Season’s Greetings from the Trumps…
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Back on @FoxNews @seanhannity tonight 9pmET! Talking about the Leftist fake news media!!
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) December 28, 2017
RT if you would rather be at Walmart at 5pm checking out with two cashiers working than watch this. https://t.co/DL1fzqlmWl
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) December 28, 2017
Trump is only first-year president to ever lose Most Admired Man poll
Donald Trump is the first president to lose Most Admired Man his first year in office — in the history of polling. He lost to President Barack Obama.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Donald Trump’s streak of receiving less support than his Democratic rivals continues in the latest edition of Gallup’s survey of the most admired man and woman in the United States.
But even worse for Trump, he has broken a record — he is the first first-year president not to be named most admired.
Trump comes in second after President Barack Obama, who he also came behind in 2015 and 2016.
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What are people thinking, making Trump the second-most-admired man in the United States? He should be down in the rankings with Gohmert and Arpaio.
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t….think so….AAMOF, I know what you really look like…and it ain’t pretty, given that contract you signed: pic.twitter.com/F3BCV3pVUe
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 28, 2017
“It’s a new type of attack on America. This is not a terrorist attack where you can see the consequences immediately. It’s not a military attack where you can see the consequences immediately. This is a slow erosion of our confidence and our democracy.” — @MichaelJMorell pic.twitter.com/HcCRsibpzO
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) December 27, 2017
This is the worst kind of attack: barely visible, extremely hard to fight off, insidious in its capacity to cripple our key institutions, profound in its ability to erode the people’s trust in democracy. That Trump and his GOP allies are doing nothing about it is inexcusable. https://t.co/G1pUtx6p8w
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 28, 2017
This Christmas, remember that all those fancy cat toys will never compete with a simple hair tie pic.twitter.com/tDAYXTOsct
— Lis Smith (@Lis_Smith) December 27, 2017
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
There are many ways to fight this…but all involve risks and commitments from unwilling partners in the private sector, sad to say….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 28, 2017
meanwhile in Erie, PA:
We are now at 102.1” of snow for this month. This already surpasses our seasonal average of 100.9” #Erie #Snowmageddon pic.twitter.com/vW58zXo8w1
— David Wolter (@DavidWolter1) December 27, 2017
It’s really sad and also frightening that a “Bad Lip Reading” Trump is more coherent than “real” Trump.
Confederate flag over Jared’s shoulder. Couldn’t find four photos without one? Or is this a dogwhistle?
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 26, 2017
US Secret Service spokeswoman Cathy Milhoan says that this truck that tried blocking @CNN from recording President Trump golfing was not commissioned by the Secret Service. So my question is, why did the secret service allow a box truck this close to Trump while he was golfing? pic.twitter.com/BHTSFZ6lRJ
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) December 27, 2017
Probably one of Erik Prince’s merc’s doing this - that us taxpayers will wind up getting stuck with the bill for - Thanks, @GOP !
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 28, 2017
re: #3 jaunte
It is very shocking that Trump would be number two. He shouldn’t be on that list at all. He has no admirable qualities.
Tillerson: I’m “proud” of Trump administration’s efforts at diplomacy https://t.co/ulPXW8wjax pic.twitter.com/pzKXD4NqjW
— The Hill (@thehill) December 28, 2017
That’s the kind of thing you say at your “retirement” party. How many days to you give Tillerson? https://t.co/Z6AUdkHL9h
— LaneBrooks (@lanebrooks) December 28, 2017
and the pathetic self-congratulations continue
“Arrests of MS-13 Members, Associates Up 83% Under Trump” https://t.co/70iPHy2Yqn
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2017
I finally had to block Mike Pence to get rid of him.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 28, 2017
#CarrieOnForever pic.twitter.com/iGUMpYJoHi
— Verona Blue 🇨🇦 (@bathori) December 28, 2017
Talky Tomi from the Twilight Zone needs to lay off the Crack Pipe! pic.twitter.com/HxbIeXpl4G
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) December 28, 2017
You know why we’re getting so many articles about Trump voters? Because milquetoast white journalists feel a constant need to explain and humanize their sexist racist families.
— Auld Frank Syne (@goddamnedfrank) December 28, 2017
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
Peice of shit right wing propaganda website funded by the heritage foundation. Shouldve put that in your post.
“The Heritage Foundation (abbreviated to Heritage)[2][3] is an American conservative public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage’s policy study Mandate for Leadership.[4] Heritage has since continued to have a significant influence in U.S. public policy making, and is considered to be one of the most influential conservative research organizations in the United States. After the 2016 election of Donald Trump as U.S. President, Heritage leader Rebekah Mercer played a major role in shaping his transition team.[5]”
Rebekah Mercer
She also worked with Stephen Bannon to create the film Clinton Cash.[6] In September 2016, Politico described her as “the most powerful woman in GOP politics.”[7]
Clinton cash/ urinium one has been debunked many many times.
re: #17 The Vicious Babushka
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Mary has always been a substitute Goddess for many a Christian. Usually though it’s either the Maiden or the Mother aspect that is played up. But Mary outlived her firstborn & who knows how many other of her children? James the Just for example? It’s good to see that side reflected in the Crone aspect & this icon of St. Carrie of Hollywood does it well.
Plus it’ll piss off Fundies… ;D
re: #22 William Lewis
Asherah never really went away.
— PICTURE CATS (@picturecats) December 13, 2017
Going to a level where this blog feels comfortable
re: #19 goddamnedfrank
Auld Frank Syne
@goddamnedfrank
You know why we’re getting so many articles about Trump voters? Because milquetoast white journalists feel a constant need to explain and humanize their sexist racist families.10:05 PM - Dec 27, 2017
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How many times and ways can you explain people being ugly-American assholes?
We know it.
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
The “Daily Signal.”
Those Heritage Foundation conservatives really know how to name a publication.
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Here’s the original German version:
re: #22 William Lewis
Mary has always been a substitute Goddess for many a Christian. Usually though it’s either the Maiden or the Mother aspect that is played up. But Mary outlived her firstborn & who knows how many other of her children? James the Just for example? It’s good to see that side reflected in the Crone aspect & this icon of St. Carrie of Hollywood does it well.
Plus it’ll piss off Fundies… ;D
Debbie Schlussel’s already fuming over her.
Sorry Carrie Fisher died, but she died because she was a drug addict who was full of deadly drugs, by her own illicit choice. So don’t treat this mere talented actress as some sort of goddess. She wasn’t. #CarrieOnForever #gop #MAGA #tcot #StarWars #CarrieFisher
— Debbie Schlussel (@DebbieSchlussel) December 27, 2017
Who is this fresh piece of trash? https://t.co/OfYtewfSpE
— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) December 28, 2017
Just rewatched “High Noon” for the first in years. These days, hard not to read it as a warning of how easily institutions and law and order can succumb to venal self-interest and general cowardice. While the villains are eventually slain, the polity is undone. Topical, no?
— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) December 28, 2017
re: #23 makeitstop
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Cat looks like its ready to take a gamble.
Scritch, scratch…owww!
re: #30 ObserverArt
Cat looks like its ready to take a gamble.
Scritch, scratch…owww!
She’s just keeping an eye on things. :)
Jared Kushner goes fishing, Ivanka Trump posts 4 photos of it, and oddly enough there’s a Confederate battle flag in the background of one. What are the odds? pic.twitter.com/MDirVKl6sV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 28, 2017
wow…according to @JoeTrippi, in the last week of the AL Senate campaign 10,000 bots were generating 65,000 anti-Jones tweets per hour…including the “fake yearbook story”
— Josh Weinberg (@josh_weinberg) December 26, 2017
re: #28 scottslemmons
A no-talent right-wing seagull (not a troll - trolls are cute- seagulls are nasty, vile creatures….) https://t.co/d9Nru8LCob
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 28, 2017
The Bernie Bro sales pitch. pic.twitter.com/IKH5tJoDk1
— Auld Frank Syne (@goddamnedfrank) December 28, 2017
re: #28 scottslemmons
It’s ‘lookist’ but fuck her,.
Kudos to whoever touched up your twitter photo, they did a helluva job considering what they had to work with. pic.twitter.com/JgTageNp6N
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) December 28, 2017
Oh, wow:….
McClatchy: Jailed Russian says he hacked DNC on Kremlin’s orders and can prove it
BY KEVIN G. HALL khall@mcclatchydc.com
DECEMBER 27, 2017 05:45 PM
UPDATED 12 MINUTES AGO
WASHINGTON
A jailed Russian who says he hacked into the Democratic National Committee computers on the Kremlin’s orders to steal emails released during the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign now claims he left behind a data signature to prove his assertion.In an interview with Russia’s RAIN television channel made public Wednesday, Konstantin Kozlovsky provided further details about what he said was a hacking operation led by the Russian intelligence agency known by its initials FSB. Among them, Kozlovsky said he worked with the FSB to develop computer viruses that were first tested on large, unsuspecting Russian companies, such as the oil giant Rosneft, later turning them loose on multinational corporations.
Kozlovsky first came to public attention in early December when word spread about his confession last Aug. 15 in a Russian courtroom that he was the person who hacked into DNC computers on behalf of Russian intelligence. The Russian was jailed earlier this year, alleged to have been part of a hacking group there that stole more than $50 million from Russian bank accounts through what’s called the Lurk computer virus.
The alleged hacker posted to his Facebook page in December a transcript and an audio recording of his confession during a pre-trial court hearing. He also confessed online to having hacked investigators looking into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, brought down in July 2014 by a missile near the disputed Ukrainian border with Russia.
In written answers from jail made public Wednesday by RAIN TV, a Moscow-based independent TV station that has repeatedly run afoul of the Kremlin, Kozlovsky said he feared his minders might turn on him and planted a “poison pill” during the DNC hack. He placed a string of numbers that are his Russian passport number and the number of his visa to visit the Caribbean island of St. Martin in a hidden .dat file, which is a generic data file.
That allegation is difficult to prove, partly because of the limited universe of people who have seen the details of the hack. The DNC initially did not share information with the FBI, instead hiring a tech firm called CrowdStrike, run by a former FBI cyber leader. That company has said it discovered the Russian hand in the hacking, but had no immediate comment on the claim by Kozlovsky that he planted an identifier.
One year ago today. We will never forget you, Carrie Fisher, shero of the resistance and a role model to women and girls all over the world. #CarrieOnForever pic.twitter.com/163iQfuMdI
— Women’s March (@womensmarch) December 27, 2017
Um, she was an overrated bleeping drug addict who killed herself in her early ’60s. FABULOUS “role model.” On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind if the Women’s March “chicks” took the same path. Yup, keep her as ur role model, bitches #gop #MAGA #trump #CarrieOnForever #foxnews https://t.co/LToP0FaYV6
— Debbie Schlussel (@DebbieSchlussel) December 27, 2017
I take no pleasure in reporting this….😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/t2rZUP2wUI
— Frederick Douglass (@gettinnoticedmo) December 28, 2017
re: #38 gocart mozart
Whoever taught you your hate did you no favors. Remember, hate is learned behavior. So tell me - who taught you to hate all addicts ?
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 28, 2017
re: #40 The Major
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Nah, it’s just the green eyed beast; pure and complete jealousy.
Ehh, Schlussel’s entirely demented — and desperate to try to get to her former status as the poor person’s Coulter. She’s best ignored — she thrives on getting people to tweet angry at her.
re: #41 William Lewis
Nah, it’s just the green eyed beast; pure and complete jealousy.
Yer probably right. Nevertheless, I will have much fun with this heedless #$%^&*( if she even bothers to respond….
re: #36 gocart mozart
Thank you sir.
Oh….wow….. pic.twitter.com/3eadModaw2
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 28, 2017
I’m not sure “lying Orange shit bag” really works as a station name!
— david williams (@headhunterno1) December 27, 2017
re: #42 scottslemmons
Your 15 minutes of fame was decades ago, Debbie - @annCoulter, @michellemalkin, and even @Dloesch for as repulsive as they are, are way more successful that you’ll ever be. SO why don’t joust go away before I taunt you a second time ? https://t.co/L1DDMguNIk
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 28, 2017
This robot holding on while sinking into quicksand pic.twitter.com/h9eQjWEuFc
— Faces in Things (@FacesPics) December 27, 2017
re: #36 gocart mozart
Her attitude is ugly.
Unfortunately I have no photos as dinner was devoured immediately, but I am really getting into the Instant Pot. I adapted this recipe (chose the pork, and pulled pork simmering sauce) to the IP:
Gawd it was so good. I cut up the pork in roughly 2-3” chunks, browned, removed, added onion, celery to deglaze pot along with the bay leaves. Added Pork back in, then sauce. Cooked for 35 minutes, released pressure, added other veggies that came with the meal (carrots, potatoes, mushrooms), sealed it back up, and cooked for another 4. Definitely my favorite meal with this thing so far. :)
Took some convincing with the head co-habitant (mom) that we needed another kitchen gadget, but she’s sold.
LOL
As a late Christmas present, here are all my tweets asking Rep. Steve King to have sex with my wife combined into a moment:https://t.co/zW7pxraDWW
— Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) December 28, 2017
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re: #50 GlutenFreeJesus
Unfortunately I have no photos as dinner was devoured immediately, but I am really getting into the Instant Pot. I adapted this recipe (chose the pork, and pulled pork simmering sauce) to the IP:
Gawd it was so good. I cut up the pork in roughly 2-3” chunks, browned, removed, added onion, celery to deglaze pot along with the bay leaves. Added Pork back in, then sauce. Cooked for 35 minutes, released pressure, added other veggies that came with the meal (carrots, potatoes, mushrooms), sealed it back up, and cooked for another 4. Definitely my favorite meal with this thing so far. :)
Took some convincing with the head co-habitant (mom) that we needed another kitchen gadget, but she’s sold.
One of my favorite IP recipes thus far out of a whole bunch of excellent meals is Roasted Poblanos with Pulled Pork Chili Verde. My roasted peppers fell apart on me so I just lined the baking pan with them, topped with the pulled pork and cheese. It was sooo good.
re: #52 ipsos
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re: #50 GlutenFreeJesus
Speaking of cooking gadgetry, I bought this beast last year, and lemme tell ya - it’s to die for…. the Panasonic NU-HX100S Countertop Induction Oven.
The beast is so popular it’s back-ordered through May 2018! Here’s mine compared to an old Frigidaire convection oven:
re: #54 retired cynic
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re: #55 The Major
Wish I had the space. lol
re: #53 allegro
Drool. I’ll have to try this! Thank you!
re: #60 GlutenFreeJesus
Wish I had the space. lol
Well, it does carve up some footprint for sure - but for two people, this and an induction cooktop is all you would need - seriously. This beast can grill steaks to perfection as well as frozen burgers and frozen pizza to boot.
Here’s what Consumers Reports said in their review in their Final Take:
Panasonic has been an innovator in the small-appliance category—its FlashXpress NB-G110P toaster oven, with unique quartz and ceramic heating elements, is a CR favorite, with a hardcore consumer following. The Panasonic Countertop Induction Oven continues that tradition. It’s like what a microwave would be if it cooked food the way we wanted it to instead of giving us rubbery chicken, soggy pizza, and a tendency to cook large dishes unevenly.
That’s not to say the Panasonic is for everyone. Cost-conscious consumers will balk at the price. Skilled chefs might take a pass because they can achieve similar results using their cooktop, oven broiler, and other standard cooking equipment. But the oven will appeal to some consumers, including time-pressed parents who need to get weeknight dinners on the table fast, as well as enthusiasts of high-tech kitchen gadgetry.
Regardless of whether the Panasonic oven takes off, its biggest contribution might be proving that the benefits of induction can extend from the cooktop to the oven. We’d like to see it initiate a wave of other helpful uses for the technology.
Since that review was written, the price dropped from $600 to $400 - still steep, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s worth every damn penny just for its power-saving when all you have is an electric oven.
Sore fucking loser.
The Roy Moore campaign says it has filed a complaint to delay the certification of the Alabama senate results until a voter fraud investigation has been conducted. pic.twitter.com/x3NrtxuZ2z
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 28, 2017
re: #33 makeitstop
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wow…according to @JoeTrippi, in the last week of the AL Senate campaign 10,000 bots were generating 65,000 anti-Jones tweets per hour…including the “fake yearbook story”
Somehow methinks it would not go in Moore’s favor.
Night all. Hopefully, tomorrow will be Indictment Thursday.
You know it’s coming, only a matter of when.
My wife asked me what I expected the State of The Union Address to be about this year. I hadn’t thought about it, had you?
I think that’s an interesting area of speculation. Will the Mango Jizztrumpet get up and flat out lie before the Senate and Congress? Will a democrat stand up and say “You’re a liar”, with an abundance of truth, unlike the idiot who yelled at Obama?
The new year is before us, and if you thought 2017 was a bitch, this year will be what defines our future. We must resist. They may not believe in climate change, but it believes in us. They may not believe in the common good, but it is the core value of our Democracy, as clearly stated in the Preamble to the Constitution.
Sweet scaly dreams, dear friends. The fight begins again tomorrow. Turn red to purple, turn purple to blue, one District at a time.
re: #55 The Major
Speaking of cooking gadgetry, I bought this beast last year, and lemme tell ya - it’s to die for…. the Panasonic NU-HX100S Countertop Induction Oven.
The beast is so popular it’s back-ordered through May 2018! Here’s mine compared to an old Frigidaire convection oven:
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Those are still available on Amazon Prime at the same price and they offer free shipping as well.
re: #66 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Those are still available on Amazon Prime at the same price and they offer free shipping as well.
Dat’s what Panny’s site said, duuuude…..
(More likely Amazon is getting a boatload of ‘em from Japan as fast as Panny can make ‘em….)
re: #64 allegro
Somehow methinks it would not go in Moore’s favor.
And to me, anybody who demands a non-mandated re-count should be forced to pay for it - but since many of these systems have no paper trail, good luck with that….
Can we go back to ScanTron voting? Please ?
re: #65 austin_blue
If he talks, it will be about blocking non-whites and about how he didn’t collude with Russia and Mueller is a Democrat. But I’m about 50-50 on him just sending a letter, the way it used to be done.
re: #72 Belafon
If he talks, it will be about blocking non-whites and about how he didn’t collude with Russia and Mueller is a Democrat. But I’m about 50-50 on him just sending a letter, the way it used to be done.
Trump give up the national spotlight? Ha. Don’t think so. He’ll make an ass of himself as always, lie after lie, and then toilet tweet about the best ratings in the history of SOTU.
LOL
I am a student of history. You are not. Conservative women played a huge role in both the suffragette movement and in subsequent battles for women’s rights. Read a little, for God’s sake and learn.
— Alan Poirier (@alan_poirier) December 28, 2017
Well this blows. Just clicked on YouTube from my firestick and it tells me that as of 1/1/18 it will no longer be available on the device. Amazon has been pissing me off increasingly lately. May not renew my Prime next month.
Please. The ME is a bastion of patriarchy. Don’t dare lecture me on this. There is no comparison. I remember the ME in the late 60s and early 70s. It was on the brink of modernity. Women in the ME are property. Nothing more.
— Alan Poirier (@alan_poirier) December 28, 2017
Dare to lecture you?! My goodness! Who am I but a woman from the Middle East and you are a white man - i.e. one who must never be lectured to. You should form the Alliance of White Men Mansplaining to Mona.Just this afternoon I had one of your ilk from the UK. Go away, white man. https://t.co/zRKVaU1lzA
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) December 28, 2017
re: #76 electrotek
Yeah, it’s the they have it worse why are you whining crap. Shut up.
Know what hurts the worst? It isn’t the obvious asshole in your face misogynist. Fuck them. It’s the off-hand patronizing crack from a man you thought was an ally. It’s that betrayal of trust when he reveals what’s really lying underneath.
Max Boot will say anything if they just let him invade Iran. https://t.co/M6MxBpr8oW
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 27, 2017
A professional (and highly paid) defender of white privilege is threatened by my article. Good. But instead of lashing out with a sarcastic sneer, @TuckerCarlson, you would be better advised to reflect honestly on your life choices and the views you propagate. https://t.co/xCw7sOYcHh
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) December 28, 2017
OK. Lunch break is over. Time to go back to marking exams.
So it’s a Google vs Amazon feud…
Google is pulling YouTube from Amazon’s Echo Show and Fire TV devices over the online retailer’s refusal to carry certain products from the search company.
In pulling the YouTube support, Google noted that its own products, Google Home$129.00 at Best Buy and Chromecast, are not available for sale on Amazon. Chromecast used to be sold there, but was yanked in 2015. Last month, Amazon also stopped selling certain products from Nest, a company under Google’s parent Alphabet.
“Given this lack of reciprocity, we are no longer supporting YouTube on Echo Show and Fire TV,” Google said in an email on Tuesday.
FFS.
Clouds over mountains near Cape Town[OC][4640x3480] pic.twitter.com/KKrrr1Idnp
— Earth_On_Fleek (@earth_on_fleek) December 28, 2017
That scumfuck @VP Mike Pence - a guy sucking Satan’s cock for the Lord - is vacationing in Aspen. I hope he’s enjoying the scenery and fresh mountain air. I do wonder if he’s a skier or a snowboarder.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) December 28, 2017
Top 4 sunrise/sunset colours I captured in 2017!! pic.twitter.com/TrVG2eFOgl
— Kate Wall (@TheKateWall) December 28, 2017
re: #3 jaunte
Trump is only first-year president to ever lose Most Admired Man poll
This will be spun as proof of how the Fake News Liberal Media are out to make our great President look bad…
Jared Kushner goes fishing, Ivanka Trump posts 4 photos of it, and oddly enough there’s a Confederate battle flag in the background of one. What are the odds?
If it is a random photo taken anywhere outdoors south of the Mason-Dixon line, the odds are actually pretty good, actually.
Like trying to take a photo here in on the Rhine without a castle or church in it somewhere.
Slow time of the year, normally.
But what is the chance that we’ll see and Indictment-Friday?
Mostly people try to rush these things, I think. So it could be months before Mueller starts to get going on actual public revelations of indictments, if any.
Or, are there sealed indictments already waiting to be sprung. Does the FISA court hold secrets that won’t be released until after the fact (of public, not-classified, indictments?)
re: #89 freetoken
Everyone is either at Mar-a-Lago or Disneyland, so I wouldn’t get your hopes up.
Suppose I should have pruned that screen grab a little…
The man just won’t let go:
Roy Moore Files Lawsuit to Block Alabama Senate Result
Moore’s attorney wrote in the complaint filed late Wednesday that he believed there were irregularities during the election and said there should be a fraud investigation and eventually a new election.
I swear, just like an obsessive, clingy thirteen-year-old…
re: #93 Colère Tueur de Lapin
For me, cutting and pasting images is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get!
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The man doesn’t understand rejection. This is the prototypical man screams at cloud.
re: #96 Colère Tueur de Lapin
The man doesn’t understand rejection. This is the prototypical man screams at cloud.
Maybe if he could simply talk to Alabama’s single mother and have her explain to Alabama that it would be better for everyone involved to let Roy spend some time as her Senator…
re: #96 Colère Tueur de Lapin
The man doesn’t understand rejection. This is the prototypical man screams at cloud.
Some people do not take too well to reality slapping them upside the head.
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The man just won’t let go:
Roy Moore Files Lawsuit to Block Alabama Senate Result
Moore’s attorney wrote in the complaint filed late Wednesday that he believed there were irregularities during the election and said there should be a fraud investigation and eventually a new election.
I swear, just like an obsessive, clingy thirteen-year-old…
“Irregularities” = black people voting.
re: #91 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Went to @DebbieSchussel to remind myself of what her pict. was; so sad….
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So sad. Too bad. The Force smacked Debbie Downer Down…
re: #102 GlutenFreeJesus
Wondering what her offending post was…
There were a couple last night, about Carrie Fisher. And she wished death upon all of the Women’s March.
Such a bitter person. I think she’s probably mad that Tomi took her spot in the Conserva-Blonde Sweepstakes.
re: #103 makeitstop
Ok I remember her going after Carrie. Good riddance!
Milo Y is suing Simon & Schuster for declining to publish his book. S&S submitted a fling which included the first submission, including the editorial comments, to show how the manuscript was unacceptable to them. Here’s some tweets with excerpts.
This section of Simon & Schuster’s rebuttal to Milo’s lawsuit over DANGEROUS. 🤭 pic.twitter.com/JxydVQpx4f
— Jason Pinter (@jasonpinter) December 27, 2017
I went to the New York county clerk’s website and found this filing. It includes the entire manuscript with allllllll the editor’s comments as exhibit B. https://t.co/fb9yptldbO
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
I didn’t read the manuscript. Just the comments. They’re…amazing. Even better than the excerpts in the filing.
And a pretty good summary of the book I imagine. pic.twitter.com/2kPESxAlA9— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
Heh heh heh.
re: #105 mmmirele
“…without trolling, without bombast, without name-calling, without ego.”
Geewhiz, that asking a lot of Milo.
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re: #105 mmmirele
Surprised Milo didn’t just have some RWNJ publishing house publish his crappy book.
re: #107 Sir John Barron
Probably ‘cause Milo knows that RWNJ publishing houses have absolutely zero credibility and no one outside RWNJ bubbleworld takes them seriously.
Simon & Schuster is a serious publisher.
re: #107 Sir John Barron
Surprised Milo didn’t just have some RWNJ publishing house publish his crappy book.
Standards.
re: #103 makeitstop
There were a couple last night, about Carrie Fisher. And she wished death upon all of the Women’s March.
Such a bitter person. I think she’s probably mad that Tomi took her spot in the Conserva-Blonde Sweepstakes.
She was a junior-grade wingnut pundit during the Bush years, always wanting to be the new Ann Coulter. I suspect a combination of her less-pretty-than-her-headshot appearance, extreme hatred of almost everyone on earth, and tendency to splutter when angry deprived her of her shot at the big leagues. I’m sure it wasn’t a bit difficult to find examples of her saying stuff against the Twitter TOS.
re: #105 mmmirele
Milo Y is suing Simon & Schuster for declining to publish his book. S&S submitted a fling which included the first submission, including the editorial comments, to show how the manuscript was unacceptable to them. Here’s some tweets with excerpts.
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Two questions come to mind:
1) How many decent agents passed on this and who is the soulless scum-sucking piece of garbage who though he would rep this?
2) Did S&S at any time really really believe they could get a ms even remotely printable from a narcissist turd like Milo?
re: #107 Sir John Barron
Surprised Milo didn’t just have some RWNJ publishing house publish his crappy book.
I bet S&S offered more money. And maybe Regnery didn’t want to publish anything from a uncloseted gay man.
re: #111 Lupin
Two questions come to mind:
1) How many decent agents passed on this and who is the soulless scum-sucking piece of garbage who though he would rep this?
2) Did S&S at any time really really believe they could get a ms even remotely printable from a narcissist turd like Milo?
He was a very hot item at the time he signed and I guess somebody high up enough at S&S thought that it would at least be a guaranteed big seller.
The mathematician Roy Moore cites as his expert is a guy who runs a “proof of election theft and JFK conspiracy” blog.
Really.
Moore really had to go digging for that guy. I won’t dirty up the site here with a link to his, but The Nation did an article about him some time ago where they excoriated him and a few of his buddies trying to claim the Democratic Primary in Massachusetts was stolen for Hillary Clinton.
I really he gets laughed out of court today.
J. Fucking C. I turn on MSNBC and it immediately goes to a commercial “Thank you, President Trump.” I turn the channel as quickly as I can, land on Fox, and it’s the same goddamn “Thank you, President Trump” commercial. What the fuck is going on? He’s still campaigning. This is propaganda of the highest order.
re: #28 scottslemmons
Debbie Schlussel’s already fuming over her.
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Debbie Schlussel’s Twitter account got suspended. I don’t think it was directly related to her diss of Carrie Fisher, but hey, if it was…
re: #115 Anymouse 🌹
The mathematician Roy Moore cites as his expert is a guy who runs a “proof of election theft and JFK conspiracy” blog.
Really.
Moore really had to go digging for that guy. I won’t dirty up the site here with a link to his, but The Nation did an article about him some time ago where they excoriated him and a few of his buddies trying to claim the Democratic Primary in Massachusetts was stolen for Hillary Clinton.
I really he gets laughed out of court today.
If the gods grant that Roy Moore run again against Doug Jones in 2020, I will make a penitential pilgrimage to Big Sur.
re: #116 Barefoot Grin
J. Fucking C. I turn on MSNBC and it immediately goes to a commercial “Thank you, President Trump.” I turn the channel as quickly as I can, land on Fox, and it’s the same goddamn “Thank you, President Trump” commercial. What the fuck is going on? He’s still campaigning. This is propaganda of the highest order.
One reason I don’t own a television. Since it’s unreasonable to ask people to give them up (they won’t do it and it’s the only thing that will straighten up the networks - kind of like Facebook or Twitter), may I suggest John Prine’s “Spanish Pipedream (Blow Up Your TV)”
re: #118 Decatur Deb
If the gods grant that Roy Moore run again against Doug Jones in 2020, I will make a penitential pilgrimage to Big Sur.
Roy is a shoo-in for the GOP primary in any case.
Per pool, Trump has arrived at Trump International Golf Club.
This is his 87th day at a golf club as president. https://t.co/4ywA2Sm8iX— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 28, 2017
re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Roy is a shoo-in for the GOP primary in any case.
Please, please, please, please, please…
This deserves ALL THE GODDAMN RECOGNITION. pic.twitter.com/CzCTydIOqi
— BoozyBarrister (@BoozyBarrister) December 22, 2017
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota: “Do Roy Moore’s claims of election fraud have any merit?”
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill: “The short answer to that is no. Doug Jones will be certified today” https://t.co/ZXkfcsTrAq https://t.co/pQxRhhhYJ7— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 28, 2017
re: #105 mmmirele
Milo Y is suing Simon & Schuster for declining to publish his book. S&S submitted a fling which included the first submission, including the editorial comments, to show how the manuscript was unacceptable to them. Here’s some tweets with excerpts.
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Heh heh heh.
Also I now know I can write a book, because ffs he wrote A WHOLE CHAPTER about how ugly people hate him
Literally anyone could do better than this pic.twitter.com/xdPhoioUT9— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
Mornin’ everyone - this is funny stuff here…read it.
This section of Simon & Schuster’s rebuttal to Milo’s lawsuit over DANGEROUS. 🤭 pic.twitter.com/JxydVQpx4f
— Jason Pinter (@jasonpinter) December 27, 2017
re: #122 Jay C
I wonder if old Roy’s suit is just a backdoor attempt to get a recount paid for by the State instead of out of his own/his campaign’s pockets (which are probably fairly empty at this point)?
He has started an “Election Integrity” fundraising scam to run in tandem with his “Law and Religion” scam. This is the soup kitchen in front of the cash counting room.
re: #122 Jay C
I wonder if old Roy’s suit is just a backdoor attempt to get a recount paid for by the State instead of out of his own/his campaign’s pockets (which are probably fairly empty at this point)?
I have no idea. His suit claims that he can prove thousands of votes are illegal (wingnut for African-American).
His maths guy, using a wall of numbers on his blog, claims that due to the numbers of whites and blacks living in certain districts, it would have been impossible for those districts to go to Jones.
It assumes all whites would vote for Moore, and that no white would vote for Jones. It doesn’t consider that there are whites who would vote for Jones because they liked him better, or conservative voters that don’t like the thought of a Senator macking on their daughters.
The suit also claims he was smeared by the press. (If that was true, the remedy would be to sue the press, not the state.) As I recall, his threat letter to the Washington Post was about as cogent, and the WP basically said “bring it.”
re: #127 darthstar
Mornin’ everyone - this is funny stuff here…read it.
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Follow up with shots of editors’ marks:
I didn’t read the manuscript. Just the comments. They’re…amazing. Even better than the excerpts in the filing.
And a pretty good summary of the book I imagine. pic.twitter.com/2kPESxAlA9— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹
One reason I don’t own a television. Since it’s unreasonable to ask people to give them up (they won’t do it and it’s the only thing that will straighten up the networks - kind of like Facebook or Twitter), may I suggest John Prine’s “Spanish Pipedream (Blow Up Your TV)”
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Love John Prine!
re: #127 darthstar
Mornin’ everyone - this is funny stuff here…read it.
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Going to be funny when the court filing becomes a best seller.
In 2 weeks since @SenateGOP passed #GOPTaxScam big corporations announced $70+ Billion in stock buybacks - a clear signal the bill is just a massive giveaway to the wealthy & biggest corporations: https://t.co/9gPwalPV6G pic.twitter.com/SDg4IIEz0v
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) December 18, 2017
Look at all the companies that are already using their #TrumpTax break for stock buybacks that do nothing to help average Americans: https://t.co/OBdT6dtVrM
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 27, 2017
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
This sums up the alt-right attitude: Nazis are a “group association” on a par with an ethic group or sexual identity, and it is mean and discriminatory to say bad things about them.
and it is scary to see how far they can get with that argument…
re: #25 VegasGolfer
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Going to a level where this blog feels comfortable
Morning!
I see this post above got some updings.
I have a feeling this was a post mocking this forum. I guess we don’t talk enough about politics or something even though every thread is full of politics. So VegasGolfer points out pets and makes a thing about it.
This was in a post of their earlier in the evening.
But hey, lets keep posting cat pictures and internet memes. We’ll be fine.
Oh well, to each his own. Maybe “Golfer” doesn’t realize the animals, music and food helps us all cope with the bad politics.
And fuck Roy Moore.
Now to get the day rolling.
re: #135 ObserverArt
Morning!
I see this post above got some updings.
I have a feeling this was a post mocking this forum. I guess we don’t talk enough about politics or something even though every thread is full of politics. So VegasGolfer points out pets and makes a thing about it.
This was in a post of their earlier in the evening.
Oh well, to each his own. Maybe “Golfer” doesn’t realize the animals, music and food helps us all cope with the bad politics.
And fuck Roy Moore.
Now to get the day rolling.
Hobby horses. People have them.
I posted that pic of my cat that you commented on in response. It was way more civil than saying what I was actually thinking at the time.
“Trump does — or did — have unusual levels of blue collar support, but the actual bulk of Trump support is the same old professional, petty bourgeois, and ultra-wealthy capitalists who have been voting Republican for generations.” https://t.co/1wVwa4Scwq
— Stacey E. Singleton (@staceyNYCDC) December 28, 2017
Mostly it just feels to me like these kids are afraid of being disinherited & cut off from their trust funds. So they’ve crafted this deliberate appeal to their racist family’s ego & shared sense of having *earned* wealth through raw plucky grit and determined bootsrappiness.
— Auld Frank Syne (@goddamnedfrank) December 28, 2017
And with that, I’m off to my studio. My wife is headed to DC to see the Vermeer exhibit, and I’m going to try to knock out vocals on a couple of new tunes today.
Back later.
re: #135 ObserverArt
My understanding of that was Vegas Golfer was knocking on people on the Internet in general, not Mr. Johnson’s home here.
There are an awful lot of people who think that politics doesn’t matter was how I took it.
It’s the apathists that we need to reach out to in elections. Folks on sites like this one are fairly well educated in how the political system and politicians are working now.
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹
It assumes all whites would vote for Moore, and that no white would vote for Jones. It doesn’t consider that there are whites who would vote for Jones because they liked him better, or conservative voters that don’t like the thought of a Senator macking on their daughters.
SRSLY? That’s the “basis” for this “case”??
Grift bait, like I thought….
re: #141 Jay C
SRSLY? That’s the “basis” for this “case”??
Grift bait, like I thought….
If I could spend a few minutes with Brother Moore in a Montgomery elevator, I could help him clarify his thinking on white Alabamians.
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
On whiny Nazi up there: I’m fortunate at least part of my family fled Poland just before all those “family, fun loving Nazis” came in uninvited.
Screw him, he’s an idiot.
However, the Nazi-wannabes here in the USA are making a concerted effort to make their appeals to young people, for the same reasons churches do (if you indoctrinate them early, they’re yours for life).
re: #137 goddamnedfrank
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I’ve said it a dozen times (so why not one more?): the Trump rally I attended in August 2015 in southern New Hampshire was packed, and it was 90% upper-middle class types. I drive all over for kids activities—something you have to do in such a decentralized place—and the Trump signs were most obvious in the wealthy communities like Bedford, Chester, Windham (home of Corey Lewandowski). When I argued with colleagues that Trump was a real thing and had support of local establishment republicans they laughed at me. That’s his real base: gimme tax cuts and leave me alone folks.
re: #139 makeitstop
And with that, I’m off to my studio. My wife is headed to DC to see the Vermeer exhibit, and I’m going to try to knock out vocals on a couple of new tunes today.
Back later.
Enjoy your day! I’m staying indoors where it’s warm. (It’s almost 14 Kelvin outside now.)
re: #146 Colère Tueur de Lapin
It’s the same here (I was snarking with the Kelvin, it’s 14F here now too, and snowing again.)
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So you’re saying it is working just as written up. Oh and hey middle class, eat shit!
0 degrees F here right now. Working from home this morning but must venture out before lunch.
re: #147 Anymouse 🌹
Enjoy your day! I’m staying indoors where it’s warm. (It’s almost 14 Kelvin outside now.)
I’m staying in, too. My studio is in my basement. :)
Always nice to put in some work while the wife’s not around. It lessens the chances of her running in and asking what all the shouting’s about. :)
re: #144 Barefoot Grin
Around here where people aren’t so wealthy, Trump signs were sprouting like corn here. (There are still some up, though one farmer had his billboard he put up vandalised in orange paint with the word “Liar” a couple months ago.).
My lonely Sanders then Clinton sign had me wondering if I was going to be the only vote for Clinton in my township. (Turned out I was wrong, there were eight votes for Clinton here.)
There is a large portion of Trump voters who are not wealthy, because the GOP has been selling the same idea of trickle-down economics to them since the XIX Century. Any day now… .
re: #144 Barefoot Grin
Yes exactly. For many on the far left the idea of a white working class is more important than any reality. And their concerns over catering to that voting block are more of a defensive psychological conceit about having “worked” than any genuine concern about electoral strategy.
— Auld Frank Syne (@goddamnedfrank) December 28, 2017
re: #136 makeitstop
Hobby horses. People have them.
I posted that pic of my cat that you commented on in response. It was way more civil than saying what I was actually thinking at the time.
Which is why I mentioned “gambling” (Vegas) and the cat getting ready to “scritch, scratch”
re: #152 Decatur Deb
It’s cold here, for us.
You have the thought of Roy Moore getting laughed out of court to warm the cockles of your heart though.
re: #137 goddamnedfrank
“Trump does — or did — have unusual levels of blue collar support, but the actual bulk of Trump support is the same old professional, petty bourgeois, and ultra-wealthy capitalists who have been voting Republican for generations.”
we like to idolize and glorify these sort of American salt of the earth people, the common clay, you know…
I started reading Hillbilly Elegy and really enjoyed the first part: I grew up in Gary, Indiana, and in our neighborhood the hillbillies, although white, were as much of a distinct ethnic group as the blacks and Latinos in the area.(My parents were both first-Generation Central/Eastern European).
But these people, although admirable in some ways for their stubborn individualism and drive to be independent, are only a small part of what makes up modern America. But as long as we have an electoral system that over-proportionally represents rural areas, these people will continue to be pandered to by cynical manipulators.
Greets and saluts from the resistance in the frigid NYC metro area. Upstate NY continues getting absolutely pummeled by lake effect snow because the lakes aren’t freezing over and it may not freeze over this year, which means every time the cold wind sweeps over the open water for any length of time, downwind areas are going to see prodigious amounts of snow.
That’s one of the signs of global warming - more snowfall in lake effect regions, because the lakes aren’t freezing over. When the lakes freeze, the snow stops. Warmer water temps means the lakes are holding more energy and it helps drive the snow machine.
But that’s not the only thing I’ve been thinking about these days. There’s this:
Ari Fleischer: Trump needs to show more “mental discipline” https://t.co/xOiuJaf8lI pic.twitter.com/6YtQRJiVDq
— The Hill (@thehill) December 28, 2017
Trump was, is, and always shall be lacking character and judgment to be president.
He shows this every single day where he is president for the bigot brigade and millionaires while everyone else gets screwed.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 28, 2017
As if Trump would ever show discipline. The funny thing is that the only time Trump actually showed discipline was when Manafort was running the campaign, and that lasted for all of 48 hours. Trump simply can’t do message discipline because he’s an addled reactionary know nothing who responds to the first thing he hears on the agitprop network (aka Fox). That’s where he gets his news and regurgitates all he hears there, even if it’s repeating what Trump himself said about himself.
Of course, Trump also takes credit for the economy and everything businesses do (and had in their pipeline long before Trump took office). He was taking credit for Carrier jobs in a campaign style event, only for Carrier to turn around and kill those jobs.
He was busy touting AT&T giving year end bonuses, but is silent as the company again announces shedding more jobs.
Trump praised AT&T for giving workers bonuses after GOP tax cut passed. But then AT&T announced it was laying off nearly 1,000 people yet Trump was silent. This is truly the #GOPTaxScam in action. My @Mediaite article https://t.co/Z748oRwxgi
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@Deanofcomedy) December 28, 2017
The next big thing on the Trump agenda is infrastructure. Trump’s plan is vaporware. I’ve warned of this before. The tax scheme was written on a napkin and tax experts are running through loopholes - including prepaying SALT due in 2018 in 2017 to maximize the tax benefits in high tax states where the SALT limits deductions to $10,000 if you itemize. The health care fiasco was likewise written in crayon because no one in the GOP seems to know how to do basic math.
The infrastructure plan is supposedly predicated on $200 billion in federal funds somehow leveraging $1 trillion in private sector spending.
It’s bullshit of course, because the GOP has consistently opposed funding infrastructure for years. They’ve fought to eliminate support/funding for Amtrak, and it shows. Decades of underfunding have left rail infrastructure on the verge of collapse in many parts of the country, but nowhere as profound as the NEC, which is not only Amtrak’s most profitable route - to the point of helping fund operations elsewhere - but it supports the nation’s densest populated and economically vital part of the nation (the DC-Boston corridor).
Back in the depths of the great recession, the GOP sought to restrict and limit infrastructure funding in the ARRA - at a time when that spending would have helped get the economy moving. That’s why we saw “shovel-ready” get bandied about. Major infrastructure projects take time to do, and the GOP didn’t want to take that time, so it limited and slowed the recovery because the infrastructure funding didn’t go as far or as long as it should have.
For all the talk about how Trump wants to cut regulations, he’s all about giving corps breaks so they can poison the environment and people, allow nursing homes to get away with murder, but isn’t actually doing anything to reduce red tape that makes it hard to do infrastructure projects like rail expansion or upgrades.
It’s hard to keep up with all the Trump insanity, since it comes from all sides. But the insanity has been here for a while - particularly since the GOP ascribes to all that Trump is doing.
re: #154 goddamnedfrank
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I want to thank the Academy, and the wonderful folk here, for pushing my Karma over 79,000 this morning.
Is it spendable, like Sorosbux?
re: #153 Anymouse 🌹
Around here where people aren’t so wealthy, Trump signs were sprouting like corn here. (There are still some up, though one farmer had his billboard he put up vandalised in orange paint with the word “Liar” a couple months ago.).
My lonely Sanders then Clinton sign had me wondering if I was going to be the only vote for Clinton in my township. (Turned out I was wrong, there were eight votes for Clinton here.)
There is a large portion of Trump voters who are not wealthy, because the GOP has been selling the same idea of trickle-down economics to them since the XIX Century. Any day now… .
No doubt there were significant numbers of less affluent Trump voters up here. He probably got the “Freedom Project” and 2A-rights votes (a lot of overlap, I’m sure) as well as the relatively small manufacturing blue collar votes. But HRC still won the state—barely (but for those busloads of Massachusetts voters that snuck in to steal it for her ///).
re: #151 makeitstop
I’m staying in, too. My studio is in my basement. :)
Always nice to put in some work while the wife’s not around. It lessens the chances of her running in and asking what all the shouting’s about. :)
I’ll be heading down to mine later today. It can be made pretty damn warm and it has TV, and computers!
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹
I want to thank the Academy, and the wonderful folk here, for pushing my Karma over 79,000 this morning.
Is it spendable, like Sorosbux?
Just passed 91K and am on my way for the big Century.
I simply live for little arbitrary milestones like this…
re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s all about the ratio, IMO, not the sheer number of points.
And you’ve got both.
High points are due to duration of posting. Ratio shows just how good your participation is.
re: #158 lawhawk
Ari Fleischer: Trump needs to show more “mental discipline” thehill.com pic.twitter.com
— The Hill
Well, that sounds like an understatement. Just a tad.
re: #164 lawhawk
It’s all about the ratio, IMO, not the sheer number of points.
And you’ve got both.
High points are due to duration of posting. Ratio shows just how good your participation is.
We can’t see the most interesting number—our personal number of downdings. Without it I feel I have been much too cautious.
re: #166 Decatur Deb
We can’t see the most interesting number—our personal number of downdings. Without it I feel I have been much too cautious.
I rarely downding unless it is something trollish or egregiously offensive, and am generous in updinging for what it’s worth
re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I rarely downding unless it is something trollish or egregiously offensive, and am generous in updinging for what it’s worth
Fuck off.
re: #159 Decatur Deb
Whoever made up the term “White working class” was an enemy. It’s just “workers”, and if you look around you’ll see who is doing all the heavy lifting. Labor issues are Black issues, are Women’s issues, are Latino issues,…
Hear, hear.
As far as I’m concerned anyway, enlisted military personnel are working class. In no command anytime in my career did I see a mythical bloc of “white working class enlisted” people. Just “enlisted people.” (And the old joke went about officers, no, I work for a living… .)
Trump’s attacks on NAFTA and immigration have farmers and ranchers here spooked. They benefit greatly from NAFTA, and they’ve seen what happened in Alabama and Georgia when they couldn’t get seasonal workers in those states.
Though this area went big for Trump in 2016, savvy politicians running on the left could leverage the potential destruction of their livelihoods (their farms and ranches, and the businesses here that support those).
I don’t know if it would be enough to flip my House district, but it could make it a heck of a lot closer. (And over in NE-2, Omaha, they are about fed up already. Flipping two House districts in 2020 would flip the state to the Democrats.) The wingnut that took NE-2 in the last election is being challenged by the Democrat he unseated from the House.
It’s doable, it’s just hard work.
re: #146 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I know it’s nothing thke Anymouse’s weather, but for here in DC, brrrrrrrrr.
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49 here before the sun comes up. Should be back over 50 by 7:00. Thinking about sneaking in a 30 minute paddleboard session before going to work for my morning exercise.
Y’all talking about karma points and all, I decided to check on mine - 69,074. Pretty close to 70K. I guess I’d better get busy. /
re: #169 Anymouse 🌹
It’s doable, it’s just hard work.
and for many, the hardest work would be abandoning idealistic ideology and rhetoric in favor of realistic, results-driven politics.
Ire: #170 darthstar
49 here before the sun comes up. Should be back over 50 by 7:00. Thinking about sneaking in a 30 minute paddleboard session before going to work for my morning exercise.
1 big degree here in upstate NY this fine morning.
I’d rather be in western Nebraska…
Also this is the first lawsuit I’ve ever seen that includes the comments section of a Breitbart article. Like, the whole thing. Running for five pages. #ALSEN pic.twitter.com/LNPbIpWo6y
— Brian Lyman (@lyman_brian) December 28, 2017
I’m at 73k karma, but was really surprised to see I’ve made 32k posts. That seems like a lot. Has been 7+ years of course, but still.
re: #173 ipsos
I
1 big degree here in upstate NY this fine morning.
I’d rather be in western Nebraska…
2F here in NW Pennsylvania. Not much snow on the ground tho’. I am about an hour south of Erie, but all the tons of snow is staying north in the primary snow belt leaving us in the outer belts alone.
47 here in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. Yesterday the Weather Channel 10 day forecast predicted rain on New Year’s day. Now that’s down to 10%.
We. Need. Rain…
Cool but not cold here on the Rhine (mid-30s), was just out for a walk in a jacket.
OH HAI.
Me, this morning. All that baking I was planning to do this week will not happen. I did manage to finish the sourdough (both the baking & the eating) when I got home from the ER yesterday.
My butternut squash soup contains an unintentional secret ingredient: thumb tip! Those things are a bitch to peel. pic.twitter.com/WDzv0YENDp
— Di Umgebroyzelte Bubbie (@viciousbabushka) December 28, 2017
re: #173 ipsos
I
1 big degree here in upstate NY this fine morning.
I’d rather be in western Nebraska…
“I’d rather be in Philadelphia”
— WC Fields’ joke tombstone
Unfortunately, they didn’t follow through:
Ouch! Butternut squash soup is soooooooo good it’s totally worth a little pain. But if you preheat the squash in the oven or microwave, it peels much more easily. And in a pinch, peeled frozen bnut squash cubes from the supermarket make a fine soup.
— Brazenly🌞Liberal (@BrazenlyLiberal) December 28, 2017
re: #179 The Vicious Babushka
Suggestion for a holiday gift: cut-proof gloves. The Mrs. gave me some after I did something similar a few years back while preparing guac (the lime got away, the avocado was spared).
People who should take up knitting (in no particular order):
Bernie Sanders
Newt Gingrich
Mike Huckabee— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 28, 2017
re: #179 The Vicious Babushka
Please take care. Hoping that 2018 will be a better year!
4°C here in Zhengzhou, China, with slight breeze. But the big news is the air quality report, which is dismal - Air Quality Index of 242 (“very unhealthy”). Most of that is PM2.5 pollution from coal fires and construction — pretty typical for this part of China. It’s the biggest drawback to moving here from my previous, more rural location. Clear days are spectacular - blue skies and sunshine. But polluted days are nasty. Students tell me 242 is not bad. Last year, they said it topped 500.
Billy Graham’s Granddaughter Smacks Down Modern Evangelicals for Hypocritical Trump Support (goes to Raw Story, published yesterday, more at the link):
The term evangelical “started to really represent, actually, a branch of Christians that seemed to be a little more conservative and a little bit more hypocritical, a little bit more willing to compromise on the personal morals of a candidate in lieu of what politically they could gain for their party,” Jerushah Armfield, Graham’s granddaughter, told CNN’s Pamela Brown.
When Brown asked Armfield about her uncle Franklin Graham’s recent tweet heaping praise on Trump, the evangelist’s granddaughter and wife of a pastor in South Carolina said she thinks he was referencing the president “wanting to bring back Merry Christmas.” She also suggested that the “War on Christmas” that Trump (according to right-wing news outlets) has “won,” is a non-issue.
re: #182 lawhawk
Suggestion for a holiday gift: cut-proof gloves. The Mrs. gave me some after I did something similar a few years back while preparing guac (the lime got away, the avocado was spared).
I actually have a pair stashed in the back with the vegetable chopping mandoline. The problem with using them is that you have diminished fine motor skills.
I have a set of Japanese knives for chopping and slicing vegetables which I treat with deference and respect, and in turn they respect me. I guess the lowly peeler got jealous.
At the ER they asked when was my last tetanus shot. I’m like, I have no idea. Then I asked them, when was the last time someone came in here with actual tetanus?
re: #180 Decatur Deb
“I’d rather be in Philadelphia”
— WC Fields’ joke tombstoneUnfortunately, they didn’t follow through:
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My favorite anecdote involved WC Fields on his deathbed, poring over a BIble.
“I can’t believe that a man like you is suddenly getting religion,” commented a visitor.
“Religion, hell!” replied Fields. “I’m looking for loopholes!”
re: #185 wheat-dogg
4°C here in Zhengzhou, China, with slight breeze. But the big news is the air quality report, which is dismal - Air Quality Index of 242 (“very unhealthy”). Most of that is PM2.5 pollution from coal fires and construction — pretty typical for this part of China. It’s the biggest drawback to moving here from my previous, more rural location. Clear days are spectacular - blue skies and sunshine. But polluted days are nasty. Students tell me 242 is not bad. Last year, they said it topped 500.
I grew up in a city where the river used to regularly catch on fire…
re: #173 ipsos
I
1 big degree here in upstate NY this fine morning.
I’d rather be in western Nebraska…
Hey, it’s cheap to live here, and apparently warmer. We have a couple houses for sale in the village and could use a few blue voters… .
re: #187 The Vicious Babushka
I actually have a pair stashed in the back with the vegetable chopping mandoline. The problem with using them is that you have diminished fine motor skills.
I have a set of Japanese knives for chopping and slicing vegetables which I treat with deference and respect, and in turn they respect me. I guess the lowly peeler got jealous.
At the ER they asked when was my last tetanus shot. I’m like, I have no idea. Then I asked them, when was the last time someone came in here with actual tetanus?
oh god, peelers are the worst because they are the bluntest. a clean knife cut would bleed a lot less.
re: #164 lawhawk
It’s all about the ratio, IMO, not the sheer number of points.
And you’ve got both.
High points are due to duration of posting. Ratio shows just how good your participation is.
Updings are nice but they really don’t reflect all that much because many comments have no comment, just a tweet from someone else. And if that tweet is popular, the person posting it gets a ton of updings.
Those of us that don’t put up tweets because we don’t tweet or even look for good tweets can’t gather updings like that.
We get updings based on written comments and things we create like photoshops, etc.
We have to slave over a hot stove all day…and for what? The waitresses get all the tips!
(Of course in Trump world that will be changing as I think tips have to go to a community pot and get shared by all the staff. Problem then is, the rest of the staff will get classified as working for tips so they don’t have to be paid minimum wage. Overall, all the workers in restaurants will be getting paid less. At least that is my understand as to what the new tax laws on income is probably going to be. I hope I am wrong.)
And I hope everyone realize I am having fun with it all…well, except for the part in parenthesis.
re: #170 darthstar
49 here before the sun comes up. Should be back over 50 by 7:00. Thinking about sneaking in a 30 minute paddleboard session before going to work for my morning exercise.
Fuck off!
: )
Its 10° here…
“Scary Jew Shadow” hasn’t appeared in a long time but here it is on the cover of Paul Nehlen’s favorite book:
Currently reading 👇 pic.twitter.com/8UVUeEn7PC
— Paul Nehlen (@pnehlen) December 27, 2017
re: #195 The Vicious Babushka
“Scary Jew Shadow” hasn’t appeared in a long time but here it is on the cover of Paul Nehlen’s favorite book:
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MacDonald has been written about many times in the SPLC. He’s a bigoted pos.
This is what conservative education does:
Claims of Virgin Births in USA Nearly 1% (Reuters).
The article is a bit old, but I don’t see this having changed much. It was a survey done by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill published in the British Medical Journal.
Many more women or girls that took so-called “purity pledges” were more likely to claim their pregnancy was a virgin birth than those who did not. Parents of said “purity girls” were much more unlikely to teach things as sex education (and many responding to the survey did not know how a condom works).
re: #179 The Vicious Babushka
OH HAI.
Me, this morning. All that baking I was planning to do this week will not happen. I did manage to finish the sourdough (both the baking & the eating) when I got home from the ER yesterday.
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I hope it was just skin VB. I have a finger that I cut pretty good years ago and it took a good chunk out. I still have a little depression in the skin still.
re: #195 The Vicious Babushka
“Scary Jew Shadow” hasn’t appeared in a long time but here it is on the cover of Paul Nehlen’s favorite book:
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This morning’s Memeorandum carries several reports on the Bannon/Breitbart cell bailing out on Nehlen after the Moore fiasco.
re: #186 Anymouse 🌹
Billy Graham’s Granddaughter Smacks Down Modern Evangelicals for Hypocritical Trump Support (goes to Raw Story, published yesterday, more at the link):
She’s too generous to her uncle who is a bigoted dick but it’s still refreshing to see this. Not a big fan of her grandfather for that matter either.
re: #182 lawhawk
Suggestion for a holiday gift: cut-proof gloves. The Mrs. gave me some after I did something similar a few years back while preparing guac (the lime got away, the avocado was spared).
Don’t they make chainmail gloves for those that have to do a lot of cutting?
re: #193 ObserverArt
Of course in Trump world that will be changing as I think tips have to go to a community pot and get shared by all the staff. Problem then is, the rest of the staff will get classified as working for tips so they don’t have to be paid minimum wage. Overall, all the workers in restaurants will be getting paid less. At least that is my understand as to what the new tax laws on income is probably going to be. I hope I am wrong.
I have lived in Europe too long. Food service workers receive fixed salary and benefits. 15% service charge is included in the price, tipping simply consists of rounding up the bill if the service has been exemplary.
re: #201 ObserverArt
Don’t they make chainmail gloves for those that have to do a lot of cutting?
or knit yourself a pair out of steel wool
Your future sex robot could be hacked and programmed to murder you https://t.co/xmp0puoSaS pic.twitter.com/kARr3gXWjr
I say this regularly, but the first person to be murdered by a sex robot is already among us, blissfully unaware of the hand they will be dealt by history. https://t.co/a0GMgGagqE
— Tristin Hopper (@TristinHopper) December 27, 2017
re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
or knit yourself a pair out of steel wool
From electric sheep.
re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I grew up in a city where the river used to regularly catch on fire…
Gary had that issue too? Of course I am referencing Cleveland and the Cuyahoga river.
By the way…Burning River is a pretty good IPA, my jamming buddy’s favorite and Cleveland’s own.
re: #204 FormerDirtDart
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The first person to be murdered by a sex robot will be either RooshV or Mike Cernovich. So, props to the sex robot.
The GOP effort to hurt high tax states can be circumvented by converting state income taxes into payroll taxes, which can have the added benefits of making tax filing simpler and give middle income workers a tax cut!.
re: #204 FormerDirtDart
The skin looks really off, but other than that, it’s surprisingly lifelike.
re: #207 Decatur Deb
Still not as scary as a robot short-order cook.
Cook? Why are you getting out a meat cleaver and a French knife to make my scrambled eggs?
re: #208 The Vicious Babushka
The first person to be murdered by a sex robot will be either RooshV or Mike Cernovich. So, props to the sex robot.
Implement the self-defense protocol.
re: #212 Decatur Deb
Implement the self-defense protocol.
They will have to find a way to imbed the laws of robotics into Pris so she can’t be hacked.
re: #213 Big Beautiful Door
They will have to find a way to imbed the laws of robotics into Pris so she can’t be hacked.
We’re stupid and we’re going to die.
re: #210 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The skin looks really off, but other than that, it’s surprisingly lifelike.
The face looks a bit off to me. Especially the teeth and lips.
I dunno though, I kind of have a preference for my wife. (Honey, why are you getting out the meat cleaver and French knife for scrambled eggs?)
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have lived in Europe too long. Food service workers receive fixed salary and benefits. 15% service charge is included in the price, tipping simply consists of rounding up the bill if the service has been exemplary.
But in the US we expect our waitresses to flirt with us in order to make almost enough money to live on.
re: #216 Big Beautiful Door
But in the US we expect our waitresses to flirt with us in order to make almost enough money to live on.
We don’t have a lot of money, so we don’t go out to eat a lot.
That said, every waiter and waitress in a nintey-mile circle knows us, because of decent tips.
Over in the county seat, when we go for the Sunday specials at one restaurant, staff will treat us especially well. (The church crowd is the same everywhere, apparently, on the matter of tips.)
One waitress once showed us one of those fake $20 Bible verse bills when she was talking to us (I’d never seen one before except as photographs on the Internet), and we made it up to her by buying it from her (for $20).
Movie pitch: “His wife hates him and his sex robot wants to kill him—Tommy Johnson thought his life couldn’t get worse….”
re: #220 Barefoot Grin
Movie pitch: “His wife hates him and his sex robot wants to kill him—Tommy Johnson thought his life couldn’t get worse….”
Or his wife hates him and buys him a sex robot to kill him.
re: #220 Barefoot Grin
Movie pitch: “His wife hates him and his sex robot wants to kill him—Tommy Johnson thought his life couldn’t get worse….”
…flees into the street, to be hit by a driverless car.
re: #222 Decatur Deb
…flees into the street, to be hit by a driverless car.
After being taken to the hospital, the robot doctor amputates the wrong leg.
re: #219 Anymouse 🌹
We don’t have a lot of money, so we don’t go out to eat a lot.
That said, every waiter and waitress in a nintey-mile circle knows us, because of decent tips.
Over in the county seat, when we go for the Sunday specials at one restaurant, staff will treat us especially well. (The church crowd is the same everywhere, apparently, on the matter of tips.)
One waitress once showed us one of those fake $20 Bible verse bills when she was talking to us (I’d never seen one before except as photographs on the Internet), and we made it up to her by buying it from her (for $20).
You are one decent human being. If you decide to run for Congress, I will definitely make a donation to your campaign.
re: #223 Anymouse 🌹
After being taken to the hospital, the robot doctor amputates the wrong leg.
Total Factory Recall.*
*H/T to The Younger Boy
As far back as the early 80s, the Ford Motor Company experienced the first Death By Robot. An auotomated warehouse lift mistook an intruding worker for an auto tooling part and “shelved” him.
re: #219 Anymouse 🌹
We don’t have a lot of money, so we don’t go out to eat a lot.
That said, every waiter and waitress in a nintey-mile circle knows us, because of decent tips.
Over in the county seat, when we go for the Sunday specials at one restaurant, staff will treat us especially well. (The church crowd is the same everywhere, apparently, on the matter of tips.)
One waitress once showed us one of those fake $20 Bible verse bills when she was talking to us (I’d never seen one before except as photographs on the Internet), and we made it up to her by buying it from her (for $20).
Traveling on a Sunday a couple of years ago, stopped at a nonchain BBQ. What I saw of tipping from the elderly church crowd was pathetic. I understand being careful, but order water and use the savings for a tip.
re: #224 Big Beautiful Door
You are one decent human being. If you decide to run for Congress, I will definitely make a donation to your campaign.
I try to be decent; I can’t say that’s always true.
As for the Congress thing, I’m still waiting to see if the Nebr. Dems are going to put up a candidate - I suspect any person the party puts up would be better-known than I am (and probably with less baggage like not atheist). If the NDP puts up a decent candidate I will support that person.
Its a fox news op ed by newt Gingrich. And it is goddamn hilarious and wayyy off.
re: #206 ObserverArt
Gary had that issue too? Of course I am referencing Cleveland and the Cuyahoga river.
By the way…Burning River is a pretty good IPA, my jamming buddy’s favorite and Cleveland’s own.
yes, Gary’s Calumet river used to catch fire, whether spontaneously or from brush fires on the bank, and burn.
re: #226 Decatur Deb
As far back as the early 80s, the Ford Motor Company experienced the first Death By Robot. An auotomated warehouse lift mistook an intruding worker for an auto part and “shelved” him.
I toured the Toyota plant in Georgetown, KY a couple of times a few years ago. Their robots are very polite.
re: #210 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The skin looks really off, but other than that, it’s surprisingly lifelike.
still in that uncanny valley for me
re: #230 nowherenorth2
Its a fox news op ed by newt Gingrich. And it is goddamn hilarious and wayyy off.
The new Dick Morris.
re: #232 Barefoot Grin
I toured the Toyota plant in Georgetown, KY a couple of times a few years ago. Their robots are very polite.
Japanese. Almost as nice as Canadians, but you wouldn’t want to build a bridge with them.
re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
still in that uncanny valley for me
And the thousand mile stare that never blinks. (I assume robotic technology can work out minor issues like blinking.)
re: #216 Big Beautiful Door
But in the US we expect our waitresses to flirt with us in order to make almost enough money to live on.
I had been away from the states about seven years and returned, stopping at a diner on Route 66 in Flagstaff. The waitress came up and asked “What’ll it be, sweetheart?” as if it were the most natural thing in the world, and I tried to think of any time at all in Europe when I had been addressed by a waitress in any similar tone.
re: #226 Decatur Deb
As far back as the early 80s, the Ford Motor Company experienced the first Death By Robot. An auotomated warehouse lift mistook an intruding worker for an auto tooling part and “shelved” him.
Soviet-era tanks had a problem with self-loading guns sometimes trying to load the gunner’s head instead.
“Once more into the breach, men!”
re: #223 Anymouse 🌹
After being taken to the hospital, the robot doctor amputates the wrong leg.
Or, did ALL the robots always intend to have that leg amputated?
It is a cloud based conspiracy
re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Soviet-era tanks had a problem with self-loading guns sometimes trying to load the gunner’s head instead.
“Once more into the breach, men!”
Yup. And we had MI accidents when powering up turrets whose guns were storing stabalization information and swept the glacis on power-up.
re: #230 nowherenorth2
Its a fox news op ed by newt Gingrich. And it is goddamn hilarious and wayyy off.
What a load of delusion.
Quoting Scott Adams of Dilbert fame as his evidence? LOL
This far out I can’t say what might happen, but liberals have reasons to be motivated. Some of those who voted third parties might also see the error of their ways.
It is noteworthy that while Donald Trump trailed for much of the campaign in the polls, he was not outside the margin of error on Election Day. I had hope (and my wife and I went to our county Dems watch party), but even then it wasn’t a sure thing.
Of note, our county GOP did not have a watch party. I don’t know if it was simply because they didn’t want to spend the money to organise one, or they thought that there was no point. If the latter, that might be a lever (your guy won and boy is he a Dumpster fire).
re: #241 Anymouse 🌹
What a load of delusion.
Quoting Scott Adams of Dilbert fame as his evidence? LOL
A Very Long List of Dumb and Awful Things Newt Gingrich Has Said and Done in the Past:
Leopard. Spots.
re: #226 Decatur Deb
As far back as the early 80s, the Ford Motor Company experienced the first Death By Robot. An auotomated warehouse lift mistook an intruding worker for an auto part and “shelved” him.
Around the same time, the Biotech where I worked was experimenting with robotics. They got a robot arm that moved assay plates around. I watched it work. Very impressive. BUT, one of my coworkers said something that drives my understanding of robotics to this day:
“Its not moving plates. It’s just turning from one position to another. And if your head is in the way, it will go through it.”
Thinking that way, you then understand why, for example, a relatively straightforward assay we developed at another Biotech was nearly impossible to automate - judgement. Robots don’t have it.
At a number of places I worked, we tried to automate assays, but the problem was always that humans are constantly checking little things that robots don’t. Do all the tip cones of my pipettor have tips? Did all the tips get the same volume of liquid? When I added the liquid to the well, did all the tips push out the full volume? Did I successfully eject all the tips? Did I create a bubble in any of the wells?
Robotics were always significantly slower and with significantly larger variation.
Your sex robot won’t be having sex with you. It will be moving certain parts preprogrammed distances and exerting preprogrammed amounts of force with other parts, either according to a basic program and/or in response to data received.
re: #241 Anymouse 🌹
Agreed. The best part was when he said the tax bill/scam that was recently passed is/was successful and is helping the economy
How and what can he base this on
re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
still in that uncanny valley for me
We can’t even get computer animated humans to move in convincingly human ways, so getting an actual robot to do so… That’ll be harder.
re: #42 scottslemmons
Ehh, Schlussel’s entirely demented — and desperate to try to get to her former status as the poor person’s Coulter. She’s best ignored — she thrives on getting people to tweet angry at her.
Aaaand this morning her account is suspended.
re: #243 Blind Frog Belly White
…n.
Your sex robot won’t be having sex with you. It will be moving certain parts preprogrammed distances and exerting preprogrammed amounts of force with other parts, either according to a basic program and/or in response to data received.
So she’s not really looking for interesting older men?
Cue the point and laugh crowd…
January 1st
Farm animals in California can no longer be given antibiotics without a veterinarian’s prescription…
But seriously it’s a good thing.
— a law designed to help lessen the spread of infections that are resistant to antibiotics
But then…
California’s first vegetarian gets a formal title: Augustynolophus morrisi, a plant eater whose fossils have only been found in the Golden State, is now the official state dinosaur.
Okay that one cracks me up.
re: #245 Blind Frog Belly White
*looks at a porn* You have enough problems to even get HUMANS to move in convincingly human ways
…
I was researching the ability of people to move convincingly.
Off to clear the decks for another year of catching-up. BBL
re: #63 teleskiguy
Sore fucking loser.
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I would expect nothing Moore from the P.O.S.
And his racist scum lawyer can go to hell too.
re: #243 Blind Frog Belly White
And on that sex robot, if it exerts the wrong pressure or something, you’ll get a penectomy.
One erotic Romance novel I edited a couple years ago was a science-fiction that followed along the story of a fellow trying to create a perfect (in the sense it behaved normally) sex program for a computer. His company was competing with another to try to corner the market.
The story is set in the near future, and presumes that AI technology becomes difficult to distinguish from human thought.
As the robot learns (and learns about his past), she turns into a stereotypical Jewish mother (harassing her creator about diet, exercise, &c). His wife gets fed up with him and leaves him.
The android eventually takes over a large portion of the Internet, destroys the competitor company, and creates an android body for herself so she can go off and take over the world. (Yes, it’s a weird story.)
The political lesson of 2017: resistance works https://t.co/aFWkrhWCQe via @voxdotcom
— Charming Persistence (@Charmingly2020) December 28, 2017
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹
And on that sex robot, if it exerts the wrong pressure or something, you’ll get a penectomy.
One erotic Romance novel I edited a couple years ago was a science-fiction that followed along the story of a fellow trying to create a perfect (in the sense it behaved normally) sex program for a computer. His company was competing with another to try to corner the market.
The story is set in the near future, and presumes that AI technology becomes difficult to distinguish from human thought.
As the robot learns (and learns about his past), she turns into a stereotypical Jewish mother (harassing her creator about diet, exercise, &c). His wife gets fed up with him and leaves him.
The android eventually takes over a large portion of the Internet, destroys the competitor company, and creates an android body for herself so she can go off and take over the world. (Yes, it’s a weird story.)
Where’s the eroticism? Or the romance?
re: #230 nowherenorth2
Its a fox news op ed by newt Gingrich. And it is goddamn hilarious and wayyy off.
First, the media lied about the tax bill in an effort to convince most Americans their taxes would go up.
well, in the first year, enough medium and low-income people would get enough of a tax break that they continue to vote GOP
re: #243 Blind Frog Belly White
Your sex robot won’t be having sex with you. It will be moving certain parts preprogrammed distances and exerting preprogrammed amounts of force with other parts, either according to a basic program and/or in response to data received.
if that is all you want and expect from a sex partner, then robotic sex is the way to go
re: #174 goddamnedfrank
Holy fuck - he did submit to a polygraph test as I tweeted to him.
But do I trust his administrator and what the questions were ?
Fuck no!
re: #153 Anymouse 🌹
Delusion, I mean, hope, springs eternal.
re: #258 meteor
There are some posts I just shouldn’t read.
Got you rethinking your robot relationship?
re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
First, the media lied about the tax bill in an effort to convince most Americans their taxes would go up.
well, in the first year, enough medium and low-income people would get enough of a tax break that they continue to vote GOP
I think too many are looking at just the “tax cut” and what they will supposedly be getting and forgetting all the little details in the new laws that may not give them anything and may in fact cost them earnings or raise their taxes.
I am not an accountant, but things like I explained in #193 about “tips” in restaurants are going to effect a lot of medium- to low-income people and they aren’t going to know it until it all goes into effect. I bet there are all kinds of little things that are going to screw everyday people over and give a big advantage to the business owners, corporations, etc.
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹
And on that sex robot, if it exerts the wrong pressure or something, you’ll get a penectomy.
Well, you see, that’s a design flaw - you don’t incorporate servos strong enough to create Vagina Dentata.
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹
And on that sex robot, if it exerts the wrong pressure or something, you’ll get a penectomy.
One erotic Romance novel I edited a couple years ago was a science-fiction that followed along the story of a fellow trying to create a perfect (in the sense it behaved normally) sex program for a computer. His company was competing with another to try to corner the market.
The story is set in the near future, and presumes that AI technology becomes difficult to distinguish from human thought.
As the robot learns (and learns about his past), she turns into a stereotypical Jewish mother (harassing her creator about diet, exercise, &c). His wife gets fed up with him and leaves him.
The android eventually takes over a large portion of the Internet, destroys the competitor company, and creates an android body for herself so she can go off and take over the world. (Yes, it’s a weird story.)
Charles Stross wrote a book a few years back called “Saturn’s Children” that had a sex robot as the lead character. Humanity had been extinct for a few centuries, and the solar system was dominated by a semi-feudal civilization of robots. She and the entire robot society are torn by the wish that humans were still around (since they were programmed to love and serve every human they met) and terrified that someone will figure out a way to bring humanity back, since they don’t really want to be slaves.
There isn’t a lot of sex, since the lead character, Freya, is one of very few humanoid, bipedal robots, but the book is written as a homage to Heinlein’s “Friday” — so there’s still some nookie…
re: #244 nowherenorth2
Agreed. The best part was when he said the tax bill/scam that was recently passed is/was successful and is helping the economy
How and what can he base this on
He’s a Republican; he doesn’t need a basis for any of his claims.
re: #263 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, you see, that’s a design flaw - you don’t incorporate servos strong enough to create Vagina Dentata.
“Vagina Dentata” is a fun replacement for “Hakuna Matata” when singing songs from Disney’s “The Lion King.”
Another opinion piece, this one by Jennifer Rubin in WaPo: Democrats should update the Contract With America.
re: #267 retired cynic
Sorry! Fixed, so reload.
Oh for…you’d think I’d have learned by now that the answer to the question “I wonder why this person’s trending?” is “Are you sure you want to know?”
Anna Wintour is at @Vogue, not @VanityFair. I am telling you this moron will nuke the wrong Korea. pic.twitter.com/INapC1aqu5
— Thinker (@areta) December 28, 2017
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹
Ah brings back memories of Frank Zappa’s Thing Fish with L Ron Hoover’s Church Of Appliantology…
re: #254 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Where’s the eroticism? Or the romance?
There’s lots of both in the book. (The theme of the story is what’s up there, but that still leaves plenty for eroticism.)
re: #270 Joe Bacon 🌹
Ah brings back memories of Frank Zappa’s Thing Fish with L Ron Hoover’s Church Of Appliantology…
he had a thing about industrial vacuum cleaners, it is a major theme of 200 Motels
Ha:
Look, this media criticism of Anna Wintour is what white working class voters in Ohio and Wisconsin wanted. https://t.co/zrLsP64RVf
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) December 28, 2017
re: #259 The Major
Holy fuck - he did submit to a polygraph test as I tweeted to him.
But do I trust his administrator and what the questions were ?
Fuck no!
There’s a reason polygraph results aren’t admissible as evidence in court. Who the hell cares about his?
re: #273 Interesting Times
Okay, this thread wins the prize for “Best use of Anna Wintour trend”:
anna wintour seeing trump’s tweet pic.twitter.com/b6OBn0PVUv
— democracy diva (@democracydiva) December 28, 2017
re: #274 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
There’s a reason polygraph results aren’t admissible as evidence in court. Who the hell cares about his?
they are tools for making a subjective decision on whether a person can be entrusted to do a particular job, not as a legal determination of Truth
re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they are tools for making a subjective decision on whether a person can be entrusted to do a particular job, not as a legal determination of Truth
I wouldn’t give something so easy to spoof even that much credit.
re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they are tools for making a subjective decision on whether a person can be entrusted to do a particular job, not as a legal determination of Truth
Only if that job is passing a polygraph test.
re: #266 Barefoot Grin
“Vagina Dentata” is a fun replacement for “Hakuna Matata” when singing songs from Disney’s “The Lion King.”
‘Vagina Dentata” is another nickname we can give to Cheeto Benito.
re: #280 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Only if that job is passing a polygraph test.
I might have added the disclaimer that it is at best only one tool out of many to be taken into account when making a (subjective) decision
To bad we no longer have a functioning State Department.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) December 28, 2017
I’m out. Have a good one. Looks like we’re in for a snowstorm in my part of Europe - which should last for all of one day before temps return to the mid-40’s (quite warm for this time of year….not that I’m complaining, mind you).
On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we were enjoying daytime highs around 50° F.
Vanity Fair, which looks like it is on its last legs, is bending over backwards in apologizing for the minor hit they took at Crooked H. Anna Wintour, who was all set to be Amb to Court of St James’s & a big fundraiser for CH, is beside herself in grief & begging for forgiveness!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2017
Ever got the feeling Trump’s true ambition is to write for Page Six? https://t.co/t980wpvlNx
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) December 28, 2017
re: #285 Ace-o-aces
Failing Vanity Fair is Failing! Should have endorsed ME!
re: #269 Interesting Times
Oh for…you’d think I’d have learned by now that the answer to the question “I wonder why this person’s trending?” is “Are you sure you want to know?”
@areta
Anna Wintour is at @Vogue, not @VanityFair. I am telling you this moron will nuke the wrong Korea
Vanity Fair, which looks like it is on its last legs, is bending over backwards in apologizing for the minor hit they took at Crooked H. Anna Wintour, who was all set to be Amb to Court of St James’s & a big fundraiser for CH, is beside herself in grief & begging for forgiveness!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2017
Is there anyway to read this but that the President is confused and unwell? If this were Dad or Grandpa at the dinner table, you’d be calling a family meeting to discuss options. https://t.co/bPlIuRLFRn
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) December 28, 2017
re: #281 The Vicious Babushka
‘Vagina Dentata” is another nickname we can give to Cheeto Benito.
Anus dentata (with some slippage from time to time: “U. Esh. A!”)
re: #286 Sir John Barron
Failing Vanity Fair is Failing! Should have endorsed ME!
thought DT was close friends with Condé Nast publishing
We should start a campaign to send pink “binkies” (pacifiers) to the White House.
Wouldn’t it be cool if Trump started getting millions of pacifiers sent to him with notes like “Shut up you big baby…resign!”
re: #290 ObserverArt
We should start a campaign to send pink “binkies” (pacifiers) to the White House.
Wouldn’t it be cool if Trump started getting millions of pacifiers sent to him with notes like “Shut up you big baby…resign!”
Something like the sex toys sent to the Talibanjo that took over the Mahleur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when American Diplomacy consisted of demanding that adversaries give up all of their leverage before we’d agree to negotiate.
SecState effectively ruling out diplomacy w NKorea, saying regime must earn its way to table and that “until denuclearization occurs, the pressure will continue.” Denuclearization should be a long term, not an interim, goal and not a precondition for talks https://t.co/LyY0CfDwZY
— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) December 28, 2017
re: #287 FormerDirtDart
I hope a lot of people in Congress are quietly having that “family meeting”.
Having a senile narcissist in office is not good for anyone.— Jeff wishes everyone but the Nazis Happy New Year (@FurlingtonJeff) December 28, 2017
re: #293 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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After watching Orrin Hatch abase himself with nauseating servility to Trump, it occurred to me that perhaps his obsequiousness is less honest praise and more “It’s good that you done that! REAL good!”
Is there a term for Twitter users who constantly post about trending topics to draw attention to themselves?
re: #292 Blind Frog Belly White
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Uneasy remembering article yesterday about Mattis visiting troops and giving them the simple message: “be ready!”
re: #296 Barefoot Grin
Uneasy remembering article yesterday about Mattis visiting troops and giving them the simple message: “be ready!”
for the Return of the Savior!
re: #296 Barefoot Grin
Uneasy remembering article yesterday about Mattis visiting troops and giving them the simple message: “be ready!”
So will tRumpery enforce the rule against “trading with the enemy” when we attack N. Korea and China retaliates against us, as they have stated they would do if we attacked? WalMart shelves would be bare, as would many other stores.
this really struck me, evidence of what youre talking about pic.twitter.com/rwbHqieDeI
— 14TeamMocker (@14TeamMocker) December 28, 2017
I’ve yet to see the crosstabs for the election that separates by race & age together. My worry is that younger white generations really are getting more radical and racist and are only offset and masked by the fact that said generations are less white overall. But as others have pointed out in the replies as well, it could just be the megaphone affect. Or it could also be just that those who are racist and radicalized are far more open about it. I wish I knew, I really did.
re: #298 Eventual Carrion
So will tRumpery enforce the rule against “trading with the enemy” when we attack N. Korea and China retaliates against us, as they have stated they would do if we attacked? WalMart shelves would be bare, as would many other stores.
they do not need to start shooting, all we need is the world perched at the edge of war to distract from news of the investigation closing in around DT
re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there a term for Twitter users who constantly post about trending topics to draw attention to themselves?
I think that would be “Twitter users”
;)
re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there a term for Twitter users who constantly post about trending topics to draw attention to themselves?
yes, a snappy hashtag is worth its weight in bitcoin
re: #301 danarchy
I was going to say that…but seriously, it is a fairly accurate description of many Twitterers…
re: #303 I cannot.
Point taken. I was referring to people who tweet random and/or nonsensical things to take advantage of a hashtag.
re: #298 Eventual Carrion
So will tRumpery enforce the rule against “trading with the enemy” when we attack N. Korea and China retaliates against us, as they have stated they would do if we attacked? WalMart shelves would be bare, as would many other stores.
It won’t be good for Ivanka, that’s for sure. Hmmmmm….
re: #299 Citizen K
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I’ve yet to see the crosstabs for the election that separates by race & age together. My worry is that younger white generations really are getting more radical and racist and are only offset and masked by the fact that said generations are less white overall. But as others have pointed out in the replies as well, it could just be the megaphone affect. Or it could also be just that those who are racist and radicalized are far more open about it. I wish I knew, I really did.
In the recent tragedy where a teen-age Nazi murdered his girl friend’s parents before killing himself, the parents had forbid the relationship because their daughter started spouting Nazi memes. Nazis are actively recruiting and, given the lack of historical knowledge prevalent among Americans, in this world of Twitter and Facebook and Internet sites, people often see only those sites that confirm their biases or what their friends promote. In the old days, we got our news from the big 3 — now every site is given equal weight by consumers most of whom don’t know how to investigate for themselves.
re: #307 Hecuba’s daughter
In the recent tragedy where a teen-age Nazi murdered his girl friend’s parents before killing himself, the parents had forbid the relationship because their daughter started spouting Nazi memes. Nazis are actively recruiting and, given the lack of historical knowledge prevalent among Americans, in this world of Twitter and Facebook and Internet sites, people often see only those sites that confirm their biases or what their friends promote. In the old days, we got our news from the big 3 — now every site is given equal weight by consumers most of whom don’t know how to investigate for themselves.
This is why I’m not dismissing Yglesias’ tweet as much as others seem to be. I don’t know how much confirmation bias is involved in it, but it really does feel like the radicalism is a spiking problem in my generation and under and only getting worse. We’ve seen outright Nazi-ism being re-mainstreamed, and it’s been on the backs of white millennials in particular, mostly because they’re the first generation really drowning in the white supremacist online outreach.
re: #309 Citizen K
This is why I’m not dismissing Yglesias’ tweet as much as others seem to be. I don’t know how much confirmation bias is involved in it, but it really does feel like the radicalism is a spiking problem in my generation and under and only getting worse. We’ve seen outright Nazi-ism being re-mainstreamed, and it’s been on the backs of white millennials in particular, mostly because they’re the first generation really drowning in the white supremacist online outreach.
Like the southern revisionists who go from “slavery was not the only cause of the Civil War” to “Slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War!”, we see the alt-right going from “Not everything the Nazis did was evil” to “Nazis are just nice, next-door-neighbor types like you and me!”
re: #226 Decatur Deb
The problem with ‘artificial intelligence’ is that nobody actually knows what intelligence is. It’s one of those actually meaningless words we throw around a lot.
How can you fake something if you don’t know what it is?
re: #267 retired cynic
Another opinion piece, this one by Jennifer Rubin in WaPo: Democrats should update the Contract With America.
Still reading that phrase as ‘Contract On America’.
re: #310 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like the southern revisionists who go from “slavery was not the only cause of the Civil War” to “Slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War!”, we see the alt-right going from “Not everything the Nazis did was evil” to “Nazis are just nice, next-door-neighbor types like you and me!”
Hey, they built the Autobahn and the Volkswagen, after all.
re: #310 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like the southern revisionists who go from “slavery was not the only cause of the Civil War” to “Slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War!”, we see the alt-right going from “Not everything the Nazis did was evil” to “Nazis are just nice, next-door-neighbor types like you and me!”
Just like Conservatives, Nazis are nice if you’re a white Christian like them. If you’re not like them, Conservative will spew bigoted hate, and Nazis will kill you. They could be seen as two points on the same spectrum.
re: #311 Romantic Heretic
The problem with ‘artificial intelligence’ is that nobody actually knows what intelligence is. It’s one of those actually meaningless words we throw around a lot.
How can you fake something if you don’t know what it is?
I think it refers to a computer’s ability to adapt and learn.
re: #313 Blind Frog Belly White
Hey, they built the Autobahn and the Volkswagen, after all.
and paid vacations and package tours and they weakened the Red Army enough to keep it from invading the rest of Europe, etc…
/
The dude’s blog is called “JFK CONSPIRACY AND SYSTEMIC ELECTION FRAUD ANALYSIS” pic.twitter.com/Es9Y6yc5Fz
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) December 28, 2017
re: #314 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Just like Conservatives, Nazis are nice if you’re a white Christian like them. If you’re not like them, Conservative will spew bigoted hate, and Nazis will kill you. They could be seen as two points on the same spectrum.
well, Nazism is being sold as a valid point on the political spectrum instead of as something that is anathema to America and its values.
re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think it refers to a computer’s ability to adapt and learn.
Why should the AI have to adapt and learn, when many people can’t do that?
re: #318 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
well, Nazism is being sold as a valid point on the political spectrum instead of as something that is anathema to America and its values.
Anathema to nearly universally accepted human values as well.
re: #316 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and paid vacations and package tours and they weakened the Red Army enough to keep it from invading the rest of Europe, etc…
/
As an aside, I always get a kick out of the jaspers who say “We shoulda let Patton take on the Russkis in ‘45! It’d only have taken a couple months!” as if the Red Army hadn’t just defeated the larger portion of the Wehrmacht and forced it all the way back to Berlin. As ifwe weren’t worn out and out of cash and any interest in another war. As if we weren’t figuring on having to attack the Japanese Home Islands.
If you ignore a lot of factors, it would have been a cakewalk!
//
re: #320 Big Beautiful Door
Anathema to nearly universally accepted human values as well.
I have pointed out to Neo-nazis here in Germany (used to live in Langen, a real hotbed of NN activity) that Hitler himself said that if Germany was not willing to sacrifice itself to his ideology, then it deserved to be destroyed. How is that compatible with patriotism or nationalism?
re: #319 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Why should the AI have to adapt and learn, when many people can’t do that?
If I invented a machine that started screaming in frustration and then took a hammer to things would that classify as an ‘AI’?
re: #319 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Why should the AI have to adapt and learn, when many people can’t do that?
that is a bit of hyperbole. one trait of even the most basic level of human intelligence is what we discussed earlier, the ability to adapt and react to changing situations.
current computers are still just starting to learn to do that
re: #317 Ace-o-aces
And the evidence this guy has “three degrees in applied mathematics? His blog.”
I went there yesterday after I read the citation in the Moore court complaint. It is a cornucopia of crazy.
re: #325 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that is a bit of hyperbole. one trait of even the most basic level of human intelligence is what we discussed earlier, the ability to adapt and react to changing situations.
current computers are still just starting to learn to do that
It was a joke.
Some people really don’t adapt and react to changing situations, or they react but do not adapt. We can easily build Artificial Stupidity machines that can do everything a stuck-in-their-ways person does without even using neural nets. They won’t really be able to hate, but they can put on the appearance of hate, and pull the lever for a list of reactionary politicians fed to them by a simplified, XML version of Fox.
Just saw this in passing. Probably was posted here already!
The same people who think Obama is a Muslim, think Trump is a Christian.
— Lonnie Hicks (@Lnnie) December 26, 2017
re: #248 Unshaken Defiance
Why are dinosaurs still depicted with no feathers and brown?
re: #310 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like the southern revisionists who go from “slavery was not the only cause of the Civil War” to “Slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War!”, we see the alt-right going from “Not everything the Nazis did was evil” to “Nazis are just nice, next-door-neighbor types like you and me!”
There appears to be a lot of overlap between southern revisionists, the alt-right, and outright Nazis — or maybe the alt-right is American term for Nazi. This is not new — think of Pat Buchanan who combined the racism native to this country with a fondness for Nazism
I wonder when Ben Shapiro will finally see the light.
re: #328 retired cynic
Because they’re meat-robots who march in step with whatever their favorite propaganda-outlet tells them.
— Jeff wishes everyone but the Nazis Happy New Year (@FurlingtonJeff) December 28, 2017
re: #329 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Why are dinosaurs still depicted with no feathers and brown?
Because giant parrots just aren’t scary enough.
re: #330 Hecuba’s daughter
There appears to be a lot of overlap between southern revisionists, the alt-right, and outright Nazis — or maybe the alt-right is American term for Nazi. This is not new — think of Pat Buchanan who combined the racism native to this country with a fondness for Nazism
I wonder when Ben Shapiro will finally see the light.
He should have when he was driven from Breitbart, but hate, and a smug belief in his own superiority, are key parts of his identity.
Chyron on the teevee says a judge has rejected Moore’s attempt to stop his loss from being certified.
Ha.
re: #332 allegro
Because giant parrots just aren’t scary enough.
I love this woman and her curvy body. As a teenager, I was often teased by my friends for my attraction to girls on the thicker side, ones w pic.twitter.com/hBjmmsAVQO
— Specimen FMNH PR 2081 🦖 (@SUEtheTrex) August 5, 2017
re: #329 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Why are dinosaurs still depicted with no feathers and brown?
Artists and movie-makers probably aren’t keeping up with the current science. The depiction will change as people who learned of feathered dinosaurs as kids start producing art and movies.
re: #334 ipsos
Chyron on the teevee says a judge has rejected Moore’s attempt to stop his loss from being certified.
Ha.
Gotta sue somebody else, keep the grifting train going.
Trump’s wild first year of the presidency in one chart (to Axios). Analysis by Google News Lab of search interest Jan. 20 - Dec. 20.
re: #326 Anymouse 🌹
And the evidence this guy has “three degrees in applied mathematics? His blog.”
I went there yesterday after I read the citation in the Moore court complaint. It is a cornucopia of crazy.
Maybe he received the degrees from an online university. They don’t have any standards.
OTOH, many of the deplorables have degrees from serious institutions. Ethics and morality have nothing to do with academic accomplishments.
re: #330 Hecuba’s daughter
There appears to be a lot of overlap between southern revisionists, the alt-right, and outright Nazis — or maybe the alt-right is American term for Nazi. This is not new — think of Pat Buchanan who combined the racism native to this country with a fondness for Nazism
I wonder when Ben Shapiro will finally see the light.
His income depends on him not seeing the light.
re: #334 ipsos
Chyron on the teevee says a judge has rejected Moore’s attempt to stop his loss from being certified.
Ha.
Shocker./
re: #310 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like the southern revisionists who go from “slavery was not the only cause of the Civil War” to “Slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War!”, we see the alt-right going from “Not everything the Nazis did was evil” to “Nazis are just nice, next-door-neighbor types like you and me!”
They wouldn’t extend such a courtesy to Islamists of course.
re: #337 Sir John Barron
Gotta sue somebody else, keep the grifting train going.
I’m sure Moore will make an emergency appeal to the next highest court, and keep getting rejected right up to SCOTUS. After all, he’s playing with other people’s money.
re: #316 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and paid vacations and package tours and they weakened the Red Army enough to keep it from invading the rest of Europe, etc…
/
And weakened the west enough to keep Patton from convincing the UN to continue on to Moscow like he wanted to…
Maybe he should take up knitting.#RoyMoore pic.twitter.com/MveGq6VYaB
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) December 28, 2017
re: #330 Hecuba’s daughter
I wonder when Ben Shapiro will finally see the light.
Like any other cultish religion, alt-right allows its followers to pick and choose and even alter their positions depending on the tactical situation
With prejudice!
GTFOH Roy!
An Alabama judge’s ruling against Roy Moore. pic.twitter.com/T9xl3K4NND
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) December 28, 2017
Roy Moore has now lost the Alabama Senate election as many times as Trump has. https://t.co/ltUpvl0pqs
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) December 28, 2017
re: #343 Big Beautiful Door
I’m sure Moore will make an emergency appeal to the next highest court, and keep getting rejected right up to SCOTUS. After all, he’s playing with other people’s money.
He’s also doing this to help with the Kris Korbach voter suppression committee. He knows that if the vote were restricted to Caucasians, he would have won in a landslide. The GOP is working diligently on furthering voter suppression nationwide.
re: #329 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Why are dinosaurs still depicted with no feathers and brown?
Most dinosaurs didn’t have feathers. Especially among sauropods.
re: #349 danarchy
Most dinosaurs didn’t have feathers. Espetially among sauropods.
Were you there?
Rude: Who Was the Snuggliest Dinosaur of All? - For over a century and a half, dinosaurs were viewed as… http://t.co/RQGwzmJn15
— Sauropod (@LookASauropod) February 23, 2014
re: #339 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe he received the degrees from an online university. They don’t have any standards.
OTOH, many of the deplorables have degrees from serious institutions. Ethics and morality have nothing to do with academic accomplishments.
Perhaps its a good thing I didn’t go to college then.
Conservatives have always claimed they are “bastions of liberal bias.” I suspect even that is projection.
re: #347 JordanRules
With prejudice!
GTFOH Roy!
According to Mediaite, Alabama SoS should have begun the certification process at 2 P.M. EST
Alabama Judge Rejects Roy Moore’s Lawsuit to Stop Doug Jones From Becoming Senator
Alabama Senate election math, courtesy of the secretary of state:
Total votes: 1,348,720
Doug Jones: 673,896 (49.97 percent)
Roy Moore: 651,972 (48.34 percent)
Write-in votes: 22,852 (1.69 percent)— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) December 28, 2017
Alabama officials have arrived to certify Doug Jones’s victory in the Senate race. pic.twitter.com/HdtHBRu6Lu
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) December 28, 2017
It’s official: The State of Alabama has certified Doug Jones’s victory in this month’s Senate election. Mr. Jones defeated Roy Moore. Our report from Montgomery. https://t.co/ATHUOtqoVs
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) December 28, 2017
Moore spokeswoman warns state officials of electoral consequences if they certify Doug Jones https://t.co/5CG2g5JOQB pic.twitter.com/UepGam5aVk
— The Hill (@thehill) December 28, 2017
re: #353 FormerDirtDart
Alabama Senate election math, courtesy of the secretary of state:
Total votes: 1,348,720
Doug Jones: 673,896 (49.97 percent)
Roy Moore: 651,972 (48.34 percent)
Write-in votes: 22,852 (1.69 percent)
I am certain that most of those write-ins were GOP who just could not bring themselves to vote for either Moore or a Democrat. And those votes would have been enough to tip the scales.
re: #351 Anymouse 🌹
Perhaps its a good thing I didn’t go to college then.
[…]
When people like you go to college, they learn a lot. The colleges, I mean.
Watch: State officials certify Alabama Senate Special Election victory by Doug Jones over Roy Moore pic.twitter.com/jMorcty3ta
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) December 28, 2017
Make no mistake: Even with Roy Moore out of options, his allegations of impropriety and agitation about black voters, along with all the fraud conspiracies fabricated on his behalf, will likely poison the voting rights well long after he’s off the stage
— bringing my baby to a theater near you (@fivefifths) December 28, 2017
re: #360 JordanRules
Make no mistake: Even with Roy Moore out of options, his allegations of impropriety and agitation about black voters, along with all the fraud conspiracies fabricated on his behalf, will likely poison the voting rights well long after he’s off the stage
just making the best out of an unfortunate situation
Alan Dershowitz on defending Trump: “My liberal friends don’t invite me to dinner anymore” https://t.co/WxaiDnINSq pic.twitter.com/tkjh5CVIsS
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) December 28, 2017
Thoughts and prayers! https://t.co/F7qtTD3pnL
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) December 28, 2017
re: #354 FormerDirtDart
— Jeff wishes everyone but the Nazis Happy New Year (@FurlingtonJeff) December 28, 2017
re: #354 FormerDirtDart
You mean, if they follow the law they will face electoral consequences? Good to know.
re: #363 JordanRules
Defending a narcissistic, senile, would-be autocrat will do that. I expect any actual Conservatives won’t want anything to do with him either, so he’s left with the Trumpanzees.
— Jeff wishes everyone but the Nazis Happy New Year (@FurlingtonJeff) December 28, 2017
re: #356 wrenchwench
When people like you go to college, they learn a lot. The colleges, I mean.
Well, I don’t really know about that (about me anyways). Thanks for the compliment however.
If I ever need a job in the future, can I come learn how to fix bicycles? I really don’t see me sitting around an office all day pushing a pencil.
Of course these exist pic.twitter.com/4Mpwcyk8ks
— Brett LoGiurato (@BrettLoGiurato) December 28, 2017
BUT HOW https://t.co/PvLhk3NDsN
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) December 28, 2017
That’s a real shame. Well, that ass can console himself by splitting a bucket of KFC with Tweetler!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) December 28, 2017
re: #368 Anymouse 🌹
Well, I don’t really know about that (about me anyways). Thanks for the compliment however.
If I ever need a job in the future, can I come learn how to fix bicycles? I really don’t see me sitting around an office all day pushing a pencil.
I did teach a guy who needed to be able to fix his own bicycle. He even came back to learn more, when a different part of his bike failed him. But it won’t get you a job. And even if it did get you a job, it won’t pay enough to move to the place that would hire you. But every town needs someone who can fix a bike. They just can’t all afford to pay for it. When I rode across Kansas in 1986, every small town had a retired guy who fixed bikes in his garage for those who could find him.
There are plenty of videos on YouTube to get you started. Then trial-and-error will teach you the rest. That’s best practiced on someone else’s bike. Buy a few tools, and you’ll be set. Then get a job so you can eat.
re: #370 Joe Bacon 🌹
Mr. Dershowitz might consider that people don’t necessarily want to have over for dinner or whatnot folks who enthusiastically endorse stripping their rights or whatnot.
Is there ever an end to conservative whining? Holy crap, we had to put up with it for eight years of President Obama, do we have to put up with it now they won as well?
re: #369 FormerDirtDart
There’s no way old-man Trump remembers what he said in 2012. He can’t stay consistent for a day.
— Jeff wishes everyone but the Nazis Happy New Year (@FurlingtonJeff) December 28, 2017
re: #372 Anymouse 🌹
Mr. Dershowitz might consider that people don’t necessarily want to have over for dinner or whatnot folks who enthusiastically endorse stripping their rights or whatnot.
Is there ever an end to conservative whining? Holy crap, we had to put up with it for eight years of President Obama, do we have to put up with it now they won as well?
a fellow who would have little or no no trouble with public restaurants turning away clientele for reasons of race
Russian pranksters ask Nikki Haley if she’s aware that a made up country in the South China Sea (Binomo) has declared independence. [Audio below.] pic.twitter.com/zox81o91Jd
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) December 28, 2017
Haley digs in by saying she knows of Binomo, of course, but then she does say she’ll check in about the administration’s position and get back to them, which is at least something.
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) December 28, 2017
Roy Moore is a man eager to declare victories and pronounce grievances — but loath to concede defeats. To this day, he has not conceded his losses in the 2006 and 2010 elections. https://t.co/ATHUOtqoVs
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) December 28, 2017
BREAKING: Alabama has officially certified Democrat Doug Jones’ Senate victory!Poor #RoyMoore
— Brian Krassenstein🐬 (@krassenstein) December 28, 2017
I just want to congratulate #RoyMoore for managing to lose to Doug Jones not once, but twice. That’s some next level failure. pic.twitter.com/DLSOFi1SjB
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) December 28, 2017
From Al-Arabiya (with video):
english.alarabiya.net
Nikki Haley was prank called by two Russian comedians, thanking her (posing as Poles) for the Jerusalem vote in the UN. She thanks the “Poles” in the video, saying the US would never forget Poland standing with the USA on the vote.
In actuality, Poland abstained from the vote, it did not vote with the USA.
Kakistocracy doesn’t begin to describe our government… .
re: #363 JordanRules
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There are some things that, once you learn them about someone, you can’t ever view them the same again. Things like racism; Islamophobia; spousal abuse; liking pineapple on pizza.
Support for Trump is like that. Once you know it about someone, it tells you that person, at a pretty deep level, is Not Okay.
re: #368 Anymouse 🌹
Well, I don’t really know about that (about me anyways). Thanks for the compliment however.
If I ever need a job in the future, can I come learn how to fix bicycles? I really don’t see me sitting around an office all day pushing a pencil.
That’s not what people do in offices. That’s what CATS do in offices.
No heart; operating on brain stem; overweight.
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) December 28, 2017
re: #332 allegro
Because giant parrots just aren’t scary enough.
You may think that, but when it says, “WHO’S A PRETTY BOY THEN?” you better have the right answer.
re: #384 Grunthos the Flatulent
You may think that, but when it says, “WHO’S A PRETTY BOY THEN?” you better have the right answer.
I’d just like it to land and take a huge dump on a confederate statue.
re: #329 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Why are dinosaurs still depicted with no feathers and brown?
That wasn’t a sex robot? Sorry.
re: #384 Grunthos the Flatulent
You may think that, but when it says, “WHO’S A PRETTY BOY THEN?” you better have the right answer.
And when she says “Polly wants a cracker” you’d better have a white guy from Florida.
(Am I going to hell for that?)
re: #371 wrenchwench
I did teach a guy who needed to be able to fix his own bicycle. He even came back to learn more, when a different part of his bike failed him. But it won’t get you a job. And even if it did get you a job, it won’t pay enough to move to the place that would hire you. But every town needs someone who can fix a bike. They just can’t all afford to pay for it. When I rode across Kansas in 1986, every small town had a retired guy who fixed bikes in his garage for those who could find him.
There are plenty of videos on YouTube to get you started. Then trial-and-error will teach you the rest. That’s best practiced on someone else’s bike. Buy a few tools, and you’ll be set. Then get a job so you can eat.
I started working on my own bike when I lived in a town too small to have its own bike shop. In fact, even Gettysburg was too small to have its own bike shop. You had to go all the way to Hanover for that. I added those silly levers so you can brake from the tops; moved the derailleur levers to the stem, and replaced the shitty sidepull brakes with shitty centerpulls.
The bike still weighed a ton, but I made it MINE!!!
One of my coworkers has spent quite a bit on bikes. He bought at least one Cervelo, then got a Wilier and had it built up with Super Record. But he doesn’t carry the tools to change a tube. If he flats on a ride, he calls home for a ride. I try not to sneer when he tells me stuff like that.
re: #330 Hecuba’s daughter
There appears to be a lot of overlap between southern revisionists, the alt-right, and outright Nazis — or maybe the alt-right is American term for Nazi. This is not new — think of Pat Buchanan who combined the racism native to this country with a fondness for Nazism
I wonder when Ben Shapiro will finally see the light.
If being “The Most Abused Jew on Twitter” didn’t wake him, he is dead forever.
James Brown knew how to handle a Sex Machine!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) December 28, 2017
re: #390 Joe Bacon 🌹
If I ever hacked someone’s sex robot I’d just add a litany of phrases that expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction…so it felt more human for them.
re: #339 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe he received the degrees from an online university. They don’t have any standards.
Maybe, but his discussions suggest he barely made it out of HS. An online diploma mill has higher standards than his writing. Ok, maybe not, but
His “mathematical” ananlysis looks (I just eyeballed the numbers) to be a simple linear (y=my+b) transformation where he assumes that 100% of tr*mp or Clinton voters with vote for Moore or Jones. And then calculates what the total number of votes should be and says that number doesn’t equal the number of votes that occurred. So it’s wrong.
To say it is a moronic analysis would be charitable. He also asserts that all elections are fraudulent. With the same level of rigor.
re: #367 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Tell his cult not to vote?
The nation in miniature. Establishment Republicans nationally face consequences from Trump’s base if they don’t back him. And they face consequences if they do from everyone else. Poor babies, they brought it on themselves.
re: #391 darthstar
If I ever hacked someone’s sex robot I’d just add a litany of phrases that expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction…so it felt more human for them.
“That’s okay. We can just cuddle.”
“Lots of men have this problem. Why, just the other day…”
and the ever popular, “Is it in yet?”
re: #394 Blind Frog Belly White
“That’s okay. We can just cuddle.”
“Lots of men have this problem. Why, just the other day…”
and the ever popular, “Is it in yet?”
It also has a vocabulary of over 80,000 names it can call out at random during intercourse.
re: #393 Big Beautiful Door
The nation in miniature. Establishment Republicans nationally face consequences from Trump’s base if they don’t back him. And they face consequences if they do from everyone else. Poor babies, they brought it on themselves.
“So, how’s that tiger riding these days?”
JFC
The website of Donald Trump, who has spent several days in a row at the golf course, is coded to serve up the following message in the event of an internal server error: https://t.co/zrWpyMXRcz pic.twitter.com/wiQSQNNzw0
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) December 28, 2017
re: #391 darthstar
If I ever hacked someone’s sex robot I’d just add a litany of phrases that expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction…so it felt more human for them.
“Ow! No, not there. Are you finished yet?”
“Greg, honey - is it supposed to be this soft?”
Good family news …
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re: #400 Blind Frog Belly White
“Greg, honey - is it supposed to be this soft?”
Nice Animal House reference…
re: #204 FormerDirtDart
Your future sex robot could be hacked and programmed to murder you
I think I’m (probably) safe
My once current future and always sex robot is analog
re: #209 Big Beautiful Door
The GOP effort to hurt high tax states can be circumvented by converting state income taxes into payroll taxes, which can have the added benefits of making tax filing simpler and give middle income workers a tax cut!.
The first of many unanticipated yet totally predictable consequences
re: #220 Barefoot Grin
Movie pitch: “His wife hates him and his sex robot wants to kill him—Tommy Johnson thought his life couldn’t get worse….”
It was on a dark and stormy night….
Back home where we learned how to do more than just bake pecan pies. #trapshooting #pull pic.twitter.com/y5Y1rsb35J
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 28, 2017
I’ve made a lot of pecan pies. But I’ve always used store-bought pecans, never hunted them in the wild.
Do they taste different? https://t.co/JuQ8rWRXLw— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 28, 2017
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