Acoustic Guitarist Ian Ethan Case With the Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra: “Slow Burn”

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Ian Ethan Case - Slow Burn - with G Maxwell Zemanovic (drums)
featuring Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 17, 2018 • 10:37:35pm

Just click on the link to the Guardian/Observer and see how they broke open the Cambridge Analytics scandal!

theguardian.com

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JordanRules  Mar 17, 2018 • 10:47:16pm
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JordanRules  Mar 17, 2018 • 10:52:14pm
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Single-handed sailor  Mar 17, 2018 • 10:58:02pm
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Dave In Austin  Mar 18, 2018 • 12:00:21am
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TedStriker  Mar 18, 2018 • 12:22:25am

re: #5 Dave In Austin

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Ram Jam - Black Betty

Love that song.

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Single-handed sailor  Mar 18, 2018 • 12:39:37am

I hated Dark Shadows when I was a kid and it was the only thing on after school. I finally got into it when Netflix ran the first release. I think it was episodes 1-336, but no more for years. Finally Amazon prime has added new episodes to their release of episodes 210-1245. The Amazon release starts when Barnabas first “arrives” in Collinwood. I’m at episode 410 now, this could take a while but I’m having a blast with it. I love shows that are so bad they are good. Sometimes I want to smack some of these characters.

Dark Shadows The Beginning Recap

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sagehen  Mar 18, 2018 • 12:41:07am

SNL cold open
John Goodman is Rex Tillerson

Anderson Cooper White House Turmoil Cold Open - SNL

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JordanRules  Mar 18, 2018 • 12:59:58am
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Single-handed sailor  Mar 18, 2018 • 1:52:48am

“Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a six and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide PRESIDENT?”

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Kragar  Mar 18, 2018 • 2:24:35am
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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 2:27:02am

re: #11 Kragar

Interesting. The usual assortment of goldbugs and Bitcoin fanatics have also been predicting a “major financial collapse” is waiting in the wings. Maybe they’re not as crazy as I thought.

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Single-handed sailor  Mar 18, 2018 • 2:31:00am

re: #12 wheat-dogg

Interesting. The usual assortment of goldbugs and Bitcoin fanatics have also been predicting a “major financial collapse” is waiting in the wings. Maybe they’re not as crazy as I thought.

It was an article from 2012 about 2008.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 3:00:32am

re: #13 Single-handed sailor

It was an article from 2012 about 2008.

Ah.

Never mind.
— Emily Latella

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Single-handed sailor  Mar 18, 2018 • 3:26:47am

Undercover Potty Lamp was some classic SNL. Best skit of the night.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 18, 2018 • 4:10:33am

re: #9 JordanRules

Trump really thinks he has a chance against the guy that took down John Gotti.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 18, 2018 • 4:12:38am

re: #9 JordanRules

But what about the pro-Trump FBI agents in New York? The ones of whom Giuliani spoke? The ones who “forced” Comey to reopen the Clinton investigation just a few days before the election?

I guess we’ll see.

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Kragar  Mar 18, 2018 • 4:14:00am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 18, 2018 • 4:21:47am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 18, 2018 • 4:22:31am

re: #18 Kragar

Last week, the US posted its biggest Budget Deficit Since 2012.

Now the GOP wants to make it worse do more to help job creators

/

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 18, 2018 • 4:31:12am

re: #11 Kragar

It’s perfectly legal for members of congress to partake in insider trading from information they garner in the course of their duties

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 18, 2018 • 4:33:36am

re: #21 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

It’s perfectly legal for members of congress to partake in insider trading from information they garner in the course of their duties

And it is perfectly normal for voters to accept this is a matter of course and continue to elect them.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 18, 2018 • 4:41:19am

Pro tip: If a shot glass gets caught up in the garbage disposal, grind it to dust before you turn off the disposal.

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freetoken  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:07:31am

Mini-Trump doesn’t want those nasty humans right people interfering with him:

Philippine leader calls for abandoning Int’l Criminal Court

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte asked governments on Sunday to abandon the International Criminal Court, saying the world tribunal — where he is facing a possible complaint for the thousands of killings of drug suspects under his crackdown — is “rude.”

Although the Philippine Senate has ratified the Rome Statute that established the ICC, Duterte said in a speech that the treaty was never enforced in the country because it was not published in the government journal, the official gazette, as required by law.

[…]

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:10:35am

He’s up and grumpy, looks like he didn’t get enough sleep. And will likely need to be put down for a nap sometime today

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:19:02am

re: #25 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

He’s up and grumpy, looks like he didn’t get enough sleep. And will likely need to be put down for a nap sometime today

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Fox and Friends as source again? He’s basically the crazy old uncle who won’t shut up about conspiracy theories and how you should buy gold.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:27:57am

re: #26 Barefoot Grin

Fox and Friends as source again? He’s basically the crazy old uncle who won’t shut up about conspiracy theories and how you should buy gold.

I’m surprised he hasn’t directed Treasury to buy gold from the Chinese.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:29:08am

re: #25 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

He’s up and grumpy, looks like he didn’t get enough sleep. And will likely need to be put down for a nap sometime today

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re: #26 Barefoot Grin

Fox and Friends as source again? He’s basically the crazy old uncle who won’t shut up about conspiracy theories and how you should buy gold.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:30:40am

Comey has some answering to do, for sure (as we all know). But it he’s been pretty straightforward about his engagements with Trump.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:33:16am
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:38:10am

It’s interesting how things that seemed to be far-out CT stuff last year—the unusual connections between Russian bank and Trump Tower server, the Mercer-Cambridge Analytica connection—are all playing out as important parts of the story.

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jeffreyw  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:40:23am

Imgur


Good morning!

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:41:34am

Stunning ignorance and/or wishful thinking here by Trump:

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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:41:56am

re: #31 Barefoot Grin

It’s interesting how things that seemed to be far-out CT stuff last year—the unusual connections between Russian bank and Trump Tower server, the Mercer-Cambridge Analytica connection—are all playing out as important parts of the story.

Were this a movie script, the writers pitching it would be escorted out of the building.

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ericblair  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:45:16am

re: #30 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

You’d think Cambridge Analytica would have the good sense to shut the fuck up right now, but I guess none of the right wing nuts can master this useful life skill.

Everything new we learn confirms that the Russian government conspired with the Trump campaign to wage psyops on the American electorate and steal the election. Everything.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:45:31am

re: #34 wheat-dogg

Were this a movie script, the writers pitching it would be escorted out of the building.

Ha! Indeed. Too implausible for House of Cards.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:46:44am

Radical left-wing publication suggests Trump may cause another government shutdown.

But saying that a government shutdown won’t happen because of congressional actions doesn’t mean the government won’t shutdown. President Donald Trump’s positions and demands are so erratic that the possibility of a White House-induced shutdown cannot and must not be dismissed out of hand.

Indeed, with his bizarre firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, his hiring of Larry Kudlow to head the National Economic Council apparently without telling anyone else he was doing it, his tariff proposals, his first-you-see-it-now-you-don’t-like indications that major changes are coming in his senior staff and cabinet, all things Stormy Daniels and the firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe two days before he was set to retire, Trump’s actions show that he is now far more erratic and much less willing to listen to either the more institutional members of his own administration or the GOP congressional leadership.

Long-time politicos, Congress watchers and budget analysts will cringe at the implications of this new level of White House inconsistency, bullying and unpredictability. But given his recent behavior, even if it might create additional reelection problems for House and Senate Republicans Trump could easily decide that now is the time for the “good shutdown” he started threatening 10 months ago.

If it happens, Trump can kiss that booming stock market goodbye.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:49:42am

Oh, jeez.

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Nyet  Mar 18, 2018 • 5:57:08am

re: #15 Single-handed sailor

Undercover Potty Lamp was some classic SNL. Best skit of the night.

So fucking stupid.
But funny.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:10:53am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:14:26am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:14:44am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:23:20am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:32:03am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:33:54am
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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:49:25am

re: #25 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

He’s up and grumpy, looks like he didn’t get enough sleep. And will likely need to be put down for a nap sometime today

He lied as shown clearly on @foxandfriends.

You really just cited foxandfriends?

For serious?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:49:53am
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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:53:17am

re: #30 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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PS
Advertising is totally coercive

That’s it’s definition
Calling attention for the purpose of influencing behavior

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freetoken  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:53:33am

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m convinced most of these polls are about magic words and incantations and how well people have been programmed to respond to triggers.

Does that make these polls unimportant? Not necessarily, but I think we have to deal with the underly irrationality that is being promoted in our society by those who make a lot of money by controlling others.

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makeitstop  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:55:16am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:55:30am

re: #42 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

More fraud. Quelle surprise.

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:57:02am

re: #48 dangerman

PS
Advertising is totally coercive

That’s it’s definition
Calling attention for the purpose of influencing behavior

And no, people are not smarter than that. Some are. Some aren’t.

Cf Spray hair in a can

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:58:55am

re: #33 Barefoot Grin

Stunning ignorance and/or wishful thinking here by Trump:

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No one has said McCabe was taking notes in the meetings

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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:59:02am

re: #50 makeitstop

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Gowdy came out with some anti-Trump comments a few days ago. Methinks Donnie Dollhand’s support is eroding within the GOP. Pretty soon they’re going to deny they ever wanted him to be president.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 6:59:43am

re: #53 dangerman

No one has said McCabe was taking notes in the meetings

McCabe recorded those meetings after the fact, just as Comey did. SOP for agents.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:01:12am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:01:15am

re: #38 wheat-dogg

Oh, jeez.

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Mueller himself is a Republican who was serving Republican administrations when you were consorting with mobsters in the 80’s.

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makeitstop  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:01:32am

re: #54 wheat-dogg

Gowdy came out with some anti-Trump comments a few days ago. Methinks Donnie Dollhand’s support is eroding within the GOP. Pretty soon they’re going to deny they ever wanted him to be president.

Remember, Gowdy was the one who actually read the intelligence behind the Nunes memo - and after seeing it announced he was getting out of DC altogether.

He’s got a pretty accurate depth measurement of the shit Trump is in.

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Schweppes7  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:01:34am

re: #53 dangerman

I do not think he is familiar with the concept of people leaving a meeting and taking notes contemporaneously when it is still fresh in their head and then preserving it in a manner so that it can be later used.

It makes sense though as Trump likely just forgets what happens in a meeting or conversation moments after it happens so he would be unable to take such notes….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:02:44am

re: #50 makeitstop

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MsJ  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:02:52am

re: #54 wheat-dogg

Gowdy came out with some anti-Trump comments a few days ago. Methinks Donnie Dollhand’s support is eroding within the GOP. Pretty soon they’re going to deny they ever wanted him to be president.

It’s easy to be brave after you’ve given up.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:04:42am

yep, let the panic attacks begin.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:04:46am

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I don’t always agree with Garry but he’s a committed small letter d, democrat and he’s got my respect for that.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:05:44am

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

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This would mean more if Gowdy were staying and not leaving.

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JordanRules  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:06:17am

Sure Jan.

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freetoken  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:06:26am

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

Nothing Lindsey says can be trusted.

He flips as a ASM can fire.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:06:48am

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s full of shit and Trump knows it. That’s why Trump is going to call their bluff and get rid of Mueller because he knows there won’t be any consequences.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:06:48am

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:08:42am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:08:50am

re: #57 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

Mueller himself is a Republican who was serving Republican administrations when you were consorting with mobsters in the 80’s.

The point of the Mueller investigation is to present Congress with enough irrefutable evidence of wrongdoing that it has to act or appear to be in collusion itself.

The only way to preempt that is to try to discredit Mueller and his investigators as much as possible in advance.

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Nyet  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:09:24am

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

I don’t like K., but here he is 100% right.

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:11:27am

re: #55 wheat-dogg

McCabe recorded those meetings after the fact, just as Comey did. SOP for agents.

…And lots of ordinary folks who write contemporaneous notes “for the file”

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:12:47am

re: #59 Schweppes7

I do not think he is familiar with the concept of people leaving a meeting and taking notes contemporaneously when it is still fresh in their head and then preserving it in a manner so that it can be later used.

It makes sense though as Trump likely just forgets what happens in a meeting or conversation moments after it happens so he would be unable to take such notes….

Beat me by seconds
I was wriiting a memo

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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:13:28am

re: #72 dangerman

…And lots of ordinary folks who write contemporaneous notes “for the file”

I can’t imagine Trump doing either. He probably sat in class with his book open and never touching a pen or pencil — his “great brain” and everything.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:14:12am
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freetoken  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:14:17am

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The point of the Mueller investigation is to present Congress with enough irrefutable evidence of wrongdoing that it has to act or appear to be in collusion itself.

Just to emphasize - what brought about the Mueller investigation was the accusation of obstruction of justice. It’s Trump who keeps shouting “COLLUSION”, but Mueller can and apparently is investigating any crime related to the possibility that the firing of Comey was to obstruct justice.

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JordanRules  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:14:52am
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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:16:18am

re: #76 freetoken

Just to emphasize - what brought about the Mueller investigation was the accusation of obstruction of justice. It’s Trump who keeps shouting “COLLUSION”, but Mueller can and apparently is investigating any crime related to the possibility that the firing of Comey was to obstruct justice.

Mueller could nail Trump for any number of crimes, including money laundering and fraud. Trump’s pretty much covered the field.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:16:35am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:17:36am
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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:18:04am

re: #74 wheat-dogg

I can’t imagine Trump doing either. He probably sat in class with his book open and never touching a pen or pencil — his “great brain” and everything.

That bluff got him elected
You can’t bluff your way through four years of a modern presidency

Everyone but him knows it

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:20:40am

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

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yep, let the panic attacks begin.

Firing Mueller ….
That’s your line in the sand Lindsey?

everything up to now is aok?

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:21:00am

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Goddammit, Mr. President, quit giving Mueller more evidence!”

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:22:00am

re: #76 freetoken

Just to emphasize - what brought about the Mueller investigation was the accusation of obstruction of justice. It’s Trump who keeps shouting “COLLUSION”, but Mueller can and apparently is investigating any crime related to the possibility that the firing of Comey was to obstruct justice.

Eye on the pitch that’s thrown

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:22:26am

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yeah great idea. Just shelter him more from reality. This presidency is a disgrace. The sooner it ends the better.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:23:56am

I’m still waiting for Trump to release “tapes” of his meetings with Comey. Remember THAT?

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:24:11am

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

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For the sake of the nation, it’s a much-needed break.

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Jay C  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:24:41am

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The point of the Mueller investigation is to present Congress with enough irrefutable evidence of wrongdoing that it has to act or appear to be in collusion itself.

Riiiight. And since this Congress (The House, anyway, which is where impeachment proceedings muse be originated) is controlled by a majority of Republicans who have repeated shown themselves to be a gang of venal partisan hacks, what are the odds that they will even CARE about “appearing” to be in collusion, vs. “bravely” standing up for their Fearless Leader….

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:25:04am

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s destructive when he’s feeling besieged and uncomfortable, but also destructive when he’s feeling expansive. Staff flips a coin, and it comes up golf.

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makeitstop  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:25:39am

You knew what you signed up for. All of you.

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bill d. (b.d.)  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:26:28am

I am seeing more GOP push back against Trump, on the Sunday shows, this morning than I ever had?

I know it is just talk but still…

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:26:31am

re: #90 makeitstop

You knew what you signed up for. All of you.

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No sympathy here either.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:26:38am

re: #89 jaunte

He’s destructive when he’s feeling besieged and uncomfortable, but also destructive when he’s feeling expansive. Staff flips a coin, and it comes up golf.

[Trump shanks it into the rough]
Aid: “Great shot, Mr. President. I say it’s a gimme….”

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:27:02am

I think the White House staff suggests golf when they need a break.

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freetoken  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:27:26am

Trying to make a name for himself:

Paul: I’ll do everything to block Trump picks

Republican Sen. Rand Paul said on CNN’s State of the Union that he would take all necessary steps to oppose President Donald Trump’s nominees for secretary of state and CIA director.

Opportunistic.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:27:34am

re: #91 bill d. (b.d.)

I am seeing more GOP push back against Trump, on the Sunday shows, this morning than I ever had?

I know it is just talk but still…

They know 2018 is going to be ugly. Pennsylvania was proof of that for them.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:27:52am

re: #90 makeitstop

The smartest people are the ones who refused any job offered them in the Trump Shite House. The rest may need to change their names and obfuscate their work history once they leave.

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makeitstop  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:29:58am

re: #92 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

No sympathy here either.

Thoughts and prayers, maybe….

wait….

Nah. No thoughts and prayers, either. They can all suffer for all I care.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:30:49am

re: #98 makeitstop

Thoughts and prayers, maybe….

wait….

Nah. No thoughts and prayers, either. They can all suffer for all I care.

I’m saving my sympathy for those who deserve it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:31:07am
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bill d. (b.d.)  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:31:17am

re: #96 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

They know 2018 is going to be ugly. Pennsylvania was proof of that for them.

You are right, they fought like hell for that seat, brought in the biggest gun and dumped millions into it and lost.

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makeitstop  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:31:55am

re: #99 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

I’m saving my sympathy for those who deserve it.

And there doesn’t seem to be a single person in this administration who comes close, IMO.

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:32:47am

Erick son of Erick is tired of hearing from you hoi-polloi.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:33:08am

re: #77 JordanRules

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a glossy socialite magazine that you can get at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

I would bet not any more.

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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:33:33am

re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth

Uh oh. Donnie Dollhands is gonna be mad when he comes back from the links.

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JordanRules  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:34:54am

re: #94 jaunte

I think the White House staff suggests golf when they need a break.

Yes. I’m sure he gets quite abusive with them.

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makeitstop  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:34:58am

re: #105 wheat-dogg

Uh oh. Donnie Dollhands is gonna be mad when he comes back from the links.

The way this day is going, he might just take a nine iron to the caddy. I’d tell him to mind his own damn bags today.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:35:21am
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Nyet  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:35:34am

Today 4 new Adventure Time episodes, including the penultimate one.

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:35:47am

re: #106 JordanRules

They think he can wish them into the cornfield. But the cornfield is freedom.

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makeitstop  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:39:27am

The Guardian is going after Cambridge Analytica hammer and tongs. Good.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:39:48am

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yep I always wondered why Cruz is one of Trump’s biggest loyalists despite that Trump got very personal with him.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:42:22am
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:42:37am

I have to clean my house for Passover. I hate this time of year! We are going to my daughter for the holiday so I don’t have to turn over the kitchen but still have to do the house cleaning!

What the hell, I will hire a cleaning team.

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freetoken  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:43:45am

re: #112 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

Yep I always wondered why Cruz is one of Trump’s biggest loyalists despite that Trump got very personal with him.

Cruz is hated by everyone because he is inherently unable to make friends. Something about him that I think was programmed by his wingnut religious whacko father, probably about not being able to ever being able to drop the mask.

Anyway, the reality is that Trump is an anchor but there is clearly a cabal of Trumpers installed in the RNC now and it will be hard for the party to undo that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:44:23am

JFC the “Turnspeak” is strong on Dear Leader Network

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:44:57am

re: #115 freetoken

Cruz is hated by everyone because he is inherently unable to make friends. Something about him that I think was programmed by his wingnut religious whacko father, probably about not being able to ever being able to drop the mask.

Anyway, the reality is that Trump is an anchor but there is clearly a cabal of Trumpers installed in the RNC now and it will be hard for the party to undo that.

Yeah you get rid of Trump, the GOP still has a lot of problems.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:45:46am

re: #116 The Vicious Babushka

JFC the “Turnspeak” is strong on Dear Leader Network

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There’s something really pathetic about a man who was Speaker of the House sounding like Alex Jones.

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:49:47am

re: #103 jaunte

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Erick son of Erick is tired of hearing from you hoi-polloi.

Heat/kitchen

One way tweets are like writing for redstate.com
No dissent

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:50:49am

re: #105 wheat-dogg

Uh oh. Donnie Dollhands is gonna be mad when he comes back from the links.

I’m torn between dollhands and twoscoops

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JordanRules  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:51:07am

LOL Schiff is going to get Bilbo Bigot yelled at. And right after he did the McCabe dirty deed for his cult leader.

122
Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:54:29am

General McCaffrey on Joy right now laying out Putin’s threats to NATO and others beyond and including US.

123
jaunte  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:54:31am
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wheat-dogg  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:54:46am

re: #120 dangerman

I’m torn between dollhands and twoscoops

I may alternate between them

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:55:17am

Doughy Pantload looks like he attached a dead raccoon to his head. (Meet the Press)

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I cannot.  Mar 18, 2018 • 7:56:46am

re: #124 wheat-dogg

dollscoops?

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retired cynic  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:01:00am

re: #116 The Vicious Babushka

JFC the “Turnspeak” is strong on Dear Leader Network

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Gotta be something they can get that jerk on. I would like to see him off the air in every manner whatsoever.

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MsJ  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:05:07am

So, now that this Cambridge Analytica thing is exploding, I’m wondering if the Tories are going to reevaluate Brexit. Or if they’ll just go fuck it and let Putin tear Britain apart.

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JordanRules  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:05:15am
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retired cynic  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:05:33am

OT, for a smile: NASA’s astropix for today has a 20 second video from Lunar Reconaissance Rover footage so that you can see the moon go through a full rotation.

apod.nasa.gov

131
Ace Rothstein  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:07:33am

Jeebus, the Jersey Whale got some sun this spring break.

132
jaunte  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:07:37am

Good thread by Molly McKew on the Guardian Christopher Wylie piece, if you missed it earlier:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:10:33am
134
Unshaken Defiance  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:11:00am

re: #130 retired cynic

Kinda related from the LA Times today

Musk had a wild idea: “What if we just cut the skirt? Like, literally cut around it?” That is, what if they trimmed off the bottom as if it were a fingernail?
“He went person by person and said, ‘Would this have any adverse effect on you?’” Davis recalled.
Davis said that because the skirt would be shorter, they would get less performance from the engine. “But we had so much margin built into it, it didn’t matter,” he said. Everyone concurred, and “literally within 30 minutes, the decision was made.”
The company flew a technician from California to Cape Canaveral; armed with a pair of shears, like the kind used to trim hedges, he cut around the crack.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:13:05am

re: #38 wheat-dogg

A reply to one of the replies:

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ObserverArt  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:15:54am

Morning…I think.

Uh, I have to stop watching Sunday political TV.

It is not good for the heart, or the head, or really anything.

I did hear a local Republican talking head say the young student activist “17 minute Demonstration” was a great way to get out of class and that is why it was so popular. And then the leftist liberal news media turned it into some kind of big thing. And he worries that “dark money” is being funneled to these kids and it is all driven by far left liberals and Democrats using these traumatised kids.

Ooga-Booga! Dark Money.

Can someone make the bad manmen go away???

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:23:23am

re: #117 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

Yeah you get rid of Trump, the GOP still has a lot of even more problems.

because they will lose a lot of voters, the ones who hate politicians and politics of all sorts but voted GOP because they love Trump

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:27:14am

re: #136 ObserverArt

Morning…I think.

Uh, I have to stop watching Sunday political TV.

It is not good for the heart, or the head, or really anything.

I did hear a local Republican talking head say the young student activist “17 minute Demonstration” was a great way to get out of class and that is why it was so popular. And then the leftist liberal news media turned it into some kind of big thing. And he worries that “dark money” is being funneled to these kids and it is all driven by far left liberals and Democrats using these traumatised kids.

Ooga-Booga! Dark Money.

Can someone make the bad manmen go away???

Yeah, I noted that Laura Ingraham said the same last week on her radio show (adding that liberal teachers are encouraging the students to leave class so that they don’t have to work, and dropping the Soros-bomb about the funding).

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:28:23am

re: #90 makeitstop

You knew what you signed up for. All of you.

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They could start finding jobs at Walmart and McDonald’s off in middle America. No one will know their names there, and you can make a living on those jobs according to their bosses.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:28:48am

re: #138 Barefoot Grin

Yeah, I noted that Laura Ingraham said the same last week on her radio show (adding that liberal teachers are encouraging the students to leave class so that they don’t have to work, and dropping the Soros-bomb about the funding).

Laura’s even stupider than I thought if she thinks that.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:29:01am

re: #91 bill d. (b.d.)

I am seeing more GOP push back against Trump, on the Sunday shows, this morning than I ever had?

I know it is just talk but still…

It’s a beginning. Once they start talking, it starts becoming acceptable.

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:29:15am

Ever wonder what all is going on in search algorithms? Anyway this morning Spotify recommends for me “Leftover Salmon” and “Walter Trout”. Not even the same genre lol. It’s cool that I live kinda near the coast, and I do enjoy my music and good fish for dinner…

143
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:29:31am

re: #30 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:29:33am

re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

because they will lose a lot of voters, the ones who hate politicians and politics of all sorts but voted GOP because they love Trump

Well that but more so the party apparatus even without Trump still thinks and is filled with people who enabled his rise.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:31:48am

re: #109 Nyet

Today 4 new Adventure Time episodes, including the penultimate one.

We’re going to be watching, but, just in case something major happens, we once again yesterday checked to make sure they’re being recorded.

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freetoken  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:36:08am

I see that various news outlets are stumbling over themselves trying to describe Oklahoma’s new death-sentence method of execution.

Mostly, “nitrogen” is not being described as easily as it could be.

I guess story writers don’t want to mention that about 78% of the air you breathe is Nitrogen.

Anyway, it’s fairly simple to remove oxygen from some air from our atmosphere, and you’re left with mostly nitrogen and a bit of argon.

So yes, Oklahoma plans to suffocate its prisoners.

147
freetoken  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:39:35am

Bigot’s always seem to play stupid when caught:

Ryan Zinke Defends ‘Konnichiwa’ Comment To Hawaii Congresswoman

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jeffreyw  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:39:55am

re: #136 ObserverArt

Morning…I think.

Uh, I have to stop watching Sunday political TV.

It is not good for the heart, or the head, or really anything.

I did hear a local Republican talking head say the young student activist “17 minute Demonstration” was a great way to get out of class and that is why it was so popular. And then the leftist liberal news media turned it into some kind of big thing. And he worries that “dark money” is being funneled to these kids and it is all driven by far left liberals and Democrats using these traumatised kids.

Ooga-Booga! Dark Money.

Can someone make the bad manmen go away???

The best way to find out who is benefitting from dark money is to propose a ban on dark money.

149
JordanRules  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:40:29am

Stephen Miller still seats right at the seats of power performing quietly and dangerously. He needs some exposure focused on him.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:40:36am

re: #147 freetoken

Bigot’s always seem to play stupid when caught:

Ryan Zinke Defends ‘Konnichiwa’ Comment To Hawaii Congresswoman

He’s an ass.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:41:12am

re: #149 JordanRules

Stephen Miller still seats right at the seats of power performing quietly and dangerously. He needs some exposure focused on him.

He may be worse than Bannon simply because he’s so damn young and while I can’t ever see him as an elected official, he could be something much worse.

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Renaissance_Man  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:41:33am

re: #133 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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I disagree, Ari. There is only impulse. He is only repeating what FOX and Friends said this morning - no plan, no artifice.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:41:42am

re: #150 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

He’s an ass.

It was a joke!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:43:12am

re: #153 Eclectic Cyborg

It was a joke!

Why you libtards so sensitive. //

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:43:54am

re: #142 Unshaken Defiance

Ever wonder what all is going on in search algorithms? Anyway this morning Spotify recommends for me “Leftover Salmon” and “Walter Trout”. Not even the same genre lol. It’s cool that I live kinda near the coast, and I do enjoy my music and good fish for dinner…

“You can tune a piano, but….”

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JordanRules  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:44:32am

re: #151 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

He may be worse than Bannon simply because he’s so damn young and while I can’t ever see him as an elected official, he could be something much worse.

Right! And I’m sure he is still representing the Bannon/Mercer wing.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:45:11am

re: #156 JordanRules

Right! And I’m sure he is still representing the Bannon/Mercer wing.

The guy is literally Richard Spencer’s understudy and he’s a key voice in the WH.

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:46:53am

re: #139 Belafon

They could start finding jobs at Walmart and McDonald’s off in middle America. No one will know their names there, and you can make a living on those jobs according to their bosses.

And there should be lots of openings now that all the illegals are gone//////

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:47:12am

re: #146 freetoken

I see that various news outlets are stumbling over themselves trying to describe Oklahoma’s new death-sentence method of execution.

Mostly, “nitrogen” is not being described as easily as it could be.

I guess story writers don’t want to mention that about 78% of the air you breathe is Nitrogen.

Anyway, it’s fairly simple to remove oxygen from some air from our atmosphere, and you’re left with mostly nitrogen and a bit of argon.

So yes, Oklahoma plans to suffocate its prisoners.

Oh hell no. What I notice is that with perfect consistency the states reject using any euphoric or anesthesia to go for anything resembling a kinder forced exit from life. Down there in the mental dna so tp speak is a desire to do great harm rather than show 60 seconds of mercy.

It’s not just that the death penalty is wrong, it’s that it most illustrates what’s wrong with our justice system.

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ObserverArt  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:47:18am

You wanna watch some slick political BS? Watch this bit with House Investigator Mike Conaway bob ‘n’ weave with Chuckless Todd on MTP today.

The Republicans are getting far too good with slinging meaningless answers and dodging the questions with unfamiliarity with everything they are “investigating.” I guess all they do anymore is practice, so no surprise it is all so slick.

And if you don’t want to watch…I understand.

Iframe

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:51:42am

re: #152 Renaissance_Man

I disagree, Ari. There is only impulse. He is only repeating what FOX and Friends said this morning - no plan, no artifice.

Trump is not Machiavelli
Heck he’s not even wile e coyote

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:52:44am

re: #142 Unshaken Defiance

Ever wonder what all is going on in search algorithms? Anyway this morning Spotify recommends for me “Leftover Salmon” and “Walter Trout”. Not even the same genre lol. It’s cool that I live kinda near the coast, and I do enjoy my music and good fish for dinner…

I’ve gotten a better grasp at it, based on my study of machine learning. It uses a whole lot of other people’s lists to compile what people listen to so that, if you’re listening to the same music, you might be interested in people’s other choices. But, musical choice isn’t a precise thing. I don’t choose to listen to Disturbed and the Cocteau Twins because I’ve evaluated their quality. I just like listening to them at times.

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:53:29am

re: #155 Barefoot Grin

“You can tune a piano, but….”

On which album is the “unidentified flying tuna trot”
(No link, on a phone)

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:54:18am

re: #116 The Vicious Babushka

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:55:36am

re: #162 Belafon

I should mention Spotify has been uncannily accurate at times showing me music I had overlooked on my own.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:59:02am

re: #134 Unshaken Defiance

Kinda related from the LA Times today

Sounds like NASA from the Cold War, when the department had money and a race to compete in.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2018 • 8:59:47am

re: #116 The Vicious Babushka

JFC the “Turnspeak” is strong on Dear Leader Network

FC the “Turnspeak” is strong on Dear Leader Network

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The question is: When was Gingrich compromised by the Russians? Or did he join the Russians willingly once they became a white supremacist homophobic oligarchy? Gingrich clearly continues to spread poison to our body politic. I believe he is the major source of dishonesty infecting my brother.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:00:52am

re: #146 freetoken

I see that various news outlets are stumbling over themselves trying to describe Oklahoma’s new death-sentence method of execution.

Mostly, “nitrogen” is not being described as easily as it could be.

I guess story writers don’t want to mention that about 78% of the air you breathe is Nitrogen.

Anyway, it’s fairly simple to remove oxygen from some air from our atmosphere, and you’re left with mostly nitrogen and a bit of argon.

So yes, Oklahoma plans to suffocate its prisoners.

The argument goes that the reason suffocation is panic-inducing and such is from carbon dioxide rising when suffocated.

Nitrogen gas is inert, and withdrawing oxygen from the air means the body will produce no carbon dioxide.

This method has been used on animals before, so there is basis for the claim.

It is argued as less cruel than previous gas chamber methods used by states like California and Missouri with hydrogen cyanide.

That said, I would rather just abolish the death penalty entirely. (We managed to do that here until our state governor personally funded a referendum to get it on the ballot and paid for advertising. It was voted back in after the Unicameral voted it out.)

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ObserverArt  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:01:20am

re: #164 Joe Bacon 🌹

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And even Newt’s ownself was repelled. Poor Newt.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:02:17am

re: #165 Unshaken Defiance

I should mention Spotify has been uncannily accurate at times showing me music I had overlooked on my own.

I understand. I suspect there are other people who listen to Disturbed and the Cocteau Twins. Humans aren’t as unique in individual choices as we think we are. What makes me unique is that I like those, and Fig Newtons, the Coconut Cream Pie Shake at Sonic, Adventure Time, ham and pineapple pizza, studying machine learning, and commenting on Little Green Footballs.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:03:08am

re: #167 Hecuba’s daughter

There is no doubt that Putin has kompromat on Tooty Fruity Newty!

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:04:31am

re: #167 Hecuba’s daughter

The question is: When was Gingrich compromised by the Russians? Or did he join the Russians willingly once they became a white supremacist homophobic oligarchy? Gingrich clearly continues to spread poison to our body politic. I believe he is the major source of dishonesty infecting my brother.

Gingrich has done an incredible amount of damage to our body politic. Whenever an ill wind blows it seems that Gingrich is farting with his hyper partisan attacks.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:05:51am

re: #170 Belafon

I understand. I suspect there are other people who listen to Disturbed and the Cocteau Twins. Humans aren’t as unique in individual choices as we think we are. What makes me unique is that I like those, and Fig Newtons, the Coconut Cream Pie Shake at Sonic, Adventure Time, ham and pineapple pizza, studying machine learning, and commenting on Little Green Footballs.

Oh, now you threw down the gauntlet with the pineapple and ham.

So a list of people saying what makes them unique?

I like pineapple and ham on pizza too, because I am a heretic. I never heard of the Cocteau Twins, but like Disturbed and Yes. I despise Fig Newtons and all Sonic shakes. Don’t know what Adventure Time is, am not a fan of machine learning, I comment here and non-comment at Wonkette, and enjoy reading science fiction and romance novels.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:08:28am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹

Oh, now you threw down the gauntlet with the pineapple and ham.

So a list of people saying what makes them unique?

I like pineapple and ham on pizza too, because I am a heretic. I never heard of the Cocteau Twins, but like Disturbed and Yes. I despise Fig Newtons and all Sonic shakes. Don’t know what Adventure Time is, am not a fan of machine learning, I comment here and non-comment at Wonkette, and enjoy reading science fiction and romance novels.

:)

I’ve seen people get quite upset when you lump them in with others. Or, to put it in terms of statistics, how a small sample of the US population can predict what the whole population will do. They think they’re unique and can’t be modeled, or coerced or swindled.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:10:06am

Hey folks! Look at the latest from Amazon!

The KNOW YOUR DEPLORABLES Playing Card set!

amazon.com

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sagehen  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:12:07am

re: #97 wheat-dogg

The smartest people are the ones who refused any job offered them in the Trump Shite House. The rest may need to change their names and obfuscate their work history once they leave.

“I have a question about your resume. This 2-year blank in your work history…”
“I was in prison.”
“Really? I’d heard you worked for the Trump Administration as…”
“No. That must be someone else with a similar name. I was in prison.”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:20:08am

re: #160 ObserverArt

You wanna watch some slick political BS? Watch this bit with House Investigator Mike Conway bob ‘n’ weave with Chuckless Todd on MTP today.

The Republicans are getting far too good with slinging meaningless answers and dodging the questions with unfamiliarity with everything they are “investigating.” I guess all they do anymore is practice, so no surprise it is all so slick.

And if you don’t want to watch…I understand.

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You’d think Chuck U would have gotten a spine after being attacked by Orange Foolius, nope—continuing the standard operating procedure of Press the Meat!

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:25:59am

re: #175 Joe Bacon 🌹

Hey folks! Look at the latest from Amazon!

The KNOW YOUR DEPLORABLES Playing Card set!

[Embedded content]

amazon.com

Needs a basket.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:29:24am

re: #174 Belafon

:)

I’ve seen people get quite upset when you lump them in with others. Or, to put it in terms of statistics, how a small sample of the US population can predict what the whole population will do. They think they’re unique and can’t be modeled, or coerced or swindled.

Yup, hence the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook flappadoodle going on right now, or “targeted advertising.” They work precisely on modeling groups of people.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:32:00am

re: #177 Joe Bacon 🌹

You’d think Chuck U would have gotten a spine after being attacked by Orange Foolius, nope—continuing the standard operating procedure of Press the Meat!

Todd was never meant to be an interviewer. He’s not quick enough on his feet. I wouldn’t be very good at it either.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:32:37am

re: #144 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)

Well that but more so the party apparatus even without Trump still thinks and is filled with people who enabled his rise.

oddly enough, the GOP seems to be full of people who do not necessarily support him, but still enabled him because they saw it in their own interest.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:36:07am
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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:36:15am

re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

oddly enough, the GOP seems to be full of people who do not necessarily support him, but still enabled him because they saw it in their own interest.

Whatever else it presents itself as, conservatism is about gaining and maintaining power. Hence the reason that so many conservatives metaphorically stab each other in the back and step over their smoking hole of a political career.

It is also why they can’t seem to get much done when they run a government. That’s the reason Nancy Pelosi could get things done that benefited both liberals and conservatives in the US House, but John Boehner threw up his hands and quit.

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:39:11am

Mr. ‘tubeless road bike tires’ just called to see if we’re still on for noon that he can pick up his bike. I said, ‘Sure. But you may have a tube in the rear tire.’ He’s OK with that. Said to try a different valve, since the tires are new. I will take it apart and look for a reason it won’t seal (the front one sealed on the first try) and put a tube in it.

Swearing at it didn’t help. Maybe if I could swear in Italian. The tires have an Italian name, but probably made in Taiwan, where the maker is based.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:40:19am
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ObserverArt  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:40:57am

re: #180 Belafon

Todd was never meant to be an interviewer. He’s not quick enough on his feet. I wouldn’t be very good at it either.

The thing is the interviewer may not factor in that much anymore, good or bad. All you are going to get are practiced talking points and dodges like you saw in that Meet the Press interview with Conaway. No Republican is going to tell you anything close to the truth.

What a perfect name. Con -A- Way. And he did.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:42:53am

re: #159 Unshaken Defiance

Oh hell no. What I notice is that with perfect consistency the states reject using any euphoric or anesthesia to go for anything resembling a kinder forced exit from life. Down there in the mental dna so tp speak is a desire to do great harm rather than show 60 seconds of mercy.

It’s not just that the death penalty is wrong, it’s that it most illustrates what’s wrong with our justice system.

This is especially true when someone like Trump is in charge. Remember—he wanted to execute the Central Park Five and did not retract his statements even after it was proven they were innocent. Unless the Trump and the Republican party are taken down, we are likely to lose what remnants we have of democracy and justice in this nation.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:44:12am
189
jaunte  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:53:23am

All of a sudden, there was drilling, drilling. … You heard the drilling in the middle of night,” said one of the rent-regulated tenants, Mary Ann Siwek, 67, who lives on Social Security payments and odd jobs. “There were rats coming in from the abandoned building next door. The hallways were always filled with lumber and sawdust and plaster.”

A knock on the door came a few weeks later, and an offer of at least $10,000 if she agreed to leave the building.

“I know it’s pretty horrible, but we can help you get out,” Siwek recalls the man saying. “We can offer you money.”

Siwek turned down the cash and sued instead. She said she won a year’s worth of free rent and a new refrigerator.

New York City Council member Ritchie Torres, who plans to launch an investigation into permit applications, said: “The Kushners appear to be engaging in what I call the weaponization of construction.”

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:58:07am

re: #189 jaunte

And your father-in-law can’t pardon you, Jared.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2018 • 9:58:24am

re: #91 bill d. (b.d.)

I am seeing more GOP push back against Trump, on the Sunday shows, this morning than I ever had?

I know it is just talk but still…

Republicans talked against him after the Access Hollywood tape came out. It means nothing; they will all fall in line after their leader Putin tells them what to do.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:00:01am
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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:01:36am

kxly.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Superstore company Fred Meyer says it will stop selling guns and ammunition.

The Portland, Oregon,-based chain in an announcement Friday says it made the decision after evaluating customer preferences. The company has more than 130 stores in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska.

The company in a statement says the firearms category represents about $7 million annually of its revenue and sales are declining. It says it will phase out the sales of guns and ammunition, but didn’t give a timeline.

The company several weeks ago in response to last month’s high school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead said it would stop selling firearms to anyone under 21.

The company, a subsidiary of Kroger Co., had already stopped selling assault-style guns several years ago, except in Alaska.

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petesh  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:04:01am

re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth

On the one hand, I am glad to read this; on the other, I wouldn’t trust Boris Johnson as far as I could throw him, and he’s quite a bit bigger than me.

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:06:55am
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:08:00am

re: #195 jaunte

The circle is getting tighter.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:13:51am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:14:16am

Boris Johnson supported Brexit. That would suggest he was under Putin influence.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:16:56am

re: #198 Hecuba’s daughter

Boris Johnson supported Brexit. That would suggest he was under Putin influence.

Not necessarily. He could just be an idiot. I doubt the British that voted for Brexit were under Russian influence, unless you’re talking about general Cambridge Analytica influence.

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Mattand  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:20:42am

re: #180 Belafon

Remember when Chuckles interviewed Obama? I think it might have been his first week on the job.

Obama was talking about Iraq policy and about 5 minutes later, Todd says to him “So you haven’t mentioned Iraq at all.”

Todd treats every fucking interview like he’s recording a demo tape of Fox. I’m absolutely convinced he’s going to end up there sooner rather than later. It kill me every time Maddow talks about him like he’s some political genius.

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BigPapa  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:20:56am

It appears Sessions is lacking candor.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:23:57am

re: #199 Belafon

Not necessarily. He could just be an idiot. I doubt the British that voted for Brexit were under Russian influence, unless you’re talking about general Cambridge Analytica influence.

You are right — this may be just like many of those who voted for Trump here. They were influenced by the Russian propaganda not realizing the source of the disinformation campaign. However, Johnson was a leading supporter of Brexit. Had the Russians started their campaign before he voiced his preferences?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:25:54am

from yesterday:

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ObserverArt  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:28:16am

re: #200 Mattand

Remember when Chuckles interviewed Obama? I think it might have been his first week on the job.

Obama was talking about Iraq policy and about 5 minutes later, Todd says to him “So you haven’t mentioned Iraq at all.”

Todd treats every fucking interview like he’s recording a demo tape of Fox. I’m absolutely convinced he’s going to end up there sooner rather than later. It kill me every time Maddow talks about him like he’s some political genius.

He is her boss in some ways. Chuck is the head of the NBC News Political Division. That’s why he gets MTP. I wish he was not.

I think a couple of other astute hires to replace Tweety Matthews and Chuck Todd and NBC and MSNBC would do better in ratings. Just my opinion.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:30:25am
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nines09  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:31:07am
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ObserverArt  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:31:48am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

from yesterday:

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I gotta keep giving these students props. They are taking all of the great protest leaders tricks to heart and using them to turn against those trying to tamp them down.

Making your detention punishment a further part of the protest is masterful. Dang youngsters got it going on. Makes you proud. Ghandi and MLK type proud.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:34:20am
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:35:47am

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

Amazon lists Comey’s book as a best seller and it has not been released.
amazon.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:39:33am
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Jay C  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:40:59am

re: #209 PhillyPretzel

Amazon lists Comey’s book as a best seller and it has not been released.
amazon.com

And probably real sales, too: likely not the usual Conservative Book Club mass-buy pump-and-dump to boost the numbers that wingers like to crow about.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:42:20am

re: #211 Jay C

I think I may pre-order it.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:43:56am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

Somehow, I don’t think the principal is going to get the effect he was wanting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:44:05am

re: #195 jaunte

In November 2017, Jeff Sessions testified that he pushed back on a proposal for the campaign to meet with the Russian govt.

Three sources told Reuters that it wasn’t true, and they’ve all spoken to Mueller about it

Seems that Mueller just has to collect enough sworn testimonies and masses of contradictions and inconsistencies will arise.

There is no way Trump could possibly testify without contradicting or perjuring himself at this point.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:45:39am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

46 of the Pennridge 225 served the first Saturday morning detention today. Pennridge students wore Parkland victims’ names and sat, arms linked, for the whole detention. A modern sit in.

Detention is eventually over. Being shot dead is forever.

no-brainer, there, guys

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bill d. (b.d.)  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:46:27am

re: #195 jaunte

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Trump is going to pardon everyone except for Sessions.

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:47:13am

re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Hot dogs are the BEST sandwiches.]

I had the best hot dog ever, last week.

One leftover jack cheese/green chile biscuit (I made them the night before), fillet the hot dog to fit, mayo on both sides. So good, I had the same thing the next night.

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:52:53am

Mr. ‘tubeless tires on his road bike’ is going to see one of the local attractions, and I have 3 or 4 hours to clean all the sealer off of everything. Won’t need all those hours. It can dry before reassembly. He and the group he is touring with are taking off tomorrow. Yes, he is ‘touring’ on the world’s stupidest tire configuration. He has admitted that he is ‘not a cyclist’. Those people think they are getting the best when they pay the most, when actually, sometimes they are getting the unproven technology of the ‘latest and greatest’.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:58:03am
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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:58:30am

re: #159 Unshaken Defiance

One state permits execution with opioids: Ohio …

In 2009, Ohio approved the use of an intramuscular injection of 500 mg of hydromorphone (a 333-fold overdose for an opioid-naïve patient of this narcotic analgesic closely related to and five times stronger than morphine; this is the equivalent of an entire 50-ml bottle of Dilaudid HP, the most powerful commercially available form, although the advantage of hydromorphone is its very high solubility allowing for solutions of almost arbitrary concentration; 500 mg of hydromorphone HCl as pure powder can be dissolved in isotonic saline in volumes as small as under 2 cc) and a supratherapeutic dose of midazolam as a backup means of carrying out executions when a suitable vein cannot be found for intravenous injection

en.wikipedia.org

That said, every method of “humane” execution proposed is pretty-much described that way by conservatives to try to win liberals over to the idea. Conservatives don’t seem to get that liberals are opposed to the concept, not the method.

When Nebraska was mulling repeal of the death penalty, my wife wrote to our state senator arguing for abolition (and she’s hardly a liberal) for fiscal reasons. Ultimately, the Unicameral passed the bill, Gov. Heineman vetoed it, the Unicameral overrode the veto.

Then our new hedge-fund governor Pete Ricketts financed the referendum to abolish the bill, using the typical tried-and-true method to drive conservatives to the polls: Fear.

People will break out of prison and murder your babies and daughters!!!

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Skip Intro  Mar 18, 2018 • 10:59:24am

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:04:02am

re: #221 Skip Intro

Don’t you mean “No hiring permitted for anyone with a moral compass” ?

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:05:08am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹

Yup, hence the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook flappadoodle going on right now, or “targeted advertising.” They work precisely on modeling groups of people.

Else why would anybody pay them anything at all

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:08:18am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:08:31am

Rob’s cartoon was censored but he put it on Facebook!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:10:07am

re: #225 Joe Bacon 🌹

heh…the storm cloud full of boobs (official name is mammatus clouds) is a nice touch.

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stpaulbear  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:10:27am

re: #111 makeitstop

The Guardian is going after Cambridge Analytica hammer and tongs. Good.

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I just kicked in $25 to The Guardian. I might have to make it a regular subscription along with my WaPo subscription. Right now, they’re doing better investigative work than the NYT (whom I’m not giving any money).

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:10:44am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

from yesterday:

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:12:18am

According to a BBC Breaking News alert I just received, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been re-elected* with 73.9% of the vote.

*as if there was any doubt, amirite?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:14:27am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:16:03am

re: #229 Dr Lizardo

According to a BBC Breaking News alert I just received, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been re-elected* with 73.9% of the vote.

*as if there was any doubt, amirite?

And I bet he got all the electoral votes as well!

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:19:00am

re: #227 stpaulbear

I just kicked in $25 to The Guardian. I might have to make it a regular subscription along with my WaPo subscription. Right now, they’re doing better investigative work than the NYT (whom I’m not giving any money).

I subscribe through Amazon. ($10/month). Worth it, in my view.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:19:01am
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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:19:24am

re: #231 Joe Bacon 🌹

And I bet he got all the electoral votes as well!

Putin won because Hillary ran a terrible campaign.

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Anymouse 🌹  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:21:02am
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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:22:35am

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹

One state permits execution with opioids: Ohio …

en.wikipedia.org.

Then our new hedge-fund governor Pete Ricketts financed the referendum to abolish the bill, using the typical tried-and-true method to drive conservatives to the polls: Fear.

People will break out of prison and murder your babies and daughters!!!

So he’s admitting his prison system sux

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dangerman  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:25:27am

re: #229 Dr Lizardo

According to a BBC Breaking News alert I just received, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been re-elected* with 73.9% of the vote.

*as if there was any doubt, amirite?

“Only” 73? Sad

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:26:48am

So now I have time to share a more personal ‘inflation’ problem. I spent 5 or six hours in the ER on Friday evening/Saturday morning. I had fainted twice for an unknown reason, and got hauled in by ambulance to check out the possibilities.

They rigged an IV before we even left the driveway. The first attempt, by a more ‘junior’ member of the crew, failed to secure a vein. Second guy got it. He asked me if I was the lady with the bikeshop. I said yes. He said, ‘I used to go in there when I was a kid, which wasn’t all that long ago.’ I said, ‘I hope I was nice to you.’ He said, ‘Have people been saying that you aren’t nice?’ I said, ‘No, I’m just hoping that you’ll be nice to me now, in return.’ He said, ‘Hey. I got the IV started!’

The older, more supervisory-looking guy asked if I was the one who was hit at [names the intersection]. I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘I’ve catheterized you before’ [peripheral venous catheter, not that other kind]. I said, ‘Thanks!’ Then the guys discussed those other people who were hit at that location at other times.

They started a liter of ‘fluids’ in the ambulance. because dehydration was suspected as the cause before we even left the house. Somebody said, ‘We’re going to get some fluids in you, and take you in to check out the other possibilities.’ I pointed to my glass of water, and he said, ‘I think you know what I mean.’ I didn’t yet, but I figured it out soon enough.

I had scans, and blood drawn a few time to check various things, and another liter of fluids started when the first one was done. The big nurse came in and said, ‘Your potassium is low.’ I asked, ‘Is that one of those electrolytes?’ [I know it is, I sell those things for people who like to sweat.] He said ‘No, it’s just these pills. Jeez, these must be the biggest pills we have!’ I took two, and finished the water, and he came right back with a bottle of gatorade. Then they started a third liter in my arm. The PA was starting to think that dehydration was the only problem. She asked me if I wanted to stay for more observation, or go home. I said, ‘I’d like to have all these things unplugged and be able to roll over in my own bed.’

I did pee in the nearest restroom before I left. Three liters will do that.

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ObserverArt  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:27:16am

re: #213 Belafon

Somehow, I don’t think the principal is going to get the effect he was wanting.

And the kids got theirs.

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The Major  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:27:39am

re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth

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ObserverArt  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:30:19am

re: #218 wrenchwench

Mr. ‘tubeless tires on his road bike’ is going to see one of the local attractions, and I have 3 or 4 hours to clean all the sealer off of everything. Won’t need all those hours. It can dry before reassembly. He and the group he is touring with are taking off tomorrow. Yes, he is ‘touring’ on the world’s stupidest tire configuration. He has admitted that he is ‘not a cyclist’. Those people think they are getting the best when they pay the most, when actually, sometimes they are getting the unproven technology of the ‘latest and greatest’.

If I had a bike and lived in New Mexico…you’d be my mechanic. You know your stuff wrench. And yer honest and tell the truth.

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:33:01am

re: #241 ObserverArt

If I had a bike and lived in New Mexico…you’d be my mechanic. You know your stuff wrench. And yer honest and tell the truth.

People ride their bike across many states just to let me work on them! Or so it seems.

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ObserverArt  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:34:07am

re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth

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What a handsome doggo. Just beautiful eyes to go with his coloring.

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nines09  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:34:40am

re: #238 wrenchwench

Do I have to be the one to say it? DRINK MORE. You must always have your Four Corners Hydration Kit with you.

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ObserverArt  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:35:31am

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh…the storm cloud full of boobs (official name is mammatus clouds) is a nice touch.

Damn weather nerd jokes!

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:36:47am

re: #244 nines09

Do I have to be the one to say it? DRINK MORE. You must always have your Four Corners Hydration Kit with you.

I’m behind schedule already. Off to grab my bottle and finish the bike! Thanks for the reminder!

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nines09  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:40:20am

re: #246 wrenchwench

Keep a few lemons and limes around to cut a slice from and squeeze into a glass and then pour some aqua from your Four Corners Hydration Kit into it. Keeps it flowing. Oranges too. I hardly ever have water without lemon anymore.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:51:12am

re: #206 nines09

i wrote a quick thing about elderly women in Japan shoplifting so they can go to prison. check out the great bloomberg piece it’s based off of:

I used to joke about the “Magnum Lotto” pension system: buy a lottery ticket each week until you retire, and if you haven’t won by then, buy a .44 Magnum and knock off a bank. Even if you get caught, you are set up with a roof over your head, warm meals and medical care for the rest of your days.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:54:38am

re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth

pangolin nipples

please put a warning on this: some of us were not ready for it!

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2018 • 11:56:52am

re: #247 nines09

‘Four Corners Hydration Kit’ I googled it. got lots of hydration kits, but none with that name. What is it?

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sagehen  Mar 18, 2018 • 12:12:00pm

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lena Waithe (Chicago native, writer/producer of The Chi) was on some talk shows this week… insisted that what New Yorkers calls pizza is really just cheese bread.

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nines09  Mar 18, 2018 • 12:16:18pm

re: #250 wrenchwench

My bad. Sorry for any confusion. Where the 4 states meet, the “4 corners”…..I was alluding to high and low arid regions with the wicking ability to dry you out fast. You know how quick you can dry out where you are. You are one of those states. When I visit Colorado I am never without a water bottle. Or two. Or beer. Because…
So my skewed sense of humor was saying DRINK MORE and pack your water while sitting or traveling.
There is no “Four Corners Hydration Kit”.
Unless you got a few hundred grand and we can do a startup…

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nines09  Mar 18, 2018 • 12:18:32pm

re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Depending on the wall you are behind……
But I hear you.

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2018 • 12:36:25pm

re: #252 nines09

My bad. Sorry for any confusion. Where the 4 states meet, the “4 corners”…..I was alluding to high and low arid regions with the wicking ability to dry you out fast. You know how quick you can dry out where you are. You are one of those states. When I visit Colorado I am never without a water bottle. Or two. Or beer. Because…
So my skewed sense of humor was saying DRINK MORE and pack your water while sitting or traveling.
There is no “Four Corners Hydration Kit”.
Unless you got a few hundred grand and we can do a startup…

Been there. It’s actually not in the US. It is in the Navajo Nation. Is that irony, or just wrong?

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nines09  Mar 18, 2018 • 12:42:33pm

re: #254 wrenchwench

It’s a crazy history there. Ute and Navajo and US. And almost Confederates.


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