Video: John Oliver vs. The NRA
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The NRA’s streaming lifestyle network aims to boost gun sales, often by using an ominous tone that would make just about anything sound terrifying…including muffins.
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Very quite in the house. As I said in the last thread, everyone must be watching Rachel.
re: #1 Cheechako
Very quite in the house. As I said in the last thread, everyone must be watching Rachel.
I’m watching curling. 🇨🇦🥌🇨🇦🥌
I’m watching Rachel and wonder when the trumpists will turn violently against the justice system because it is all that is left to protect the US and the world against trump and his “friends”
re: #3 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
And I am watching Deadpool with Mrs. Fish.
I went in to that not expecting much and got won over during the opening credits. :)
re: #5 scottslemmons
I went in to that not expecting much and got won over during the opening credits. :)
As Mrs. Fish and I are discussing, this movie is what brought Deadpool up into my Top 3 in my list of superheroes. Does it say something about me that 2 of my top 3 are anti-heroes?
re: #3 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
And I am watching Deadpool with Mrs. Fish.
That’s a great flick. So very funny.
Jeesuz…go away for a bit and the last thread blows up into a producers and directors of TRUMP - The Movie discussion.
I think it must be from all the Hollywood Oscar buzz from last night.
Or is it ….DRUGS?!?!?!
re: #8 ObserverArt
Jeesuz…go away for a bit and the last thread blows up into a producers and directors of TRUMP - The Movie discussion.
I think it must be from all the Hollywood Oscar buzz from last night.
Or is it ….DRUGS?!?!?!
I don’t want to say it’s the drugs.
But it’s the drugs.
I’m watching a storm roll in to destroy my commute home tonight.
re: #9 MsJ
I don’t want to say it’s the drugs.
But it’s the drugs.
You must be confusing us with the celebrity du jour.
Holy crap! What a day!
I start catching up on reading the threads, starting with the Presidential Seal golf tees thinking that if this was President Obama, the Fright Wing would have demanded he be thrown in a dungeon in chains.
Then run into this Sam Nunberg stuff, where apparently he melted down like hot wax on multiple networks.
I’m going to have to go back and watch the Katy Tur interview … this has gone way beyond Stupid Watergate.
And what the hell does Roger Stone have on Mr. Nunberg that Nunberg would defend Stone over Donald Trump? Stone’s been at the rodent copulation business for the Republicans for a long time. For Nunberg to be more scared of Stone than Robert Muller or the President must be pretty flippin’ bad.
From Rachel
Nunberg now says he will “probably cooperate with Mueller”
What does trump do to people who work/ed for him? Insanity follows - as night follows day.
re: #13 fern01
From Rachel
Nunberg now says he will “probably cooperate with Mueller”
What does trump do to people who work/ed for him? Insanity follows - as night follows day.
Well, Trump sure drives us crazy. So…
re: #13 fern01
From Rachel
Nunberg now says he will “probably cooperate with Mueller”
What does trump do to people who work/ed for him? Insanity follows - as night follows day.
They are pre-addled. All ready for the wind up and then the execution.
Criswell Bacon predicted that this week was going to be wilder than last week…and it’s only…Monday…
re: #6 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
As Mrs. Fish and I are discussing, this movie is what brought Deadpool up into my Top 3 in my list of superheroes. Does it say something about me that 2 of my top 3 are anti-heroes?
It’s very strange to me that my brother and I were discussing the same phenomenon re our kid western TV heroes not three hours ago, and came up with the same 2 out of 3 antihero ratio. We both liked Matt Dillon (James Arness), the conventional hero. But we really liked Maverick (James Garner), the danger-averse Old West gambler and con man, who beat the bad guys the same way he won at poker, by brains and luck, and Paladin (Richard Boone), maybe the original Man in Black, who lived the life of a connoisseur and lover of all things beautiful in San Francisco but when he had a job strapped on a gun and rode all to hell and back, not always doing the bidding of his employers.
re: #16 Joe Bacon 🌹
Criswell Bacon predicted that this week was going to be wilder than last week…and it’s only…Monday…
As the near infinite gravitational pull of the Mueller investigation pulls the Trump admin in, they will spin faster and faster, flinging off even wilder and faster debris.
re: #10 Amory Blaine
I’m watching a storm roll in to destroy my commute home tonight.
This is why God created bars and cabs.
re: #17 whitebeach
I always liked Cheyenne the best. I’d get so mad as a kid seeing Cheyenne get beaten up and ripped off that I’d yell at the TV.
I remember listening to the radio version of Have Gun Will Travel with John Dehner as Paladin and Ben Wright as Hey Boy. The radio version had a final episode that revealed Paladin as a “prodigal son” of a Boston Brahmin family and he decided to make peace with his family.
re: #20 Joe Bacon 🌹
I always liked Cheyenne the best. I’d get so mad as a kid seeing Cheyenne get beaten up and ripped off that I’d yell at the TV.
I liked Cheyenne too, but as he was physically huge and, as you say, always getting beat up and ripped off, I concluded early on that he was a decent enough guy but really dumb.
re: #22 whitebeach
I liked Cheyenne too, but as he was physically huge and, as you say, always getting beat up and ripped off, I concluded early on the he was a decent enough guy but really dumb.
I met Mr. Walker when he came to the Museum of Broadcasting in Beverly Hills. He was still going strong and so amazed at all the fans who came to see him!
Holy crap … still going through the video. I notice the screen Katy Tur has behind her of people who have already spoken to the Special Council Robert Mueller.
In that montage is a picture of Sam Clovis … I remember writing a letter to my local paper a few months ago when Clovis was nominated by Donald Trump to be Chief Scientist at the USDA, and I came out strongly against him (since he’s not a scientist).
Even then I thought things were crazy. Sam Nunberg is wild. He doesn’t sound high or drunk to me, he sounds terrified.
re: #21 Joe Bacon 🌹
I remember listening to the radio version of Have Gun Will Travel with John Dehner as Paladin and Ben Wright as Hey Boy. The radio version had a final episode that revealed Paladin as a “prodigal son” of a Boston Brahmin family and he decided to make peace with his family.
You mean this episode:
Skirmishes flare at Michigan State University before Richard Spencer speech. Two dozen people were arrested as a result of protests, police say. https://t.co/TBVmgAEsO5 pic.twitter.com/12eXI8Byxd
— ABC News (@ABC) March 6, 2018
Nunberg talking about Russia hacking Hillary Clinton’s E-mail (I thought they got the DNC and RNC, but Hillary Clinton’s was never taken) … saying Russia, India, and Israel took them? WTF? Complaining it would take him eighty hours to collect his E-mail?
I’m not in the Federal government, but if I was told to turn over my government E-mail it would take me about five minutes (it’s all sorted on my computer separately from my private E-mail).
re: #25 Cheechako
You mean this episode:
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU FOUND IT!!!!!
I haven’t heard this since the time I heard it when I was a kid!!!!!
Speaking of anitheroes in old TV westerns, I just remembered Wanted Dead or Alive, which ran for a few years in the late 50s-early 60s. The protagonist was a bounty hunter. He was played by this actor called Steve McQueen.
re: #29 Kafitrar
Curling exists outside of the Olympics?
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Dooood. Curling exists from September through April with televised games starting in October. Every year. Year after year.
The rest of the year is spent waiting for the next curling season. About August, I’m itching for it to start. In September I start bitching “Where the hell is curling?!”
I’m an addict.
OT
Incredibly hilarious. I burned the Ween album “La Cucaracha” for my mom months ago. On Friday she texted me “Burn me another Ween album.” So I did, “The Mollusk.” Just got a text from her, “I just bought two tickets to Ween at Red Rocks.”
I am rolling over laughing my fucking ass off!
It’s become increasingly clear, when the findings of Mueller are publicized, Trump will be accused of conspiracy against the United States of America — and it’ll not only send shock waves across America and the world, but will reverberate as the most criminal act in our history.
— Bill Madden (@activist360) March 6, 2018
Not forgetting Tillerson.
re: #33 jaunte
Fox will be covering Hillary’s emails that night.
re: #34 Skip Intro
Fox will be covering Hillary’s emails that night.
It’ll probably be a replay of Bill’s impeachment so that Fox viewers get confused who the rest of the country is talking about.
re: #36 Belafon
It’ll probably be a replay of Bill’s impeachment so that Fox viewers get confused who the rest of the country is talking about.
Or his “illegitimate black son.” The GOP seems to think that plays well with the racists (since one of John McCain’s primary candidates did that to him in South Carolina on a television advert).
re: #30 whitebeach
Speaking of anitheroes in old TV westerns, I just remembered Wanted Dead or Alive, which ran for a few years in the late 50s-early 60s. The protagonist was a bounty hunter. He was played by this actor called Steve McQueen.
On that sorta-topic, I am starting to watch MacGyver. I got turned on to Richard Dean Anderson with his work on the sci-fi series Stargate: SG1, but this is the first time I’ve seen his earlier work available for streaming. And now I get to watch him in his younger years. Mrs. Fish is having a fangirl-gasm.
Top article right now on FOX News’s Website:
Deflector shields on maximum!
re: #32 teleskiguy
It’s wonderful to witness an elder throw off the shackles of convention and open up.
re: #36 Belafon
It’ll probably be a replay of Bill’s impeachment so that Fox viewers get confused who the rest of the country is talking about.
Something like that.
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹
Top article right now on FOX News’s Website:
Deflector shields on maximum!
If love for Fox to be labeled the enemy of the state that they are
This very good boy is ready to party! Cute puppy joins a Chinese New Year celebration, jumping around and playing with firecrackers. https://t.co/7pzsuZ6p4C pic.twitter.com/zbMDZ4gNti
— ABC News (@ABC) March 6, 2018
ABC News’ twitter content editor decides “Hey, let’s find some horrible stuff. That people absolutely shouldn’t do, and post it like it’s all funny and cool” https://t.co/y4ZT39rcUF
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) March 6, 2018
re: #42 MsJ
If love for Fox to be labeled the enemy of the state that they are
Is it just me or have they become even worse in the Trump years but then again they talked about terrorist fist bumps in 2008.
re: #26 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
ABC News ✔
@ABC
Skirmishes flare at Michigan State University before Richard Spencer speech. Two dozen people were arrested as a result of protests, police say.10:08 PM - Mar 5, 2018
It’s going to be a long hot summer. I’m getting hints of ‘the 60s race and war protests and riots.
re: #31 MsJ
Dooood. Curling exists from September through April with televised games starting in October. Every year. Year after year.
The rest of the year is spent waiting for the next curling season. About August, I’m itching for it to start. In September I start bitching “Where the hell is curling?!”
I’m an addict.
So you’re saying this is sort of like Purgatory?
re: #40 Amory Blaine
My mother is my rock. Her and I understand each other better than anybody.
re: #44 HappyWarrior
Is it just me or have they become even worse in the Trump years but then again they talked about terrorist fist bumps in 2008.
They’re not even hiding that they are the Republican propaganda network, any longer.
Weird. I clicked on the John Oliver video but it says “video not available.”
Oh never mind, I’m in Canada.
Cross out Nunberg and this becomes an evergreen tweet:
This Nuremberg stuff is no longer just crazy.
This is now:
LOCO
LOCO
LOCO
CERTIFIABLE
OFF-THE-RAILS
TELENOVELA
GET ME MORE POPCORN
UBER
BATSHIT
INSANE
KOO-KOO
CRAZY FOR COCOA PUFFS— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) March 6, 2018
re: #50 The Vicious Babushka
Weird. I clicked on the John Oliver video but it says “video not available.”
Oh never mind, I’m in Canada, eh.
ftfy
re: #49 MsJ
They’re not even hiding that they are the Republican propaganda network, any longer.
Right, that’s what I mean. I see their headlines in my widget and it’s just so pathetic.
re: #49 MsJ
They’re not even hiding that they are the Republican propaganda network, any longer.
Did they ever?
The movie based on today’s events should be called Judgement at Nunberg.
NRA TV has a programme called “Love at First Shot?” WTF?
Bahh. Time to suit up and try to get home. BBL.
re: #56 MsJ
It’s worse over the last two, there years.
Exactly in the Bush years, yeah they were awful. But now we have Mark Stern saying “At least Neo Nazis are American citizens.” The xenophobic rhetoric has gone up with the rise of Trumpism.
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹
NRA TV has a programme called “Love at First Shot?” WTF?
Is that a gun or are you just happy to see me. But tbh that seems fairly tame compared to Dana’s raging against Hollywood. They do have a weird fixation with guns though, that’s for sure.
FOLKS pic.twitter.com/j21ZEMtPIx
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) March 6, 2018
Richard Spencer is talking about how he thinks @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE is funny. Thinks he can recruit Bernie Bros to the alt-right
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) March 5, 2018
I’ve heard ideas which were a lot more far fetched than that.
“Bernie would have won” for example https://t.co/4uJlUyvxUk— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 6, 2018
re: #63 HappyWarrior
Is that a gun or are you just happy to see me. But tbh that seems fairly tame compared to Dana’s raging against Hollywood. They do have a weird fixation with guns though, that’s for sure.
Well, I can understand why the NRA would be interested in guns. That’s sort of what they do.
But the propaganda of “they’re all out to get us and you need to arm up” seems to sound like Radio Rwanda.
re: #64 jaunte
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Remember when MSNBC in 2013 was trying to distract from Obama’s problems by bringing up Romney every time Obama had a bad day? Yeah me neither. Lumpy really wishes HRC were President.
re: #31 MsJ
Dooood. Curling exists from September through April with televised games starting in October. Every year. Year after year.
The rest of the year is spent waiting for the next curling season. About August, I’m itching for it to start. In September I start bitching “Where the hell is curling?!”
I’m an addict.
I believe it. :) I just looked up curling and was surprised to find out that there’s a curling club not far from work.
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹
Well, I can understand why the NRA would be interested in guns. That’s sort of what they do.
But the propaganda of “they’re all out to get us and you need to arm up” seems to sound like Radio Rwanda.
Oh no doubt. They have actual hate for those of us who don’t like guns. I don’t like guns. I’m not ashamed to say that. I know their destructive power too well.
Becoming increasingly clear CNN put a likely drunk guest who is also taking antidepressants on the air hoping to get statements from him it could use for a couple of their favorite narratives. To keep Trump/Russia hope alive for a few more news cycles.
GFY, CNN.— Stealth Jeff (@drawandstrike) March 6, 2018
DonaldJTrumpJr liked this tweet: https://t.co/St04KIYb9L
— Trump Alert (@TrumpsAlert) March 6, 2018
re: #68 Kafitrar
I believe it. :) I just looked up curling and was surprised to find out that there’s a curling club not far from work.
Make sure you know the song first.
re: #65 Kragar
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It unfortunately isn’t too crazy. Not all or even most Sanders supporters but we just have to look at Bernie’s own son RTing in approval things speaking alt right language like Dana’s screeds.
re: #70 jaunte
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He brought it on himself but yeah big bad CNN as always. Glad Uday is trolling Twitter for anything that validates his bs. I’m going to enjoy seeing his smug face when Mueller gets to him.
2/ If you want to understand white privilege, consider the fact that all of these barely sentient mopes have managed to grift their way through life and become relatively successful without anyone noticing that they routinely get lost in corners and still lack object permanence.
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) March 5, 2018
re: #69 HappyWarrior
Oh no doubt. They have actual hate for those of us who don’t like guns. I don’t like guns. I’m not ashamed to say that. I know their destructive power too well.
They also hate those of us who do own guns but are not NRA members and are liberals.
In my own little town (where there are more guns than people), I get along fine with everyone. Pretty much the same for my county (there aren’t a lot of people here).
But if I was to go elsewhere, say rural Texas or Kansas, I would be “one of those gun-grabbing liberals” (even though I own a gun).
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹
They also hate those of us who do own guns but are not NRA members and are liberals.
In my own little town (where there are more guns than people), I get along fine with everyone. Pretty much the same for my county (there aren’t a lot of people here).
But if I was to go elsewhere, say rural Texas or Kansas, I would be “one of those gun-grabbing liberals” (even though I own a gun).
Oh that too for sure.
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re: #75 Anymouse 🌹
I’ve trained professionally for:
M-16
M-60
M-249
M-240
M-203
Mk19
AT-4
9mm pistols
shotguns
CQB
MOUT
NBC Incident Response
None of that has made me a conservative. pic.twitter.com/oOoaOmSRJj— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 5, 2018
re: #30 whitebeach
It’s funny how even a sorta forgettable TV western can work in minds and open them for some people. I remember an episode of Wanted Dead or Alive when circumstances forced McQueen and this very tough-looking black guy to share camp for a night. McQueen’s character didn’t much care for this, and eventually the dialogue got a little challenging. Remember that McQueen was this extremely tough white dude, heavily armed and competent with those weapons. At some point, the black man says something like, “Do you want to fight, mister? Is that what you want to do?” And McQueen makes peace!
I expect that most lizards can’t, although some of them certainly can, understand the effect of this on a raised-racist white teenager like me in the fucking segregated South.
re: #78 Kragar
Your brutal use of the truth shows a clear lack of imagination.
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LOL
And Then Sam Nunberg Bit His Own Dick Off On Jake Tapper’s CNN Show LOLOL TOTALLY NORMAL (goes to Wonkette, filed under “What a time to be alive”)
We are sorry for calling Carter Page the dumbest person in the Trump-Russia investigation, we will never do that again.
re: #78 Kragar
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That’s exactly what I mean. The whole only real manly men use or know how to use guns shit. You know what, I may not know how to use a gun but I can use my fucking head more effectively than any of these guys could dream of using their dick substitutes.
Sorry for sounding angry but I’m sick of my masculinity being attacked because I’m not part of the gun cult. I’d much rather use my earnings on music and good times.
re: #70 jaunte
Stealth Jeff
@drawandstrike
Becoming increasingly clear CNN put a likely drunk guest who is also taking antidepressants on the air hoping to get statements from him it could use for a couple of their favorite narratives. To keep Trump/Russia hope alive for a few more news cycles.GFY, CNN.
Proof they are the “Party of Personal Responsibility” example #1, 237, 986
re: #84 ObserverArt
remind me again, how many indictments and convictions there were after 4 years of Benghazi investigations?
“We are a country divided. We are a country that has lost a sense of common purpose. We’ve lost a sense of common narrative,” former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice tells @FareedZakaria https://t.co/C5xyfQnCF2
— CNN (@CNN) March 4, 2018
in 2005 ms rice called me into the state dept to tell me i needed to let my activist friends know that W couldn’t do anything about the genocide in darfur and, i quote, “you need to tell them to shut up…” true story … https://t.co/lXl5oPAZu8
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2018
re: #85 Eclectic Cyborg
Seems I missed out on most of the discussion regarding casting for the Trump movie, but I think Michael Cera would be an excellent Jared:
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I had the same observation. Both are young looking for their age. Hard for to believe Cera is a year younger than me and msny tell me I look mid 20’s.
re: #82 HappyWarrior
That’s exactly what I mean. The whole only real manly men use or know how to use guns shit. You know what, I may not know how to use a gun but I can use my fucking head more effectively than any of these guys could dream of using their dick substitutes.
I wonder if a “stand your ground” law would protect you if you used a rifle or shotgun as a club instead of shooting someone?
re: #87 JordanRules
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Agh I never heard about that. I never liked her much but thought she had some decency. I love Cheadle. Hotel Rwanda inspired me.
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹
I wonder if a “stand your ground” law would protect you if you used a rifle or shotgun as a club instead of shooting someone?
I’d need to know the skin tones of the parties.
re: #88 HappyWarrior
I am 36 and I get 20s sometimes. Maybe not having kids has something to do with it lol.
Reason Magazine likens this issue to the “Satanic Panic” in the USA in the Eighties.
reason.com
(Goes to the Libertarian Reason Magazine)
The Province of Ontario was using a laboratory called Motherisk to do hair-sample testing on children to prove their mothers were alcoholics or drug abusers, and using the results to take children from their homes.
Last week, a review of the procedures used by the family courts determined that in scores of cases, the fake laboratory had substantial sway over child custody cases where the province sought to take children from their homes. Many have since been returned.
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re: #93 Eclectic Cyborg
I am 36 and I get 20s sometimes. Maybe not having kids has something to do with it lol.
Yeah I don’t either. I’m surprised by it honestly. I think my eyes show some age to them.
So the Utah Bar sent a boob pic to every lawyer on the listserv https://t.co/mNYdkh6hey
— Shane (@shaneferro) March 6, 2018
re: #86 piratedan
Remember back in 1983 when the Marine barracks in Beirut were bombed and 300 people were killed? Ya know how many hearings were had? One.
re: #86 piratedan
remind me again, how many indictments and convictions there were after 4 years of Benghazi investigations?
All I know is Hillary ripped the House Committee with Trey Gowdy pretty good for many hours and stood up to them.
In a few hours today Sam Nunberg beclowned himself on a few TV shows and he and the wingnuts are giving him all kinds of excuses.
He didn’t have to go on TV…even if drunk, he had a responsible choice.
re: #99 Ace Rothstein
Remember back in 1983 when the Marine barracks in Beirut were bombed and 300 people were killed? Ya know how many hearings were had? One.
And how many of the families of those Marines were used to bash Reagan and Schultz at the 1984
DNC?
re: #101 HappyWarrior
And how many of the families of those Marines were used to bash Reagan and Schultz at the 1984
DNC?
And how many indictments were brought down?
re: #87 JordanRules
“We’ve lost a sense of common narrative”
She must have skipped a lot of history courses.
re: #93 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m 35 and have a chin full of hair. Got carded at a Mexican restaurant the next town over last week. I’m always flattered and I let them know. Gal looked at my I.D. and said “you look so young!” Her and I took a tequila shot at the end of my meal.
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹
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I just want a presidency that will handle its business and leave me the hell alone.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) March 6, 2018
Nope sorry you get this bucket of ferrets on meth that have been sleep deprived for three straight days by playing the theme from House of Cards at 130db https://t.co/UPSqOVL3dQ
— Zandar Wakandar (@ZandarVTS) March 6, 2018
re: #101 HappyWarrior
re: #103 Ace Rothstein
well, it’s stuff like this that makes me furious…
who compelled Numberg to show up on TV… on multiple shows on the same day?
How many times did the hosts of said programs try to save him from himself?
If someone from the left had bothered to show up in a similar capacity, would they have been treated the same way?
Okay, lets say that Mr. Numberg had mixed meds with alcohol… who’s fault is that? If he’s a potential witness stating publicly on TV that he’s not going to honor the subpoena, again, who’s fault is that?
in the interim, over on the Faux network they’re still doing everything they can to pin all of their transgressions on the Clinton campaign, and guess what, THOSE people aren’t drugged, its straight out propaganda totally unhinged from reality. You want to be outraged about proprieties and expectations and courtesy, CLEAN YOUR OWN MOTHERFUCKING HOUSE FIRST!
re: #98 HappyWarrior
We didn’t get it, damn it.//
They have a copy of the listserv message if you want to see it. It was an invitation to their Spring Convention, with a photo of Justice holding scales, Delicate Arch at Arches National Park, and a giant boob pic.
abovethelaw.com (NSFW)
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹
They have a copy of the listserv message if you want to see it. It was an invitation to their Spring Convention, with a photo of Justice holding scales, Delicate Arch at Arches National Park, and a giant boob pic.
abovethelaw.com (NSFW)
I’m kidding around.
re: #105 teleskiguy
I’m 35 and have a chin full of hair. Got carded at a Mexican restaurant the next town over last week. I’m always flattered and I let them know. Gal looked at my I.D. and said “you look so young!” Her and I took a tequila shot at the end of my meal.
My wife points out that is a common pick-up line for women. She sometimes gets carded even though she has grey hair in her fifties (though not locally).
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹
Ha ha ha. Someone is going to get reamed for that.
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— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 6, 2018
re: #105 teleskiguy
I’m 35 and have a chin full of hair. Got carded at a Mexican restaurant the next town over last week. I’m always flattered and I let them know. Gal looked at my I.D. and said “you look so young!” Her and I took at tequila shot at the end of my meal.
That’s me at 64 by the Kroger self check-out machine, waiting for the attendant with the over-21 code.
Lre: #102 Ace Rothstein
Zero.
Exactly. I feel bad for the mother the RNC brought out but her grief was exploited by cynical assholes, the same ones who voted to cut enbassy and consulate security funding.
re: #108 piratedan
well, it’s stuff like this that makes me furious…
who compelled Numberg to show up on TV… on multiple shows on the same day?
How many times did the hosts of said programs try to save him from himself?If someone from the left had bothered to show up in a similar capacity, would they have been treated the same way?
When Donna Brazille’s book came out she was on every show being lauded for saying the 2016 Dem primary was rigged. Her claim immediately fell apart over that weekend as it became clear she was mixing up two completely different DNC fundraising agreements, conflating the one Clinton had as the official nominee with one she had during the primary race. They’ve never had her back to challenge her on that ignorant bullshit stunt.
re: #83 HappyWarrior
Sorry for sounding angry but I’m sick of my masculinity being attacked because I’m not part of the gun cult. I’d much rather use my earnings on music and good times.
Stepping up with a weapon and training and all that is fine. I happen to think you a person that steps up without advantage and prevails. At my back anytime.
re: #114 jaunte
They don’t serve tequila at Kroger self checkout stations.
EPA Chief Pruitt’s aide given permission to work for private clients on the side - but their identities will be kept secret. https://t.co/TRzSzTaXRr
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 5, 2018
— Karoli (@Karoli) March 6, 2018
EPA Chief Pruitt’s aide given permission to work for private clients on the side - but their identities will be kept secret. https://t.co/TRzSzTaXRr
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 5, 2018
WTF
re: #117 Unshaken Defiance
Stepping up with a weapon and training and all that is fine. I happen to think you a person that steps up without advantage and prevails. At my back anytime.
Oh no doubt. And you don’t disparage people who don’t own. When I talk about the gun cult, I’m talking about the NRA types who can’t go without it. You have your photography for example which fwiw I’ve enjoyed.
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #116 goddamnedfrank
When Donna Brazille’s book came out she was on every show being lauded for saying the 2016 Dem primary was rigged. Her claim immediately fell apart over that weekend as it became clear she was mixing up two completely different DNC fundraising agreements, conflating the one Clinton had as the official nominee with one she had during the primary race. They haven’t had her back to challenge her about her ignorant bullshit stunt.
I’m still annoyed Warren went along with that bs. I like her but it made me question her judgment, motivations, & intelligence.
2018:
After considering its widespread and meaningful evidence of use, we’ve put ‘dumpster fire’ in the dictionary. Feel free to GIF it as you like. https://t.co/XImxk6c0EY
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) March 5, 2018
Condi Rice should shut the fuck up.
The Florida Senate has passed a school safety bill that would place new restrictions on rifle sales, allow some teachers to carry guns in schools and create new school mental health programs. https://t.co/sNYdm0GVgZ
— NBCWashington (@nbcwashington) March 6, 2018
“Sorry folks, we don’t have the money in the budget to properly fund school programs, give teachers raises, or any other educational needs. Oh BTW, we just allocated $67 million for guns in schools and to pay off training programs for the guns.”
Fuck you assholes https://t.co/1tB6BapgWY— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 6, 2018
I’m not really sure what to think of Seth Abramson. Sometimes it seems as though he reports things that are true, whilst other times it seems like he’s making stuff up to peddle Seth Abramson not news.
Anyway, he goes on a fifty-one tweet speculative thread about the woman in the Thai jail claiming she has information for the Trump/Russia investigation. He ties a whole lot of people together into that, and claims that the story seems credible because many news outlets have picked it up. (It’s not like news outlets have been ever trolled before with a fake story or propaganda.)
(THREAD) It’s time to talk about Nastya Rybka—the sex worker from Belarus who has plausibly claimed to have intel on Trump’s ties to the Kremlin and is seeking asylum to tell her story. No longer a sideshow, this developing story is now in major media. Hope you’ll read and share. pic.twitter.com/UKUNhp0sYJ
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 3, 2018
re: #127 Amory Blaine
Condi Rice should shut the fuck up.
Didn’t see you saying this about Benghazi, Condi.
re: #122 HappyWarrior
Oh no doubt. And you don’t disparage people who don’t own. When I talk about the gun cult, I’m talking about the NRA types who can’t go without it. You have your photography for example which fwiw I’ve enjoyed.
Shooting stuff and it lives another day, too.
Ha:
Based on Sam Nunberg statements on national TV, perhaps it would be better if Special Counsel Mueller drops the subpoena in exchange for Nunberg doing more TV interviews. https://t.co/vh5fTVOKF1
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 5, 2018
re: #123 HappyWarrior
Drain the swamp eh? This is unreal how these guys flaunt their lack of ethics.
I swear they’re just seeing how far they can push the envelope now.
re: #130 HappyWarrior
Didn’t see you saying this about Benghazi, Condi.
She should repent for murdering hundreds of thousands.
re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg
I swear they’re just seeing how far they can push the envelope now.
They know the GOP base won’t care because FNC will just have something about HRC or Obama.
re: #135 Amory Blaine
She should repent for murdering hundreds of thousands.
And creating a dangerous vacuum in the ME.
re: #136 HappyWarrior
They know the GOP base won’t care because FNC will just have something about HRC or Obama.
Right now they are covering Hillary Clinton’s “stolen” E-mails. (Really.)
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹
Right now they are covering Hillary Clinton’s “stolen” E-mails. (Really.)
About as predictable as a sunrise.
VIDEO: Footage shot by @AP appears to show man who authorities say stole Frances McDormand’s Oscar. https://t.co/xL5NgEAc5K
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 6, 2018
re: #139 Joe Bacon 🌹
So hungry for a taste of home—Prantl’s Bakery in Pittsburgh’s famous Burnt Almond Torte!
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re: #139 Joe Bacon 🌹
So hungry for a taste of home—Prantl’s Bakery in Pittsburgh’s famous Burnt Almond Torte!
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mmmm
That looks good!
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
In any other sane rational governemtn, this would not be happening. But under @realDonaldTrump, all bets are off, optics be damned. @POTUS If you don’t stop this, the voters will. Some of us have memories like elephants. pic.twitter.com/oDISnPdsxE
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) March 6, 2018
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹
Seth Abramson should not be considered reliable.
Age discrimination
Man sues Dick’s, Walmart over new gun policies https://t.co/It6UBqKPl1 pic.twitter.com/9DD3B0asJ7
— New York Post (@nypost) March 6, 2018
re: #133 Interesting Times
What I want to know is who his supplier is so I can stay the fsck away from whatever bad ganja that dude is peddling….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) March 6, 2018
re: #139 Joe Bacon 🌹
So hungry for a taste of home—Prantl’s Bakery in Pittsburgh’s famous Burnt Almond Torte!
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They deliver.
prantlsbakery.com
More asshole conservative conspiracy theorists.
Pair arrested after harassing pastor in Sutherland Springs https://t.co/VmF1ITK4sD via @mysa
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) March 6, 2018
re: #126 teleskiguy
Did you happen to see about the avalanche at Mammoth mountain?
re: #151 Anymouse 🌹
More asshole conservative conspiracy theorists.
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Maybe Trump is right that we need to reopen mental hospitals…
re: #127 Amory Blaine
Condi Rice should shut the fuck up.
re: #91 HappyWarrior
Agh I never heard about that. I never liked her much but thought she had some decency. I love Cheadle. Hotel Rwanda inspired me.
Remember: Condi supported Tillerson. She is as tied to Russia as anyone in the Trump administration.
Alternate Banjo spotting:
My friend’s boyfriend is an AP English teacher in Austin. He brings his dog Banjo to school every day. Less teachers with guns, more teachers with corgis. pic.twitter.com/BZdYUZjK8o
— Sophie Vershbow (@svershbow) March 5, 2018
Gee. Nobody telling Condi to go away forever. She can knit or something….
Anyway. Just put the deposit down to reserve my spot for a Model 3. Finally got to my friend’s place and drove his (his wife’s). Fun car, and not insanely expensive like the Model S. Should be a 12-18 month wait. lol
re: #153 Joe Bacon 🌹
Maybe Trump is right that we need to reopen mental hospitals…
Perhaps the reason SETI can’t detect anything is because when an intelligent species reaches the capability to build a worldwide Internet, the wingnuts destroy civilisation.
re: #155 Hecuba’s daughter
Remember: Condi supported Tillerson. She is as tied to Russia as anyone in the Trump administration.
That’s true.
re: #151 Anymouse 🌹
More asshole conservative conspiracy theorists.
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re: #163 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Lift off
Vroom, no boom
1st stage separation
2nd stage engine ignition
Payload fairing separation
They have to be glad to get this pad queen into the air. They’ve been trying to launch since December
re: #151 Anymouse 🌹
One of the downsides of the internet is that it’s created networks between awful people that then feel bolder and more confident in their paranoia and self-importance. The latter being on display when they’re so confident they start with the insults and threats.
re: #165 The Ghost of a Flea
One of the downsides of the internet is that it’s created networks between awful people that then feel bolder and more confident in their paranoia and self-importance. The latter being on display when they’re so confident they start with the insults and threats.
I suggest issuing them all Mimeograph machines and free postage in exchange for their Internet service.
From the Nebraska Democratic Party. I have not yet filed to run in this year’s election, but will when I next get to town. That’ll add another person… .
The Nebraska Democratic Party has a strong ticket of over 200 Democrats from all walks of life running for office in 2018. Moms, young people, union members, farmers, veterans, teachers and middle-class Democrats have all put their name on the ballot line to represent our Party’s values and to end the current one-party rule across our state.
There are over 50 women and 20 members of minority communities that are running for office as Democrats in 2018.
From the San Antonio Express News article on the Sutherland Springs, Tex. pastor who was harassed by two right-wing conspiraliars:
The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office declined to provide charging information on Robert Ussery, 54, who founded conspiracy website Side Thorn, and his partner Jodi Mann, 56, who is referred to as “Conspiracy Granny” online. The booking process was not complete Monday evening and no information would be made available until Tuesday, a supervisor there said.
Ussery “continually yelled and screamed and hollered and told me he was gonna hang me from a tree, and pee on me while I’m hanging,” said Frank Pomeroy, the pastor.
Pomeroy said he was in his car by the church when the pair approached the building, and he intervened when Mann began to write in large, loopy writing on a poster left for well-wishers to sign, “The truth shall set you free.”
The pair believe the church shooting was staged by accomplices of the government, though Pomeroy, whose 14-year-old daughter was killed there, knows better.
re: #151 Anymouse 🌹
More asshole conservative conspiracy theorists.
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These people need to be deprogrammed. Breitbart, Fox News, InfoWars, Gingrich, Limbaugh, etc have insinuated themselves into the minds of millions of Americans who may have started as sane conservatives but were gradually led down the rabbit hole, never to emerge. It is terrifying how they have all bought into various conspiracies — how they support Trump and dismiss all criticism of him as fake news. There are educated people so brainwashed they believe Trump was a successful real estate developer. Our country will not survive if the Republicans do not shake off their allegiance to Trump and their apparent fidelity to Putin.
re: #169 Hecuba’s daughter
The GOP is not done looting the government yet, and the agitprop makes for a horde of useful idiots.
When they have all the money they want, they can leave. Then the rest of us are stuck with the mess and a broke nation to boot.
re: #168 Anymouse 🌹
From the San Antonio Express News article on the Sutherland Springs, Tex. pastor who was harassed by two right-wing conspiraliars:
Absolutely terrifying that there are people so immune to reason that they believe these massacres did not happen.
re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter
Absolutely terrifying that there are people so immune to reason that they believe these massacres did not happen.
Right up until the time one of these massacres occurs in their own town. I would be interested in seeing numbers or interviews of people who held such insane beliefs until something like that happened in their own town, then had to put up with others calling them liars or conspirators.
That number has to be greater than zero. Some chowderhead for example in Sutherland Springs or Parkland who was absolutely convinced that Sandy Hook or Columbine were faked.
re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter
Absolutely terrifying that there are people so immune to reason that they believe these massacres did not happen.
Reason doesn’t make them feel superior, so they don’t do it.
Second burn of the second stage of the Falcon Nine was successful.
re: #130 HappyWarrior
“Didn’t see you saying this about Benghazi, Condi.”
I’ve never, ever liked Condi Rice because she sold out to GOPers while knowing that if she hadn’t been a member of their party, they’d have treated her the way they treated PBO. She’s a well-educated woman, but she needs to STFU in a hurry. If she was too timid to speak about the way her party members treated PBO, and the things they’ve been saying about Michael Steele recently, she’s a coward and the GOP’s useful black idiot. I’ll be totally honest, if Rice were to try to visit some black churches here in Middle GA, she would be permitted to come, but she’d better prep and expect to answer some hard questions. She’ll also get lots of side eye. For comparison, think about how Manigault was treated when she showed up at the black journalists’ association convention and thought she’d get a warm reception. Girl couldn’t hack it and left there in a hurry. In the right situation, side eye can work miracles.
“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.” - Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels
What do Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Dinesh D’Souza, and James Damore have in common? A burgeoning conservative media empire that’s on track for a billion views in 2018: https://t.co/RaITjMzpMo
— Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) March 3, 2018
I just saw a dumb-ass car commercial that asked what car you would want if you knew it was your car for the rest of your life. Apparently you were supposed to choose a specific pickup truck. My instantaneous thought, in contradiction to this, was a Rolls-Royce* with a lifetime service contract. Other lizards’ opinions may differ.
*Sadly, I think a Ferrari is too young for me.
re: #178 whitebeach
I just saw a dumb-ass car commercial that asked what car you would want if you knew it was your car for the rest of your life. Apparently you were supposed to choose a specific pickup truck. My instantaneous thought, in contradiction to this, was a Rolls-Royce* with a lifetime service contract. Other lizards’ opinions may differ.
*Sadly, I think a Ferrari is too young for me.
Bentley Continental GT, with a lifetime service contract.
re: #175 majii
And the second she loses her usefulness, the GOP will throw Condoleeza Rice under a bus just as fast as they did Michael Steele, Omarosa Manigault, and Caitlin Jenner.
re: #99 Ace Rothstein
Remember back in 1983 when the Marine barracks in Beirut were bombed and 300 people were killed? Ya know how many hearings were had? One.
I had two friends who were kids I grew up with who died in that attack. They are both buried together at Arlington, about 5 headstones apart. My mom and my dad are also in that giant bone orchard.
When I was sitting SAC alert, in the early 80’s we had six B-52 alert shots and six KC-135s to refuel them out of K. I. Sawyer AFB in Marquette, Michigan. Missions 1 and 2 were penetrators, loaded up with 12 Short Range Attack Missiles (SRAMs) on two rotary launchers in the two bomb bays that were “targets of opportunity” birds, attacking active radars that came up on them, clearing the way for the bombers behind them. The post strike landing bases for those birds were in Isfahan, Iran. (Keep in mind, this was *after* the revolution. We still had agreements with Iran.) Missions 3 and 4 were known as “The Eastern European Heating Authority” flights, with four 1.3 megaton gravity weapons in the front bomb bay and six SRAMs on a single rotary launcher in the aft bomb bay. Mission 5 was an urban/industrial flight into the Moscow area, armed up with the same weapons load as 3 and 4. Post strike landing base was Incirlik, Turkey. Mission six was a Strategic Reserve flight which would land in Cold Lake, Alberta with it’s tanker and see if there was anything left to kill, and then go kill it. Same weapons load as 3, 4, and 5.
So Iran and Turkey were kind of problematical after a nuclear exchange, and we were issued .38 pistols with 4” barrels as service weapons. So I, like many of my fellow pilots, decided to arm up. I bought a .41 magnum Dan Wesson pistol pack (heavy vent rib with five speed loaders) and an H&K 91 full auto in 7.62 NATO.
Safe, single, 3-shot burst, and full auto settings on the selector. Shot it once on full auto and ended up with the barrel up and to the right at about 15 degrees after eight shots. Never fired it again more than burst mode which was controllable.
Twenty round clips, which were large enough to tape three together for a 60 round package. Cost me $900 for the gun and $200 for the license. Sold it it in ‘85. Sold the Dan Wesson around ‘88. I’ve got a shotgun and a deer rifle.
When R’s say that D’s are ignorant of guns, I’ve got to laugh. I’ve been hunting for 50 years, and I can put a three shot 7.62 group in a half dollar at 300 yards with my rifle.
Venison tastes *good*.
re: #99 Ace Rothstein
Remember back in 1983 when the Marine barracks in Beirut were bombed and 300 people were killed? Ya know how many hearings were had? One.
I remember because I was deployed from the Caribbean Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea aboard USS America to assist in the evacuation and retaliation.
re: #178 whitebeach
I just saw a dumb-ass car commercial that asked what car you would want if you knew it was your car for the rest of your life. Apparently you were supposed to choose a specific pickup truck. My instantaneous thought, in contradiction to this, was a Rolls-Royce* with a lifetime service contract. Other lizards’ opinions may differ.
*Sadly, I think a Ferrari is too young for me.
1969 Ford Mustang fastback. Candy-apple red.
I’m a simple man.
re: #182 Anymouse 🌹
I remember because I was deployed from the Caribbean Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea aboard USS America to assist in the evacuation and retaliation.
Two days later, we invaded Grenada. USA! USA!
re: #38 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
On that sorta-topic, I am starting to watch MacGyver. I got turned on to Richard Dean Anderson with his work on the sci-fi series Stargate: SG1, but this is the first time I’ve seen his earlier work available for streaming. And now I get to watch him in his younger years. Mrs. Fish is having a fangirl-gasm.
My wife turned onto him in the eighties as MacGyver and was an avid fan of Stargate as well.
Rescuers found this adorable “gentle giant” homeless on the streets. After a journey of almost 1,000 miles, he’s now training to become a therapy dog to put smiles on faces at children’s hospitals. https://t.co/k0Uvrrmka2 pic.twitter.com/miquRVD9IN
— ABC News (@ABC) March 6, 2018
ABC News trying to atone for that stupid ass dog tormented by firecrackers video tweet
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) March 6, 2018
re: #183 Dr Lizardo
1969 Ford Mustang fastback. Candy-apple red.
I’m a simple man.
And there it is, with the 428 Cobra Jet.
Meanwhile in Italy, it’s beginning to look a lot like fascism… https://t.co/o2KjLUVfdX
— Christopher Stroop (@C_Stroop) March 6, 2018
re: #186 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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This level of dog porn can get annoying as click bait!
Aaah, not really. Good doggie!
Researchers build AI to identify gang members. When asked about potential misuses, presenter (a computer scientist at Harvard) says “I’m just an engineer.” 🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️https://t.co/NbKepiaG4Y pic.twitter.com/qp6f0okJ1g
— chris g (@hypervisible) March 4, 2018
This is an unconscionably horrible answer to a crucial question about algorithm design for social systems. When you design algos with a high impact on lives, you have to take the consequences seriously. https://t.co/FGlHx2xujB
— Drew Moxon (@DSMoxon) March 6, 2018
And now we get this:
In reversal, former Trump aide says he’ll probably cooperate
re: #194 Scout
And now we get this:
In reversal, former Trump aide says he’ll probably cooperate
Sounds like his former boss! Who did he talk to last?
These people have no clue how to govern. It’s like watching the Keystone Kops running the White House.
Liberals pushing anger and hate as they run for governor. We are getting positive things done for the people of Wisconsin and we have an optimistic vision for the future.
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) March 5, 2018
Ah, the good old days of the campaign, when Donald Trump said he would have no time for golf as President.
trumpgolfcount.com
(number of days he’s been golfing that can be confirmed, along with the cost to the US tax payers in tens of millions of dollars)
re: #195 austin_blue
Sounds like his former boss! Who did he talk to last?
These people have no clue how to govern. It’s like watching the Keystone Kops running the White House.
Perhaps he got a call from the Federal Marshal’s Service: Nice house here. Would be a shame if you couldn’t leave your jail cell to visit it.
I’m for the rack. Night all, sweet scaly dreams.
LOL
The Republicans in the WVa state senate, who went all “fiscal conservative” on the state’s teachers and stated they would vote against the raise the house passed, accidentally passed the house version of the bill, passing the 5% raise.
The state senate is now working on a bill to repeal the raise, with Democrats and parents in opposition.
No matter where you put conservatives in charge, they cannot govern. In no place, at any time. They can’t even screw their own employees correctly.
The senate passed an amendment to overturn the bill and sent it over to the house, which rejected the senate amendment. (Long thread on the blow by blow in the WVa senate):
So, get this. Delegates of both parties, plus Senate Dems are saying the Senate accidentally passed the bill with the House version language and pay scales pic.twitter.com/H5mciu68Vi
— Brad McElhinny (@BradMcElhinny) March 4, 2018
re: #202 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Cernovich told Jones that it’s “life or death now” for conservatives in the public sphere.
“This isn’t the usual, ‘We’re under an attack, thank you for the support, share links.’ No, no, no. This is—we’re done, we’re off the internet, they’re banning us,” Cernovich said, before rehashing the same talking point about Christian persecution we wrote about last week.
He later added, “They want us in gulags, Alex. I don’t know what more to say. Death camps are coming.”
These people are insane.
re: #203 Dr Lizardo
These people are insane.
Hey, we couldn’t get the death camps and gulags right under Obama; what makes Cernovich think we can get away with it under a GOP administration?
re: #203 Dr Lizardo
Losing a Twitter account or YouTube channel is NOT the same thing as being “off the Internet,” bozos. There are other platforms there to peddle your CT wares.
What you did lose was all those followers and the ad revenue from monetizing the YT channel. That’s what you’re really sore about.
re: #202 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
He later added, “They want us in gulags, Alex. I don’t know what more to say. Death camps are coming.”
Since these lying fascists are 100% antivaxx, anyplace where they gather for long is likely to turn into a death camp.
re: #205 wheat-dogg
Losing a Twitter account or YouTube channel is NOT the same thing as being “off the Internet,” bozos. There are other platforms there to peddle your CT wares.
What you did lose was all those followers and the ad revenue from monetizing the YT channel. That’s what you’re really sore about.
That’s a bingo.
That is how you say that, right?
“To every lying member of the media, to every Hollywood phony, to the role model athletes who use their free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents…Your Time is running out. The clock starts now.”
–@DLoesch #Oscars90 pic.twitter.com/SDVjeTxyfB— NRATV (@NRATV) March 4, 2018
If there was any doubt that the NRA is a terrorist organization, their spokesman is now openly threatening Americans.
If Dana Loesch was a Muslim who addressed America with “your time is running out,” we’d be bombing a Middle Eastern country in retaliation by now. https://t.co/RQR0uYNyWT— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 5, 2018
re: #205 wheat-dogg
Losing a Twitter account or YouTube channel is NOT the same thing as being “off the Internet,” bozos. There are other platforms there to peddle your CT wares.
What you did lose was all those followers and the ad revenue from monetizing the YT channel. That’s what you’re really sore about.
They can join the atheist YouTubers whose AdSense revenue was nuked months ago in the “adpocalypse” because atheism is a “controversial topic.” Or over at Reddit, where /r/atheism requires you confirm you are eighteen years old because talking about such a controversial subject is so much worse than justifying rape, genocide, and slavery (Bible channels do not require you to confirm you are eighteen).
Alex Jones is rich enough he can get his own video server. His right to free speech does not mean another company has to monetise it.
re: #203 Dr Lizardo
He later added, “They want us in gulags, Alex. I don’t know what more to say. Death camps are coming.”
To the extent that they are always projecting their “sins” onto others, this means they want YOU in gulags and death camps.
Not surprising too; nazis of all kinds have always been exterminationists. Without resorting to Hitler, look at Argentina or Chile. If folks like Jones (our version of Julius Streicher, but less erudite) came into power, most of you here living on US soil would be “disappeared.”
I once had a Chilean TA who had just escaped being caught in Pinochet’s dragnet of various lefties and had been able to free the country, this saving his life, and he was prone to remind us that it had all been perfectly legal and sanctioned by their Supreme Court.
While your institutions are more solid than Chile’s were then, there is so much more potential for violence; you guys are engaged in an existential fight for survival.
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Insider trading/knowledge does not exist in a Trump administration
re: #210 Lupin
I live a long way from the borders, and don’t have a lot of money. (Someone here said they were doing a $250,000 house renovation, which is more money than I’ve ever had.)
Since Mr. Trump was inaugurated, my wife and I have kept our passports in our car’s glovebox in case a sudden trip to Canada or Mexico with no planning becomes necessary.
South Korean envoys and Kim Jong Un see ‘satisfactory result’ of meeting (goes to UPI)
SEOUL, March 5 (UPI) — South Korean envoys reached an understanding with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their four hour meeting in Pyongyang on Monday.
South Korea’s Presidential Spokesman Kim Eui-gyeom said Tuesday that the five-member delegation dispatched by President Moon Jae-in met with the North Korean leader for dinner and talks from 6 p.m. local time.
The meeting reportedly ended with a satisfactory “result,” which includes details of an inter-Korean summit, the spokesman said.
(more at UPI)
LOL thread:
SAM NUNBERG: Did Trump collude with the Russians? Sure, but Roger Stone isn’t—
ARBY’S DRIVE-THRU GUY: Buddy if you don’t order soon we’re gonna have to tow your car— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) March 5, 2018
LOL this thread after Mr. Wright posted this:
Oh no! Not #LegalWarning! Anything but that. pic.twitter.com/8dEfCPCqm6
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 6, 2018
re: #215 Anymouse 🌹
LOL this thread after Mr. Wright posted this:
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re: #216 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Truth is a defense.
And “the NRA is a terrorist organisation” is an opinion anyway. I don’t think you can be prosecuted or sued for opinions.
The wingnut in question who tried to flag him is apparently going through Twitter as fast as he can flagging anyone who expresses that opinion.
I presume if he had a real counter-argument he would make it. Instead, he’s afraid of speech.
Good.
re: #216 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Truth is a defense.
Not against twitter, it isn’t. :-)
re: #210 Lupin
To the extent that they are always projecting their “sins” onto others, this means they want YOU in gulags and death camps.
Not surprising too; nazis of all kinds have always been exterminationists. Without resorting to Hitler, look at Argentina or Chile. If folks like Jones (our version of Julius Streicher, but less erudite) came into power, most of you here living on US soil would be “disappeared.”
I once had a Chilean TA who had just escaped being caught in Pinochet’s dragnet of various lefties and had been able to free the country, this saving his life, and he was prone to remind us that it had all been perfectly legal and sanctioned by their Supreme Court.
While your institutions are more solid than Chile’s were then, there is so much more potential for violence; you guys are engaged in an existential fight for survival.
This well observed tendency makes me wonder if their emphasis on pedophile and false flag operations is more than just lowest common denominator invective.
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re: #219 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Interestingly, way back when Alex Jones was first getting his start on Austin public access, he called into the Atheist Experience show (which also appeared on Austin public access at the time).
He was a wingnut in the clip then (this was many years ago). (4:35)
Re the Tariffs War, the EU is as we speak gathering support from Canada, Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, Australia and Turkey to form a coalition that would “punish” US exports in a “proportionate” and “equivalent” manner.
article (in English)
Macron affirms we must react swiftly, etc. The European Parliament is up in arms.
As the drums of trade war keep sounding louder, the EU Commission is trying to tone down the rhetoric in order to avoid the situation getting out of control with the “unpredictable” US president.
But yesterday, the EU Commission reviewed a plan that would include billions in levies on U.S. exports, that in 2003 helped them vanquish GW Bush in a similar spat.
re: #221 Lupin
Re the Tariffs War, the EU is as we speak gathering support from Canada, Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, Australia and Turkey to form a coalition that would “punish” US exports in a “proportionate” and “equivalent” manner.
article (in English)
Macron affirms we must react swiftly, etc. The European Parliament is up in arms.
As the drums of trade war keep sounding louder, the EU Commission is trying to tone down the rhetoric in order to avoid the situation getting out of control with the “unpredictable” US president.
But yesterday, the EU Commission reviewed a plan that would include billions in levies on U.S. exports, that in 2003 helped them vanquish GW Bush in a similar spat.
If they’re smart they’ll target their tariffs on products from States that Trump barely won. That will get his attention in a hurry.
re: #221 Lupin
LOL:
EU officials explained that the Commission is in contact with other affected countries, including Canada, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, Australia and Turkey.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker described the announcement made by Trump as “stupid”.
But “we can also do stupid”, he said last Friday.
re: #222 goddamnedfrank
If they’re smart they’ll target their tariffs on products from States that Trump barely won. That will get his attention in a hurry.
They’ve already said they would target Harley-Davidson motorcycles (which is why Scott Walker called on Trump to abandon the idea), Levi’s products, and Florida citrus.
re: #222 goddamnedfrank
If they’re smart they’ll target their tariffs on products from States that Trump barely won. That will get his attention in a hurry.
Harley-Davidson is based in Wisconsin, home state of Paul Ryan, and Bourbon is mainly produced in Tennessee and Kentucky, home of Mitch McConnell,
Officials in Brussels insist the list dates back to the last major commercial dispute in 2003 but acknowledged this had been recently adapted.
re: #220 Anymouse 🌹
Wasn’t Jones really big into Waco stuff, you know, after the Branch Davidian standoff? I could swear that’s when I first heard the name ‘Alex Jones’ - it would’ve been shortly after the horrific conclusion to that standoff.
Maybe I’m getting him confused with another wackaloon.
re: #226 Dr Lizardo
Wasn’t Jones really big into Waco stuff, you know, after the Branch Davidian standoff? I could swear that’s when I first heard the name ‘Alex Jones’ - it would’ve been shortly after the horrific conclusion to that standoff.
Maybe I’m getting him confused with another wackaloon.
Yes. Alex Jones did a whole “documentary” on Waco.
Link behind the privacy bar. (1:46:19, with appropriate scary music)
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re: #227 Anymouse 🌹
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It’s 2018. I’ll give you three guesses who the current President is, and you can’t choose Obama or Clinton.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2018
No precipitation in the local weather for the next week here, but a second day of fifty mph winds.
My wife went into town yesterday and had real trouble keeping our little car on the road. She kept her speed down to thirty or so to keep control of the car.
Mueller today: About that alleged ‘immunity’ deal you imagined…
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2018
re: #236 darthstar
That’s what I was thinking. Place is getting popular.
Calling Alfred Hitchcock… .
Silly.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2018
Stupid show lawsuit - some 20 year old wants to buy a gun at Dick’s. Just ask your dad to get it for you douchebag.
Besides “Obama”, the boys want their tail back. pic.twitter.com/3Hywri8dLL
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 6, 2018
Shouldn’t really be showing you this. Mary Berry’s passport photo. pic.twitter.com/7CtxDaAp5R
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) March 5, 2018
Great idea…though now he’ll choose to remain anonymous because of the negative publicity. And alleged “death threats”….always with these snowflakes.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2018
re: #242 darthstar
And they call liberals “snowflakes.” Is there anything that isn’t projection? Anything?
.@PressSec: “These men represent the very best of America, and remind us why it’s so important to make sure our great veterans get the care they deserve.” pic.twitter.com/ZKqN1MOeie
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 6, 2018
Today, she’ll have a kid on life support by the podium, and will pull the plug if @Acosta tries to ask a question. https://t.co/aTpkFNHcyg
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2018
re: #223 Anymouse 🌹
re: #221 Lupin
LOL:
EU officials explained that the Commission is in contact with other affected countries, including Canada, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, Australia and Turkey.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker described the announcement made by Trump as “stupid”.
But “we can also do stupid”, he said last Friday.
Not a good sign: these are Europeans - they’ve had centuries to perfect the art of “doing stupid” - hell, they were formulating and executing stupid policies since the US still belonged to the Indians. They are pros at the game…
re: #244 darthstar
That’s why we need to elect more Democrats, because the GOP only uses us veterans and active duty as props to drive their voters to the polls. They don’t care about us, and never did.
Funding the VA does a lot more for me than waving the flag and mouthing platitudes.
re: #167 Anymouse 🌹
All the best in your candidacy! Sounds very exciting.
re: #220 Anymouse 🌹
Interestingly, way back when Alex Jones was first getting his start on Austin public access, he called into the Atheist Experience show (which also appeared on Austin public access at the time).
He was a wingnut in the clip then (this was many years ago). (4:35)
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In conventional political terms, Jones was all over the map then, as now. His show had some appeal to local lefties because of his attacks on the military, law enforcement, corporations, and the Bush family. His brand of anti-science also emphasized new age woo like UFOs and ESP over religious right anti-science like creationism. Libertarianism was not a well understood concept among the mass audience at that time. He was also publicly agnostic then, which certainly did not endear him to conventional wingnuts. It is a subject he avoids these days.
re: #248 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
In conventional political terms, Jones was all over the map then, as now.
Like Rush, he is first and foremost a businessman, and he directs his content at a target audience so he can charge more for his advertising time.
One can only admire these fellows for attracting such a large and homogeneous audience to make their advertising time that profitable.
@elonmusk Elon, From your test site on the 3rd. Barred owl https://t.co/Lik289k5tN pic.twitter.com/DNmkYCNvl4
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 6, 2018
re: #194 Scout
And now we get this:
In reversal, former Trump aide says he’ll probably cooperate
OMG! Does anyone else see 1000 arrows pointing directly at this clowns relationship with Carter Page?
But in his call with the AP, Nunberg said he might be more willing to comply if Mueller’s team limits the scope of its request.
“I’m happy if the scope changes and if they send me a subpoena that doesn’t include Carter Page,” he said, insisting the two had never spoken.
Alabama Senator advances a Ten Commandments state constitution amendment to display that in all public schools to “deter school shootings.”
Cause ya know, Separation of Church and State really isn’t a thing to conservatives, nor is a practical solution like regulating firearms.
alreporter.com
(Alabama Political Reporter, more at the link)
The Alabama Senate on Tuesday approved a bill by Sen. Gerald Dial, R-Lineville, that would authorize a state referendum on whether to allow the display of the Ten Commandments on public property and public schools — a proposal he says may prevent some mass shootings.
The bill passed the Legislature’s upper chamber by a vote of 23 to 3 after Dial told lawmakers that displaying the Ten Commandments might dissuade some school shooters from carrying out an attack.
“I believe that if you had the Ten Commandments posted in a prominent place in school, it has the possibility to prohibit some student from taking action to kill other students,” Dial said.
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹
Alabama Senator advances a Ten Commandments state constitution amendment to display that in all public schools to “deter school shootings.”
“I believe that if you had the Ten Commandments posted in a prominent place in school, it has the possibility to prohibit some student from taking action to kill other students,” Dial said.
The Ten commandments: scientifically proven to be three times more effective than both Thoughts and Prayers combined!!!
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹
Alabama Senator advances a Ten Commandments state constitution amendment to display that in all public schools to “deter school shootings.”
Cause ya know, Separation of Church and State really isn’t a thing to conservatives, nor is a practical solution like regulating firearms.
alreporter.com
(Alabama Political Reporter, more at the link)
A hundred years ago, westerners mocked superstitious shamanists who believed that magic would shield them from enemy bullets. The Chinese “Boxers” and various African groups were usually cited. As far as anyone knows, all were proven wrong. Nevertheless, the tradition apparently continues with the superstitious natives of Alabama.
re: #255 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
A hundred years ago, westerners mocked superstitious shamanists who believed that magic would shield them from enemy bullets. The Chinese “Boxers” and various African groups were usually cited. As far as anyone knows, all were proven wrong. Nevertheless, the tradition apparently continues with the superstitious natives of Alabama.
because they were heathens and barbarians, not believers in The True Faith
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re: #255 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
A hundred years ago, westerners mocked superstitious shamanists who believed that magic would shield them from enemy bullets. The Chinese “Boxers” and various African groups were usually cited. As far as anyone knows, all were proven wrong. Nevertheless, the tradition apparently continues with the superstitious natives of Alabama.
What a bunch of primitive screwheads.
re: #253 wheat-dogg
More magical thinking.
a) Pass unconstitutional bill to add amendment to state constitution.
b) Challenge to amendment in court.
c) State spends tens of millions of dollars defending amendment.
d) Amendment struck down as an unconstitutional marking like fire hydrants of public schools with religious indoctrination.
e) Cut education budget to pay for court fights.
f) Profit.
That is why conservatives do things like this. They aren’t meant to stand up to court scrutiny. They are meant to drain public school budgets.
re: #258 Anymouse 🌹
a) Pass unconstitutional bill to add amendment to state constitution.
b) Challenge to amendment in court.
c) State spends tens of millions of dollars defending amendment.
d) Amendment struck down as an unconstitutional marking like fire hydrants of public schools with religious indoctrination.
e) Cut education budget to pay for court fights.
f) Profit.That is why conservatives do things like this. They aren’t meant to stand up to court scrutiny. They are meant to drain public school budgets.
Well that and they’re stunts for the RR who believe the worst bs about public schools but that does go with your aforementioned point about the budget for schools.
Oh my God!
Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore - except your President (just kidding, of course)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 6, 2018
re: #259 HappyWarrior
Well that and they’re stunts for the RR who believe the worst bs about public schools but that does go with your aforementioned point about the budget for schools.
It’s also like all these ridiculous court fights over city council invocations, despite Town of Greece v Galloway where they try to prohibit non-Christian religious leaders or atheists from offering invocations.
My town has no such invocation and never did. We just get down to the job at hand.
re: #261 Anymouse 🌹
It’s also like all these ridiculous court fights over city council invocations, despite Town of Greece v Galloway where they try to prohibit non-Christian religious leaders or atheists from offering invocations.
My town has no such invocation and never did. We just get down to the job at hand.
Right and that’s also meant to make non Christians feel unwelcome.
re: #263 HappyWarrior
Right and that’s also meant to make non Christians feel unwelcome.
I watched a clip of an Arizona city meeting, where all the Republicans got up and walked out at the start of an invocation by an atheist.
At that second if I was sitting on that town board, I would have demanded a quorum count, and upon determining the majority of the city council had left, suspended the meeting.
I forget which state it is, but after a Democratic lawmaker (Virginia?) invited an imam to give the opening invocation, the chaplaincy office for the legislature wrote a new rule to prohibit inviting anyone except a leader in your church/mosque/synagogue &c.
That has the effect of banning Muslims and atheists (no Muslim members of the legislature, no atheist members, no atheist organisation ordains ministers).
From Glenn Beck’s parallel universe-Hollywood dream to reports about how PragerU is invigorating an emerging conservative intellectual surge (this morning on FnF, elsewhere), there is some dream the “SJWs” are going to be put in their places. Trump’s tweet is latching on to that.
re: #224 Anymouse 🌹
They’ve already said they would target Harley-Davidson motorcycles (which is why Scott Walker called on Trump to abandon the idea), Levi’s products, and Florida citrus.
And Kentucky bourbon (McConnell)
re: #266 Barefoot Grin
From Glenn Beck’s parallel universe-Hollywood dream to reports about how PragerU is invigorating an emerging conservative intellectual surge (this morning on FnF, elsewhere), there is some dream the “SJWs” are going to be put in their places. Trump’s tweet is latching on to that.
PragerU. Dennis Prager, former Orthodox Jew who converted to Christianity, dropped out of college, demands politicians swear in on a Bible or they are “violating their oath of office,” and started a diploma mill? Yup, that’s conservatism. He missed the trifecta: He hasn’t been convicted of anything yet
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹
“I believe that if you had the Ten Commandments posted in a prominent place in school, it has the possibility to prohibit some student from taking action to kill other students
Fill in the already talked about 1000 solutions of your choice
re: #269 dangerman
“I believe that if you had
the Ten Commandments posted in a prominent place in school, it has the possibility to prohibit some student from taking action to kill other studentsFill in the already talked about 1000 solutions of your choice
How about X Commandments posters made out of Kevlar? You could use it as a shield (but so could the shooter). /s
re: #269 dangerman
“I believe that if you had
the Ten Commandments posted in a prominent place in school, it has the possibility to prohibit some student from taking action to kill other studentsFill in the already talked about 1000 solutions of your choice
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition? Nah, I don’t think conservatives would be that honest.
re: #269 dangerman
“I believe that if you had
the Ten Commandments posted in a prominent place in school, it has the possibility to prohibit some student from taking action to kill other studentsFill in the already talked about 1000 solutions of your choice
in case i wasnt clear enough
the general nra/gop response to everything is “it wont work”
marco said it many times in the last few weeks
background checks, age restrictions, registrations, “assault rifle bans”, and on and on
if the new standard is “has the possibility…” - then we should be willing to try them all, and right quick!
They will never stop until we’re in a new Dark Age.
“There aren’t sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution” EPA Administrator Pruitt is heard saying in newly surfaced talk radio tapes from 2005 https://t.co/ldKzHkXXHt
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) March 3, 2018
That’s N. and S. Korea…. You’ve played the #instigator at the peril of all parties involved.
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 6, 2018
re: #232 jeffreyw
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Good morning!
Are you running a “special” at Jeffrey’s Fly-In Diner today? Place is packed.
re: #266 Barefoot Grin
From Glenn Beck’s parallel universe-Hollywood dream to reports about how PragerU is invigorating an emerging conservative intellectual surge (this morning on FnF, elsewhere), there is some dream the “SJWs” are going to be put in their places. Trump’s tweet is latching on to that.
Lol, Bovine University carries more weight than Prager U. For people who claim liberals live in echo chambers, conservatives do it tons more themselves.
I have the weirdest followers. This guy just followed me:
Internationally Recognized Hair Transplant Surgeon Hair Transplant Centre 1-8XX-7XX-4XXXX (HAIR).
And Barack Obama follows him (yes, the real Barack).
re: #265 Anymouse 🌹
I watched a clip of an Arizona city meeting, where all the Republicans got up and walked out at the start of an invocation by an atheist.
At that second if I was sitting on that town board, I would have demanded a quorum count, and upon determining the majority of the city council had left, suspended the meeting.
I forget which state it is, but after a Democratic lawmaker (Virginia?) invited an imam to give the opening invocation, the chaplaincy office for the legislature wrote a new rule to prohibit inviting anyone except a leader in your church/mosque/synagogue &c.
That has the effect of banning Muslims and atheists (no Muslim members of the legislature, no atheist members, no atheist organisation ordains ministers).
I don’t think it was Va. Wouldn’t have flown here. Republicans/conservatives can’t tooera anything other than conservative Christianity or if they’re having a good day, Judaism.
re: #240 Dave In Austin
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If there is one photo on the internet that pisses me off more than Lunkhead Jr. with the severed elephant’s tail I don’t know what it would be. And there are a lot of upsetting images.
I so hope there is karma payback for that act.
re: #278 MsJ
I have the weirdest followers. This guy just followed me:
Internationally Recognized Hair Transplant Surgeon Hair Transplant Centre 1-8XX-7XX-4XXXX (HAIR).
And Barack Obama follows him (yes, the real Barack).
Is Barack Obama’s new job “Hair Transplant Surgeon?”
re: #281 Anymouse 🌹
Is Barack Obama’s new job “Hair Transplant Surgeon?”
Soros stopped paying the bills.//
re: #268 Anymouse 🌹
PragerU. Dennis Prager, former Orthodox Jew who converted to Christianity, dropped out of college, demands politicians swear in on a Bible or they are “violating their oath of office,” and started a diploma mill? Yup, that’s conservatism. He missed the trifecta: He hasn’t been convicted of anything yet
Maybe he’ll be convicted for running a diploma mill.
re: #281 Anymouse 🌹
Is Barack Obama’s new job “Hair Transplant Surgeon?”
No. This guy is a hair transplant surgeon in Canada. And, for whatever reason, Obama is following him.
re: #283 Dr Lizardo
Maybe he’ll be convicted for running a diploma mill.
I get ads for his joke in my FB feed because I have a few friends that buy his shit. I’m going to point out to them that Denny is inspiration for Officer Barbrady on South Park.
re: #284 MsJ
No. This guy is a hair transplant surgeon in Canada. And, for whatever reason, Obama is following him.
For some reason I’m thinking of the ad for Maury’s wigs in Goodfellas.
re: #268 Anymouse 🌹
PragerU. Dennis Prager, former Orthodox Jew who converted to Christianity, dropped out of college, demands politicians swear in on a Bible or they are “violating their oath of office,” and started a diploma mill? Yup, that’s conservatism. He missed the trifecta: He hasn’t been convicted of anything yet
Article 6 paragraph 3 of US Constitution:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
The guy is a fucking moron leading around morons.
re: #279 HappyWarrior
I don’t think it was Va. Wouldn’t have flown here. Republicans/conservatives can’t tooera anything other than conservative Christianity or if they’re having a good day, Judaism.
You’re correct. I tracked it down on the atheist forum I run because I remember noting it when it happened. It is Oklahoma (I remember why I left that state: Mary Fallin was elected and we got the heck out).
Trevor Brown of Oklahoma Watch obtained a copy of that letter and notes that the rules effectively shut out religious minorities and atheists from delivering those invocations.
That’s because Strohm’s letter makes clear that his colleagues should nominate speakers from “the representative’s own place of worship”… Which is very convenient when the Oklahoma State House is overwhelmingly Christian.
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re: #246 Anymouse 🌹
That’s why we need to elect more Democrats, because the GOP only uses us veterans and active duty as props to drive their voters to the polls. They don’t care about us, and never did.
Funding the VA does a lot more for me than waving the flag and mouthing platitudes.
I wish that sentiment would be made more clear for conservatives to have to deal with that reality. They fall for the BS every time.
Is there some kind of a Veterans Group that addresses the politics of that? Is there anyone that can let America know that a majority of veterans get screwed by GOP “all Talk-No Policy” every time and can site all the issues that get all the talk and none of the action?
It is needed. Democrats, liberals, progressives need to make this clear and maybe take that talking point away from the GOP and conservatives.
re: #255 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
A hundred years ago, westerners mocked superstitious shamanists who believed that magic would shield them from enemy bullets. The Chinese “Boxers” and various African groups were usually cited. As far as anyone knows, all were proven wrong. Nevertheless, the tradition apparently continues with the superstitious natives of Alabama.
The Ghost Dancers.
re: #260 Dave In Austin
Trump’s been busy tweeting about everything and anything but the fact that Nunberg basically stated that Trump knew or had reason to know of the Russia meeting in June 2016 before the meeting occurred and that Mueller’s already got info on Trump.
So, what’s Trump’s disorganized tweets about this morning?
The Oscars, DACA, etc.
More people are leaving than coming in.
You’ve failed to fill 100s of diplomatic posts and are undermining US natsec daily. We need diplomats to further soft power of US and here you are ceding ground to Russia and China everywhere you look.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 6, 2018
You’re the worst presidency in our nation’s history. And that’s saying something.
You are mired in more scandals and corruption than every other presidency combined.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 6, 2018
This reactionary know nothing vulgarian is presiding over an admin that is looting and fleecing the Treasury at every opportunity. And they’re instituting the most extreme judiciary makeover in generations thanks to McConnell’s obstructionism preventing Obama from making nominations to the federal bench, including Garland’s stolen seat on the Supreme Court.
So much of what’s gone wrong with the nation can be traced not to Trump, but McConnell. And that too should be a vivid reminder that the GOP is the real problem here - Trump’s just a symptom of the moral rot.
I did my voting in the primary this morning. I don’t think I’ve had that many people to choose in the Democratic primary TOTAL over the previous eight primaries.
re: #288 Anymouse 🌹
You’re correct. I tracked it down on the atheist forum I run because I remember noting it when it happened. It is Oklahoma (I remember why I left that state: Mary Fallin was elected and we got the heck out).
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Yeah I was going to say because we’ve had Dem governors except for 09-13 and while I don’t like McDonnell, I think he would have put a stop on that.
re: #255 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
I think they need to prove to us that they’re willing to stand in front of a firing squad and prove that prayer will keep the bullets from hitting them.
It’s like Nunberg is giving Mueller a roadmap, and all roads lead to… pic.twitter.com/Ihh3k7Ump6
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 6, 2018
re: #287 Eventual Carrion
Article 6 paragraph 3 of US Constitution:
The guy is a fucking moron leading around morons.
It’s amazing how many conservatives hold the same view. When I was elected, I had to get an opinion from the state attorney general because our state laws say you must take an oath under God. (I was prepared to challenge the law in court if he ruled I could not take an affirmation.)
re: #290 The Vicious Babushka
The Ghost Dancers.
“I wear the morning star.”
(I really do—it’s the retro tape symbol I put on the back of my motorcycle helmets.)
re: #291 lawhawk
no don, it is in fact chaos:
turnover higher than the 5 most recent presidents
I find Trump’s turnover is record-setting, more than triple that of Obama and double that of Reagan. In looking at why Trump has experienced such high turnover, I argue he has valued loyalty over qualifications and suffered from a White House that has functioned in a chaotic manner.
my itals
re: #294 Belafon
I think they need to prove to us that they’re willing to stand in front of a firing squad and prove that prayer will keep the bullets from hitting them.
Yeah….something like, “Just take a seat right here, buddy. Are you all nice and comfy? Good. Then let’s get this demo started, shall we?”
re: #266 Barefoot Grin
From Glenn Beck’s parallel universe-Hollywood dream to reports about how PragerU is invigorating an emerging conservative intellectual surge (this morning on FnF, elsewhere), there is some dream the “SJWs” are going to be put in their places. Trump’s tweet is latching on to that.
Good grief that dude runs his own “college”?
re: #289 ObserverArt
I wish that sentiment would be made more clear for conservatives to have to deal with that reality. They fall for the BS every time.
Is there some kind of a Veterans Group that addresses the politics of that? Is there anyone that can let America know that a majority of veterans get screwed by GOP “all Talk-No Policy” every time and can site all the issues that get all the talk and none of the action?
It is needed. Democrats, liberals, progressives need to make this clear and maybe take that talking point away from the GOP and conservatives.
VoteVets addresses it. The large organisations (the VFW, American Legion, DAV, &c) all do the flag-waving religious stuff.
re: #296 HappyWarrior
Is he morning drinking or just plain dumb?
That’s from last night. He apparently had a call with the AP and said that he’d cooperate with Mueller if the latter removed the Carter Page requirement…which Nunburg said he had zero contact with. If you had zero contact with this person, why exclude something that doesn’t supposedly exist.
Like I said…all roads lead to Page.
re: #301 Sir John Barron
Good grief that dude runs his own “college”?
Yup. Watch YouTube videos, get a diploma (for $).
Short break … Back in a while.
Morning Lizardim. What fresh hell awaits me upon my return from the snowpocalypse?
re: #301 Sir John Barron
Good grief that dude runs his own “college”?
Yeah you go there after you get an associates from the one D’Souza ran.//
re: #294 Belafon
I think they need to prove to us that they’re willing to stand in front of a firing squad and prove that prayer will keep the bullets from hitting them.
i’d give them the benefit of the doubt
let them put up the 10 commandments - with a caption right under - “posted to deter shootings”
and in exchange, here’s a list of other things we’re gonna do at the same time that also have about the same possibility of deterring shootings
the new standard is “possibility”
they set it themselves
re: #299 dangerman
Trump brought in cronies with zero policy experience. He values loyalty to him over all else, including competency to do the job he’s intended for them to do.
So, between picking extremists who are intent on destroying the very departments they’re running and incompetents who are allowing agencies to falter and fail because they just don’t know what they’re doing, he’s got the government in a tailspin.
And his admin is a shitshow of rivalries who are intent on showing how loyal they are to Trump by throwing everyone else under the bus by claiming they aren’t sufficiently loyal to him.
It’s a cancerous and toxic environment, and Trump thinks that all this is normal, because this is how he runs his businesses (into the ground and has seem them become so highly leveraged that he’s compromised by all the money he owes to foreign countries and banks).
re: #301 Sir John Barron
Good grief that dude runs his own “college”?
Yeah, a diploma mill, basically.
re: #274 Anymouse 🌹
They will never stop until we’re in a new Dark Age.
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re: #309 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, a diploma mill, basically.
If I were a hiring manager and I saw that on a resume, I’d put that behind a Liberty University degree because as bad as LU is, at least it seems to offer some education rather than being a cash scheme for Officer Barbrady’s inspiration.
Weatherman is calling for 6 to 12 inches of snow here tomorrow.
While I was in Florida, my wife texted to me that Lowe’s was running a clearance on snow blowers. She had the day off yesterday, so we went and got one.
This guarantees that we’ll be getting mostly rain tomorrow, because that is simply how things work.
re: #301 Sir John Barron
Good grief that dude runs his own “college”?
It’s even dodgier than Trump University.
re: #308 lawhawk
Trump brought in cronies with zero policy experience. He values loyalty to him over all else, including competency to do the job he’s intended for them to do…./blockquote>
here’s a new one:
Top EPA Staffer Allowed to Have Private ClientsNorm Eisen: “This is insane. In the Obama White House, I even made people quit uncompensated non-profit outside positions because of conflicts risks. This is FOR profit work that could conflict with official duties. Prediction: by end of Trump admin, prisons will be full of his associates.”
Great idea…though now he’ll choose to remain anonymous because of the negative publicity. And alleged “death threats”….always with these snowflakes.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2018
It’s Joe Biden. And if you don’t get that I was mocking the insecurity of gun humpers I can’t help you.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2018
re: #312 makeitstop
Winter storm warnings are up for NYC metro. We’re probably in the 8-12 inch band of snow, but I’m thinking we might see more than that.
Thoughts and prayers.
Seriously, this treasonous toad is lucky he’s just being forced to sell his house.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 6, 2018
re: #307 dangerman
i’d give them the benefit of the doubt
let them put up the 10 commandments - with a caption right under - “posted to deter shootings”
and in exchange, here’s a list of other things we’re gonna do at the same time that also have about the same possibility of deterring shootings
the new standard is “possibility”
they set it themselves
Can we make sure that Thoughts & Prayers (tm) are included?
re: #316 lawhawk
Winter storm warnings are up for NYC metro. We’re probably in the 8-12 inch band of snow, but I’m thinking we might see more than that.
We wound up getting 6” yesterday, with a little bit still left to come in during the day today (maybe an inch or so). The thing is, with the 20-30 mph winds, it piled up in places; my driveway was basically one large snowdrift that was over 2’ deep in places. Oh, and my snowblower broke down; I think I burned out the drive clutch. I’ll have to open her up this week and figure it out.
re: #308 lawhawk
Trump brought in cronies with zero policy experience. He values loyalty to him over all else, including competency to do the job he’s intended for them to do.
So, between picking extremists who are intent on destroying the very departments they’re running and incompetents who are allowing agencies to falter and fail because they just don’t know what they’re doing, he’s got the government in a tailspin.
And his admin is a shitshow of rivalries who are intent on showing how loyal they are to Trump by throwing everyone else under the bus by claiming they aren’t sufficiently loyal to him.
It’s a cancerous and toxic environment, and Trump thinks that all this is normal, because this is how he runs his businesses (into the ground and has seem them become so highly leveraged that he’s compromised by all the money he owes to foreign countries and banks).
Eugene Robinson had a good article in the WaPo this morning.
Trump and his family have refused to divest themselves of their businesses or even draw more than a flimsy veil between their official actions and the impact those actions have on their personal finances. Does the administration’s policy toward Panama really have nothing to do with a bitter dispute over the Trump-branded hotel in Panama City? Does the administration’s tough new attitude toward Qatar really have nothing to do with that nation’s refusal to invest in Jared Kushner’s debt-laden real estate company?
It’s not the potential answers to those questions that are so corrosive; it’s the questions themselves. As in many countries whose governance we scoff at, Americans must now wonder whether policy is being tailored for our leaders’ personal gain.
When the rule of law and financial probity can no longer be assumed, the vacuum is filled with conspiracy theories. The president himself is a conspiratorialist par excellence; he was, after all, the chief purveyor of the birther nonsense. Since neither his words nor those of his press office can be believed, it is natural — but incredibly damaging — to assume that the real story is being hidden from us, for reasons that must be nefarious.
re: #316 lawhawk
Winter storm warnings are up for NYC metro. We’re probably in the 8-12 inch band of snow, but I’m thinking we might see more than that.
I’m honestly not looking forward to this. Hopefully this will be winter’s last gasp and we can all move on to better seasons.
I’m looking out at the garden, and my wife’s lilies and orchids were fooled and have begun to sprout. They’re peeking out from under the leaf-and-mulch cover. Gonna be another late bloom this year after the snow decimates them again.
re: #319 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That sucks about the snowblower. I killed my snowblower earlier this winter - it was an electric model and the impeller got so completely warped out of shape that it stopped spinning altogether. Picked up a replacement for cheap - Snow Joe has a outlet center not too far away, so it made sense to get one there. Even if it lasts a couple of seasons, it’s worth it and beats trying to shovel everything out by hand.
re: #312 makeitstop
Weatherman is calling for 6 to 12 inches of snow here tomorrow.
While I was in Florida, my wife texted to me that Lowe’s was running a clearance on snow blowers. She had the day off yesterday, so we went and got one.
This guarantees that we’ll be getting mostly rain tomorrow, because that is simply how things work.
Congratulations for saving your region from a snowpocalypse!
re: #320 MsJ
Eugene Robinson had a good article in the WaPo this morning.
It’s not the potential answers to those questions that are so corrosive; it’s the questions themselves.
not enough people see this - that the questions are being asked means it’s already gone too far
re: #315 darthstar
It’s like someone comparing me to the “dog” in my profile picture. Ignorance personified. And man, do they have opinions! Too bad they don’t have a modicum of intelligence to support those opinions.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 6, 2018
(My profile pic is an Egyptian relic I took a picture of at the U of Penn exhibit.)
re: #317 lawhawk
On a positive note, he won’t be homeless. He will be in prison for life.
On a negative note, we will be paying for his room and board for life.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 6, 2018
re: #303 MsJ
That’s from last night. He apparently had a call with the AP and said that he’d cooperate with Mueller if the latter removed the Carter Page requirement…which Nunburg said he had zero contact with. If you had zero contact with this person, why exclude something that doesn’t supposedly exist.
Like I said…all roads lead to Page.
I don’t think Page would be singularly in charge of anything. What I do think is Roger Stone seems to have a group that did all the dirty work and the coordinating with the Russians. Let’s just call them Stoners, because they are wacky like they are stoned.
Part of the plan may be to act all outlandish and goofy so no one takes any one of them seriously. They may also be so goofy as to be dumb enough to take the fall so no higher up gets touched. True Believers that are expendable.
I think Stone and Manafort are tied together as they have been for a long long time. Manafort the brains and money handler, Stone the guy that gets the goofs together to pull the capers. Even Michael Cohen the lawyer might be part of the group…another useful idiot ready to cover for The Big Don.
And Nunberg may not have talked to Page or even know him directly. But he sure as hell knows who he is and staying away from Page in the investigations may allow him to do what he wants and that is protect Stone knowing that is the connection for him to the Trump campaign.
I think Mueller knows the whole game now and this is why he is applying pressure to Nunberg. He knows he isn’t that bright and so damn glib that he will give it up by trying to cover it up.
re: #327 MsJ
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you mean you’re not an actual dog that owns a twitter account?
i am now depressed
re: #316 lawhawk
Winter storm warnings are up for NYC metro. We’re probably in the 8-12 inch band of snow, but I’m thinking we might see more than that.
What the what?
Oh man.
re: #308 lawhawk
Trump brought in cronies with zero policy experience. He values loyalty to him over all else, including competency to do the job he’s intended for them to do.
A lot of qualified people he might have accepted for the jobs did not want to sully their reputations by association with the Trump administration. That is also a reason that he has to settle for loyalist hacks or leave vital positions unfilled.
re: #328 MsJ
On a positive note, he won’t be homeless. He will be in prison for life.
On a negative note, we will be paying for his room and board for life.
part of the price of freedom is paying to prosecute and lock up those who would threaten it
re: #255 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
A hundred years ago, westerners mocked superstitious shamanists who believed that magic would shield them from enemy bullets. The Chinese “Boxers” and various African groups were usually cited. As far as anyone knows, all were proven wrong. Nevertheless, the tradition apparently continues with the superstitious natives of Alabama.
The recent poll figures are interesting. My first thought was, given the Trump chaos, perhaps the worst in US history, why are not the Dems a gazillion points ahead?
I think there are two factors:
1) there are a significant number of “Never Ds” out there, and frankly there always will be, and
2) I think there is an incorrect assumption being made that some Americans want or even understand what’s good for them/their country.
It seems idiotic to suggest that people do not want the best outcome, but there are a lot of stupid/ignorant people out there.
I am reconciled to the belief that a lot of people voting for Trump didn’t do it foolishly but because they wanted out of everything that is the world of today; H*ll, they probably don’t even know what these “things” are or the consequences of rejecting them, but they sure voted to reject them.
In fact, I suspect many are looking at the Dems right now, and thinking, “what’s the point of voting Trump out if that’s what we get in his place?”
I don’t blame the Dems. The fact is, the whole sorry mess is solidly down to the Republicans, but I feel quite sure that many Americans are not ready (yet?) to swap chaos for a return to sanity.
re: #329 ObserverArt
I don’t think Page would be singularly in charge of anything. What I do think is Roger Stone seems to have a group that did all the dirty work and the coordinating with the Russians. Let’s just call them Stoners, because they are wacky like they are stoned.
Part of the plan may be to act all outlandish and goofy so no one takes any one of them seriously. They may also be so goofy as to be dumb enough to take the fall so no higher up gets touched. True Believers that are expendable.
I think Stone and Manafort are tied together as they have been for a long long time. Manafort the brains and money handler, Stone the guy that gets the goofs together to pull that capers. Even Michael Cohen the lawyer might be part of the group…another useful idiot ready to cover for The Big Don.
And Nunberg may not have talked to Page or even know him directly. But he sure as hell knows who he is and staying away from Page in the investigations may allow him to do what he wants and that is protect Stone knowing that is the connection for him to the Trump campaign.
I think Mueller knows the whole game now and this is why he applying pressure to Nunberg. He knows he isn’t that bright and so damn glib that he will give it up by trying to cover it up.
While they may not have had emails to/from Page, I can guarantee that they discussed him and how they could play Fuck With Everyone (because, that’s Stone’s specialty). There has to be something extremely damaging in there for this to be the response.
And the funniest part is that Mueller almost certainly has this information already, making his entire exercise pointless.
re: #322 lawhawk
That sucks about the snowblower. I killed my snowblower earlier this winter - it was an electric model and the impeller got so completely warped out of shape that it stopped spinning altogether. Picked up a replacement for cheap - Snow Joe has a outlet center not too far away, so it made sense to get one there. Even if it lasts a couple of seasons, it’s worth it and beats trying to shovel everything out by hand.
This snowblower is more than 20 years old; it was my dad’s, he brought it north when he got a blade for his big truck. I’ve been running it and taking care of it ever since. I’m not sure if I am going to fix it or replace it. It runs brilliantly, but it is old enough that it might be a wiser investment to get a newer model.
re: #329 ObserverArt
And Nunberg may not have talked to Page or even know him directly. But he sure as hell knows who he is and staying away from Page in the investigations may allow him to do what he wants and that is protect Stone knowing that is the connection for him to the Trump campaign.
also doesnt mean nunberg wasnt cc’d on stuff originated by or sent to paige
or that he had written/emailed conversations about him
re: #330 dangerman
you mean you’re not an actual dog that owns a twitter account?
i am now depressed
Sorry. Not a dog.
His point, however, was that I was an ugly liberal dog, just like my profile pic.
Idiots, every last one.
re: #333 dangerman
part of the price of freedom is paying to prosecute and lock up those who would threaten it
I am more than willing to have all my taxes go to housing these pricks for life. More than willing!
re: #332 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A lot of qualified people he might have accepted for the jobs did not want to sully their reputations by association with the Trump administration. That is also a reason that he has to settle for loyalist hacks or leave vital positions unfilled.
he certainly doesnt inspire people to greatness and excellence
Kobach should be more than fined.
He should be disbarred for violating his oath and abusing his position by lying to the courts. https://t.co/06bRzd6DKM— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 6, 2018
re: #330 dangerman
you mean you’re not an actual dog that owns a twitter account?
i am now depressed
re: #308 lawhawk
The new Fake News narrative is that there is CHAOS in the White House. Wrong! People will always come & go, and I want strong dialogue before making a final decision. I still have some people that I want to change (always seeking perfection). There is no Chaos, only great Energy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 6, 2018
The real problem isn’t chaos, it’s massive corruption that is often pre-planned and effective. Chaos helps mask it though. Now I’ll watch pundits fight the chaos strawman instead of analyzing the corruption. https://t.co/GOJNyqh4TO
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) March 6, 2018
re: #341 lawhawk
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re: #344 HappyWarrior
Daily reminder that Trump made Kobach his voter suppression guy.
re: #334 Lupin
Dems winning the Senate in Alabama is them being a gazillion points ahead.
re: #345 lawhawk
Daily reminder that Trump made Kobach his voter suppression guy.
Yep he’s tied to the GOP leadership. Kobach is scum, dangerous scum.
re: #341 lawhawk
How is this not perjury? Is that not a jailable offense?
re: #342 BadgerB
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and im not sure i believe her anyway
why wouldnt a dog say that?
re: #343 Anymouse 🌹
Sarah Kendzior
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@sarahkendzior
The real problem isn’t chaos, it’s massive corruption that is often pre-planned and effective. Chaos helps mask it though. Now I’ll watch pundits fight the chaos strawman instead of analyzing the corruption
the real problem isn’t re: #299 dangerman
it’s re: #320 MsJ
re: #352 ObserverArt
Daily reminders that Romney is no different than any of the GOP flotsam.
Daily reminder that there is no sane GOPer. They hide it in various ways but they are all extremists who are intent on the destruction of America.
FullFuckingStop.
re: #343 Anymouse 🌹
The real problem isn’t chaos, it’s massive corruption that is often pre-planned and effective. Chaos helps mask it though. Now I’ll watch pundits fight the chaos strawman instead of analyzing the corruption.
Having your son-in-law and adviser lose his security clearance is a sign of corruption, chaos and ineptitude.
re: #348 MsJ
His criminal actions aren’t perjury, but obstruction of justice by openly flouting the rules of the court, failing to follow the court’s rulings, contempt, etc.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he also committed perjury too.
Next stop for #MoscowMisha: Living in a van down by the river! #ETTD @TheRickWilson https://t.co/r9Ucl1tPRs
— John Schindler (@20committee) March 6, 2018
re: #343 Anymouse 🌹
Corruption is a problem, but it doesn’t exclude the problems caused by chaos and ineptitude. What’s happening in Puerto Rico is as much about the latter as the former.
Ron Wyden doubles down on his probe of the NRA’s political spending: “I remain concerned about the inability to get clear answers to several questions about the possibility that Russian actors funneled foreign funds into NRA electioneering activity.” https://t.co/3kJoyl0oKx
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 6, 2018
re: #359 Belafon
Corruption is a problem, but it doesn’t exclude the problems caused by chaos and ineptitude. What’s happening in Puerto Rico is as much about the latter as the former.
a lot of corruption arises as an attempt to cover the extent of chaos and ineptitude
re: #356 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Having your son-in-law and adviser
lose hisnot be able to pass a security clearance is a sign of corruption, chaos and ineptitude.
Someone inconsequential was probably going to resign today or tomorrow and cause of the dumb guys tweet John Kelly probably is begging them to just wait until next week.
re: #359 Belafon
Corruption is a problem, but it doesn’t exclude the problems caused by chaos and ineptitude. What’s happening in Puerto Rico is as much about the latter as the former.
plus a healthy does of willing disregard
re: #276 ObserverArt
Are you running a “special” at Jeffrey’s Fly-In Diner today? Place is packed.
Today the blue plate includes a side of sunflower seeds.
we’re a horse town
lots of riders use our road almost daily
three cops on horseback just walked past - just patrolling
that doesnt happen very often
Excuse me whilst I vomit.
Utah lawmakers may name National Parks Highway after Trump https://t.co/0YzwBHjPHt pic.twitter.com/bNBtq1DwrX
— The Hill (@thehill) March 6, 2018
re: #367 MsJ
Excuse me whilst I vomit.
Utah lawmakers may name National Parks Highway after Trump
here’s yer sign:
Lots of great detail on Russia — both hard power and hybrid tactics — in the testimony from DNI Coats and DIA Director Ashley in the Senate this morning. Will highlight some later, but here are written versions:https://t.co/jXPddVvSHahttps://t.co/GVaVsWFr4l
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) March 6, 2018
California Gov. Jerry Brown took office in 2011 with a $27 billion deficit. He won voter support for huge tax hikes on the rich in 2012, and voters reauthorized them in 2016. Brown leaves office w/a $6.1 billion surplus.
Take a note: Taxing the rich works. https://t.co/urzKR1QWic— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) March 6, 2018
re: #354 MsJ
Daily reminder that there is no sane GOPer. They hide it in various ways but they are all extremists who are intent on the destruction of America.
FullFuckingStop.
I would change that from GOP to conservative. While the GOP hasn’t always been this way (thanks, Goldwater), conservatism has always been anti-democracy in our country.
Fighting for the Crown in the Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, Manifest Destiny, Trail of Tears, Civil War, Business Plot, Jim Crow, Watergate, Iran-Contra, &c.
There is no generation in the USA where conservatives have not tried to overthrow the will of the people as expressed through the vote or Congress.
re: #367 MsJ
Excuse me whilst I vomit.
There is a reason you don’t name things after living persons … as in if the living person then screws up, you’re left regretting the decision.
As I recall, there was a town which renamed itself “Nixonville” during President Nixon’s tenure.
Of course, if Utah would like to name a prison after Donald Trump… .
still a moron
Federal Judge in Maryland has just ruled that “President Trump has the right to end DACA.” President Obama had 8 years to fix this problem, and didn’t. I am waiting for the Dems, they are running for the hills!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 6, 2018
As a follow up to re: #367 MsJ
Utah lawmaker threatens to rename road ‘Stormy Daniels Rampway’ to protest Trump’s national park move https://t.co/wjrI1LmCKQ
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 6, 2018
re: #375 MsJ
As a follow up to
BWAHAHAHA! At least Ms. Daniels was honest about her job (and I’ll bet she paid her taxes too).
1/ While the US media’s exploitation of Sam Nunberg’s mental state is exceedingly distasteful, it is balanced by the strong public interest in understanding Mueller’s probe, PROVIDED THAT the media was not acting as a proxy for the DoJ/FBI.
— Julian Assange ⌛ (@JulianAssange) March 6, 2018
Shut it, rapey. https://t.co/C4Py6cDvaU
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 6, 2018
trump’s dumb “There is no Chaos, only great Energy!” kept feeling like something else and i couldn’t put my finger on it until now.
“There is no Dana, only Zuul” pic.twitter.com/XdAF0gC8To— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 6, 2018
re: #377 Backwoods_Sleuth
I literally had Pepsi dribble out of my mouth when I read that response. Thank god I had swallowed most of it.
re: #370 JordanRules
California Gov. Jerry Brown took office in 2011 with a $27 billion deficit. He won voter support for huge tax hikes on the rich in 2012, and voters reauthorized them in 2016. Brown leaves office w/a $6.1 billion surplus.
Take a note: Taxing the rich works.
I remember back under Clinton when he had a budget surplus and Rush Limbaugh came on to tell us that it is immoral for the government to take more money from us in taxes than it needs to operate and therefore surpluses are bad.
re: #367 MsJ
Excuse me whilst I vomit.
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Eeek. Trump looks even worse in that image than usual. I’m wondering if he is up for a heart attack. He’s puffing up like he is building up fluids.
No narcissist, you’re the narcissist.
Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore - except your President (just kidding, of course)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 6, 2018
re: #339 MsJ
I am more than willing to have all my taxes go to housing these pricks for life. More than willing!
LOL. I was going to suggest that you wouldn’t have any problem with that. I don’t, either. Lock them all up and throw away the key. I’ll pay for that.
re: #371 Anymouse 🌹
I would change that from GOP to conservative. While the GOP hasn’t always been this way (thanks, Goldwater), conservatism has always been anti-democracy in our country.
Fighting for the Crown in the Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, Manifest Destiny, Trail of Tears, Civil War, Business Plot, Jim Crow, Watergate, Iran-Contra, &c.
There is no generation in the USA where conservatives have not tried to overthrow the will of the people as expressed through the vote or Congress.
There is “opposed to change” conservatism and there is the sort of conservatism that stresses the importance of individual initiative and personal freedoms.
And then there are Religious Fundamentalists, who come out in favor of “family values” but have a rather narrow view of what those values are.
And there is the conservatism of the 1% who own 90% of everything and see no reason for that trend to change…
Keep watching this story: former Russian agent, Sergei Skripal & his daughter Yulia, injured in ‘major incident’ in SW England Sunday, remain in critical condition, say Wiltshire Police. Counter-terrorism unit of London’s Metropolitan Police now leading investigation.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) March 6, 2018
We wouldn’t laugh at a man appearing to have a heart attack, so why is it ok to ridicule someone that appears to be mentally disturbed?
— phirshman (@phirshman) March 6, 2018
Because I think he’s acting. https://t.co/g6yywJtu2f
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 6, 2018
I saw this and my jaw dropped. In my business, if you see an R² like that, you’re confident of the correlation
Eleven of the top 15 states for firearm ownership are also in the top 15 states for gun deaths. https://t.co/1ZUqP0tIr4
— Axios (@axios) March 6, 2018
re: #385 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is “opposed to change” conservatism and there is the sort of conservatism that stresses the importance of individual initiative and personal freedoms.
And then there are Religious Fundamentalists, who come out in favor of “family values” but have a rather narrow view of what those values are.
And there is the conservatism of the 1% who own 90% of everything and see no reason for that trend to change…
Those are pretty much all the same thing. The fundamentalists in the GOP are a new kink introduced by Paul Weyrich, and Goldwater was complaining of it on the Senate floor back in 1981.
But “individual initiative and personal freedom” was a strong characteristic of conservatism as pushed during Manifest Destiny (genocide) and the Gilded Age (a few people owned most everything).
Wait. I thought Soros was a Nazi? Communists and Nazis are mortal enemies. When did Soros change sides? FOR THE LOVE OF SWEET LITTLE AR-15 TOTING JESUS, MAN, WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? pic.twitter.com/j0lucJhuHY
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 6, 2018
re: #387 Backwoods_Sleuth
Because I think he’s acting.
Redd Foxx got a lot of laughs out of that kind of heart attack.
We officially have a March in all 50 states!! Thank you all for marching with us! See you March 24th #NeverAgain #MarchForOurLives Let’s do this!
— Kaylyn Pipitone (@kaylynpippy) March 6, 2018
WE EVEN HAVE ONE IN MUMBAI !!!! 😆 https://t.co/33xQ68gkDl
— Jaclyn Corin (@JaclynCorin) March 6, 2018
re: #393 JordanRules
I sense another wacko Dana video coming…
re: #393 JordanRules
We had a combined church service on Sunday at the local high school. It was encouraging to see signs made by the students advertising a walkout next week. Good to know that even in our isolated little bubble, the message is starting to get through.
Has anyone seen the controversy with Amber Heard involving her tweets recently? What’s everyone’s take on that?
re: #376 Anymouse 🌹
BWAHAHAHA! At least Ms. Daniels was honest about her job (and I’ll bet she paid her taxes too).
im waiting for proof of this
i want to know how the 130k got into the llc, how it was recorded, what its tax returns say
i want to know if it issued her a 1099 or a k-1, or something else (or nothing else)
and because i assume she had a lawyer of her own, i want to know how the money was treated on her own tax return regardless of what the llc did or didnt do or should have done
To build on what Lawhawk said re: #341 here, this is a good explanation of what’s going on.
This Kansas case could change how every American registers to vote
A “mass denial of a fundamental constitutional right.”https://t.co/fjTKiUv2V8 pic.twitter.com/UCiakpcJEl— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 6, 2018
re: #396 electrotek
Has anyone seen the controversy with Amber Heard involving her tweets recently? What’s everyone’s take on that?
No idea what this is about.
re: #377 Backwoods_Sleuth
1/ While the US media’s exploitation of Sam Nunberg’s mental state is exceedingly distasteful, it is balanced by the strong public interest in understanding Mueller’s probe, PROVIDED THAT the media was not acting as a proxy for the DoJ/FBI.
yeah, “the media” got together and made him call all those different outlets and forced him to sit for those interviews in person and by phone
asshat
re: #397 dangerman
im waiting for proof of this
i want to know how the 130k got into the llc, how it was recorded, what its tax returns say
i want to know if it issued her a 1099 or a k-1, or something else (or nothing else)and because i assume she had a lawyer of her own, i want to know how the money was treated on her own tax return regardless of what the llc did or didnt do or should have done
I wasn’t referring to that $130,000 payment (which went public because she said she wasn’t paid all of it). I was referring to her previous artistic endeavours.
If anyone in Brooklyn near the intersection of Washington Ave and Atlantic Ave just saw a Hasidic man in a grey van try to hit a woman and her baby in a stroller as she crossed a crosswalk, honking and touching the stroller with the car’s bumper, please DM me. That woman was me.
— Amber Tamblyn (@ambertamblyn) March 4, 2018
Thank you everyone for your kind words of support today. We are fine. But this is not the first time a man from the Hasidic community in NYC has attempted to harm me or other women I know. Any woman riding a bike through South Williamsburg can attest. I hope this guy is caught.
— Amber Tamblyn (@ambertamblyn) March 5, 2018
Lol I’m married to a Jew. Go ahead and twist my words all you want. Your misogyny and sexism reeks from here. (Except for you, Benjamin. You are awesome.)
— Amber Tamblyn (@ambertamblyn) March 5, 2018
I’ll say this once. To anyone suggesting I’m anti-Semitic for identifying a man as Hasidic who hit my daughter’s stroller in a crosswalk with a car then rolled his window down, wagged his finger and told me “Watch where you’re going”: I will not be bullied or intimidated by you.
— Amber Tamblyn (@ambertamblyn) March 5, 2018
NFL agents say Texans aren’t interested in players who protested the anthem, per @HoustonChron https://t.co/EEtdkbJAm6 pic.twitter.com/roHuhBkP5R
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) March 5, 2018
Same team owner that made the “inmates running the prison” comment a few months ago and backpedaled quicker than ‘94 Deion. Sounds about right. https://t.co/hOhNENWRey
— Justin Tinsley (@JustinTinsley) March 5, 2018
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re: #381 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember back under Clinton when he had a budget surplus and Rush Limbaugh came on to tell us that it is immoral for the government to take more money from us in taxes than it needs to operate and therefore surpluses are bad.
never plan for the future or the unanticipated
bridges don’t fall, hurricanes hardly ever happen
One last thing…
Dorrian’s. If you’re in a certain circle of people, you might understand this is a an interesting tell.
cc: @maggieNYT @WestRupert @evansiegfried pic.twitter.com/JzCpD7cooM— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 6, 2018
re: #383 Anymouse 🌹
No narcissist, you’re the narcissist.
Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore - except your President (just kidding, of course)!
its pure envy
re: #409 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That conveys nothing to a pleb like me.
Preps, Yuppies, and an Unsavory Past at Dorrian’s Red Hand
James “Red Dog” Dorrian, a native of Ulster, Ireland, opened this restaurant in 1960, when he was in his ’20s. The area was mainly German back then, and Dorrian’s Red Hand was one of a wave of “new old-fashioned” bars that opened in the area, taverns intended to look like older New York saloons. Thus, the wooden floors, tin ceilings, red-and-white checkered tablecloths. Nostalgia is nothing new in New York; it just used to mimic different eras.
At some point, the Dorrian clan bought the building the eatery occupies, thus ensuring its survival. Had they not, who knows if the business would have withstood the events and aftermath of Aug. 26, 1986. That was the night when Dorrian’s teenage “regular” Robert Chambers, aka “The Preppy Killer,” left the bar with another teenager, Jennifer Levin. Chambers was later arrested when Levin turned murdered in Central Park, and subsequently convicted of manslaughter. The “red hand” of the name—which refers to a particularly gruesome myth attached to the late kings of Ulster—proved an unfortunate moniker at that moment. It was subsequently played down.
History weirdly repeated itself in 2009, when student Imette St. Guillen disappeared from The Falls, a SoHo bar that was owned by Michael Dorrian and managed by Daniel Dorrian, sons of Dorrian’s current owner, Jack. St. Guillen wound up dead. The more you dig into Dorrian history, the more confused you get. Family members seem to be everywhere, and own restaurants and bars all over New York. One married Giuliani’s former chief of staff. An ancestor was reportedly a Prohibition bootlegger. One day, they’ll provide fodder for a good book.
more at the link
re: #407 Anymouse 🌹
From the comments:
Yesterday we learned that Steele discovered that Russia was bragging about picking our Sec. of State. Nunberg’s story buried that more important story. Was that his purpose?
— Jaxs (@jaxs_talks) March 6, 2018
NEW VIDEO: Watch as emergency crews had a close call as a tree falls onto a power line. The #Northeast is looking at another Nor’easter which could have results similar to this. For more information, tune into @WeatherNation either on-air or online. pic.twitter.com/OgkmDml9dd
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) March 6, 2018
re: #409 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That conveys nothing to a pleb like me.
Mr. Wilson is referring to this article in The Atlantic.
If the article is true, it sure makes Nunberg’s display on the media yesterday look like an act.
The lede:
“By the way, you know I’m the number one trending person on Twitter?”
It was just after 8:00 p.m. on Monday night, and the suddenly-famous Sam Nunberg had phoned me from Dorrian’s Red Hand Restaurant, a yuppie hangout on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where he was reveling in his triumph.
After announcing earlier that day his intention to defy a grand-jury subpoena he says he received in the Russia investigation (“Arrest me,” he’d dared prosecutors), the former Trump aide had spent the day conducting a manic media blitz—popping up on multiple cable-news programs, granting interviews to dozens of journalists, and hijacking the news cycle with a car-crash procession of blustery soundbites. Legal experts were warning that his failure to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation could put him in serious legal jeopardy—but at this moment, it seemed, Nunberg was in a celebratory mood.
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Tom Cruise as Green Lantern Hal Jordan May Actually Happen - https://t.co/VPcLmrEkS3 pic.twitter.com/y0cyccx8uB
— Screen Rant (@screenrant) March 6, 2018
re: #401 Anymouse 🌹
I wasn’t referring to that $130,000 payment (which went public because she said she wasn’t paid all of it). I was referring to her previous artistic endeavours.
(oops) ;-)
re: #403 electrotek
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Four years ago today. pic.twitter.com/OcuIKoREX4
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 6, 2018
An estimated 132,000 Americans have died from guns since McConnell — who’s taken millions from @nra — held up that gun. He’s done absolutely nothing about it. https://t.co/sgjwpm29Eq
— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) March 6, 2018
Total inaction on DACA by Dems. Where are you? A deal can be made!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 6, 2018
Democrats sent President Trump six bipartisan DACA deals – we even offered to fund his wasteful border wall. He made the choice to say no to each one. The President’s real goal is using DACA to advance his anti-immigrant agenda rather than fixing the crisis he started. https://t.co/C8vHofhcL7
— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) March 6, 2018
‘There’s no stopping it,’ warns Ron Paul: A ‘calamity’ could cut this market in half (Marketwatch)
The calamity is already in office, Mr. Paul. That’s why the markets are dropping.
They drop on instability, and they drop on long-term conservatism. We have both.
re: #420 Anymouse 🌹
‘There’s no stopping it,’ warns Ron Paul: A ‘calamity’ could cut this market in half (Marketwatch)
The calamity is already in office, Mr. Paul. That’s why the markets are dropping.
They drop on instability, and they drop on long-term conservatism. We have both.
Ron Paul is a kook.
re: #417 dangerman
i noticed how it went from “tried to hit” in the first tweet to “hit my daughter’s stroller” in the last
She mentions it in the first tweet:
If anyone in Brooklyn near the intersection of Washington Ave and Atlantic Ave just saw a Hasidic man in a grey van try to hit a woman and her baby in a stroller as she crossed a crosswalk, honking and touching the stroller with the car’s bumper, please DM me. That woman was me.
— Amber Tamblyn (@ambertamblyn) March 4, 2018
re: #419 Backwoods_Sleuth
Total inaction on DACA by Dems. Where are you? A deal can be made!
you are in total control
reverse
your
decision
done.
Then Sen. Coats in June, 2016:
“Whether it was gross negligence or blatant disregard, it is undeniable that Secretary Clinton broke federal law and mishandled classified information, putting American lives at risk and endangering our national security.”
The man is garbage.— Bill White (@BillNWhite) March 6, 2018
re: #422 HappyWarrior
Ron Paul is a kook.
I thought at first it said Rand Paul (not that the nut falls far from the tree). But it’s just more railing against the federal reserve, as far as I can tell. Granted, a trade war will probably have a very large negative impact on the economy (and by extension/inclusion, the stock market - Ford and GM are saying the steel/aluminum tariffs could cost them a billion each), but I’m sure that’s not what Paul is talking about.
re: #415 darthstar
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re: #423 Anymouse 🌹
She mentions it in the first tweet:
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the first: “try to hit” and “touching”
the second: “hit my daughter’s stroller in a crosswalk with a car” without any context
stories and recollections morph when it helps
re: #426 KGxvi
I thought at first it said Rand Paul (not that the nut falls far from the tree). But it’s just more railing against the federal reserve, as far as I can tell. Granted, a trade war will probably have a very large negative impact on the economy (and by extension/inclusion, the stock market - Ford and GM are saying the steel/aluminum tariffs could cost them a billion each), but I’m sure that’s not what Paul is talking about.
Right. If Sanders can’t gova sentence without talking about banks, Ron Paul can’t without the Fed.
re: #426 KGxvi
I thought at first it said Rand Paul (not that the nut falls far from the tree). But it’s just more railing against the federal reserve, as far as I can tell. Granted, a trade war will probably have a very large negative impact on the economy (and by extension/inclusion, the stock market - Ford and GM are saying the steel/aluminum tariffs could cost them a billion each), but I’m sure that’s not what Paul is talking about.
My wife is a Libertarian and she thinks he’s a kook, if that means anything.
Mr. Paul’s answer to everything seems to be:
a) Abolish the Fed
b) Return to the gold standard.
“The North Korean side clearly stated its willingness to denuclearize,” the South Korean president’s office said https://t.co/ohtyXBoDQ2
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) March 6, 2018
re: #428 dangerman
the first: “try to hit” and “touching”
the second: “hit my daughter’s stroller in a crosswalk with a car” without any contextstories and recollections morph when it helps
Also went from van to car from one tweet to the other. Sounds like she is, uh, storytelling. I get the impression from comments she has done this before.
re: #430 Anymouse 🌹
My wife is a Libertarian and she thinks he’s a kook, if that means anything.
Mr. Paul’s answer to everything seems to be:
a) Abolish the Fed
b) Return to the gold standard.
I’ve still got a pretty strong libertarian streak, though I never joined the party, and other than a protest primary vote in 2008, I never once thought of supporting Paul. Tying our currency to a commodity would be an absolute disaster - you think Russian interference is bad now, just wait until they decide to flood the market with gold.
re: #428 dangerman
the first: “try to hit” and “touching”
the second: “hit my daughter’s stroller in a crosswalk with a car” without any contextstories and recollections morph when it helps
I haven’t pushed a baby stroller in a long time, but if someone drove a car into it and “bumped” it, I would use the verb “hit.”
In a crosswalk, in a city where pedestrians have the right-of-way in crosswalks, there is no excuse for a car to do anything to a pedestrian.
Hassidic Jews dress in a particular manner. It would be entirely logical to describe him that way (I doubt someone dressed that way would be described as a Mennonite, and I would be no more bigoted to describe a person as a Mennonite if that person was dressed like one).
That said, if the fellow did in fact bump her baby stroller and she was not in the wrong, she should be filling in a police report. (I don’t know how difficult that is to do in New York though.)
It’s not like Twitter has ever been used to call someone out before.
re: #432 ObserverArt
Also went from van to car from one tweet to the other. Sounds like she is, uh, storytelling. I get the impression from comments she has done this before.
Could also be. I’ll have to go through the list of tweets.
re: #431 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s good to see. Hopefully, they can work things out - a tall order, to put it mildly, but better to have them talking then fighting.
So…..who’s Trump gonna pick on next? Where’s he gonna try to gin up a war?
re: #432 ObserverArt
Also went from van to car from one tweet to the other. Sounds like she is, uh, storytelling. I get the impression from comments she has done this before.
She might be lying, but vans and pickup trucks turn into cars in a lot of conversations, the term car being the more general term.
Horrific racist attack in Spain over the weekend:
Un ataque racista en un bar de Madrid por poco me deja sin ojoEl racismo nunca nos vencerá amor amor y amor pic.twitter.com/EbJfEUXCQa
— Marius Makon (@EltonPrince) March 4, 2018
The kicker? The attacker was a woman that was from El Salvador, not Spain.
I mean really. His answer on this is problematic on sooo many levels. A real wtf.
DNI Coats tells Congress that Kushner’s continuing access to secret information is not “a threat to our national security…(b)ecause he now has, under General Kelly’s direction, had a temporary access to some types of information but not to highly classified information.”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 6, 2018
Isn’t the obvious implication of this quote that for the last 13 months he was a threat to national security? https://t.co/YvLsQCIZgE
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) March 6, 2018
re: #432 ObserverArt
Also went from van to car from one tweet to the other. Sounds like she is, uh, storytelling. I get the impression from comments she has done this before.
I’ve described pretty much any vehicle which isn’t a semi or a motor home as a car, depending on context. (I am not familiar with “New York idiom” on this topic however.
I even owned a van once and called it a car (an E-250)
re: #436 Dr Lizardo
That’s good to see. Hopefully, they can work things out - a tall order, to put it mildly, but better to have them talking then fighting.
So…..who’s Trump gonna pick on next? Where’s he gonna try to gin up a war?
The Koreas are going to end up negotiating without us if Trump insists on denuclearization as a pre-condition for talks. Given the Trump Administration’s inability to do anything right, that might be for the best. But between the peninsula, the TPP, NAFTA, the threat of worldwide tariffs, and threatening to abandon the Iran deal… it may be a long time before we are trusted in a world leadership role.
re: #436 Dr Lizardo
That’s good to see. Hopefully, they can work things out - a tall order, to put it mildly, but better to have them talking then fighting.
So…..who’s Trump gonna pick on next? Where’s he gonna try to gin up a war?
wait till he finishes taking credit for this one
re: #440 Anymouse 🌹
I’ve described pretty much any vehicle which isn’t a semi or a motor home as a car, depending on context. (I am not familiar with “New York idiom” on this topic however.
I even owned a van once and called it a car (an E-250)
The baby probably gave him the finger. There’s your New York idiom.
Can we just skip to the video of him snorting meth out of Jerry Falwell Jr’s butt-crack?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2018
re: #439 JordanRules
I mean really. His answer on this is problematic on sooo many levels. A real wtf.
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re: #438 electrotek
Horrific racist attack in Spain over the weekend:
The kicker? The attacker was a woman that was from El Salvador, not Spain.
I’m guessing she might be surprised about that “nothing will happen to her” in Spain unless it changed a whole lot since I lived there.
If that was Dixie though, she’d probably be right.
re: #439 JordanRules
Isn’t the obvious implication of this quote that for the last 13 months he was a threat to national security?
Well, considering there are reports that multiple countries - including several allies - saw Jared as a) a moron, b) a mark, and c) compromised because his family’s business(es) is/are highly leveraged… yeah, it’s pretty fucking obvious the guy is a threat to our national security. But so is his boss/father-in-law, so…
re: #440 Anymouse 🌹
I’ve described pretty much any vehicle which isn’t a semi or a motor home as a car, depending on context. (I am not familiar with “New York idiom” on this topic however.
I even owned a van once and called it a car (an E-250)
I’ve got no dog in this hunt. I was just pointing out that she used the word car in the second tweet and van in the original.
It just seemed odd usage of the words. If you describe any vehicle as a “car” then don’t you do that consistently?
re: #447 HappyWarrior
Stripper registry? Wut.
I’m sure there’s already one of those on the internet, you probably just need to know where to look
re: #450 ObserverArt
I’ve got no dog in this hunt. I was just pointing out that she used the word car in the second tweet and van in the original.
It just seemed odd usage of the words. If you describe any vehicle as a “car” then don’t you do that consistently?
Nope. You’ll start by saying van, and then it will be car, and then you might use van again.
re: #451 KGxvi
I’m sure there’s already one of those on the internet, you probably just need to know where to look
Will it be available under FOIA? Asking for a friend.
re: #451 KGxvi
I’m sure there’s already one of those on the internet, you probably just need to know where to look
Yeah true.
re: #453 Decatur Deb
Will it be available under FOIA? Asking for a friend.
Planning a bachelor party are we?
re: #450 ObserverArt
I’ve got no dog in this hunt. I was just pointing out that she used the word car in the second tweet and van in the original.
It just seemed odd usage of the words. If you describe any vehicle as a “car” then don’t you do that consistently?
I had a van. I sometimes called it a van, sometimes a car, sometimes a vehicle. I got chastised for calling my friend’s Ford F350 a “car” just last month. LOL.
re: #455 HappyWarrior
Planning a bachelor party are we?
Just want to know which windowless concrete-block roadhouses to avoid.
re: #434 Anymouse 🌹
I have never pushed a baby carriage (but for babysitting way, way long ago) but if I had a child and some schmuck did that, it would be fisticuffs and that bastard would not know what hit him. Mothers do not take that shit. Police would have been called and a lawsuit initiated (this is America, after all).
While I am sure something happened, this reeks of BS.
re: #446 dangerman
That was a story the media should have been feeding on over a year ago.
Now I’d at least like our intelligence officials to be smarter and more forth coming about the national security implications here. This is a horrible answer to an important question.
A reminder of what kind of guy Sam Nunberg is https://t.co/SnrgOU31XO
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 6, 2018
re: #414 MsJ
Uhm…
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— Political Capital (@PolitcalCapital) March 6, 2018
It’s true. Around the commodities exchange in Chicago, you always see guys walking around in weird looking jackets. This isn’t even the strangest one I’ve ever seen.
re: #458 MsJ
I have never pushed a baby carriage (but for babysitting way, way long ago) but if I had a child and some schmuck did that, it would be fisticuffs and that bastard would not know what hit him. Mothers do not take that shit. Police would have been called and a lawsuit initiated (this is America, after all).
While I am sure something happened, this reeks of BS.
You and I are a lot alike, and we are not the norm.
True story. My girls were small, probably 4 and 6. I was with my aunt in a parking lot walking back to her van with the folding chairs we had just purchased. A woman in a huge red truck sped by, almost striking my children. I happened to have a folding chair in my hand and as the truck when by, I whacked the shit out of the truck and put a big dent in it. The woman stopped and looked like she was going to get out. I told her to bring it, that she almost ran my children over. I must have looked crazy because she changed her mind and took off. My aunt was horrified. I simply went back to putting the chairs in the back of her car.
re: #457 Decatur Deb
Just want to know which windowless concrete-block roadhouses to avoid.
All of them, Katie.
re: #452 Belafon
Nope. You’ll start by saying van, and then it will be car, and then you might use van again.
Not me!
But I am a car nut. I use car, sports car, SUV, Van, Truck, Semi, etc.
Consistently.
Plus, I was just riffing off of dangerman picking out differences. I didn’t mean to start a language debate or an investigation.
But I wonder if there was an actual baby in the stroller…or a doll.
Heh. Chew on that!
Apparently it is a big deal. Do a google search and see all the articles.
And the search reminded me. Amber Tamblyn is the actress that said James Wood tried to pick her up when she was 16.
I will close out my “concerns” about all of this by saying…Amber seems to like to stay in the news.
IS ANY BODY HAVING AS GREAT A DAY AS JER BARON HE HAS GOATS RUNNING AROUND HIS STREET I AM SERIOUS pic.twitter.com/SFtoE12FXd
— darth™ (@darth) March 6, 2018
re: #459 JordanRules
That was a story the media should have been feeding on over a year ago.
Now I’d at least like our intelligence officials to be smarter and more forth coming about the national security implications here. This is a horrible answer to an important question.
if i understand it, the president can “grant” clearance to anybody
he should be (or should have been way back when) the freakin brutal boss he says he is and said i want him in this position and im giving him clearance
instead they’re bumbling this 10 different ways because no one wants to just come out and say “this relation of yours cant pass a clearance”
Um no thanks.
If #JeffFlake2020 randomly shows up in a cornfield in rural Iowa next, there will be absolutely zero question about what his intentions are. https://t.co/Gw955mJSRf via @phoenixnewtimes
— stuart warner (@thestuartwarner) March 6, 2018
re: #456 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
A friend of mine had a van (a ‘75 Chevy). All decked out in glorious, tacky extravagance.
She called it her “fuck truck”. LOL.
Anti-Semitism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism and white supremacy are and always will be indefensible.
Please read our statement: pic.twitter.com/bRFqAGf81t— Women’s March (@womensmarch) March 6, 2018
re: #469 Dr Lizardo
A friend of mine had a van (a ‘75 Chevy). All decked out in glorious, tacky extravagance.
She called it her “fuck truck”. LOL.
Love it!
Another:
#BREAKING: Special Counsel finds Kellyanne Conway violated federal law against using office for partisan politics https://t.co/lpNd4v6G5q pic.twitter.com/CogUk0NUHR
— The Hill (@thehill) March 6, 2018
Evil Counselor did something evil? Shocked I am. Shocked. https://t.co/f4QeuWsw8E
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 6, 2018
re: #467 dangerman
if i understand it, the president can “grant” clearance to anybody
he should be (or should have been way back when) the freakin brutal boss he says he is and said i want him in this position and im giving him clearance
instead they’re bumbling this 10 different ways because no one wants to just come out and say “this relation of yours cant pass a clearance”
If I recall correctly, Ben Rhodes was one of Obama’s top advisors and during his entire tenure was on a presidential waiver. I can only find wingnut blogs about the issue, so it’s not entirely clear why he couldn’t pass the background check (wingnuts would rather bitch about Rhodes’ role in the Iran deal). But yes, ultimately clearances in the White House are a matter of presidential discretion - which is fine when to generally trust the president’s discretion (even if you don’t agree with him politically); it’s more troubling when it’s, well, Trump.
re: #472 Anymouse 🌹
Uh oh……looks like Smeagol’s sister is in trouble.
This starts tonight. Shoot your shot lizards!
Want to be a contestant on @Jeopardy? Here’s how. https://t.co/31LPhGVUMS
— PhoenixNewTimes (@phoenixnewtimes) March 6, 2018
re: #468 JordanRules
As a general rule, if a sitting president faces a primary challenge in his re-election campaign, he’s going to lose the general election. LBJ withdrew in ‘68, Ford lost in ‘76, Carter lost in ‘80, Bush lost in ‘92. So Trump getting any kind of establishment style challenger is probably good for us in the long run.
re: #472 Anymouse 🌹
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The article says that the OSC referred the charges to Trump’s office for appropriate disciplinary action. Um? That doesn’t seem like it would work very well.
re: #465 Backwoods_Sleuth
Someone lost their goats, who are now playing in the street in front of my house. They are having a blast so no one seems to mind.
cc:
neighbors goats, my house
re: #474 Dr Lizardo
Uh oh……looks like Smeagol’s sister is in trouble.
She’s not. Its up to Trump to discipline her, and he won’t, unless Kelly wants to.
Terry Gross is having Jane Mayer from The New Yorker on Fresh Air today, talking about the Steele Dossier. Should be a good hour!
re: #476 KGxvi
Good point!
I was reflexively thinking as an Arizonian who doesn’t want him leading anything else.
re: #468 JordanRules
Um no thanks.
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flake isnt running for reelection because he doesnt think he can win a statewide race
do i have to explain the rest?
re: #434 Anymouse 🌹
I haven’t pushed a baby stroller in a long time, but if someone drove a car into it and “bumped” it, I would use the verb “hit.”
In a crosswalk, in a city where pedestrians have the right-of-way in crosswalks, there is no excuse for a car to do anything to a pedestrian.
Hassidic Jews dress in a particular manner. It would be entirely logical to describe him that way (I doubt someone dressed that way would be described as a Mennonite, and I would be no more bigoted to describe a person as a Mennonite if that person was dressed like one).
That said, if the fellow did in fact bump her baby stroller and she was not in the wrong, she should be filling in a police report. (I don’t know how difficult that is to do in New York though.)
It’s not like Twitter has ever been used to call someone out before.
Ugh. Not up for this right now.
Some asshole ran down an acquaintance and her friend, killing their children and severely injuring them. Asshole had previously been cited for driving through redlights and speeding through school zones.
re: #468 JordanRules
Um no thanks.
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Jeff Flake has zero self-awareness.
He already torpedoed any further political career. I don’t think he has told himself yet.
re: #473 KGxvi
If I recall correctly, Ben Rhodes was one of Obama’s top advisors and during his entire tenure was on a presidential waiver. I can only find wingnut blogs about the issue, so it’s not entirely clear why he couldn’t pass the background check (wingnuts would rather bitch about Rhodes’ role in the Iran deal). But yes, ultimately clearances in the White House are a matter of presidential discretion - which is fine when to generally trust the president’s discretion (even if you don’t agree with him politically); it’s more troubling when it’s, well, Trump.
in a perverse way i’d be happier if hed just be the goddamn president and say “im doing this”
instead they are all, including him, passive aggressively passing the hot potato(e) round and round
re: #485 dangerman
so consequences?
anything?
Take away her meth and the supply of children she sucks the souls out of to survive comes to mind.
re: #482 dangerman
Critics invariably point out that Flake was facing abysmal approval ratings when he decided not to run for re-election, and that polling showed him losing to far-right candidate Kelli Ward. If he can’t hold onto his seat in his home state of Arizona, the thinking goes, what makes him think that he could be elected president?
This misses the point: Flake would be running to make a statement, not because he necessarily thought he could win.
One endorsement that he’s already received is that of Mesa mayor John Giles, who in November was caught on a hot mic telling Flake to run for president.
“And I am not throwing smoke at you, but you are the guy,” Giles said. “Just for fun, think about how much fun it would be, just to be the foil, you know, and point out what an idiot this guy [Trump] is.”
The New Times does really good local reporting.
re: #484 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that is grand
there is so much wonderfully, quirky, and useful stuff out there
re: #476 KGxvi
As a general rule, if a sitting president faces a primary challenge in his re-election campaign, he’s going to lose the general election. LBJ withdrew in ‘68, Ford lost in ‘76, Carter lost in ‘80, Bush lost in ‘92. So Trump getting any kind of establishment style challenger is probably good for us in the long run.
Don’t forget Ohio Johnny Kasich.
I’m pretty confident he is going to run. There will be others too, not just Jeff “Flake” Flake.
re: #482 dangerman
flake isnt running for reelection because he doesnt think he can win a statewide race
do i have to explain the rest?
He retires from the Senate, spends some time in the political wilderness, allows Trump to become more unstable, and then runs as the No True Scotsman conservative that Never Trumpers (and what I assume will be a thing by 2020 in the GOP: No More Trumpers) can rally around. It’s 8 months of “Republicans in Disarray” stories and even though Flake has no chance, because like Ryan he doesn’t realize that his constituency doesn’t really exist anymore (at least not inside the GOP), it weakens Trump who can’t just spend 2020 being president (which is the true incumbent’s advantage). Ultimately, this leads to Trump being soundly defeated, hopefully by someone like Kamala Harris so that he’ll have the indignity (in whatever is left of his addled mind) of being beaten by a woman and a minority at the same time.
back later
off to get the parts for tonight’s dinner: baked cavatelli
re: #494 dangerman
Thought it might be curry goat.
re: #492 ObserverArt
Don’t forget Ohio Johnny Kasich.
I’m pretty confident he is going to run. There will be others too, not just Jeff “Flake” Flake.
Multiple challengers would make it much more like the Democratic primary in 1968. All the other examples there was one legitimate challenger (Reagan in ‘76, Kennedy in ‘80, Buchanan in ‘92). But I doubt Trump would have the grace to step aside.*
*This all assumes he isn’t removed from office via impeachment when Senator Mitt Romney casts the 67th vote to convict next year.
re: #493 KGxvi
Ultimately, this leads to Trump being soundly defeated, hopefully by someone like Kamala Harris so that he’ll have the indignity (in whatever is left of his addled mind) of being beaten by a woman and a minority at the same time.
Not only would Trump lose what precious little is left of his sanity, his deranged supporters would be left in a fit of shrieking apoplexy.
re: #486 ObserverArt
Jeff Flake has zero self-awareness.
He already torpedoed any further political career. I don’t think he has told himself yet.
Although I agree with you—
After losing the gubernatorial race in 1962, Nixon claimed that the press won’t have him to kick around any longer. So we can’t assume anything about Flake’s future political career.
re: #487 dangerman
in a perverse way i’d be happier if hed just be the goddamn president and say “im doing this”
instead they are all, including him, passive aggressively passing the hot potato(e) round and round
It really is amazing. The reason it wasn’t a story with Obama and Rhodes was because Obama just issued the waiver and everyone went on with life.
It certainly seems like everyone in Trumpworld has issues with the Hatch Act.
Perry did it.
Is anyone getting prosecuted for Hatch Act violations? Can’t seem to recall the last one
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 6, 2018
Kellyanne Conway does it.
White House aide Conway violated Hatch Act: Office of Special Counsel https://t.co/LxZbL35hwL
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 6, 2018
It is a huge blind spot.
re: #497 Dr Lizardo
Not only would Trump lose what precious little is left of his sanity, his deranged supporters would be left in a fit of shrieking apoplexy.
I know, it’s second best case scenario. Best case of course is impeachment and removal.
She got to meet her!
This little girl was completely awestruck by Michelle Obama’s portrait and believes that the former first lady is “a queen” https://t.co/FLA3IZyLkE pic.twitter.com/5dUHYTmP6Q
— CNN (@CNN) March 3, 2018
Parker, I’m so glad I had the chance to meet you today (and for the dance party)! Keep on dreaming big for yourself…and maybe one day I’ll proudly look up at a portrait of you! pic.twitter.com/faUVTsYWun
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) March 6, 2018
re: #493 KGxvi
He retires from the Senate, spends some time in the political wilderness, allows Trump to become more unstable, and then runs as the No True Scotsman conservative that Never Trumpers (and what I assume will be a thing by 2020 in the GOP: No More Trumpers) can rally around. It’s 8 months of “Republicans in Disarray” stories and even though Flake has no chance, because like Ryan he doesn’t realize that his constituency doesn’t really exist anymore (at least not inside the GOP), it weakens Trump who can’t just spend 2020 being president (which is the true incumbent’s advantage). Ultimately, this leads to Trump being soundly defeated, hopefully by someone like Kamala Harris so that he’ll have the indignity (in whatever is left of his addled mind) of being beaten by a woman and a minority at the same time.
I bet Trump refuses to attend the Inauguration of his replacement.
re: #505 Big Beautiful Door
I bet Trump refuses to attend the Inauguration of his replacement.
It’ll be hard to attend Pence’s inauguration while he’s in a federal holding cell.
re: #505 Big Beautiful Door
I bet Trump refuses to attend the Inauguration of his replacement.
Especially if it’s Nancy Pelosi!
re: #499 Hecuba’s daughter
Although I agree with you—
After losing the gubernatorial race in 1962, Nixon claimed that the press won’t have him to kick around any longer. So we can’t assume anything about Flake’s future political career.
This is true.
But we didn’t have YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, all the political radio, three major all news all the time networks, etc.
In other words people will not be allowed to forget and Falke will not be allowed to live the past year down.
One other thing against Flake will be the fact he said bad things about the beloved Trump and Fox and right wing radio will hammer on that all day and night.
But for us political junkies, it will be something to watch.
Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore - except your President (just kidding, of course)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 6, 2018
Thanks, lowest rated President in HISTORY. https://t.co/E01UgDaZ3T
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) March 6, 2018
OK, stepped out for lunch, anything new in the news, Kellyanne?
/
re: #475 JordanRules
This starts tonight. Shoot your shot lizards!
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They would likely give me a category on Shakespeare and I would be dead in the water.
First responders were hospitalized. This looks more and more like another Litvinenko hit. https://t.co/bBU7ebv4r0
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) March 6, 2018
Maybe this explains why the Parkland kids succeeded (where others failed) when it comes to kicking the NRA’s ass…
If anyone is still looking for meaningful ways to define generations, Millennials are the first to grow up when most U.S. kids didn’t have actionable levels of lead in their blood. pic.twitter.com/e02JJAIEl4
— James Hamblin (@jameshamblin) March 6, 2018
re: #513 MsJ
They would likely give me a category on Shakespeare and I would be dead in the water.
New Mexico has a town called Shakespeare. Dead. No water.
re: #520 wrenchwench
New Mexico has a town called Shakespeare. Dead. No water.
I am now prepared for ONE question on Shakespeare. As long as it’s about NM.
re: #504 JordanRules
She got to meet her!
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It was a wonderful photo. I’m going to try to teach my niece about woman role models.
re: #518 Interesting Times
If anyone is still looking for meaningful ways to define generations, Millennials are the first to grow up when most U.S. kids didn’t have actionable levels of lead in their blood.
I grew up playing in piles of tailings from chemical plants, breathing air from steel mills and refineries and sitting two feet from a 1963 model color television.
It is a wonder that I not only survived but managed to successfully reproduce.
re: #521 MsJ
I am now prepared for ONE question on Shakespeare. As long as it’s about NM.
Shakespeare invented the “your mom” joke.
re: #511 JordanRules
Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore - except your President (just kidding, of course)!
— Donald J. Trump
Such presidential classy very leadership
So we are doing low carb and hubby dislikes spaghetti squash. I find it has no flavor and picks up whatever you do with it.
I am making spaghetti sauce with Italian sausage and ground beef. Fairly spicy tomato sauce.
Do you think making pesto spaghetti squash is too much to then put the spicy tomato sauce on top? Or should I just season the squash with some butter and Italian seasonings?
re: #515 JordanRules
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re: #515 JordanRules
These attacks should count as state sponsorship of terrorism, particularly given they not only impact the presumably Russian citizen targets, but also first responders and others at the scene.
re: #515 JordanRules
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I saw that elsewhere - apparently, several others were sickened as well. Makes me wonder what the hell was used. Some kind of aerosol or something? That’s insanely risky…..unless the point was to send a message.
If indeed this was a hit (or attempted hit) by Russian covert operatives, there really needs to be hell to pay.
re: #526 MsJ
So we are doing low carb and hubby dislikes spaghetti squash. I find it has no flavor and picks up whatever you do with it.
I am making spaghetti sauce with Italian sausage and ground beef. Fairly spicy tomato sauce.
Do you think making pesto spaghetti squash is too much to then put the spicy tomato sauce on top? Or should I just season the squash with some butter and Italian seasonings?
Better idea…get the whole wheat spaghetti. Lots of fiber, complex carb so it’s much better regarding carbs than regular spaghetti. Win-win.
re: #526 MsJ
I agree with your husband on the spaghetti squash - my wife tried that a couple times and it was just .. ugh… I didn’t like it no matter what was put on it. But cauliflower rice is great. And my wife once breaded chicken with cauliflower (with sriracha) and baked it. It was absolutely amazing.
But the gas was horrible. But I’d do it over again it was that good.
re: #524 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Shakespeare invented the “your mom” joke.
Fun fact, Steve Bannon produced a movie version of Titus Androncius. I remember seeing it long before I knew him or Breitbart. Very surreal. Had Anthony Hopkins tho.
re: #504 JordanRules
She got to meet her!
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That is so fun and nice. And Parker is a little doll. Memories of a lifetime.
re: #526 MsJ
I’d go with butter and Italian seasoning because I think it’s mean to cover wonderful pesto. LOL
I’m weird about mixing certain things and usually sauce options is one of them. Except of course for when trying to choose between red and green chili sauce for your burrito. In that case, Christmas is the best answer.
I suppose pesto and red sauce could be an Italian Christmas.
FiveThirtyEight says Mississippi is a possible get for Democrats with Cochran retiring, in part because special elections are non-partisan. Why not; I never would’ve thought a Democrat could win in Alabama!
re: #518 Interesting Times
Maybe this explains why the Parkland kids succeeded (where others failed) when it comes to kicking the NRA’s ass…
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Don’t let EPA Head Bozo Scott Pruitt see that report and the summation it had anything to do with the Florida students.
re: #530 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Better idea…get the whole wheat spaghetti. Lots of fiber, complex carb so it’s much better regarding carbs than regular spaghetti. Win-win.
Two ounces of that pasta is more carbs than allowed for our entire day. That doesn’t count the carbs in the sauce and the carbs in the squash.
That’s dead in the water.
We do have riced cauliflower all the time. I use it like rice in jambalaya, chili, etc. We love it.
re: #537 MsJ
Two ounces of that pasta is more carbs than allowed for our entire day. That doesn’t count the carbs in the sauce and the carbs in the squash.
That’s dead in the water.
We do have riced cauliflower all the time. I use it like rice in jambalaya, chili, etc. We love it.
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re: #494 dangerman
back later
off to get the parts for tonight’s dinner: baked cavatelli
horror of horrors, no cavatelli to be found
had to go with cavatappi
can you make baked cavatelli with cavatappi or does it become a whole different thing?
what a dangerous experiment
And I ask Wayne LaPierre why he is threatening violence against my fiancé saying “her time is running out?” Wayne, you know that language increases violent threats against her. So why, Wayne?
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) March 6, 2018
Wayne LaPierre makes petty death threats to Mika Brzezinski because that’s what the NRA
are, a bunch of insecured thugs.
re: #539 dangerman
horror of horrors, no cavatelli to be found
had to go with cavatappican you make baked cavatelli with cavatappi or does it become a whole different thing?
what a dangerous experiment
and you are the perfect man to tackle the question.
re: #505 Big Beautiful Door
I bet Trump refuses to attend the Inauguration of his replacement.
he’ll claim bone spurs or some other nonsense
re: #540 DodgerFan1988
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The gun industry suffered tremendously when Trump was elected because the NRA could no longer goose gun sales with the scary black man in the White House. They are accordingly having to up their hysterical rhetoric to try to induce enough fear in their cultists to get them to buy even more weapons of war to add to their arsenals.
re: #526 MsJ
So we are doing low carb and hubby dislikes spaghetti squash. I find it has no flavor and picks up whatever you do with it.
I am making spaghetti sauce with Italian sausage and ground beef. Fairly spicy tomato sauce.
Do you think making pesto spaghetti squash is too much to then put the spicy tomato sauce on top? Or should I just season the squash with some butter and Italian seasonings?
just my opinion, the tomato will drown out the pesto so either not both
re: #447 HappyWarrior
Stripper registry? Wut.
We are registering all strippers, but not all guns. Sounds reasonable.
re: #513 MsJ
About 10 years ago I did the online test and got called for a cattle call test in Chicago. Drove to Des Moines and took a Greyhound to Chicago. There were about 100 people packed into a conference room at the Intercontinental Hotel. First the moderator had each person stand and tell an interesting story about themselves. That took a couple of hours because a lot of the people there rambled on about how great they were. The best one was a 20 year old kid stood up, stated “I like pie.” and sat right back down. Then we took a 50 question test that was pre-recorded by Trebek via a big screen TV at the front of the room. There were 9 people who answered every question correctly, and six of those got to stay and everyone else was dismissed. Yep, I was one of the 6. Then for the next couple of hours we played mock games with little bicycle bells for buzzers. At the end of that 4 people got to stay behind and the other 2 were dismissed. We 4 then signed some papers that basically said if called we had to pay our own way to LA for the show and that even though we had come this far there was no guarantee we’d be called at all. As far as I know, the only one of us that actually got called to go and tape in LA was the handsome 20-something fellow whose interesting story about himself was that his mother once met the Mahatma.
re: #531 CongoJack
I agree with your husband on the spaghetti squash - my wife tried that a couple times and it was just .. ugh… I didn’t like it no matter what was put on it. But cauliflower rice is great. And my wife once breaded chicken with cauliflower (with sriracha) and baked it. It was absolutely amazing.
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looking for alternatives, i made cauliflower crust pizza a few times
basically cauliflower, egg, and goat cheese
it was…interesting (and kosher)
re: #538 Big Beautiful Door
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re: #545 Eventual Carrion
We are registering all strippers, but not all guns. Sounds reasonable.
This is not what we meant when we said “boobs not guns”
Is there some reason why the text is showing up underlined? Did someone miss a closed tag?
re: #544 dangerman
just my opinion, the tomato will drown out the pesto so either not both
I prefer pesto and he prefers tomato. I think we may go a la cart on this one with the sauce optional as it were. :-D
re: #546 Swampwitch
mock games with little bicycle bells for buzzers
I got this.
Or, I woulda had that.
Congrats on going where you did.
re: #548 dangerman
My paleo adjacent uncle did a meatza once. The “crust” was Italian sausage pressed onto the full sheet pan. Baked that off then continued like a regular pizza. He said it was good.
re: #552 MsJ
I prefer pesto and he prefers tomato. I think we may go a la cart on this one with the sauce optional as it were. :-D
ah, detente
My first time voting and I am voting democratic.
I believe republicans in power have failed us.
There is no mistaking it. #ElectionDay#Texas pic.twitter.com/Crz13xNCYD— Monica Banks (@Rosethew0lf) March 6, 2018
Lots of this happening today… tick tock tick tock … https://t.co/gmaqalSX4g
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 6, 2018
re: #546 Swampwitch
That is freaking awesome!! I am so sorry you weren’t called back.
My brother in law did the same thing and was never called back (good looking guy, super, super smart and personality out the wazoo). He was unimpressed with the whole process.
re: #553 wrenchwench
Thanks. Kind of heartbreaking and I swore I’d never do it again.
Until, of course, I went through the same thing trying out for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Top 3 in the auditions, never got the call.
re: #551 KGxvi
Is there some reason why the text is showing up underlined? Did someone miss a closed tag?
LGF will have to close for a start-from-scratch overhaul. See you in a few weeks.
/panic sets in…
re: #554 JordanRules
My paleo adjacent uncle did a meatza once. The “crust” was Italian sausage pressed onto the full sheet pan. Baked that off then continued like a regular pizza. He said it was good.
upding for paleo adjacent
re: #549 MsJ
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re: #557 MsJ
I think the problem is these shows want a certain amount of smarm. You can be brilliant, but if you don’t act like you’ll scream “NO WHAMMIES” at a certain point you don’t have a chance.
Drunken lunatic displayed for blood sport on US television, to great acclaim of peasants now prevented from viewing gladiatorial combat and dog fighting.
DPRK humanely protects lunatics from sadists. pic.twitter.com/6gyOXJFR4d— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) March 6, 2018
re: #545 Eventual Carrion
We are registering all strippers, but not all guns. Sounds reasonable.
You can pry my stripper from my cold, dead hands!!
re: #562 Swampwitch
I think the problem is these shows want a certain amount of smarm. You can be brilliant, but if you don’t act like you’ll scream “NO WHAMMIES” at a certain point you don’t have a chance.
I never would have expected to see someone like Austin on Jeopardy. He had such a Fuck This And Fuck You attitude. I know a lot of people didn’t like him, but I loved him. I remember a guy, whose name escapes me now, and he was on the spectrum, for sure. He was like a machine. I think they are trying to now show that you don’t have to be this perfect person to be smart and smart encompasses a lot of different people.
Nashville’s mayor had to resign after pleading guilty to felony theft, apparently she was also having an affair with her bodyguard, and that part of the investigation gave us this:
“(Probable cause exists to) show that on May 15, 2017 and on October 18, 2017, he used this phone to photograph a nude or partially nude female,” the documents say. “It will also show that Rob Forrest’s timecards report that he was working while these photographs were taken.”
The TBI “believes probable cause exists to show that Rob Forrest was indeed not working at the time (two photos) were taken but was rather participating in the affair with Megan Barry at these times,” the document adds.
TBI investigators say they looked at Forrest’s phone and his emails after Barry admitted publicly to the affair. Two of his emails each contained one photo that showed a partially nude or fully naked woman, court documents say. The documents do not say the woman is the mayor.
The photos were taken while Forrest and Mayor Megan Barry were in Washington on business trips. On January 31, Barry apologized at a news conference for having the affair with Forrest, who had resigned.
I don’t know the details of the affair, but obviously it was not smart. But what amazes me more than anything is that the guy took these pictures on a government issued phone. Why would anyone take nudes on an employer (government or not) issued phone? That’s just asking to get in trouble.
re: #562 Swampwitch
I think the problem is these shows want a certain amount of smarm. You can be brilliant, but if you don’t act like you’ll scream “NO WHAMMIES” at a certain point you don’t have a chance.
exactly - they’re not looking for winners
they’re looking for “TeeVee”
re: #489 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
1. What’s the deal with all the text being underlined?
2. Lost In Space
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Drunken lunatic displayed for blood sport on US television, to great acclaim of peasants now prevented from viewing gladiatorial combat and dog fighting.
DPRK humanely protects lunatics from sadists. pic.twitter.com/6gyOXJFR4d— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) March 6, 2018
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 6, 2018
re: #566 KGxvi
Nashville’s mayor had to resign after pleading guilty to felony theft, apparently she was also having an affair with her bodyguard, and that part of the investigation gave us this:
I don’t know the details of the affair, but obviously it was not smart. But what amazes me more than anything is that the guy took these pictures on a government issued phone. Why would anyone take nudes on an employer (government or not) issued phone? That’s just asking to get in trouble.
Just guessing, but I’d say stupidity is the reason.
re: #571 Big Beautiful Door
Just guessing, but I’d say stupidity is the reason.
I was just reading up on it. Apparently they traveled a lot together on the government dime for “work” and at least nine trips were just the two of them. He plead guilty to felony theft as well, three years supervised probation and his returning $45k to the city.
Ugh.
What I love here is the guy essentially whining “boo-hoo, just cause I punched a black man & called him n***** means I have 2 be punished? But Im WHITE!”
Cornell student facing deportation after sucker-punching black man in ‘come fight us, n*gger’ attack https://t.co/CleMzd7K1k— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 6, 2018
RIGHT NOW IN BALTIMORE: Students march toward City Hall asking for gun control. pic.twitter.com/kfB5oDPyP5
— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) March 6, 2018
BREAKING: Baltimore @MayorPugh50 says the city is organizing 60 free buses to send students to DC for the march against gun violence later this month. Says “let’s show Washington DC that Baltimore matters.” Wants 3,000 city students there. Will be providing lunches and t-shirts. pic.twitter.com/g4QIoS9baA
— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) March 6, 2018
A lot more students just arrived at this student protest against gun violence in Baltimore. They’re from public city high schools. One chant: “No justice, no peace! No AR-15s!” pic.twitter.com/ObArcAh5gz
— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) March 6, 2018
re: #431 Backwoods_Sleuth
“The North Korean side clearly stated its willingness to denuclearize,” the South Korean president’s office said https://t.co/ohtyXBoDQ2
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) March 6, 2018
Not that I’m THAT much of a foreign-policy maven, but never-minding what Donald Trump says*, this looks like a BFD for Korean policy (short-term, anyway): and even though The Yam is taking credit for - well, something - ISTM like the two Koreas are doing shit with each other in spite of Trump’s hot-air posturing and belligerence, not because of it. Though I’m sure that that analysis is probably unlikely to get much media coverage.
*A generally wise move, if tragically unavoidable most of the time.
re: #575 plansbandc
Underlining hell. When will it end???
Not seeing it here. Charles (or somebody) must have Fixt.
re: #578 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Somebody broke a tag.
What’s weird is that I’m not seeing it at all. Can’t think of what’s different, other than I haven’t refreshed the entire page since I first loaded it this morning…?
re: #575 plansbandc
Underlining hell. When will it end???
I’ve no idea what you guys are talking about. I see nothing underlined.
re: #580 Interesting Times
What’s weird is that I’m not seeing it at all. Can’t think of what’s different, other than I haven’t refreshed the entire page since I first loaded it this morning…?
That’s what I’m thinking. I’m afraid to logout now. LOL.
re: #580 Interesting Times
What’s weird is that I’m not seeing it at all. Can’t think of what’s different, other than I haven’t refreshed the entire page since I first loaded it this morning…?
If you don’t refresh, tag breaking doesn’t affect your. The new comments button doesn’t refresh the whole page.
re: #581 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
I’ve no idea what you guys are talking about. I see nothing underlined.
Same here…..I’m not seeing anything underlined.
If I load the whole page in a new tab, I see it.
Paging electrotek: Your #438 broke a tag. Cleanup on aisle four.
re: #580 Interesting Times
What’s weird is that I’m not seeing it at all. Can’t think of what’s different, other than I haven’t refreshed the entire page since I first loaded it this morning…?
That’s the difference. Loading the problem comment as a new comment fixes the tag. It’s only an issue for people who refreshed since the problem comment was loaded.
re: #586 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
That’s the difference. Loading the problem comment as a new comment fixes the tag. It’s only an issue for people who refreshed since the problem comment was loaded.
And now it appears to have been fix’d. I loaded the page in a new tab (again) and there is no more underlining. For those who are seeing it, refresh, and all shall be forgotten.
today
Paul Krugman ✔ @paulkrugman
True. He’s not performing the duties of a president; he’s occupying that office, and using it to pursue personal gain plus various hobbyhorses. And there’s every reason to believe that bribery/blackmail are driving a lot of policy
re: #546 Swampwitch
I was invited to an in-person I guess around 2012 or so. They didn’t do it like that. There wasn’t this process of successive elimination like you describe. Everybody did the written test, then everybody got to play a short mock round with buzzers, 3 at a time. At the start of each mock round, each player was asked a question or two about him/herself.
I may be wrong but I didn’t really get the impression that personality was the most important factor in whether you were going to get on the show. (I mean have you seen some of these people?) We were told that your performance on the written test was the most important factor.
Anyway, they said that everyone would be kept on file for up to a year, and could potentially be called at any point during that year. I never got called though.
Follow @srl and @JessicaHuseman for live updates for what I’m going to go ahead and call the Voting Rights TRIAL OF THE CENTURY.
— kat calvin (@KatCalvinLA) March 6, 2018
First, Kris Kobach and his attorneys are getting reprimanded over and over by Judge Robinson. At one point she reminded them they had to follow “evidence 101.” She also wouldn’t let them admit a document they sent to the ACLU lawyers at 1045 last night
— Sam Levine (@srl) March 6, 2018
re: #585 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
If I load the whole page in a new tab, I see it.
Paging electrotek: Your #438 broke a tag. Cleanup on aisle four.
Ah crap, I can’t close the tag! My editing time expired! UGH!
I reported my own post in hopes of having it deleted for the amateur mistake of mine.
re: #260 Dave In Austin
Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore - except your President (just kidding, of course)!
President Nora Desmond.
re: #591 electrotek
Ah crap, I can’t close the tag! My editing time expired! UGH!
No worries. It looks like our benevolent host or another moderator was able to get to it.
LOL, this non-apology apology of a statement is getting savaged in the comments.
Anti-Semitism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism and white supremacy are and always will be indefensible.
Please read our statement: pic.twitter.com/bRFqAGf81t— Women’s March (@womensmarch) March 6, 2018
There’s an unnamed island in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts that a local man once campaigned to name Busta Rhymes Island. It is currently searchable by that name on Google Maps pic.twitter.com/OGYEo4gqu0
— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) March 6, 2018
re: #591 electrotek
Ah crap, I can’t close the tag! My editing time expired! UGH!
are we doomed to float through all eternity with no hope of redemption?
possibly not
re: #596 JordanRules
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busta rhymes island and the goat map upthread have made my day
i should shut my computer off now
Shady as hell https://t.co/OosizEL7oT
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 6, 2018
re: #589 Frenchy
Sounds like they changed the audition format a bit after I did it. Or maybe it was a regional way, or it depended on how many were in the cattle call. Anyway, that sounds like a much more pleasant experience all around. I would have much rathered played mock games with everyone. There were a lot of really sweet people who were there just because they loved Jeopardy. I only made it as far as I did because I’m one of those people who retains unimportant info. The others who made it to the end were highly educated. I lasted one year at UNLV before I had to go back home to take care of younger siblings for my father and stepmom #1.
It’s just as well I wasn’t called. I get crippling stage fright. It takes seven shots of ouzo to get me up on karaoke night.
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen received closed-door witness information from the House Intelligence Committee, The Daily Beast reports. https://t.co/DoM2VhMPMN
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 6, 2018
Well this would seem to be a red flag for the collapse of the rule of law in this country. https://t.co/lT6cXmIAuS
— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) March 6, 2018
re: #590 JordanRules
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Kobach has been violating court orders and lying his ass off throughout this case.
Trump Administration now going after immigrants serving in the Armed Forces.
More Bad News For Immigrant Military Recruits Who Were Promised US Citizenship https://t.co/CDSeGVSzHF pic.twitter.com/YNYjZDEf7z
— BuzzFeed World (@BuzzFeedWorld) March 5, 2018
re: #606 Big Beautiful Door
Kobach has been violating court orders and lying his ass off throughout this case.
He’s going to get spanked, he’s going to throw a right-wing tantrum, President* Trump will fire off some angry tweets, and then the whole frothing wingnut machine will start cycling the talking points and conspiracy theories. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
re: #577 Jay C
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Not that I’m THAT much of a foreign-policy maven, but never-minding what Donald Trump says*, this looks like a BFD for Korean policy (short-term, anyway): and even though The Yam is taking credit for - well, something - ISTM like the two Koreas are doing shit with each other in spite of Trump’s hot-air posturing and belligerence, not because of it. Though I’m sure that that analysis is probably unlikely to get much media coverage.
*A generally wise move, if tragically unavoidable most of the time.
This is from a friend (Korean and reasonably familiar with Korean affairs (or, at least, more so than I):
Just to be clear, the DPRK has consistently called, for generations, robust guarantees from the U.S. for its security—in other words, the signing of a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War, and thus, remove the need for nuclear weapons, not to mention US-ROK military “exercises” and other plans and rehearsals for regime change.
They haven’t wavered from that position, while successive U.S. administrations have confusingly wavered between a range of hostile (“axis of evil”) and less-hostile (“strategic patience”) and even positive engagement (the last year of Clinton’s presidency with Albright’s visit to Pyongyang) policies. So in a sense, this is nothing new. They’ve frozen their nuclear weapons program before, and even destroyed, with US officials present to verify, nuclear weapons installations. And when promises haven’t been kept—such as the oil shipments and light water reactors that the U.S. was supposed to deliver as written in the 1994 Agreed Framework—the DPRK quickly revived its nuclear programs. We’ve heard this song.
But hopefully, this time, the song will be more on key and last a little longer.
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