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teleskiguy  Sep 12, 2017 • 9:33:23pm
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meteor  Sep 12, 2017 • 9:34:08pm

This piece of garbage should have done time.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 12, 2017 • 9:35:17pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 12, 2017 • 9:35:34pm

re: #2 meteor

This piece of garbage should have done time.

He will. In Purgatory.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:21:03am

re: #4 GlutenFreeJesus

He will. In Purgatory.

I would rather he do time in a place that can be demonstrated to exist (a jail).

That said, Juanita Jean on her blog warned of how this particular pardon is how a president suspends all Constitutional rights.

Skipping over wingnut objections about “illegals” and other such diversions of why Arpaio was really convicted, she substituted in a thought experiment “guns” for “illegal search and seizure.”

Sheriff comes to your house. “I’m taking your guns.”
You say, “You can’t do that, I have a constitutional right to guns.”
Sheriff says, “Tough luck, I’m taking your guns anyway.”

You go to court to sue over your constitutional right to own guns.

Court tells the sheriff, “Give him back his guns, he has a constitutional right to them.”

Sheriff tells you “Tough luck, I’m taking your guns anyway.”

Court convicts sheriff for criminal contempt-of-court.

President pardons the sheriff.

You say, “How can a sheriff and a president take my constitutional rights?”

Like that.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:22:15am

Pass that along to a wingnut who supports either Arpaio or his pardon, and get him to think in terms of guns (or any other constitutional right he values, such as freedom of speech).

Ask if he really wants a president and a sheriff exercising that kind of power.

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Kragar  Sep 13, 2017 • 1:29:07am
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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 13, 2017 • 1:30:06am

re: #7 Kragar

I wonder how you really feel. /s

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Kragar  Sep 13, 2017 • 1:39:20am

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹

They only give me 140 characters

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 13, 2017 • 1:40:28am

re: #9 Kragar

They only give me 140 characters

I would still pay real money to see Dr. Stein hauled up to explain herself before the intelligence committees.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 13, 2017 • 2:06:29am

juanitajean.com

City Councilmember Robin Thompson (City of Schertz, TX, suburb of San Antonio, and you could guess he’s an R by the following) posted the racist meme on Faceplant that Black Lives Matter did nothing to help during recovery efforts in Houston.

When called on it in a city council meeting, he doubled down on the racism (trying to clear himself of the accusation) by saying he’d been called out as a racist four times before, and was once fired from a Georgia church for allowing ni*CLANGS to use the water fountain in the church.

He is running for reëlection; let’s see if that’s enough to get him ousted

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 13, 2017 • 2:36:18am

My wife passed this on to me; this is hilarious.

Why Is God Striking the Deep South (Goes to Landover Baptist Church)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 2:47:42am

People in Maricopa County wanted Law and Order writ big and Low Taxes writ even bigger. Sheriff Joe was the logical outcome of that approach, and the likes of him will continue to be elected as long as people think that Law and Order and Small Government are not somehow mutually exclusive…

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Sep 13, 2017 • 4:20:08am

Andy Marlette in the Pensacola News-Journal:


Drowned Mickey is a perfect touch.
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Ace-o-aces  Sep 13, 2017 • 4:29:55am

Jesus Christ, D’Souza is whipping his idiot followers into an anti-Soros frenzy.

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 4:34:25am

Morning!

If anyone wants to watch Hillary is doing her first live interview on the Today Show next.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Sep 13, 2017 • 4:44:19am

White House social media director promotes bogus Irma news

White House credibility, severely tarnished by W. Bush, is right down the toilet.

It hasn’t always been so. At the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, President Kennedy ordered US ambassadors to brief the major allied leaders. In Paris, Ambassador James Gavin had the job of explaining the situation to the sometimes cantankerous Charles de Gaulle. At the end of the briefing, Gavin offered to provide full resolution copies of the recon photos to de Gaulle so they could be examined by French experts. De Gaulle waved away the offer, “No, the word of the President of United States is good enough for me,” and immediately ordered a precautionary alert for French forces.
Such a thing would be unimaginable today.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 13, 2017 • 5:03:19am

re: #12 Anymouse 🌹

My wife passed this on to me; this is hilarious.

Why Is God Striking the Deep South (Goes to Landover Baptist Church)

The author…..
This is some funny shit here…….

Pastor Harry Hardwick Goes into the Lions’ Den (Part 1)

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 5:20:59am

It locked its Twitter account, poor little snowflake

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Sir John Barron  Sep 13, 2017 • 5:41:58am

re: #15 Ace-o-aces

Jesus Christ, D’Souza is whipping his idiot followers into an anti-Soros frenzy.

I assume Soros was still a kid then and not living in Germany or Poland?

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Sir John Barron  Sep 13, 2017 • 5:42:59am

re: #19 The Vicious Babushka

It locked its Twitter account, poor little snowflake

Who?

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 5:43:14am
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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 5:44:29am

re: #21 Sir John Barron

Who?

@WollisWolf some little butthurt Trumporrhoid

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jeffreyw  Sep 13, 2017 • 5:45:20am

Imgur


Good morning!

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Sir John Barron  Sep 13, 2017 • 5:49:35am

re: #22 The Vicious Babushka

With Irma and Harvey devastation, Tax Cuts and Tax Reform is needed more than ever before. Go Congress, go!
— Donald J. Trump

Eight months into this derpiness experiment and we’re still standing, somehow.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 13, 2017 • 5:52:22am

re: #22 The Vicious Babushka

With Irma and Harvey devastation, Tax Cuts and Tax Reform is needed more than ever before. Go Congress, go!
— Donald J. Trump

So apparently we know the answer to the question of Will the Devastation from Irma and Harvey finally convince today’s GOP that ‘Tax Cuts’ are not the solution to every problem?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 5:52:46am

re: #3 GlutenFreeJesus

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Monica Crowley who nearly worked for him. Yeah she’s not biased at all Sean. You know what Lumpy, you complain about bias against Trump and all you do is suck him off.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 5:54:52am

re: #15 Ace-o-aces

Jesus Christ, D’Souza is whipping his idiot followers into an anti-Soros frenzy.

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He was 15 you monster and I’d like to see an actual citation with the full context of that.

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I cannot.  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:02:28am

re: #28 HappyWarrior

Snopes, (wholly owned by Soros of course*), puts paid to Dinesh’s Dumbfuckery

snopes.com

* /// x all of the times

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:04:38am

re: #7 Kragar

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What pisses me off is how unbelievably smug about they are. Everyday we’re seeing the difference between a Trump Presidency and a Clinton one and they’re still unsufferably smug. Hey assholes, nice that you “kept your principles”, but how about real people who will be negatively impacted because of this administration including deported. And then they have the nerve to complain about HRC’s book when Sanders has been making the Town Hall tour pretty much since November to shit on a party, a party that he ran for the nomination, a party whose money he has taken but a party that he’s too proud to join. The Steiners and Sanders Busters are nothing but selfish assholes who only care about their delusions of revolution.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:05:54am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:09:49am

re: #29 I cannot.

Snopes, (wholly owned by Soros of course*), puts paid to Dinesh’s Dumbfuckery

snopes.com

* /// x all of the times

It’s all so fucked up. You know what, I didn’t agree much with the last Pope but I always defended him against the Nazi Pope bs. They’re attacking a guy who would have not even 15 years old on V-E Day and then people like Dinesh are silent on the real Nazi fans that are a huge part of his party and ideology including his old fuck buddy, Coulter.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:13:25am

Love the morning local news this day. Go Grandpa!
Locally, some guy was up on a home roof where the police can’t really get to him. After some time, 84 year old resident puts up his ladder, gets on his roof and pushes the felon right off. Thud, into the hands of police. No serious injuries.

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Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:19:43am

re: #33 Unshaken Defiance

Love the morning local news this day. Go Grandpa!
Locally, some guy was up on a home roof where the police can’t really get to him. After some time, 84 year old resident puts up his ladder, gets on his roof and pushes the felon right off. Thud, into the hands of police. No serious injuries.

Here’s the video.

Also, he’s 83 not 84

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:22:31am

re: #32 HappyWarrior

It’s all so fucked up. You know what, I didn’t agree much with the last Pope but I always defended him against the Nazi Pope bs. They’re attacking a guy who would have not even 15 years old on V-E Day and then people like Dinesh are silent on the real Nazi fans that are a huge part of his party and ideology including his old fuck buddy, Coulter.

Dinesh knows damn well that he & his fellow rw nutjobs are the ones who are the real nazis, that is why he is throwing up a screen of bullshit to project his own fascism on.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:27:15am

re: #35 The Vicious Babushka

Dinesh knows damn well that he & his fellow rw nutjobs are the ones who are the real nazis, that is why he is throwing up a screen of bullshit to project his own fascism on.

Very true.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:30:51am

re: #35 The Vicious Babushka

Dinesh knows damn well that he & his fellow rw nutjobs are the ones who are the real nazis, that is why he is throwing up a screen of bullshit to project his own fascism on.

I’d love to see Mr. Soros sue the pants off of D’Stupid!

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wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:31:41am

re: #33 Unshaken Defiance

Love the morning local news this day. Go Grandpa!
Locally, some guy was up on a home roof where the police can’t really get to him. After some time, 84 year old resident puts up his ladder, gets on his roof and pushes the felon right off. Thud, into the hands of police. No serious injuries.

‘Suspect’, not ‘felon’. Every person deserves their day in court, after their mental health evaluation.

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:41:53am

re: #37 Joe Bacon 🌹

I’d love to see Mr. Soros sue the pants off of D’Stupid!

I’m really surprised he hasn’t, but maybe he figures it’s not worth his time.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:56:32am

re: #39 Ace-o-aces

I’m really surprised he hasn’t, but maybe he figures it’s not worth his time.

What would be brilliant is he beat him in court and then gave the money to the Holocaust Museum or Anne Frank group that’s rightfully been critical of Trump.

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meteor  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:57:04am

re: #37 Joe Bacon 🌹

Hear, hear.

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William Lewis  Sep 13, 2017 • 6:58:54am

re: #15 Ace-o-aces

Jesus Christ, D’Souza is whipping his idiot followers into an anti-Soros frenzy.

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Dinesh D’Felon is just another Nazi trying to hide behind language games.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:13:41am

This Hillary book shit is pissing me off. People are falling for outright cherry picking. Yes, she criticizes Sanders and she’s right and within her right to do that but she also takes responsibility herself but no we have to have the “Hillary never takes any blame” bullshit. I feel like this whole thing has awakened me to the fact that there’s a lot of sexism on the left and Sanders not only benefited from it but seems to have no problem with it as long as it benefits him as the “real victim of 2016” bullshit.

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Belafon  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:15:38am

re: #43 HappyWarrior

This Hillary book shit is pissing me off. People are falling for outright cherry picking. Yes, she criticizes Sanders and she’s right and within her right to do that but she also takes responsibility herself but no we have to have the “Hillary never takes any blame” bullshit. I feel like this whole thing has awakened me to the fact that there’s a lot of sexism on the left and Sanders not only benefited from it but seems to have no problem with it as long as it benefits him as the “real victim of 2016” bullshit.

“Did you read the book?”
“No, I don’t have—”
“Well, then, your criticisms are worthless.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:17:59am

re: #44 Belafon

“Did you read the book?”
“No, I don’t have—”
“Well, then, your criticisms are worthless.”

I mean it should be obvious what the media is doing here. The Bros are some of the most gullible people I’ve ever seen in politics after Trump supporters. It’s no wonder why they fell so easily for Russian bullshit and were some of the biggest apologists of Assenge.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:18:53am

Sanders supporters are just straight up rewriting history to blame Hillary’s people for shit we all saw them pull on camera.

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lawhawk  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:21:19am

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

Trump and the GOP are absolutely fixated on tax cuts. They pitch it as tax relief, but the reality is that the bulk of the tax cuts (both in percentage terms and in absolute dollars) will flow to millionaires like Trump, while all the burdens flow the other way.

Burdens you say? Yes. Burdens. Lower tax revenues resulting from the tax cuts means that government programs that rely on taxes will be cut because the GOP is determined to cut the size of government and government programs, and this is another back-door effort to sabotage functioning government.

When you cut taxes, you’ve either got to be revenue neutral, in which case other taxes/fees have to rise elsewhere, or you’re looking for reducing tax revenue. The GOP is intent on reducing tax revenue, but even when they claim revenue neutrality is the key, when you line up the tax cuts that are likely to be instituted with the proposed methods to maintain neutrality, the burden once again falls disproportionately on everyone but the rich.

After all, Trump loves to talk about eliminating the estate tax, which affects less than 1% of all Americans. That estate tax brings in roughly $20 billion in revenue annually ($200 billion for a 10 year period when you do CBO scoring). That’s $20/$200 billion that the GOP would have to make up elsewhere; and their current plans all push dynamic scoring and that the cut will spur higher economic growth so that negates the cut. It’s total BS, which is why CBO scoring usually savages these kinds of moves.

Think of it this way.

The feds just passed a $15 billion aid package for Irma/Harvey. The estate tax covers that amount by itself.

That’s money that wouldn’t exist if the GOP has its way (and with a GOP that still demands offsets in spending elsewhere). There’s no level of government spending that the GOP is happy with - unless it’s all on military - and the GOP abdicates its role in providing for the General Welfare for anyone but the rich.

It’s an absolute sickness with the GOP, and their supporters think that tax cuts for millionaires will help them. The poor and middle class repeatedly get screwed by the GOP and their tax cut mania, and the debt explodes thanks to cumulative cuts. The US was able to pay off its WWII debts with tax rates for the rich approaching 90%.

There’s absolutely no interest with the GOP paying off the debt. Even the fiscal hawks aren’t interested. They use the debt as a means to gutting safety net programs and spending, but they never touch revenues except as something to further cut.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:21:57am

re: #46 goddamnedfrank

Sanders supporters are just straight up rewriting history to blame Hillary’s people for shit we all saw them pull on camera.

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If he’s going to get credit for getting new people into politics, he should also get scorn for not teaching them that you don’t always win in politics and refusing to condemn their behavior when they acted like little shits.

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lawhawk  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:22:41am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:25:27am

re: #49 lawhawk

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I hate to say it but the right more so than the left understands what Tip O’Neill said when he said “All politics is local.” The GOP didn’t get Trump immediately but they had the seeds of Trump when they elected nutjobs on the local level first and then upped them to higher offices. If the left truly wants their movement to succeed, they need to start from the ground up rather than expect the executive to be one of theirs and then for everything else to fall into play. But local politics isn’t sexy enough for them so they don’t participate.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:26:21am

It’s astounding how many self proclaimed revolutionaries don’t get that you enact change locally and that provides a strong impetus for change nationally.

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lawhawk  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:32:17am

There was a nursing home during Katrina that didn’t evacuate and properly care for their patients, and 20+ died. Here, 5 died from the lack of power (3 at the nursing home, and 2 after being transferred to a hospital).

That goes to the failure of the facility to provide adequate care - AC, ventilation, etc., that stressed these patients and ultimately caused their deaths.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:36:57am

re: #52 lawhawk

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There was a nursing home during Katrina that didn’t evacuate and properly care for their patients, and 20+ died. Here, 5 died from the lack of power (3 at the nursing home, and 2 after being transferred to a hospital).

That goes to the failure of the facility to provide adequate care - AC, ventilation, etc., that stressed these patients and ultimately caused their deaths.

Oh wow. My aunt and uncle used to live in Hollywood.

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:47:05am

This hip food box does not approximate what these places do for their communities especially in food deserts.

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lawhawk  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:51:38am

re: #54 JordanRules

Bodegas do more than just sell canned or boxed food. They make prepared food and offer other services - things that a vending machine simply can’t.

These guys think they’re being clever, when they’re just reinventing the wheel.

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William Lewis  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:55:09am

re: #55 lawhawk

Bodegas do more than just sell canned or boxed food. They make prepared food and offer other services - things that a vending machine simply can’t.

These guys think they’re being clever, when they’re just reinventing the wheel.

Not even that much, considering the history of the Automat. “Those who can’t remember” etc, etc.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 13, 2017 • 7:58:18am
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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:00:36am

I watched the Hillary Interview on the Today Show as I posted above.

I thought it was pretty good. She handled herself well and was informative.

It won’t do anything to change all the bitching about her though. Nothing will it seems,

Anyway…here it is if anyone wants to watch.

Iframe

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:07:19am

A little Wednesday ‘yes, we can’ is always nice.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:08:08am

re: #55 lawhawk

Bodegas do more than just sell canned or boxed food. They make prepared food and offer other services - things that a vending machine simply can’t.

These guys think they’re being clever, when they’re just reinventing the wheel.

Their stated mission is “to make bodegas and mom & pop small business obsolete” while they become billionaires. That is fucking evil.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:08:19am

re: #59 JordanRules

A little Wednesday ‘yes, we can’ is always nice.

Oh dear, this might divert Fox News from its Hillary-hate fest.

/

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Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:09:10am

re: #54 JordanRules

This hip food box does not approximate what these places do for their communities especially in food deserts.

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Right, and a machine’s gonna replace burger flippers any day now…

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Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:11:30am

re: #54 JordanRules

This hip food box does not approximate what these places do for their communities especially in food deserts.

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Wondering how much that small jug of Tide costs?

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:12:13am

re: #60 The Vicious Babushka

It is and they are proud of it. It’s pathetic.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:12:23am

9.00

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:12:50am

I always go to the bodegas whenever I visit NYC. Very friendly usually and provide such a good service to the neighborhood. It’s quicker than a grocery store and with more choices than a 7-11.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:13:34am

re: #52 lawhawk

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There was a nursing home during Katrina that didn’t evacuate and properly care for their patients, and 20+ died. Here, 5 died from the lack of power (3 at the nursing home, and 2 after being transferred to a hospital).

That goes to the failure of the facility to provide adequate care - AC, ventilation, etc., that stressed these patients and ultimately caused their deaths.

My dog. Makes one want to plan on a bullet rather than an old folks home in the end.

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:15:39am

re: #60 The Vicious Babushka

Their stated mission is “to make bodegas and mom & pop small business obsolete” while they become billionaires. That is fucking evil.

This is America.

It’s all a huge Monopoly game and everyone but the winner loses.

No one cares who gets put out of business or what happens to communities, or even that franchise-like sameness strips personality from that community.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:15:42am

re: #67 Unshaken Defiance

My dog. Makes one want to plan on a bullet rather than an old folks home in the end.

The Magnum Lotto Pension plan: buy a lottery ticket every week until you retire. If you have not won by then, go buy a Magnum .44 and hold up a bank. Even if you get caught, you are guaranteed a roof over your head, meals and medical care until you die…

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I cannot.  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:17:28am

re: #66 HappyWarrior

I can see points where the Bro-dega boxes may be useful, like putting an office-oriented one inside an office complex, or a fitness-oriented one in the gym.

BUT YOU CAN’T REPLACE A BODEGA WITH A BOX THAT SMALL.

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calochortus  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:18:36am

re: #60 The Vicious Babushka

Their stated mission is “to make bodegas and mom & pop small business obsolete” while they become billionaires. That is fucking evil.

Also seems like a guaranteed target for theft-either with a stolen credit card, some kind of hack, or just taking the whole box away from the construction site where they think it would be a great addition.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:19:00am

re: #70 I cannot.

I can see points where the Bro-dega boxes may be useful, like putting an office-oriented one inside an office complex, or a fitness-oriented one in the gym.

BUT YOU CAN’T REPLACE A BODEGA WITH A BOX THAT SMALL.

Yeah exactly. I mean it’s not a terrible idea but it’s not going to replace an entire store. As already said, these stores provide fresh goods as well. I always get a sandwich at one when I’m visiting Brooklyn.

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:20:21am

re: #70 I cannot.

Thing is, I have already seen targeted vending machines like that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:20:49am

re: #70 I cannot.

I can see points where the Bro-dega boxes may be useful, like putting an office-oriented one inside an office complex, or a fitness-oriented one in the gym.

BUT YOU CAN’T REPLACE A BODEGA WITH A BOX THAT SMALL.

And there is no bodega cat.

Just a hipster dog passing by…

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BeachDem  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:22:03am

re: #48 HappyWarrior

If he’s going to get credit for getting new people into politics, he should also get scorn for not teaching them that you don’t always win in politics and refusing to condemn their behavior when they acted like little shits.

Yet, ironically, the yam used “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” as his rally closer.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:22:36am

re: #75 BeachDem

Yet, ironically, the yam used “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” as his rally closer.

No doubt to the horror of Mick and Keith.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:22:52am

re: #66 HappyWarrior

I always go to the bodegas whenever I visit NYC. Very friendly usually and provide such a good service to the neighborhood. It’s quicker than a grocery store and with more choices than a 7-11.

The closest thing we have here in the Czech Republic to a bodega is a potraviný. It’s pretty much the same thing - a potraviný that’s open late is called a večerká (from “večer”, evening).

There used to be a večerká in the apartment building I live in on the ground floor - sadly, they closed up last year; it used to be amazingly convenient to hop downstairs if I needed some little thing.

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I cannot.  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:23:08am

re: #72 HappyWarrior

Another problem I see is that it uses machine learning to find out what sells…

“Well, this thing sells 1x a day, we’ll keep selling it”
CUSTOMERS WOULD BUY OTHER THING 10x A DAY, BUT IT’S NOT IN THE BOX SO IT DOESN’T KNOW PEOPLE WANT IT.

And the customers don’t have a guy behind the counter to ask him to order it.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:23:52am

So yeah we got right wing assholes enjoying every second of Trump’s fucking misery and left wing assholes who still can’t admit that Hillary would be miles ahead of Trump as President. They’re entitled to have voted how they wanted to but they’re also entitled to fuck off and stop acting like they’re the real voice of the Democratic Party then too.

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Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:24:06am

Next we’ll create a place where you slot coins into a machine, open a little cubby door, and pull out piping-hot meal! We’ll call them Automats!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:24:22am

re: #77 Dr Lizardo

The closest thing we have here in the Czech Republic to a bodega is a potraviný. It’s pretty much the same thing - a potraviný that’s open late is called a večerká (from “večer”, evening).

There used to be a večerká in the apartment building I live in on the ground floor - sadly, they closed up last year; it used to be amazingly convenient to hop downstairs if I needed some little thing.

Yeah I imagine most urban centers have places like them. We don’t really have too many of them in D.C. unfortunately.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:25:21am

re: #64 JordanRules

It is and they are proud of it. It’s pathetic.

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Look at that hipster chick and her pre-torn designer hipster skinny jeans that cost extra for the knee tears. It makes me want to kneecap her.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:25:26am

re: #78 I cannot.

Another problem I see is that it uses machine learning to find out what sells…

“Well, this thing sells 1x a day, we’ll keep selling it”
CUSTOMERS WOULD BUY OTHER THING 10x A DAY, BUT IT’S NOT IN THE BOX SO IT DOESN’T KNOW PEOPLE WANT IT.

And the customers don’t have a guy behind the counter to ask him to order it.

Good points. These dudes should market their idea to offices and gyms rather than trying to destroy something that works.

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:32:06am

Vending machines that do not vend…..Then the great idea of stores that actually have no product in them. So exciting…

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:34:02am

re: #82 The Vicious Babushka

A different topic completely…what do those in your circles think of Bibi’s son and his nazi supporting BS? I know your hubby is more to the right. Is anyone saying anything?

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calochortus  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:35:11am

re: #83 HappyWarrior

Good points. These dudes should market their idea to offices and gyms rather than trying to destroy something that works.

But don’t offices and gyms have vending machines? Machines that pay for their space as opposed to these boxes that are so cool and hip that they don’t pay the facility and just get placed for free? Where is the incentive for the gym to make a switch?

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(Bert the Turtle)  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:35:55am

Vending machines & hipsters? I’mma go back to thinking about Ted Cruz being busted for ”over-staffing’. That and this:

re: #59 JordanRules

A little Wednesday ‘yes, we can’ is always nice.

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calochortus  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:39:00am

re: #84 nines09

Vending machines that do not vend…..Then the great idea of stores that actually have no product in them. So exciting…

Sort of like a Sears Catalog Store in a small town back in the day. How novel.

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:40:16am

re: #88 calochortus

I don’t get it at all. I can look online,

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:40:20am

re: #82 The Vicious Babushka

She’s never had a good breakfast sandwich in her life! And her knees are cold for no good reason.

Arrgg!!

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:40:41am

re: #88 calochortus

Sort of like a Sears Catalog Store in a small town back in the day. How novel.

Except in this case, it’d be like a Sears C-Store that doesn’t have any merchandise.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:41:39am

re: #84 nines09

Vending machines that do not vend…..Then the great idea of stores that actually have no product in them. So exciting…

That’s a very interesting concept.

I think we have to face the reality that retail is going to eventually go away. If people are going to buy everything on the internet (thank you Amazon) and only go into retail stores to look and touch something - only to go order it elsewhere, there will have to be a model to get people to your brand. Otherwise, Amazon will rule all commerce and that is not something anyone should want. If there are no jobs like this, a whole lot of people will have literally no options for employment because not everyone has a skill or the ability to learn a skill.

These advances are not positive in any way to society.

Hubby and I talk about this often. He saw what was happening in retail years ago. He predicted this long before any retailer was taking annual stock hits. He thinks there is going to be a minimum living benefit (basically paying people to do nothing) otherwise, it is going to get really ugly out there because people are going to want to eat.

While I love technology, we’re in the cutting-of-our-noses phase.

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:42:18am

re: #39 Ace-o-aces

He did short the British Pound though. That one’s on him.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:42:56am

re: #89 nines09

I don’t get it at all. I can look online,

It’s not the looking, it’s the interpersonal interactions (pedicures, coffee, chatter, personalization)…all the things you lose out on when you do everything online. While I am antisocial as hell, most people are not.

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:44:49am

re: #92 MsJ

I remember the Popular Science magazines and all the magnificent things that were going to make our lives easier. Why we would have so much free time, we wouldn’t know what to do.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:44:51am

re: #85 MsJ

A different topic completely…what do those in your circles think of Bibi’s son and his nazi supporting BS? I know your hubby is more to the right. Is anyone saying anything?

Yair Netanyahu is a little spoiled brat just like Donnie Jr., Eric & Ivanka.

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calochortus  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:45:05am

re: #89 nines09

I don’t get it at all. I can look online,

I think they have some sort of virtual “see how great you’d look in this if it actually fit you properly, which it won’t” set up.

re: #91 Dr Lizardo

Except in this case, it’d be like a Sears C-Store that doesn’t have any merchandise.

Yes, but IIRC Sears used to have those that really didn’t have any merchandise in out of the way places. They were for discussing stuff with clerks, ordering, and picking up. They might have had a tiny inventory of other stuff, but not much.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:45:14am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

Yair Netanyahu is a little spoiled brat just like Donnie Jr., Eric & Ivanka.

Any backlash that will hit Bibi?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:45:47am

re: #81 HappyWarrior

Yeah I imagine most urban centers have places like them. We don’t really have too many of them in D.C. unfortunately.

We have several kiosks around the corner here in Frankfurt, open evenings and weekends, we mostly go there for beer and soft drinks, but it also sells other basics.

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:46:03am
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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:46:30am

re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We have several kiosks around the corner here in Frankfurt, open evenings and weekends, we mostly go there for beer and soft drinks, but it also sells other basics.

There are tons of these in Japan. They sell everything through vending machines.

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:47:02am

re: #94 MsJ

Can’t try on the overpriced jeans but how about a manicure and a cuppa java…..Nah. I’ll pass.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:47:19am

re: #83 HappyWarrior

Wait a minute. These guys think the same generation that is visibly supporting non caged chickens, organic produce, artisan this and craft that is really gonna embrace this BOX?

I’m no expert but I see a fail blog entry coming. Feels like Capt’n Obvious snacking on Capt’n Crunch

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:47:26am

re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We have several kiosks around the corner here in Frankfurt, open evenings and weekends, we mostly go there for beer and soft drinks, but it also sells other basics.

REM - Moral Kiosk

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:47:37am

re: #101 MsJ

There are tons of these in Japan. They sell everything through vending machines.

This is a proper little window shop with a Turkish couple running it.

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:50:13am

re: #75 BeachDem

Yet, ironically, the yam used “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” as his rally closer.

Between that and The Snake Poem people should have realized the telegraphing he was doing from the get-go.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:51:30am

re: #100 Ace-o-aces

And where is San Francisco? Hmm??

//

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BeachDem  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:53:41am

re: #103 Unshaken Defiance

Wait a minute. These guys think the same generation that is visibly supporting non caged chickens, organic produce, artisan this and craft that is really gonna embrace this BOX?

I’m no expert but I see a fail blog entry coming. Feels like Capt’n Obvious snacking on Capt’n Crunch

Someone compared it to the fabulous success of Juicero.

The little markets in hotel lobbies have a far better selection.

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:53:44am

re: #82 The Vicious Babushka

Look at that hipster chick and her pre-torn designer hipster skinny jeans that cost extra for the knee tears. It makes me want to kneecap her.

I noticed all that. They are trying too hard. But that is a hipster thing. Ah, youth!

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:53:53am

R&D just burst through the door. Had pictures in his hand. Screaming something about he’s seen the future…..

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:57:10am

re: #107 MsJ

And where is San Francisco? Hmm??

//

Just Southwest of Oakland.
*Rimshot*

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:58:48am

re: #110 nines09

There used to be one of those a long, long time ago in Prague. Not as big, though. From what I understand, it never really caught on here; it lasted a little less than five years. This would’ve been in the First Republic period (1918 - 1938).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 8:59:43am

re: #112 Dr Lizardo

There used to be one of those a long, long time ago in Prague. Not as big, though. From what I understand, it never really caught on here; it lasted a little less than five years. This would’ve been in the First Republic period (1918 - 1938).

I recall vending machines like that in the Netherlands that sold deep-fried croquettes and snacks…

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:00:24am

re: #100 Ace-o-aces

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Toronto

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:02:23am

re: #112 Dr Lizardo

Philly had a few late 50;s early 60’s.

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:02:32am
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Flying Squirrel Girl  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:02:53am

re: #52 lawhawk

As someone who works in an Assisted Living facility in Texas, this is so scary. We lost power during Harvey (I am in Corpus Christi) for about 28 hours but were lucky to have overcast weather that kept temperatures relatively cool. Several of the residents’ family members railed at us for not having a generator but state law does not require that we have one. Skilled nursing facilities, however, must have a generator.

Since these storms happen in late summer, being able to restore AC quickly is crucial. While I’m sure some judgement errors were made in this situation, my heart also goes out to the staff. During Harvey, we (the management team) were pretty much left to make decisions ourselves and hope that we made them wisely. We did not evacuate and things worked out OK for us but could have gone bad very easily had the storm made landfall 30 miles to the south.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:04:32am

One old-timey thing you’ll still find in Prague are paternoster elevators - there’s one in the Lucerna Palace and another one in the Ministry of Social Services HQ in Prague. This photo is of the one in the Lucerna Palace.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:04:38am
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makeitstop  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:04:48am

re: #110 nines09

R&D just burst through the door. Had pictures in his hand. Screaming something about he’s seen the future…..

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One of the big thrills of my young life was riding the train into Center City Philly with my mom and going to the Automat by Reading Terminal. Back then, it did seem like the future. I was mystified by the fact that I got a sandwich out of one port and by the time I finished eating it, there was another sandwich in its place.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:06:50am

re: #118 Dr Lizardo

Forgot to add, there’s one in Ostrava as well, but it’s currently not operational; it’s in the process of being fully restored. It’s in the Česka Narodní Banka (Czech National Bank) building downtown and it’s expected to re-open sometime next spring.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:09:37am

re: #119 The Vicious Babushka

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Hard to get the ‘Jews will not replace us’ out of your mind.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:11:06am

I don’t know if it was good luck or bad, but twice when I lived in Japan I lived across the street from old beer vending machines that weren’t timed to stop dispensing at 11PM. It was great when I wanted a late-night beer. Kind of a drag, though, because cars drove up periodically throughout the night, too.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:11:28am

re: #122 Stanley Sea

Hard to get the ‘Jews will not replace us’ out of your mind.

Even the li’l frummies who were so impressed with Jared and Ivanka are not so happy any more. The bloom is off the rose.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:12:13am

jeebus…

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:13:40am

re: #122 Stanley Sea

Hard to get the ‘Jews will not replace us’ out of your mind.

Or he loves his Jewish accountants and lawyers.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:15:49am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus…

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Kid just looks like a douchebag.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:16:19am

re: #127 HappyWarrior

Kid just looks like a douchebag.

And acts like one and IS one.

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EPR-radar  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:17:48am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

This tr*mp loving student is the kind of shitbird that joined the Hitler youth back in the day and couldn’t wait to ‘graduate’ into the SS.

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:18:41am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus…

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Great now we have tattle tale mini ICE cops. And that little imp looks like he would get off on doing what he did. Trump is giving a lot of little creeps power.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:19:25am
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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:23:45am

re: #131 MsJ

This is Harvard’s second shitassfuckme hire. They hired Corey Lewandowski a couple of weeks ago.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:26:02am

re: #132 MsJ

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Bass Reeves  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:26:24am

re: #131 MsJ

Between this and Comey at Howard, I’m starting to think there literally are no consequences for white males being bad at their job. Also, Arpaio, Trump, Pence, Ryan, etc.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:28:37am

re: #131 MsJ

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Diversity, multiculturalism, affirmative action. etc.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:30:20am

re: #128 MsJ

And acts like one and IS one.

Totally.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:30:39am
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Belafon  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:33:33am

re: #137 The Vicious Babushka

I really don’t expect this to come to much, but I’m old enough to remember people complaining about how any phone larger and more complicated than a flip phone would never be useful or accepted.

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b.d. (bill d.)  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:34:26am

re: #131 MsJ

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Bannon’s old school.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:35:07am

re: #103 Unshaken Defiance

Wait a minute. These guys think the same generation that is visibly supporting non caged chickens, organic produce, artisan this and craft that is really gonna embrace this BOX?

I’m no expert but I see a fail blog entry coming. Feels like Capt’n Obvious snacking on Capt’n Crunch

BTW I hope no one saw any of the description as a dig. I’m loving the pressure on all kinds of places to offer better for my money and time.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:35:21am

This is literally from the article from the Harvard Crimson.

Sean Spicer, the former White House Press Secretary, will join the Institute of Politics this year as a visiting fellow, the IOP announced Wednesday.

Chelsea E. Manning, a transgender activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who was imprisoned for disclosing classified documents, will also serve as a visiting fellow this semester. Manning was released from prison in May 2017.

Robby Mook, who managed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, will be a visiting fellow at the IOP and a residential scholar at Kirkland House this year. Mook also leads the Digital Democracy Project at the IOP, which aims to better protect the U.S. electoral system from cyberattacks.

Earlier this month, the Institute announced that Corey R. Lewandowski, Trump’s divisive former campaign manager, would also be joining as a visiting fellow. A prominent and early aide to Trump, Lewandowski was dismissed from the campaign after he was charged with misdemeanor battery of a reporter.

Harvard, you just broke my freaking heart.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:35:45am

re: #139 b.d. (bill d.)

Bannon’s old school.

Obama’s old school.

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b.d. (bill d.)  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:37:04am

re: #142 MsJ

Obama’s old school.

Ted Kaczynski’s old school.

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:37:17am

Cc: Magglenn of the Times

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:39:27am
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wheat-dogg  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:39:56am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

For non-Kentuckians, Transylvania U is a private u with a very good reputation for scholarship. Sad that the administration is being chicken shit about supporting Paola.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:40:27am

re: #143 b.d. (bill d.)

Ted Kaczynski’s old school.

You win! LMAO!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:41:00am

re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gun sales fall by $100 million due to the ‘Trump slump’

nobody is afraid that DT is going to come and confiscate their weapons

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:41:44am

re: #146 wheat-dogg

For non-Kentuckians, Transylvania U is a private u with a very good reputation for scholarship. Sad that the administration is being chicken shit about supporting Paola.

quite clearly a few high-level administrators have no problem with what the little prick did to his classmate…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:45:48am
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wheat-dogg  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:48:00am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

Taylor is apparently from Harlan County, KY.

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Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:49:27am

The corrupt Flynns

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:51:45am

re: #151 wheat-dogg

Taylor is apparently from Harlan County, KY.

My shocked face…

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:51:49am

re: #66 HappyWarrior

I always go to the bodegas whenever I visit NYC. Very friendly usually and provide such a good service to the neighborhood. It’s quicker than a grocery store and with more choices than a 7-11.

Plus they have beer.

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:51:53am

re: #152 Stanley Sea

A family that high crimes together does time together!

…I hope…

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Jay C  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:51:55am

re: #118 Dr Lizardo

One old-timey thing you’ll still find in Prague are paternoster elevators - there’s one in the Lucerna Palace and another one in the Ministry of Social Services HQ in Prague. This photo is of the one in the Lucerna Palace.

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Did they get their name because of the fervent prayers offered up by the users?

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electrotek  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:51:55am

Finally was able to take a shower 5 days after surgery! God, what a hassle

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:53:14am

re: #151 wheat-dogg

Taylor is apparently from Harlan County, KY.

Where’s Raylan Givens when you need him? /

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electrotek  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:53:47am

So glad I don’t smell like a burner now lol

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:58:29am

re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Reports vary on broccoli’s contribution to longevity. The guy who owned the world’s oldest cat (38 years and 3 days), and who had another one who lived to be 34, says he doesn’t do anything unusual except put chopped broccoli and asparagus, and coffee in their food. Otoh, former president George HW Bush hates broccoli (but does consume coffee and asparagus) and is still with us at age 93.

Creme Puff (1967-2005), broccoli eating super-cat
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Jay C  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:59:55am

Dunno what it may be a sign of, but I’m amazed at the size of the wild turkeys I just spotted stalking through my yard (Berkshires, MA) - 10-12 lbs, easily (and yes, like a cartoon character, my thoughts imagine a steaming roasting pan whenever I spot these critters) - been a good year for them, anyway (despite the coyotes, foxes and bears)….

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 9:59:57am

re: #143 b.d. (bill d.)

Ted Kaczynski’s old school.

Damn! Your post just reminded me I forgot to watch “The Unabomber” series on Discovery last night. It’s been pretty damn good.

Got tied up in Cleveland Indians record win last night and just didn’t think of it. I’ll have to check it out online.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:00:05am

re: #160 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

Reports vary on broccoli’s contribution to longevity. The guy who owned the world’s oldest cat (38 years and 3 days), and who had another one who lived to be 34, says he doesn’t do anything unusual except put chopped broccoli and asparagus, and coffee in their food. Otoh, former president George HW Bush hates broccoli (but does consume coffee and asparagus) and is still with us at age 93.

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Were the cats related?

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wheat-dogg  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:05:51am

re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth

My shocked face…

Brave Sir Taylor has wiped all his social media accounts, but after some Googling I did find his archived Facebook page, which was meh (other than his campaigned for Rand Paul), and this snippet about his association with Richard Spencer. The article lists his home address and email, which I will not reproduce here, for obvious reasons.

Ragg previous attended Eastern Kentucky University, but currently attends Transylvania University, where he is a member of Young Americans for Liberty [archive]. He attended Trump’s inauguration. He can be seen sitting next to Richard Spencer for the duration of the event, staying silent until eventually making finger quotes and talking about free speech.

libertariansunitedagainstfascism.tumblr.com

I have no comment on the source of the info. Enter at your own risk.

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electrotek  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:07:17am
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electrotek  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:10:26am

re: #165 electrotek

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She got fired:

Facebook Post

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:11:06am
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wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:18:05am

re: #164 wheat-dogg

I have no comment on the source of the info. Enter at your own risk.

Words to live by.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:18:28am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:18:35am

re: #166 electrotek

She got fired:

and is now a martyr to the cause of Making America Safe from ISIS

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wheat-dogg  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:21:04am

re: #166 electrotek

I give it a day and she will become a “free speech” poster child for the RWNJ chorus.

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jeffreyw  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:23:15am

Imgur


Mmm… lasagna for lunch

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Jay C  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:23:55am

re: #165 electrotek

re: #166 electrotek

re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

re: #171 wheat-dogg

A day? I’m guessing it’s all over the RW blogosphere by tonight…..

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:25:15am

Remember what they consider partisan. What this can mean for diversity and expertise in media, is more of the same at best, and the same is already dangerous to this republic. At worst it means going backwards, purging folks, loss of too few opportunities and an absolute endorsement of a 4th estate with no higher duty and investment in a fragile system where other institutions are already crippled and compromised.

Only read a few of the comments and there were some good ones. One person suggested they be hired because they’d had a lobotomy. LOL

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:26:11am

re: #167 JordanRules

Teen Vogue continues to do “God’s work”.

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wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:27:01am

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

[they’re good dogs, Blake]

Also words to live by, from an account to follow right about now.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:27:36am

re: #163 MsJ

Were the cats related?

Source doesn’t say, but they definitely could have been. My niece’s cat, Charcoal, is currently 20 years old. He is a great-grandson of my cat Roo, who went on to kitty heaven 2 years ago at age 24.

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Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:28:56am

re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and is now a martyr to the cause of Making America Safe from ISIS

I give her 24 hrs and she will have either a go fund me or patreon account set up for some of that rwnj martyrdom grift.

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sagehen  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:29:03am

re: #161 Jay C

Dunno what it may be a sign of, but I’m amazed at the size of the wild turkeys I just spotted stalking through my yard (Berkshires, MA) - 10-12 lbs, easily (and yes, like a cartoon character, my thoughts imagine a steaming roasting pan whenever I spot these critters) - been a good year for them, anyway (despite the coyotes, foxes and bears)….

Did you set out a trap? November’s just around the corner…

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:30:09am

re: #175 MsJ

I am so happy they are out there! I wish I could buy subscriptions for all young people.

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plansbandc  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:32:22am

Pete Domenici, longtime Senator from NM has died. He’s the last Republican I voted for and will ever vote for. RIP

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:33:04am

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:34:25am

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

RIP Blake’s mentions!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:34:29am
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Jay C  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:36:00am

re: #179 sagehen

Did you set out a trap? November’s just around the corner…

Heh. I wish. This is Massachusetts: we have a fairly narrow window to bag a very few of the suckers.

And my plan of sitting quietly in a chair on my lawn with a baseball bat, surrounded by a circle of birdseed may have a few flaws…..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:36:03am

re: #183 JordanRules

RIP Blake’s mentions!

I can’t stop laughing.

Really needed something this much fun today!

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:36:32am

re: #177 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

Source doesn’t say, but they definitely could have been. My niece’s cat, Charcoal, is currently 20 years old. He is a great-grandson of my cat Roo, who went on to kitty heaven 2 years ago at age 24.

I’d think that would be an important differentiator. Two cats from different bloodlines living that long is a big deal. Two related cats is still something else…but not something else without further investigation.

GHWB living a long life and my dad living a long life and my husband’s dad not living as long…it’s just random.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:37:30am

re: #151 wheat-dogg

Taylor is apparently from Harlan County, KY.

Those kids don’t have it easy at Transy facing their own kind of discrimination. Sucks to see that he can’t see that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:38:44am
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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:41:34am
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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:43:27am

re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is freaking hilarious!!! I hear the names in his voice, in my head.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:43:32am

re: #181 plansbandc

Pete Domenici, longtime Senator from NM has died. He’s the last Republican I voted for and will ever vote for. RIP

To think that there was once a time when there were Republicans I could at least consider voting for.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:43:49am

re: #157 electrotek

Finally was able to take a shower 5 days after surgery! God, what a hassle

Heh. That’s the worst.

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William Lewis  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:44:06am

Spent the morning at the County Veterans office requesting copies of my 214 & medical records. I’m applying for VA medical coverage and going to finally try to get disability for my hearing and an old back injury. Even without that, it’ll help since I don’t have any insurance right now.

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lawhawk  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:45:30am

re: #117 Flying Squirrel Girl

As someone who works in an Assisted Living facility in Texas, this is so scary. We lost power during Harvey (I am in Corpus Christi) for about 28 hours but were lucky to have overcast weather that kept temperatures relatively cool. Several of the residents’ family members railed at us for not having a generator but state law does not require that we have one. Skilled nursing facilities, however, must have a generator.

Since these storms happen in late summer, being able to restore AC quickly is crucial. While I’m sure some judgement errors were made in this situation, my heart also goes out to the staff. During Harvey, we (the management team) were pretty much left to make decisions ourselves and hope that we made them wisely. We did not evacuate and things worked out OK for us but could have gone bad very easily had the storm made landfall 30 miles to the south.

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lawhawk  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:45:44am
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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:47:30am

ROFL

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:49:31am

re: #190 JordanRules

And they wonder about the dead bodies at the bottom stairs? “How did this happen?” Cat purring, walking around their legs…..

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William Lewis  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:49:45am

re: #181 plansbandc

Pete Domenici, longtime Senator from NM has died. He’s the last Republican I voted for and will ever vote for. RIP

I miss Congressman Steve Gunderson of Osseo WI. He was a decent man, a good representative and faithful to his partner. He was forced out of Congress by the GOP who hated the fact that he was a faithful gay man.

He was the last Republican I will ever vote for

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:50:45am

Poor Widdle Owen needs a dose of Austin 3:16!

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makeitstop  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:51:40am

re: #197 JordanRules

ROFL

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Conspiracy snowflake.

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:52:04am

I guess they can just do Arpaio’s job themselves now.

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Belafon  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:56:04am

re: #202 JordanRules

I guess they can just do Arpaio’s job themselves now.

“It’s weird how we don’t seem to have any customers.”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:56:57am

re: #202 JordanRules

I guess they can just do Arpaio’s job themselves now.

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They should just turn the light out…

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plansbandc  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:57:07am

re: #203 Belafon

I won’t be their customer again.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 13, 2017 • 10:59:34am

re: #188 Barefoot Grin

Those kids don’t have it easy at Transy facing their own kind of discrimination. Sucks to see that he can’t see that.

I wonder if this boy is another version of Dylann Roof. Paola Garcia mentions he posted in a FB group called the “10th Crusade Enthusiasts,” which FB apparently deep-sixed over the summer. It seems to have been a home for Deus Vult Catholic extremists, who want everyone not Deus Vult to shrivel up and die. I’ve spent some time this morning sleuthing on Google, and the only remaining connection to this FB group I can find is this page, Christ-chan.
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The poster is either the founder of the 10th Crusade group, or a member of it. An alternate group was created, which FB also deep-sixed.

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Anyway, my point is that Taylor Ragg may be a Catholic boy from Harlan County, a county not known for its large Catholic population. Discrimination and harassment of him may have led him to this Deus Vult group to be radicalized.

He did not completely go down the Dylann Roof road and shoot people, but his outing of Paola Garcia as a DACA kid is still despicable.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:00:03am

re: #205 plansbandc

I won’t be their customer again.

Word

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Kragar  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:00:25am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:04:06am

re: #206 wheat-dogg

Anyway, my point is that Taylor Ragg may be a Catholic boy from Harlan County, a county not known for its large Catholic population. Discrimination and harassment of him may have led him to this Deus Vult group to be radicalized.

My guess (being familiar with eastern Kentucky cultures) is that he probably isn’t Catholic and, if he is, certainly not the more radical fringes thereof.
Noting that he associates with the philosophies of Rand Paul and Libertarians, OTOH, makes a whole lot of sense. Looking at his photo, I sure can’t see him begging for a job in the coal mines but I sure do see an Ayn Rand acolyte.

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electrotek  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:06:55am
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Belafon  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:07:11am

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

My guess (being familiar with eastern Kentucky cultures) is that he probably isn’t Catholic and, if he is, certainly not the more radical fringes thereof.
Noting that he associates with the philosophies of Rand Paul and Libertarians, OTOH, makes a whole lot sense. Looking at his photo, I sure can’t see him begging for a job in the coal mines but I sure do see an Ayn Rand acolyte.

Yep. I see someone going on SSD and complaining about how people rely too much on the government.

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makeitstop  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:12:29am

I mentioned yesterday that Facebook looks to be in deep shit for their ad sales to Russians, and probably for their ‘white-glove’ treatment of the Trump campaign.

Well, here it is.

Russia’s effort to influence U.S. voters through Facebook and other social media is a “red-hot” focus of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 election and possible links to President Donald Trump’s associates, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Mueller’s team of prosecutors and FBI agents is zeroing in on how Russia spread fake and damaging information through social media and is seeking additional evidence from companies like Facebook and Twitter about what happened on their networks, said one of the officials, who asked not to be identified discussing the ongoing investigation.

The ability of foreign nations to use social media to manipulate and influence elections and policy is increasingly seen as the soft underbelly of international espionage, another official said, because it doesn’t involve the theft of state secrets and the U.S. doesn’t have a ready defense to prevent such attacks.

Go get ‘em, Mr. Mueller.

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sagehen  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:13:37am

re: #210 electrotek

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Didn’t that happen a couple of weeks ago?

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wheat-dogg  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:13:40am

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

My guess (being familiar with eastern Kentucky cultures) is that he probably isn’t Catholic and, if he is, certainly not the more radical fringes thereof.
Noting that he associates with the philosophies of Rand Paul and Libertarians, OTOH, makes a whole lot sense. Looking at his photo, I sure can’t see him begging for a job in the coal mines but I sure do see an Ayn Rand acolyte.

Either way, he picked an odd group to dox Paola Garcia on. I would presume she’s Catholic herself, but I guess the wrong skin tone to be counted as one of the flock.

These 10th Crusade people are seriously unhinged. Dayum.

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wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:16:10am

re: #202 JordanRules

I guess they can just do Arpaio’s job themselves now.

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From the link:

The ICE officers then asked de Leon’s husband, 36-year-old Jose Granados Sanchez, if he had citizenship documents. He said no, and they arrested both of them. Escobar Tovar was deported three weeks ago and de Leon’s husband remains in an immigrant detention center in Eloy.

“I was shocked when they told me that. I couldn’t believe it, and until this day, I still cannot believe it,” she said. “I don’t know if they’re getting something out of all this, turning people in, or what’s the deal.”

Here’s part of the deal:

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:18:31am

re: #206 wheat-dogg

I wonder if this boy is another version of Dylann Roof. Paola Garcia mentions he posted in a FB group called the “10th Crusade Enthusiasts,” which FB apparently deep-sixed over the summer. It seems to have been a home for Deus Vult Catholic extremists, who want everyone not Deus Vult to shrivel up and die. I’ve spent some time this morning sleuthing on Google, and the only remaining connection to this FB group I can find is this page, Christ-chan.
facebook.com

The poster is either the founder of the 10th Crusade group, or a member of it. An alternate group was created, which FB also deep-sixed.

[Edited for accuracy]

Anyway, my point is that Taylor Ragg may be a Catholic boy from Harlan County, a county not known for its large Catholic population. Discrimination and harassment of him may have led him to this Deus Vult group to be radicalized.

He did not completely go down the Dylann Roof road and shoot people, but his outing of Paola Garcia as a DACA kid is still despicable.

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Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:18:39am

re: #212 makeitstop

I mentioned yesterday that Facebook looks to be in deep shit for their ad sales to Russians, and probably for their ‘white-glove’ treatment of the Trump campaign.

Well, here it is.

Go get ‘em, Mr. Mueller.

Related. And this directly effects my town.

Russian influence comes to Magic Valley

I can proudly say that the attempt was a complete failure.

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electrotek  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:20:13am

Another stabbing in France, Jesus Christ:

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:20:53am

I might risk it all.

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EPR-radar  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:24:05am

re: #131 MsJ

One way to look at this Harvard nonsense with Spicer and Lewandowski is that such things at universities almost always draw from both sides of the political spectrum.

So the right is being represented here by a clown and a thug because Harvard couldn’t find anyone better.

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makeitstop  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:24:11am
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electrotek  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:24:20am

re: #216 Barefoot Grin

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:25:21am

re: #218 electrotek

Another stabbing in France, Jesus Christ:

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Kragar  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:26:01am
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Barefoot Grin  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:26:25am

re: #222 electrotek

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:28:02am

re: #221 makeitstop

At one of my old IT jobs we used to have boxes and boxes of their free trial anti-virus software discs laying around.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:29:47am
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makeitstop  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:30:26am

re: #226 JordanRules

At one of my old IT jobs we used to have boxes and boxes of their free trial anti-virus software discs laying around.

My wife used to work for Microsoft, and they were partnered up with them to some extent for a while - my wife used to talk to one of the guys who got arrested for ‘espionage’ in Russia.

I sent her the link and she said she’d been waiting for that to happen.

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wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:31:10am

re: #221 makeitstop

[Finally. US bans Kaspersky anti virus software in all federal agencies amid concerns of Russian espionage ]

Kaspersky still sponsors NPR.

No FB, no radio? I’ll just hang out at this website, and fix bikes.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:31:49am

re: #229 wrenchwench

Kaspersky still sponsors NPR.

No FB, no radio? I’ll just hang out at this website, and fix bikes.

Koch Industries also sponsors NPR.

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Belafon  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:33:13am

re: #229 wrenchwench

Kaspersky still sponsors NPR.

No FB, no radio? I’ll just hang out at this website, and fix bikes.

Just need an audio version of the site.

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wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:33:19am

re: #230 The Vicious Babushka

Koch Industries also sponsors NPR.

And they regularly give a mic to Jonah Goldberg.

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wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:35:07am

re: #231 Belafon

Just need an audio version of the site.

I thought so, too, for a while, but I’ve learned that I do much better with print. Might be part of why I’ve been hanging out here so long.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:37:04am

re: #221 makeitstop

Finally. US bans Kaspersky anti virus software in all federal agencies amid concerns of Russian espionage washingtonpost.com
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Photo published for U.S. bans use of Kaspersky software in federal agencies amid concerns of Russian espionage
U.S. bans use of Kaspersky software in federal agencies amid concerns of Russian espionage
The Homeland Security department issued a directive Wednesday barring use of the Russian company’s product.
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About time. Way overdue!!

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:41:12am

re: #229 wrenchwench

No radio? Fear not….Greg is a gem.

Greg Koch and the Tone Controls-Thems the Breaks

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:41:38am
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makeitstop  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:43:54am

re: #235 nines09

No radio? Fear not….Greg is a gem.

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Man, that’s greazy. He gets some great tones.

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Belafon  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:44:53am

re: #237 FormerDirtDart

There are a number of people where the sports programs are the only way they get into college.

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lawhawk  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:45:09am
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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:46:56am

re: #237 FormerDirtDart

[Ron Howard voice] And that’s when the Kentucky riots started.

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danarchy  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:48:47am

re: #237 FormerDirtDart

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Um, change spending to earning…

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lawhawk  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:50:02am

re: #239 Belafon

The number of people who get into college on the basis of a scholarship is a fraction of the costs of having those sports programs in the first place.

Football/basketball mostly subsidize the other sports at most colleges, but even then few programs are revenue neutral and cost more to maintain than they deliver to the school.

Football is a huge revenue generator and the alumni like it, but by the Governor’s own dictum, it wouldn’t meet the qualifications of being necessary to a 21st century education.

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:50:13am

Be back and forth. Check out Greg. I’ve meant to turn him loose here. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, but he’s a killer player.

Greg Koch. RED HOUSE

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makeitstop  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:52:18am

re: #244 nines09

Be back and forth. Check out Greg. I’ve meant to turn him loose here. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, but he’s a killer player.

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He’s funny as hell, too. I saw a clip of him telling a story abut buying a Tele he didn’t need and how he was going to explain it to his wife.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:53:20am
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Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:53:30am

re: #240 lawhawk

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Trump is so “bipartisan” that he’s calling for another ACA repeal vote despite there being absolutely no support for it outside the GOP.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:53:56am

re: #239 Belafon

There are a number of people where the sports programs are the only way they get into college.

They should be made into a semi-professional league in which part of the players’ salary is in the form of college courses.

But things are too established to even consider changing the existing pseudo “Student-athlete” system…

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makeitstop  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:55:37am

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:56:22am
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Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:56:49am

re: #246 goddamnedfrank

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Of course it won’t have a funding mechanism. Like SB 562, it’ll be all unicorn farts and cotton candy clouds, or it’ll be a “soak the rich” strategy that assumes the rich will sit still and allow themselves to be fleeced, but it will be totally unbelievable except to his fans who will insist that the bill “deserves” a vote. And that the only reason it doesn’t receive one is the “neolibs” in the Senate are opposed to it.

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:58:46am

re: #250 The Vicious Babushka

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 11:59:19am

re: #246 goddamnedfrank

That’s great but please include a concrete funding mechanism or the CBO score will turn this into a joke.

unless we can rush it to a vote before the CBO can score it…

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Belafon  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:02:45pm

re: #250 The Vicious Babushka

Imagine all of FOX being fired for 2009-2017.

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:03:01pm

re: #245 makeitstop

He’s funny as hell, too. I saw a clip of him telling a story abut buying a Tele he didn’t need and how he was going to explain it to his wife.

Saw him doing demos online for years, always a hoot. Total badass player. He’s been onstage and in the studio far more than he lets on.

He’s a spokesperson/friend/employee of Wildwood Guitars in Louisville Colorado.
youtube.com

That is some gems.
Funny story. My boys live in Colorado, that area, and I’ve eaten at Lu Lu’s BBQ every chance I get. They have to drag me away. Love the Texas Slush and the food.
Guess where Wildwood Guitars is…..That freaking close.
Next time….
So I can hold guitars that make me cry when I have to say goodbye….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:03:31pm

re: #254 Belafon

Imagine all of FOX being fired for 2009-2017.

When did they ever say anything about Obama that was not true, fair and balanced?

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Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:03:46pm
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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:05:44pm

re: #249 makeitstop

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:06:39pm

re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

unless we can rush it to a vote before the CBO can score it…

Nah, McConnell will insist on a CBO score and then use the motion to proceed vote to paint Democrats as “tax and spend” liberals who were willing to double the US debt over the next 10 years on an unfunded pipe dream.

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:10:04pm

re: #257 Charles Johnson

Just dare him to take a DNA test and he’ll probably be doing all the weeping.

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makeitstop  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:10:29pm

re: #258 nines09

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:11:10pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:11:44pm

re: #260 JordanRules

Just dare him to take a DNA test and he’ll probably be doing all the weeping.

I almost have to laugh. He’s actually boasting about what a disgusting racist piece of shit he is.

Trump’s people.

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:11:47pm

re: #190 JordanRules

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Attack cat is badass!

Sportsball update: The Cleveland Indians just won their 21st game in a row. A new American League Baseball Record. Woot!!! 5-3 win over Detroit.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:13:22pm

re: #257 Charles Johnson

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Another right wing dipshit that thinks he’s hotter shit than he really is. Yawn.

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:13:36pm

re: #249 makeitstop

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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:14:08pm

re: #264 ObserverArt

Attack cat is badass!

Sportsball update: The Cleveland Indians just won their 21st game in a row. A new American League Baseball Record. Woot!!! 5-3 win over Detroit.

Just caught the tail end of it. Happy for them. Going to root for them to go all the way this year.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:15:16pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:15:33pm

That one story about that student in Kentucky. Man it just breaks my heart. Terrible atmosphere in this country that Trump is creating. If being “white” means being an absolute asshole to anyone who doesn’t look like me or whatever, well consider me not proud in any shape or form to be white. I’m proud of my individual heritage but nope not of my skin color.

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Kragar  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:16:24pm

re: #257 Charles Johnson

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:17:30pm

re: #197 JordanRules

ROFL

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Did I just hear Alex Jones say (about the left/progressives/Democrats) “they all lie, they’re all fiction writers in liberal media?”

I think Alex is lying. InfoWars is nothing but fiction from the fevered mind of Jones.

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electrotek  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:19:07pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:19:13pm

re: #271 ObserverArt

Did I just hear Alex Jones say (about the left/progressives/Democrats) “they all lie, they’re all fiction writers in liberal media?”

I think Alex is lying. InfoWars is nothing but fiction from the fevered mind of Jones.

This coming from a guy who called Sandy a “false flag.” Jones is such a miserable person. Even worse than that bastard Limbaugh. The Onion has finally taken to poking fun at Jones through Patriothole and it’s such a great parody of what a psychotic nutjob JOnes is.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:19:13pm

re: #268 Charles Johnson

Silicon Valley really is such a weird place.

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:19:44pm

re: #272 electrotek

Huge if true.

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makeitstop  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:20:23pm

re: #266 nines09

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lawhawk  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:21:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:24:24pm

re: #270 Kragar

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:25:07pm

re: #205 plansbandc

I won’t be their customer again.

Be sure to contact Motel 6 headquarters and let them know. That is how it works.

Fucking Nazi tattle-tale shit. Trump has turned this country against itself in many ways.

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Sir John Barron  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:25:30pm

re: #271 ObserverArt

Did I just hear Alex Jones say (about the left/progressives/Democrats) “they all lie, they’re all fiction writers in liberal media?”

I think Alex is lying. InfoWars is nothing but fiction from the fevered mind of Jones.

Jade Helm 15

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Sir John Barron  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:26:13pm

re: #257 Charles Johnson

Guy sounds like a real bowl of laughs, he does.

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Belafon  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:28:42pm

re: #274 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Silicon Valley really is such a weird place.

Why? I would love to find a way to not have to have to drive myself to work, do laundry, cook, or clean and have it be nearly as free as possible.

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:30:25pm

re: #208 Kragar

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Big surprise. Anyone with a brain and following should have seen this coming. It was one of my first comments here the day after Harvey hit and we heard about some releases.

Worst of all much of it is petro chemicals and they will float on top of the water and not mix in and dilute. Makes them perfect to be picked up on clothing, skin, etc.

This is going to cause problems for a lot of people. And most at risk will be responders like police, military, the guys that helped with rescues, etc. just like the good people that helped at 9/11.

So sad.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:31:10pm

re: #264 ObserverArt

Attack cat is badass!

Sportsball update: The Cleveland Indians just won their 21st game in a row. A new American League Baseball Record. Woot!!! 5-3 win over Detroit.

The Tigers suck so hard this year, they are almost as bad as the Lions.

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JordanRules  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:31:33pm

re: #282 Belafon

They’re weird cause they thought Juicero and Bodega were good ideas.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:34:47pm

re: #274 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Silicon Valley really is such a weird place.

The common factor seems to be delivery or minimal interaction with people, perfect for nerds who stay inside all day and get all their social interactions through the Internet.

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:37:48pm

re: #276 makeitstop

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:40:33pm

re: #282 Belafon

Why? I would love to find a way to not have to have to drive myself to work, do laundry, cook, or clean and have it be nearly as free as possible.

Oh, I’m not necessarily commenting on that.

More that there is a very definite culture to tech here in the valley and a lot of the guys* in it do a crappy job of realizing that they live in a bubble. And that the views of people outside the bubble are equally relevant.

* And it is still majority men.

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:46:10pm

re: #244 nines09

Be back and forth. Check out Greg. I’ve meant to turn him loose here. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, but he’s a killer player.

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Video

Dude is damn good. Love that intro to Red House. Thanks for posting. I just added him to my YouTube look up list.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:47:59pm

re: #284 The Vicious Babushka

The Tigers suck so hard this year, they are almost as bad as the Lions.

The Lions are actually not bad. Stafford is a heckuva good QB; he pulled off another come from behind victory this week.

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electrotek  Sep 13, 2017 • 12:49:15pm

She’s a coward

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nines09  Sep 13, 2017 • 1:00:45pm

re: #289 ObserverArt

youtube.com

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ObserverArt  Sep 13, 2017 • 1:05:32pm

re: #267 HappyWarrior

Just caught the tail end of it. Happy for them. Going to root for them to go all the way this year.

You better! : )

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William Lewis  Sep 13, 2017 • 1:05:38pm

re: #291 electrotek

She’s a coward

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More likely that the government broke her spirit during the “house arrest” era.

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MsJ  Sep 13, 2017 • 1:13:06pm

re: #220 EPR-radar

One way to look at this Harvard nonsense with Spicer and Lewandowski is that such things at universities almost always draw from both sides of the political spectrum.

So the right is being represented here by a clown and a thug because Harvard couldn’t find anyone better.

Does not help. There’s no other way to look at it. It’s appalling. Plain and simple.


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