Monday Night Jam: Jenny and the Mexicats, on NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts

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March 26, 2018 | Felix Contreras — Jenny and the Mexicats is a discovery from South by Southwest a few years ago that I haven’t been able to get out of my mind, and with good reason: The band’s high energy shows are unforgettable, as is its sound. Mixing flamenco, originally from southern Spain, with Jenny Ball’s jazz trumpet background and a little bit of cumbia has created their one-of-a-kind musical identity.

The grooves these musicians create can be frenetic (as in the first performance here, “Frenético Ritmo”) or slow and luxurious (“The Song for the UV Mouse House”). In both cases, the group presents the perfect cushion for Ball’s impassioned singing and engaging stage presence. There are no weak points in the instrumentation, and with Ball out front, the songs come to life as the short stories they are — like that of the young lady who appreciates a beer before taking on life’s challenges in “Verde Más Allá.”

Watching this performance, it’s easy to see why Jenny and the Mexicats is picking up new fans as the group travels the world spreading its good cheer. The musicians bring their festival circuit-level performance down to almost a whisper here, but the intensity of their playing remains. After watching, perhaps you’ll end up like me, with their names permanently entered in your mental Rolodex.

Set List

“Frenético Ritmo”
“The Song for the UV House Mouse”
“Verde Más Allá”

CREDITS
Producers: Felix Contreras, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Maia Stern, Beck Harlan, Dani Lyman; Production Assistants: Joshua Bote, Molly Stofko; Photo: Jenna Sterner/NPR.

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jaunte  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:00:10pm
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HappyWarrior  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:03:54pm

re: #1 jaunte

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Ha!

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Kragar  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:04:17pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:05:24pm

politico.com

Politico warned last year about the upcoming Sinclair issue.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:06:24pm

Left hanging on the previous thread:

re: #73 Brian J.

Sadly, that’s why I expect all these teachers’ strikes to come to nothing. Their students’ parents, and indeed most of the teachers, are too afraid of the black and the brown and the “librul” to ever support education.

And yet, the teachers’ strikes have support from the parents, who are also coming out to picket.

We’ll have to see, but strikes are one of the few tools you can use to get the attention of a business or government.

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JordanRules  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:09:40pm
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ObserverArt  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:10:46pm

Good tunes again tonight Charles. I really enjoyed that.

Of course, it is real easy to watch Jenny. She is attractive and her expressive movements add to her vocal expressions. And the band is good; love the instruments used in the band. Adds some jazz elements to the Mexican/Spanish themes.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:11:18pm

Breast Cancer and Screening Info Removed from the Government’s Health Department Website (goes to Daily Kos, more at the link):

A variety of important information about breast cancer and breast cancer screenings has gone missing from the Department of Health and Human Services women’s health website. The Sunlight Foundation tracks changes to government sites and they published a report on the now-vanished information.

The “Breast Cancer” website and related pages were removed from within the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office on Women’s Health (OWH) website. While content about mammogram breast cancer screening remains, informational pages and factsheets about the disease, including symptoms, treatment, risk factors, and public no- or low-cost cancer screening programs, have been entirely removed and are no longer found elsewhere on the OWH site. Among the material removed is information about provisions of the Affordable Care Act that require coverage of no-cost breast cancer screenings for certain women, as well as links to a free cancer screening program administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The office did not proactively announce or explain the removals.

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JordanRules  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:11:57pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:14:56pm

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹

Breast Cancer and Screening Info Removed from the Government’s Health Department Website (goes to Daily Kos, more at the link):

What war on women?

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jaunte  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:15:06pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:19:25pm
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ObserverArt  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:20:11pm

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

What war on women?

Trump prefers women that do not get breast cancer just like soldiers that do not become prisoners.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:26:46pm

re: #5 Anymouse 🌹

Left hanging on the previous thread:

And yet, the teachers’ strikes have support from the parents, who are also coming out to picket.

We’ll have to see, but strikes are one of the few tools you can use to get the attention of a business or government.

My great grandfather Bacon was active in the Socialist Party after he was kicked out of his government job in 1910. He was involved with the IWW, believed the only way to get a fair deal from the rich was for the masses to simply shut down the system and stay out until the rich got pinched. Grandma Bacon still had his IWW organizing book when I lived with her in the 1980s and it was just amazing to read…ol’ Joe Hill and Big Bill Hayward would love what these teachers are finally doing!

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:31:12pm

Fake state rep still going strong… . Wonkette piled on to flag the account up and Twitter non-Safety doesn’t care … imitating a state rep, targeted harassment, doesn’t matter as long as libertarians can make money off it.

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teleskiguy  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:33:54pm

Dude, holy shit.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:37:17pm

Aaand, now they are promoting a hashtag for the fake state rep “StoverStrong”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:37:28pm

re: #15 Anymouse 🌹

Fake state rep still going strong… . Wonkette piled on to flag the account up and Twitter non-Safety doesn’t care … imitating a state rep, targeted harassment, doesn’t matter as long as libertarians can make money off it.

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Really ticks me off. I report, report, report these thugs and Twitter gives pass after pass after pass after pass…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:53:52pm

re: #18 Joe Bacon 🌹

Really ticks me off. I report, report, report these thugs and Twitter gives pass after pass after pass after pass…

This is why I just deactivated my accounts. I just can’t anymore.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 9:57:51pm

Jill McCabe: The President Attacked My Reputation. It’s Time to Set the Record Straight. (opinion piece in the Washington Post, the lede below, the whole article is good)

I am an emergency room pediatrician and an accidental politician — someone who never thought much about politics until I was recruited to run for state office after making a statement about the importance of expanding Medicaid. That decision — plus some twisted reporting and presidential tweets — ended up costing my husband, Andrew, his job and our family a significant portion of his pension my husband had worked hard for over 21 years of federal service. For the past year and a half of this nightmare, I have not been free to speak out about what happened. Now that Andrew has been fired, I am.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 2, 2018 • 10:04:52pm

re: #20 Anymouse 🌹

Jill McCabe: The President Attacked My Reputation. It’s Time to Set the Record Straight. (opinion piece in the Washington Post, the lede below, the whole article is good)

I’ve said it before but I voted for her. She’s a great person and her opponent is a huge right wing kook.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 10:15:18pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 10:24:36pm

re: #20 Anymouse 🌹

I read the comments to her article and the trolls are making sure that the knives are out for her. Sickening…

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 10:24:40pm

Well, if Twitter isn’t going to remove that guy, at least people are trolling him:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 2, 2018 • 10:33:24pm

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 2, 2018 • 11:14:46pm

Off to watch Once Upon a Time on Hulu with my wife …

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piratedan  Apr 2, 2018 • 11:48:49pm

if we’re (by we’re, I’m referring to people who believe in the rule of law, psuedo christo-judeo morality and ethics, and a grounding in the belief of the ideals of America, opportunity, tolerance and hard work) able regain control ofbeleaguered country, I think about what a daunting task lies ahead (but not impossible since the GOP has handily identified what is really worth saving for us by trying to destroy it)

we have to get Citizen’s United overturned
we have to get foreign money out of our politics
we have to prosecute those that aided and abetted this travesty and if found guilty, we have to really drop the hammer, jail time, confiscation of ill gotten gains)
restore the ACA
restore the CSFB
restaff the government
make the emoluments clauses law
sanctify rules of fair governance (because the GOP obviously won’t observe them if they’re only “guidelines”)
settle immigration
install sensible gun control
re-institute FCC regs
kill gerrymandering
modify the electoral college to be more reflective of our nation
make the tax code more sensible in sharing the load proportionally
restore SEC sanity
Restore the EPA and national parks

there’s a LOT of work to do and I haven’t even touched on trying to seriously address our racism in the courts and the law enforcement system and will let the rest of you pile on to everything I’ve missed :-)

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wheat-dogg  Apr 2, 2018 • 11:50:59pm

re: #27 piratedan

Bernie can do it all!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 12:09:33am

I am thinking about all the things that would be involved in comprehensive and effective immigration reform and all the various hindrances to accomplishing them.

Some physical control of our borders is important, but the main goal is to remove or diminish the motivation for illegal immigration and to make it harder for undocumented aliens to establish themselves in our society once they are here.

We pride ourselves on being an open, unbureaucratic society where people do not need to register their addresses with the authorities or produce ID on demand. But the flip side of that is a fairly chaotic state compared to other countries when it comes to identifying one’s residence and work status.

So all we have now is a patchwork of statutes and regulations that are unevenly applied, and sometimes even inhumanely so. There is a lot of shouting and counter-shouting while the core problems go ignored.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 3, 2018 • 12:17:27am

Apparently somebody shook up the alt-right ant farm over at gab and now they’re fighting each other.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 12:22:34am

re: #30 goddamnedfrank

Apparently somebody shook up the alt-right ant farm over at gab and now they’re fighting each other.

“But I HATE Jews.” “But I hate JEWS.”

There is a right way to hate and an alt-right way to hate…

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 3, 2018 • 12:35:33am

re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is a right way to hate and an alt-right way to hate…

These people are basically just a bunch of unstable antisocial personality disorder particles that periodically exchange hate like it’s a gauge boson.

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Single-handed sailor  Apr 3, 2018 • 12:41:02am
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Barefoot Grin  Apr 3, 2018 • 12:41:24am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 12:42:43am

re: #34 Barefoot Grin

EPA abandons fuel mileage goals and seeks to revoke California’s ability to set its own standard

states’ rights?

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Kragar  Apr 3, 2018 • 12:55:39am
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Dave In Austin  Apr 3, 2018 • 2:55:12am
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LastYearsMan  Apr 3, 2018 • 2:56:37am

Anyone else feel like Trump acts like one of those Star Trek evil mirror universe people? Makes me wonder if there’s a kind, thoughtful Donnie out there somewhere, stuck in a dimension full of wicked goateed people.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 3, 2018 • 2:59:15am

re: #37 Dave In Austin

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I wonder how Steve King will pin this on Mexicans.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 3:01:17am

re: #38 LastYearsMan

Anyone else feel like Trump acts like one of those Star Trek evil mirror universe people? Makes me wonder if there’s a kind, thoughtful Donnie out there somewhere, stuck in a dimension full of wicked goateed people.

No, I believe he is Pure Evil in any known universe.

Brother-in-law had a band called Spock’s Beard.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 3, 2018 • 3:09:25am

His profile says “follow me on Gab”.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 3, 2018 • 3:13:10am

re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Brother-in-law had a band called Spock’s Beard.

These guys?
en.wikipedia.org

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 3:17:34am

ex-brother in law, yes

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 3, 2018 • 3:31:16am
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Dave In Austin  Apr 3, 2018 • 3:51:52am
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Barefoot Grin  Apr 3, 2018 • 4:03:37am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 4:04:52am

re: #46 Barefoot Grin

FLASHBACK: In 2004 Sinclair fired its Washington buro chief for disclosing to me his concerns of bias in documentary on John Kerry’s Vietnam service. That wasn’t all: Sinclair then challenged reporter’s unemployment benefits & forced him to repay them.

Yes, I read reports of how people who try to quit Sinclair in protest wind up forfeiting their outstanding salary.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 3, 2018 • 4:13:19am

re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, I read reports of how people who try to quit Sinclair in protest wind up forfeiting their outstanding salary.

I’ve seen a lot of “just change the channel” without understanding how poisonous this is.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 3, 2018 • 4:16:47am
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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2018 • 4:19:21am

re: #49 Ace-o-aces

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Rasmussen is as reliable in polling as Trump in honesty.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 4:19:45am

re: #48 Barefoot Grin

I’ve seen a lot of “just change the channel” without understanding how poisonous this is.

I do not get my news from television or any other video-based source unless I am watching footage of some dramatic event like a plane crash or fire, etc.

I have long made the point that especially video news is less there to inform us than it is to evoke a gut reaction.

I tried to explain that to a buddy who is always getting worked up over what he sees on TV and he found himself literally frothing at the mouth and pounding on the table, and still not getting the point I was trying to make,

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jeffreyw  Apr 3, 2018 • 4:55:55am

Imgur


Good morning!

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Dave In Austin  Apr 3, 2018 • 5:50:19am
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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 3, 2018 • 5:53:55am

re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

states’ rights?

What did the Confederate soldiers eat off of?

Civil Ware

What did they use to drink with?

Dixie Cups

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 5:55:25am

re: #54 Shropshire Slasher

What did the Confederate soldiers eat off of?

Civil Ware

What did they use to drink with?

Dixie Cups

And how were their children born?

C-cession!

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lawhawk  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:03:08am

re: #6 JordanRules

There’s a reason the bunny has that look on its face. /

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lawhawk  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:06:49am

re: #11 jaunte

Is that… gasp… a tan suit?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:07:42am

re: #57 lawhawk

Is that… gasp… a tan suit?

businessman gray

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lawhawk  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:07:45am

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

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:10:40am

re: #59 lawhawk

That you’re still considering a GOPer in light of their fecklessness and continued enabling of Trumpworld shows you’ve still got a ways to go.

They are not feckless, they just don’t give a feck.

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retired cynic  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:12:47am

re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They are not feckless, they just don’t give a feck.

Taking action to allow evil is evil, not feckless.

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retired cynic  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:16:06am

Missed this photo last Sunday:

apod.nasa.gov

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I cannot.  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:17:30am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:23:56am

re: #61 retired cynic

Taking action to allow evil is evil, not feckless.

They made a deal with the devil to get elected. The devil will call in his due soon enough.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:36:34am

re: #52 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Nice colors in that image Jeffrey.

Good to see since it is so dark and gloomy here in Ohio today. Crappy rain and storms moving through all day. Yuck.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:39:44am

Who knew that a zoo animal would get bobblehead status and be a star at her own special Cincinnati Reds Baseball game in June to celebrate her first birthday.

Fiona is a local celeb…maybe she’ll get to throw out the first pitch.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:40:25am

Oh wow, Zuckerberg actually cleans up after his own pet. I don’t know why he needs to hire a photographer. Amateur hour.

dailymail.co.uk

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meteor  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:42:34am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:49:45am

he likes the duck because it is wearing a dog mask on its beak

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lizardofid  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:50:37am

re: #68 meteor

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“I retrieved you this duck”

Oh, and good morning all!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:51:22am

re: #70 lizardofid

“I retrieved you this duck”

Oh, and good morning all!

I retrove this duck

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lizardofid  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:54:53am

re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

he likes the duck because it is wearing a dog mask on its beak

That has the feel of a punchline to an “a duck and a labrador retriever walk in to a bar” joke.

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:55:15am
Court filings have revealed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has even broader authority than the already extensive power granted by Rod Rosenstein to investigate the Trump campaign “and any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.” In an August 2, 2017 memo, Rosenstein gave the special counsel authority to investigate Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort for his efforts in the Ukraine, and his ongoing outreach to Russia.

Robert Mueller, the U.S. Justice Department’s special counsel, is specifically authorized to investigate allegations that Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, colluded with Russia to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, a court filing showed late on Monday.

They court documents also show that Mueller is specifically authorized to investigate Manafort’s ties to Ukraine’s former pro-Russia government.

Mueller was given explicit instructions to go after Manafort in addition to his investigating Trump.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:55:53am

re: #68 meteor

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Still a better sitcom than Young Sheldon.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 6:57:05am

re: #73 Belafon

Mueller was given explicit instructions to go after Manafort in addition to his investigating Trump.

D-d-d eep State! Oh wait, Rosenstein was a Trump appointee but facts don’t matter.

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William Lewis  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:15:32am

Well, I see that the SCOTUS has told the Police that they can shoot anyone with impunity.

The U.S. Supreme Court has again stepped into the bitter public turmoil over police shootings of civilians, ruling Monday that an Arizona police officer is shielded from being sued for shooting a woman in her own front yard.

The court said the officer acted reasonably, given that the woman, Amy Hughes, was carrying a large kitchen knife, that she was standing within striking distance of a woman who the officer did not know was Hughes’s roommate, and that Hughes failed to drop the knife when ordered to do so.

Police were called to the scene after a 911 call reported a woman hacking at a tree with a knife. Hughes fit the description of the woman. So when police spotted her with the knife in her hand, and within striking distance of another woman, all three officers on the scene drew their guns.

Three officers draw guns, but only one shoots

They said Hughes appeared calm, but when she failed to acknowledge the officers’ presence or their twice repeated order to drop the knife, one of the three officers opened fire.

Hughes, who sued for $150,000 in damages, is one of thousands of people shot by police who survive.

npr.org

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:17:15am

re: #76 William Lewis

Chalk up another one thanks to the Berniebros and Jillshills for letting Gorsuch on the Court.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:19:45am

re: #74 HappyWarrior

Still a better sitcom than Young Sheldon.

I have to admire Jim Parsons, he came up with that concept because he knows that he can never play any other role in his life because nobody will be able to see him as anything but Sheldon (one exception was his role in Hidden Figures, which only worked because he played a rocket scientist lacking in social skills, a sort of proto-Sheldon)

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danarchy  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:28:18am

re: #77 Joe Bacon 🌹

Chalk up another one thanks to the Berniebros and Jillshills for letting Gorsuch on the Court.

If it was a 5-4 decision you may have a point. It was not.

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lizardofid  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:31:56am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have to admire Jim Parsons, he came up with that concept because he knows that he can never play any other role in his life because nobody will be able to see him as anything but Sheldon (one exception was his role in Hidden Figures, which only worked because he played a rocket scientist lacking in social skills, a sort of proto-Sheldon)

Federation ambassador?

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bill d. (b.d.)  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:35:00am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have to admire Jim Parsons, he came up with that concept because he knows that he can never play any other role in his life because nobody will be able to see him as anything but Sheldon (one exception was his role in Hidden Figures, which only worked because he played a rocket scientist lacking in social skills, a sort of proto-Sheldon)

He could play Stephen Miller in the Trump impeachment and incarceration movie.

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JordanRules  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:36:53am
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danarchy  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:39:24am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have to admire Jim Parsons, he came up with that concept because he knows that he can never play any other role in his life because nobody will be able to see him as anything but Sheldon (one exception was his role in Hidden Figures, which only worked because he played a rocket scientist lacking in social skills, a sort of proto-Sheldon)

Luckily, at a million dollars per episode he is pretty much set for life and he will be getting residuals until the day he dies.

Also I think he does a lot of voice work in animated shows. Mark Hamill made a whole career out of that after Star Wars.

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JordanRules  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:40:14am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:42:00am

re: #83 danarchy

Luckily, at a million dollars per episode he is pretty much set for life and he will be getting residuals until the day he dies.

Also I think he does a lot of voice work in animated shows. Mark Hamill made a whole career out of that after Star Wars.

Yes, he is another case of someone who painted himself into a (comfortable) corner with a massively successful role

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JordanRules  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:45:55am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:48:03am
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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:51:01am

Surprise, surprise, the business class are starting to feel buyer’s remorse:

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:54:38am

re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

he likes the duck because it is wearing a dog mask on its beak

That dog mask has a special long nose to cover the duck’s beak.

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danarchy  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:55:14am

re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, he is another case of someone who painted himself into a (comfortable) corner with a massively successful role

Difference is Mark Hamill was never actually a really great actor and Parsons seems to have pretty good chops when given the opportunity.

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CongoJack  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:55:21am

re: #87 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

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The human-centipede trumpers - where tRump is the the 1st person in the line.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:55:23am

re: #88 Targetpractice

Surprise, surprise, the business class are starting to feel buyer’s remorse:

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For a bunch of people who consider themselves economically intellectually superior to us lay people, who would have guessed that the guy who ran with a protectionist platform would be bad for business?

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:55:52am

re: #91 CongoJack

The human-centipede trumpers - where tRump is the the 1st person in the line.

I wish I hadn’t seen that movie.

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:57:30am

re: #90 danarchy

Difference is Mark Hamill was never actually a really great actor and Parsons seems to have pretty good chops when given the opportunity.

He’s playing the prosecutor in a movie about Ted Bundy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:57:50am

re: #90 danarchy

Difference is Mark Hamill was never actually a really great actor and Parsons seems to have pretty good chops when given the opportunity.

Agreed. I’d love to see him in a role as different from Sheldon as possible, I bet he’d do a great job.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 7:58:01am
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Unshaken Defiance  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:00:16am

re: #82 JordanRules

Don’t want to sound EMP nutty but this kind of thing scares me. Feels like we are gonna take a big black eye. We are not taking this stuff nearly seriously enough. At least not the above board, non classified ISP-Host-Consumer chain. Pretty much a ton of outdated servers / server os, consumer complacency out there. The common hardware is pretty weak security wise.

I don’t trust the Trump admin to get this at all right. The huge ISP’s are all about stock projections. So they don’t want to pony up really secure modems for us all and it’s a big ask to tell homeowners to drop at least hundreds (my estimate just under 2k over a couple years, then low hundreds per year) or more into hardware firewalls with all the update features and processing power to not delay or buffer Netflix.

One simple note consumers can take advantage of-you can’t hack OFF. Modern power supplies tolerate it just fine, no need to leave it on 24/7

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:00:48am

re: #96 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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That will not be good for business. These people wound up at Sonic because they’re high.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:01:44am

re: #77 Joe Bacon 🌹

Chalk up another one thanks to the Berniebros and Jillshills for letting Gorsuch on the Court.

Most of those people are extremely ignorant of that Joe. Too many people think the President can do all and they do not consider anything else.

It is why we got Trump. He was going to Make America Great Again. He could fix all*

And a lot of people that abandoned Hillary didn’t think of things like a 20 to 30 Supreme Court appointment.

It all goes back to lack of understanding of civics, government and history.

*Yeah, he’s fixing it. Fixing it good.

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gwangung  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:02:23am

re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg

Agreed. I’d love to see him in a role as different from Sheldon as possible, I bet he’d do a great job.

He does a great job; he has great chops as an actor and regularly goes back to the stage.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:04:45am

The level of contrast is pretty damn shocking

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I cannot.  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:05:24am

By the way, the traffic weather for my commute home…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:06:41am

five minutes ago

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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:07:33am

re: #103 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

five minutes ago

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One thing I’m not clear on - this means he’ll be cooperating with Mueller?

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wheat-dogg  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:09:43am

re: #101 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Many countries manage to elect intelligent national leaders.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:11:14am

re: #105 wheat-dogg

Many countries manage to elect intelligent national leaders.

Most countries haven’t told their dummies that they’re the real smart people and should take control.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:12:01am

re: #105 wheat-dogg

Many countries manage to elect intelligent national leaders.

it helps if they start with an educated electorate

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:18:35am

re: #104 makeitstop

One thing I’m not clear on - this means he’ll be cooperating with Mueller?

I’m not sure he’s “cooperating”

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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:21:09am

re: #108 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I’m not sure he’s “cooperating”

I haven’t been clear on that at all. Maybe the sentence will be an indicator, a la Gates?

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wheat-dogg  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:22:02am

I’ve shared info about Naomi Wu, the flamboyant builder and coder in Shenzhen. She’s had several run ins with dudebros over the last few months, who have questioned whether she can actually make the stuff she shows in her YouTube videos, or even that she really exists.

Well, now Vice has stepped in it. According to Naomi and the story linked here, she told them certain personal questions were off limits during an interview, and they supposedly agreed to those terms. Then they went ahead and wrote about those details anyway.

She got pissed, and not only called them out on Twitter but then somehow doxxed Vice in one of her videos posted for her Patreon supporters. (I’m one.) So, what did Vice do? Demanded Patreon delete her campaign channel. It’s gone, and so is that income for her.

I’m not sure of all the details yet, but I doubt a male maker/coder would be treated so cavalierly by Vice.
nextshark.com

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Unshaken Defiance  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:22:35am

re: #96 FormerDirtDart

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MsJ  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:22:41am

re: #30 goddamnedfrank

Apparently somebody shook up the alt-right ant farm over at gab and now they’re fighting each other.

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You can google stuff on gab and then see it all.

All I can say is Yikes. What a sewer.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:24:06am

re: #104 makeitstop

One thing I’m not clear on - this means he’ll be cooperating with Mueller?

I don’t think so. He plead guilty and is going to take his lumps from what I understand. I guess he wants to protect his butt.

I think we would have heard if he was cutting a deal. That hasn’t happened from what I can tell.

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MsJ  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:24:11am

re: #37 Dave In Austin

@IowaPork be sure to tell your producers that things were different a few years ago. The pork vote is responsible for what happened this week. @realDonaldTrump #MAGA #porktariffs

On a positive note, pork will soon be around a buck a pound. Of course, many of those pork providers likely won’t be around next year so….

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TedStriker  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:26:05am

re: #68 meteor

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Goofy and Donald, for real.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:27:34am

re: #114 MsJ

On a positive note, pork will soon be around a buck a pound. Of course, many of those pork providers likely won’t be around next year so….

ah, the pork cycle in action

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Chrysicat  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:27:40am

re: #90 danarchy

Difference is Mark Hamill was never actually a really great actor and Parsons seems to have pretty good chops when given the opportunity.

Take that back and go watch Mark’s performance as the Joker in the ’90s Fox/WB series or the late-2000s video games.

It’s debatable that he doesn’t have the physical motions down for live-action work. It’s asinine to say he can’t act.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:30:54am

re: #114 MsJ

On a positive note, pork will soon be around a buck a pound. Of course, many of those pork providers likely won’t be around next year so….

Heard a bunch of farmers already complaining. The reports did not say who they voted for and support at this time.

The questions probably were not asked. Gee, I wonder why.

Maybe those two nitwits Diamond and Silk can tell the wingnuts why this is great. The other day they were blaming Hillary for allowing Russia to get uranium in the Uranium One deal and now Russia has nukes!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:32:01am

re: #96 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Hey Sonic! Hire Afroman to do your commercials!

Afroman - “Because I Got High” Positive Remix

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gwangung  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:33:25am

re: #117 Chrysicat

Take that back and go watch Mark’s performance as the Joker in the ’90s Fox/WB series or the late-2000s video games.

It’s debatable that he doesn’t have the physical motions down for live-action work. It’s asinine to say he can’t act.

I think he was miscast as a leading man/male ingenue type when he’s possibly better fit as a character actor type.

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MsJ  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:34:27am

re: #88 Targetpractice

Surprise, surprise, the business class are starting to feel buyer’s remorse:

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The WSJ still spouting bullshit.

“Mr. Trump risks undermining the policy gains from tax reform and deregulation that have teed up the economy for faster growth. That’s the anxiety investors are showing as they sell stocks. Is anyone in the White House paying attention?” the editorial board concluded.

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wheat-dogg  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:36:14am

Ah, I think I see the problem with the Naomi Wu piece.

But Wu’s form of activism can also be hostile and combative. She wields her impressive Twitter presence to confront people she disagrees with. I know this from personal experience, as Wu took issue with my reporting after I returned from China.

Wu told me she didn’t want to discuss her marital status, but before publishing the piece, I followed up with her. I hoped to discuss the Reddit conspiracy theory that claimed someone she’s in a relationship with was behind her work. Wu has spent significant energy proving these conspiracy theories false, and shutting down this harassment has inspired other women who have faced similar treatment online.

“Do you actually have time to hop on Skype to go over the Reddit conspiracy theory?” I wrote. “It would be really helpful [to] address these allegations. I saw that video where you say you’re [name redacted’s] wife—and I’d like to discuss the unfairness of assuming a woman receives help, just because her partner works/worked in a similar industry. If you don’t want to discuss this at all, I understand and won’t push. I think the Reddit conspiracy theory is vicious, but since this profile is long and comprehensive, I’d love to highlight your opinions about prototype bias, gender expectations, and racism as they relate to the rumor. Let me know how that sounds, and what you’re comfortable with.”

At the same time Wu responded to me, she started tweeting about VICE. Over the next several weeks, Wu publicly shopped our correspondence to journalists and tagged me, my former colleague, my editor, and VICE in dozens of tweets; her followers sent me many more.

In emails, Wu accused me of blackmailing her and writing a “hit piece.” Without having seen the story, she wrote that if I published the article under my byline, VICE “will throw you to the wolves.”

motherboard.vice.com

The author of the Vice article is not a dudebro, but Sarah Emerson. I think she stepped in it big time with that marital status inquiry.

Naomi has contended for a while that she keeps her real identity obscure, because she’s afraid her freelance coding business will suffer if clients find out who she is. I’m not clear why she wants to keep her relationship a secret — most people in China assume she has a boyfriend — but it’s her choice. Vice could have respected that, and Naomi could have less of a powderkeg about it.

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MsJ  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:38:10am

re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

ah, the pork cycle in action

They need a new one, the Trump Model, where you randomly do shit that is against every common sense economical decision possible, resulting in a cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face downward spiral.

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:42:04am

re: #117 Chrysicat

You might want to check Danarchy’s #83.

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Jay C  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:45:51am

re: #88 Targetpractice

Surprise, surprise, the business class are starting to feel buyer’s remorse:

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Yeah, well, nope. I’m not overly impressed with the WSJ’s hand-wringing (or at least as the RawStory recap paints it) over Trump’s tariff BS - the “business class” are going to be just fine with a Trump/GOP regime for the same reasons they always have - as the article states, “taxes and deregulation”: and the universal acceptance of the fact that Republicans will reliably put the interests of Money (iow, their donor class) ahead of all other considerations.
Big Agriculture is a significant contribution bloc, though: I think it’s likely they will pressure the Admin - probably by distracting the Moron-in-Chief - to tread easy on the tariff pressure. One hopes.

Also, too: “$60 billion” as punitive tariffs on “intellectual property theft”? What is that? Pirated videos from Hong Kong and the like? ISTR that pushing to apply US regs re “IP” (among the most stringent in the world, IIRC) was one of the big components of the late lamented TPP negotiations (and one of the big reasons lefties bitched about it) - I have to wonder why Trump and gang think it will be easier to push the issue unilaterally.

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danarchy  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:47:50am

re: #117 Chrysicat

Take that back and go watch Mark’s performance as the Joker in the ’90s Fox/WB series or the late-2000s video games.

It’s debatable that he doesn’t have the physical motions down for live-action work. It’s asinine to say he can’t act.

He is a fantastic voice actor, The Killing Joke is probably one of the best movies DC has ever released in large part thanks to his performance. He is horrible when he is actually on screen. The latest star wars movie just reinforced that for me.

Animation work sort of lends itself to overacting. That same performance in live action would come across as utterly ridiculous.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:50:09am
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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:50:52am

re: #121 MsJ

The WSJ still spouting bullshit.

Live by the Populism, Die by the Populism

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wheat-dogg  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:54:25am

re: #126 danarchy

He is a fantastic voice actor, The Killing Joke is probably one of the best movies DC has ever released in large part thanks to his performance. He is horrible when he is actually on screen. The latest star wars movie just reinforced that for me.

Animation work sort of lends itself to overacting. That same performance in live action would come across as utterly ridiculous.

I wouldn’t say Hamill is horrible on screen, but not much better than he was in the original 1977 movie when he was just barely acceptable as an actor. His acting range is quite limited when he’s on camera. Somehow voice acting frees him from whatever gets in his way.

You can understand why Sir Alec Guinness had reservations about working with those kids in the first movie.

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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:57:11am

re: #127 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Lawyer charged with lying to Mueller team sentenced to 30 days in prison

30 days? He’s gotta be flipping. That’s less than a slap on the wrist.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:59:18am

re: #130 makeitstop

30 days? He’s gotta be flipping. That’s less than a slap on the wrist.

He was facing a max of six months. Don’t make to much of the 30 days
He was also fined $20,000

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 8:59:36am

re: #130 makeitstop

30 days? He’s gotta be flipping. That’s less than a slap on the wrist.

I hope so. The alternative is that lying to investigators isn’t a huge deal.
Of course, even 30 days in prison will screw up your life.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:00:17am
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piratedan  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:01:16am

re: #132 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I’d heard that this was a plea deal in return for cooperating with the investigation. Supposedly this is one of those dot connection flips that shows how the GOP campaign was working with people outside of the US in regards to the money angle…

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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:02:35am

re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

He was facing a max of six months. Don’t make to much of the 30 days
He was also fined $20,000

Good point. I saw that after posting.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:02:55am

re: #135 makeitstop

Good point. I saw that after posting.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:02:58am

re: #133 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Every state in the Union sent volunteers.

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Ferdinand  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:04:26am

Let’s remember this is the lawyer with the Russian oligarch father in law. So the unseen aspects of his case are likely the most significant.

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lawhawk  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:05:15am

re: #127 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

That’s a sign that he’s flipped. He’s also a minor player in all this, and may have provided information about lower tier figures in Trumpworld.

Get charged, cut a deal, and get convicted based on what he gives to Mueller that helps Mueller in the wide ranging investigation.

Expect Trump to note the short sentence as “proof” Mueller’s investigation is bull.

It’s anything but with all the people closer to Trump that have flipped or have been indicted: Flynn, Manafort, Gates, and Papadopoulos.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:05:20am

re: #134 piratedan

I’d heard that this was a plea deal in return for cooperating with the investigation. Supposedly this is one of those dot connection flips that shows how the GOP campaign was working with people outside of the US in regards to the money angle…

In that case I’m good with the 30 day sentence.

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freetoken  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:05:31am

re: #127 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

[…]

According to the indictment, Van der Zwaan lied about his contacts with Trump campaign official Richard Gates and a Ukraine-based business associate of both Gates and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He then tried to cover his tracks by deleting emails that the special counsel’s office had requested.

[…]

The London-based lawyer has no known ties to the Trump campaign, but in a court filing last week, prosecutors allege that Van Der Zwaan and Gates knowingly had discussions with Kilimnik during the final months of the election. Prosecutors said the communication “was pertinent to the investigation.”

[…]

Not to be too pedantic here, but I think the Hill author doesn’t really get what “no” and “known” really mean.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:06:50am

re: #130 makeitstop

30 days? He’s gotta be flipping. That’s less than a slap on the wrist.

It seems he has some kind of a deal with Mueller. It is more to protect Mueller’s investigation from what I can tell from this article. I guess he has info that can hurt the investigation if others get it. But I am not a lawyer and this all goes over my head. Maybe our lawyerly types can break this down.

Mueller Wants Shroud on Van Der Zwaan Records

WASHINGTON (CN) - In one of the cases being prosecuted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the government asked a federal judge Monday to uphold a provision of a plea agreement that limits public access to the records.

The request to the court came one day before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson will sentence Alex Van Der Zwaan, who pleaded guilty on Feb. 14 to lying to FBI agents about his contacts with former Trump campaign associate Rick Gates.

As part of his plea deal, Van Der Zwaan had agreed to waive his right to receive or request information from the government pertaining to its investigation or prosecution of the case under the Privacy and Freedom of Information Acts.

Justice Department attorney Andrew Weissmann noted in a 3-page filing late Monday morning that the waiver “serves manifold legitimate criminal-justice interests while minimally encumbering Van Der Zwaan’s rights for a period of limited duration.”

Among other things, Weissmann argued, the waiver would prevent Van Der Zwaan “from taking further actions that could interfere” with the special counsel’s work.

Special counsel Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, along with possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.

Weissman’s April 2 filing also expresses concern about the disclosure of nonpublic information that is part of the special counsel’s ongoing investigation.

“Van Der Zwaan is in an unusual position of having information related to the Office’s investigation that is not widely known - including information that he knows first-hand due to his role in the conduct the Office is investigating,” the filing says.

“And requests filed by someone with non-public information could, themselves, suggest to third parties investigative facts that are otherwise not widely know,” the filing continues.

Mueller’s team says Van Der Zwaan, 33, worked closely with Gates and former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort on a report commissioned by the Ukrainian government about the trial of Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister of Ukraine.

…more at link

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:07:16am

re: #136 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

[conspiracy theory hat]Sticking him in prison makes him an easy target.[/conspiracy theory hat]

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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:07:57am

re: #139 lawhawk

That’s a sign that he’s flipped. He’s also a minor player in all this, and may have provided information about lower tier figures in Trumpworld.

Get charged, cut a deal, and get convicted based on what he gives to Mueller that helps Mueller in the wide ranging investigation.

Expect Trump to note the short sentence as “proof” Mueller’s investigation is bull.

It’s anything but with all the people closer to Trump that have flipped or have been indicted: Flynn, Manafort, Gates, and Papadopoulos.

I saw somewhere the other day that this guy knew things that most targets of the investigation did not.

Hopefully he’ll provide testimony that will bring someone down hard. I’m guessing Jared.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:12:32am

re: #123 MsJ

They need a new one, the Trump Model, where you randomly do shit that is against every common sense economical decision possible, resulting in a cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face downward spiral.

where you think you can apply the business techniques that have made you a success in the real estate/money laundering industry and apply them to global economics?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:13:26am
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JordanRules  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:14:04am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:16:28am

re: #133 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Excellent thread here celebrating Southern military officers who chose to spend the Civil War fighting to save their country rather than attempting to destroy it in an effort to save slavery.

Let us not forget Virginia-born General Henry “The Rock of Chickamauga” Thomas, whose most famous quote should be read out loud at every public meeting during Confederate Heritage Month:

“The greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.
Report to General Ulysses S. Grant (17 November 1868)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:17:51am

re: #130 makeitstop

30 days? He’s gotta be flipping. That’s less than a slap on the wrist.

One of my favorite Humble Pie songs:

Humble Pie-30 Days In The Hole

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Unshaken Defiance  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:17:52am

One day a book will reveal the stressed out angry tortured soul Donald Trump was in the WH. How unhappy he was, deprived of customary gilded walls and sitting in history that surely humbles right from the marble to the roof. And I will smile.

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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:25:34am

re: #148 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Let us not forget Virginia-born General Henry “The Rock of Chickamauga” Thomas, whose most famous quote should be read out loud at every public meeting during Confederate Heritage Month:

“The greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.
Report to General Ulysses S. Grant (17 November 1868)

Yeah, there’s a tweet about George (H?) Thomas in there, too.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:26:16am

re: #150 Unshaken Defiance

One day a book will reveal the stressed out angry tortured soul Donald Trump was in the WH. How unhappy he was, deprived of customary gilded walls and sitting in history that surely humbles right from the marble to the roof. And I will smile.

He said it’s a dump.

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lawhawk  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:29:52am

re: #152 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

He said it’s a dump.

He doesn’t know what “it” is.

He called it a building, house, whatever.

It’s the White House. It’s right there in the name.

Seth Meyers joked that the reason Trump put his name on the buildings was to remember where he was.

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Unshaken Defiance  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:31:02am

re: #152 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

He said it’s a dump.

I was thinking of that insult when I wrote that. I think the weight gravitas of the place angers his tiny dick ego.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:32:17am

re: #153 lawhawk

He doesn’t know what “it” is.

He called it a building, house, whatever.

It’s the White House. It’s right there in the name.

Seth Meyers joked that the reason Trump put his name on the buildings was to remember where he was.

At this point, it could be to remember who he is.

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William Lewis  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:33:15am

re: #133 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Glad they mentioned Thomas. John Buford as well and he would give Meade the position to defeat Lee from with his Cavalry Division’s dismounted delaying action on the first day at Gettysburg. Arguably the finest white cav officer in our history till perhaps Abrams.

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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:33:15am
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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:33:38am

re: #152 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

He said it’s a dump.

It is while he is in it.

Look at the vermin running around in it.

As soon as he is gone it will hopefully be restored to it’s true spirit and greatness.

Heh, I was at Krogers this morning and saw one of the magazine covers on the racks by checkout that said “Melanie Rules the Roost.” I guess she oversees the birdbrains or something.

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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:36:29am

re: #158 ObserverArt

It must be a comfort to Trump fans to imagine Melania ruling something, anything, while the president* demonstrates that he can’t even rule himself.

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MsJ  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:38:35am

re: #127 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

30 fucking days?

Will he lose his license?

30 days is an absolute fucking joke.
Ramifications matter. Fuck.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:39:09am

re: #153 lawhawk

He doesn’t know what “it” is.

He called it a building, house, whatever.

It’s the White House. It’s right there in the name.

Seth Meyers joked that the reason Trump put his name on the buildings was to remember where he was.

His quote from yesterday…trying so hard to be cute and he comes off like a twit.

President Trump thanked the White House Historical Association and “all of the people who work so hard with Melania, everybody, to keep this incredible house, or building, or whatever you want to call it because there really is no name for it.”

“It is special, and we keep it in tip-top shape,” he said. “We call it sometimes ‘tippy-top’ shape. And it’s a great, great place.”

I bet tippy-top shape is a new phrase. He loves to take credit for new words and phrases. This time he might have been right about no one ever saying that before.

No one is that idiotic.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:40:33am

Why is the Libtard biased media altering to color of the images attached to their stories???

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:41:17am

re: #156 William Lewis

Glad they mentioned Thomas. John Buford as well and he would give Meade the position to defeat Lee from with his Cavalry Division’s dismounted delaying action on the first day at Gettysburg. Arguably the finest white cav officer in our history till perhaps Abrams.

I enjoyed his storyline in Killer Angels. Liked Sam Elliott’s portrayal too.

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Skip Intro  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:42:28am

re: #157 jaunte

Well I guess he won’t need a presidential pardon then.

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A Cranky One  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:42:36am

Warning for those who take their dogs to the beach!

Heh.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:43:05am

re: #160 MsJ

Will he lose his license?
.

Since he’s a British subject his status as a barrister or solicitor would come under the jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:43:18am

Too much information.

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Skip Intro  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:44:33am

re: #167 The Vicious Babushka

Too much information.

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What’s wrong with this guy? Does he really think he’s funny or clever?

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:45:25am

re: #160 MsJ

30 fucking days?

Will he lose his license?

30 days is an absolute fucking joke.
Ramifications matter. Fuck.

Is he cooperating with Mueller? That changes what happens to him.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:45:28am
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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:45:35am

re: #168 Skip Intro

What’s wrong with this guy? Does he really think he’s funny or clever?

I laugh at him all the time.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:45:43am

re: #167 The Vicious Babushka

Too much information.

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I hope his doctor told him he’s not funny and he should stop using Twitter as his stand up platform.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:46:14am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:46:46am

re: #168 Skip Intro

What’s wrong with this guy? Does he really think he’s funny or clever?

He’s what the Christian Taliban consider funny and clever. He’s part of a subculture that’s working to dumb America down to their level.

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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:46:47am

re: #169 Belafon

Is he cooperating with Mueller? That changes what happens to him.

See my #142.

I was kind of hoping someone would weigh in and maybe help explain what that all means.

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MsJ  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:48:03am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

where you think you can apply the business techniques that have made you a success in the real estate/money laundering industry and apply them to global economics?

That works.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:48:34am

re: #168 Skip Intro

What’s wrong with this guy? Does he really think he’s funny or clever?

Yeah he does. Sad isn’t it?

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Stanley Sea  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:52:50am

God his stupid voice. CLICK

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Dr. Matt  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:53:01am

re: #167 The Vicious Babushka

Too much information.

More proof that conservatives are incapable of comedy and humor.

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MsJ  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:53:34am

re: #169 Belafon

Is he cooperating with Mueller? That changes what happens to him.

I am just angry about all this because, like that black woman who voted and got five fucking years, I would be tossed in the pokey for years, likely never to be heard from again (in polite society).

I am not happy with all these slaps on the wrist. Maybe I need to pull back until the last shoe drops but ramifications are critical to this not happening again.

I iz not happy.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:54:08am

re: #179 Dr. Matt

More proof that conservatives are incapable of comedy and humor.

I still remember when Fox tried a conservative Daily Show. Jeez that was painful.

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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:54:31am

This could be something. Remember that server at Alfa Bank?

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:55:22am

re: #162 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Why is the Libtard biased media altering to color of the images attached to their stories???

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Damn honkies.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:58:12am

re: #181 HappyWarrior

I still remember when Fox tried a conservative Daily Show. Jeez that was painful.

Ah, yeah, the miserably failure “The 1/2 Hour News Hour” which included a “live” audience, canned laughter, and pathetic attempts at RW humor.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:58:52am

re: #184 Dr. Matt

Ah, yeah, the miserably failure “The 1/2 Hour News Hour” which included a “live” audience, canned laughter, and pathetic attempts at RW humor.

Remember back in the day when Rush Limbaugh tried a TV program? I remember.

Didn’t last long.

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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2018 • 9:59:56am

re: #185 Dr Lizardo

Remember back in the day when Rush Limbaugh tried a TV program? I remember.

Didn’t last long.

Face (and figure) for radio.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:01:18am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:02:06am

re: #162 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Why is the Libtard biased media altering to color of the images attached to their stories???

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Reagan would have warned us about the white welfare queens if he wasn’t pandering to racists.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:04:53am

This gibberish makes absolutely no sense, but of course you already know that.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:05:31am

re: #186 makeitstop

Face (and figure) for radio.

He’s an old-school radio guy - his schtick just doesn’t work well on TV, to be honest.

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danarchy  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:05:44am

re: #180 MsJ

I am just angry about all this because, like that black woman who voted and got five fucking years, I would be tossed in the pokey for years, likely never to be heard from again (in polite society).

I am not happy with all these slaps on the wrist. Maybe I need to pull back until the last shoe drops but ramifications are critical to this not happening again.

I iz not happy.

This is his plea agreement.

justice.gov

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:05:54am

re: #162 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Why is the Libtard biased media altering to color of the images attached to their stories???

All the more reason we have to take SNAP and Medicaid from blacks. //

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Dr. Matt  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:06:02am

This is true. I just verified it. Among knowing that I’m a liberal, Facebook labeled me as frequent traveler, earlier adopter of tech, and host of other criteria.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:06:10am

re: #186 makeitstop

Face (and figure) for radio.

Who can forget when Pigboy slurred Chelsea. I actually was stuck in the room with my religious aunt who howled with laughter. But then this is what I expected from her since she was a brainwashed Jesusbot who had a prayer altar in her bedroom with Reagan’s picture on it. When Dad visited her, he blew his stack when he saw her pray to Reagan. She told Dad it was OK to pray to Reagan because he was God’s Man.

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JordanRules  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:07:24am
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electrotek  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:07:29am

re: #193 Dr. Matt

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This is true. I just verified it. Among knowing that I’m a liberal, Facebook labeled me as frequent traveler, earlier adopter of tech, and host of other criteria.

lol I got very liberal on mine…to no one’s surprise.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:08:10am

JEBUS

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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:09:22am

re: #189 The Vicious Babushka

This gibberish makes absolutely no sense, but of course you already know that.

Yeah, not sure whether Trumpy wants us to be mad or glad that NATO countries have supposedly gotten richer; Trump hates NATO, thinks they’re scamming the U.S.

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freetoken  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:09:47am

re: #193 Dr. Matt

Well, Facebook categorizes me as:

US politics (moderate)
Hotmail users
Facebook access (browser): Chrome
Facebook access (mobile): all mobile devices
Owns: iPhone 6
Returned from travels 2 weeks ago
Facebook access (OS): Mac OS X
Facebook access (network type): WiFi

I struck out all that are inaccurate.

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JordanRules  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:09:53am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:10:04am

re: #193 Dr. Matt

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This is true. I just verified it. Among knowing that I’m a liberal, Facebook labeled me as frequent traveler, earlier adopter of tech, and host of other criteria.

Oh my! They have me labeled as a Socialist!

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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:10:23am

re: #197 The Vicious Babushka

JEBUS

Stomping on American businesses to own the libs.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:10:32am

re: #187 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

“You take a look at the post office and the post office is losing billions of dollars and the taxpayers have paid for that money because it delivers packages for Amazon at a very below cost,” President Trump claims

Do not expect him to consider that the USPS is not a for-profit organization, it is a government agency that provides a public service.

But what can we expect from someone with absolutely no record of public service?

Considering that they run those routes every day regardless, Amazon is generating more income than cost….

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I cannot.  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:10:43am

re: #199 freetoken

What’s hotmail?

/// maybe…

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:11:04am

re: #195 JordanRules

Heh. I figured that whole “caravan” story was just some right-wing fever dream bullshit.

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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:12:15am

re: #200 JordanRules

POTUS:”only very stupid people” don’t want to get along w/ Russia.

Yeah I remember when Reagan said that, he said he didn’t want to say anything about “the wall” because it might upset the Soviets, and only really stupid people wouldn’t want to get along with the other super power.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:12:21am

re: #193 Dr. Matt

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This is true. I just verified it. Among knowing that I’m a liberal, Facebook labeled me as frequent traveler, earlier adopter of tech, and host of other criteria.

this being true or not, I generally avoid political postings on FB, rarely reply to political posts and if anything, just delete them on sight, regards of whether they are right or left, pro or anti-Trump.

I also get a lot of Brexit/Corbyn-related stuff from my UK relatives

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:13:44am

re: #205 Dr Lizardo

Heh. I figured that whole “caravan” story was just some right-wing fever dream bullshit.

This one: washingtonpost.com

The caravan of Central American migrants that angered U.S. President Donald Trump was sidelined at a sports field in southern Mexico with no means of reaching the border even as Trump tweeted another threat to Mexico Tuesday.

“The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our “Weak Laws” Border, had better be stopped before it gets there,” Trump wrote. “Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen.”

The caravan that once numbered 1,150 or more people actually halted days ago in the town of Matias Romero in the southern state of Oaxaca, where participants slept out in the open. After days of walking along roadsides and train tracks, the organizers now plan to try to get buses to take participants to the final event, an immigrants’ rights conference in the central state of Puebla later this week.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:14:30am

re: #199 freetoken

Well, Facebook categorizes me as:

I struck out all that are inaccurate.

Hotmail? Do you use AltaVista as well?

///

:)

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:15:10am

re: #193 Dr. Matt

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This is true. I just verified it. Among knowing that I’m a liberal, Facebook labeled me as frequent traveler, earlier adopter of tech, and host of other criteria.

They have me down as a “frequent international traveler” and “friend of ex-pats” because two of my kids live outside the US.

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JordanRules  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:15:34am
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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:16:32am

re: #209 Dr. Matt

Hotmail? Do you use AltaVista as well?

///

:)

I still use a Hotmail account to log into my Skype account.

I don’t think I’ve checked it once since I set it up. There’s probably 45 million megs of spam in it.

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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:16:37am

re: #208 Belafon

“The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our “Weak Laws” Border, had better be stopped before it gets there,” Trump wrote. “Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen.”

I’m sure Trump’s Border Patrol would just let the “big Caravan of People” just come across the border.

//

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electrotek  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:17:11am

re: #208 Belafon

This one: washingtonpost.com

Why aren’t they welcoming them here? Aren’t they Christians after all?

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:17:38am
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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:17:59am

re: #208 Belafon

The caravan that once numbered 1,150 or more people

How will 300 million citizens cope with this horrific invasion?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:18:32am

re: #205 Dr Lizardo

Heh. I figured that whole “caravan” story was just some right-wing fever dream bullshit.

But it is Right Wing gospel by now and anything that refutes will be branded “fake news”.

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:18:43am

re: #214 electrotek

Why aren’t they welcoming them here? Aren’t they Christians after all?

AR-15 Jesus doesn’t want them here. It’s that Hesus guy who thinks they should be taken care of. //

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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:19:03am
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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:19:08am

re: #216 jaunte

How will 300 million citizens cope with this horrific invasion?

Especially since Obama took all our gunz and took down the border fences.

/

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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:21:12am

re: #211 JordanRules

Americans may be numbed to this, but it makes us an embarrassment around the world to have a President refer to “Crooked Hillary” in a Summit (with the leaders of three countries threatened by Russia)

— Ben Rhodes

Obama used to say that all the time, remember, Crooked Bush? Yeah, that was great.

/

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:21:35am

re: #193 Dr. Matt

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This is true. I just verified it. Among knowing that I’m a liberal, Facebook labeled me as frequent traveler, earlier adopter of tech, and host of other criteria.

All I have is:

You do not have any behaviors in your ad preferences.

Now, this is probably likely to the fact that I have regularly gone in an deleted anything that shows up under “Your interests”, that I have turned off pretty much every “on/off” switch i can find, and I haven’t interacted (other than viewing/clicking on the occasional link) with any account on FB in almost a year.

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:23:30am

I will check mine at home, but if you’re tagged “Flaming liberal” then you won’t have to worry about Russian propaganda.

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William Lewis  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:27:22am

re: #209 Dr. Matt

Hotmail? Do you use AltaVista as well?

///

:)

AltaVista was so cool when it came out. Nothing else even close to it. Especially for searching the then still common Gopher sites.

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freetoken  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:27:58am

Republicans starting to realize they need to enter CYA status asap?

GOP rep calls for Pruitt to step down or be fired

Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) on Tuesday called for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt to either resign or be fired by President Trump.

Curbelo appears to be the first Republican lawmaker to publicly request Pruitt’s dismissal.

In a Tuesday afternoon tweet, Curbello said Pruitt’s “corruption scandals are an embarrassment to the Administration, and his conduct is grossly disrespectful to American taxpayers.”

[…]

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:30:23am

re: #225 freetoken

Republicans starting to realize they need to enter CYA status asap?

GOP rep calls for Pruitt to step down or be fired

That used to be called being a representative. Now, if you have an R after your name, it’s close to being a hero (or a traitor, depending on your POV).

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:31:30am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:32:45am
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Skip Intro  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:32:56am

re: #225 freetoken

Republicans starting to realize they need to enter CYA status asap?

GOP rep calls for Pruitt to step down or be fired

Corruption scandals are the defining characteristic of this administration so I doubt that they’re “embarrassing”, but he is right about the disrespect being shown to American taxpayers, but again there’s nothing unusual about that either.

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lawhawk  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:33:09am
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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:33:15am
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:34:36am

re: #223 Belafon

I will check mine at home, but if you’re tagged “Flaming liberal” then you won’t have to worry about Russian propaganda.

I’m tagged as very liberal

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:35:14am

re: #211 JordanRules

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Yep it’s embarrassing.

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JordanRules  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:35:49am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:36:43am

Do they go based on what links you post? I hardly post links but my own raves and rants.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:36:44am

If Hair Furor is truly worried about the USPS losing billions annually, he can better spend his time looking to overturn the federal mandate that they prefund employee pension and health benefits to 100%, which equates out to nearly half a trillion in money that must be set aside and left untouched. That’s money that could go into things like upgrades and R&D, instead forced by Congressional Republicans to sit in a lockbox while those same Republicans bitch about the “debt” the USPS is carrying.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:37:17am

re: #234 JordanRules

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Come on Herring, water is warm.

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Skip Intro  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:37:57am

Separated at birth?

Lunatic birther Miki Booth
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:38:43am

re: #223 Belafon

I will check mine at home, but if you’re tagged “Flaming liberal” then you won’t have to worry about Russian propaganda.

Doesn’t stop Berniebots and Jillshills from trying to friend you. And I’ve unfriended 50+ of them in the past couple months. The latest was a Kucinich diehard.

There was a time when I respected Dennis the Menace but ever since he got his Fox gig and kisses Trump’s ass—Game Over…

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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:39:59am

re: #223 Belafon

I will check mine at home, but if you’re tagged “Flaming liberal” then you won’t have to worry about Russian propaganda.

I actually labeled myself ‘liberalest liberal’ when I set up my account, lo those many years ago.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:40:17am

re: #239 Joe Bacon 🌹

Doesn’t stop Berniebots and Jillshills from trying to friend you. And I’ve unfriended 50+ of them in the past couple months. The latest was a Kucinich diehard.

There was a time when I respected Dennis the Menace but ever since he got his Fox gig and kisses Trump’s ass—Game Over…

He’s also apologized for Putin and Assad. Can’t take him seriously when he does that.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:40:42am

re: #209 Dr. Matt

Hotmail? Do you use AltaVista as well?

///

:)

How else could you find stuff easily on Usenet? alt.WhatYouTalkinBoutWillis

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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:41:29am

re: #230 lawhawk

And why don’t we also want to get along with Mexico, Cuba, Iran, NK, SK, Germany, etc?

Russia is the only country he always qualifies his remarks with some sort of mealy mouth, hey can’t we all just get a long.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:41:41am

re: #238 Skip Intro

Separated at birth?

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Honestly, I don’t know which one is the bigger fruitcake…

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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:42:24am
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MsJ  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:42:37am

re: #191 danarchy

This is his plea agreement.

justice.gov

Thanks. I’d sure like to see some of those supporting documents. I think that’s where the meat is. This is just a few soggy green beans.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:43:22am

re: #212 makeitstop

I still use a Hotmail account to log into my Skype account.

I don’t think I’ve checked it once since I set it up. There’s probably 45 million megs of spam in it.

I have a throw-away excite.com account like that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:43:41am

tornado watch for TheBackwoods until 8 pm. as forecast temp drops from 76 to 40F
Yay, me………

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:44:25am

re: #245 jaunte

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Instead, apparently Cheeto Benito thinks he can just order the DoD to deploy troops to the border until he can get the Army Corp of Engineers to build his wall. And the GOP is going to act like it is perfectly normal to raid the Pentagon’s coffers to fund projects that they explicitly forbade money to spent on in their big spending bill.

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wrenchwench  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:44:45am

Is this a new thing? There is no longer (if there ever was) a Facebook thingy on the right sidebar on the front page. It’s still there when you go to the comments, or into a Page.

Mind you, it took me 20 minutes to find the keys to lock up the bikes I display out front. They were in my pocket, where I always keep my keys, but I NEVER put THOSE keys in that pocket. Until today.

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makeitstop  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:45:12am
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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:45:46am

re: #249 Targetpractice

And the payment will ultimately come from the least powerful: veterans with health problems.

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sagehen  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:46:58am

re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

He was facing a max of six months. Don’t make to much of the 30 days
He was also fined $20,000

And his career is over; from Skadden Arps to disbarred? He’ll never get another good job ever.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:47:15am

re: #251 makeitstop

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Help me Kermy Won Kenobi, you’re my only hope.

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I cannot.  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:48:20am

re: #242 Eventual Carrion

I wonder, is alt.usenet.kooks still a thing? I forgot HOW to get onto Usenet.

But damn, AUK was fun back in the day. I know one guy that targeted me got an award, that was one of the things that led to me leaving Usenet, he tried to dox me.

He failed, he got someone with my name, but about 150 miles away, I told him that…

…he tried again…he got someone with my name, but about 150 miles in the OTHER direction.

I was OK with crap happening to me, but the idea of shit directed at me hitting someone ELSE kinda got me to pull back from AUK, and Usenet entirely.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:50:09am
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allegro  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:50:15am

re: #223 Belafon

I will check mine at home, but if you’re tagged “Flaming liberal” then you won’t have to worry about Russian propaganda.

I finally just found mine. Wasn’t easy since I so rarely go there. Found out I’m a March-born, liberal, Chrome-using African American! LOL

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:52:00am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:52:20am

re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth

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wrenchwench  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:52:29am

re: #251 makeitstop

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I suspect that is a refrigerated, posed frog. They never sit with some toes up in the air. I only know this because I have a sister in law who specialized in taking pictures of frogs copulating or with their chin inflated, because those are proof that it was NOT refrigerated and posed.

I don’t know anything about the snails. Need more sisters in law, but I’m out of brothers.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:52:44am

re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’m gonna let you finish but George W Bush’s nicknames were the best of all time. Chris is the Gilbert Arenas of pundits.

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danarchy  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:53:12am

re: #253 sagehen

And his career is over; from Skadden Arps to disbarred? He’ll never get another good job ever.

His father-in-law is a Russian oligarch worth over 10 billion, I am sure he will land on his feet…

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:54:15am

re: #262 danarchy

His father-in-law is a Russian oligarch worth over 10 billion, I am sure he will land on his feet…

or die in jail.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:54:26am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:55:07am
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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:55:20am

re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth

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We get it, Chris, the man is such a general failure that you’re left complimenting his name-calling abilities.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:56:11am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:56:21am

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Oh.

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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:57:14am

re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump’s new pseudonym is Bill Attainder.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:57:28am

re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth

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70 year old man scared of kid old enough to be his grandson and here’s George Soros with the weather.

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retired cynic  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:57:32am

re: #224 William Lewis

AltaVista was so cool when it came out. Nothing else even close to it. Especially for searching the then still common Gopher sites.

A close friend of mine was heavily involved with the software involved in AltaVista, from the ground up. When they started contracting, they started with the higher salaries, which cut her loose. Shoot self in foot.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:57:46am

bwahahahaaa

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:57:55am

re: #269 jaunte

Trump’s new pseudonym is Bill Attainder.

Dick E. Smallhands

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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 10:59:54am

Stop the Caravan full of Honduran Mexicans heading for are borders! Watch Fox & Friends to find out more! Get SMART Congress, FAST!

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:00:57am

re: #244 Joe Bacon 🌹

Honestly, I don’t know which one is the bigger fruitcake…

Has anyone ever seen them in the same room?

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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:04:42am

A caravan full of Wacky Racers is speeding for our undefended border! Hurry up Congress do something!

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sagehen  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:05:44am

re: #239 Joe Bacon 🌹

Doesn’t stop Berniebots and Jillshills from trying to friend you. And I’ve unfriended 50+ of them in the past couple months. The latest was a Kucinich diehard.

There was a time when I respected Dennis the Menace but ever since he got his Fox gig and kisses Trump’s ass—Game Over…

I lost interest in Kucinich when I found out that he claims to have had personal contact with extra-terrestrials.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:06:29am

re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Gee, Bill-0 the KKKlown said boycotts were OK when he led the FAUX attack on the Dixie Chicks!

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:09:10am

re: #278 Joe Bacon 🌹

Gee, Bill-0 the KKKlown said boycotts were OK when he led the FAUX attack on the Dixie Chicks!

That was different. It’s okay to belittle a high school kid but not to say you’re ashamed to be from the same state as Dubya. Really does show ya the hypocrisy of those raging on the right against boycotting.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:10:31am

re: #275 The Vicious Babushka

Has anyone ever seen them in the same room?

Come to think of it, Roseanne went through a phase when she alleged having a spilt personality…

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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:12:35am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:13:10am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:14:06am

re: #281 jaunte

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I’m surprised he didn’t mention Melania was from the Baltics. And because of that, I’m craving potica and regretting not bringing it for lunch.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:14:24am
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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:14:36am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:14:44am

re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He never knows what he’s talking about. He’s stupid and senile.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:15:46am

Holy Mother of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Trump sounds like a parrot reciting the same lines over and over again.

I’m just waiting for him to squawk “Pieces of eight”!

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:15:56am

re: #280 Joe Bacon 🌹

Come to think of it, Roseanne went through a phase when she alleged having a spilt personality…

None of her personalities are very pleasant.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:16:00am
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scottslemmons  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:16:31am

re: #276 Sir John Barron

A caravan full of Wacky Racers is speeding for our undefended border! Hurry up Congress do something!

Huzzah! You have given me an excuse to post my favorite commercial in history!

2014 Peugeot 208 Official Commercial featuring classic Hanna-Barbera Wacky Racers Corrida Maluca

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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:16:32am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:17:07am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:17:39am

Our President is a freak.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:17:53am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:18:15am

*blink*

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:19:31am
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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:19:44am

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

“We’re going to make the best of this whackjob and suggest that one day he might be pointed at you.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:19:46am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:19:51am

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

And again, yet another reason I’d make a lousy leader - because I’d likely tell Trump to blow it out his ass before I walked out of the Oval Office.

On camera. Live.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:20:26am

re: #293 HappyWarrior

Our President is a freak.

He’s always been a freak, sheltered by inherited wealth. Now he’s a senile freak.

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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:20:40am

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

*blink*

The Stupid—it’s spreading

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Sir John Barron  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:21:11am

re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth

We have no laws regarding our border, no immigration service, no border patrol, terrible, believe me.

/

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Jack Burton  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:21:32am

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is this a code… or is she also an idiot who “has the best words”.

I’m pretty sure she’s not a word-salad stream-of-insane-consciousness idiot so I’m guessing a code.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:23:37am

Trump’s right guys. No one ever got detained at the border in the Obama years. How stupid is he but how stupid are the people who believe him?

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jaunte  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:24:08am

The idiocy of thinking you can just “take the oil” as if it’s in a bucket you can carry home.
Piled on top of his legal ignorance, is the sheer volume of the theft he blithely suggests.

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Targetpractice  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:27:03am

Russia wants us out of Syria and Trump’s arguing that we should leave Syria. Amazing how that works…

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wrenchwench  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:27:20am

re: #304 HappyWarrior

Trump’s right guys. No one ever got detained at the border in the Obama years. How stupid is he but how stupid are the people who believe him?

He’s going to have a fit when he finds out that Obama deported the most people in US history.

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lawhawk  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:27:29am

re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump is an economic illiterate who’s starting trade wars and sabotaging our foreign relations for reasons that are still elusive - unless Occam’s Razor applies and he’s doing the bidding of Russia.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:28:15am

re: #304 HappyWarrior

Trump’s right guys. No one ever got detained at the border in the Obama years. How stupid is he but how stupid are the people who believe him?

Unfortunately Trump proved that stupid people are enough to get a fool elected President.

It’s the flip-side of this:

A supporter once called out, “Governor Stevenson, all thinking people are for you!” And Adlai Stevenson answered, “That’s not enough. I need a majority.”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:28:16am

re: #304 HappyWarrior

Trump’s right guys. No one ever got detained at the border in the Obama years. How stupid is he but how stupid are the people who believe him?

63 million plus bought into his bullshit.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:28:22am

re: #305 jaunte

The idiocy of thinking you can just “take the oil” as if it’s in a bucket you can carry home.
Piled on top of his legal ignorance, is the sheer volume of the theft he blithely suggests.

Or how he thinks there would be no international ramifications for it. There’s nothing intelligent that Trump has to say. He’s proof that Republican voters will vote for anything as long as it’s bigoted and hates Obama and the Clintons.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:28:54am

re: #309 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Unfortunately Trump proved that stupid people are enough to get a fool elected President.

It’s the flip-side of this:

I do love that Stevenson line.

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lawhawk  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:28:54am
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ObserverArt  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:29:47am

re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth

tornado watch for TheBackwoods until 8 pm. as forecast temp drops from 76 to 40F
Yay, me………

It’s listed for here too.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:31:31am

re: #313 lawhawk

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Just quit already Marco and let an adult take your place rather than a pathetic hack who never thinks for himself and just does what he thinks will cause good will with the RNC.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:31:44am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:32:09am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:33:45am

re: #315 HappyWarrior

Just quit already Marco and let an adult take your place rather than a pathetic hack who never thinks for himself and just does what he thinks will cause good will with the RNC.

The RNC are all lying hacks. They’re all corrupt, so I don’t expect decent people to take the positions of scumbags like Rubio, unless a Democrat wins his seat.

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Alephnaught  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:37:39am

re: #297 jaunte

“We’re going to make the best of this whackjob and suggest that one day he might be pointed at you.”

Yeah, I was looking at that, wondering if it was code speak:

[Lithuanian President Grybauskaitė] “We need leadership, sometimes for decision making, even unpredictable leadership … for rivals to believe that we can make a decision.”

So, who are the “rivals”? MSNBC interprets the statement as “praise” for Mr Trump, but I daresay a lot of Lithuanians would interpret “rivals” as “Russia”, and would interpret Mr Trump’s pro-Russia statements accordingly.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 3, 2018 • 11:58:14am

re: #34 Barefoot Grin

State rights!! I thought Republicans were all into state rights.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 3, 2018 • 12:00:17pm

re: #320 Patricia Kayden

State rights!! I thought Republicans were all into state rights.

Only if it allows them to bypass Federal civil rights laws.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 3, 2018 • 12:08:46pm

re: #306 Targetpractice

Russia wants us out of Syria and Trump’s arguing that we should leave Syria. Amazing how that works…

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That’s exactly what I assumed. Russia wants us out of Syria and Putin’s Puppet is playing along.

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 3, 2018 • 1:03:23pm

re: #288 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

None of her personalities horcruxes are very pleasant.


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