Rube Goldberg Would Be Proud of Joseph’s Machines: Presenting, “The Cake Server”

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I hate waiting for dessert, so here’s a Rube Goldberg machine to streamline dinnertime. It lets me keep eating, with no break before cake. It’s my most complex yet and took 3 months to make so I hope you enjoy it!
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418 comments
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:37:28pm

Pop-Sci goes soft core?

Alas, the article refers to the Great Tit (parus major), a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:38:18pm

re: #1 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Have to admit, that’s some pretty great click-baiting.

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:39:29pm

I laughed at the candle/butter.

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:40:40pm

Popular Science has always sensationalized science, we just now have a better term for it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:40:43pm

old white man haz concerns

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:41:47pm

the cake server is like something straight out of a Wallace and Gromit episode.

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:42:09pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sen. Orrin Hatch: “But what if there are 10 babies on the floor of the Senate?”

Call it a net reduction in entitlement.

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:42:43pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

old white man haz concerns

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At least those ten babies will have an excuse for acting like children on the Senate floor.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:44:56pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Have to admit, that’s some pretty great click-baiting.

It’s tit bait.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:45:51pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

old white man haz concerns

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And? Orrin should find more important things to worry about.

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Aussie Apocalypse  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:47:17pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sen. Orrin Hatch: “But what if there are 10 babies on the floor of the Senate?”

Umm, actually I’m going to need the hypothetical result hatch is suggesting without saying what that would be.

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makeitstop  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:48:33pm

Heh.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:49:48pm

Back in the 50’s if you were against segregation, then according to the Right you are a communist. Things haven’t change.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:50:25pm

Ten babies would mean ten women Senators and younger ones at that. I can see why an old fart like Hatch is threatened by that.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:51:07pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:51:39pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s a huge baby in the White House so I don’t understand Hatch’s concerns.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:51:49pm

re: #13 DodgerFan1988

Back in the 50’s if you were against segregation, then according to the Right you are a communist. Things haven’t change.

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Reproductive rights in scare quotes too. These people.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:52:14pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

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Oh come on!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:53:19pm

re: #13 DodgerFan1988

Back in the 50’s if you were against segregation, then according to the Right you are a communist. Things haven’t change.

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yeah, I’m still seriously blinking at Brianna being labeled a far left Democrat.
O_o

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:54:30pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

yeah, I’m still seriously blinking at Brianna being labeled a far left Democrat.
O_o

She sounds mainstream to me. Gerald Ford was pro choice and lgbt.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:54:46pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:56:31pm
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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:56:37pm

Ah she’s received harassment from gamer Bros. That makes sense.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:57:02pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

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Yep he’s all talk, no action.

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stpaulbear  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:57:22pm

re: #12 makeitstop

Heh.

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One of my favorite radio ads that’s been running on a Twin Cities oldies station is for a personal injury lawyer. At the end of his ad, he gives his phone number and the last four digits are 0000, which he pronounces oh-oh, oh-oh. He’s very serious, but it’s always funny no matter how many times I hear it.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:57:47pm

Uh oh, Beev! You’re in real trouble now!

A federal judge on Wednesday found Secretary of State Kris Kobach in contempt of court in a case involving Kansas voting laws, her latest rebuke of the Republican candidate for governor.

Kobach is considered a GOP frontrunner despite his constant court battles involving voter fraud and strict voting requirements that he has pushed while in office as the state’s top election official.

In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson in Kansas City, Kan., referred repeatedly to Kobach as acting “disingenuously.”

A federal judge on Wednesday found Secretary of State Kris Kobach in contempt of court in a case involving Kansas voting laws, her latest rebuke of the Republican candidate for governor.

Kobach is considered a GOP frontrunner despite his constant court battles involving voter fraud and strict voting requirements that he has pushed while in office as the state’s top election official.

In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson in Kansas City, Kan., referred repeatedly to Kobach as acting “disingenuously.”

Read more here: kansascity.com

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gwangung  Apr 18, 2018 • 7:59:12pm

re: #26 Joe Bacon 🌹

Uh oh, Beev! You’re in real trouble now!

A federal judge on Wednesday found Secretary of State Kris Kobach in contempt of court in a case involving Kansas voting laws, her latest rebuke of the Republican candidate for governor.

Kobach is considered a GOP frontrunner despite his constant court battles involving voter fraud and strict voting requirements that he has pushed while in office as the state’s top election official.

In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson in Kansas City, Kan., referred repeatedly to Kobach as acting “disingenuously.”

A federal judge on Wednesday found Secretary of State Kris Kobach in contempt of court in a case involving Kansas voting laws, her latest rebuke of the Republican candidate for governor.

Kobach is considered a GOP frontrunner despite his constant court battles involving voter fraud and strict voting requirements that he has pushed while in office as the state’s top election official.

In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson in Kansas City, Kan., referred repeatedly to Kobach as acting “disingenuously.”

Read more here: kansascity.com

In other words, an asshole.

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Kragar  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:00:11pm
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MsJ  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:01:07pm
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stpaulbear  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:04:02pm

re: #29 MsJ

O_O

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:04:04pm

re: #29 MsJ

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He’d fit in great with the Taliban and ISIS.

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makeitstop  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:06:02pm

re: #25 stpaulbear

One of my favorite radio ads that’s been running on a Twin Cities oldies station is for a personal injury lawyer. At the end of his ad, he gives his phone number and the last four digits are 0000, which he pronounces oh-oh, oh-oh. He’s very serious, but it’s always funny no matter how many times I hear it.

Around here we’ve got a firm called Cellino and Barnes, Injury Attorneys. They had a jingle that no one could understand the words to and a phone number no one could remember, so they re-recorded the jingle and changed their number to[no phone numbers allowed]. It helped make them pretty successful.

But just like Simon and Garfunkel, the strain of success was too much to handle, and now they’re splitting up. No word on who gets the jingle or the phone number.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:06:36pm

I guess Lockmsn just has an alternative view like Kevin Williamson and criticizing him is worse than Hitler.//

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whitebeach  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:09:09pm

re: #29 MsJ

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So the man can exercise his “sexual freedom” by raping a weaker woman? What about her “sexual freedom”? Goddamit, I wish I could set the dogs on this bastard so they could exercise their dental freedom.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:10:20pm

re: #35 whitebeach

So the man can exercise his “sexual freedom” by raping a weaker woman? What about her “sexual freedom”? Goddamit, I wish I could set the dogs on this bastard so they could exercise their dental freedom.

My fists could use some freedom.

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:10:40pm

re: #29 MsJ

He says that now, but when he’s lying immobilized in a hospital bed he’s all about “bodily autonomy and patient’s rights.”

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makeitstop  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:10:42pm

re: #35 whitebeach

So the man can exercise his “sexual freedom” by raping a weaker woman? What about her “sexual freedom”? Goddamit, I wish I could set the dogs on this bastard so they could exercise their dental freedom.

And then maybe exercise their intestinal freedom on him afterwards.

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calochortus  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:12:03pm

re: #32 makeitstop

Around here we’ve got a firm called Cellino and Barnes, Injury Attorneys. They had a jingle that no one could understand the words to and a phone number no one could remember, so they re-recorded the jingle and changed their number to[no phone numbers allowed]. It helped make them pretty successful.

But just like Simon and Garfunkel, the strain of success was too much to handle, and now they’re splitting up. No word on who gets the jingle or the phone number.

I think Barnes has the jingle, but the phone number is now 1-800-8 million (800-0000.) Maybe Cellino got the all 8s number.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:14:41pm

I just don’t know how you’re expected to discuss this issue reasonably with people like that. And there is no one in American politics on the pro choice side that talks like this.

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gocart mozart  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:14:52pm
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Kilroy was here  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:16:47pm

re: #41 gocart mozart

No.. sorry .. bad yes.. but .. not this bad…

The Star Wars Holiday Special (HD) “The WHIO 1st Generation 2013 VHS”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:18:37pm

How about we switch to good. :))))

Fred McDowell pt 1

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:24:42pm

by late summer, i expect wingnuts to be vigorously looking for reasons why the north korean anti nuclear weapons treaty is any different than the much maligned iran treaty

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freetoken  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:25:01pm

The butter… the butter made me chuckle.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:26:02pm

re: #29 MsJ

Dear God. Please please PLEASE tell me this is satire!

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:27:07pm

re: #46 Eclectic Cyborg

Dear God. Please please PLEASE tell me this is satire!

It’s not. I looked the guy up. He’s got a history and he’s a big LaPage supporter in Maine.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:27:18pm

re: #46 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s not.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:29:00pm

re: #48 GlutenFreeJesus

It’s not.

For fuck sakes.

This shit? In 2018?? Really?!?!

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:29:06pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

Elizabeth Dias
✔
@elizabethjdias
Sen. Orrin Hatch: “But what if there are 10 babies on the floor of the Senate?”

???

aren’t there at least ten already?

and one giant one in the oval office?

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MsJ  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:29:23pm

re: #47 HappyWarrior

It’s not. I looked the guy up. He’s got a history and he’s a big LaPage supporter in Maine.

I’m shocked. Shocked, I say. 🤢🤮

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ObserverArt  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:29:46pm

Had to give an upding to Charles’ topic referring to Rube Goldberg!

The world needs the Rube Goldbergs maybe now more than ever. Cartoons and inventions, sometimes intertwined, rule.

And then you put one together and it is a feat of engineering and shows the patience needed. Big lessons in that fun.

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prairiefire  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:30:13pm

Safari just gave me a hard time signing in, saying this website might not be “real”. You guys are real, right?/

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:31:49pm

re: #51 MsJ

I’m shocked. Shocked, I say. 🤢🤮

Yeah. It says a lot about his constituents that they elected him.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:32:23pm

re: #50 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

???

aren’t there at least ten already?

and one giant one in the oval office?

Babies not pathetic brats.

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stpaulbear  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:33:47pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:34:02pm
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plansbandc  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:34:10pm

This is my fave song off of “Restoration” the Elton tribute album from the “country” stars. I have to say though, I like the whole thing quite a bit.

Chris Stapleton - I Want Love (Audio)

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:35:53pm

re: #57 gocart mozart

says U.S. strikes on Syria may have been a “choreographed Kabuki show” with Russia.

can i get a “no shit, sherlock”?

thank you!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:37:19pm

Welp, I’m finally caught up. As always just when everybody to the east of me—which is everybody—is going to bed. So…how about that Trump, eh?

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MsJ  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:37:22pm

I honest to god hate these motherfuckers and pray for evil to fall upon all their houses.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:38:00pm

re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg

His comment was in 2014 but your sentiment remains.

snopes.com

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Unshaken Defiance  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:38:28pm

re: #53 prairiefire

Safari just gave me a hard time signing in, saying this website might not be “real”. You guys are real, right?/

I thought so but being from Los Angeles some question it. :-)
Charles host is having a certificate issue, said to be fixed soon.

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teleskiguy  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:39:27pm

re: #60 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

So…how about that Trump, eh?

Click to Reveal
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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:40:04pm

re: #61 MsJ

I honest to god hate these motherfuckers and pray for evil to fall upon all their houses.

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This is just evil. But hey pat yourself on that back, Religious Right.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:40:39pm

re: #29 MsJ

“….At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t result in anyone’s death.”

And yet it frequently does. Has this asshole never seen the news?

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Scout  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:41:53pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

What about male senators bringing their babies? It seems like an idea whose time has come.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:41:57pm

god help me i liked that last hip hop “song”

what a weird century

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:45:37pm

Abused women and children ARE exactly the kind of people we should be giving asylum. This administration is vile.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:47:14pm

origins of the republican party in ancient times

It began with a group of young aristocrats who had found life under the monarchy very agreeable; accustomed to associate with the younger members of the royal family, they had been able to give a freer rein to their appetites and to live the dissolute and irresponsible life of the court. Under the new dispensation they missed the freedom to do as they pleased, and began to complain that what might be liberty for others was more like slavery for themselves. A king, they argued, was, after all, a human being, and there was a chance of getting from him what one wanted, rightly or wrongly; under a monarchy there was room for influence and favour; a king could be angry, and forgive; he knew the difference between an enemy and a friend. Law, on the other hand, was impersonal and inexorable. Law had no ears. An excellent thing, no doubt, for paupers, it was worse than useless for the great,

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prairiefire  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:49:30pm

re: #63 Unshaken Defiance

I really like Eric Garcetti! His “we’re the same as Iowa” speech should be a National Democratic blueprint.

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freetoken  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:50:17pm

Tell me why, why oh why, when PBS repackages a BBC documentary that PBS thinks it needs to add their narrator reading a different, and often more boring, script?

The latest example of this is the BBC series “Civilisations” vs. PBS’s “Civilizations.”

This is a modern retake on a classic BBC documentary series.

The BBC remake has wonderful commentators who were actually contributors to the substance of the program, like Michael Schama.

The PBS narrator is just the usual narrator for their series. I don’t know his name. His voice is fine, but the script and the delivery is passionateless, quite different than the BBC presentation.

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teleskiguy  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:50:46pm

re: #68 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Antenna (Beat by Tony Stone feat. Speech & Nehemiah Booker)

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nicdanger  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:51:57pm

re: #53 prairiefire

Same thing with me,using Chrome.

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prairiefire  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:56:18pm

re: #74 nicdanger

Same thing with me,using Chrome.

Yeah, I think Charles has to renew his certificates. We are Here, we are here, we are here! (Whos in Whoville)

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:57:48pm

re: #72 freetoken

Tell me why, why oh why, when PBS repackages a BBC documentary that PBS thinks it needs to add their narrator reading a different, and often more boring, script?

The latest example of this is the BBC series “Civilisations” vs. PBS’s “Civilizations.”

This is a modern retake on a classic BBC documentary series.

The BBC remake has wonderful commentators who were actually contributors to the substance of the program, like Michael Schama.

The PBS narrator is just the usual narrator for their series. I don’t know his name. His voice is fine, but the script and the delivery is passionateless, quite different than the BBC presentation.

Was this a typo, or does Simon have a brother? (Honest question).

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freetoken  Apr 18, 2018 • 8:59:08pm

re: #76 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Simon Michael Schama is his full name:

en.wikipedia.org

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:00:18pm

re: #77 freetoken

Simon Michael Schama is his full name:

en.wikipedia.org

Ah. Thanks.

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freetoken  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:01:31pm

Anyway, a profession voice-over person just will not have the same passion as the subject matter expert who made the content.

The PBS version also then has to cut out parts of the video that includes Schama and this fellow presenters when they are presenting, though in some of the PBS videos Schama is clearly in the frame of the camera.

Also, PBS probably has to cut back each episode in time a bit.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:03:03pm

Heeeeeey

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:03:29pm

re: #77 freetoken

Simon Michael Schama is his full name:

en.wikipedia.org

I really enjoyed his History of Britain.

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Jay C  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:04:39pm

re: #77 freetoken

Simon Michael Schama is his full name:

en.wikipedia.org

I wonder why he would be billed as “Michael” Schama in any case: Simon Schama is one of the best-known popular historians around -one would think his name would be a major draw….?

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:04:46pm
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nicdanger  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:06:01pm

re: #75 prairiefire

My message said certificates expired yesterday,and I had to change my password to log back in.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:06:44pm

re: #79 freetoken

Anyway, a profession voice-over person just will not have the same passion as the subject matter expert who made the content.

The PBS version also then has to cut out parts of the video that includes Schama and this fellow presenters when they are presenting, though in some of the PBS videos Schama is clearly in the frame of the camera.

Also, PBS probably has to cut back each episode in time a bit.

PBS’s choice of narrators can be inexplicable sometimes. 25 years ago they had a four-hour series on dinosaurs that I tried to watch, narrated by Barbara Feldon (whom I love, don’t get me wrong). After a few minutes hearing her say “Dinah-SAAAAHRS” every other sentence, I had to give it up. (This was before closed captions, obviously.)

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:07:12pm

re: #83 Ace-o-aces

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He’s a fucking little coward. Blaming the left for the Giffords shooting but cries like a baby when called out when a shooter repeatedly cited him. Own it Ben, you’re part of the problem.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:08:06pm

re: #81 HappyWarrior

I really enjoyed his History of Britain.

Citizens was great, too.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:10:14pm

re: #87 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Citizens was great, too.

Need to see that. But yeah HoB made me a big fan because he explains history in such a neat way and the series was beautifully filmed too.

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teleskiguy  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:10:25pm

re: #80 Stanley Sea

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nicdanger  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:12:29pm

re: #80 Stanley Sea

Heeeeeey

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:12:32pm

re: #88 HappyWarrior

Need to see that. But yeah HoB made me a big fan because he explains history in such a neat way and the series was beautifully filmed too.

Oh, I don’t know if they made a TV show out of Citizens—I only read the book [mumble, mumble] years ago.

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freetoken  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:14:17pm

re: #82 Jay C

I wonder why he would be billed as “Michael” Schama in any case: Simon Schama is one of the best-known popular historians around -one would think his name would be a major draw….?

Don’t know how BBC has billed him at various times. I just called him “Michael” because that’s how I first learnt his name, but in many series he’s called “Simon”.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:14:48pm

re: #91 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Oh, I don’t know if they made a TV show out of Citizens—I only read the book [mumble, mumble] years ago.

Oh just a book. I assumed it was made it into a series. I should read it. I need to learn more about the French Revolution.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:18:15pm

re: #89 teleskiguy

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Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:18:46pm

re: #90 nicdanger

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:19:02pm

re: #85 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

But of course now this New England dialect has spread nationwide since I grew up: Loss of “ɔ”, loss of “ʍ”, loss of palatal on-glide after dentals, voicing of intervocalic stops…

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whitebeach  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:21:11pm

re: #64 teleskiguy

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That’s one of the ugliest assholes I’ve ever seen. Plus his mouth is kinda weird too.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:22:08pm

Little Green Footballs programming note:

When signing in just now, I got a security certificate error at the login screen.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:23:20pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:23:27pm

Just got back from Cheyenne. I checked my mail (which I only do irregularly).

A metric fuquetonne of thank you cards and letters from people around the area for my letter in the newspaper last week. No hate mail.

Wow.

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freetoken  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:24:00pm

Here’s an extended promo, a behind the scenes talk with the presenters, which includes Mary Beard, known for her wonderful series on the Romans:

In conversation with… Simon Schama, Mary Beard and David Olusoga on BBC Two’s Civilisations series

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Sea Mexican!  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:25:54pm

Quick update: some places are starting to receive electricity. It just arrived where I live.

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freetoken  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:26:37pm

Oh look, PBS’s moves to edit the series made a headline in the UK:

Mary Beard ‘cut’ from US version of Civilisations, fearing ‘slightly creaky old lady isn’t ideal for US TV’

[…]

[Mary Beard] aired her criticism on Twitter, after a Washington Post review called the new series of Civilisations on American channel PBS as “anodyne”, with a viewer observing she “virtually disappears from the PBS version”.

[…]

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Sea Mexican!  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:26:52pm

Forgot …

VB:

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Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:27:39pm

re: #102 Sea Mexican!

Quick update: some places are starting to receive electricity. It just arrived where I live.

Obvs were thinking of you. Glad you’re ok ish.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:28:48pm

re: #101 freetoken

Here’s an extended promo, a behind the scenes talk with the presenters, which includes Mary Beard, known for her wonderful series on the Romans:

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I wish we had more thinks like that. I really enjoy history lectures.

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whitebeach  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:29:50pm

re: #53 prairiefire

Safari just gave me a hard time signing in, saying this website might not be “real”. You guys are real, right?/

You know, “real” is one of those funny kind of words.

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freetoken  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:29:57pm

re: #106 HappyWarrior

I wish we had more thinks like that. I really enjoy history lectures.

There are a great many available online, but you have to search for them.

On Youtube, various museums and universities have channels that post videos, some frequently, some infrequently.

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freetoken  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:31:07pm
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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:32:19pm

re: #108 freetoken

There are a great many available online, but you have to search for them.

On Youtube, various museums and universities have channels that post videos, some frequently, some infrequently.

Yeah there’s this one prof Timothy Snyder at Yale whose work pretty much covers what I’m most interested in. I’m tackling Bloodlands as soon as I complete my current reads- my old philosophy teacher’s memoir and Count of Monte Cristo.

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prairiefire  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:33:31pm

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹

Just got back from Cheyenne. I checked my mail (which I only do irregularly).

A metric fuquetonne of thank you cards and letters from people around the area for my letter in the newspaper last week. No hate mail.

Wow.

Yay!

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Sea Mexican!  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:36:29pm

Ok, with this I go to sleep:

With Puerto Rico in the dark today, and the ongoing debt crisis, the current Senate decided to open a lobbyist office. (This has been in the works in the last few weeks. But the deficit has been here since forever).

Here’s the photo.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:36:41pm

Was watching a BBC Doc on the French Revolution and there was my history department’s Dean whom I interviewed because he put together an event that Mikhail Gorbachev, William Webster(only guy to be director of CIA and FBI) who may be a Republican but is from the Mueller school of country before ideology and served presidents of both parties. I wish I could remember more of the lecture since Russia is even more important now than it was in 2009 and a lot of people feel we’ve entered a new Cold War.

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prairiefire  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:37:08pm

re: #109 freetoken

1969! I knew I was young, 8 years old. My hippie progressive liberal mum MADE me sit and watch that series because it was important to my growth and understanding of the world(giggle). I dreaded it, was bored out of my mind, and concentrated on the host’s bad teeth.

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Sea Mexican!  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:38:40pm

re: #105 Stanley Sea

Obvs were thinking of you. Glad you’re ok ish.

Thank you! I’ll let Obs know. :)

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HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:39:34pm

Decided to go with a Japanese history. Something I know so little about.

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nicdanger  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:43:55pm

re: #95 Stanley Sea

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:52:45pm

re: #53 prairiefire

Safari just gave me a hard time signing in, saying this website might not be “real”. You guys are real, right?/

Insofar as you can tell from a bunch of electrons that flowed over a telephone line to an IP two states away, then put on the Internet to be piped to you, I suppose you could say “I’m real.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:53:06pm

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹

Little Green Footballs programming note:

When signing in just now, I got a security certificate error at the login screen.

Yes, it’s something with the web hosting service. Charles is on it.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:58:20pm

re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes, it’s something with the web hosting service. Charles is on it.

I hope Mr. Johnson isn’t too heavy … we wouldn’t want him crushing the Webhosting service.

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prairiefire  Apr 18, 2018 • 9:59:00pm

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹

Give me a quick reminder of your letter, I did read your post.

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Renaissance_Man  Apr 18, 2018 • 10:06:55pm

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹

Insofar as you can tell from a bunch of electrons that flowed over a telephone line to an IP two states away, then put on the Internet to be piped to you, I suppose you could say “I’m real.”

I’m actually a very sophisticated macro.

Which is still smarter and more ethical than a Trump voter.

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prairiefire  Apr 18, 2018 • 10:15:15pm

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹

Just got back from Cheyenne. I checked my mail (which I only do irregularly).

A metric fuquetonne of thank you cards and letters from people around the area for my letter in the newspaper last week. No hate mail.

Wow.

Going to sleep now, I’ll get a recap when I look at your comments. Congratulations, sensing a sea change.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 18, 2018 • 10:15:50pm

Nebraska Secretary of State Office: Five referenda on the ballot for 2018 …

Expand Medicaid IAW the Affordable Care Act

Constitutional Amendment: Legalise possession of any part of a cannabis plant including non-commercial distribution, commercial distribution, and possession under age twenty-one with written permission of a parent or guardian with a physician concurring.

Remove all laws from the Nebraska Revised Statues which impose penalties for the above proposed constitutional amendment.

Anti-corruption initiative: Would prohibit any corporate entity (profit or not-for-profit) from contributing money or services to political campaigns, political action committees, or support or oppose any ballot initiative. Also limits individual donations to a candidate to $1,000 per calendar year, $100 to a political party in Nebraska, or $1,000 to support or oppose each initiative in a ballot (plus more restrictions).

State income tax credit: up to 50% credit on state income tax for school tax paid. Also includes provisions for ranches and certain investments.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 18, 2018 • 10:22:57pm

Text of the initiatives are linked at the bottom of the state Secretary of State’s page:
sos.ne.gov

(Some of these are photocopies of the original documents filed, so they are a bit hard to read.)

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Kragar  Apr 18, 2018 • 10:24:39pm

Its finally here, the greatest battle between good and evil in comic history…

Beebo vs Mallus!!!! (hilarious) – Legends of Tomorrow 3x18 Finale

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 18, 2018 • 10:32:46pm

White Supremacist Terrorists Convicted So There’s a Nice Time (Wonkette)

The “it’s just locker room talk” defence of the men in Garden City, Kansas who plotted to blow up an apartment block with Muslim residents failed.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 18, 2018 • 10:44:41pm

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹

Insofar as you can tell from a bunch of electrons that flowed over a telephone line to an IP two states away, then put on the Internet to be piped to you, I suppose you could say “I’m real.”

I think we’re all crisis actors at this point.

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petesh  Apr 18, 2018 • 10:50:51pm

re: #53 prairiefire

Safari just gave me a hard time signing in, saying this website might not be “real”. You guys are real, right?/

Not me

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Kragar  Apr 18, 2018 • 10:58:32pm

re: #128 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I think we’re all crisis actors at this point.

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freetoken  Apr 18, 2018 • 11:01:19pm

We’re a nation of scammers and con-artists.

Trump is only the most obvious example, but he is not alone.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 18, 2018 • 11:07:04pm

re: #130 Kragar

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Kragar  Apr 18, 2018 • 11:11:29pm

re: #132 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Apr 18, 2018 • 11:16:58pm

re: #133 Kragar

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Kragar  Apr 18, 2018 • 11:18:30pm

re: #134 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 18, 2018 • 11:26:02pm

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 18, 2018 • 11:30:06pm

re: #135 Kragar

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Just in time for World Amateur Radio Day. /s

Poor Glenn Beck Has To Sell Private Jet He Bought While He Was Laying Everyone Off The Last Time (Wonkette)

I presume, since none of his viewers are “limousine liberals,” any of them will be able to afford his private plane.

Back in the Before Times, when America hadn’t yet become great again through deporting people with Down syndrome and we were burdened with a president who spoke in complete sentences like an elitist snob, a great man named Glenn Beck arose and became the hottest thing on Fox TV. Armed only with a couple of chalkboards and a pocket full of resentments and logical fallacies, Beck warned the angry teabagging masses that Barack Obama, along with ACORN and teachers unions, was on the verge of destroying America from within, with the Cloward-Piven strategy and Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, a book that no liberal has ever read but which rules our every thought. Beck even held a big slob picnic in Washington DC that rivaled Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, as long as you use the highest attendance estimate for Beck and the lowest for King, which is only fair to counteract the pernicious effects of affirmative action.

…

The listing for the two engine plane that’s ferried Beck from his home in Texas to New York boasts of “2014 custom paint,” and “2014 airframe and engine inspections,” among other features.

The price is not listed, but it’s probably more than any Glenn Beck fans (snrk!) would want to spend to feel close to the fallen master. The financial health of Beck’s media prefecture probably hasn’t been helped by his tendency to spend money like a common Scott Pruitt:

Employees at The Blaze previously lamented that Beck bought a Maybach sedan and kept his jet — which was expensive to operate and maintain — amid massive layoffs at the company in 2015. The jet was purchased by Beck’s radio company, Mercury Radio Arts, that same year from right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife for a million dollars. It had once been adorned with a skull-and-crossbones on the tail.

(more)

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Kragar  Apr 18, 2018 • 11:31:40pm

re: #136 goddamnedfrank

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 12:34:49am

I just received a post on the forum I run on behalf of a social group, from a scientist in Europe asking me my opinion on an article he ran across at The Federalist concerning a “study” claiming atheists make up their own fantasies about the meaning of life (by distorting what atheists mean by finding meaning in life).

He was absolutely lost about how someone could think this, and wasn’t sure what The Federalist is, having never run across it before.

I felt really bad about having to give him an education on that Website, the author of the piece, and the “study” (really a survey with loaded questions published in a non-peer reviewed vanity Website). I felt bad primarily because it shows how deluded some of the people in our nation really are (though the survey was done by the Canadian version of a wingnut).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 12:46:13am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹

I just received a post on the forum I run on behalf of a social group, from a scientist in Europe asking me my opinion on an article he ran across at The Federalist concerning a “study” claiming atheists make up their own fantasies about the meaning of life (by distorting what atheists mean by finding meaning in life).

What is religion if not a “fantasy about the meaning of life”?

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teleskiguy  Apr 19, 2018 • 12:50:09am
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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 12:58:56am

re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What is religion if not a “fantasy about the meaning of life”?

The study survey, published at a vanity Website with no peer review, tried to claim atheists distort the term “meaning of life” by conflating evolutionary processes (which have no meaning) and assigning their own meaning to their lives.

journals.sagepub.com (survey in question)

That was picked up by a wingnut at The Federalist (I won’t link that here) to make the same assertion to their readers. The writer of that piece is a first-class wingnut from the Discovery Institute.

Essentially, the writer used a lie intentionally (conflating study with survey), a common practice amongst conservatives and religious apologists (see also the equivocation fallacy when apologists disingenuously use the word “theory”).

Readers at The Federalist were unlikely to spend the hour or so I spent tracking down the threads of this from the article published there (particularly since it confirms their bias against atheists).

I also had to explain that The Federalist comment sections are Dumpster fires of racism and fantasies about slaughtering liberals, Muslims, and immigrants.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 1:04:26am

re: #142 Anymouse 🌹

Essentially, the writer used a lie intentionally (conflating study with survey), a common practice amongst conservatives and religious apologists (see also the equivocation fallacy when apologists disingenuously use the word “theory”).

Oh I love those, when they take the results of a subjective survey question (“are you happy/satisfied with such-and-such?”) and sell it as the basis of a “statistical study”.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 19, 2018 • 1:11:01am

Yakuza 6 is good times y’all. All the Japan weirdness you’ve come to love from the Yakuza series plus full versions of Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown and PuyoPuyo thrown in as a arcade mini games.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 1:23:50am

re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Oh I love those, when they take the results of a subjective survey question (“are you happy/satisfied with such-and-such?”) and sell it as the basis of a “statistical study”.

The popular press will sometimes fail in that area as well, presenting a survey as a study. That said, in the case of regular media, it is more about the writer not understanding the difference. (We need science sections in newspapers again, though my newspaper has one.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 1:29:14am

re: #145 Anymouse 🌹

We need science sections in newspapers again, though my newspaper has one.

All pointless if we do not educate students on the Scientific Method and how it applies to “studies” like these.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 1:45:07am

re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

All pointless if we do not educate students on the Scientific Method and how it applies to “studies” like these.

Survey: Opinions.
Study: Formulate a hypothesis, collect facts, study the results, submit the results to other qualified researchers to check the results, formulate a theory which accounts for all the facts and leaves none out (which can be tested again using the same conditions).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 2:21:33am

re: #147 Anymouse 🌹

Survey: Opinions.
Study: Formulate a hypothesis, collect facts, study the results, submit the results to other qualified researchers to check the results, formulate a theory which accounts for all the facts and leaves none out (which can be tested again using the same conditions).

Survey: Fun pop culture-related questions like “Which Game of Thrones character would you most like to have sex with?”

Study: boring science stuff we would rather not read about

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 19, 2018 • 2:25:00am

In and interview with Fox yesterday GWB said that his mother liked to “rib” him till the end. He said that just a week ago she turned to a nurse and said “do you why George is the way he is? It’s because I drank and smoked when I was pregnant with him!” Ha ha? I’m not sure she was joking.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 2:27:12am

re: #149 Barefoot Grin

In and interview with Fox yesterday GWB said that his mother liked to “rib” him till the end. He said that just a week ago she turned to a nurse and said “do you why George is the way he is? It’s because I drank and smoked when I was pregnant with him!” Ha ha? I’m not sure she was joking.

A lot of people tried to explain GWB and the Iraq War as a means of “competing” with his dad, but maybe it was more oedipal in nature…

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 2:41:07am

re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A lot of people tried to explain GWB and the Iraq War as a means of “competing” with his dad, but maybe it was more oedipal in nature…

I read once that in one of the instances where he came out waving his Ruger M77 Manlicher rifle, he made a speech threatening President GHW Bush, but I don’t know how accurate that is.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 2:45:17am

re: #151 Anymouse 🌹

I read once that in one of the instances where he came out waving his Ruger M77 Manlicher rifle, he made a speech threatening President GHW Bush, but I don’t know how accurate that is.

All families have their conflicts and secrets. I cannot even begin to imagine the depths of the oedipal psychotic nature of the current First Family…

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 19, 2018 • 3:06:59am

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

Survey: Fun pop culture-related questions like “Which Game of Thrones character would you most like to have sex with?”

Missandei, the slave who falls in love with Grey Worm, Cersei (live dangerously), and Arya; she’s been aged in the show …

Oh, that was a rhetorical example, never mind.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 3:10:59am

Black students taunted as ‘slaves’ at Michigan school surrounded by Confederate flags

City and school officials say they’re monitoring the Confederate flag demonstration, but they say they can’t do much about it.

“They’re doing their legal constitutional duty,” said Mayor Lee Kilbourn.

“I’m not saying I’m supporting it or for or against it, but people in this country have to start realizing we have to tolerate all peoples’ views,” the mayor added. “That’s preached a lot out of Washington and a lot of other places, but it’s not practiced. Democrats don’t like Republicans’ views and Republicans don’t like Democrats’ views. People have to grow up and need to respect other peoples’ views.”

The mayor and school officials said they aren’t sure whether the flag demonstrations are racially motivated, but the school’s few black students say they have proof.

Yunno, I am even prepared to accept that someone from the South whose ancestors fought for or supported the Confederacy could fly that flag and see it as a sign of their heritage and not as purely racially motivated.

But clear me up on this: was Michigan ever part of the Confederacy?

Yet officials insist that they are not sure whether this is racially motivated…

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 3:25:19am

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

Survey: Fun pop culture-related questions like “Which Game of Thrones character would you most like to have sex with?”

Study: boring science stuff we would rather not read about

LOL.

I’ve never seen “Game of Thrones” so I don’t know any of the characters.

I don’t think sciency stuff is boring so apparently I’m weird or something.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 3:30:33am

re: #155 Anymouse 🌹

LOL.

I’ve never seen “Game of Thrones” so I don’t know any of the characters.

I don’t think sciency stuff is boring so apparently I’m weird or something.

My ex-GF and I watched the first two episodes but never followed up on it.

Aside from Lord of the Rings and Terry Pratchett, I am not big into fantasy. Give me historical fiction any day.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 19, 2018 • 3:36:56am

re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The parents should sue the school for allowing the bullying and racial harassment. With some people, you don’t talk. You sue and force them to defend their behavior.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 3:40:56am

re: #157 Patricia Kayden

The parents should sue the school for allowing the bullying and racial harassment. With some people, you don’t talk. You sue and force them to defend their behavior.

quoth the mayor: “…but people in this country have to start realizing we have to tolerate all peoples’ views,” the mayor added. “That’s preached a lot out of Washington and a lot of other places, but it’s not practiced. Democrats don’t like Republicans’ views and Republicans don’t like Democrats’ views. People have to grow up and need to respect other peoples’ views.

This is not a matter of Democrats or Republicans or of tolerance for differing views. You also have to respect the safety and human dignity of fellow human beings. I can see the display of a Confederate flag in that setting as nothing but a racially motivated threat.

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Lupin  Apr 19, 2018 • 3:55:50am

This is Trump in 2003 with Melania’s former roommate Victoria Silvstedt. They used to share a flat in the Marais neighborhood in Paris, very near where I used to live.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 3:59:23am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

quoth the mayor: “…but people in this country have to start realizing we have to tolerate all peoples’ views,” the mayor added. “That’s preached a lot out of Washington and a lot of other places, but it’s not practiced. Democrats don’t like Republicans’ views and Republicans don’t like Democrats’ views. People have to grow up and need to respect other peoples’ views.

This is not a matter of Democrats or Republicans or of tolerance for differing views. You also have to respect the safety and human dignity of fellow human beings. I can see the display of a Confederate flag in that setting as nothing but a racially motivated threat.

The paradox of tolerance applies here. If you tolerate the intolerant and they gain power, the tolerant will be silenced.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:01:09am

Warning Of Trump Pardons, NY AG Urges Lawmakers To Change Double Jeopardy Law (Talking Points Memo, more at the link):

New York’s attorney general on Wednesday urged lawmakers to change the state’s double jeopardy law to include specific language addressing presidential pardons.

Without doing so, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman wrote, “a defendant pardoned by the President for a serious federal crime could be freed from all accountability under federal and state criminal law, even though the President has no authority under the U.S. Constitution to pardon state crimes.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:03:16am

re: #160 Anymouse 🌹

The paradox of tolerance applies here. If you tolerate the intolerant and they gain power, the tolerant will be silenced.

This goes beyond “tolerating others’ viewpoints”, we are dealing with a clear threat of violence and intimidation.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:09:17am

re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This goes beyond “tolerating others’ viewpoints”, we are dealing with a clear threat of violence and intimidation.

That’s part of the reason so many conservatives and churches are opposed to anti-bullying laws under the rubric of free speech (they want consequence-free bullying).

As for demonstrations (even demonstrations I don’t like), they are protected speech. The I Amendment does not have an age limit about people you can demonstrate against.

That said, the second one of those demonstrators hurls an actual threat, the law is clear they can be arrested.

I’m not sure how to handle it. Unlike other countries, hate speech is protected speech as long as it does not incite violence.

All I can see would be to bring a suit to try to show an attempt or actual psychological damage (which would be tough to do in my non-legal opinion).

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:12:56am

Anti-science nutbars are going to doom us all:

A 4-year-old had been growling at preschool — so this naturopath says she gave him rabid dog saliva (goes to the Washington Post, more at the link):

A Canadian naturopath claims she treated a 4-year-old boy’s behavioral problems with a controversial homeopathic remedy — this is, saliva from a rabid dog.

The recent claims have caused concern in the medical community and prompted questions about why the saliva — known as lyssinum, lyssin or hydrophobinum — has been approved by the Canadian government as a legitimate homeopathic product.

Anke Zimmermann, from Victoria, wrote on her blog in February that she used the saliva last year to treat a preschooler who had been having trouble sleeping and behaving in the classroom. “His preschool is complaining that he hides under tables and growls at people,” she wrote in the post.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:17:40am

re: #159 Lupin

I’m going to say there is carnal knowledge all the way around here. And that’s fine, but why would I say such a thing? Because I know who Donald Trump is. And I’ve known for a long time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:19:02am

re: #165 Dave In Austin

I’m going to say there is carnal knowledge all the way around here. And that’s fine, but why would I say such a thing? Because I know who Donald Trump is. And I’ve known for a long time.

We have all known that, he has admitted it clearly in his own words.

But he is a case study on what people choose to ignore.

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Lupin  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:33:21am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We have all known that, he has admitted it clearly in his own words.

But he is a case study on what people choose to ignore.

Because it was obvious that a seedy character from a Penthouse Letter was the right choice to run the US Government. Senator Bluto Blutarski has finally won.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:33:31am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We have all known that, he has admitted it clearly in his own words.

But he is a case study on what people choose to ignore.

Well, I knew very little about Donald Trump prior to the election cycle, other than he ran a property business. Other than that, I really didn’t know or care about him.

It was only after he became a serious GOP candidate I started digging. Unfortunately, a lot of people didn’t do that. Worse, with his overt racism, a lot of people thought “that’s my guy.”

I do find it amazing that a self-proclaimed billionaire could somehow pass himself off as a “man of the people.” (I suppose in this instance “man of the people” means racist.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:35:21am

re: #168 Anymouse 🌹

Well, I knew very little about Donald Trump prior to the election cycle, other than he ran a property business. Other than that, I really didn’t know or care about him.

It was only after he became a serious GOP candidate I started digging. Unfortunately, a lot of people didn’t do that. Worse, with his overt racism, a lot of people thought “that’s my guy.”

I do find it amazing that a self-proclaimed billionaire could somehow pass himself off as a “man of the people.” (I suppose in this instance “man of the people” means racist.)

He has been a figure of ridicule in Rolling Stone and Spy magazine since the 1980’s.

I was aware of his reputation without ever having had an active interest in him or his career.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:35:53am

re: #168 Anymouse 🌹

I do find it amazing that a self-proclaimed billionaire could somehow pass himself off as a “man of the people.” (I suppose in this instance “man of the people” means racist.)

Man of the Lowest Common Denominator (which in America, includes being racist)

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:46:21am

re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He has been a figure of ridicule in Rolling Stone and Spy magazine since the 1980’s.

I was aware of his reputation without ever having had an active interest in him or his career.

There’s my problem: I never read either magazine.

re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Man of the Lowest Common Denominator (which in America, includes being racist)

Yup.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:50:53am

Another “view from nowhere” in the New York Times opinion page:

The Democrats’ Gentrification Problem (Thomas B. Edsall)

Allies on Election Day, the two wings of the Democratic Party [wealthy and poor] are growing further estranged in other aspects of their lives, driven apart by the movement of advantaged and disadvantaged populations within and between cities. These demographic patterns exacerbate intraparty tensions.

(more)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 4:59:01am

re: #172 Anymouse 🌹

Another “view from nowhere” in the New York Times opinion page:

The Democrats’ Gentrification Problem (Thomas B. Edsall)

(more)

At least they use the correct name, when they refer to it as “The Democrat Party”, you already know where it is going.

I have never heard them refer to “The Republic Party”…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:01:16am

re: #172 Anymouse 🌹

“One of the most expensive metropolitan areas in the country, San Francisco, is also one of the most Democratic sections of the country,”

housing costs are related to how well those areas are doing economically, and GOP states seem to be the ones that are struggling.

odd coincidence that these people are somehow trying to overlook and find other problems to blame the Dems on

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:24:10am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“One of the most expensive metropolitan areas in the country, San Francisco, is also one of the most Democratic sections of the country,”

housing costs are related to how well those areas are doing economically, and GOP states seem to be the ones that are struggling.

odd coincidence that these people are somehow trying to overlook and find other problems to blame the Dems on

Well, the “poor Democrats” idea seemed to me to be a subtle attempt at a dog whistle as in “minorities.” (To be clear, all minorities are not poor, nor are all whites wealthy … for example, me.) That seemed to be the unspoken argument to me the writer was making though.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:27:19am

re: #175 Anymouse 🌹

Well, the “poor Democrats” idea seemed to me to be a subtle attempt at a dog whistle as in “minorities.” (To be clear, all minorities are not poor, nor are all whites wealthy … for example, me.) That seemed to be the unspoken argument to me the writer was making though.

yes, it is a bit of a riff on “Democrats want to keep blacks down on the plantation” theme that has always been popular

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Lupin  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:27:52am

re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He has been a figure of ridicule in Rolling Stone and Spy magazine since the 1980’s.

I was aware of his reputation without ever having had an active interest in him or his career.

And DOONESBURY — don’t forget DOONESBURY!

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:27:58am

re: #133 Kragar

49 20 6b 6e 6f 77 20 6e 6f 74 20 6f 66 20 77 68 61 74 20 79 6f 75 20 73 70 65 61 6b

Binary I’ll go with, but this. Hex no.

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:29:02am

The nation of scam artists and pretenders:

So, I do regular searches for news on creationism, filtered for the previous 24 hours of new links, and sometimes the weirdest stuff pops up.

This morning’s search on google brought up a hit for a page titled “DARWIN THEORY OF EVOLUTION ESSAY.. CREATIVE WRITING UBC MINOR”.

So I click on it and… instead the page is redirected elsewhere, to which I will get shortly.

Thus I had to use the google cache version of the link:

webcache.googleusercontent.com

It’s a bunch of gobbledygook, which is not unusual for creationists, but this “essay” is just a melange of words and phrases.

Now we’ve seen this stuff plenty of time - it’s just the output a poorly functioning automatic text creation program.

Anyway, the non-cached link goes here: mzlife.org

When I click on that link I end up at lastdayessay, a website that supposedly sells essays and homework solutions.

So I wonder if that church of the original link, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, of Edgerton, Missouri is legitimately a church or not. They very well may be, as there is a Facebook Page for such an organization.

Most of the recent links on that Facebook Page go to… their Facebook page, not a separate website. But some of their older posts do reference the url mzlife.org , so that was, and perhaps still is, their own url and website.

And sure enough, if you click around that website there are lots of churchy stuff.

But, if I click on a bad link on that site, I end up at… yup, the lastdayessay website.

Now how the church and whoever runs that essay business got wound up together I do not know. Maybe someone in the church runs it, or maybe their web developer runs lastdayessay and just lifted code from one website to their client’s website - I don’t know.

But I started to delve more into this “lastdayessay” website, looking for information on it.

What is so striking, when googling for information about lastdayessay, is how many “review” sites come up praising it. You can google itself and see how many come up.

So I decided to see what comes up when I looked at some of the essay “review” sites in general and see what appears.

One such site is by a “Lisa Griffin”, who has a blogspot blog (only for pay-for-essay information, it seems), titled “Best Places to Pay for Essays Online?”, in which she gives the companies she reviews overall positive marks.

Then I noticed her photo, thought to myself what an attractive woman… and professional photograph. And sure enough it is, as the image comes from the flickr account of a French professional photographer Benjamin Ballande:


Flickr

Portrait : Woman : Nikon D600 : Nikkor 70 200 AFS VR F2.8

He took a small series of photos of that woman, posted in 2013.

On her blogspot website is linked her google+ account: plus.google.com where she claims she worked at Grand Valley State University (which is in Michigan.) There is a woman by that name who was on the faculty in nursing. Now, it could be the same woman as the photo by the pro photographer (and the photo at GVSU seems similar), but then I have to ask why is someone who has a masters in nursing doing a review of essay production companies, which seems quite at odds with someone who would be required to teach a professional skill like nursing. But the names “Lisa” and “Griffin” are common and their could be more than one at GVSU.

Anyway, said blogger (and possible nursing instructor) is also found online with many articles spread over dubious websites. Articles like:
8 ways to encourage your child to be physically active

10 Powerful Tips to Overcome Negative Thoughts

5 SEO Tips that will make your Competitors Boil with Anger

How To Conquer Your Fear Of Failure?
where she has a short bio:

Author: Lisa Griffin
Lisa Griffin is an American journalist, blogger and freelance writer at EduBirdie known all over the world. In her 37 years old, she has published more than 13 books in the psychological field. Lisa visited more than 27 countries, and she shares these multicultural stories and cross-cultural experience with her readers in her books ‘13 Jigsaws’ and ‘One morning in Liverpool”. Last year Lisa became a Founder of Griffin’s Studio, where she teaches how to write properly. View all posts by Lisa Griffin

Ok, so maybe she’s real renaissance woman.

But I have to wonder, given she has reviewed so many services that provide one with written-by-others essays, did she really write all those articles?

It all strikes me as being very much a product of our current age.

Regarding the essay/homework-solution offering companies themselves, looking at the (possibly phony) review sites, I notice that many people online ask (and answer) if such sites are “legitimate”, for example:

This is another worth mentioning top essay writing companies that students are amazed with. All students who have used this writing service have said it is worth it. Its paper writing services are extremely professional and legitimate. To add on to that it proves to be consistent over the many years it has been in the industry.

How about this tagline by a website, complete with spelling error:

This website is the only legit online student resourse. [sic]

A simple google search will provide one with endless examples.

Most of which appear to be fronts for a handful of companies.

Imagine a student wanting to use one of these services, worried about whether they are “legit”, while at the same time likely to submit (to their teacher/school) anything they bought under their own name.

This, this is the America in which we live.

This is the America that has Trump as President.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:31:32am

re: #178 Eventual Carrion

Binary I’ll go with, but this. Hex no.

LOL. That might be a love spell or something.

I’m not octalulate enough to speak either binary or hex.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:32:23am

re: #179 freetoken

The nation of scam artists and pretenders:

It is a country in which fulfilling your dream means getting away with whatever you can get away with

It is about getting whatever you can squeeze out of the market at the time you make the deal

And then it is about stashing that wealth somewhere you do not have to pay taxes on it or account for it

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:39:08am

re: #179 freetoken

Even a person with a legitimate degree in a scientific field or applied science can end up as a grifter. (Either because grifting is easier, or the person simply cannot cut it in the scientific world, like Michael Behe.)

Whether it’s low-level grifting like writing other people’s papers (and I understand you can make pretty good money at that), or high-level grifting like working as a scientist to shill for tobacco companies or oil companies, sometimes the easy road is the one they take.

Ken Ham has built a creationist empire on grifting. He comes across to me as savvy (since he’s able to do that). If he had simply applied himself to education as hard as he did to grifting from gullible religious people, he might have made some sort of positive contribution to society (instead of sticking Grant County, KY with a bunch of municipal bonds they can’t pay).

The digging you did there was interesting. I always find it amazing how much work people will put into being dishonest. I really don’t understand it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:41:10am

re: #182 Anymouse 🌹

The digging you did there was interesting. I always find it amazing how much work people will put into being dishonest. I really don’t understand it.

It must be connected to some sociopathic thrill associated with scamming people

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:48:26am

re: #153 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Missandei, the slave who falls in love with Grey Worm, Cersei (live dangerously), and Arya; she’s been aged in the show …

Oh, that was a rhetorical example, never mind.

Book Missandei is the same age as book Arya

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:48:42am

Morning!

yeah…another cold blustery one with snow flurries.

It would be a alright for a late February morning.

But it is freaking past the middle of April. Give me a break!

Please.

K,thnx.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:49:19am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It mu$t be connected to $ome $ociopathic thri££ a$$ociated with $camming people

Maybe my alteration explains it.

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:51:35am

Freetoken…

In your #179 I see some of the type is garbled.

If you can still edit, add one or two line spaces between the text and the image info/link.

I’ve notice in the past that if the text is on the same line, or there is not a clear space between a link to a video or image it will run into the type.

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:52:01am

Speaking of America in 2018:

I have several email accounts from long ago that I still use, which eventually ended up managed by Yahoo.

Recently I received emails on all these accounts about updating the privacy policy, as the company is merged with Oath.

Thinking these may be a scam, I searched the Yahoo q&a for info and it appears to be “legit”, to borrow a phrase hot in our society now:
I got a yahoo email with subject: Important update to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy It looks like a scam. Not sure?

Looking into this a bit more:

Yahoo and AOL just gave themselves the right to read your emails (again)

Nothing is private anymore.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:53:07am

re: #185 ObserverArt

Morning!

yeah…another cold blustery one with snow flurries.

It would be a alright for a late February morning.

But it is freaking past the middle of April. Give me a break!

Please.

K,thnx.

Here at Chez Tumbleweed, we’re scheduled for temperatures ranging from the mid-thirties at night to fifties and sixties in the day, with high winds today and rain for the next few days starting tomorrow.

Hopefully we won’t have any more blizzards. (A couple years ago we had one on May 31 though.)

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:53:07am

re: #187 ObserverArt

Thanks.

I added a bunch of spaces.

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:55:46am

I hate to give up email addresses that I’ve used for up to 30 years, but if things continue to go the way they are at yahoo, I may have to move all my email to gmail and hotmail (not called that anymore, but it was when I signed up.)

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 19, 2018 • 5:57:47am

Had lunch yesterday with a conservative friend. His view seems to be that Trump will be supported by the Americans as long as the economy is doing well. He talked about 3% growth in the GDP over several quarters (is that actually true?) as something that hasn’t been accomplished in awhile. I told him that there was nothing Trump has done or likely will do that could win my support

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:02:02am

re: #191 freetoken

I hate to give up email addresses that I’ve used for up to 30 years, but if things continue to go the way they are at yahoo, I may have to move all my email to gmail and hotmail (not called that anymore, but it was when I signed up.)

Yeah, me too. I had an SBCGlobal phone and internet account from the late 90s that was caught in the merger of the ‘Bells’ into ATT. It has always been handled by Yahoo. I have never liked that.

Then the other day I see the new Privacy Warning and the companies they are merged with.

I need to contact ATT and see if they can host the account with the same address.

I do not like Yahoo and I think I don’t like them even more now.

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:04:29am

re: #126 Kragar

The Mrs and I enjoy the show for its escapism, and the fact that Neal McDonough is awesome as the big bad. He plays it with such glee and abandon, and even gets a bit of pathos in there to at the end.

That it also has a bunch of really strong character development and misfits who figure out a way to work together is also great. Too bad DC can’t seem to capture that on the big screen more often.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:05:52am

re: #188 freetoken

You can always trust my wife’s Webhosting service. She would never read my E-mails. I know that for a fact of running my E-mail for years through her Websites.

What’s all this sexxxxxxytimes stuff in your E-mail box again? (Pulls out rolling pin) Thwack thwack thwack!

Honest, Sweetie, it’s research material for my editing job!

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Unshaken Defiance  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:10:10am

Events have a way of spinning out of control. Will the Russians engage Iraqi planes? Don’t see why not.

Todays example-
The office of Iraq’s prime minister issued the following curt statement to mark the country’s opening up of air operations in Syria:
“On the orders of the Commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Dr. Haider Abadi, our heroic Air Force on Thursday carried out deadly airstrikes against the sites of the terrorist ISIL gangs in Syria on the Iraqi border.”

Update: 5:14am PST—
The New York Times reports that the strikes were coordinated with the Assad government and were carried out using F-16s. If indeed the Iraqi government, which has close ties to Iran—and Iran backs Assad directly—did not work with the U.S. on these sorties it could drastically complicate the airspace over eastern Syria and it could lead to a major fracture in U.S.-Iraq military and diplomatic relations.

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:12:35am

re: #193 ObserverArt

I need to contact ATT and see if they can host the account with the same address.

I doubt ATT can.

I had ATT accounts since they started to offer email (way back when), which I used while traveling (remember modems?)

ATT turned over their product offering of emails (note: not their own corporate websites) to Yahoo years ago. With that were swept up all the ATT as well as legacy Bell addresses.

Now, if your ISP happens to be ATT, I don’t know if they have a separate email service for that. att.com

I suspect that they still farm it out to Yahoo (now Oath.)

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makeitstop  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:13:58am

Says Who drops his suits against Buzzfeed and Fusion GPS…

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:14:16am
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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:16:47am

re: #197 freetoken

I doubt ATT can.

I had ATT accounts since they started to offer email (way back when), which I used while traveling (remember modems?)

ATT turned over their product offering of emails (note: not their own corporate websites) to Yahoo years ago. With that were swept up all the ATT as well as legacy Bell addresses.

Now, if your ISP happens to be ATT, I don’t know if they have a separate email service for that. att.com

I suspect that they still farm it out to Yahoo (now Oath.)

Yes, I have ATT Internet too, along with my phone.

One time a year or so ago Att/Yahoo has some server issues and I called ATT. Of course they told me to contact Yahoo, but I think the ATT tech I was talking too said ATT was now hosting email accounts too.

I should have checked with them then.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:17:34am

re: #192 Hecuba’s daughter

Had lunch yesterday with a conservative friend. His view seems to be that Trump will be supported by the Americans as long as the economy is doing well. He talked about 3% growth in the GDP over several quarters (is that actually true?) as something that hasn’t been accomplished in awhile. I told him that there was nothing Trump has done or likely will do that could win my support

He has a point. People will ignore his personal failings and even his blatant violations of the law as long as they see the economy improving.

The only thing Trump has done that I can support is to increase spending on Veteran’s Affairs, although his 6% increase is less than the 10% that they would need to really be able to address their problems.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:18:03am

re: #197 freetoken

There’s a reason except for unimportant piddly gossip and such I use the US Postal Service.

The price of stamps affords way more privacy. That, and people like getting personal letters.

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Unshaken Defiance  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:19:08am

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:20:14am

re: #188 freetoken

Speaking of America in 2018:

I have several email accounts from long ago that I still use, which eventually ended up managed by Yahoo.

Recently I received emails on all these accounts about updating the privacy policy, as the company is merged with Oath.

Thinking these may be a scam, I searched the Yahoo q&a for info and it appears to be “legit”, to borrow a phrase hot in our society now:
I got a yahoo email with subject: Important update to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy It looks like a scam. Not sure?

Looking into this a bit more:

Yahoo and AOL just gave themselves the right to read your emails (again)

Nothing is private anymore.

Unencrypted email has always been the equivalent of a post-card rather than a sealed letter. There was never anything private about it.

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William Lewis  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:20:15am

re: #188 freetoken

Nothing is ever was private anymore.

FTFY.

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:20:31am

A delayed greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.

Cohen’s dropped his nonsensical suit against Buzzfeed and Fusion GPS? What a surprise.

He’s in deep trouble in so many different ways that:
1) he can’t keep track of all the suits.
2) he can’t afford to keep track of all the suits;
3) he can’t afford all these suits and needs to focus on his legal defense;
4) deciding to forgo legal counsel means that he’s got a fool for a client if he thinks this is going to end well if he doesn’t have someone better defending him;
5) he’s a fixer and a thug/bully who has a legal degree. That doesn’t make him effective as a lawyer.

Cohen’s going to flip, and it seems apparent to everyone that knows the situation. Former Trump lawyers. Commentators. Pundits. Everyone.

And here’s the thing - it all comes from the assumption that Cohen and Trump engaged in criminal acts, and therefore Cohen is going to flip to protect himself while giving up the goods on criminal acts carried out by Trump and the rest of his cronies.

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:20:36am

re: #198 makeitstop

Says Who drops his suits against Buzzfeed and Fusion GPS…

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It sort of seems Says Who Cohen and his lawyers are cleaning up some loose ends because they just might have too many fights going on that help look like obstruction.

Maybe they need to concentrate on Says Who more than Trump’s lady friends and other Trump protections, since he appears to be really deep in the shit now.

We may be getting to the point where Says Who start Saying A Lot about Trump.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:22:00am

re: #207 ObserverArt

It sort of seems Says Who Cohen and his lawyers are cleaning up some loose ends because they just might have too many fights going on that help look like obstruction.

Maybe they need to concentrate on Says Who more than Trump’s lady friends and other Trump protections, since he appears to be really deep in the shit now.

We may be getting to the point where Says Who start Saying A Lot about Trump.

I hope he lets a few Hannity bombs slip along the way as well

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:22:31am

re: #198 makeitstop

Says Who drops his suits against Buzzfeed and Fusion GPS…

Wholly crap, there’s a lot of derp/deflection/disinformation/whataboutism in that thread.

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:22:48am

re: #200 ObserverArt

It’s all been so confusing.

Last June ATT made claims that their email was still going to be handled as it was (by Yahoo) but that they were looking at other possibilities:

att.com

Now, I stopped paying for ATT finally, after many years. I had paid for their dialup service since it started, but I last needed it when I was in Japan and travelling. As I’ve not done that for several years now, I just kept the email accounts.

So my current att email addresses are freebies (as I’m no longer paying ATT, and ATT promised that as long as the email addresses get used, i.e., have mail sent through them, then they’ll not be deleted.) I hope they don’t get squashed in anything that Oath may do in the future, if ATT decides it doesn’t want to be associated with Oath.

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Big Beautiful Door  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:24:13am

re: #46 Eclectic Cyborg

Dear God. Please please PLEASE tell me this is satire!

Its not, he said it in 1995.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:25:10am

Programming note: We need an “upfist every comment” button.

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:26:36am

re: #211 Big Beautiful Door

Its not, he said it in 1995.

Extremist libertarians have been known to make that claim: If I find a woman on my property, I can do with her as I wish.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:28:02am

re: #213 Anymouse 🌹

Extremist libertarians have been known to make that claim: If I find a woman on my property, I can do with her as I wish.

Women are property to these goombahs

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jeffreyw  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:29:38am

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Good morning!

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:31:48am

re: #215 jeffreyw

I see the dove is making the woodpecker very unhappy.

Typical for doves and pigeons. They don’t play well with other birds.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:33:12am

re: #192 Hecuba’s daughter

Had lunch yesterday with a conservative friend. His view seems to be that Trump will be supported by the Americans as long as the economy is doing well. He talked about 3% growth in the GDP over several quarters (is that actually true?) as something that hasn’t been accomplished in awhile. I told him that there was nothing Trump has done or likely will do that could win my support

Of course they’re wrong. 2.3 last year.

washingtonpost.com

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Anymouse 🌹  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:33:15am

LOL, someone went after the Tennessee Legislature’s entry at Wikipedia (screen shot from Wonkette). Wikipedia has reversed the edit, but apparently someone from Memphis was upset at the Lege trying to screw the city of Memphis over their removal of Confederate traitor statues.

wonkette.com (with screen shots of the edited Wikipedia pages)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:34:56am

re: #217 GlutenFreeJesus

Of course they’re wrong. 2.3 last year.

washingtonpost.com

As long as Trump gets up and tweets about “record economic growth” they will be happy and not bother themselves with Fake News Statistics compiled by Deep State Bureaucrats.

Unless the statistics favor Trump, in which case they will be taken at face value.

Which is why your Conservative friend unfortunately has a point…

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Renaissance_Man  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:41:46am

re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As long as Trump gets up and tweets about “record economic growth” they will be happy and not bother themselves with Fake news Statistics compiled by Deep State Bureaucrats.

Which is why your Conservative friend unfortunately has a point…

Pretending that Trumpers support Trump for any objective, reality-based reason is part of the game. It allows Trumpers to pretend that they have morally acceptable reasons for endorsing evil. The truth, of course, is that they support an authoritarian, corrupt crime family regime because they hate everyone not part of their cult, and want to see the state bully them.

‘The economy’ has nothing to do with their support. They will insist that the economy is great whether it is or not, in order to justify their hate.

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:43:19am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:47:03am

re: #221 lawhawk

The idea that Trump has made a breakthrough in foreign policy by meeting with Kim is hilarious. Any Kim would happily have met with any president. It’s the equalization of a pipsqueak monster with the president of the United States.

Trump cannot lose the PR spin game on this, either: if he comes up with anything tangible, it will be hailed as a major triumph of diplomatic dealmaking, if he does not, then it will be because he he was tough and “stood up to a dictator”.

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Lupin  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:51:06am

French president Macron already bragged of talking Trump into firing missiles at Syria despite Trump’s isolationist impulses, and now he’s going onto Fox News to pitch the president’s supporters.

Macron will talk to Chris Wallace at Élysée Palace on Sunday, in advance of Macron’s official visit the U.S. later this month.

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:52:42am

re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Trump cannot lose the PR spin game on this, either: if he comes up with anything tangible, it will be hailed as a major triumph of diplomatic dealmaking, if he does not, then it will be because he he was tough and “stood up to a dictator”.

And that’s right after the right wing bitched about how South Korea stood up and bowed to the joint Korea team and how North Korea are a bunch of monsters who murder their own. But Pompeo and Trump will be meeting with them with no preconditions - after dropping the precondition that North Korea first get rid of its nuclear program.

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Big Beautiful Door  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:53:29am

re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Black students taunted as ‘slaves’ at Michigan school surrounded by Confederate flags

City and school officials say they’re monitoring the Confederate flag demonstration, but they say they can’t do much about it.

“They’re doing their legal constitutional duty,” said Mayor Lee Kilbourn.

“I’m not saying I’m supporting it or for or against it, but people in this country have to start realizing we have to tolerate all peoples’ views,” the mayor added. “That’s preached a lot out of Washington and a lot of other places, but it’s not practiced. Democrats don’t like Republicans’ views and Republicans don’t like Democrats’ views. People have to grow up and need to respect other peoples’ views.”

The mayor and school officials said they aren’t sure whether the flag demonstrations are racially motivated, but the school’s few black students say they have proof.

Yunno, I am even prepared to accept that someone from the South whose ancestors fought for or supported the Confederacy could fly that flag and see it as a sign of their heritage and not as purely racially motivated.

But clear me up on this: was Michigan ever part of the Confederacy?

Yet officials insist that they are not sure whether this is racially motivated…

I’d like to see them react that way to people waving ISIS flags (and not the dildo flag) and calling female students sex slaves. Same difference; the Confederate Battle Flag is the symbol of the KKK terrorist organization.

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:56:56am

re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yet officials insist that they are not sure whether this is racially motivated…

The mayor’s claim as reported is just silly.

And revealing.

First off, he says the confederate sympathizers are doing their “duty”.

Nonsense.

There’s no duty at all here.

And back in 1861, anyone raising a Confederate flag in Michigan would have been treated like a traitor that they were.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:59:08am

Thing about the CSA flag and Confederate memorials/place names is a good number of them came about in the Civil Rights era as a direct means of intimidating civil rights supporters and then there’s the weird CSA flag fetish with those who live in states that were staunchly pro Union. I had a neighborhood friend growing up whose family was from the Midwest whom had a CSA flag in his room. It wasn’t his heritage. Of course he had a right to it but it really rubbed me the wrong way and looking back on it, his family was certainly racist when it came to my brother’s friends, many of whom were African American.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 19, 2018 • 6:59:14am

Good morning Lizardia!

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Sea Mexican!  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:00:02am

re: #185 ObserverArt

Morning!

yeah…another cold blustery one with snow flurries.

It would be a alright for a late February morning.

But it is freaking past the middle of April. Give me a break!

Please.

K,thnx.

Break given. Around here it’s raining like it’s August.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:00:28am

re: #226 freetoken

The mayor’s claim as reported is just silly.

And revealing.

First off, he says the confederate sympathizers are doing their “duty”.

Nonsense.

There’s no duty at all here.

And back in 1861, anyone raising a Confederate flag in Michigan would have been treated like a traitor that they were.

That again is the point, this has nothing to do with any “proud heritage” or history, it is about inciting hatred and instilling fear.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:01:21am

re: #226 freetoken

The mayor’s claim as reported is just silly.

And revealing.

First off, he says the confederate sympathizers are doing their “duty”.

Nonsense.

There’s no duty at all here.

And back in 1861, anyone raising a Confederate flag in Michigan would have been treated like a traitor that they were.

Yeah what “duty” is there for the CSA in frigging Michigan. It’s funny. I see whites tell blacks to get over slavery and Jim Crow but never our fellow whites to get over the CSA’s defeat. Funny that.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:02:39am

re: #228 The Vicious Babushka

Good morning Lizardia!

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Big Beautiful Door  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:02:50am

re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Man of the Lowest Common Denominator (which in America, includes being racist)

Who is also a coastal elite who personally embodies everything about coastal elites his fans claim to loathe: the narcissism, sexual degeneracy and contempt for his lessers.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:03:09am

re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That again is the point, this has nothing to do with any “proud heritage” or history, it is about inciting hatred and instilling fear.

That’s all it is about.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:04:54am

Not everyone who owns a CSA flag is a white suoremacist but every white supremacist venerates the CSA cause and flag.

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Big Beautiful Door  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:05:50am

re: #192 Hecuba’s daughter

Had lunch yesterday with a conservative friend. His view seems to be that Trump will be supported by the Americans as long as the economy is doing well. He talked about 3% growth in the GDP over several quarters (is that actually true?) as something that hasn’t been accomplished in awhile. I told him that there was nothing Trump has done or likely will do that could win my support

No, its not actually true. Surprise!

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retired cynic  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:08:17am

re: #217 GlutenFreeJesus

Of course they’re wrong. 2.3 last year.

washingtonpost.com

That’s a January take. More recently, it’s been revised upwards. businessinsider.com

I double checked, because I heard about this from my broker yesterday. (Note: yesterday is the first day I can use the words “my broker” in my life.)

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:08:34am

As a diversion (from the usual) I’ve been watching physics lecture videos (on youtube, at Perimeter, etc.) about various topics.

And the more I review what I supposedly learned (decades ago) the more I realize how little I know.

Or more accurately, how incompletely I understand the universe.

But the one thing that is quite evident is how poor popular presentations, and “answers” given on this or that website or video, often are.

It’s easy to simply repeat what others have said.

It’s another to understand a topic sufficiently to pose new questions, or to properly explain an old answer.

And no place is this more clear than in questions about Relativity.

Still a confusing subject (it always will be because we humans are hardwired to understand the world a certain way, because we live in a world where there is little gravity and we go slowly compared to light) and the simplest of questions can trip someone up.

I can easily construct a question that can confuse me so much that I can get lost in answering it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:12:14am

re: #238 freetoken

Still a confusing subject (it always will be because we humans are hardwired to understand the world a certain way, because we live in a world where there is little gravity and we go slowly compared to light) and the simplest of questions can trip someone up.

I can easily construct a question that can confuse me so much that I can get lost in answering it.

And despite the fact that we have come know otherwise, our minds are still adapted to think in terms of the world around us being flat, that there is an absolute “up” and “down” and the sun, moon and starts moving while we remain fixed.

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Big Beautiful Door  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:13:49am

re: #213 Anymouse 🌹

Extremist libertarians have been known to make that claim: If I find a woman on my property, I can do with her as I wish.

IOW, women are property, not people.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:14:25am
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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:15:22am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The sun does really appear to rise in the east and set in the west.

But as for the shape of the earth: during a lunar eclipse, when the earth casts a shadow on the moon, we can get a feel for the shape of the earth.

And speaking of the moon, even though it is tidally locked and we always see the same side, in fact we see more than 50% of the moon’s surface. Look it up, it’s a fascinating topic if you’re into these kind of things.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:18:11am

re: #242 freetoken

The sun does really appear to rise in the east and set in the west.

But as for the shape of the earth: during a lunar eclipse, when the earth casts a shadow on the moon, we can get a feel for the shape of the earth.

And speaking of the moon, even though it is tidally locked and we always see the same side, in fact we see more than 50% of the moon’s surface. Look it up, it’s a fascinating topic if you’re into these kind of things.

we all know that it is a giant sky dragon eating the moon

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:18:12am

re: #241 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

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I agree but hear me out, I actually think Podhoertz has a point here. By getting a meeting with Trump, it really helps Kim’s propaganda.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:19:51am

re: #244 HappyWarrior

I agree but hear me out, I actually think Podhoertz has a point here. By getting a meeting with Trump, it really helps Kim’s propaganda.

Of course it does, but Trump really is no better than Kim.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:25:56am

re: #242 freetoken

The sun does really appear to rise in the east and set in the west.

But as for the shape of the earth: during a lunar eclipse, when the earth casts a shadow on the moon, we can get a feel for the shape of the earth.

And speaking of the moon, even though it is tidally locked and we always see the same side, in fact we see more than 50% of the moon’s surface. Look it up, it’s a fascinating topic if you’re into these kind of things.

I did go and look that up. So the moon gets drunk and wobbles, showing us some of its backside.

No wonder they call it lunar libations…

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:30:25am

re: #245 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Of course it does, but Trump really is no better than Kim.

Agreed.

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:42:41am

re: #160 Anymouse 🌹

When someone says the left is intolerant of intolerance while claiming to be tolerant (or some variation of that nonsense, say “I am intolerant of bigotry. What is your position?”

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:44:51am

re: #244 HappyWarrior

I agree but hear me out, I actually think Podhoertz has a point here. By getting a meeting with Trump, it really helps Kim’s propaganda.

That’s exactly the point.

Before Trump, no President would meet in a one-on-one with the Kim clan unless the North got rid of their nuclear program.

Trump dropped the precondition and has elevated Jong Un as an equal in a meeting with President of the US.

Every other 2-bit dictator is taking note. Get nukes and you too get to meet with Trump because Trump is so easily played. He thinks the meeting itself is the success. The US gets nothing out of a meeting with a dictatorship. Neither does South Korea or China or Japan (our allies in the region, who are now sidelined because we previously refused to meet in any regard unless there was 6 party talks.

Again, our strategic interests in the region are undermined thanks to Trump raging like a bull in a china shop thinking that he knows better than everyone else.

Any US president could have met with North Korea before now. That wasn’t a breakthrough. We put conditions in place because we wanted the North to act before we met. We wanted them to give up their nuclear program.

The North is not going to give up its program without getting something in return. It’s essentially extortion, and Trump’s idiotic enough to go for it.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:47:01am

re: #248 BlueSpotinAL

When someone says the left is intolerant of intolerance while claiming to be tolerant (or some variation of that nonsense, say “I am intolerant of bigotry. What is your position?”

Haven’t you gotten the memo. Bigotry is now just a “point of view”, and a “different idea” that the tricksy Liberals are trying to suppress because they hate freedom.

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:53:38am

re: #250 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

The great irony is, many of these folk (defending bigotry) want to label themselves as “Christian”.

Now, I’m not writing here of supposed hypocrisy with such a claim, as often done by some whose interpretation of the (various) Jesus characters of the Gospels has said Jesus as a champion for the every-person, etc.

Instead, that so many “conservative Christians” get so bent out of shape about moral relativity, claiming there is an absolute standard for truth, including morality.

How can there be an absolute standard (for morality) if the condemnation of bigotry is asserted to be just another opinion?

If one has “standards”, then of course they may differ from another person’s.

But the real question in regards to bigotry, as you point out, is to ask the person defending the bigot if your hearer has any standards in regards to bigotry.

They may not.

If they do, then you can challenge them on why they also don’t condemn the bigot.

I suspect if you take someone along this line of reasoning you’ll uncover lots of stuff about them.

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gwangung  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:54:40am

I just remember this little tidbit:

91% of white evangelicals went for Trump.
65% of POC envagelicals went for Clinton.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:55:44am

Final trailer for Deadpool 2.

Looking forward to this one.

Deadpool 2: The Final Trailer

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 7:58:41am

re: #250 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Haven’t you gotten the memo. Bigotry is now just a “point of view”, and a “different idea” that the tricksy Liberals are trying to suppress because they hate freedom.

and white supremacism and fascism are regarded as merely points along the political spectrum, not something that is anathema to everything America stands for and what it has fought against in numerous and bloody wars.

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Sea Mexican!  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:00:24am

re: #185 ObserverArt

How are you?

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:00:57am

re: #221 lawhawk

lawhawk
@lawhawk
This is entirely the point. Trump didn’t have a breakthrough. He gave up leverage and Jong Un gets elevated as an equal no matter what else happens now.

Jong Un did what his dad and grandfather never could: he’s treated as an equal and it’s all because of the nuke program.

…

6:58 AM - Apr 19, 2018

Well, it is not all because of their nuke program. A good portion of their stature being raised is because of the dumbass that calls himself the greatest president ever.

He’s getting played by the guy he mocked with stupid name-calling. How sad is that?

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:01:16am

re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and white supremacism and fascism are regarded as merely points along the political spectrum, not something that is anathema to everything America stands for and what it has fought against in numerous and bloody wars.

There was a time when one could find proponents of complete moral relativism.

What I just mentioned is that now it appears that “conservative Christians” in this country are adopting that point of view (when convenient), while still touting things like absolute morality from the Bible.

It’s an extra layer of ethical hypocrisy.

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jeffreyw  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:02:43am

re: #216 freetoken

I see the dove is making the woodpecker very unhappy.

Typical for doves and pigeons. They don’t play well with other birds.

I think the red belly is just saying “GOOD MORNING”. Woodpeckers do not have an inside voice.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:02:53am

re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Trump cannot lose the PR spin game on this, either: if he comes up with anything tangible, it will be hailed as a major triumph of diplomatic dealmaking, if he does not, then it will be because he he was tough and “stood up to a dictator”.

Oh, it will be easy for him to lose the PR game: The next nuclear test. As for standing up to North Korea, if it fails to go anywhere all we have to say is that he gave North Korea permission to continue.

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Big Beautiful Door  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:03:10am

re: #253 Dr Lizardo

Final trailer for Deadpool 2.

Looking forward to this one.

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Video

Definitely going to go see this one without the kids!

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makeitstop  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:03:23am

re: #253 Dr Lizardo

Final trailer for Deadpool 2.

Looking forward to this one.

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Video

Loved the DC Universe ref.

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Big Beautiful Door  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:04:45am

re: #261 makeitstop

Loved the DC Universe ref.

From the Company that killed Wolverine!

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:05:41am

re: #226 freetoken

The mayor’s claim as reported is just silly.

And revealing.

First off, he says the confederate sympathizers are doing their “duty”.

Nonsense.

There’s no duty at all here.

And back in 1861, anyone raising a Confederate flag in Michigan would have been treated like a traitor that they were.

That was before good roads like RT 23 and cars brought the south to the north.

Route 23…Jacksonville FLA to Upper Michigan.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:11:59am

re: #261 makeitstop

Yeah, made me laugh. Hopefully, this one will be as well-written as the original.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:15:42am

re: #260 Big Beautiful Door

Definitely going to go see this one without the kids!

My kids weren’t scarred by the first one.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:16:25am

Finland is killing its world-famous basic income experiment

Finland’s basic income experiment made headlines around the world when it launched in 2017, and is now in its second and final year.

The project involves 2000 unemployed Finns, who receive roughly $690 every month - no strings attached. No official findings have yet been published, but some participants reported lower stress levels at an early stage.

While the experiment is still attracting attention internationally, Finnish decision-makers have already made a silent U-turn, scrapping plans to extend the project.

The Finnish government is now eyeing different social welfare solutions.
Since the beginning of last year, 2000 Finns are getting money from the government each month - and they are not expected to do anything in return. The participants, aged 25-58, are all unemployed, and were selected at random by Kela, Finland’s social-security institution.

Instead of unemployment benefits, the participants now receive €560, or $690, per month, tax free. Should they find a job during the two-year trial, they still get to keep the money.

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electrotek  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:17:45am

Of course, Beaumont PD NEVER bothered to respond to me on Twitter, but they had time to tweet this:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:18:36am

re: #259 Belafon

Oh, it will be easy for him to lose the PR game: The next nuclear test. As for standing up to North Korea, if it fails to go anywhere all we have to say is that he gave North Korea permission to continue.

Any normal President would lose over that, but we have entered the Age of the new Media Reality.

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:19:46am

re: #250 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Haven’t you gotten the memo. Bigotry is now just a “point of view”, and a “different idea” that the tricksy Liberals are trying to suppress because they hate freedom.

{Whitesplainin’}

The problem is White bigotry needs some tender understanding.

You see White’s were the absolute supreme leaders of the world. They made it a White World. And because of that dominance they didn’t need to consider other peoples. Other peoples needed to understand Whites.

Now that other peoples are finally coming into their own, after all this time, Whites are still having a tough time understanding them.

So go real easy on Whites, after all that White Time it has become part of their DNA to deny others. They may never get over it.

It is only natural.

So basically other peoples still need to understand Whites.

Get over it.

{/Whitesplainin’}

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William Lewis  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:19:56am

re: #252 gwangung

I just remember this little tidbit:

91% of white evangelicals went for Trump.
65% of POC envagelicals went for Clinton.

Thankfully evangelicals are only a subset of all Christianity. A vocal subset but still, there are those of us who remember Bonhoeffer’s choice instead.

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electrotek  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:20:39am

re: #252 gwangung

I just remember this little tidbit:

91% of white evangelicals went for Trump.
65% of POC envagelicals went for Clinton.

Don’t forget the African Evangelical penchant for Trump, never underestimate that either, especially from African immigrants.

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:21:48am

re: #266 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I always question headlines like that.

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William Lewis  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:22:47am

re: #253 Dr Lizardo

Final trailer for Deadpool 2.

Looking forward to this one.

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Video

“So dark…” Hoot! That line alone is worth the movie.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:23:39am

Re: ATT email

yahoo.com and att.net are now separate portals. This was necessary when Oath took control of Yahoo! Unfortunately, not every tie between the old email addresses and Yahoo has been severed so there’s been a steady stream of issues since the changeover last summer.

Also, Oath is a Verizon subsidiary. I’m sure VZ doesn’t really prioritize issues with email accounts from the competition.

The att.net portal should be the easiest way to access any AT&T email account (bellsouth.net, sbcglobal.net, pacbell.net, etc.)

That said I fully expect it to be at least a year until this mess is sorted out.

Yay, mergers! 😐

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:24:16am

re: #270 William Lewis

Thankfully evangelicals are only a subset of all Christianity. A vocal subset but still, there are those of us who remember Bonhoeffer’s choice instead.

A subset that gets to the polls all the time.

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electrotek  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:25:21am

But I thought AfD were defending Western civilization all this time?!?!?!

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gocart mozart  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:26:01am
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Jay C  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:26:40am

re: #249 lawhawk

The North is not going to give up its program without getting something in return. It’s essentially extortion, and Trump’s idiotic enough to go for it.

Of course it’s extortion: that’s always been the Kim regime’s second prong of their nuclear-development programs - prong 1 being deterring any attacks on their state from outside.

But - thanks to Bush 43’s version of “tough diplomacy” the basic scenario has changed, by this time, from “paying the Norks not to develop nukes” to “paying the Norks not to USE nukes”.

Unfortunately, as I have thought for quite a while, I’m guessing that the Trump Admin’s primary strategy wrt to Korea has been to:

1. Make PR hay out of even meeting with Kim Jung-Un.
2. Sign off on NK’s extortion scheme without overtly appearing to.
3. Make PR hay out of whatever “deal” gets reached.
4. Find some way to get somebody else (probably South Korea) to pay for it.

And point 4 above is actually one of Donald Trump’s few actual business skills. It may or may not work in this case, but he’s probably going to at least give it a try…..

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Jay C  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:31:04am

re: #276 electrotek

But I thought AfD were defending Western civilization all this time?!?!?!

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What’s the issue here? I see where this local politico wants to restrict this club (and her party back-pedaling) , but why? Is the Berghain club some sort of local scandal in Berlin?

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electrotek  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:31:41am

re: #279 Jay C

What’s the issue here? I see where this local politico wants to restrict this club (and her party back-pedaling) , but why? Is the Berghain club some sort of local scandal in Berlin?

Berghain is a beloved cultural icon of Berlin that is known as the techno mecca throughout the world.

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gocart mozart  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:32:02am
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gocart mozart  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:32:19am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:32:55am

re: #279 Jay C

What’s the issue here? I see where this local politico wants to restrict this club (and her party back-pedaling) , but why? Is the Berghain club some sort of local scandal in Berlin?

They like to present themselves as the party of Law and order and starts by cleaning up the druggy dance club scene.

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electrotek  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:34:37am

re: #283 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They like to present themselves as the party of Law and order and starts by cleaning up the druggy dance club scene.

But then put out campaign posters with bikini-clad women claiming the evil Muslims are out to take that away from them and cover them up head to toe.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:35:01am

re: #282 gocart mozart

The only problem with that direct picture is that Mueller can’t win that game either. What is should show is a chess board and Trump asking “So, I can only move diagonally, right?”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:35:40am

re: #284 electrotek

But then put out campaign posters with bikini-clad women claiming the evil Muslims are out to take that away from them and cover them up head to toe.

So blatant hypocrites then? Got it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:36:10am

re: #284 electrotek

But then put out campaign posters with bikini-clad women claiming the evil Muslims are out to take that away from them and cover them up head to toe.

They have the luxury of not having to implement concrete policies or legislation, they can simply promote whatever they think will make them more popular with disillusioned voters.

Sound familiar?

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electrotek  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:36:27am

re: #286 Eclectic Cyborg

So blatant hypocrites then? Got it.

And they’re also opposed to gay marriage while claiming Muslims are the most homophobic.

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Big Beautiful Door  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:36:44am

re: #278 Jay C

Of course it’s extortion: that’s always been the Kim regime’s second prong of their nuclear-development programs - prong 1 being deterring any attacks on their state from outside.

But - thanks to Bush 43’s version of “tough diplomacy” the basic scenario has changed, by this time, from “paying the Norks not to develop nukes” to “paying the Norks not to USE nukes”.

Unfortunately, as I have thought for quite a while, I’m guessing that the Trump Admin’s primary strategy wrt to Korea has been to:

1. Make PR hay out of even meeting with Kim Jung-Un.
2. Sign off on NK’s extortion scheme without overtly appearing to.
3. Make PR hay out of whatever “deal” gets reached.
4. Find some way to get somebody else (probably South Korea) to pay for it.

And point 4 above is actually one of Donald Trump’s few actual business skills. It may or may not work in this case, but he’s probably going to at least give it a try…..

I’m sure he will meet the same success as he has enjoyed with getting Mexico to pay for the Wall.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:37:45am

re: #289 Big Beautiful Door

I’m sure he will meet the same success as he has enjoyed with getting Mexico to pay for the Wall.

It will just have to come out of the military budget, they can cut VA benefits to make up for it.

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I cannot.  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:38:37am

re: #261 makeitstop

I actually LIKE DC movies…I recognize that they’re hot garbage, but I still like them. And if they’d made BvS into two movies, it could have been legitimately good…and cut out the “MAAARRRTTTHHHAAA!!!!!”

But I really would have preferred a sequel to Superman Returns, there were a couple of small bits in there that really got to the core of how different Superman is from us, and how similar.

Back to the current cycle of DC movies, if I’d been the director I would have done something different with the color palette, because, holy crap. In the first Superman movie in this series, it would start out all boring and dark and washed out, as Superman comes to accept his duty, his color palette changes, with more contrast against the dull gray world. Once he fully takes on the role of Superman and the world knows it, the world starts to change into a brighter palette.

Obviously that palette change would continue into BvS, with Batman and Gotham still having the dark palette, while Superman and Metropolis would have the brighter one.

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freetoken  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:39:12am

re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg

If, on the ATT portal webpage, I click on the little mailbox icon in the upper right of the webpage, and it takes me to …. the Yahoo email page for my account.

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Targetpractice  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:41:33am

re: #278 Jay C

Of course it’s extortion: that’s always been the Kim regime’s second prong of their nuclear-development programs - prong 1 being deterring any attacks on their state from outside.

But - thanks to Bush 43’s version of “tough diplomacy” the basic scenario has changed, by this time, from “paying the Norks not to develop nukes” to “paying the Norks not to USE nukes”.

Unfortunately, as I have thought for quite a while, I’m guessing that the Trump Admin’s primary strategy wrt to Korea has been to:

1. Make PR hay out of even meeting with Kim Jung-Un.
2. Sign off on NK’s extortion scheme without overtly appearing to.
3. Make PR hay out of whatever “deal” gets reached.
4. Find some way to get somebody else (probably South Korea) to pay for it.

And point 4 above is actually one of Donald Trump’s few actual business skills. It may or may not work in this case, but he’s probably going to at least give it a try…..

Trump’s desperate for a “win,” any sort of “win” at this point. And Kim is offering that to him: “Win” where past presidents have “failed” by working out a deal to get rid of nukes in exchange for goods. And he’s such a gullible fuck that he’ll sign on the dotted line, totally convinced that his experience as a “great dealmaker” will ensure Kim does not break any agreement that’s signed. But that if he does, he can just nuke Pyongyang and still come out a “winner.”

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:45:32am

re: #285 Belafon

The only problem with that direct picture is that Mueller can’t win that game either. What is should show is a chess board and Trump asking “So, I can only move diagonally, right?”

Mueller should have a 12-D chessboard.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:52:43am

JFC

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Jay C  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:52:59am

re: #293 Targetpractice

Trump’s desperate for a “win,” any sort of “win” at this point. And Kim is offering that to him: “Win” where past presidents have “failed” by working out a deal to get rid of nukes in exchange for goods. And he’s such a gullible fuck that he’ll sign on the dotted line, totally convinced that his experience as a “great dealmaker” will ensure Kim does not break any agreement that’s signed. But that if he does, he can just nuke Pyongyang and still come out a “winner.”

Exactly. And in that desperation, I’m guessing Trump (i.e. his Admin) is going to sign off on ANY agreement - whether the Norks actually “get rid of nukes” or not (doubtful - Fat Kim isn’t going to deal that valuable card away).

But, as I was going to say in no. 278 before I inadvertently erased my comment, point 3 is likely the most important thing: good coverage, laudatory cheering and positive “ratings” for the Moron-in-Chief. Whatever deal is reached, I’m sure we can reliably count on the GOP and RW media to hail it as an unprecedented triumph and utter vindication of Trump’s “tough” diplomacy (with its usual lambasting of any criticism as sore-loser hatery) - and the “mainstream” media gleefully going along.

And I’m thinking that any “deal” will - just coincidentally, no doubt - be announced right before the midterm elections….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:53:26am

“Governor Brown’s charade…”

gaaaahhh

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William Lewis  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:53:31am

re: #275 Belafon

A subset that gets to the polls all the time.

Yes, and that is something that we try hard to ensure our people too. But the same laws that limit what they are allowed to say from the pulpit also limits what we can say against them and their twisted interpretations mean in a political context.

So we do what we can and try to live better than they do, actually applying the lessons of Christ to life.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:55:32am
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:55:33am

re: #250 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Haven’t you gotten the memo. Bigotry is now just a “point of view”, and a “different idea” that the tricksy Liberals are trying to suppress because they hate freedom.

That’s basically the talking point of my conservative friend yesterday. He accused me of hating democracy because of my intolerance to discussing/listening to other points of view. I often fail at rebuttals in real time; my problem is I rely on my gut instincts in spoken exchanges instead of spending the time (which can take way too long) to reply with an effective counterpoint.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:55:44am

re: #292 freetoken

If, on the ATT portal webpage, I click on the little mailbox icon in the upper right of the webpage, and it takes me to …. the Yahoo email page for my account.

Exactly. That’s one of the major issues that’s been happening. Some of the email addresses are in this bizarre purgatory between AT&T and Yahoo when they should, in theory, be 100% separate. I work for an ISP, we’ve been getting complaints about this for months now.

I have a long time Yahoo account I’ve never had an issue with, but I also never had one of the old ATT email accounts. I guess this makes sense because my account wouldn’t have needed to migrate anywhere, it would just follow Yahoo.

We’ve also had issues with people unable to access sbcglobal.net, etc. email on their smartphones when it was working before.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:56:41am

re: #271 electrotek

Don’t forget the African Evangelical penchant for Trump, never underestimate that either, especially from African immigrants.

Do you have data on African Evangelicals voting for Trump? Blacks overall don’t vote Republican.

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Targetpractice  Apr 19, 2018 • 8:57:22am

re: #296 Jay C

Exactly. And in that desperation, I’m guessing Trump (i.e. his Admin) is going to sign off on ANY agreement - whether the Norks actually “get rid of nukes” or not (doubtful - Fat Kim isn’t going to deal that valuable card away).

But, as I was going to say in no. 278 before I inadvertently erased my comment, point 3 is likely the most important thing: good coverage, laudatory cheering and positive “ratings” for the Moron-in-Chief. Whatever deal is reached, I’m sure we can reliably count on the GOP and RW media to hail it as an unprecedented triumph and utter vindication of Trump’s “tough” diplomacy (with its usual lambasting of any criticism as sore-loser hatery) - and the “mainstream” media gleefully going along.

And I’m thinking that any “deal” will - just coincidentally, no doubt - be announced right before the midterm elections….

That was my thought process as well, any deal is going to be spun as “proof” that Trump got one over on Kim, that the regime is so scared of him that they’re “coming to the negotiation table.” Nothing could be further from the truth, it’s actually Trump who is fulfilling their greatest wish by meeting Kim personally without pre-conditions, but the desperation in his supporters will push them present this as a major “win” for him by saying Kim “blinked first.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:00:25am

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

JFC

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Aside from the Civil War years, has any past President ever been so hostile towards certain states before?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:01:51am
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:02:15am

re: #293 Targetpractice

Trump’s desperate for a “win,” any sort of “win” at this point. And Kim is offering that to him: “Win” where past presidents have “failed” by working out a deal to get rid of nukes in exchange for goods. And he’s such a gullible fuck that he’ll sign on the dotted line, totally convinced that his experience as a “great dealmaker” will ensure Kim does not break any agreement that’s signed. But that if he does, he can just nuke Pyongyang and still come out a “winner.”

What matters is never the truth but what people think is the truth. Trump is the ultimate purveyor of fake news. If a lie is repeated often enough, it eventually seeps into the public zeitgeist and a majority of the populace accepts it as the truth, as common knowledge.

Our dictator wannabe knows exactly what he’s doing; he’s not stupid — he’s relying on the ignorance of the voting public.

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I cannot.  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:02:31am

I think this is another case of “alpha males” being tough guys, and not doing their job, and just dick-sizing and posing. While the “betas” shut the fuck up and just did their damn jobs.

cnbc.com

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MsJ  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:05:13am

re: #80 Stanley Sea

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

FYI, salmon is THE go to for animals. If your animal is sick, salmon. If they won’t eat, salmon. If you find a starving animal and want to feed it, salmon (be careful, if an animal is highly emaciated, they need a slow introduction to food and will likely need vet care for injectable liquids first, like Ringers solution SubQ or whatever IV).

Salmon cures almost all that ails an animal (unless they are truly sick and need prescription drugs).

And if your baby won’t eat salmon, go to the vet straight away (unless they don’t like salmon (I have not yet found an animal who doesn’t like salmon).

I have rescued emaciated dogs and used Satin Balls vs salmon. Satin Balls will put weight on quickly.

I was introduced to salmon as a savior by a farm girl. This is what they did for their animals and I have found it holds true in every case I have needed it.

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electrotek  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:07:51am

re: #302 Patricia Kayden

Do you have data on African Evangelicals voting for Trump? Blacks overall don’t vote Republican.

Not African-American Evangelicals, but African Evangelicals who recently immigrated from Africa.

Wanted to make that distinction to prevent further confusion.

I don’t have the data on me, it’s saved on my laptop at home. I’ll grab it when I’m home if I don’t forget.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:08:17am

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Nothing more dangerous than a black man driving a Hyundai (or Kia, it’s hard to tell).
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:11:43am

re: #310 Blind Frog Belly White

Nothing more dangerous than a black man driving a Hyundai (or Kia, it’s hard to tell).
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“Dispatch, we have a possible stolen vehicle here. Stand by.”

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Targetpractice  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:16:41am

re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg

“Dispatch, we have a possible stolen vehicle here. Stand by.”

Peter Gets Pulled Over by a Cop - Family Guy

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:25:55am

Another day, another $50 million ICO exit scam

Savedroid was originally supposed to use AI to manage user investments and promised a crypto-backed credit card

LOL.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:28:42am

playing soldier again

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dangerman  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:29:36am

re: #80 Stanley Sea

Heeeeeey

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I cannot.  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:31:29am

re: #313 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

And apparently the scam was a scam.

UPDATE - The exit scam was faked and the company is apparently still a going concern, albeit after squandering all investor trust.

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dangerman  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:31:33am

re: #90 nicdanger

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one day we should talk about whether we’re related

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:33:13am

re: #316 I cannot.

And apparently the scam was a scam.

Really, really dumb PR stunt, or did he chicken out?

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Renaissance_Man  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:35:12am

re: #307 I cannot.

I think this is another case of “alpha males” being tough guys, and not doing their job, and just dick-sizing and posing. While the “betas” shut the fuck up and just did their damn jobs.

cnbc.com

I looked into this.

The short answer is that this study measures the facial width-to-height ratio (fwhr), which has been shown repeatedly to correlate with aggressive behaviour traits, dominance, etc. It suggests that the typically broad, bruiser sort of face has a tendency to belong to people who are more aggressive, dominant and masculine.

As with a lot of the science of this nature, though, tendencies do not imply causation in either direction, and it also doesn’t show whether this is an inbuilt predilection or whether it is the result of cultural and other environmental factors. In other words, while a broad, heavy face might look more typically masculine and a person with one might act in a more aggressive and dominant fashion, and thus be more successful socially, financially, and sexually as a result, it might be because of inborn testosterone, or it might be because they’ve always been treated by their parents and peers in such a way, and thus become conditioned. Nature vs nurture, in other words. It is also worth noting that almost all of these behavioural studies use a cohort that is from wealthy Western (and predominantly white) cultures, which may say a lot more about cultural predilections than anything common to the human species.

It’s not true, though, that people with such faces actually have more testosterone. A good meta-analysis shows that there’s actually no correlation between this fwhr and testosterone levels in adults. A second study shows no link between fwhr and adolescent testosterone levels either, suggesting that whatever link there is doesn’t come from pubertal development.

That said, it certainly seems true that in white America, men with broader faces tend to display more aggressive, dominant behaviours, and usually get rewarded as a result. So this study is still valid from that perspective, showing that the same facial traits that correlate to these behaviours also correlate to poor performance. Testosterone levels, though, don’t have anything to do with it.

Which is a lot less sexy than saying that alpha males suck at the stock market. Which is probably also true. And I’m okay with science reporters sexing up headlines in many cases such as this one.

/nerd

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:36:09am

re: #318 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Really, really dumb PR stunt, or did he chicken out?

It would be smart for investors to crowdfund to hire hitman

Michael Cohen might be able to recommend someone…

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Dave In Austin  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:36:39am

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:37:54am

re: #281 gocart mozart

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I’ve never been to a Starbucks with cameras. BW is just doing his usual trolling bs.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:40:25am

re: #323 Big Beautiful Door

Kyrsten Sinema is leading every Republican in polling for the Az US Senate race.

Awesome.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:42:54am

re: #308 MsJ

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FYI, salmon is THE go to for animals. If your animal is sick, salmon. If they won’t eat, salmon. If you find a starving animal and want to feed it, salmon (be careful, if an animal is highly emaciated, they need a slow introduction to food and will likely need vet care for injectable liquids first, like Ringers solution SubQ or whatever IV).

Salmon cures almost all that ails an animal (unless they are truly sick and need prescription drugs).

And if your baby won’t eat salmon, go to the vet straight away (unless they don’t like salmon (I have not yet found an animal who doesn’t like salmon).

I have rescued emaciated dogs and used Satin Balls vs salmon. Satin Balls will put weight on quickly.

I was introduced to salmon as a savior by a farm girl. This is what they did for their animals and I have found it holds true in every case I have needed it.

Thanks for everything. She’s still under the bed. Hasn’t touched her food/water. I just need to be patient. She really freaked out.

When I first got her, she was under the bed for prob 3 weeks.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:48:23am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:51:59am

I.Can.Not.Stop.Laughing.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:52:26am

I Talked to 54 Women at Coachella. They All Said They Had Been Sexually Harassed (Teen Vogue)

Despite all of that, this year’s Coachella experience was also full of moments I never saw on Instagram: being repeatedly violated by strangers. In the three days I was at Coachella, I only spent a total of 10 hours at the actual festival, where I watched numerous performances and interviewed festivalgoers about their experience with sexual assault and harassment for Teen Vogue. During the 10 hours I was reporting on this story, I was groped 22 times.
One guy followed me across the field to the Mojave stage, where I was meeting a friend to see FIDLAR. When my friend left to see another band, I stayed behind, and this guy came up behind me and whispered, “You’re a goddess” and then rubbed his hands on my hips and butt. I knew it was the guy who followed me over earlier because I recognized his Pablo merch. This is why I usually wear a backpack in concert settings — it forces distance between the stranger behind me and my body.

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electrotek  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:54:12am

re: #328 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I Talked to 54 Women at Coachella. They All Said They Had Been Sexually Harassed (Teen Vogue)

Goddammit, this really really sucks!

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gocart mozart  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:54:17am
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plansbandc  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:55:27am

re: #328 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

This is gross.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:55:37am
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:56:06am

re: #309 electrotek

No worries. Just curious as to whether African immigrants vote different from the rest of Black Americans. Even the religiously conservative Blacks I know despise the Republican Party and especially Trump.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 19, 2018 • 9:58:11am

re: #281 gocart mozart

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:00:00am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:03:42am

re: #334 Ace-o-aces

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Ben Shapiro: Useless waste of space.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:04:09am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:04:10am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:05:03am

re: #335 Backwoods_Sleuth

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She’s a tough one. Glad it won’t put her on the DL. Had to use the baseball reference since Justice Sotomayor is a baseball fan.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:06:48am
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Ace-o-aces  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:07:37am
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KGxvi  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:11:53am

Something has been bugging me about Trump and the proposed North Korea talks, and I just realized what it is…

A recent episode of Pod Save The World had a guest tell a story about Trump in the late 80s/early 90s when he was (for some fucking reason) was trying to get appointed the lead negotiators in US/USSR nuclear talks. The story goes that after he was passed over, he met the ambassador that got the appointment at a party. Supposedly this is what he told the guy he would have done: make the real comfortable, nice and calm and happy, and then walk in the room yell “fuck you” and walk out.

Beside some showing that Trump has never understood how diplomacy and negotiations between equals works, I have this feeling the meeting with Kim go that’s way

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MsJ  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:13:33am

re: #338 Ace-o-aces

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:15:43am

re: #325 Stanley Sea

Thanks for everything. She’s still under the bed. Hasn’t touched her food/water. I just need to be patient. She really freaked out.

When I first got her, she was under the bed for prob 3 weeks.

Poor Chica, in her safe spot. A victim of This Cruel World.

Is she a conservative cat? : )

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MsJ  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:17:44am

re: #343 KGxvi

Something has been bugging me about Trump and the proposed North Korea talks, and I just realized what it is…

A recent episode of Pod Save The World had a guest tell a story about Trump in the late 80s/early 90s when he was (for some fucking reason) was trying to get appointed the lead negotiators in US/USSR nuclear talks. The story goes that after he was passed over, he met the ambassador that got the appointment at a party. Supposedly this is what he told the guy he would have done: make the real comfortable, nice and calm and happy, and then walk in the room yell “fuck you” and walk out.

Beside some showing that Trump has never understood how diplomacy and negotiations between equals works, I have this feeling the meeting with Kim go that’s way

Trump never works from an ‘equals’ mindset. In his mind he has no equals. Not even his beloved wife daughter-he’d-like-to-f*ck. Because he doesn’t see other people as equal (or worthy) he has no understanding of the concept of detente (as a negotiation - another thing he doesn’t understand) or ability to use diplomacy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:17:53am

another moron

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:20:08am
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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:20:26am

re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth

I.Can.Not.Stop.Laughing.

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I was half expecting someone to post an image of a skunk.

I is disappoint.

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Semper Fi  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:21:04am

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I do think an officer should be ready when the driver reaches into the glove box to provide required (registration and insurance) information. However, in the past decade there has been an absurd number of police shootings involving ‘unarmed’ people of color.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:22:38am
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Sea Mexican!  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:23:59am

Today we are going to get the final plans from the Fiscal Board. The way the board has been publicly speaking, and their proposals, I fear the worst.

At the beginning, I was cautious because, if the Fiscal Board worked on improving the economy in general, Puerto Rico would have emerged stronger. But they went with crass cuts to pay the bondholders, damn the country.

On other notes, the new electric utility boss that’s earning $400k wasn’t in PR when the blackout happened. And hundreds of Puerto Ricans living in the states due to the conditions back in the Island might lose their aids this Friday.

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:24:17am

re: #328 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I Talked to 54 Women at Coachella. They All Said They Had Been Sexually Harassed (Teen Vogue)

What is up with this crap? I’ve attended hundreds of concerts of all kinds and have been packed it tight many times. I’ve never touched a woman, ever.

Is the men’s rights BS causing this?

Or was it parenting?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:24:47am

thread

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dangerman  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:26:23am

re: #342 Ace-o-aces

God, they even somehow managed to make the book cover more cloying, pompous and annoying than even someone braced for it expected.

aceoaces
@aceoaces
Some hard-core projection going on here.

that’s nothing more than the green-eyed monster rearing its ugly head

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lawhawk  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:27:25am

re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth

Dinesh D’Souza de felon says what?

Flying flags to show loyalty to a racist and soon to be genocidal regime?

That reeks of what Confederate heritage nuts claim. They’re flying the flag because of their Southern heritage (when they’re in the North/Union states) and that heritage includes representing the flag of the states that engaged in insurrection and secession over their right to maintain the institution of slavery. They were engaged in the systematic destruction of African lives that they imported to the US and then treated them as a commodity - property.

That’s what the flag represents.

Guns in Dick’s inventory are the property of Dick’s and they can do whatever they want with them. Take a steamroller and do Disco Demolition night for all I care.

They’re eating the cost of it, so what does it matter to Dinesh? The gun companies already got their profit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:27:33am

hahahahahaha

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nicdanger  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:29:31am

re: #317 dangerman

one day we should talk about whether we’re related

You mean like same fathers,different mothers? Actually,it’s probably just good taste in choosing nicknames lmao

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:29:39am

re: #313 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Another day, another $50 million ICO exit scam

LOL.

Turns out the exit was a PR stunt….

Yeah, that’s a way to get your investors jazzed up and willing to give you more cash.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:29:45am

re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth

Liberal Indoctrination on Campus Isn’t Working

set up a straw man (liberal indoctrination is taking place) and then knock it down with a spurious argument that it is “not working” (because it is not taking place to begin with)

what dickheads

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electrotek  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:29:47am

re: #353 ObserverArt

What is up with this crap? I’ve attended hundreds of concerts of all kinds and have been packed it tight many times. I’ve never touched a woman, ever.

Is the men’s rights BS causing this?

Or was it parenting?

A lot of the douchebros that have attended Coachella in the past decade or so have this wavering belief that the festival is teeming with “hoes thirsty for the D” and are down to “put out” at the whim.

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Skip Intro  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:30:15am

re: #337 HappyWarrior

Ben Shapiro: Useless waste of space.

The next Alex Jones in training.

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:30:42am

re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Inhofe must have frozen his tiny brain years back when he had to go outside and bring in a snowball to show global warming isn’t occurring. He hasn’t been right since.

However, data shows cranky old GOP Senators are growing senile and need to be retired.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:30:42am

re: #358 nicdanger

You mean like same fathers,different mothers? Actually,it’s probably just good taste in choosing nicknames lmao

I have yet to find anyone I share a name with outside of The Far Side

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:31:33am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:32:16am

re: #353 ObserverArt

What is up with this crap? I’ve attended hundreds of concerts of all kinds and have been packed it tight many times. I’ve never touched a woman, ever.

Is the men’s rights BS causing this?

Or was it parenting?

Dancing at concerts has been weird for decades now, with young women grinding on strange men, but this has gone non-consensual.

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:34:42am

re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth

Judd Legum ✔
@JuddLegum
The Republican men of the Senate are balking at proposed new rules that would require them to pay their own sexual harassment settlements goo.gl

12:17 PM - Apr 19, 2018

I look at this as an admittance they are all a bunch of sexual harassers who have either already committed assaults or planning on it.

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Skip Intro  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:34:58am

re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth

thread

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Has Trump tweeted a congratulations to her yet?

JUST KIDDING!

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Skip Intro  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:36:08am

re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahahahaha

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Reality is a liberal plot designed by Alinsky and Soros.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:36:09am

re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Uh Dinesh. Just no. Not even close to being the same thing. Nice try tho.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:38:02am

re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth

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What a tool.

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dangerman  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:38:04am

re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth

thread

Now you can argue that it wasn’t as dramatic as the “Miracle on the Hudson” but it is interesting how Sullenberger was a national hero for months yet this pilot, a woman, is barely hitting the national news. I would agree that sexism is playing a part here.

gonna be contrarian here - i donit think its sexism at all

sully: 2 engines out, landing in the cold water, then all rescued safely. aside from the two engines dying - no strutural damage to the plane. and pressurization wasnt an issue.

Shults: emergency decompression, yes. one engine out, descent from 30k feet or so, had an airport and a runway. the passengers could walk off the plane onto dry land

I am NOT for one second minimizing what she did or what he did.
she landed the plane without any damage while everyone was bracing for impact.

both were spectactular, and they both saved every life (aside from the poor fatally injured woman).

and at some bizarre level we sort of expect an ATP to land an otherwise undamaged plane with one engine.

from visuals, landing in the water is simply more wow.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:38:43am

re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahahahaha

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So stupid.

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I cannot.  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:38:46am
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Stanley Sea  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:40:02am

re: #345 ObserverArt

Poor Chica, in her safe spot. A victim of This Cruel World.

Is she a conservative cat? : )

Her name at the shelter was hillary, so no.

I gave her the Hispanic heritage.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:41:40am

re: #347 Backwoods_Sleuth

another moron

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Is that an actual argument? Shouldn’t the Senate scrutinize Trump’s nominees, moreso for crucial positions? His argument is backward.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:44:02am

hmmmm

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Dave In Austin  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:44:07am

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:44:18am

re: #361 electrotek

That is an absolute certain. But

A lot of the douchebros that have attended Coachella in the past decade or so have this wavering belief that the festival is teeming with “hoes thirsty for the D” and are down to “put out” at the whim.

Where do you think this thinking comes from? Is it the bros all steeling each other to think that way…group think? And does it stem from the growing men’s rights movements?

I just have to wonder where wrong replaced right? Or, they were never taught right, so wrong just takes over.

I never had friends that ever thought that way either, at least taking actual advantage. Sure, there was fantasy and stupid guy talk, but never actually groping or worse. And believe me, I’ve known some real assholes.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:46:59am

re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not even going to ask what D’Idiot’s point is. Who the hell is his audience?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:47:18am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:48:21am

re: #379 ObserverArt

I never had friends that ever thought that way either, at least taking actual advantage. Sure, there was fantasy and stupid guy talk, but never actually groping or worse. And believe me, I’ve known some real assholes.

I really cannot get it.

Maybe it’s because I was the “man of the house” when my dad died when I was young leaving me, my mom and older sister. I have always seen women as people to be respected and protected.

And as much as I like women and like flirting I would never think of forcing myself on a woman who was not interested and receptive.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:49:39am
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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:51:06am

re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth

Richard Armande Mills (RAM) ✔
@RAMRANTS
I agree with their statements on “decorum.” Not because I have a problem with babies at the workplace, but because I have issues with Duckworth potentially being able to weaponize that baby to affect legislative decision making. And I could see her doing that.
…

8:22 AM - Apr 19, 2018

Uh, I made the very big mistake of going to his Twitter page.

This video is right up to the top of his tweets currently. It needs to be behind a privacy tag because it will either cause mental duress or sore chest muscles from uncontrollable laughing fits.

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MsJ  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:51:16am

re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth

thread

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This WaPo story teared me up. Freaking allergies.

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MsJ  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:53:22am

re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:53:22am

re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So Shapiro ready to apologize?

388
HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:54:48am

Two minutes? Nary time to explain themselves. Poor guys.

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MsJ  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:56:05am

re: #380 Patricia Kayden

Not even going to ask what D’Idiot’s point is. Who the hell is his audience?

Some moron right winger yesterday said that Dick’s should have donated all those weapons to the poor.

They have no point, really. Just bullshit over and over and over again.

390
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:57:02am

re: #384 ObserverArt

I’ll go with uncontrollable laughing.

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:57:40am

re: #366 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Dancing at concerts has been weird for decades now, with young women grinding on strange men, but this has gone non-consensual.

You bring up a good point. It makes me realize most of the concerts I have gone to have been purely rock, jazz, and other band events of different sizes and venues.

I was past the age to really get into the raves, DJ concerts and the like, where as you say a lot of stimulus fueled dancing does take place with light shows, etc. A whole different world to me.

Maybe it has spilled over to an event like Coachella.

Thanks for the clarification.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:57:43am
393
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:57:55am
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MsJ  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:58:23am

re: #384 ObserverArt

Uncontrollable WTFs? (Along with fits of laughter.)

395
Amory Blaine  Apr 19, 2018 • 10:59:20am

Progressives have to stop believing in respecting others viewpoints. Conservatives want them dead.

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MsJ  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:00:05am

re: #388 HappyWarrior

Two minutes? Nary time to explain themselves. Poor guys.

There was no request to explain themselves. They weren’t asked anything until the cops arrived.

I am saddened beyond words seeing this.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:00:28am

re: #392 Belafon

I may have to vote today, so Maile’s outfit is prepped. I made sure she has a jacket so she doesn’t violate the Senate floor dress code (which requires blazers). I’m not sure what the policy is on duckling onesies, but I think we’re ready

Duckworth decorum, indeed

398
Amory Blaine  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:01:42am

Skanky, loudmouth fuckface:

Jeanine Pirro Had Affair with Texas Detective Working on Robert Durst Murder Case, Witness Says

Fox News host and former Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro had an affair with the police officer who served on Robert Durst’s murder probe, according to one witness who spoke during a pre-trial hearing in Los Angeles, California.

The witness in question, writer Lisa DePaulo, made the claim on Wednesday while speaking under oath when asked her if she knew that “Detective Cazalas and Jeanine Pirro had a romantic relationship.”

DePulo responded with the affirmative, to which LA County Deputy District Attorney John Lewin — who is overseeing the special pre-trial into the infamous Durst murder case — asked if the writer inquired “when that relationship started.”

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jaunte  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:03:51am

This guy’s an idjit.

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:04:56am

re: #388 HappyWarrior

Two minutes? Nary time to explain themselves. Poor guys.

This is extremely damning.

And a sad example of current conditions in America.

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ObserverArt  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:08:52am

re: #399 jaunte

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This guy’s an idjit.

Did you see his video?

If not see my #384.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:09:54am
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:11:00am
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Dr. Matt  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:11:50am

re: #323 Big Beautiful Door

Kyrsten Sinema is leading every Republican in polling for the Az US Senate race.

Sinema: 59 percent; Arpaio: 33 percent; 8 percent undecided

Who the fuck are the 33%?!?

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electrotek  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:12:17am

re: #391 ObserverArt

You bring up a good point. It makes me realize most of the concerts I have gone to have been purely rock, jazz, and other band events of different sizes and venues.

I was past the age to really get into the raves, DJ concerts and the like, where as you say a lot of stimulus fueled dancing does take place with light shows, etc. A whole different world to me.

Maybe it has spilled over to an event like Coachella.

Thanks for the clarification.

Raves in the 90s and early 2000’s were never like this, at all.

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gwangung  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:12:52am

re: #403 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

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I’m not sure this dude gets the humor thing. We’re all laughing….AT HIM.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:14:14am

re: #399 jaunte

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This guy’s an idjit.

does he really not understand that we are all laughing at him?

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dangerman  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:14:52am

re: #358 nicdanger

You mean like same fathers,different mothers? Actually,it’s probably just good taste in choosing nicknames lmao

you had to push it didnt you?

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dangerman  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:22:55am

re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Republican men of the Senate are balking at proposed new rules that would require them to pay their own sexual harassment settlements

the party of personal responsibility can kiss my ass

of all the things i dont want “my tax money to pay for”
this is the sleaziest, creepiest, … i am out of words

and dont they DARE try and argue they should be able to do this beause they are targets and the cases brought against them are by golddiggers

what a bunch of creepazoids

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Mike Lamb  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:25:13am

re: #399 jaunte

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This guy’s an idjit.

There is nothing “feigned” about my outrage as it relates to morons taking my oxygen.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:25:19am

re: #396 MsJ

There was no request to explain themselves. They weren’t asked anything until the cops arrived.

I am saddened beyond words seeing this.

It makes me so angry.

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dangerman  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:29:25am

re: #395 Amory Blaine

Progressives have to stop believing in respecting others viewpoints. Conservatives want them dead.

absolutely - do not legitimize the silly, stupid or sociopathic

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MsJ  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:33:49am

re: #404 Dr. Matt

Sinema: 59 percent; Arpaio: 33 percent; 8 percent undecided

Who the fuck are the 33%?!?

The same 33% that vote GOP no matter what.

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Jay C  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:46:41am

re: #413 MsJ

re: #404 Dr. Matt

Sinema: 59 percent; Arpaio: 33 percent; 8 percent undecided

Who the fuck are the 33%?!?

The same 33% that vote GOP no matter what.

I followed a thread on dKos today that had the unhappy news that, under AZ law, if Sen. McCain hangs on until after June 1st of this year, his (eventual) appointed replacement will NOT have to run in a “confirming” election this November, but will simply serve out the remainder of McCain’s term (til 2020). So, in practical terms, no hope for a two-seat pickup in AZ…

The GOP-controlled Lege were trying to change the law to get rid of confirmatory elections altogether, but the effort failed.

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nicdanger  Apr 19, 2018 • 11:47:40am

re: #408 dangerman

I thought about that after I wrote it.I’ll just go stand over there in the corner now///

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steve_davis  Apr 19, 2018 • 12:09:26pm

re: #79 freetoken

Anyway, a profession voice-over person just will not have the same passion as the subject matter expert who made the content.

The PBS version also then has to cut out parts of the video that includes Schama and this fellow presenters when they are presenting, though in some of the PBS videos Schama is clearly in the frame of the camera.

Also, PBS probably has to cut back each episode in time a bit.

i’ll just wait for it to make it to Britbox.

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sagehen  Apr 19, 2018 • 1:36:52pm

re: #177 Lupin

And DOONESBURY — don’t forget DOONESBURY!

And the Simpsons.

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sagehen  Apr 19, 2018 • 1:45:21pm

re: #228 The Vicious Babushka

Good morning Lizardia!

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