With Alex Jones over on InfoWars claiming that President Trump is slowly being poisoned by the Deep State, only Tuck Buckford is brave enough to actually do something about it.
WTH is going on??
NO missile threat to Hawaii.
— Hawaii EMA (@Hawaii_EMA) January 13, 2018
Front below, because it was bound to happen.
re: #216 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
But just saying that people shouldn’t come here because their country isn’t rich and fabulous like the United States, that’s offensive to the very core of American ideals. We welcome EVERYBODY, no matter what (well, except people that want to blow us up), in order to give everyone a chance at the life they desire.
I still recall a neighbor kid from when I was growing up (upper middle class, MD suburb of DC) that we don’t need anymore immigrants; “the melting pot is full.” He was probably 13.
My copy of Fire & Fury just got here. So much for Trump trying to ban it.
I just posted this on my Facebook page. I mean every word.
I’m done.
“Does everyone comprehend how many of John’s players are African? That those kids you sat in the stands and cheered for are Nigerian, Kenyan, and from other African countries? It’s usually at least half. HALF.
How many of those boys are sons to us? That they are with us CONSTANTLY. That some of them call John Dad and me Mom?
43% of African immigrants have college degrees. 33% of Americans have one.
The things coming out of Trump’s mouth, out of his supporter’s mouths…if any of you support that, unfriend me RIGHT NOW. I don’t want you in my life. I don’t care if we’re friends, family, I DO NOT CARE. These are my kids being talked about. Do not EVER mess with my kids.
This moment, right here, is the line in the sand.
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.”
Follow-up from above.
Coda. (Gonna go charge my phone.) pic.twitter.com/1CAZcOwuUi
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 13, 2018
CNN reports that Trump was on the golf course while this was happening.
— Alexander McCoy (@AlexanderMcCoy4) January 13, 2018
“Thank god he was golfing and not on Twitter” is a thought we’re all having now. https://t.co/U8iE98Y9yb
— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) January 13, 2018
re: #2 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Front below, because it was bound to happen.
I still recall a neighbor kid from when I was growing up (upper middle class, MD suburb of DC) that we don’t need anymore immigrants; “the melting pot is full.” He was probably 13.
I remember a neighbor who was a brother of a friend, very proud of his Irish Heritage as am I but constantly bitching about the “Mexicans.” My brother is still in touch. Says he hasn’t changed much unfortunately. That’s xenophobic parenting for you. I like to think my brother and I benefited since Dad had coworkers from all over when he was in the restaurant industry.
NORAD official tells Denver7 there is “absolutely nothing going on,” says this is “possibly a hack” or a “very sick joke.” https://t.co/Cn7UOg7luy pic.twitter.com/bMQNBWvWmw via @DenverChannel
re: #4 BlueGrl21
I just posted this on my Facebook page. I mean every word.
I’m done.
“Does everyone comprehend how many of John’s players are African? That those kids you sat in the stands and cheered for are Nigerian, Kenyan, and from other African countries? It’s usually at least half. HALF.
How many of those boys are sons to us? That they are with us CONSTANTLY. That some of them call Craig Dad and me Mom?
43% of African immigrants have college degrees. 33% of Americans have one.
The things coming out of Trump’s mouth, out of his supporter’s mouths…if any of you support that, unfriend me RIGHT NOW. I don’t want you in my life. I don’t care if we’re friends, family, I DO NOT CARE. These are my kids being talked about. Do not EVER mess with my kids.
This moment, right here, is the line in the sand.
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.”
You and your husband are awesome.
The moment the EAS alert interrupted Hawaiian TV is terrifying pic.twitter.com/pVwpCBeRgD
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 13, 2018
re: #7 HappyWarrior
I remember a neighbor who was a brother of a friend, very proud of his Irish Heritage as am I but constantly bitching about the “Mexicans.” My brother is still in touch. Says he hasn’t changed much unfortunately. That’s xenophobic parenting for you. I like to think my brother and I benefited since Dad had coworkers from all over when he was in the restaurant industry.
My dad is proud to be an Irishman. I wonder what would happen if I told him about the Irish history and that our forefathers, despite their impeccable military service history, were probably reviled the same way Trump treats Mexicans, and that may be why they left Pennsylvania for fish country.
re: #4 BlueGrl21
I just posted this on my Facebook page. I mean every word.
I’m done.
“Does everyone comprehend how many of John’s players are African? That those kids you sat in the stands and cheered for are Nigerian, Kenyan, and from other African countries? It’s usually at least half. HALF.
How many of those boys are sons to us? That they are with us CONSTANTLY. That some of them call John Dad and me Mom?
43% of African immigrants have college degrees. 33% of Americans have one.
The things coming out of Trump’s mouth, out of his supporter’s mouths…if any of you support that, unfriend me RIGHT NOW. I don’t want you in my life. I don’t care if we’re friends, family, I DO NOT CARE. These are my kids being talked about. Do not EVER mess with my kids.
This moment, right here, is the line in the sand.
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.”
Good for you. Your life will be better without these people.
re: #11 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
My dad is proud to be an Irishman. I wonder what would happen if I told him about the Irish history and that our forefathers, despite their impeccable military service history, were probably reviled the same way Trump treats Mexicans, and that may be why they left Pennsylvania for fish country.
You should tell him. It’s unfortunate man because many Irish Americans do know what we went through and use it to crap on others rather than showing empathy and solidarity.
FYI, this is the terrifying news alert that Hawaiians got on their phones. pic.twitter.com/kHsExsJQ5s
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) January 13, 2018
Hawaii Senator @brianschatz: “What happened today is totally inexcusable. The whole state was terrified. There needs to be tough and quick accountability and a fixed process.” https://t.co/DB7RJTgGUe
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) January 13, 2018
re: #9 HappyWarrior
You and your husband are awesome.
We try. :)
There are not proper words to express how furious I am.
I was so touched when my defense of the immigrants got likes from cousins from each grandparent’s family.
re: #16 BlueGrl21
We try. :)
There are not proper words to express how furious I am.
Those kids when they have kids of their own are going to remember the kindness and love you showed them.
Trump will get whoever is in charge of shithole Puerto Rico reconstruction on quickly getting to the bottom of what caused the false ballistic missile alert and fixing it.
Trumps xenophobic bullshit has my mom more aware than I’ve ever seen her about her immigrant grandparents. I recently got her moms parents wedding photo colorized.
re: #16 BlueGrl21
We try. :)
There are not proper words to express how furious I am.
I wish more people knew firsthand what is like to have a family made up of many shades of skin color and features. They wouldn’t “agree to disagree” with these shitheads.
re: #16 BlueGrl21
We try. :)
There are not proper words to express how furious I am.
And your rant inspired me to drop a nuclear bomb on my wingnut-infested Facebook feed (which, I notice, I have been spending less and less time reading; gee, I wonder why)…
Why does it matter what country someone is from? Like, what’s the point in judging someone by the place they came from? If they’re uprooting themselves and coming to America, they’re trying to make a fresh start. Judge the person on their own merits; if they’re able and willing to contribute something to our society, then they are welcome here. If not, they aren’t. It should be that simple. That’s how this country has always been, and that’s what makes America great.
I’m just so disappointed that a good friend of mine is all on for this xenophobic crap. I accept it but man I’ve lost a lot of respect for him. It’s sad to see one of us gone one way and the other so lost.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
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So when the next alert is issued, how many people are going to take it seriously?
I’m my family’s genealogist so I post photos of old family. Some of whom were immigrants or the children of them.
re: #22 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
And your rant inspired me to drop a nuclear bomb on my wingnut-infested Facebook feed (which, I notice, I have been spending less and less time reading; gee, I wonder why)…
Good for you.
One of the kids, Sam, died of an asthma attack last year. He was 27. He used to sit with me in the stands at games because he wanted to talk. We’d talk about everything: God, girls, school, race, everything. He was Nigerian and called me Mom. He lived with us for a while after high school so he could pay for college. His death broke my heart. I cried for months and still tear up when I think about him. I loved that kid with all my heart.
There are no words for how angry I am.
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
— endless screaming ⚧ (@infinite_scream) January 13, 2018
re: #23 HappyWarrior
I’m just so disappointed that a good friend of mine is all on for this xenophobic crap. I accept it but man I’ve lost a lot of respect for him. It’s sad to see one of us gone one way and the other so lost.
People like that damaged my soul. I said goodbye. My soul is much happier. I realize now the person was a shithead, and wasn’t worth the trouble.
Alert: White supremacist who tried to recruit minorities to the KKK runs for Montana House — as a Democrat https://t.co/3sXto0WUwz
— Alder Wood (@_A__Dub) January 12, 2018
re: #26 BlueGrl21
Good for you.
One of the kids, Nigerian, Sam, died of an asthma attack last year. He was 27. He used to sit with me in the stands at games because he wanted to talk. We’d talk about everything: God, girls, school, race, everything. He was Nigeria and called me Mom. He lived with us for a while after high school so he could pay for college. His death broke my heart. I cried for months and still tear up when I think about him. I loved that kid with all my heart.
There are no words for how angry I am.
Poor kid. I’m angry too. Not merely at Trump but his asshole supporters who care more about liberals being upset than anything else.
re: #22 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I haven’t been on Facebook since October, 2016 because of the then-upcoming election. I don’t miss that rancid place one bit.
re: #16 BlueGrl21
We try. :)
There are not proper words to express how furious I am.
I think your Facebook post was properly worded.
And righteous.
re: #28 Old Liberal
People like that damaged my soul. I said goodbye. My soul is much happier. I realize now the person was a shithead, and wasn’t worth the trouble.
Oldest friend I have. I just accept it but it does cause heartache. I’m doing what I can to make him learn.
re: #21 Old Liberal
I wish more people knew firsthand what is like to have a family made up of many shades of skin color and features. They wouldn’t “agree to disagree” with these shitheads.
It’s funny but I remember how my FiL left Alabama after his service in the Navy in WWII because of the racism. His family, for the most part, stayed down there and stayed the same. But when Mary and I adopted from Vietnam we sent photos to the direct relations that were still alive. One of his sisters kept it on her refrigerator despite being perhaps the worst of the bunch. One day her daughter came by and started complaining about “that brown baby on the fridge” and the great aunt who never got to meet him was all “That’s my John and don’t you dare talk bad about him”.
re: #21 Old Liberal
I wish more people knew firsthand what is like to have a family made up of many shades of skin color and features. They wouldn’t “agree to disagree” with these shitheads.
This seems appropriate here.
Since we have a President who wants to talk about ppl from “shithole countries”—& extremist preachers & politicians who defend him—let those of us who believe in love & justice turn this shithole moment into fertilizer & grow a movement of resistance & redemption for America!
— Rev. Dr. Barber (@RevDrBarber) January 13, 2018
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I don’t trust him and I pity anyone who lives in that district.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
So when the next alert is issued, how many people are going to take it seriously?
That’s one of the reasons people do that kind of thing. Makes you wonder where the hoax originated - here? Russia? North Korea?
re: #4 BlueGrl21
I’m so sorry that this is happening and how it’s affecting you personally. Truly sorry.
I have few friends and almost no family left, and I’d walk away from every last one who is left if they espoused trump bullshit. For me, life is too short to allow that in my life. Real people are being impacted.
I hope you’re friends and family get the message to reexamine their lives and values.
I really want friendships to transcend politics but it’s harder these days for me.
re: #28 Old Liberal
People like that damaged my soul. I said goodbye. My soul is much happier. I realize now the person was a shithead, and wasn’t worth the trouble.
My thinking is that I barely have time for the good people in my life—I won’t waste a minute with assholes by choice.
re: #36 HappyWarrior
I don’t trust him and I pity anyone who lives in that district.
re: #39 ObserverArt
That dude looks like trouble.
I think we’ll see more of that as wingnuts pretend to be Democrats in an attempt to “ride the blue wave”.
Also, wingnuts can point to these assholes as examples of how Democrats are the real racists, etc.
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think we’ll see more of that as wingnuts pretend to be Democrats in an attempt to “ride the blue wave”.
Also, wingnuts can point to these assholes as examples of how Democrats are the real racists, etc.
Yep, my thoughts on both counts.
I cherish that the people I’m closest with i.e. my parents, brothers, and cousins I talk to fairly regularly are appalled by Trumpism.
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think we’ll see more of that as wingnuts pretend to be Democrats in an attempt to “ride the blue wave”.
Also, wingnuts can point to these assholes as examples of how Democrats are the real racists, etc.
I’m going to pay attention. Just because someone has a D after their name, doesn’t make that a good candidate. Nor does the candidate being a woman (cases in point: Tulsi Gabbard and that McSally person in Arizona, to name just two).
Russia’s Efforts to Divide Us Are Not New
Reminding me of recent history!
It may seem like a new thing, but it’s really just a revival of something that we lived with during the Cold War, stripped of even the hint of socialist idealism and put on steroids by the digital age.
re: #37 William Lewis
That’s one of the reasons people do that kind of thing. Makes you wonder where the hoax originated - here? Russia? North Korea?
I thought of North Korea immediately. They have the hackers that could do it.
As I said on the previous thread…this does not surprise me with Trump in office. Sadly, I think we find more and more bad things happening to our systems. How could there not be with the way he is cutting this and eliminating that…all with “the best people.”
America is going to learn a lesson with Trump. Key will be if they take the lesson to heart and ascribe it to the correct cause, Trump.
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m going to pay attention. Just because someone has a D after their name, doesn’t make that a good candidate. Nor does the candidate being a woman (cases in point: Tulsi Gabbard and that McSally person in Arizona, to name just two).
McSally is a Republican. Gabbard though is a great example of that though. I don’t trust her at all and it troubles me to see a lot of liberals in news story comments suggest her as a good candidate. I hope it’s just that they only see her military record and youth and don’t know much more about her and they’ll know better when the info comes out.
re: #19 BlueSpotinAL
Trump will get whoever is in charge of shithole Puerto Rico reconstruction on quickly getting to the bottom of what caused the false ballistic missile alert and fixing it.
I’ll be perfectly happy to trade the governor for anything. He would blend in with the geniuses Trump has brought into his cabinet.
re: #47 ObserverArt
I thought of North Korea immediately. They have the hackers that could do it.
As I said on the previous thread…this does not surprise me with Trump in office. Sadly, I think we find more and more bad things happening to our systems. How could there not be with the way he is cutting this and eliminating that…all with “the best people.”
America is going to learn a lesson with Trump. Key will be if they take the lesson to heart and ascribe it to the correct cause, Trump.
I wouldn’t put it past Russia either.
Also certain assholes in the yam’s administration who are having boners over this.
re: #36 HappyWarrior
I don’t trust him and I pity anyone who lives in that district.
He’s not getting a lot of love from the Dem party:
In a statement responding to Abarr’s announcement, Montana Democrats blasted the candidate.
“John Abarr is a failed former-Republican House candidate with a revolting history of promoting white supremacy,” the group said. “His views have no place in Montana, and we condemn him and his campaign without exception.”
re: #51 BeachDem
He’s not getting a lot of love from the Dem party:
In a statement responding to Abarr’s announcement, Montana Democrats blasted the candidate.
“John Abarr is a failed former-Republican House candidate with a revolting history of promoting white supremacy,” the group said. “His views have no place in Montana, and we condemn him and his campaign without exception.”
Yeah I saw that. Good on the Montana Dems. It won’t stop idiotic right wingers from claiming that this means the Dems are the real racists but oyu know what, we did our part unlike the Republicans.
re: #34 William Lewis
It’s funny but I remember how my FiL left Alabama after his service in the Navy in WWII because of the racism. His family, for the most part, stayed down there and stayed the same. But when Mary and I adopted from Vietnam we sent photos to the direct relations that were still alive. One of his sisters kept it on her refrigerator despite being perhaps the worst of the bunch. One day her daughter came by and started complaining about “that brown baby on the fridge” and the great aunt who never got to meet him was all “That’s my John and don’t you dare talk bad about him”.
That’s great, but keep in mind that good old “great aunt” might be ok with “this one” but still wouldn’t accept BlueGrl21’s family. It’s just another version of “the good ones” vs. “the bad ones”. If they run the Mexican restaurant down the road, they are good ones, if they are roofing a house down the road they are “no good illegals”. It’s all bullshit, because they are individuals.
re: #41 BeachDem
My thinking is that I barely have time for the good people in my life—I won’t waste a minute with assholes by choice.
And if all I got is bad people in my life…..what the fuck turn did I miss?
re: #54 Old Liberal
And if all I got is bad people in my life…..what the fuck turn did I miss?
You should have taken left at Albuquerque. //Bugs Bunny reference …
re: #53 Old Liberal
That’s great, but keep in mind that good old “great aunt” might be ok with “this one” but still wouldn’t except BlueGrl21’s family. It’s just another version of “the good ones” vs. “the bad ones”. If they run the Mexican restaurant down the road, they are good ones, if they are roofing a house down the road they are “no good illegals”. It’s all bullshit, because they are individuals.
Not saying otherwise. It’s simply a story I found funny (eta: Funny Hmmm not Funny ha ha) in this case. Much like the story I told the other day of their racist father saving a young black man from the klan that wanted to kill him. Even within our faults and flaws people have a line where, to remember Camus, they say “No.” and do what is right. Perhaps only once, perhaps always after. People are complicated that way.
,You find yourself going one way in this world and the others going another. And it just sucks because maybe those qualities were always there but you overlooked them? I don’t remember my friend being political for the longest time. But looking back on it, I do remember him posting stupid stuff about how we should drug test welfare recipients but it wasn’t constant like it is now. And perhaps I have grown a little more sensitive in older age but I don’t see that as a bad thing, I see that as me being more aware of the world outside of me.
re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth
I wouldn’t put it past Russia either.
Also certain assholes in the yam’s administration who are having boners over this.
Could be a tag team. Putin was complementary to Kim Jong Un the other day and tweaked Trump’s nose with it. He’s toying with The Orange Don. Probably making sure he stays in line and doesn’t weasel his way out of any deals they have to save his butt politically.
If anyone knows Trump is compromised and can’t be trusted it would be Vlad.
re: #55 Sea Mexican!
You should have taken left at Albuquerque. //Bugs Bunny reference …
Daffy changed the signs.
Do y’all think its possible that the media will now (or soon) stop calling Trump’s lies “falsehoods” and actually call them lies? I’m also talking about the press briefings as well. When Sanders clearly says a lie, the reporter(s) will say “Stop lying.”
So you guys aren’t the only ones to have “Ooopsies” when doing silent tests of the alarm systems. Here in Stockholm we had one on 7/9 last year at 10pm. Took 30 min to report the Public Alert signal was in error.
re: #57 HappyWarrior
,You find yourself going one way in this world and the others going another. And it just sucks because maybe those qualities were always there but you overlooked them? I don’t remember my friend being political for the longest time. But looking back on it, I do remember him posting stupid stuff about how we should drug test welfare recipients but it wasn’t constant like it is now. And perhaps I have grown a little more sensitive in older age but I don’t see that as a bad thing, I see that as me being more aware of the world outside of me.
People are not narrow minded and bigoted at birth. They grow into it as they learn from others.
Being good takes work. Bad is easy.
Two points:
1. My hangover is gone
2. Golf just saved the world and ya’ll think it’s boring
3. Bonus Point: I’ve never been so happy Trump was golfing
re: #62 ObserverArt
People are not narrow minded and bigoted at birth. They grow into it as they learn from others.
Being good takes work. Bad is easy.
Reminds me of something I believe, Apathy is easy, fighting for something you truly believe in is difficult. But you’re right. They do learn. I just don’t know how my good friend went from a fairly normal guy to being a wingnut propaganda espousing parrot.
re: #38 MsJ
I’m so sorry that this is happening and how it’s affecting you personally. Truly sorry.
I have few friends and almost no family left, and I’d walk away from every last one who is left if they espoused trump bullshit. For me, life is too short to allow that in my life. Real people are being impacted.
I hope you’re friends and family get the message to reexamine their lives and values.
I’ve gotten rid of the worst of them, but I still have a cousin or two hanging around. And a couple of people who know me through my husband from Kentucky. He had a couple of players that played there and we ended up with friends from there when we went up for games. I suspect a couple of them are wingnuts but never bothered checking. Now they know very, very clearly where I stand.
My husband is the one that gets attention when he posts or tweets. He shared my message to his timeline and said, “Same for me. I don’t care who you are, get out.”
8 of his 11 players this year are African. He talked to all of them about it today. Let them know they are completely and unequivocally loved. And all of this is a bunch of bullshit.
It’s personal.
re: #64 BigPapa
The other day Limbaugh said he had once played golf with Trump and that Trump shot a 72. I haven’t laughed so hard in years. Trump is an 18-handicap, AT BEST.
Also, I don’t think golf is boring at all. I used to play 4-5 times a week and the Masters is still my favorite sporting event.
re: #64 BigPapa
Two points:
1. My hangover is gone
2. Golf just saved the world and ya’ll think it’s boring
3. Bonus Point: I’ve never been so happy Trump was golfing
So, tell us what you experienced? Must have been terrifying!
re: #67 Ace Rothstein
The other day Limbaugh said he had once played golf with Trump and that Trump shot a 72. I haven’t laughed so hard in years. Trump is an 18-handicap, AT BEST.
It amuses me that they have to lie about such stupid shit. Remember when Ryan lied about his marathon times?
Forget the 3am phone call. @realDonaldTrump was too busy golfing to take the Saturday afternoon phone call.#Hawaii
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 13, 2018
re: #65 HappyWarrior
Reminds me of something I believe, Apathy is easy, fighting for something you truly believe in is difficult. But you’re right. They do learn. I just don’t know how my good friend went from a fairly normal guy to being a wingnut propaganda espousing parrot.
I have a nephew that has turned into a complete redneck Trump-lovin’ jerk.
My brother, his father isn’t like that. His other two brothers and one sister are not like that. In fact his youngest brother just had a baby with his African American significant other. (They plan on getting married soon).
Where did he change? The people he hangs with. He fell into their thinking and soaked it up. Now he rolls in it.
Heh. I hadn’t thought of it. I just realized I now have a beautiful little great-niece that has medium dark skin and gorgeous blue eyes. Cool.
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m going to pay attention. Just because someone has a D after their name, doesn’t make that a good candidate. Nor does the candidate being a woman (cases in point: Tulsi Gabbard and that McSally person in Arizona, to name just two).
Yep. Here in south by dog carolina, we often have loons run as “Democrats.” It is hideous. One of the looniest, thank dog, just changed over to be a Republican, but there are still some kicking around. You try to discourage them and side-step them, but then you have years like 2010, when we had crazies for both Senate and House seats. (I will go to my grave crying SHENANIGANS—and have the spreadsheets to back me up.)
That was when all the media made much ado about Alvin Greene as our Senate candidate (which was, granted bullshit), and the utter incoherence of Ben Frasier being the Dem candidate for our shiny new House seat went unnoticed.
Frasier had no campaign site, no email address, and even the facebook somebody put up for him had his name misspelled. Oh, and it was his ELEVENTH primary run, and he was defending the Confederate flag, anti-choice, against gays in the military and for prayer in public school.
In 2008, he lost the primary 65-35 to an openly gay woman. Then, in 2010 (new district, but many of the same places) he often tripled or quadrupled his vote count running against a retired Air Force pilot with a lot of support.
I contacted multiple media peeps, with precinct by precinct anomalies and weirdness. Only a guy from GWU who had been quoted in a 538 article about Greene ever even got back to me and he lost interest pretty quickly.
So either Trump decided to ignore a supposed missile attack against Hawaii or his own people realized he’s fucking nuts and chose not to inform him about it
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 13, 2018
re: #69 HappyWarrior
It amuses me that they have to lie about such stupid shit. Remember when Ryan lied about his marathon times?
He wasn’t lying Happy. He just didn’t say it was for nine holes.
re: #72 ObserverArt
I have a nephew that has turned into a complete redneck Trump-lovin’ jerk.
My brother, his father isn’t like that. His other two brothers and one sister are not like that. In fact his youngest brother just had a baby with his African American significant other. (They plan on getting married soon).
Where did he change? The people he hangs with. He fell into their thinking and soaked it up. Now he rolls in it.
Heh. I hadn’t thought of it. I just realized I now have a beautiful little great-niece that has medium dark skin and gorgeous blue eyes. Cool.
Yeah who you hang out with. Your grand niece sounds adorable. My mom has cousins on each side of the family that married African-Americans. The one sadly was disowned by her father for it. She’s actually told me a lot about my Grandmother’s oldest half siblings whom I never met since they died before I was born. She and her daughter were welcomed as honored guests when they visited the home village in Slovakia.
Avaaz has gotten up a petition to get a million Americans to sign, which they are going to publish in the biggest newspapers in countries maligned as shitholes: the ad is an apology for the “hurtful words of our President.” I signed.
re: #74 Kragar
So either Trump decided to ignore a supposed missile attack against Hawaii or his own people realized he’s fucking nuts and chose not to inform him about it
I’m gonna go with the latter.
The last 10 years or so has caused me to reconsider my definition of ‘good person’. I used to hang out on an archery/bowhunting forum (traditional archer and self-bowyer), and back then, I thought, “We all want pretty much the same thing, but Conservatives and Liberals differ on how to get there.”
Sure, there were some assholes who thought I was an awful person for being a Liberal, but mostly they got marginalized. We had healthy debates, but generally we treated each other with respect.
Then Obama was elected. And they went nuts. A lot of folks I thought of as ‘good people’ turned out to be totally racist types who said things like “Trayvon Martin chose the thug life, so he died a thug death”. or some of the more vile caricatures of Michelle Obama. People I thought of as more rational than the others there went total wingnut, right down to the ‘Bathhouse Barry’ stuff - while simultaneously also believing him to be a secret Muslim. The shit finally got too deep for me in about 2010. I look in occasionally, and it’s gotten worse.
So, how does one define a ‘good person’? Somebody who works hard, donates money and time to charity, is generous and friendly, would give you the shirt off his back if you were in need?
Okay, what if that person calls Muslims ‘Sand N*gg*rs’? Or agrees that all those countries where nonwhite people live are ‘Shithole Countries’? Or spouts other overtly racist bullshit? Still a good person?
Maybe it’s not as simple as ‘good people’ and ‘bad people’.
re: #73 BeachDem
This is why beating the drums to have Democrats run for every office is meaningless. They have to be VIABLE candidates.
I am so excited that Patti Piatt is running for Tom Massie’s seat. The last couple of elections the alleged Democratic candidates were complete loons.
re: #79 Blind Frog Belly White
The last 10 years or so has caused me to reconsider my definition of ‘good person’. I used to hang out on an archery/bowhunting forum (traditional archer and self-bowyer), and back then, I thought, “We all want pretty much the same thing, but Conservatives and Liberals differ on how to get there.”
Sure, there were some assholes who thought I was an awful person for being a Liberal, but mostly they got marginalized. We had healthy debates, but generally we treated each other with respect.
Then Obama was elected. And they went nuts. A lot of folks I thought of as ‘good people’ turned out to be totally racist types who said things like “Trayvon Martin chose the thug life, so he died a thug death”. or some of the more vile caricatures of Michelle Obama. People I thought of as more rational than the others there went total wingnut, right down to the ‘Bathhouse Barry’ stuff - while simultaneously also believing him to be a secret Muslim. The shit finally got too deep for me in about 2010. I look in occasionally, and it’s gotten worse.
So, how does one define a ‘good person’? Somebody who works hard, donates money and time to charity, is generous and friendly, would give you the shirt off his back if you were in need?
Okay, what if that person calls Muslims ‘Sand N*gg*rs’? Or agrees that all those countries where nonwhite people live are ‘Shithole Countries’? Or spouts other overtly racist bullshit? Still a good person?
Maybe it’s not as simple as ‘good people’ and ‘bad people’.
We overlook things in people we consider friends. You’re right that Obama made them worse.
re: #79 Blind Frog Belly White
I was in a jam-packed bar the day the George Zimmerman verdict was announced. When “not guilty” was said, the entire bar erupted in applause like it was a game-winning home run.
Has Trump blamed Obama or Hillary yet? #waitforit #Hawaii #missilethreat pic.twitter.com/e41zDWsnx1
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get ball cancer (@DrMatthew) January 13, 2018
re: #82 Ace Rothstein
I was in a jam-packed bar the day the George Zimmerman verdict was announced. When “not guilty” was said, the entire bar erupted in applause like it was a game-winning home run.
Jeezus. But yeah. The stuff with Martin woke me up to a lot of ugliness in white America.
Hawaii rep calls out Trump after nuclear false alarm: “He’s not taking this threat seriously”
https://t.co/Bx9J4wvyOP pic.twitter.com/AjY69ZyGUt— Mic (@mic) January 13, 2018
I was really naive and I don’t blame Obama for this to think we turned a new leaf when we elected him.
re: #85 Dr. Matt
I don’t like her but she’s right.
hoo boy
She’s running. https://t.co/BGxgbWsmTi
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 13, 2018
Seriously, has Trump or someone in the White House not commented on the Hawaii false alert yet?
Can a convicted felon serve in the Senate?
Chelsea Manning is running for the U.S. Senate in Maryland https://t.co/RNWRQEHjYu pic.twitter.com/RHhJ5zWJJT
— New York Post (@nypost) January 13, 2018
re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is why beating the drums to have Democrats run for every office is meaningless. They have to be VIABLE candidates.
I am so excited that Patti Piatt is running for Tom Massie’s seat. The last couple of elections the alleged Democratic candidates were complete loons.
Remember when you and I sent money to each other’s candidates for the house (I think yours was a judge? running against Massie?) I was on many KY email lists for quite awhile. Will likely send Patti Piatt some $—probably a better bet than some of our local candidates.
re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is why beating the drums to have Democrats run for every office is meaningless. They have to be VIABLE candidates.
I am so excited that Patti Piatt is running for Tom Massie’s seat. The last couple of elections the alleged Democratic candidates were complete loons.
Does she stand a decent chance?
By the way, I like how her name has the exact same letters for both first name and surname. That’ll make for some good campaign signs.
re: #90 FormerDirtDart
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She will be challenging Ben Cardin. Way to fuck things up.
While I respect her life choices, I am still not happy with what she did and think she will do harm to the Dems.
I’m seeing that Trey Gowdy has resigned from the House Ethics Committee.
re: #89 Ace Rothstein
Seriously, has Trump or someone in the White House not commented on the Hawaii false alert yet?
The president is back home at Mar-a-Lago. WH referring requests for comment to Department of Defense.
— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) January 13, 2018
Hey, he was golfing. Priorities!
OK, stories keep changing. beginning to feel somewhere between disgruntled employee shenanigans, and hacked system
JUST IN: Hawaii Governor David Ige tells CNN that someone “pushed the wrong button” during an employee shift change, sending out the false alert about an incoming ballistic missile https://t.co/FD1vl6fCzh pic.twitter.com/2zhXLApLcr
— CNN (@CNN) January 13, 2018
the story was initially a drill gone wrong, but now it’s evolved to what in finance we would call a fat finger error. the first iteration made more sense to me. it’s worrying if it’s true that emergency systems built for nuclear war are vulnerable to such an inadvertent mistake. https://t.co/Q09UoWeLnb
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 13, 2018
re: #92 ObserverArt
Does she stand a decent chance?
By the way, I like how her name has the exact same letters for both first name and surname. That’ll make for some good campaign signs.
She has a really good shot at it.
Her family has been here just about forever and she’s closely connected with the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati business community.
Plus, she’s a lot more likeable than Massie.
re: #90 FormerDirtDart
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re: #95 Dr Lizardo
I’m seeing that Trey Gowdy has resigned from the House Ethics Committee.
He should resign from Congress.
re: #88 blueraven
hoo boy
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Don’t we have enough treasonous assholes in government already?
re: #97 FormerDirtDart
OK, stories keep changing. beginning to feel somewhere between disgruntled employee shenanigans, and hacked system
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It’s that smaller government that they keep telling us is more efficient…
re: #97 FormerDirtDart
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Historical perspective:
“Air Raid on Pearl Harbor….This Is Not Drill” — December 7, 1941: #NARA pic.twitter.com/8t0mD2W2jN
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 13, 2018
This wouldn’t have happened if Skynet or WOPR was running the show. #misslethreat #hawaii
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get ball cancer (@DrMatthew) January 13, 2018
re: #79 Blind Frog Belly White
The last 10 years or so has caused me to reconsider my definition of ‘good person’. …
“Trayvon Martin chose the thug life, so he died a thug death”. or some of the more vile caricatures of Michelle Obama. People I thought of as more rational than the others there went total wingnut, right down to the ‘Bathhouse Barry’ stuff - while simultaneously also believing him to be a secret Muslim. The shit finally got too deep for me in about 2010. I look in occasionally, and it’s gotten worse.
…
Maybe it’s not as simple as ‘good people’ and ‘bad people’.
The Trayvon Martin bit in your post reminded me of something my one brother told me about my oldest brother who is as wingnutty as they come.
The two of them got into it about Zimmerman and Martin some time ago and my one brother said he couldn’t see the reason for Zimmerman to have felt threatened and if anything ZImmerman was the one who was threatening. Apparently, as he is wont to do when he gets all red-faced and foaming, oldest brother got all pissed off and yelled out “Did You See What He Was Wearing!!! Did you see that!!!
Fresh off Fox…years later. Oh those hoodies.
re: #41 BeachDem
My thinking is that I barely have time for the good people in my life—I won’t waste a minute with assholes by choice.
After you determine whether someone’s an anchor or a sail in your life, the next step is easy
re: #107 ObserverArt
The Trayvon Martin bit in your post reminded me of something my one brother told me about my oldest brother who is as wingnutty as they come.
The two of them got into it about Zimmerman and Martin some time ago and my one brother said he couldn’t see the reason for Zimmerman to have felt threatened and if anything ZImmerman was the one who was threatening. Apparently, as he is wont to do when he gets all red-faced and foaming, oldest brother got all pissed off and yelled out “Did You See What He Was Wearing!!! Did you see that!!!
Fresh off Fox…years later. Oh those hoodies.
Does your oldest brother not have a clue what kids wear? I remember when Geraldo was calling hoodies thug wear or some shit like that and then someone found photos of him in a hoodie.
re: #62 ObserverArt
People are not narrow minded and bigoted at birth. They grow into it as they learn from others.
Being good takes work. Bad is easy.
“You’ve got to be carefully taught”
re: #68 blueraven
So, tell us what you experienced? Must have been terrifying!
Was walking out to my truck and a few tourists were walking, I heard his phone make a weird sound and they all circled around his phone. I looked in my rear view and saw them walking back to the condo. Then I noticed my phone had the Emergency Alert. I was a little scared at first but then I thought it was a hack. Turned on radio, but all shows are on recording so nothing there. Went to Twitter and FB and all my Hawaii peeps were WTF.
Tulsi Gabbard put out a tweet fast that it was an error, good for her.
I took 40 minutes but another Alert came through that there was no threat.
Pucker up!
So sorry for all the people in Hawaii who went through that — we know someone who’s there with her family. Crying in closet texting goodbyes to loved ones, husband shielding their baby. Sounds traumatic. Hang in there, folks.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 13, 2018
re: #109 dangerman
After you determine whether someone’s an anchor or a sail in your life, the next step is easy
As much as I love Bette Midler, I beg of you, please don’t sing Wind Beneath My Wings!
re: #107 ObserverArt
The Trayvon Martin bit in your post reminded me of something my one brother told me about my oldest brother who is as wingnutty as they come.
The two of them got into it about Zimmerman and Martin some time ago and my one brother said he couldn’t see the reason for Zimmerman to have felt threatened and if anything ZImmerman was the one who was threatening. Apparently, as he is wont to do when he gets all red-faced and foaming, oldest brother got all pissed off and yelled out “Did You See What He Was Wearing!!! Did you see that!!!
Fresh off Fox…years later. Oh those hoodies.
The hoodie hate — that was just the most bizarre thing. Everyone wears hoodies. It’s a light jacket with a hood.
Someday, I really want to get my hands on the Fox programming schedule, just so I can convince these nutbags they need to start drinking bleach to show their support for Trump…
Favorite geography fact: Everyone thinks the Sphinx in Egypt sits in the middle of a barren desert. It’s actually across the street from KFC and the Golden Dragon Palace Chinese restaurant. pic.twitter.com/oYMdb4F9Nu
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) January 13, 2018
re: #111 dangerman
“You’ve got to be carefully taught”
One of my favorite songs since i was about seven years old
re: #107 ObserverArt
The Trayvon Martin bit in your post reminded me of something my one brother told me about my oldest brother who is as wingnutty as they come.
The two of them got into it about Zimmerman and Martin some time ago and my one brother said he couldn’t see the reason for Zimmerman to have felt threatened and if anything ZImmerman was the one who was threatening. Apparently, as he is wont to do when he gets all red-faced and foaming, oldest brother got all pissed off and yelled out “Did You See What He Was Wearing!!! Did you see that!!!
Fresh off Fox…years later. Oh those hoodies.
My husband was always pretty outspoken about racism, but Trayvon Martin pushed him into militant territory. Same thing happened with gun control…it was Columbine. I can’t really point to specific events that turned me into a Liberal….I was always outspoken and was raised by a father who is a Texas yellow dog Democrat. But he can.
this is…. explicitly untrue pic.twitter.com/r79mMToSPk
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) January 13, 2018
Hawaii Sen. Hirono: “At a time of heightened tensions, we need to make sure all information released to community is accurate. We need to get to the bottom of what happened and make sure it never happens again.”
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 13, 2018
Tell that to the fucking White House. The first words out of their mouths were flat wrong. Too bad competent adults are no longer in charge of this country. https://t.co/Cz6KxYsL0x
— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) January 13, 2018
President Trump “has been briefed on the state of Hawaii’s emergency management exercise. This was purely a state exercise,” a White House official tells CBS News https://t.co/1XQGWVKBUG pic.twitter.com/frmc8xDTFK
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 13, 2018
It was NOT a state exercise. That implies they were running a test of a system. But what the system told Hawaiians was THIS IS NOT A DRILL. So why are you telling us it was a drill? It was not a drill. https://t.co/0I235IKXGu
— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) January 13, 2018
re: #110 HappyWarrior
Does your oldest brother not have a clue what kids wear? I remember when Geraldo was calling hoodies thug wear or some shit like that and then someone found photos of him in a hoodie.
As I said, my oldest brother is a wingnut, racist asshole.
He stopped thinking about 50 years ago, so having a clue about anything today is not in his wheelhouse.
re: #112 BigPapa
Was walking out to my truck and a few tourists were walking, I heard his phone make a weird sound and they all circled around his phone. I looked in my rear view and saw them walking back to the condo. Then I noticed my phone had the Emergency Alert. I was a little scared at first but then I thought it was a hack. Turned on radio, but all shows are on recording so nothing there. Went to Twitter and FB and all my Hawaii peeps were WTF.
Tulsi Gabbard put out a tweet fast that it was an error, good for her.
I took 40 minutes but another Alert came through that there was no threat.
Pucker up!
40 minutes.
I’m letting thank sink in. My mind is resisting.
re: #35 BeachDem
As we prepare for MLK Day, I am reminded that we should judge our president not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character, and I think he used a word yesterday that described the content of his character quite accurately.
— Mark Davies (@markyadavies) January 13, 2018
re: #51 BeachDem
He’s not getting a lot of love from the Dem party:
In a statement responding to Abarr’s announcement, Montana Democrats blasted the candidate.
“John Abarr is a failed former-Republican House candidate with a revolting history of promoting white supremacy,” the group said. “His views have no place in Montana, and we condemn him and his campaign without exception.”
And what would also be useful is to have Tom Perez or Keith Ellison or somebody make it clear that the national Party wants nothing to do with this assclown, either. Better yet, make sure that there is an “official” - and supported - Democratic candidate in the primary. Preferably one without any KKK connections….
re: #114 BeachDem
As much as I love Bette Midler, I beg of you, please don’t sing Wind Beneath My Wings!
Never entered my mind
I got it years ago from a badass biker dude
So the association is just leather patches and tattoos
Not Bette (who I don’t hate either)
re: #94 blueraven
She will be challenging Ben Cardin. Way to fuck things up.
While I respect her life choices, I am still not happy with what she did and think she will do harm to the Dems.
She’s the 4th declared primary challenger for Cardin. He had 8 challengers in 2012, took 74+%
re: #79 Blind Frog Belly White
Few to no “good people” are completely intolerant of:
-other peoples mere existence
-and differing points of view
Consider “composure” as a leadership attribute. The best leaders are calm under pressure, a steadying influence on those around them, and avoid overreacting to incomplete information. No leader ever helped solve a problem by hyperventilating. #Leadership
— GEN(R) Marty Dempsey (@Martin_Dempsey) January 13, 2018
Dempsey Subtweets remains hilarious to me. https://t.co/tdKVN79CwO
— Aaron Mehta (@AaronMehta) January 13, 2018
Just blocked some asshole Friend who posted on Facebook after the false ballistic missile alert in Hawaii:
1. I hugged my wife, I love you all
2. We should just bomb North Korea anyway
3. If you don’t like it, screw you
4. Multiple people said ‘Love you’ and ‘Right on!’
re: #115 scottslemmons
The hoodie hate — that was just the most bizarre thing. Everyone wears hoodies. It’s a light jacket with a hood.
Someday, I really want to get my hands on the Fox programming schedule, just so I can convince these nutbags they need to start drinking bleach to show their support for Trump…
They were what you wore in the Fall when I was growing up. Then when it got a little colder, you’d switch to your varsity jacket (if you were a jock), and then when it got a little colder, you’d layer the hoodie under the varsity jacket. This was 40+ years ago in Whitesville, Whitesylvania.
JUST IN: Hawaii Governor David Ige tells CNN that someone “pushed the wrong button” during an employee shift change, sending out the false alert about an incoming ballistic missile https://t.co/FD1vl6fCzh pic.twitter.com/2zhXLApLcr
— CNN (@CNN) January 13, 2018
So we’re asked to believe that it took 0.5 seconds to cause this crisis by pressing a single button on a system that has no procedures for check & confirm but it somehow took 40 minutes to diagnose the error and call off the crisis.
That makes no sense. https://t.co/624A23TOIh— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) January 13, 2018
re: #130 Blind Frog Belly White
Just pretend you’re in Saskatchewan and call it a bunny hug.
re: #130 Blind Frog Belly White
My hoodie is grey and has “La Salle University” on it. Hardly thug if anything the opposite.
re: #40 HappyWarrior
I have to admit I just can’t do it anymore. I am clinging to the last shreds of friendship with two Republicans. I dearly love my Aunt and I just don’t have the heart to cut ties with her as she is my dad’s sister and one of the few remaining relatives on that side of my family.
I hate with all my being the orange shitbag and fox news and all of the propaganda that continues to tear our family and friendships apart.
re: #90 FormerDirtDart
Well, if Arpaio can run, so can she
Coal CEO slams the Trump administration for appointing “inadequate bureaucrats” to a regulatory commission that unanimously rejected a rescue plan for the coal industry https://t.co/YBy8kcUENL pic.twitter.com/jzNYUZhjjt
— CNN (@CNN) January 13, 2018
re: #134 plansbandc
They need to understand that they’re losing you because of support for Trump or the GOP.
I’re: #137 BigPapa
They need to understand that they’re losing you because of support for Trump or the GOP.
Or perhaps even more because of what support for Trump reveals about them. That’s what I think when I read the posts/articles about women “swiping left” when they encounter a Trumpkin on whatever dating app all the hep cats are using these says.
If this happened on Obama’s watch, articles of impeachment would have been drafted by now claiming his “incompetence” is at fault. #Hawaii #misslethreat
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get ball cancer (@DrMatthew) January 13, 2018
I’m surprised trump didn’t push the nuke button to bomb NOK the minute he heard about the “alert”. Maybe someone replaced the nuke button in the “football” with an AED.
re: #140 Cheechako
I’m surprised trump didn’t push the nuke button to bomb NOK the minute he heard about the “alert”. Maybe someone replaced the nuke button in the “football” with an AED.
He was golfing at the time. We got lucky.
re: #139 Dr. Matt
And he was out playing golf for the 100th time in less than a year.
re: #140 Cheechako
I’m surprised trump didn’t push the nuke button to bomb NOK the minute he heard about the “alert”. Maybe someone replaced the nuke button in the “football” with an AED.
Not NOK, California. Fox told him he would have won the popular vote if you didn’t count California, so BOOM!
The tax bill includes a “craft beverage” tax cut. So who’s benefiting?
For every $20 in cuts:
Craft brewers → $1
Foreign and industrial producers → $19https://t.co/VHRgWnWuI4— Brookings Econ (@BrookingsEcon) January 13, 2018
Microsoft Word asks me twice if I’m sure I want to close an unsaved document but Hawaii’s incoming missile alert goes out with one click.
— Donald J Orwell (@DonaldJOrwell) January 13, 2018
In the aftermath of the ‘Shithole Countries’ comments, I’m seeing wingnuts claim “Nobody called Trump a racist until the election!!”
That’s an odd thing to say about someone who was sued by the USG for racial discrimination, decades ago. I’d have thought that was the very essence of being called racist, to have an actual legal case against you for discrimination.
You need to know the story of KAL-007, a Korean airliner shot down in 1983, to understand why those 38 minutes in Hawaii put the whole world in danger.
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) January 13, 2018
Thread https://t.co/coeWtjoXZw
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 13, 2018
Security for Trump’s border wall prototypes cost sheriff nearly $900,000 https://t.co/iOx5IOHu8x
— Michelle (@MichelleVista) January 13, 2018
re: #127 dangerman
Got somethin’ for ya:
The Kinks, 1972 by Barrie Wentzell
The lads having a laugh
A great moment captured perfectly by Barrie @davedavieskinks @TheKinks pic.twitter.com/JehKuquJaQ— Nik D (@nikidoog) January 13, 2018
At least one of those is an apeman. All of them, probably.
Took the car into the shop this morning for a minor service, thinking it would be about $90.
“You’ve got a oil leak which caused some other problems…”
$2000 to fix it.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 13, 2018
re: #150 wrenchwench
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At least one of those is an apeman. All of them, probably.
Compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees, almost certainly.
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The Americans in 1983 had been repeatedly threatening to launch some kind of attack on the USSR — just as the Trump admin is doing with North Korea today. Some in Moscow were convinced this was it, cover for what DC had promised to do.
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) January 13, 2018
It’s only a murder of crows if there’s probable caws
— Prof Bison Sexhorn (@Brainmage) January 12, 2018
People from #Haiti, a country which bigot Trump calls a “shithole” represent the second largest group of people employed by Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. That’s all I have to say!! These people from “shithole” countries apparently represent hardworking individuals who Trump exploits.
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) January 12, 2018
Haitians make up the second largest group of people employed at Mar-A-Lago.
Enjoy your spit covered burnt steak at 200K per year, folks.
Gonna take a lot of ketchup to cover THAT up. https://t.co/SpjTsQk7Kb— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) January 12, 2018
re: #151 Kragar
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re: #151 Kragar
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Back when I owned the Subaru, it started giving Check Engine alerts. You can’t smog-check a care with the CEL on. You can’t register a car with a delinquent smog check.
So we took it to the Subaru garage. There was a tiny hole in the head gasket, which was ever so slightly fouling one of the plugs, hence the CEL. No real effect on how the engine ran, no real increase in emissions. Just lit the CEL.
Cost to replace the headgasket was about 75% of the Blue Book value of the car. That led to two days of soul-searching before we finally decided to get it fixed.
re: #157 Blind Frog Belly White
Back when I owned the Subaru, it started giving Check Engine alerts. You can’t smog-check a care with the CEL on. You can’t register a car with a delinquent smog check.
So we took it to the Subaru garage. There was a tiny hole in the head gasket, which was ever so slightly fouling one of the plugs, hence the CEL. No real effect on how the engine ran, no real increase in emissions. Just lit the CEL.
Cost to replace the headgasket was about 75% of the Blue Book value of the car. That led to two days of soul-searching before we finally decided to get it fixed.
To be fair, small holes in the head gasket turn into big holes in the head gasket, which lead to burning coolant (or oil in the coolant), which leads to bigger problems.
We had to drive to Virginia on Thursday, so I took the truck in for inspection and an oil change. I told my guy that when I got new tires put on the truck they told me I needed rear brakes and rotors.
They did all that, and also discovered that I needed upper ball joints and found that one of the stabilizer bars on the rear was rusted out.
Boom, a grand and change. But the truck drove like a damn dream to VA and back.
HAPPENING NOW: Trump restaurant, hotel and other properties receiving avalanche of 1-star “shithole” reviews on Yelp and other public websites. #TheResistance #FBR #SaturdayMorning @docrocktex26 pic.twitter.com/OROpJhkeVr
— Bill Auclair (@bill_auclair) January 13, 2018
Last week, we had a Carpenter Bee in the house. Probably got in when we were letting Rango in or out to pee. I caught him* against the window with a drinking glass, slid a playing card underneath, carried him to the back door and let her go.
Today, a Carpenter Bee keeps *thunk*ing off the back windows.
I think he wants back in.
*California Carpenter Bees are sexually dimorphic. Females are all black, whereas males have lighter prothorax and abdominal segments. So I know it was a boy bee.
Dems say they want deal on immigration but Obama killed the last bipartisan attempt and Durbin may have killed this one. They want the issue
— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) January 13, 2018
Literally everything in this tweet is a lie. Bipartisan legislation passed Senate 68-32, but Boehner refused to bring it to a vote despite enough support to pass. Obama would’ve signed it. https://t.co/t0bYIp27mB
— Gabe #DreamActNow Ortíz (@TUSK81) January 13, 2018
Sound on. If you are not at work.
👉🏼 WTF 👈🏼 pic.twitter.com/L8w0Lh9Rej
— CrowDog (@TheCrowDog) January 13, 2018
re: #159 makeitstop
We had to drive to Virginia on Thursday, so I took the truck in for inspection and an oil change. I told my guy that when I got new tires put on the truck they told me I needed rear brakes and rotors.
They did all that, and also discovered that I needed upper ball joints and found that one of the stabilizer bars on the rear was rusted out.
Boom, a grand and change. But the truck drove like a damn dream to VA and back.
Firm suspension pickup points will do that for ya’!
Trump cancelled his visit so we stepped in! It was certainly a surprise for the workmen at the Embassy. #TrumpVisit pic.twitter.com/L9Olk22XMm
— Madame Tussauds (@MadameTussauds) January 12, 2018
re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Given that @potus apparently did nothing but golf while Hawaii was freaking out over an incoming missile attack alert, Kim Jong Un now knows how to launch a first strike while Trump is in office: just wait for a him to be on a weekend golf outing.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 13, 2018
re: #159 makeitstop
We had to drive to Virginia on Thursday, so I took the truck in for inspection and an oil change. I told my guy that when I got new tires put on the truck they told me I needed rear brakes and rotors.
They did all that, and also discovered that I needed upper ball joints and found that one of the stabilizer bars on the rear was rusted out.
Boom, a grand and change. But the truck drove like a damn dream to VA and back.
We took Mrs. FBW’s Sienna in for service last month. Turns out the front pads were practically down to the metal.
I don’t drive it very often, so when I drove it a month or do back and the brakes seemed not so great, I ascribed it to being used to the excellent brakes in the Challenger. Mrs. FBW, of course, didn’t notice anything odd about them because she drives it all the time and they just kind of got that way.
MAN, was it better after that!!! Kinda scary, in retrospect.
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hawaii timeline: pic.twitter.com/lSAAMfAxZS
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) January 13, 2018
Why wait until you go on your holibobs to ride the Birmingham Airport monorail, when you can virtually ride the entire thing on our all new, all incredible Twitter experience? pic.twitter.com/PFtCJgQAJj
— I Choose Birmingham (@ichoosemag) January 13, 2018
A comment from the John Scalzi post that was posted here last night.:
Evan says:
JANUARY 12, 2018 AT 2:28 PM
You know… I know this is coming from a place of privilege, but I’ve gotten to the point where his racist outbursts aren’t shocking anymore. His inability to restrain himself from saying hateful things has been used in court as evidence against the travel ban, so he actually hurts his own cause when he does these things, and I take some grim satisfaction in that, but otherwise it all just blends into the cosmic background hideousness.But the word “shithole” suddenly being on every channel actually does shock me a little. I know it’s the wrong reaction to have - what he believes should be the story, not how he expressed it - but somehow that’s the bit that stands out.
I remember saying back before the election that even if I wasn’t a democrat and didn’t share her values, I’d still be supporting Clinton because of the two major candidates she was the only one who would go away and competently do her job, whereas Trump would never, ever stop trying to be the center of attention, no matter how desperately he had to act out to do it. Even if you’re conservative, I said, can’t you see how utterly sick of him you’re going to be before long?
And even so, I never imagined I’d see purportedly unprintable words showing up in every news channel chryon, and a discussion about whether that plays well with his base.
I know that isn’t, or shouldn’t be, the real point. But I guess it’s the bit that I’m still not quite numb to yet.
A nuclear false alarm on top of news about Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels and his racist remarks about an entire continent. Welcome, my friends, to the Trump Shit Show that never ends.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) January 13, 2018
how many pedophiles are in your sick fuck church? you will be shut down this year. #Pizzagate #Pedogate
— Mister Flowers (@CharlieCanFly) January 13, 2018
You must have confused us with the Catholics. As is stated clearly in our profile and user name we are The Church Of Satan, we actually have rules against pedophilia. Maybe try reading next time, thanks! https://t.co/jb9C3iLufA
— The Church Of Satan (@ChurchofSatan) January 13, 2018
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) January 13, 2018
re: #146 Blind Frog Belly White
In the aftermath of the ‘Shithole Countries’ comments, I’m seeing wingnuts claim “Nobody called Trump a racist until the election!!”
That’s an odd thing to say about someone who was sued by the USG for racial discrimination, decades ago. I’d have thought that was the very essence of being called racist, to have an actual legal case against you for discrimination.
Yeah I’m seeing that one too. It’s pathetc, dishonest bs.
Horrible news just came in from my step-father on the telephone.
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The @FCC is launching a full investigation into the false emergency alert that was sent to residents of Hawaii.
— Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) January 13, 2018
ah good, the guy who just accidentally did a Harlem shake video with a pizzagater is on the case https://t.co/ew32K7gyKV
— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) January 13, 2018
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
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Shouldn’t you have to push more than one button to send a statewide ems alert telling everyone they’re under a ballistic missile attack?
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) January 13, 2018
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
Horrible news just came in from my step-father on the telephone.
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At least a million people in Hawaii woke up to pants shitting terror this morning because their State government authorized one-click shopping.
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) January 13, 2018
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
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I keep seeing these things on FB - “Did you drink from the hose as a kid? Did you ride your bike without a helmet? Did you ride in the car without seatbelts? It’s a miracle that any of us survived childhood in the 1960s!”
Some of us didn’t. That’s why we have things like helmets and seatbelts now.
re: #188 Blind Frog Belly White
I keep seeing these things on FB - “Did you drink from the hose as a kid? Did you ride your bike without a helmet? Did you ride in the car without seatbelts? It’s a miracle that any of us survived childhood in the 1960s!”
Some of us didn’t. That’s why we have things like helmets and seatbelts now.
Right, car accidents and plane crashes were much higher in the 60’s. The regulations gasp helped.
re: #188 Blind Frog Belly White
I keep seeing these things on FB - “Did you drink from the hose as a kid? Did you ride your bike without a helmet? Did you ride in the car without seatbelts? It’s a miracle that any of us survived childhood in the 1960s!”
Some of us didn’t. That’s why we have things like helmets and seatbelts now.
It is a miracle that any of us survived, actually. Just because the majority of us survived doesn’t mean it wasn’t fucking stupid.
Wingnuts seem to think something is a failure if it doesn’t completely eliminate it. I have no allusions, gun control won’t stop ALL shootings but if we can reduce gun violence, I think it’s worth it.
good fucking grief…
So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief…
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i think we all know what really happened in Hawaii pic.twitter.com/MGHVmeOQu8
— Frederick Douglass (@gettinnoticedmo) January 13, 2018
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Jersey Whale strikes again?
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
You need to know the story of KAL-007, a Korean airliner shot down in 1983, to understand why those 38 minutes in Hawaii put the whole world in danger.
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) January 13, 2018
Or, just three weeks after the KAL 007 shootdown, the story of Stanislav Petrov, one of the true heroes of the Cold War.
en.wikipedia.org
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If not for him, the world would have likely been turned into a radioactive cinder three-and-a-half decades ago.
re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief…
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re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
I am very sorry to hear that. You and your family are in my prayers.
re: #197 ObserverArt
I just changed his diaper. Its your turn to burp him. /
re: #197 ObserverArt
Someone get in there and burp the baby. He’s getting all fussy and cranky. Again.
Nanny Kelly, attention Nanny John Kelly.
re: #195 PhillyPretzel
The Jersey Whale strikes again?
I read that as The Outlaw Jersey Whale.
Heh, it had Eastwood in it. He was a bad ass too.
Seriously if Trump is a man’s man, I’m glad I don’t find their definition.
re: #201 ObserverArt
I read that as The Outlaw Jersey Whale.
Heh, it had Eastwood in it. He was a bad ass too.
Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy.
I’ve come to realize that Matt Yglesias is an incredibly lazy writer.
When your argument is reduced to stating that actual expertise in a field is disqualifying it’s time to find a new argument.
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) January 13, 2018
re: #189 HappyWarrior
Right, car accidents and plane crashes were much higher in the 60’s. The regulations gasp helped.
I can remember in the 1950’s, formations of converted WW2 bombers flying over my hometown spraying DDT to kill mosquitoes in an attempt to control an equine enchephalitis outbreak. Somehow we survived.
So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
Quick question:
Did your staff brief you on the #Hawaii Missile and you just say “Fuck it” or did they decide not to tell you till later because you’re an idiot? https://t.co/B1CtIilxUR— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 13, 2018
geez well i guess ‘shit’ is not onna them words you can’t say on tv anymore
Trump supporter logic: he won, no questions!
Also Trump supporters logic: Obama must be treated like a hostile who was not legitimate at all or worthy of any respect.
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
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A nuclear false alarm and not a word from this horrible so-called president. Instead he rants AGAIN about how the media is persecuting him. We’re living in a goddamned nightmare.
re: #206 Kragar
Quick question:
Did your staff brief you on the #Hawaii Missile and you just say “Fuck it” or did they decide not to tell you till later because you’re an idiot?
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 13, 2018
re: #211 Charles Johnson
A nuclear false alarm and not a word from this horrible so-called president. Instead he rants AGAIN about how the media is persecuting him. We’re living in a goddamned nightmare.
He’s not fit to be President. HRC warned us and too many scoffed because of their own bullshit.
I sincerely hope that the next time there’s a fake missile strike alert that the orange piece of rotting garbage doesn’t see it while he’s on his golden throne.
If he does, the whole world is done.
I think he’ll launch in less than a second.
This is why, along with lots of other things about the orange piece of shit, I cry every fucking day.
re: #207 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
geez well i guess ‘shit’ is not onna them words you can’t say on tv anymore
It is a very Presidential word now.
RWNJ: “Chelsea Manning can’t run for office. She is a convicted Felon!”
“You realize Joe Arpaio is running for office, right?”
RWNJ: “Whats your point?” pic.twitter.com/u0QuWQwTJI— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 13, 2018
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #211 Charles Johnson
A nuclear false alarm and not a word from this horrible so-called president. Instead he rants AGAIN about how the media is persecuting him. We’re living in a goddamned nightmare.
trump thought the nuclear false alarm was “fake news”.
re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!
geez donnie everybody knows that the Real Book is the best fake book ever
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #213 HappyWarrior
He’s not fit to be President. HRC warned us and too many scoffed because of their own bullshit.
Because emails.
Now now I’m sure Fox and Friends will tell us the real story soon about how the fake alarm is the Clintons or Obama’s fault.
re: #150 wrenchwench
Got somethin’ for ya:
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Mwah
re: #211 Charles Johnson
A nuclear false alarm and not a word from this horrible so-called president. Instead he rants AGAIN about how the media is persecuting him. We’re living in a goddamned nightmare.
re: #213 HappyWarrior
He’s not fit to be President. HRC warned us and too many scoffed because of their own bullshit.
re: #214 plansbandc
I sincerely hope that the next time there’s a fake missile strike alert that the orange piece of rotting garbage doesn’t see it while he’s on his golden throne.
If he does, the whole world is done.
I think he’ll launch in less than a second.
This is why, along with lots of other things about the orange piece of shit, I cry every fucking day.
re: #226 HappyWarrior
And she’s too screechy or cackles!
Look how she slipped getting into the Suburban!!!!
re: #229 Ace Rothstein
Look how she slipped getting into the Suburban!!!!
She’s too sensitive so I’m going to vote for the guy who wants strict libel laws because he can’t handle criticism!
re: #228 TedStriker
I remember that scene very well.
re: #210 Dave In Austin
re: #217 William Lewis
re: #222 plansbandc
Thank you.
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re: #159 makeitstop
We had to drive to Virginia on Thursday, so I took the truck in for inspection and an oil change. I told my guy that when I got new tires put on the truck they told me I needed rear brakes and rotors.
They did all that, and also discovered that I needed upper ball joints and found that one of the stabilizer bars on the rear was rusted out.
Boom, a grand and change. But the truck drove like a damn dream to VA and back.
Bikes been sitting in the barn for a while
Just took it in for service
They’re making a list…..
re: #233 dangerman
Bikes been sitting in the barn for a while
Just took it in for service
They’re making a list…..
Checking it twice?
re: #233 dangerman
I once read a column in Road & Track, written by the guy who restores old English sports cars for fun. He had a hankering for a Morgan, so he went to check out one listed in the classifieds.
As he went through it, he’d comment some compnent needed fixed or replaced, and the owner would respond, “Yeah, but you can get one from (some vendor)”.
Eventually, they had gone through everything and the owner asked, “Well, what do you think?”
The writer said it seemed like everything was bad on it except the steering wheel. “It’s a nice steering wheel, but it’s not worth $4500.”
Great. Rango now know what ‘going for a stroll’ means.
Dumb as a post otherwise, but he’s learning English.
re: #207 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
geez well i guess ‘shit’ is not onna them words you can’t say on tv anymore
He’s trying to break George carlin
re: #233 dangerman
Bikes been sitting in the barn for a while
Just took it in for service
They’re making a list…..
I woman came in today to get a flat fixed on the bicycle I sold her a year ago. I was having trouble remembering until she told me it replaced the bike I gave her an estimate on. Then I confirmed my memory by guessing the color of the new one (she only brought the rear wheel). Aqua.
She thanked me for fixing the flat right then. I thanked her for trying the door even though I had left up the ‘Gone to get Coffee’ sign up.
My customers will get me through.
re: #234 Blind Frog Belly White
Checking it twice?
2 weeks and we’re still adding stuff to the first estimate
Which I haven’t even seen yet
They just keep adding stuff…
re: #235 TedStriker
Dangerman, have you been naughty or nice?
/
I’ve been good
The bike not so much
It’s been rottin’
re: #236 Blind Frog Belly White
I once read a column in Road & Track, written by the guy who restores old English sports cars for fun. He had a hankering for a Morgan, so he went to check out one listed in the classifieds.
As he went through it, he’d comment some compnent needed fixed or replaced, and the owner would respond, “Yeah, but you can get one from (some vendor)”.
Eventually, they had gone through everything and the owner asked, “Well, what do you think?”
The writer said it seemed like everything was bad on it except the steering wheel. “It’s a nice steering wheel, but it’s not worth $4500.”
“This is George Washington hatchet. I’ve had to replace the handle. And the head. But it occupies the same place in spacetime”
re: #239 TedStriker
Tits!
/
I saw him perform that in Milwaukee, where he got arrested for it. Prosecutor told the judge, ‘There were women and children in the audience!’ (which included my mom and her 7.) The judge asked, ‘What was their reaction?’ ‘They gave him a standing ovation.’ Case thrown out.
re: #240 wrenchwench
I woman came in today to get a flat fixed on the bicycle I sold her a year ago. I was having trouble remembering until she told me it replaced the bike I gave her an estimate on. Then I confirmed my memory by guessing the color of the new one (she only brought the rear wheel). Aqua.
She thanked me for fixing the flat right then. I thanked her for trying the door even though I had left up the ‘Gone to get Coffee’ sign up.
My customers will get me through.
Slightly ot
I once had a first date with a girl in NY. Told her I rode my bike to Memphis and bsck. She asked what kind. I said Harley. She said I thought you meant a Schwinn or something.
We didn’t make it to a second…
I woke up this morning in Hawaii with ten minutes to live. It was a false alarm, but a real psychic warning. If we allow this one-man Gomorrah and his corrupt Republican congress to continue alienating the world we are headed for suffering beyond all imagination. ;^\ pic.twitter.com/Kwca91IIy2
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) January 13, 2018
EXACTLY, @JimCarrey. Today’s false alarm in Hawaii should be a teachable moment for everyone resigned to waiting till 2020 To End Trump’s reign: 2020 might never arrive for tens of millions of us. https://t.co/OUdthXXvFT
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 13, 2018
So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
OMG that book is so last week. We’ve moved onto your filthy racism, the possibility that your physical results will be faked, and the hush money you paid the porn star you slept with, please try to keep up. https://t.co/JqBvZ6NvBD
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) January 13, 2018
Chalk up another junked opportunity for leadership. After a refreshing day of golf, Stormy Genius has no time for the multitudes who spent 38 minutes today preparing themselves and their children for incineration. His pet grudge is hungry and demands a fresh dish of snivel tweets pic.twitter.com/eRlJISmvKS
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 13, 2018
Just heard the best one-liner:
“The human brain is an amazing organ. It keeps working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, from before you leave the womb right up until the day you vote republican.”
Trump loves Norway because we grow his hair. pic.twitter.com/IWMzelqYIQ
— André Ulveseter (@AndUlv) January 11, 2018
re: #232 Anymouse 🌹
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Mark Wahlberg says he’ll donate $1.5 million to Time’s Up after outcry https://t.co/tf1lkqYTAc pic.twitter.com/MgVXPKaOrH
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 13, 2018
re: #250 wrenchwench
Throwback Saturday. (I never get those memes right.)
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LGF’s version of Reddit’s “OldSchoolCool”
my surprise…
Eric Trump claimed that the Trump family business was not profiting off of his charitable foundation, but the foundation’s tax returns show that that simply wasn’t the truth. https://t.co/2ZQNwaOsoP
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) January 13, 2018
re: #255 TedStriker
LGF’s version of Reddit’s “OldSchoolCool”
My brother in the light blue sweatshirt got so much shit for his long hair on that trip.
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re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
my surprise…
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re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
Horrible news just came in from my step-father on the telephone.
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So sorry, man. Nothing but condolences all the way down….
re: #252 A Mom Anon
re: #258 Eclectic Cyborg
Thank you.
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re: #260 Jay C
Thank you. This will be a hard day.
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think we’ll see more of that as wingnuts pretend to be Democrats in an attempt to “ride the blue wave”.
Also, wingnuts can point to these assholes as examples of how Democrats are the real racists, etc.
We have to be very careful to out these people and prevent them from winning. As I’ve said before, two Larouche candidates won Democratic primaries in Illinois in 1986 because both the press and the party failed to warn people about who these candidates were. People (including me) opposed the standard party-supported candidates for the offices and were unaware of the background of the opposition candidates. I refused to vote in those races because I knew nothing about these candidates; too many others voted against the party candidate and then discovered the monsters they had selected.
re: #243 dangerman
“This is George Washington hatchet. I’ve had to replace the handle. And the head. But it occupies the same place in spacetime”
aka The Ship Of Theseus.
Well.
Rango’s walk today was a bit TOO exciting. Damn near got run over by a left turning driver, who probably would have run Rango over if R didn’t have Greyhound jump muscles.
Shee-it!!
But Rango’s okay, thank god!
re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
LIBERAL FORBES!!!!
re: #265 Blind Frog Belly White
Well.
Rango’s walk today was a bit TOO exciting. Damn near got run over by a left turning driver, who probably would have run Rango over if R didn’t have Greyhound jump muscles.
Shee-it!!
But Rango’s okay, thank god!
Drivers are definitely the scariest part of my daily runs.
re: #265 Blind Frog Belly White
Well.
Rango’s walk today was a bit TOO exciting. Damn near got run over by a left turning driver, who probably would have run Rango over if R didn’t have Greyhound jump muscles.
Shee-it!!
But Rango’s okay, thank god!
It’s always those left turners…
It’s been five hours since a state was terrified. The White House has issued a single, inaccurate statement wrongly claiming it was a “state exercise.” The president has said nothing. He has taken the time to insult journalists and brag about winning an election 14 months ago.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 13, 2018
i think it was absolutely necessary for the three major news networks to talk about nothing else besides the hawaii false alarm for the entire day
re: #253 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #250 wrenchwench
Throwback Saturday. (I never get those memes right.)
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That’s a few weeks after we saw Carlin. The 7th is probably hanging on to Mom’s leg as she takes the picture.
Come on Wrench…waiting here.
You have to identify yourself in that photo.
I’m going to guess, third from the left (looking at the photo), arm holding elbow.
re: #272 ObserverArt
Come on Wrench…waiting here.
You have to identify yourself in that photo.
I’m going to guess, third from the left (looking at the photo), arm holding elbow.
I’m the visible one holding the leash. My dog Snoopy (not even a beagle) is on the other end.
My sister understandably has not updated the information on her Medical GoFundMe for the wildly expensive treatments yet, though it is about half way to its goal. (It’s a damn travesty that the wealthiest nation in the history of the planet requires such things.)
It is behind the privacy bar. The last update was eight days ago when things seemed to be improving.
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re: #271 MsJ
Thank you for your condolences, Ms. J.
So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
Not one word of concern for what the people of Hawaii went through. Because the best way to respond to an obsession that Michael Wolff called you a narcissistic man-child who makes everything about you is to be a narcissist man-child who makes everything about you. Well done. https://t.co/mWEAFv8jU0
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) January 13, 2018
If Melania Trump wanted to become an instant hero, she would file for divorce and demand half of Trump’s fortune, thereby *requiring* all of Trump’s assets to be disclosed during discovery. Oh, the hilarity.
— CC (@canadiancynic) January 13, 2018
re: #277 Interesting Times
Except she’s no hero. She’s an accomplice.
So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
A nuclear attack false alarm - and not a single word about it from this horrible so-called president. Instead he rants AGAIN about how the media is persecuting him. We’re living in a goddamned nightmare. https://t.co/DR2iMoqchc
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 13, 2018
The Trump supporters coming at me on Twitter after this tweet are some of the flat out dumbest human beings I’ve ever seen.
re: #279 Charles Johnson
The Trump supporters coming at me on Twitter after this tweet are some of the flat out dumbest human beings I’ve ever seen.
One wonders how much is overseas rodent copulation.
I just watched the Letterman-Obama interview on Netflix. Wow. Sure has been dusty in here the past hour. Started with his introduction.
Cannot recommend too highly. Must see.
Current Mood:https://t.co/vjtUca9vzF
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 14, 2018
re: #275 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #124 Jay C
Great point. I’m going to see if I can find Tom Perez’ email/contact info so I can make that suggestion to him. Democrats have zero reasons to run unqualified or bigoted candidates.
As to Chelsea Manning, she has little chance of unseating Senator Cardin. I wouldn’t vote for her.
re: #277 Interesting Times
Signing a PerNup. and an NDA were part of the vows…..
Yep
— Morgan Fairchild (@morgfair) January 14, 2018
Ewwww https://t.co/NZYcxILHGu
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 14, 2018
re: #284 Patricia Kayden
No way in hell I would vote for her in a Primary or against a Democrat.
If she made it thru a primary to run against a Republican? Better her than the alternative.
re: #283 allegro
Thank you so much.
I appreciate the outpouring of concern from everyone here.
My sister’s fourteenth wedding anniversary is on the 24th. She has been married longer than I have.
re: #274 Anymouse 🌹
My sister understandably has not updated the information on her Medical GoFundMe for the wildly expensive treatments yet, though it is about half way to its goal. (It’s a damn travesty that the wealthiest nation in the history of the planet requires such things.)
It is behind the privacy bar. The last update was eight days ago when things seemed to be improving.
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re: #155 Dave In Austin
Marmel’s joke isn’t all that funny. I’m pretty sure that the Haitians who work for Trump aren’t going to do anything to sabotage their employment. They’re working for an odious bigot because they need that job.
I find the Trumpers funny. They’re either denying he said what he said or full on embracing it.
re: #284 Patricia Kayden
As to Chelsea Manning, she has little chance of unseating Senator Cardin. I wouldn’t vote for her.
More like none whatsoever. Cardin had my vote last time and still has it today, and I think it’s safe to say that the same sentiment echoes throughout the vast majority of the state’s Dem voters.
re: #292 Archangelus
More like none whatsoever. Cardin had my vote last time and still has it today, and I think it’s safe to say that the same sentiment echoes throughout the vast majority of the state’s Dem voters.
Yeah I can’t see Cardin losing this.
Well, this is reassuring… :/
A question to ask: If the missile alert issued by Hawaii had been real, would you have been ready?
— DEFCONWarningSystem (@DEFCONWSALERTS) January 13, 2018
Quickly make your way to the center of your metropolitan area where you will be instantly vaporized, so that you aren’t left burned, blind, and dying in a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Have a nice day. America First. https://t.co/BuxXs4F4My
— Prole Model (@twh) January 14, 2018
ran out of ice cubes.
good thing Mother Nature stepped up and provided icicles…
The first member of the White House press corps to ask Trump, on camera, to explain his position on Wakandan immigration should get a free Pulitzer.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) January 14, 2018
Siri. Show me dogs that look like wizards. pic.twitter.com/dpmdtEMZXa
— Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears) January 13, 2018
Scenario 1:
Trump is golfing.
Gets briefed about the Hawaii missile alarm.
Doesn’t stop golfing.
Gets informed that it was a false alarm.
Chooses not to release a statement on the issue telling people they’ve got nothing to worry about.
Continues golfing.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 14, 2018
Scenario 2 Cont:
Trump finishes golfing and decides to tweet about “fake news” and how Wolff’s book painting him as an idiot man-baby is wrong.
Which seems more likely:— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 14, 2018
515 PM…80 degrees here in Los Angeles…the high was 85…In January…but Republicans will swear that there is no global warming…
re: #298 Kragar
Wait! I know this one!!!
The crazy is spreading:
An anti-Islamic nationalist wheeled a homemade gallows into central London, led a group of men into a conference hall and attempted to “arrest” the city’s first Muslim mayor as he gave a speech Saturday.
The group failed, and was eventually escorted out by the same police officers they had asked to apprehend Mayor Sadiq Khan. They still managed to delay the speech for 15 minutes as they accused Khan of treachery, tyranny and disrespecting President Trump.
Well, what a week. I found a cracked tank on one of my toilets when I got back from Christmas break. Then the washing machine crapped out with the bad power supply. My garage door broke a spring. And last, but thankfully least, I broke one of the wiper blades on my wife’s car when cleaning it off this afternoon. I just can’t buy a break these days.
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #287 Kragar
No way in hell I would vote for her in a Primary or against a Democrat.
If she made it thru a primary to run against a Republican? Better her than the alternative.
I doubt she’s going to beat Senator Cardin who in my opinion is a great Senator. I recently contacted him about his report on Rusdia’s Interference in the last election and he responded with a detailed email. I find both of my Maryland Senators to be great about responding to my messages. No need to change either of them.
The word “shithole” is being projected onto Trump’s DC hotel. https://t.co/pq0b7b1BEW
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 14, 2018
re: #302 goddamnedfrank
The crazy is spreading:
From your quote:
treachery, tyranny and disrespecting President Trump
What the actual fuck does “disrespecting President Trump” have ANYTHING to do with ANYTHING in the UK?!?!?
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A shithole is an astronomically wealthy nation that refuses to provide healthcare for all people.
— William C. (@williamcson) January 12, 2018
re: #308 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
From your quote:
What the actual fuck does “disrespecting President Trump” have ANYTHING to do with ANYTHING in the UK?!?!?
That’s what I’m trying to figure out.
Almost 530 here in Los Angeles…it’s 79…the high was 85 today…in January…
re: #310 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s what I’m trying to figure out.
I mean, sheet, he is literally not their President. They shouldn’t really give a fuck. The crazy is strong with those.
re: #311 Joe Bacon 🌹
Do you want to trade? forecast.weather.gov
re: #312 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I mean, sheet, he is literally not their President. They shouldn’t really give a fuck. The crazy is strong with those.
Trump’s the global white supremacists’ god-emperor; if anyone ever doubted this, this story out of London is irrefutable proof.
re: #314 TedStriker
Trump’s the global white supremacists’ god-emperor; if anyone ever doubted this, this story out of London is irrefutable proof.
The Great White Nope.
re: #314 TedStriker
Trump’s the global white supremacists’ god-emperor; if anyone ever doubted this, this story out of London is irrefutable proof.
I do like Khan’s comment after the “Pendragons” were rousted out:
Khan stood up and resumed his speech. “It’s a pleasure to be here,” he said, “even though we were distracted by the actions of what some would call very stable geniuses.”
Shade. Thrown.
re: #318 Anymouse 🌹
Thank you for your condolences and concern.
I’ve now heard from my family and from local government officials.
I’m lifting a glass in her memory now.
Mind if I join you?
[Raises glass.]
re: #279 Charles Johnson
I assume Trump could care less about the state with a majority POC population which voted for his Democratic opponent and is the birthplace of President Obama.
re: #321 Anymouse 🌹
Celtic Woman is always a good choice.
re: #289 Renaissance_Man
So sorry to hear, Anymouse. Sending a long distance hug!
In case it got missed today, behold one of the worst photography/photoshopping efforts ever:
I can’t stop laughing 😆😂 https://t.co/4DOLImqzpJ pic.twitter.com/nldeQwEwqP
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) January 13, 2018
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So, to recap:
British yammies try to arrest the Mayor of London for disrespecting their yam.
Chelsea Manning is running for Senate.
Ken Blackwell and Mark Burns make fools of themselves defending the yam
on MSNBC.
Hawaii has a frightening ballistic missile warning.
And the yam goes golfing and then whines about the media.
Yep—another Saturday in the Park.
(Slow motion riders fly the colors of the day
A bronze man still can tell stories his own way
Listen children all is not lost, all is not lost, oh no, no)
I need copious quantities of amber colored liquid.
re: #325 Archangelus
In case it got missed today, behold one of the worst photography efforts ever:
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At least the “photographer” didn’t do this…
Exclusive: Trump accuser Jessica Drake has an NDA preventing her from discussing Trump https://t.co/1Lmi0RwDb0
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) January 13, 2018
Exactly how much money was paid out in hush money during the closing weeks of the campaign and where did that money come from? If campaign funds, that could be illegal.
John Edwards was indicted, faced six felony counts related to using secret campaign funds to cover an affair. https://t.co/ChTb5WC3d0— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) January 13, 2018
re: #323 PhillyPretzel
Celtic Woman is always a good choice.
The majority of my family wishes this song performed when one of us passes away. [crying]
My dad is in Hawaii for travel… pic.twitter.com/6JXecxuIBt
— Jason anderson (@JasonMan811) January 13, 2018
Oh, that NAUGHTY Julian! He just doesn’t pick up after himself!
Staff at the Ecuador Embassy in London grew tired of the whiffing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who reportedly does not attend to his own personal hygiene.
It’s that lack of cleanliness, among other things, that fueled Ecuador’s recent attempts to end his five-year stand-off at the Knightsbridge embassy, the International Business Times reported.
“It seems he doesn’t wash properly,” a “well-placed” source told the news outlet, noting the issue has prompted repeated complaints from staff at the UK embassy.
“Julian ate everything with his hands and he always wiped his fingers on his pants. I have never seen pants as greasy as his in my whole life,” one of his closest aides, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, told the Times.
re: #331 Anymouse 🌹
::: passing tissues :::
As I said earlier you and your family are in my prayers.
re: #327 BeachDem
So, to recap:
British yammies try to arrest the Mayor of London for disrespecting their yam.
Chelsea Manning is running for Senate.
Ken Blackwell and Mark Burns make fools of themselves defending the yam
on MSNBC.
Hawaii has a frightening ballistic missile warning.
And the yam goes golfing and then whines about the media.Yep—another Saturday in the Park.
(Slow motion riders fly the colors of the day
A bronze man still can tell stories his own way
Listen children all is not lost, all is not lost, oh no, no)I need copious quantities of amber colored liquid.
Sure sounds like it.
I have Irish whiskey, brandy, amaretto, and pitorro (kind of a local moonshine). Which one do you want to start with?
Holy crap, read this account.
If it was me, I’d prob just stare out the window waiting.
Two hours after the alert was rescinded, with his heart rate still elevated, Brook Conner described the roughly half hour that he and his family spent thinking that nuclear Armageddon was upon them. https://t.co/doW6C5I6DJ
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 14, 2018
re: #334 PhillyPretzel
::: passing tissues :::
As I said earlier you and your family are in my prayers.
Thank you.
I will play the same tonight on my hammered dulcimer and think on my sister’s loss… .
re: #329 makeitstop
And was any of it Trump’s money, or did come from his bogus “charitable foundation”?
Of course it did.
re: #335 Sea Mexican!
Sure sounds like it.
I have Irish whiskey, brandy, amaretto, and pitorro (kind of a local moonshine). Which one do you want to start with?
Whiskey now—brandy later. Thanks for asking.
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
Horrible news just came in from my step-father on the telephone.
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Friend in Hawaii posted this to Facebook.
Ok Hawaii I have to know what did you do when you got the news we were about to get nuked? I called ***** crying- then I told the kids we had a tsunami warning and brought all of their skateboards and bikes inside 🤷🏼♀️ Filled my tubs with water and covered my bedroom windows with every blanket I could find and put the kids in my bed and started reading charlottes web to them. What a surreal feeling to think that within minutes your life could be forever changed if you lived through it at all. I loathe trump. This should not be our reality. And now I’m going to put some ribs in the oven and get ready for **** birthday party. 🤦♀️
re: #333 Joe Bacon 🌹
Oh, that NAUGHTY Julian! He just doesn’t pick up after himself!
Staff at the Ecuador Embassy in London grew tired of the whiffing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who reportedly does not attend to his own personal hygiene.
It’s that lack of cleanliness, among other things, that fueled Ecuador’s recent attempts to end his five-year stand-off at the Knightsbridge embassy, the International Business Times reported.
“It seems he doesn’t wash properly,” a “well-placed” source told the news outlet, noting the issue has prompted repeated complaints from staff at the UK embassy.
“Julian ate everything with his hands and he always wiped his fingers on his pants. I have never seen pants as greasy as his in my whole life,” one of his closest aides, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, told the Times.
re: #342 BigPapa
Assange stinks. Literally.
No surprise that Julian Assange is a dirty, nasty-ass motherfucker, in more ways than one.
re: #343 TedStriker
No surprise that Julian Assange is a dirty, nasty-ass motherfucker, in more ways than one.
The best part of that story is they created his area from a women’s restroom.
re: #329 makeitstop
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I looked at that photo and noticed something…
What is that, his ‘meeting porn stars’ outfit?
Of all the money that e’er I had
I spent it in good company
And all the harm I’ve ever done
Alas it was to none but me
And all I’ve done for want of wit
To mem’ry now I can’t recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be to you all
[Chorus]
So fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate’er befalls
And gently rise and softly call
Good night and joy be to you all
Of all the comrades that e’er I had
They’re sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e’er I had
They’d wish me one more day to stay
But since it fell unto my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I gently rise and softly call
Good night and joy be to you all
Fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate’er befalls
And gently rise and softly call
Good night and joy be to you all
La La
But since it fell unto my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I gently rise and softly call
Good night and joy be to you all
[Chorus]
Good night and joy be to you all.
re: #343 TedStriker
So why don’t they just throw his deadbeat ass out? Orders from Putin?
re: #333 Joe Bacon 🌹
Oh, that NAUGHTY Julian! He just doesn’t pick up after himself!
Staff at the Ecuador Embassy in London grew tired of the whiffing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who reportedly does not attend to his own personal hygiene.
It’s that lack of cleanliness, among other things, that fueled Ecuador’s recent attempts to end his five-year stand-off at the Knightsbridge embassy, the International Business Times reported.
“It seems he doesn’t wash properly,” a “well-placed” source told the news outlet, noting the issue has prompted repeated complaints from staff at the UK embassy.
“Julian ate everything with his hands and he always wiped his fingers on his pants. I have never seen pants as greasy as his in my whole life,” one of his closest aides, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, told the Times.
He eats with his fingers?? WTF? Is he afraid someone is going to poison his silverware?
re: #345 makeitstop
I looked at that photo and noticed something…
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What is that, his ‘meeting porn stars’ outfit?
Also, Stormy Daniels is Ivanka Trump pic.twitter.com/HQj5UmmRzA
— Juniper Rose (@wholelottarosee) January 13, 2018
re: #345 makeitstop
I looked at that photo and noticed something…
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What is that, his ‘meeting porn stars’ outfit?
I’d say same event?
re: #340 Sea Mexican!
Thank you for your condolences.
I thank all here at Little Green Footballs.
[still crying]
re: #349 The Vicious Babushka
“How much extra for you to call me Daddy?”
re: #348 Jay C
He eats with his fingers?? WTF? Is he afraid someone is going to poison his silverware?
My guess is he isn’t housebroken.
re: #348 Jay C
He eats with his fingers?? WTF? Is he afraid someone is going to poison his silverware?
He was probably sifting through his food, checking for knockout pills.
Fuckface Von Clownstick’s shithole. pic.twitter.com/tqc1nIgXxY
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) January 14, 2018
re: #356 teleskiguy
And in the correct place too. /
re: #350 Stanley Sea
I’d say same event?
“The president and Daniels were photographed together in July 2006 at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, a three-round tournament at the Edgewood Tahoe golf resort.”
“Another adult-film star, Jessica Drake, alleged in an October 2016 news conference that Trump kissed her and two other women without permission after the Tahoe golf tournament. She said he also called her, offering $10,000 to go on a date with him, the New York Post said.”
mercurynews.com
This may get interesting if what the story makeitstop posted proposes, he gets taken down for bribing women.
re: #360 Stanley Sea
This may get interesting if what the story makeitstop posted proposes, he gets taken down for bribing women.
Like Alcapone with tax evasion.
re: #360 Stanley Sea
He didn’t get taken down for bribing the Texas and Florida A.G.s, so I doubt this is going anywhere.
re: #360 Stanley Sea
This may get interesting if what the story makeitstop posted proposes, he gets taken down for bribing women.
I can hear the assholes at Fox News right now saying, “Bill Clinton did that all the time and he got away with it!”…
Follow the money.
If it was campaign funds or foundation funds…..
re: #364 Stanley Sea
Another thing that Mueller should look into if he has not already.
re: #302 goddamnedfrank
The crazy is spreading:
re: #308 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
From your quote:
What the actual fuck does “disrespecting President Trump” have ANYTHING to do with ANYTHING in the UK?!?!?
re: #310 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s what I’m trying to figure out.
From downstairs:
Far-right Trump supporters try to arrest London Mayor https://t.co/XTrmFRM8UL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 13, 2018
re: #360 Stanley Sea
This may get interesting if what the story makeitstop posted proposes, he gets taken down for bribing women.
You are up in arms over a sex worker named stormy, you need to watch more porn because you look silly
— Aquaone (@Aquaone5) January 13, 2018
I could care less about the porn star.
It’s the blackmail and hush money. https://t.co/OgtxmjLKij— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 13, 2018
Blackmail and hush money is Donald Trump’s middle name, @TheRickWilson. And his profession: money launderer. https://t.co/GVKBe1sbRl
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) January 13, 2018
Come on, admit it, media peoples. You got a big kick out of saying “shithole” over and over on television.
I know I would.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 14, 2018
— Panel Pulp (@panelpulp) January 13, 2018
THIS IS JUST WRONG https://t.co/5zFbpUWN1k
— Di Umgebroyzelte Bubbie (@viciousbabushka) January 14, 2018
re: #351 Anymouse 🌹
Just catching up with the news after a self -imposed media blackout, as I’ve been doing some Saturdays.
{{{{{{{anymouse}}}}}}
re: #365 PhillyPretzel
Another thing that Mueller should look into if he has not already.
Mueller’s going to have to live to be 100 years old just to get through what Trump’s done this year.
Good night everyone. I am going to go play hammered dulcimer now and then try to sleep.
Thank you all for your condolences. If I’m missing for a few days you’ll know why… .
The news today in Hawaii… Jesus Fucking Shitballs. I’m shaken by it. That’s Cold War duck and cover shit happening today, in 2018. All because the United States elected an orange blob of evil as president. I. Just. Can’t. Anymore.
after Hawaii’s false alarm, @brianschatz told Gov. Ige (who was preparing a statement on the mistake) to just tweet it outhttps://t.co/iTJxjtsnrD pic.twitter.com/PmobJzuRVB
— Sarah Emerson (@SarahNEmerson) January 14, 2018
Charles, I put $60 in the till for a subscription renewal via GoFundMe, though my sub doesn’t expire until 25 Feb. Thought I’d give you the scratch while I have it. Thanks for all you do, this website is freaking awesome.
Once in a while i need a break from Trump! Enjoy😎 pic.twitter.com/gP9V3o2gO5
— Rogelio Garcia Lawyer (@LawyerRogelio) January 13, 2018
😊#PositiveNewsWeekend
I love these Strandbeests: wind-propelled kinetic sculptures created by Dutchman Theo Jansen. #art #beach #animals #fun pic.twitter.com/0fIsmpVnQx— Alexander Verbeek 🌍 (@Alex_Verbeek) January 13, 2018
It must be all the stress/tension from the current state of the world that made LOL for real at this:
— Ray [REDACTED] (@rayjwatson) January 14, 2018
re: #381 Interesting Times
It must be all the stress/tension from the current state of the world that made LOL for real at this:
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Wow. Just … wow.
So about that third option… pic.twitter.com/IdHguW7wxY
— Claire Gibson (@Klovharu) January 14, 2018
Wow, this statement from Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) re “shithole”: “If it’s true, he owes the people of Haiti and all mankind an apology. That is not the kind of statement the leader of the free world ought to make, and he ought to be ashamed of himself.”
— Matthew Nussbaum (@MatthewNussbaum) January 13, 2018
Sounds great, right? But Sen. Isakson also votes in favor of Trump’s racist policies 95% of the time. Words are cheap. Actions speak louder. https://t.co/vIWNynF1Ar https://t.co/Z9NvoDxWaP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 14, 2018
re: #369 The Vicious Babushka
I had a friend who baked a pie to enter in the MN State Fair food competition. He asked me to drive him and the pie to the fairgrounds. When I got to his house, he was in the process of baking a second pie because his first one hadn’t turn out perfect, but the second pie hadn’t browned to his liking yet. By the time he took it out of the oven (still not quite perfect), we had about 7 minutes to get to the fairgrounds. I knew the route with the fewest stoplights so we raced to the fairgrounds with a minute to spare, but I wasn’t sure where I was going once we got onto the grounds. I thought I’d missed a turn so I tapped on the brakes without thinking, saw my friend lurch, and then heard the splat as the pie hit the floor of my truck. We just stared at each other for a few seconds, and then my friend started laughing. I wanted to cry. He opined that the pie wasn’t baked to perfection so he probably wouldn’t have won anyway.
The parts of the pie that weren’t dirty from the floor mat sure tasted good though.
re: #377 teleskiguy
Charles, I put $60 in the till for a subscription renewal via GoFundMe, though my sub doesn’t expire until 25 Feb. Thought I’d give you the scratch while I have it. Thanks for all you do, this website is freaking awesome.
Thanks! I’ll extend you for another year from the expiration date.
From the Editorial Board: Where to begin? How about with a simple observation: The president of the United States is a racist. https://t.co/DshwP7yGZr pic.twitter.com/U4TCyyaZcX
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) January 13, 2018
File under: Never thought I’d see this.
It’s a big file. https://t.co/7lGraag1tY— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) January 14, 2018
So did Donald Trump swat Hawaii this morning?
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) January 14, 2018
‘You’re wasting my time, goodbye’: Watch disgusted Joy Reid cut mic on ranting pastor excusing Trump’s racism https://t.co/81xJcDMYOQ
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 14, 2018
re: #116 Dr Lizardo
So, I’m teaching myself this:
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I figured I’d start off with something easy. A, D, E chords. Pretty basic.
lets hear it for the 1-4-5!
re: #371 Skip Intro
Mueller’s going to have to live to be 100 years old just to get through what Trump’s done this year.
That’s why his staff keeps increasing.
Brazen daylight robbery caught on camera as a seagull allegedly enters a bakery and steals a bag of chips. https://t.co/Ql74Je5UMn pic.twitter.com/TQPbcvGHO7
— ABC News (@ABC) January 14, 2018
H&M apologizes for using a black child to model a sweatshirt with a “coolest monkey in the jungle” slogan https://t.co/NuiIf8RHai pic.twitter.com/3139eRsOmY
— CNN (@CNN) January 14, 2018
re: #388 teleskiguy
Wow! They didn’t hold back.
re: #394 FormerDirtDart
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To be honest, sometimes I feel like things like this are just trying to find racism in places where it isn’t. I get it, racism is a deeply recurring theme in American culture, but sometimes, a hoodie is just a hoodie.
re: #393 FormerDirtDart
I don’t recognize that seagull. Can’t help
re: #375 teleskiguy
The news today in Hawaii… Jesus Fucking Shitballs. I’m shaken by it. That’s Cold War duck and cover shit happening today, in 2018. All because the United States elected an orange blob of evil as president. I. Just. Can’t. Anymore.
I think it is worse in a way.
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis a bit though I was pretty young. I don’t remember anyone having to take their kids into a middle room or basement and try to remain calm with them while thinking there is in fact a nuke heading your way.They didn’t know there wasn’t.
Sure there was worry and concern during the Cuban crisis.
Today, many people were saying their last prayers and thoughts…or thinking them.
That is bad. I can’t imagine. America should be pissed off.
And the thing is, what made it that real was idiot Trump getting into a dick measuring contest with Kim Jong-un and getting us all thinking Trump is that unstable and a missile strike is possible.
Fucking Asshole. Our president is a fucking asshole.
re: #388 teleskiguy
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And just about every comment is a variation of, “Duh, where’ve you been the past several years, NYT? Oh—screaming about HER EMAILS.”
We downloaded all the tweets for the last year containing the word “antifa” and started looking at them. Here are the top 20 accounts tweeting about antifa based on number of retweets. pic.twitter.com/qkC4WdADe6
— Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0) January 10, 2018
re: #391 Jebediah, RBG
lets hear it for the 1-4-5!
You Too Can Use The Same Chords That Beethoven Did!
stormy daniels
whatcha wanna bet his thang don’t work no more?
re: #404 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
How much Viagra - I’ll stop right there.
Just another Saturday night on which the president is retweeting a Pizzagate conspiracy clown pic.twitter.com/iHQLmfzJK8
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 14, 2018
Gutfeld is trending on Twitter, and I don’t want to look it up.
re: #394 FormerDirtDart
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Why is CNN tweeting out a five day old story? Slow news day? I think not…
re: #403 Skip Intro
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There just seems to be so many things developing as Mueller’s investigation grows. This has to be getting rather weighty on everyone associated with Trump. Donny’s got to blow up soon…unless he really is kept that much in the dark as has been hinted.
Uhh this escalated…quickly pic.twitter.com/JZaP8WOafC
— Rhea Butcher 🇵🇷 (@RheaButcher) January 14, 2018
re: #406 FormerDirtDart
Annnd, unshockingly, the Pizzagate conspiracy clown’s tweet, retweeted by the president, is a lie. Durbin was explaining that the DREAM Act wouldn’t allow “chain migration” rights for newly legalized DREAMers, not calling for an end to “chain migration” for other people.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 14, 2018
if i’m sitting in a restaurant/tavern where the soundtrack is blasting hits from approx 1980, am i in the 21st century equivalent of an old people’s restaurant circa 1970 with wall to wall frank sinatra and “popular songs played by a symphony orchestra”?
re: #398 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
I don’t recognize that seagull. Can’t help
Stanley will know, but she ain’t talking…
In the midst of a huge outcry against his vile racist comments, the president of the United States just retweeted, in quick succession, an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist, an alt-right Pizzagate cretin, and a 9/11 Truther. pic.twitter.com/kkMwBzz8a0
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 14, 2018
re: #394 FormerDirtDart
H&M apologizes for using a black child to model a sweatshirt with a “coolest monkey in the jungle” slogan money.cnn.com pic.twitter.com
— CNN (@CNN) January 14, 2018
re: #412 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
if i’m sitting in a restaurant/tavern where the soundtrack is blasting hits from approx 1980, am i in the 21st century equivalent of an old people’s restaurant circa 1970 with wall to wall frank sinatra and “popular songs played by a symphony orchestra”?
Ummm, hate to say it, but yes…..
re: #412 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
You are, in fact, in Hell. There was nothing worth listening to in 1980. There may have been some 1979 leftovers…
re: #397 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
To be honest, sometimes I feel like things like this are just trying to find racism in places where it isn’t. I get it, racism is a deeply recurring theme in American culture, but sometimes, a hoodie is just a hoodie.
It’s complicated? From what I have read I believe that was the only place in the ad campaign where they used a black child to model any of the clothing.
Also I don’t feel like I’m a very good arbiter about what is racist and what isn’t, seeing how I’m white.
re: #409 ObserverArt
DimJim Hoft is calling this the first Uranium 1 indictment, which it certainly is not. Got to keep the morons covered in manure to keep them happy.
re: #406 FormerDirtDart
Just RTd by Humpy Trumpy
This will surely lead to her impeachment.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 14, 2018
re: #419 klys (maker of Silmarils)
It’s complicated? From what I have read I believe that was the only place in the ad campaign where they used a black child to model any of the clothing.
Also I don’t feel like I’m a very good arbiter about what is racist and what isn’t, seeing how I’m white.
I think that last point is probably the most salient point, to be honest. I mean, sometimes I think people are being ridiculous about racism… but I’m a middle-class white male, and am thus literally the least qualified person on Earth to decide what is racist and what isn’t.
re: #397 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
To be honest, sometimes I feel like things like this are just trying to find racism in places where it isn’t. I get it, racism is a deeply recurring theme in American culture, but sometimes, a hoodie is just a hoodie.
Uh. Black Child. Monkey.
Sorry. That is bad.
#PuertoRicoSeLevanta … #YeahRight
Walmart will be raising the minimum its employees will earn … except in Puerto Rico.
Walmart, who announced that it will be raising the minimum wages to its employees, will not apply such raise to the 10,000 workers that work in its stores in Puerto Rico, confirmed Iván Báez, Walmart PR director. [Ed. Rough translation]
Original:
La megacadena Walmart, que anunció antier que subirá el salario mínimo a su plantilla de empleados, no aplicará dicho aumento a los 10,000 trabajadores que laboran en sus tiendas en Puerto Rico, confirmó Iván Báez, director de Asuntos Públicos y Relaciones Gubernamentales de Walmart Puerto Rico.
Here’s the link (it’s in Spanish).
re: #327 BeachDem
So, to recap:
British yammies try to arrest the Mayor of London for disrespecting their yam.
Chelsea Manning is running for Senate.
Ken Blackwell and Mark Burns make fools of themselves defending the yam
on MSNBC.
Hawaii has a frightening ballistic missile warning.
And the yam goes golfing and then whines about the media.Yep—another Saturday in the Park.
(Slow motion riders fly the colors of the day
A bronze man still can tell stories his own way
Listen children all is not lost, all is not lost, oh no, no)I need copious quantities of amber colored liquid.
On days like this, I really miss No Drama Obama. Sigh.
re: #414 Backwoods_Sleuth
Stanley will know, but she ain’t talking…
Checking ancestry….one of my ne’er do well’s I’m sure.
re: #418 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
There was nothing worth listening to in 1980.
LIAR!
re: #426 Patricia Kayden
Currently watching 44 on the Netflix/Letterman show
re: #428 Kragar
LIAR!
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Pretenders.
REM.
Elvis Costello.
Talking Heads.
…too many to list.
Dick Durbin called Trump racist for wanting to end chain migration.
Here’s a video of Dick Durbin calling for an end to chain migration https://t.co/xcbXT4UH8Q— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) January 14, 2018
Pizzagate peeboy wants people to stop talking about how Humpy Trumpy cheated on his wife with a pornstar, then paid her off, so he posts a 12 second context free video clip. SAD! https://t.co/WYCs5MQ1Wo
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 14, 2018
re: #418 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
re: #371 Skip Intro
Mueller’s going to have to live to be 100 years old just to get through what Trump’s done this year.
Or hire many more folk to help with this massive investigation.
re: #425 Sea Mexican!
#PuertoRicoSeLevanta … #YeahRight
Walmart will be raising the minimum its employees will earn … except in Puerto Rico.
Original:
Here’s the link (it’s in Spanish).
Walmart is raising the minimum wage for its workers, but excluding “some of its workers in the territory of Puerto Rico,” according to the island’s Governor @ricardorossello.
So, why is @Walmart doing this?
I’m waiting on a response from them.
Backstory: https://t.co/yxR5HVJxMb— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) January 13, 2018
BREAKING: Walmart agrees to extend minimum wage increase ($11 an hr) to ALL employees in Puerto Rico, announces Governor @ricardorossello
3 hours ago we tweeted that the Gov was asking @Walmart to reconsider its position. It didn’t take long. https://t.co/pwxMB8SSWw pic.twitter.com/1R7ouWIerc— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) January 14, 2018
THIS IS NOT A DRILL pic.twitter.com/lJZe4AGc87
— Edel Rodriguez (@edelstudio) January 14, 2018
re: #429 Dave In Austin
Currently watching 44 on the Netflix/Letterman show
Allegro said must watch as well.
So I’m watching with you.
Good night everyone. Thank you for your thoughts, your condolences, and your prayers.
My family feared the worst, but hoped for the best. Regrettably that was not to be.
Thank you all for your concerns: You all are the best.
Spiteful joy it is……
Poll: 49% say @BarackObama is responsible for current state of the economy. pic.twitter.com/LvZz6AlUGm
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 13, 2018
5 minutes in & I’m crying.
We had the best in Obama.
He’s just a real guy.
BREAKING: Kentucky became the first state today to require Medicaid beneficiaries to work or lose access to care.
They are also requiring very poor people to pay premiums or lose coverage— for extended periods. The plan is for a national model.
Here’s quick highlights.1/— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) January 12, 2018
There is also a “literacy” provision. https://t.co/7tCIV8Z5iw
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) January 14, 2018
I google top hits of 1980 to refresh my memory. Romeo’s Tune, Rise (Herb Alpert), Genesis’ Duke album, Workin My Way Back to You (Spinners), The Wall (I thought that was 1979), Do That to Me One More Time (Captain and Tenille) - OK that one I’m kidding, although I must admit it’s on my Iphone.
Chicago Police Department To Monitor All Interactions With Public Using New Bullet Cams https://t.co/CvHFvxi8Yo pic.twitter.com/UaFuBbNePC
— The Onion (@TheOnion) January 14, 2018
2. Bill Murray as Bannon - omg pic.twitter.com/Rqi4InuGeI
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 14, 2018
re: #449 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
I google top hits of 1980 to refresh my memory. Romeo’s Tune, Rise (Herb Alpert), Genesis’ Duke album, Workin My Way Back to You (Spinners), The Wall (I thought that was 1979), Do That to Me One More Time (Captain and Tenille) - OK that one I’m kidding, although I must admit it’s on my Iphone.
And then MTV launched, killing all the radio stars.
(Until today, I did not know that song was written in 1978. How prescient they were!)
re: #422 Kragar
This will surely lead to her impeachment
b-b-but then donald trump would become president!!
re: #452 wheat-dogg
Music videos were appearing by the late 70s. My NBC affiliate ran a “Friday Night Videos” program after Carson before MTV came on.
BTW my Youtube go to stuff are Midnight Specials. There’s a ton of great stuff, and very little of it is lip synched.
re: #454 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
Music videos were appearing by the late 70s. My NBC affiliate ran a “Friday Night Videos” program after Carson before MTV came on.
BTW my Youtube go to stuff are Midnight Specials. There’s a ton of great stuff, and very little of it is lip synched.
Midnight Special is a mother lode of real music. No lipsync & primitive electronics. They killed it.
re: #455 Stanley Sea
One of my favorites is Gladys Knight introducing Focus: “They are one of the most together musical acts…”, as she wonders silently “What the fu…?”
Edited to add link
I’m so surprised that the RWNJ’s didn’t latch onto this true comment. BO said that Michelle mentioned that the First Lady’s duties are immense & NOT PAID.
i think the music circa 1980 was just fine
it’s just that 1980 was 38 years ago
when i was a kid first listening to the beatles, 38 years ago was 1925
in 1963, there were no taverns with bix biederbecke and paul whiteman blasting from the jukebox
the 21st. century is like weird, man
re: #454 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
re: #458 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
I have argued that all of the easy/obvious melodies / chord progressions have been used up and the job of a songwriter to come up with something that doesn’t make you say “Hey, didn’t so and so do that in 196-whatever?” is got to be nearly impossible.
Been there got the tshirt #hawaii #HOPAAlaMoana pic.twitter.com/29i4HmxqRs
— Nicole (@BorzilloNicole) January 14, 2018
Capitalism may not be perfect, but no other economic system can produce commemorative t-shirts as rapidly. https://t.co/ZEW3FdOEH9
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 14, 2018
Michael Wolff (Fred Armisen) reveals what didn’t make it into “Fire and Fury.” #SNL pic.twitter.com/Q0mBaNOy9p
— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) January 14, 2018
re: #430 ObserverArt
Pretenders.
REM.
Elvis Costello.
Talking Heads.
…too many to list.
Yeah, but … no generation ever wants to listen to music their parents, um, enjoyed themselves to. Not in their adolescence and early adulthood, especially. It took me till my 50s to start thinking that Frank Sinatra was not a waste of air. Likewise disco — the thing goes both ways in time. Punks hated 60s pop which of course I like, though I don’t listen to it much.
Actually nowadays the most-played artist from my collection is from the 60s: Bob Dylan, and not the old stuff either, but the 2017 bootlegs. There are probably those who couldn’t stand them. De gustibus and all that. Desolation Row with loud drums and Bob’s prophetic bellow/croak is just fabulous. Try to find the 11/12/17 Philadelphia gig.
re: #458 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
Through most of the 70s I listened to AM radio (top 40, bubblegum stuff). I didn’t start listening to FM until about 1978ish so I was inundated with basically the best of the previous 15 years all at once. All of the crap (the new stuff of 1972, 73, 74 etc) that sucked had been weeded out so I didn’t really get the idea that every year has it’s share of junk, and then there is the stuff that keeps. By 1979 and 1980 I was starting to hear the “new” stuff, which can’t possibly compete against that collection of the best of the last fifteen years.
re: #463 petesh
My niece is a Procul Harum freak! After I burned my CDs into my Itunes library, I let her have a go with them. She also loves Jethro Tull. Oddly, I have more Tull songs in my library than Zeppelin songs and Beatle songs combined.
To me a good song, instrumental, movement, opera, whatever type of music can be good in the past, today and on into the future. It is timeless. I like the tune…I don’t associate it with a period of my life or a time of fashion other than remembering when it came out. If it is good to you and gets you off in any number of ways, it is good.
re: #448 FormerDirtDart
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This is designed for the specific purpose of denying healthcare to as many poor people as possible, since the red tape to get coverage is difficult to plow through, and will only get more so as Kentucky cuts its biennial budget by a billion dollars to deal with its public pension crisis. It literally has a literacy test, just like Jim Crow states used to deny African-Americans the vote.
re: #463 petesh
Yeah, but … no generation ever wants to listen to music their parents, um, enjoyed themselves to. Not in their adolescence and early adulthood, especially. It took me till my 50s to start thinking that Frank Sinatra was not a waste of air. Likewise disco — the thing goes both ways in time. Punks hated 60s pop which of course I like, though I don’t listen to it much.
Actually nowadays the most-played artist from my collection is from the 60s: Bob Dylan, and not the old stuff either, but the 2017 bootlegs. There are probably those who couldn’t stand them. De gustibus and all that. Desolation Row with loud drums and Bob’s prophetic bellow/croak is just fabulous. Try to find the 11/12/17 Philadelphia gig.
Appreciation for the older tunes is probably one reason some pop stars start recording the Great American Songbook as they enter their 40s and 50s. Linda Ronstadt is one example. Fact is, there’s a crapload of excellent music from all eras and like it or not, listening to your parent’s music as a kid influences your tastes as a listener and musician.
re: #466 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
My niece is a Procul Harum freak! After I burned my CDs into my Itunes library, I let her have a go with them. She also loves Jethro Tull. Oddly, I have more Tull songs in my library than Zeppelin songs and Beatle songs combined.
I was listening to Procol Harum do Poor Mohammed the other day, and it occurred to me that ZZ Top made a whole career off doing variations on that tune.
re: #470 jaunte
playing it now. One of the commenters said “Now you know where Billy Gibbons stole his solos from”
BO talking about putting Malia’s lamp together in her dorm.
I’m crying/laughing so hard.
Must watch (Letterman Obama interview on Netflix)
Oh there was an excellent part with John Lewis & Letterman on the Edmund Pettus bridge.
re: #470 jaunte
I was listening to Procol Harum do Poor Mohammed the other day, and it occurred to me that ZZ Top made a whole career off doing variations on that tune.
Robin Trower doing the guitar licks.
re: #397 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
To be honest, sometimes I feel like things like this are just trying to find racism in places where it isn’t. I get it, racism is a deeply recurring theme in American culture, but sometimes, a hoodie is just a hoodie.
I just think that is a dumb thing to put on a hoodie, in the climate we’re in.
re: #474 retired cynic
I just think that is a dumb thing to put on a hoodie, in the climate we’re in.
Seriously, If it had said “Coolest cat in the jungle” instead it would have been a big seller.
re: #469 wheat-dogg
Appreciation for the older tunes is probably one reason some pop stars start recording the Great American Songbook as they enter their 40s and 50s. Linda Ronstadt is one example. Fact is, there’s a crapload of excellent music from all eras and like it or not, listening to your parent’s music as a kid influences your tastes as a listener and musician.
One of the first, and still best IMO, to do that was Rod Stewart. Of all people. Turns out he’s a fantastic vocal stylist and sells those songs like the best of ‘em.
re: #418 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
You are, in fact, in Hell. There was nothing worth listening to in 1980. There may have been some 1979 leftovers…
If you say so…
re: #476 allegro
I actually had the complete opposite reaction. I felt the his songbook was just an easy paycheck and I felt insulted that I paid for it. I could imagine him laying that whole thing down in one day. But then again, I lost a lot of respect for him years ago. For example if you youtube anything from him or the Faces in the middle to late seventies, he has no respect for his audience. I guess I can really hold a grudge, eh?
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