected” Russian publications.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 20, 2017 • 2:23:08am

re: #167 Nyet

What a nutcase. Makes Alex Jones seem like a button-down shirt and tie wearing Oxford prof of Classical Antiquity.

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 2:32:23am

re: #168 Dr Lizardo

Shamir wanted Pussy Riot to be killed and their ashes scattered.

Funnily enough in the 1960s, when he first arrived in Israel, he used to be a radical Zionist. He was active in that circle back in Novosibirsk. I guess I won’t be able to understand that 180.

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Aug 20, 2017 • 2:35:36am

Last night I mentioned the fire here NW of Brookings, Oregon in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness (Federal lands) and thought I would post an update. The fire has jumped Long Ridge, just north of the junction of the South Bank Chetco/Chetco Rivers, and is within one mile of private land. It was a very orange day here in Brookings, with ash raining pretty much all day. At one point we were getting rained on with leaves and thin chunks of bark that were scorched black but not burned. Today the winds were coming at our town from the N/NW, pushing the smoke out over the ocean just north of us and sweeping it down the coast into California. The air was smoky and with the number of elderly here, I know people were miserable. The winds weren’t helping anything today being they were hitting upwards of 20 MPH (about 5-15 MPH average all day.

Local stores with large parking lots are letting evacuees with trailers set up camp in their lots. The local high school is filling up as well and the Red Cross is on hand to assist. The evac zone has expanded south and westward a few miles but with the weather predicted for tomorrow, it will probably expand some more. Tomorrow may see it crossing over into private lands and there are a lot of people who live up in those hills. We have friends all over up there and they are scared of losing everything. Many of them can now see the fire and they are in a panic.

The smoke sucks tonight but hoping for a bad weather forecast where we get a strong onshore flow tomorrow. :)

A person can hope!

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 2:53:41am

Remember the nutty porn-actress Emma Sulkowitz, the Mattress Girl? Well, here’s her new piece of “art” (NSFW):

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 20, 2017 • 2:55:35am

re: #171 Nyet

Remember the nutty porn-actress Emma Sulkowitz, the Mattress Girl? Well, here’s her new piece of “art”:

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Looks like a BDSM photoshoot thinly veiled as performance art.

Well, as the old saying goes, whatever gets you through the night.

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William Lewis  Aug 20, 2017 • 2:56:30am

re: #171 Nyet

Could you private tag that and note it’s possibly NSFW? Thanks.

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 2:57:35am

re: #173 William Lewis

Done, and I apologize for a possible inconvenience.

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Anymouse 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 3:03:18am

re: #174 Nyet

Done, and I apologize for a possible inconvenience.

I have research books on this form of “performance art.” Edited a few as well.

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William Lewis  Aug 20, 2017 • 3:26:57am

re: #174 Nyet

Thanks. It didn’t cause me any trouble but it could for someone, so I thought I would mention it.

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CleverToad  Aug 20, 2017 • 3:50:46am

Leaving for Nebraska and eclipsing in a few minutes — Hastings to sleep, Crane Trust Nature Center for the viewing. Assuming all goes to plan which I am not going to bet the farm on, but we got lots of snacks and several back-up plans.

Sister from Boston missed the rally because she came out here to take care of our mom so hubby and I could do this little expotition. Sort of sorry she missed it, but the side of the angels was well-represented by her fellow Bostonians.

Be good, have fun, don’t let them burn the country down…

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makeitstop  Aug 20, 2017 • 4:15:59am

re: #155 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

Ha! Knew it all along!

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I’ll go with that!

In other news, it actually looks like the sun will come out in Nova Scotia today! I’m running out to rent a car, and we’re heading to Clam Harbour Beach for their annual sandcastle competition. Locals say it’s a pretty cool thing. Pics later…

Oh, and HBD to moi. BBL

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steve_davis  Aug 20, 2017 • 4:21:13am

re: #8 teleskiguy

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Dear Mr. Monet,

it is highly doubtful that there is really that much green in that scene. for instance, the bridge itself is almost certainly not green. these are the sorts of details that will prevent you from fully expressing what we on the committee will grudgingly admit is some small talent with the canvas. might we recommend a couple of years getting an mfa from art institute of chicago?

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steve_davis  Aug 20, 2017 • 4:38:12am

re: #38 Blind Frog Belly White

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and apparently wrote fabulous memoirs, which I keep meaning to find time to read!

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steve_davis  Aug 20, 2017 • 4:40:58am

re: #34 Patricia Kayden

If the past should be the past then why are they so worked up over taking down Confederate monuments? Aren’t they in the past?

the past is never dead. it isn’t even the past…..not in the south, at least.

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Belafon  Aug 20, 2017 • 5:37:48am

Another take:

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jeffreyw  Aug 20, 2017 • 5:39:26am

Imgur


Good morning!

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Belafon  Aug 20, 2017 • 5:41:04am

From New Orleans yesterday:

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 6:09:53am

The L.A. Times is pissed

These are not normal times.

The man in the White House is reckless and unmanageable, a danger to the Constitution, a threat to our democratic institutions.

Last week some of his worst qualities were on display: his moral vacuity and his disregard for the truth, as well as his stubborn resistance to sensible advice.

Enough is enough.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) are the two most-powerful men in Congress. Both have fired off the occasional potshot but for the most part have stood firmly behind this wildly flawed president, despite the taunts and insults Trump hurled at them from his Twitter redoubt.

What holds them back? Craven, self-serving political calculations designed to protect their careers, and dwindling hope that the president, despite everything, will help them move their long-delayed legislative agenda.

Their silence is shameful.

italics mine

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Targetpractice  Aug 20, 2017 • 6:37:35am

re: #182 Belafon

Another take:

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See, this is the problem with cosplay, people who have no business dressing up like fictional characters that they have nothing in common with besides the ability to process O2 into CO2

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 6:47:11am

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

That in itself is true. But it quickly mutates into “The Civil War was not about slavery at all!”

i reiterate from somewhere above:

first agree that:
“the south” left the united states.
then they attacked the United States
they took up arms against the U.S. and the Constitution

“The south” was not “the United states” while it was doing this

you dont get that far, arguing why is a pointless distraction

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I cannot.  Aug 20, 2017 • 6:54:23am

re: #81 teleskiguy

If they hold themselves to be an ubermensch and they are actually a roll of butter in a human skinsuit, its not shaming him for his appearance, its mocking their hypocrisy.

Go to town on him. At least, that’s my opinion.

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fern01  Aug 20, 2017 • 6:57:06am

re: #185 dangerman

The L.A. Times is pissed

italics mine

Shame they weren’t saying this over and over and over before last November.

… but her emails

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Dr. Matt  Aug 20, 2017 • 6:59:40am

Shade

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Birth Control Works  Aug 20, 2017 • 7:02:46am

Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle

Dick Gregory, the pioneering black satirist who transformed cool humor into a barbed force for civil rights in the 1960s, then veered from his craft for a life devoted to protest and fasting in the name of assorted social causes, health regimens and conspiracy theories, died Saturday in Washington. He was 84.

Mr. Gregory’s son, Christian Gregory, who announced his death on social media, said more details would be released in the coming days. Mr. Gregory had been admitted to a hospital on Aug. 12, his son said in an earlier Facebook post.

Early in his career Mr. Gregory insisted in interviews that his first order of business onstage was to get laughs, not to change how white America treated Negroes (the accepted word for African-Americans at the time). “Humor can no more find the solution to race problems than it can cure cancer,” he said. Nonetheless, as the civil rights movement was kicking into high gear, whites who caught his club act or listened to his routines on records came away with a deeper feel for the nation’s shameful racial history.

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Targetpractice  Aug 20, 2017 • 7:08:17am

re: #189 fern01

Shame they weren’t saying this over and over and over before last November.

… but her emails

Well, in the LA Times defense, they did endorse her for the presidency. It’s the other “serious” pundits and editorialists who wasted an ocean of ink about her emails, about her Foundation, about worry over FBI investigations, and (most importantly) how she was calling all those “fine people” who supported Trump “deplorables,” who deserve to be caned in the public square.

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Birth Control Works  Aug 20, 2017 • 7:13:24am

Here is the Chicago Tribune’s Obit on Dick Gregory.

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 7:22:01am

MSNBC Video

Gregory’s list of conspiracy theories is a long one, including such items as federal agents actually shot Malcolm X and John F. Kennedy; the federal government blew up the levees in New Orleans; the D.C.-area sniper attacks were perpetrated by a White man in a white van, not by the two convicted Black simpletons; and Ron Brown, President Clinton’s Commerce secretary, was killed by a bullet to the head, not in a plane crash as reported. Ghetto intelligence, he says, tells him nobody ever landed on the moon: “Those images of dust rising and falling again when that astronaut steps on the planet could not be accurate because there’s no gravity on the moon, and how could there be all those pictures with shadows when the moon is completely dark?
The 9/11 ruse
But perhaps the biggest ruse, says Gregory, is the government’s attempt to cover up what really happened on 9/11.
“You have to ask yourself some simple questions, like how is it that Morgan Bush, the president’s younger brother, owned the company that was in charge of security for the World Trade Center, yet it has never appeared in The New York Times?” The Times and most other major U.S. papers have CIA agents working as reporters, he says.
“Out of the 19 hijackers, 11 were taken off plane a half-hour beforehand and let back on the plane….
“How did we know the terrorists were Arabs … they didn’t find no black boxes,” he continues. “The government said they tracked their cell phone calls. If I called you on your cell from my house, that call doesn’t go from me to you. It goes from a connector then down to you. There is no connector up there, which is why you have to use one of those $7-a-minute phones.”
“If you look at the large white cloud that resulted from the collapse of the Twin Towers, you’ll notice that people’s faces are covered in white powder, which some have said is asbestos. Asbestos has been outlawed for many years. They used dynamite to blow those buildings up, which turned that concrete into dust like a woman’s face powder…. Then they took all the debris and shipped it to China so you couldn’t examine it.
“Something is not right, but there are too many scientists involved now, and too many of them are asking serious questions. Little by little the truth is getting out. There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.”
Gregory says there are many, many more inconsistencies, but some people will never be convinced that the government was involved.

Wait what.

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The Spite House  Aug 20, 2017 • 7:22:46am

So Joy just showed a tweet of yours, Charles. While talking about Chuckie. And she called him Charles Johnson. Hope that doesn’t confuse anyone.

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fern01  Aug 20, 2017 • 7:24:59am

re: #192 Targetpractice

Well, in the LA Times defense, they did endorse her for the presidency. It’s the other “serious” pundits and editorialists who wasted an ocean of ink about her emails, about her Foundation, about worry over FBI investigations, and (most importantly) how she was calling all those “fine people” who supported Trump “deplorables,” who deserve to be caned in the public square.

Virtually ALL of the MSM (print) endorsed Hillary (I’ve lost the figures but it was something like 100+ to 1) - it didn’t stop them reporting all of the issues you mention.

Edit: Most of the endorsements seemed to imply “the lessor of 2 evils” although I admit I can’t remember the wording from the LA times).

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 20, 2017 • 7:25:17am

re: #193 Birth Control Works

RIP Mr Gregory; you will be missed.

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lawhawk  Aug 20, 2017 • 7:31:54am

Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.

The Trump admin is a roving shitshow of epic proportions, and it goes far beyond the protection of Confederate statues in the most unlikely of places. It’s an admin rife with white supremacists and bigots.

It’s an admin wholly unprepared to govern, let alone do any policy that wasn’t first crafted in the fever swamps of infowars, white supremacist/Nazi chat rooms, or the boardrooms of billionaires looking to gut govt so that they could get bigger tax cuts.

Even with all the crap this admin is doing, the GOP still thinks that they’ve got political space to do their massive tax cuts.

No, just no.

Then you have Ivanka weighing back in and thinking that she can paper over daddy’s white supremacist crap?

No. Just no.

Oh, and Trump gives away the game when he basically admits Bannon going back to Breitbart will further his agenda. It’s the kayfabe.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 7:33:42am

re: #199 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.

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I find Ivanka more despicable than her Dad since she tries to present a veneer of civility.

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 7:54:47am

re: #200 HappyWarrior

I find Ivanka more despicable than her Dad since she tries to present a veneer of civility.

100% phony
not an ingenuous bone in her body

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ObserverArt  Aug 20, 2017 • 7:56:49am

Uggh.

I watch Meet the Chuck to hear his guests. Chuck I can do without.

So, who is one of the panelists today, and being introduced as a new NBC political analyst?

Peggy Noonan.

And she is already saying nothing in flowery overwrought words.

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:01:10am

re: #202 ObserverArt

She clearly threw back three martinis before her appearance.

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Targetpractice  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:04:34am

re: #199 lawhawk

The odds are so slim on tax reform being passed that even Goldman Sachs says they don’t see it happening. Whatever political capital Trump had left after the disaster that was Trumpcare was torched this week. There’s already predictions that there will be a government shutdown next month because the “Freedom Caucus” will be so emboldened by Trump’s remarks Tuesday and Bannon’s threats to go after “the establishment” that they will demand the craziest shit they can in the debt ceiling bill because they know Trump will have their back. And even if they avoid a shutdown, the odds they’ll come together to craft a budget just so they can use reconciliation to cram through tax reform are laughably small.

Tax reform is not going to be the GOP’s salvation. Only a come to Jesus moment and the wholesale disassociation from Trump will save them and only if they do it soon.

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ObserverArt  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:13:07am

re: #195 Nyet

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Wait what.

Dick Gregory a good comedian. A conspiracy nut.

Did a lot for people with his comedic social statements.

His overall outlook (distrust) may have helped create the nut.

Human. They are complicated. No excuses.

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:16:24am

re: #204 Targetpractice

Tax reform is not going to be the GOP’s salvation. Only a come to Jesus moment and the wholesale disassociation from Trump will save them and only if they do it soon.

Requires some semblance of sanity. Recognizing country over career and party so…..

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Maxwell Not So Smart  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:18:20am

My brother sent me this early this morning. Worth a couple of minutes to read.

Trump, Neo-Nazis and the Klan
by Maureen Dowd

Link

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:19:05am

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:21:15am

re: #208 The Vicious Babushka

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Painted toes doing ok?

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ObserverArt  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:21:22am

re: #200 HappyWarrior

I find Ivanka more despicable than her Dad since she tries to present a veneer of civility.

She is 100% veneer. It is very difficult seeing the human…all you see is “the look” she needs to put on.

But in a way, I don’t blame her totally. She grew up with a very strange father. Obviously Daddy Trump pushed “the look” as being everything. And we have all seen the photos of how he treated her. She may have been raised to be all about the surface. Depth doesn’t seem to be a trait in the house. She could be extremely intelligent but hides it to be what Big Orange Daddy wants. An image…for Daddy.

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BigPapa  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:23:34am

Amazing that the right is still ranting about communists. They need all the enemies they can muster.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:25:27am

re: #210 ObserverArt

She is 100% veneer. It is very difficult seeing the human…all you see is “the look” she needs to put on.

But in a way, I don’t blame her totally. She grew up with a very strange father. Obviously Daddy Trump pushed “the look” as being everything. And we have all seen the photos of how he treated her. She may have been raised to be all about the surface. Depth doesn’t seem to be a trait in the house. She could be extremely intelligent but hides it to be what Big Orange Daddy wants. An image…for Daddy.

Where would she even learn what is normal? Who is there to set an example to her of what is moral and righteous? She didn’t learn that from her father growing up, and she sure didn’t learn it from her criminal in-laws.

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BigPapa  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:26:11am

I’m considering changing my nic again. Thinking of ‘Lord Chyron the Maladjusted’ or something that would sound great if Gorka said it.

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:30:06am

re: #207 Maxwell Not So Smart

My brother sent me this early this morning. Worth a couple of minutes to read.

Trump, Neo-Nazis and the Klan
by Maureen Dowd

Link

Weasel, pig. Potato potahto

And yes he’ll keep up the contrast and the truth will out
Evolution even social evolution is a slow process. And it only moves in in direction

Government by empathy, not fear

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:31:39am

re: #210 ObserverArt

She is 100% veneer. It is very difficult seeing the human…all you see is “the look” she needs to put on.

But in a way, I don’t blame her totally. She grew up with a very strange father. Obviously Daddy Trump pushed “the look” as being everything. And we have all seen the photos of how he treated her. She may have been raised to be all about the surface. Depth doesn’t seem to be a trait in the house. She could be extremely intelligent but hides it to be what Big Orange Daddy wants. An image…for Daddy.

While familial relationships are difficult, Once you become self aware, it’s all on you

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Unshaken Defiance  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:33:21am

re: #204 Targetpractice

There will be no GOP salvation. They sucked before Trump, made it far worse, and would expect forgiveness and a return to the post Bush status quo? Oh hell no. This is a political fight to the death. The GOP must be ended. Dunno what comes to fill the second party void but pre Trump GOP ain’t it.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:34:42am

In some of the neighborhoods around here where speeding is a common concern residents are putting up signs saying “Drive Like Your Kids Live Here.” On my drive this morning I saw that someone had taken the trouble in one neighborhood to spray paint out “Live Here.” Had to chuckle.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:36:05am

re: #207 Maxwell Not So Smart

My brother sent me this early this morning. Worth a couple of minutes to read.

Trump, Neo-Nazis and the Klan
by Maureen Dowd

Link

Tried to read it but when Dowdy went back to her standard Democratic slamming I hit the close button.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:37:46am

re: #211 BigPapa

Amazing that the right is still ranting about communists. They need all the enemies they can muster.

And the same Right that bullshits about Communists totally embraces Putin!

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ObserverArt  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:37:47am

re: #215 dangerman

While familial relationships are difficult, Once you become self aware, it’s all on you

Self awareness can be a big problem with some folks. Especially in a home dominated by a strong presence. You may want to change, but find it impossible under the circumstances and with the money involved.

Ultimately you are correct. Getting there may only come after that strong presence is gone. Maybe the money too.

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:38:03am

re: #216 Unshaken Defiance

There will be no GOP salvation. They sucked before Trump, made it far worse, and would expect forgiveness and a return to the post Bush status quo? Oh hell no. This is a political fight to the death. The GOP must be ended. Dunno what comes to fill the second party void but pre Trump GOP ain’t it.

I shamelessly lifted this comment from political wire and can’t correctly give credit

The existential problem facing the United States of America is that two-out-of-five of our fellow citizens firmly believe it is a good thing to have Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Donald Trump is not really the problem. His enablers are.

Your neighbors and coworkers and some of your kids’ teachers and the guy in the car passing you on the freeway are the problem. Just for a week, ignore Trump and focus on how we either convert or politically neutralize them. Otherwise, we all lose.

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:41:02am

re: #217 Barefoot Grin

In some of the neighborhoods around here where speeding is a common concern residents are putting up signs saying “Drive Like Your Kids Live Here.” On my drive this morning I saw that someone had taken the trouble in one neighborhood to spray paint out “Live Here.” Had to chuckle.

As an aside I find it funny the signs say “your KIDS”
I’d suggest “YOUR kids”

What do I know?

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A Mom Anon  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:42:31am

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:43:29am

re: #211 BigPapa

Amazing that the right is still ranting about communists. They need all the enemies they can muster.

They are just buzzwords that have long lost any actual specific meaning

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:55:37am

re: #223 A Mom Anon

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Unshaken Defiance  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:57:48am

re: #221 dangerman

I agree with the sentiment. First take away their infrastructure-The Republican Party. I have no idea what to actually do to convert or moderate those that willingly embrace personal animus and white privilege resentments as government policy. Nor those that embrace the cultures that went with slavery and genocide in a try at world domination. Hopefully two out of five are not that far gone as to not see the benefits of a kinder society.

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calochortus  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:58:44am

re: #223 A Mom Anon

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 20, 2017 • 8:59:35am

Daily Stormer got kicked off the Internet again. It’s nice that people recognize that incitement to violence is not free speech.

dailykos.com

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William Lewis  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:00:09am

re: #224 dangerman

They are just buzzwords that have long lost any actual specific meaning

They have no clue what a communist is (much less the various subtypes) any more than what Christianity is… O_o

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sagehen  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:00:27am

re: #204 Targetpractice

There’s already predictions that there will be a government shutdown next month because the “Freedom Caucus” will be so emboldened by Trump’s remarks Tuesday and Bannon’s threats to go after “the establishment” that they will demand the craziest shit they can in the debt ceiling bill because they know Trump will have their back.

Ryan and McConnell pander to the freedom caucus and tea baggers when they find it useful, but their true masters are the business wing. They’ll bring a clean debt ceiling bill to the floor, Democrats will help them pass it, and it will be entirely in Trump’s hands whether or not to trash the full faith and credit of the United States.

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nowherenorth2  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:01:23am

re: #223 A Mom Anon

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:01:56am

Oh Christ it’s This Asshole Again==>

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:02:33am
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nowherenorth2  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:04:39am

re: #232 The Vicious Babushka

Joke Walsh strikes again. Like child support payments he owe, always there in the background…

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I cannot.  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:04:48am

re: #226 Unshaken Defiance

Regarding those two out of five…

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Unshaken Defiance  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:06:22am

re: #232 The Vicious Babushka

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calochortus  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:07:04am

re: #233 The Vicious Babushka

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There is a competing school of thought on remembering history. Sometimes it is better to forget that 500 years ago those SOBs over there did something to your ancestors or you’ll never break the cycle of violence.

And now, I’m off to the farmers’ market because strawberries, corn, and the thrill of seeing what other produce there might be.

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Targetpractice  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:07:28am

re: #232 The Vicious Babushka

Oh Christ it’s This Asshole Again==>

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Yeah Joe, we remember how that worked out with the bird sanctuary. As I remember it, most of the brave “patriots” ended up either surrendering or just driving off into the sunset.

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I cannot.  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:09:07am

re: #238 Targetpractice

And one guy Darwined himself by cop.

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Unshaken Defiance  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:10:19am

re: #235 I cannot.

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Jenner7  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:12:25am

lol

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Unshaken Defiance  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:13:06am
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Targetpractice  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:15:22am

You know, the “Lost Cause” crowd might have a point. Without their monuments to white supremacy, textbooks could be rewritten to acknowledge that the war was about slavery from the start, that there was no wave of “Irish slaves,” that the entire Southern economy traced back to chattel slavery, and that “honorable” men like Lee believed that slavery was God’s gift to the black man.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:18:51am

re: #233 The Vicious Babushka

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Somehow I don’t think FNC was upset when the Saddam Hussein statue came down in Iraq.

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:19:04am

re: #242 Unshaken Defiance

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R’s America:. Unjust unequal unforgiving
D’s America: liberty and Justice for all

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:19:47am

re: #245 dangerman

D’s sounds much better.

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:21:48am

“Stand Your Ground” On Wheels.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:22:09am

Was really pleased to wake up and see that one of my brothers had the same exact thoughts on the matter that I do- Why decry Colin Kaepernick but defend the CSA flag and Neo-Nazis?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:22:40am

re: #247 jaunte

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“Stand Your Ground” On Wheels.

Oh, I thought they were free speech. I guess that only extends to right wing assholes like Milo and Spencer.

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MsJ  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:22:56am

re: #205 ObserverArt

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:24:58am

“Republican proponents, who sent the measure to the state Senate by a veto-proof margin, say recent encounters between activists and drivers makes the reform both sensible and necessary.”

Republican proponents, as usual, are lying about why they passed this.

“…Democratic state Rep. Henry Michaux, however, points out North Carolina is one of just four states with a pure contributory negligence rule, which means it’s already impossible to collect a payout if the injured party is even 1 percent at fault for an accident.”

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:25:51am

This is the Republican party voting in support of terrorism.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:26:19am

re: #251 jaunte

Republican proponents, as usual, are lying about why they passed this.

Repubican legislators just want an excuse to run over people they don’t liek politically. And this attitude is very common in mainstream right wing thinking. My wingnut friend was espousing it for at least a year.

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MsJ  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:26:26am

re: #210 ObserverArt

She is 100% veneer. It is very difficult seeing the human…all you see is “the look” she needs to put on.

But in a way, I don’t blame her totally. She grew up with a very strange father. Obviously Daddy Trump pushed “the look” as being everything. And we have all seen the photos of how he treated her. She may have been raised to be all about the surface. Depth doesn’t seem to be a trait in the house. She could be extremely intelligent but hides it to be what Big Orange Daddy wants. An image…for Daddy.

She’s entitled and ignorant. She’s s pretty girl so that’s all that matters. An unfortunate parallel even if you’re not born with a platinum spoon in your maw. Pretty alone gets a lot of people through life.

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dangerman  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:27:31am

Who could have predicted the President’s latest outrage? Barack Obama and anyone, really.

The New Yorker

The most important resistance to Trump has to come from civil society, from institutions, and from individuals who, despite their differences, believe in constitutional norms and have a fundamental respect for the values of honesty, equality, and justice. The imperative is to find ways to counteract and diminish his malignant influence not only in the overtly political realm but also in the social and cultural one.

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:28:30am

re: #253 HappyWarrior

This morning I was thinking about that famous exchange between Buckley and Gore Vidal in which Vidal accuses Buckley of being a crypto-fascist, and Buckley proves Vidal right by threatening to punch him out.

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Unshaken Defiance  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:28:52am

re: #249 HappyWarrior

Oh, I thought they were free speech. I guess that only extends to right wing assholes like Milo and Spencer.

When cherry picking meets sour grapes. They want it all their way.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:31:07am

re: #256 jaunte

This morning I was thinking about that famous exchange between Buckley and Gore Vidal in which Vidal accuses Buckley of being a crypto-fascist, and Buckley proves Vidal right by threatening to punch him out.

I’m not a fan fan of Vidal’s but he was right about Buckley.

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:31:44am

Maybe it comes from parenting. “Do what I say or I’ll hit you, kid.”

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Unshaken Defiance  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:33:33am

re: #247 jaunte

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:34:52am

re: #260 jaunte

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Tax Cuts Uber Alles.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:36:38am

re: #261 Unshaken Defiance

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It really disgusts me seeing him use that statue to push his bullshit agenda. As you guys know, I’m a relation one of the guys on the statue, one of the three who died on Iwo Jima actually. He was a Czechoslovak immigrant who got crap in school when he didn’t understand English initially.

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:36:41am

re: #262 HappyWarrior

They persist in saying tax cuts are the best way to stimulate the economy, despite evidence to the contrary. It’s nuts.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:38:01am

re: #264 jaunte

They persist in saying tax cuts are the best way to stimulate the economy, despite evidence to the contrary. It’s nuts.

Literal insanity.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:38:45am

I guess Perlman and Woods won’t be working together anytime soon. Hellboy > Whatever you want to say Woods’ most iconic role is.

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Targetpractice  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:40:54am

re: #260 jaunte

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To continue with my thought from earlier, to make tax reform happen, the GOP leadership basically has to hit a set of goals without any stumbling:

- Have to pass a debt ceiling increase without a shutdown, which they might do but only if they agree to passing a clean bill with Dem support

- Pass a budget or a barebones “guidelines” bill like they did in January in order to utilize reconciliation again.

- Craft and pass a tax reform bill that can pass on 50 votes. That assumes they can craft a bill that will win over the “Freedom Caucus” as well as “moderates” without any defections.

And even then, the earliest they might do all this is October or November. This isn’t a bill they have just lying around that they can pass in an afternoon, it’s going to be a months-long effort that will give the “Freedom Caucus” plenty of opportunity to torpedo the whole mess.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:41:06am

re: #264 jaunte

They persist in saying tax cuts are the best way to stimulate the economy, despite evidence to the contrary. It’s nuts.

All tax cuts do is put more money in the pockets of the rich.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:41:17am

re: #260 jaunte

Of course they won’t do the right thing.

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:43:13am
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Timothy Watson  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:43:45am

re: #261 Unshaken Defiance

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I guess it’s a waste of time to point out those soldiers were part of the violent radical alt-left who were fighting fascists?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:45:02am

re: #270 jaunte

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If he believes that, then he can shut his fucking face when student protesters oppose right wing speakers like Coulter and Milo on their campuses.

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:46:01am

New conservative rules: Billionaire-funded website is “free speech.” Marching down the sidewalk with signs is not.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:46:04am

re: #271 Timothy Watson

I guess it’s a waste of time to point out those soldiers were part of the violent radical alt-left who were fighting fascists?

That literally is why my cousin Mike enlisted in the USMC. He saw what the Nazis had been doing to Czechoslovakia and enlisted when the war in Europe and Asia “wasn’t our problem.”

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:47:27am
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Unshaken Defiance  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:49:00am

re: #271 Timothy Watson

I guess it’s a waste of time to point out those soldiers were part of the violent radical alt-left who were fighting fascists?

Almost as much of a waste of time as watching The Specialist, starring James Woods.

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Targetpractice  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:49:51am

re: #270 jaunte

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Another defender of the Constitution suggests that the rights that were protected in it should be abridged.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:50:51am

Was it Steyn whose NR crap we had to see frequently as representing a “sensible conservative” or am I thinking of another Mark?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:50:56am

re: #277 Targetpractice

Another defender of the Constitution suggests that the rights that were protected in it should be abridged.

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Mark Steyn believes that the Bill of Rights only applies to Rich White Christian Men.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:51:24am

re: #279 Joe Bacon 🌹

Mark Steyn believes that the Bill of Rights only applies to Rich White Christian Men.

Conservative rich while Christian men.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:52:22am

re: #278 HappyWarrior

Was it Steyn whose NR crap we had to see frequently as representing a “sensible conservative” or am I thinking of another Mark?

Yes, the bullshitters say Mark Steyn is a “reasonable conservative” when in reality he is just another KKKonservative!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:53:57am

re: #281 Joe Bacon 🌹

Yes, the bullshitters say Mark Steyn is a “reasonable conservative” when in reality he is just another KKKonservative!

Yeah thought it was him.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:54:21am

Shut off Press The Meat when Chuck U started bullshitting about violent leftist protesters after he continually interrupted Andy Young.

Back to listening to the Sirius CM Carolina Shag Beach Music channel…

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:54:58am

I mean one thing to be annoyed by protests. I thought the Tea Party protests were just that but I never thought they should be outlawed.

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Targetpractice  Aug 20, 2017 • 9:55:43am

re: #283 Joe Bacon 🌹

Shut off Press The Meat when Chuck U started bullshitting about violent leftist protesters after he continually interrupted Andy Young.

Back to listening to the Sirius CM Carolina Shag Beach Music channel…

Imagine my surprise that it only took a week for the “Both Sides” crowd to get over their initial shock and go back to dissolving what remains of their souls.

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:00:31am
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nowherenorth2  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:01:48am

Just had a guy on twitter lay blame for Islamic terrorism on pres Obama. Then when I prove him wrong, he says you cant blame the gop for history and the statues and they should stay and that Obama cause the terrorists to rise

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sagehen  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:03:35am

re: #245 dangerman

R’s America:. Unjust unequal unforgiving
D’s America: liberty and Justice for all

It’s like driving —

R for reverse
D to move forward

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Unshaken Defiance  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:06:00am

re: #287 nowherenorth2

How much of that koolaid do ya have to drink to go for that logic?

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:06:27am

The original tweet disappeared, but…

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:08:14am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:08:57am

re: #289 Unshaken Defiance

How much of that koolaid do ya have to drink to go for that logic?

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They don’t drink Kool Aid.

BUT

They drink FOOL-AID!

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:09:16am

re: #284 HappyWarrior

I mean one thing to be annoyed by protests. I thought the Tea Party protests were just that but I never thought they should be outlawed.

I think the discrepancy in numbers at the competing events in Boston makes people like Steyn nervous.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:09:22am

re: #260 jaunte

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Kilroy was here  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:09:23am

re: #247 jaunte

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“Stand Your Ground” On Wheels.

Wait.. so in theory if I feel threatened by a guy in a car while protesting can I stand my ground and shoot him?
/s

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Kilroy was here  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:10:24am

re: #294 The Vicious Babushka

This is the Republican EVERYTHING plan.

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ObserverArt  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:10:49am

re: #233 The Vicious Babushka

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Dear Jenny Cote.

History is repeating while statues were there.

What lessons did any of those statues teach when too many of them apparently got the wrong lessons?

What are the children thinking seeing adults dress up and make asses of themselves?

They don’t need the statues. They rally around them.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:12:20am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:12:40am

re: #291 Nyet

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Sergey, I looked at that fool’s tweeting and hit the block button on his sleazy ass!

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:13:27am

re: #298 Charles Johnson

When I saw that live this morning I thought it might be confusing to people who weren’t familiar with you.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:15:09am

re: #298 Charles Johnson

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I heard that on Sirius XM and it’s times like this when I’m glad I killed the cable box…

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nowherenorth2  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:19:15am

re: #289 Unshaken Defiance

Enough to make jim jones jealous?

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:19:47am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:21:07am

re: #303 Charles Johnson

You could direct the people who mistakenly attack you to upChuck’s Facebook page if he’s not currently banned. Get the arrows flying in the right direction.

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:21:58am

I saw this clown wearing this shirt at the rally.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:22:14am

re: #264 jaunte

They persist in saying tax cuts are the best way to stimulate the economy, despite evidence to the contrary. It’s nuts.

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sagehen  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:22:23am

So I finally finished watching “Turn: Washington’s Spies”.

It was lovely how the final battle at Yorktown made evident how all the spies’ work coordinated… there was the fake love letter given to a British spy that made Cornwallis think the bulk of rebel troops were heading to NY, the guy who’d seen a British officer dumping gunpowder to make room in his ship for the tobacco he was stealing so the rebels knew the Brits couldn’t have as many landmines as they normally would (enabling a frontal assault that would have otherwise been a bad idea), the printer in NY who sabotaged the British Navy signals manual so the ships misunderstood each other’s orders….

(also, I saw “Hamilton” a few weeks ago — that battle was the only time Washington let Hamilton lead troops into battle. Hamilton had been wanting to for years, but Washington kept saying “no no I need you here coordinating the complicated orders I send out so different states’ forces and the French Navy would all time out right from different directions, etc.” — but for Yorktown he finally gave him a command and Alexander led the battalion that was first over the wall…)

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:27:33am

re: #306 The Vicious Babushka

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:27:52am
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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:28:48am

Read this brutal takedown of EDL scumbag Tommy Robinson:

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:31:44am

I use devout in quotes because it’s always open to interpretation.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:32:31am

re: #310 electrotek

Read this brutal takedown of EDL scumbag Tommy Robinson:

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I’m old enough to member being told that Tommy renounced his ways.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:33:15am

re: #311 electrotek

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I use devout in quotes because it’s always open to interpretation.

He missed the Reformation. Lots of bloodshed. What a putz.

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ObserverArt  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:35:12am

re: #250 MsJ

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A Mom Anon  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:38:18am

Just like I can’t believe we’re still, STILL fighting over abortion, in twentyfuckingseventeen, I cannot even grasp that we’re seeing a resurgence of Nazis and holocaust denial. And fucking pro Hitler bullshit. Seriously? Fucking Nazis are ok now to some freaking people? That this is even up for discussion is STUNNING to me. What in the hell? Didn’t we have a World War about this shit, not that horribly long ago? Yeah, I know, they never really went away, the motherfuckers, but I wasn’t seeing them on my TV or in the government with alarming regularity. They’re being exposed, which is good, but this is gonna go full ugly before it gets tamped the fuck down.

See, they think they can dress it up in Trump’s preferred golf wear; khaki pants and white polo shirt, or throw a suit on it and somehow that makes it all better. Why, they look just like someone’s son or brother or the neighbor. Yes, yes they do. Which is the point. They need to be scared to spout this shit and they aren’t. Free speech does not at all include the right to go or remain unchallenged. ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A PIECE OF SHIT NAZI. I mean, at what point is it enough?

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:44:29am

“… The panel — the Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment — is a 15-member panel made up of academics, corporate employees and local officials charged with simplifying findings from the National Climate Assessment for those inside and outside of the federal government.

The group worked on the National Climate Assessment, the mandated quadrennial report that was leaked last month as a draft. The report is due to be released in 2018, but The New York Times reported that scientists working on it worried the Trump administration would try to bury some or all of its conclusions and may have leaked it for that reason.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:48:13am

re: #316 A Mom Anon

Just like I can’t believe we’re still, STILL fighting over abortion, in twentyfuckingseventeen, I cannot even grasp that we’re seeing a resurgence of Nazis and holocaust denial. And fucking pro Hitler bullshit. Seriously? Fucking Nazis are ok now to some freaking people? That this is even up for discussion is STUNNING to me. What in the hell? Didn’t we have a World War about this shit, not that horribly long ago? Yeah, I know, they never really went away, the motherfuckers, but I wasn’t seeing them on my TV or in the government with alarming regularity. They’re being exposed, which is good, but this is gonna go full ugly before it gets tamped the fuck down.

This is the price we pay for railing to make a national priority of properly educating the populace…

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MsJ  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:50:33am

re: #314 ObserverArt

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:51:10am

re: #317 jaunte

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:51:14am
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ObserverArt  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:52:28am

re: #266 HappyWarrior

I guess Perlman and Woods won’t be working together anytime soon. Hellboy > Whatever you want to say Woods’ most iconic role is.

I shall remember him the most for playing Roy Cohn in “Citizen Cohn.”

As I’ve said in the past, I now know why he was good in that part. He is as big a snake as Cohn. He really wasn’t acting.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:52:46am

re: #321 The Vicious Babushka

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He wants it both ways. By the way Jesse, we had no problem when Iraqis took down Saddam Hussein’s statue and certainly you would have no problem with the fact that communist statues and monuments were taken down in Eastern Europe but I get it, this is “different” someohw.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:54:10am

They went to blame slavery on Democrats but they also want to shit on people opposed to celebrating slavery and treason. Nope, nice try guys but fuck off.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:57:05am

Jerry Lewis has passed away

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Schweppes7  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:57:24am

RIP Jerry Lewis.

washingtonpost.com

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:57:42am

re: #325 FormerDirtDart

Jerry Lewis has passed away

That’s too bad. I know he showed himself to be a bit of a bigot in his older years but he was a legend.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 20, 2017 • 10:59:22am

I have some outdoor stuff to take care of. Glad I was able to hang out a bit. I’ll be back after dinner maybe. TTYL.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:02:44am

re: #211 BigPapa

Amazing that the right is still ranting about communists. They need all the enemies they can muster.

While fully embracing Putin and Russia.

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Semper Fi  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:03:23am

re: #294 The Vicious Babushka

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I can see you are feeling better…I’ve always enjoyed your input, ha, ha.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:03:24am

Back home.

Saw that our Jenner called out Glenn Thrush & was retweeted by him because she was right.

Yes!

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ObserverArt  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:06:23am

re: #319 MsJ

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:06:59am

re: #329 Patricia Kayden

Well, now that Russia replaced nominal egalitarian ideals with nationalism and oligarchy, but retained their USSR’s authoritarianism and contempt for individual rights, It’s totally acceptable to be on-side with Russia.

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:07:01am

/facepalm

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:09:35am

re: #333 The Ghost of a Flea

Well, now that Russia replaced nominal egalitarian ideals with nationalism, but retained their USSR’s authoritarianism and contempt for individual rights, It’s totally acceptable to be on-side with Russia.

The GOP’s dream for America is totally in line with Russia: oligarchic, authoritarian and theocratic. Only difference is that it would be fundamentalist Protestant theocracy instead a Russian Orthodox one.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:10:02am

re: #326 Schweppes7

RIP Jerry Lewis.

washingtonpost.com

Sorry to hear of his passing. Enjoyed some of his comedy films when I was a wee lass.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:12:10am

re: #334 electrotek

Do you harass every nun you see walking out a convent because they cover their heads too? Idiot.

Germany has been having an ongoing discussion about headscarves in public, and someone pointed out that for all the shouting back and forth, almost nobody is stopping and asking the Muslim women themselves why they wear their headscarves and what it means to them and their role in family, community and society.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:12:31am

Went to a play under the stars last night - it was fab!

Got home to recall that the picnic basket was just loaded back into my car & forgotten - I brought the china - we decided that paper plates were gauche.

So, I have some very crusty plates to soak then wash. ewe.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:13:04am

re: #336 Patricia Kayden

Sorry to hear of his passing. Enjoyed some of his comedy films when I was a wee lass.

Loved him in Scorcese’s King of Comedy. Was fun to see him playing a straight-faced role.

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:13:47am
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William Lewis  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:15:26am

re: #334 electrotek

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/facepalm

Toss this at the scum re: nuns

en.wikipedia.org

We Christians have enough murderous & otherwise evil skeletons in our closet. Which reminds me of this teaching:

“Do not judge so that you may not be judged.
For with the judgement you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get”
Matthew 7:1-2 NRSV

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Stanley Sea  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:22:31am

Brutal. The luncheons are leaving.

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:23:14am

Report plz

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Stanley Sea  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:24:05am
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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:25:24am
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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:26:09am

Urgent!

I and others have reported this but the tweet is still up.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:27:13am

re: #345 Charles Johnson

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His wife needs to go as well.

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Nyet  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:27:16am

re: #345 Charles Johnson

So that 10 new racists could come in his place?

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:32:00am

re: #348 Nyet

So that 10 new racists could come in his place?

I deleted it - it’s an old article from May.

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William Lewis  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:32:31am

re: #341 William Lewis

One other bit of religion I’m going to toss out there today. The gospel lesson today was from Matthew 15 and first talks about how that what goes into you can not defile you, it’s what comes out. What you eat, whether or not you wash your hands appropriately, etc, is not what makes a person bad - rather it’s what a person says for what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart - that is evil intentions, adultery, theft, false witness, slander, and so on.

Then it goes on to the story of the Canaanite woman. Her daughter is ill (“tormented by a demon”) and she begs Jesus to heal her. He says, basically in a very bigoted manner - go away dog, I’m only here to help my people. Her response? I may be a dog & my daughter may be a dog but even dogs can eat the scraps that fall from her master’s table. This is an equal verbal slap to Jesus face and He is shocked out of his complacency, his eyes that were clouded by prejudice, his heart, cold because she wasn’t one of those he understood to be his mission area, opened to her need. Jesus is transformed by her words and her need and he heals her daughter.

Such an appropriate image given recent weeks & especially Charlottesville. Our healing can only begin when we understand it. Unfortunately those who need to heal the most are the least likely to pay attention even while shouting out how “devout” in their Christianity they are.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:32:46am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:34:40am

re: #343 Nyet

Report plz

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Done. Disgusting that Tweetler has given every racist asshole a green light to spread their shhhhhaaaaavvvvviiiinnnngggg cream…

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petesh  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:35:18am

re: #352 Joe Bacon 🌹

Done. Disgusting that Tweetler has given every racist asshole a green light to spread their shhhhhaaaaavvvvviiiinnnngggg cream…

Upvoted for historical reference

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:36:00am
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Stanley Sea  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:37:07am

Our parents were so fucked up

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:38:06am

re: #355 Stanley Sea

Our parents were so fucked up

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Why!

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Stanley Sea  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:39:56am

re: #356 HappyWarrior

Why!

Probably, actually tasted good. But the time & the weirdness!

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Bubblehead II  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:40:02am

re: #346 Nyet

Urgent!

I and others have reported this but the tweet is still up.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:41:06am

re: #357 Stanley Sea

Probably, actually tasted good. But the time & the weirdness!

Sardines always tasted nasty to me. I love fish but I have limits.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:41:07am

re: #356 HappyWarrior

Why!

one can find pages and pages of this stuff:

Bad and Ugly of Retro Food

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:43:58am

re: #360 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

one can find pages and pages of this stuff:

Bad and Ugly of Retro Food

Yeah I’ve seen a lot of weirdness with jello.

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Stanley Sea  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:48:39am

re: #359 HappyWarrior

Sardines always tasted nasty to me. I love fish but I have limits.

My mom has made sardines & onions her whole/my whole life. Not bad, but she eats it all the time- too much! She also lives on Marmite. So.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:48:47am
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Stanley Sea  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:49:16am

re: #361 HappyWarrior

Yeah I’ve seen a lot of weirdness with jello.

Jello/gelatin is the weird part of all that. Not needed!

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MsJ  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:51:24am

re: #332 ObserverArt

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ObserverArt  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:51:49am

re: #360 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

one can find pages and pages of this stuff:

Bad and Ugly of Retro Food

Link no worky. It has none.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2017 • 11:51:54am

re: #363 The Vicious Babushka

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You see the Snickers one?

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petesh  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:00:14pm

re: #362 Stanley Sea

My mom … also lives on Marmite. So.

Marmite good. Vegemite bad.

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:00:38pm

This kid can vogue back in the day

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Belafon  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:03:09pm

re: #354 Charles Johnson

The big tell is the way the White supremacists hold their hand with the fingers purposefully spread apart. Obama isn’t doing that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:07:21pm
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Romantic Heretic  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:09:51pm

re: #270 jaunte

I remember that dirtbag from my Toronto Sun reading days. He’s gotten worse, which is a good trick.

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electrotek  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:10:49pm

re: #372 Romantic Heretic

I remember that dirtbag from my Toronto Sun reading days. He’s gotten worse, which is a good trick.

Anyone who was cited favorably in the manifesto of a mass murderer is always going to be a dirtbag.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:12:12pm

re: #371 The Vicious Babushka

Pickett’s Charge, reenacted…
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Romantic Heretic  Aug 20, 2017 • 12:19:43pm

re: #318 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s more important to turn out human resources suitable for employment than human beings capable of citizenship.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 20, 2017 • 2:17:13pm

re: #321 The Vicious Babushka


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