Donald Trump could soon dismantle the agreement designed to curb the Iranian nuclear program. Our catheter cowboy will do his best to keep that from happening.
We can write off a whole generation of Iranians for this
While Reinking had remained at large, police had warned he was dangerous and said he showed “signs of significant instability,” Don Aaron, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, said at a news briefing earlier Monday.Aaron pointed to Reinking’s arrest outside the White House last year as well as a string of bizarre encounters with law enforcement officials in Illinois. Reinking once told law enforcement officers that the singer Taylor Swift had been harassing and stalking him — a delusion that authorities in Illinois said Reinking had had for years.
Oh, OK.
Ali Shaker says he was driving right behind the van. Says driver was hitting everyone in sight on the sidewalk on Yonge pic.twitter.com/QgLfYlCoqK
— Arda Zakarian (@ArdaZakCP24) April 23, 2018
I can see tarps covering 3 bodies in front of mel lastman square. Devastating. @CityNews pic.twitter.com/1EYqhty3kc
— Cynthia Mulligan (@CityCynthia) April 23, 2018
re: #2 Sir John Barron
Oh, OK.
Yep, and dad thought it was still a good idea for him to have his guns.
Mass shooter who was armed and dangerous was taken into custody.
That he was white just makes the discrepancy in use of force more explicit where unarmed black people are gunned down by trigger happy cops all too frequently.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 23, 2018
So Trump is the 45th President AND he lied about spending 45 hours in Russia back in 2013.
Coincidence?
I THINK NOT! pic.twitter.com/qOq3oh0pNH— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 23, 2018
FYI, y’all. There is an organized effort by hard-right trolls to slime @JoyAnnReid. It involves hackers, alterations to an old inactive blog, and right-wing amplifiers. Maybe even Russians. Mediaite is running the smear without the facts, because clicks.
— Karoli (@Karoli) April 23, 2018
Mediaite reporter should have asked any of us with old blogs what happened to them in 2016. Mine were hacked into at least 8 times. I can’t be sure they didn’t inject garbage into my posts without going and reading every one.
— Karoli (@Karoli) April 23, 2018
Wayback Machine is a wonderful resource…but it should never be seen as ‘witness’ for author attribution (cc @karoli) 1/3
— Shelley Powers (@shelleypowers) April 23, 2018
I did not author this page.https://t.co/xdISrMX28O 3/3
— Shelley Powers (@shelleypowers) April 23, 2018
The kitchen very much smells like farts now. I am having some feelings.
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) April 23, 2018
It’s a goddam miracle, y’all. pic.twitter.com/VjQ0nQkoJq
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) April 23, 2018
yes, first time it does seem to be a miracle!
Lol do your research before spitting out words man. That’s in Farsi . Saying “Tehran Currency Exchange”. Not every non-latin word is part of a conspiracy theory #facepalm
— Pooya Tolideh (@PTolideh) April 23, 2018
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
I even use my instant pot for the shells part of Velveeta shells and cheese. Set the pressure to high, and the timer to 5 minutes, and just wait for the beep. I haven’t used my stove in a while now.
re: #9 Ace-o-aces
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he really hates being corrected by people who know stuff better than he does:
Re #Toronto, a perfect example of reactionary #Islamophobia: the “banner” is not “Islamic.” Rather, it is the city name “Tehran” is Farsi, the language of Iran. But, by all means, don’t let mundane things like travel agencies obstruct your festival of hate. #HateHonorsNoVictim https://t.co/HHZhxo64Nb
— Robert O. Smith (@robert_o_smith) April 23, 2018
How the fuck do you conclude that? Like I know the difference between Farsi or Arabic! It looks Islamic and it is! Now fuck off. https://t.co/JOoSwhaXFU
— Schtev🇨🇦 (@schtev69) April 23, 2018
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
he really hates being corrected by people who know stuff better than he does:
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And it gets him likes from fellow hateful morons.
So you’re wrong, hateful, and refuse to learn. Not impressive.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 23, 2018
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We can write off a whole generation of Iranians for this
And as John Oliver noted, you can write off North Korea as well.
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹
And as John Oliver noted, you can write off North Korea as well.
And shove South Korea away, too.
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
he really hates being corrected by people who know stuff better than he does:
“Look, if it looks Islamacist like, it is Islamacist, OK. Believe me.”
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Your Mission: Disprove the belief that anybody with 69 in their user name is both juvenile and an idiot.
Mission Status: Failure.— Bart Fargo (@AgentBartFargo) April 23, 2018
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We can write off a whole generation of Iranians for this
It would be nice if the Iranians could look at their own situation and note that there’s a lot of hard line “religious” asshats in control of their government and then look at ours and recognize the same thing exists here and that at least some portion of our electorate is trying to toss them out.
In other words, both countries have their share of shitheads that need to be ousted, along with decent people trying to fight for rights and dignity for all. We should try to embrace those commonalities instead of looking at the dickheads in each countries leadership and concluding we can’t if not work together at least fight in parallel for a better future.
Don Ivan Punchatz (1936 – 2009) was a science fiction and fantasy artist who drew illustrations for numerous books and publications, including magazines such as Heavy Metal, National Geographic, and Time pic.twitter.com/B6Cnw8uKDh
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) April 23, 2018
Where does Trump-Russia rank against historic presidential scandals? https://t.co/7nOdOoT40J pic.twitter.com/ZW2SWhTrZw
— Bloomberg View (@BV) April 23, 2018
What is this, a President for ants? (@darth) https://t.co/uTxnsU9xP4
— Steve McPherson (@steventurous) April 23, 2018
how can this be real steve
— darth™ (@darth) April 23, 2018
Breaking: Rage Furby’s wife is leaving him.
re: #17 Weaselone
It would be nice if the Iranians could look at their own situation and note that there’s a lot of hard line “religious” asshats in control of their government and then look at ours and recognize the same thing exists here and that at least some portion of our electorate is trying to toss them out.
From what I’ve seen, a lot of them do. But, the hard line religious asshats are in control, in both countries, and they get to set policy.
I think I’m the only one who knows about this right now. Considering a post.
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
Unless we’ve had a different president conspire with a foreign government to undermine the US government, it had better be number 1.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
I think I’m the only one who knows about this right now. Considering a post.
You should totally do it.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
I think I’m the only one who knows about this right now. Considering a post.
How do you know it’s true then? Courthouse alerts on your name?
re: #24 Belafon
Unless we’ve had a different president conspire with a foreign government to undermine the US government, it had better be number 1.
The only 2 that might give it a run for the money are:
2. Iran Contra
1. Nixon with Vietnam prior to his election
#UPDATE From the sky the @CTVNews helicopter counting at least 8-bodies covered with tarps in Toronto. Witnesses at area hospital saying several people brought in with catastrophic injuries. #TorontoAttack pic.twitter.com/T6WiJpvZvI
— Peter Akman (@PeterAkman) April 23, 2018
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Breaking: Rage Furby’s wife is leaving him.
I am SHOCKED…that she hadn’t already.
The headline:
Bernie Sanders to announce plan to guarantee every American a job
The key takeaway from a 1200 word story:
A representative from Sanders’s office said they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be funded.
Le sigh.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
I think I’m the only one who knows about this right now. Considering a post.
Meh. I don’t really care. Such a pathetic person (and I know far too many Asiaphiles like that…)
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Breaking: Rage Furby’s wife is leaving him.
I thought she already did. She’s been living in El Monte for a while now.
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #22 Charles Johnson
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re: #24 Belafon
Unless we’ve had a different president conspire with a foreign government to undermine the US government, it had better be number 1.
Well, there was always Buchanan, but that “foreign” “government” didn’t exist yet.
re: #31 BeachDem
It’s vaporware.
Trump repeatedly did the same thing all through 2015 and 2016, and when pressured to be more specific, he deflected.
Sanders is a mirror image of Trump, right down to the lack of specifics on policies.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Breaking: Rage Furby’s wife is leaving him.
Good for her, has Rage Furby doxxed and started talking trash about her yet?
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
he really hates being corrected by people who know stuff better than he does:
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So a right wing troll immediately runs with…the wrong thing. And then gets all pissy when told he was wrong.
I love these people. They are absolutely whacked in the head. I would LMAO at them if they didn’t put real people in danger.
Fuck off, indeed.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) April 23, 2018
BREAKING: Federal agent: Waffle House shooting suspect’s father “could potentially” face charges for giving weapons back to son.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 23, 2018
re: #34 b.d. (Untruthful Slime Ball)
They must have shrunk the POTUS to make his hands look normal sized?
darth fixed that detail:
“NO WITCH HUNT!” pic.twitter.com/XmpitdX2Lc
— darth™ (@darth) April 23, 2018
AND I bet they want you to carry insurance in case your van injures someone. FUCKING FASCISTS!
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 23, 2018
Where? You don’t have to pass a test or get insurance to buy a gun. Many jurisdictions don’t require registration of firearms.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 23, 2018
Going alphabetically:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Massachusetts (optional)
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Mexico
North Carolina— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 23, 2018
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyominghttps://t.co/O4Ssg8qBuU— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 23, 2018
He blocked me. All I did was list the states that do not require registration.
re: #27 Weaselone
The only 2 that might give it a run for the money are:
2. Iran Contra
1. Nixon with Vietnam prior to his election
I definitely agree with Nixon and Vietnam.
re: #35 lawhawk
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re: #20 Charles Johnson
Breaking: Rage Furby’s wife is leaving him.
I thought that happened a long time ago.
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
Like I know the difference between Farsi or Arabic! It looks Islamic and it is!
Clearly, he doesn’t. And of course, he’s going to the fall back defense of “they’re all Muslims anyway!”
Asshole.
re: #31 BeachDem
The headline:
Bernie Sanders to announce plan to guarantee every American a job
The key takeaway from a 1200 word story:
A representative from Sanders’s office said they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be funded.
Le sigh.
We might as well guarantee grain storage for all the farmers.
I know. Next thing we need to do is kick out those fucking Irish!
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 23, 2018
Tornado Warning on the southeast side of metro Atlanta until 4:30pm EDT. Seek shelter now! #GAwx pic.twitter.com/uxXipVq7Gg
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) April 23, 2018
re: #27 Weaselone
The only 2 that might give it a run for the money are:
2. Iran Contra
1. Nixon with Vietnam prior to his election
Hmm … all conservatives. It’s almost as if conservatism cannot help but cheat to win.
And Nixon’s rodent copulation is why I have the avatar I do now. Otherwise it might be something cheerier.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
I think I’m the only one who knows about this right now. Considering a post.
It’s been hinted at for quite a while. I remember reading about them being separated and him having a profile on some dating app several months ago. She only stuck it out this long because she’s a staunch Catholic.
re: #47 Belafon
We might as well guarantee grain storage for all the farmers.
I thought Gilbrand and Booker had already staked out a position on the job guarantee.
Of course, if what I was reading over the weekend about AI being poised to replace 60% of jobs, the jobs guarantee might not be worth much.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Breaking: Rage Furby’s wife is leaving him.
LOL. She’s the one with a job and money.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
“Breaking: Rage Furby’s wife is leaving him.”
I’m wondering why it took her so long to drop the d@mn loser. Everything about him shouts LOSER in all caps, all of the time. Anyone with one functioning brain cell would realize that he’s a LOSER after just looking at him and wouldn’t have to read anything he has written. He’s a pitiful looking human being.
re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth
Prosecutors should be hitting him with criminally negligent homicide charges and accessory to murder.
He knew his son was a loose cannon and a danger to himself and others and didn’t secure the guns. In fact, he let him have them back despite promising police not to.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 23, 2018
There are no accidents in handling firearms. The dad gave an unstable and dangerous son access to guns, despite police telling him not to have them.
That makes him an accomplice.
That makes him criminally liable.
Those deaths are on him too.
re: #54 The Vicious Babushka
LOL. She’s the one with a job and money.
I don’t know about that. He has a lot of sweet wingnut welfare.
re: #31 BeachDem
The headline:
Bernie Sanders to announce plan to guarantee every American a job
The key takeaway from a 1200 word story:
A representative from Sanders’s office said they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be funded.
Le sigh.
Comme c’est typique
( I am disappointed in Google Translate. I asked for a translation of “How fucking typical” to French)
ummm
Here’s a great stat - since January 2017, the number of people forced to use food stamps is down 1.9 million. The American people are finally back to work!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2018
re: #31 BeachDem
“A representative from Sanders’s office said they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be funded.”
This attention-seeking mthfkr always has a half-baked scam he’s ready to run. I’m sick of Bernie and his cohorts. I hope Perez doesn’t permit him to divide our party this year or in any other year. He wants to be in his own political party all alone 99% of the time? Then keep his @ss locked out of our party.
I would love to solve how to supply a place to live, food, clothing, and an education to every person in the country. That should be the minimum that every person has access to. But I’m not sure at all how to convince people that it will be in their interest to tax people at a rate to pay for it.
re: #31 BeachDem
The headline:
Bernie Sanders to announce plan to guarantee every American a job
The key takeaway from a 1200 word story:
A representative from Sanders’s office said they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be funded.
Le sigh.
Well, that was sort of what FDR was angling at during the Great Depression.
Bernie Sanders is no FDR, though, and capitalism requires a certain unemployment rate anyway. (If everyone had a job, no new businesses could start, nor could a person move to a new job.)
re: #57 lawhawk
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There are no accidents in handling firearms.
The gun people I know say that all the time, and they’re right.
The dad gave an unstable and dangerous son access to guns, despite police telling him not to have them.
I did not know that police told him that his son can’t have the guns.
That makes him an accomplice.
Yep
That makes him criminally liable.
Hopefully they lock him up.
Those deaths are on him too.
Yep. He doesn’t have the excuse of being delusional like the person he armed, so I consider him even more responsible. If you give a delusional person a gun, you’re setting them on a very bad path.
re: #62 Belafon
I would love to solve how to supply a place to live, food, clothing, and an education to every person in the country. That should be the minimum that every person has access to. But I’m not sure at all how to convince people that it will be in their interest to tax people at a rate to pay for it.
10% sales tax on all stock purchases. The stock market has been very good to a small portion of the population, it’s time to was very good for everyone.
re: #64 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
From multiple stories, including this one:
“There’s certainly evidence that there’s some sort of mental health issues involved,” Tazewell County Sheriff Robert Huston said. But he said deputies returned the guns to Reinking’s father on the promise that he would “keep the weapons secure and out of the possession of Travis.”
Reinking’s father “has now acknowledged giving them back” to his son, Nashville Police spokesman Don Aaron said.
Phone calls to a number listed for the father, Jeffrey Reinking, went unanswered.
It is not clear why Reinking moved recently from Morton, Illinois, and if it had anything to do with being near Swift, who has a home in Nashville. Police say he was employed in construction for a while, and there would have been enough work in the booming city for him.
Police say Reinking drove into the Waffle House parking lot in his gold Chevy Silverado pickup early Sunday and sat there for about four minutes before opening fire outside the restaurant.
The victims fatally shot in the parking have been identified as Taurean Sanderlin, 29, of Goodlettsville, and Joe Perez, 20, of Nashville.
Sanderlin was an employee at the restaurant.
Only 14 States require background checks and registration for private party transfers of all guns. Another six require them for private transfers of handguns only. Meaning in 30 States there’s no legal requirement at all for non-FFL sellers to even ask about a buyer’s eligibility
— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 23, 2018
re: #65 KGxvi
10% sales tax on all stock purchases. The stock market has been very good to a small portion of the population, it’s time to was very good for everyone.
Sanders proposed a small tax on stock transfers during his campaign to fund education, and that was a non-starter for a large portion of people.
Plus there’s the issue of all the middle class people who hold shares in their retirement accounts or whatnot who would also be opposed to that.
I would slap the tax on brokerage houses.
oh
A beautiful circle: Company gets ransomwared. Hires IT company to fix it. Unlocks system in record time. FBI figures out the IT company just paid the bitcoin ransom. pic.twitter.com/S9OWmypNHh
— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) April 23, 2018
Company is @ProvenDR, and their website says they boast a 97.2% success rate. https://t.co/NbyJ7IcCT5
— Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) April 23, 2018
re: #61 majii
“A representative from Sanders’s office said they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be funded.”
This attention-seeking mthfkr always has a half-baked scam he’s ready to run. I’m sick of Bernie and his cohorts. I hope Perez doesn’t permit him to divide our party this year or in any other year. He wants to be in his own political party all alone 99% of the time? Then keep his @ss locked out of our party.
And please, let him take Nina Turner with him. If possible, she infuriates me even more than Bernie. (She had two speaking slots and an event with a cutout of Bernie during our state Dem convention this past weekend. I walked out on both speeches. Barforama.)
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Unless they’re in on it, that was a pretty big risk. Not everyone who pays gets the unlock code.
re: #31 BeachDem
The headline:
Bernie Sanders to announce plan to guarantee every American a job
The key takeaway from a 1200 word story:
A representative from Sanders’s office said they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be funded.
Le sigh.
re: #35 lawhawk
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re: #71 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Unless they’re in on it, that was a pretty big risk. Not everyone who pays gets the unlock code.
bolded part was my first thought.
re: #68 Anymouse 🌹
Sanders proposed a small tax on stock transfers during his campaign to fund education, and that was a non-starter for a large portion of people.
Plus there’s the issue of all the middle class people who hold shares in their retirement accounts or whatnot who would also be opposed to that.
I would slap the tax on brokerage houses.
I think there’s a way to build support for it. I would structure it as a sales tax, so the person/entity would pay when they bought the stock - it wouldn’t be a capital gains tax - so if you’ve got a mutual fund account, it’s not really going to affect your retirement.
Here’s a great stat - since January 2017, the number of people forced to use food stamps is down 1.9 million. The American people are finally back to work!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2018
The reason that number has gone down is because Republicans are gutting those programs. You’re letting people starve, you jackass. https://t.co/MgobHU3xxV
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 23, 2018
I mean, that man is incoherent on a good day, but what I think he is saying here is that sanctuary cities breed crime, and he’s not using that word to refer to people at all.
— Michelle McNeill (@catnyp13) April 23, 2018
But you can’t really tell, can you?
And that’s the problem. https://t.co/mu0qnsKjbr— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 23, 2018
and I think Michelle McNeill is being much too kind in her speculation.
re: #67 goddamnedfrank
This guy you’re responding to is a real wingnut. He’s now spreading the “attacker was Middle Eastern” thing about Toronto.
That might be true, though only one reporter has said anything about that. The point is the dog whistle though (all “Middle Eastern”) people are bad.
I wonder what his opinion on the Nashville mass-murder is?
re: #64 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The gun people I know say that all the time, and they’re right.
I did not know that police told him that his son can’t have the guns.
Yep
Hopefully they lock him up.
Yep. He doesn’t have the excuse of being delusional like the person he armed, so I consider him even more responsible. If you give a delusional person a gun, you’re setting them on a very bad path.
Assumes facts not in evidence. I can take a guess where his son picked up this “Sovereign Citizen” bullshit.
re: #42 Ace-o-aces
“He blocked me. All I did was list the states that do not require registration.”
He asked, you answered and made him look bad. You see, A-o-a, you hit him with facts, proving you knew what you were talking about, and he just couldn’t have that! These anti-intellectual b*st*rds get on my last d@mn nerve. I’ve been thinking for some time now that when they hold up those signs that read:”Fuck Your Feelings” they’re showing us that that’s how they operate and they can’t deal with facts. They have no idea that the signs say more about them than it does about us. These are the people who think Trump, Trump, Jr., Gingrich, Hannity, Gutfield, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Jesse Watters, Tucker Carlson, and the other Fox talking heads and RW media entertainers are geniuses when the truth is that they’re too stupid to realize that they’re being lied to 24/7/365 and are being duped into sending them their hard-earned money by selling them everything from survival kits to books and CDs.
re: #79 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Assumes facts not in evidence. I can take a guess where his son picked up this “Sovereign Citizen” bullshit.
OK, “as delusional” then. He probably didn’t think Taylor Swift was stalking him, like his schizophrenic kid did.
re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump doesn’t use racist dog whistles. He just yells that shit from the mountain top.
re: #79 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Assumes facts not in evidence. I can take a guess where his son picked up this “Sovereign Citizen” bullshit.
That’s not how “assumes facts not in evidence” works. It’s actually the exact opposite of how it works.
re: #79 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Assumes facts not in evidence. I can take a guess where his son picked up this “Sovereign Citizen” bullshit.
There’s evidence the son was actually mentally disturbed, independent of the sovereign citizens thing. He showed up nearly nude at the Waffle House, and that’s not the first time he’s shown up nearly or nude somewhere.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Breaking: Rage Furby’s wife is leaving him.
I still don’t believe he was married in the first place.
re: #57 lawhawk
Prosecutors should be hitting him with criminally negligent homicide charges and accessory to murder.
He knew his son was a loose cannon and a danger to himself and others and didn’t secure the guns. In fact, he let him have them back despite promising police not to.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 23, 2018
There are no accidents in handling firearms. The dad gave an unstable and dangerous son access to guns, despite police telling him not to have them.
That makes him an accomplice.
That makes him criminally liable.
Those deaths are on him too.
re: #64 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
There are no accidents in handling firearms.
The gun people I know say that all the time, and they’re right.
The dad gave an unstable and dangerous son access to guns, despite police telling him not to have them.
I did not know that police told him that his son can’t have the guns.
That makes him an accomplice.
Yep
That makes him criminally liable.
Hopefully they lock him up.
Those deaths are on him too.
Yep. He doesn’t have the excuse of being delusional like the person he armed, so I consider him even more responsible. If you give a delusional person a gun, you’re setting them on a very bad path.
Dad will likely never be charged. The DC White House trespassing charges were dismissed after completion of pretrial diversion, He did community service. So, there is likely a reasonable argument that technically the local law enforcement had no legal call to seize his weapons or withdraw his permits
President Trump is increasingly relying on his personal cell phone to contact outside advisers, multiple sources inside and outside the White House tell CNN https://t.co/HAWhhA60AL pic.twitter.com/6pRDBMxeKU
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) April 23, 2018
re: #88 Charles Johnson
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re: #31 BeachDem
The headline:
Bernie Sanders to announce plan to guarantee every American a job
The key takeaway from a 1200 word story:
A representative from Sanders’s office said they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be funded.
Le sigh.
If Republicans could give $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to corporations and the wealthiest among us, why can’t we invest a similar amount in a guaranteed jobs plan for regular Americans who are unemployed and willing to work to better their local community?
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) April 17, 2018
When @SenGillibrand unveiled her guaranteed jobs plan, she got zero media attention. https://t.co/RdXzyby2sw
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) April 23, 2018
re: #88 Charles Johnson
President Trump is increasingly relying on his personal cell phone to contact outside advisers, multiple sources inside and outside the White House tell CNN https://t.co/HAWhhA60AL pic.twitter.com/6pRDBMxeKU
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) April 23, 2018
Its a good thing all those outside advisors have security clearances and secured comms when they talk to him… https://t.co/zxI2dSL30a
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 23, 2018
re: #68 Anymouse 🌹
Sanders proposed a small tax on stock transfers during his campaign to fund education, and that was a non-starter for a large portion of people.
Plus there’s the issue of all the middle class people who hold shares in their retirement accounts or whatnot who would also be opposed to that.
I would slap the tax on brokerage houses.
I’d just create a higher tax bracket and tax dividends/long term capital gains at regular rates and slap an additional penalty on short term capital gains. Shares held in retirement accounts would retain their tax advantages. To keep the tax code “simple” I’d raise the standard deduction and collapse the lower brackets into fewer brackets.
re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #88 Charles Johnson
1) using a phone to try and avoid domestic law enforcement surveillance?
2) using a smart phone that is most likely being tapped by multiple foreign agencies because Trump is not exactly one to keep opsec or handling of classified info at the top of the list of things to do.
He probably doesn’t want the calls logged in the official logs, and doesn’t want people knowing he’s spending all his time talking with Hannity and others while they’re all subject to further investigation.
re: #87 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Dad will likely never be charged. The DC White House trespassing charges were dismissed after completion of pretrial diversion, He did community service. So, there is likely a reasonable argument that technically the local law enforcement had no legal call to seize his weapons or withdraw his permits
Because America, bang bang!
re: #75 KGxvi
I think there’s a way to build support for it. I would structure it as a sales tax, so the person/entity would pay when they bought the stock - it wouldn’t be a capital gains tax - so if you’ve got a mutual fund account, it’s not really going to affect your retirement.
I’m not financially-savvy enough to figure something like that out. (I don’t own any stock either - you have to be rich for that.)
re: #88 Charles Johnson
@TheLeadCNN
President Trump is increasingly relying on his personal cell phone to contact outside advisers, multiple sources inside and outside the White House tell CNN
I think we all know that if this had been reported about Pres. Obama, House Republicans would be calling for impeachment
re: #80 majii
If I wanted to, I could go to any of my neighbours (if they were selling a gun), plunk the money down, and it’s mine. No background check required.
The only place in town where I would get a background check is the gun shop.
This menu is why I could never be President: https://t.co/GjDFxf24PM I’d serve fried chicken and mashed potatoes with sweet potato pie for dessert. None of this unpronounceable froo-froo garbage.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) April 23, 2018
Erick can’t pronounce “Spring Lamb” https://t.co/tsRSpX8pwH
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 23, 2018
Mr. Thin Skin can’t be one-upped or shown-up example #1,897 and counting.
Nicole has Ashley Parker on and they are talking about Trump’s tweets over the weekend. They were talking about Rudy being picked to be on the Trump team as a lawyer.
Ashley said the only reason he was chosen is because he is known.
Trump apparently had a burr up his ass about all the news reports saying high-powered lawyers have been reported turning down The Donald and refusing to represent him.
Yeah. Imagine that. The Don can’t have it be seen that no ones will work with him.
What to do, what to do?
Trump most likely: “Rudy has a name everyone knows and he won’t turn me down. Call him. Send out the tweets”
re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I think we all know that if this had been reported about Pres. Obama, House Republicans would be calling for impeachment
Of course, but Republicans are no longer loyal to our system of government. All they care about is power.
re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I think we all know that if this had been reported about Pres. Obama, House Republicans would be calling for impeachment
If Clinton had been elected, the House GOP would already have passed Articles Of Impeachment for the whole email thing.
good day to one and all
klys and I and mrs dm had a wonderful day and a half in orlando
klys and i had a great half marathon race
details will follow - not today. im parachuting in then gotta go
this waffle house shooter is exactly what i’ve been railing about for years
It’s the irresponsible transfers that cause most of the trouble. And if I understand it, the father KNEW his son lost his license.
Further, if the son in fact was the legal owner of the guns when he was taken in and they were confiscated, then law enforcement effectively transferred legal ownership to the father.
Do they have that power?
Well, whether they did or didnt, at that moment the guns became dad’s total and sole responsibility. He accepted possession. At that moment you control all your weapons at all times. And that includes who and how you transfer them to someone else
Every background check system will be rendered meaningless unless every single transfer requires determining that the buyer has not been barred from possessing.
THIS is the test case where EVERY RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNER should be clamboring for the father’s head on a pike.
If the gun owners won’t help cull these people out, then there really is no choice but to go after them all.
More at another time
re: #99 Kragar
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re: #102 Blind Frog Belly White
If Clinton had been elected, the House GOP would already have passed Articles Of Impeachment for the whole email thing.
Wasn’t it Trey Gowdy who was saying she would be under investigation for the whole four years?
re: #99 Kragar
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Carolina gold rice jambalaya
re: #103 dangerman
I don’t just want the father’s head on a pike, I want the cops’ heads on pikes too.
They were told to confiscate the weapons, not give them to the father.
re: #79 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
“Assumes facts not in evidence. I can take a guess where his son picked up this “Sovereign Citizen” bullshit.”
Since daddy returned his guns to him after telling law enforcement that he wouldn’t, I’m going with daddy as being the source of the “SC” BS. Daddy probably thought the gubmint couldn’t tell him what to do with the guns in his own house, so returning the guns to his son was a “personal” not a gubmint decision. Now daddy is dodging the media. His neighbors should do a ”Milo” on him by standing outside of his house on the sidewalk and shouting, “You enabled a murdered!” until he gets tired of it and leaves their neighborhood. They should treat him the same way those patrons in the NYC restaurant treated Yiannopoulos. Yiannnopoulous high-tailed it out of there, took to Facebook and started his “Poor me, I can’t sit down in a NYC restaurant and eat a meal” Facebook tour.
re: #99 Kragar
He doesn’t know the ‘b’ is silent.
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹
Wasn’t it Trey Gowdy who was saying she would be under investigation for the whole four years?
Think so and McCain said they’d block her SCOTUS pick but hey isn’t Pompeo being rejected just awful?
re: #99 Kragar
As a southerner, you’d think he’d know what jambalaya is. Also, too, not sure how froo-froo jambalaya is.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) April 23, 2018
re: #109 A dark and stormy covfefe
He doesn’t know the ‘b’ is silent.
In my world, the ERICK is silent.
re: #89 gwangung
….which is probably tapped seven ways to heaven by most foreign espionage units…
As well as US intelligence, probably.
“The violent arrest of Ms. Clemons is something that we can’t let go,” Ngozi Ndulue, NAACP Senior Director of Criminal Justice Programs. @NaacpJustice speaks to @Refinery29 https://t.co/soEwwRUAXU
— NAACP (@NAACP) April 23, 2018
re: #111 MsJ
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It’s got spicy sausage in it. I mean I love Southern food too but Erick is being silly and missing out.
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹
This guy you’re responding to is a real wingnut. He’s now spreading the “attacker was Middle Eastern” thing about Toronto.
That might be true, though only one reporter has said anything about that. The point is the dog whistle though (all “Middle Eastern”) people are bad.
I wonder what his opinion on the Nashville mass-murder is?
After a quick view on Google News, I have been able to note a couple of things about the Toronto van assailant (which the asshole schtev69 ought to have been able to do as well)
1. In 2018, the odds that something like this that goes down in public is likely to be live-videoed are overwhelming.
2. Said live video is usually available immediately or near-immediately.
3. The van driver arrested for the incident does not (just from appearances) look “Middle-Eastern” at all.
4. Toronto police seem to have been able to corner and arrest the guy without reflexively initiating a gunfight (even though the suspect appeared to be armed).VERY professional.
5. (the worst part) Any assclown with access to a computer can start any sort of rumor about these incidents, which will then likely be taken as fact by a non-trivial segment of the Internet: as long as it triggers the “right” sort of prejudice.
ah…here is the culprit:
The main course of rack of lamb will be served alongside Carolina rice jambalaya and cooked in the “New Orleans tradition” with herbs grown in the White House gardens. The tart will be served with honey made at the White House, and crème fraiche ice cream. Perhaps surprisingly, the meal will be served with American wines, a move that the White House says is meant to “embody the historic friendship” between the two countries.
re: #115 HappyWarrior
It’s got spicy sausage in it. I mean I love Southern food too butErick isbeingsillyand missing out.
#BREAKING 9 dead and 16 injured in #torontovanattack day acting @TPSOperations Chief Peter Yuen @globalnewsto pic.twitter.com/dvhazxm5UC
— Jamie Mauracher (@JamieMauracher) April 23, 2018
re: #115 HappyWarrior
It’s got spicy sausage in it. I mean I love Southern food too but Erick is being silly and missing out.
He’s not missing out and he’s not being silly, he’s being a republican tool to bitch about nothing. It’s what they do.
re: #116 Jay C
6. In one of the videos I saw, the driver was pointing his gun at police and yelling “shoot me”.
re: #121 MsJ
He’s not missing out and he’s not being silly, he’s being a republican tool to bitch about nothing. It’s what they do.
True.
re: #121 MsJ
He’s not missing out and he’s not being silly, he’s being a republican tool to bitch about nothing. It’s what they do.
Creole (i.e., non-white) food?
(Though the talk about jambalaya is getting me hungry….)
re: #121 MsJ
He’s not missing out and he’s not being silly, he’s being a republican tool to bitch about nothing. It’s what they do.
Whew—I made jambalaya last night and was feeling bad that I didn’t invite Erick son of Eric over for dinner.
//
re: #99 Kragar
Nor, apparently, has he ever heard of jambalaya.
I’m a black cop. On the scene of a shooting one night. Using a flashlight to look for bullet casings between houses to collect as evidence. Dispatch gets a call of a suspicious looking black male in “police clothes” using a flashlight to “look into ppls houses” #LivingWhileBlack
— BlazinBajan (@BlazinBajan) April 22, 2018
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
6. In one of the videos I saw, the driver was pointing his gun at police and yelling “shoot me”.
SRSLY? My estimation of the professional quality of the Toronto police just went up: how many officers anywhere are going to resist the instinctive reflex to gratify an armed “suicide by cop” suspect?
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PS: casualty count is now nine dead, sixteen injured.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
I think I’m the only one who knows about this right now. Considering a post.
Do not do this. Seriously. As has already been pointed out, the dude is a fucking psycho and is armed. That woman has enough trouble right now. A post could make it worse.
Also, quite frankly, there’s bigger problems in the world than Rage Furby’s marital problems.
re: #124 gwangung
Creole (i.e., non-white) food?
But his suggestions - fried chicken and sweet potato pie - are even more associated with black folks.
Biggest problem? Try having fried chicken - REAL, honest to god, pan fried Fried Chicken ready for 300 people at once without 50 cooks minding 4 skillets each!
Excuse me while I LMAO.
Gun nuts are shooting their $300 Yeti coolers after the company cut ties with the NRA https://t.co/fbwHWDaS3l
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 23, 2018
Live coverage of Toronto. CTV noting that no one knows anything about the man who drove the van or his motivation. They caution about anyone claiming they do. They caution that until the police conduct its investigation, there is no claim that can be shown to be true.
ctvnews.ca
One thing that is good about capturing the murderer, since they captured him alive they can question him. Tough to get a police investigation or intelligence out of a dead person.
re: #131 MsJ
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re: #127 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Honestly, I sort of get this one. It’s hard to call that innocuous activity. Mind you, he probably wouldn’t have had the cops called on him if he were white.
re: #128 Jay C
Conversely, Sammy Yatim and Bruce McArthur.
Resurrected from dead thread:
Dog whistle so loud it could call the one Mike Huckabee’s son killed back from the grave. https://t.co/FrCMChnAmA
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) April 23, 2018
Yeah, Slavic isn’t quite up to Aryan, but it is much higher than, well, you know. /////
Today is Rapture Day.
Do we have anyone missing?
re: #127 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Who is this asshat hijacking my good name? /s
what percentage of murders are by black men in the US?
— James (@jamesmg74) April 22, 2018
re: #130 Blind Frog Belly White
But his suggestions - fried chicken and sweet potato pie - are even more associated with black folks.
Biggest problem? Try having fried chicken - REAL, honest to god, pan fried Fried Chicken ready for 300 people at once without 50 cooks minding 4 skillets each!
Wouldn’t need quite that many, as they cut the guest list down to less than half that number (no Democrats, of course.)
re: #73 Charles Johnson
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re: #115 HappyWarrior
“It’s got spicy sausage in it. I mean I love Southern food too but Erick is being silly and missing out.”
Erickson and I live in the same Middle GA city, so I’m sure he knows what Jambalaya is. Every year in March we host the Cherry Blossom Festival and a part of the two-week event is dedicated to southern food. Erickson is an attention wh*re. Since he wasn’t consulted about the menu for the state dinner, he had to portray himself as a regular old country boy with simple tastes when he’s anything but that. I’ve lived in GA my entire life, over 65 years, and I can tell you that not everyone in the state likes fried chicken, mashed potatoes, and sweet potato pie or thinks they’re appropriate foods to serve at a top level social event.
re: #94 lawhawk
1) using a phone to try and avoid domestic law enforcement surveillance?
2) using a smart phone that is most likely being tapped by multiple foreign agencies because Trump is not exactly one to keep opsec or handling of classified info at the top of the list of things to do.He probably doesn’t want the calls logged in the official logs, and doesn’t want people knowing he’s spending all his time talking with Hannity and others while they’re all subject to further investigation.
BUT KILLARY’S EMAILZZZZZZZZ!!!1!!1!!
re: #128 Jay C
SRSLY? My estimation of the professional quality of the Toronto police just went up: how many officers anywhere are going to resist the instinctive reflex to gratify an armed “suicide by cop” suspect?
(I didn’t get the soundtrack)
Outside of America, it’s actually normal for cops to not shoot people, even if they’re asking for it or black, or even both.
Outside of the US, cops as a rule are trained that their role is to keep the peace and preserve public safety and order. Sometimes this can involve being intimidating - someone commented on the footage of the police marching in formation in Georgia, and that cops should not be marching in military formation. Actually, when faced with a potentially violent public situation, that sort of organised, military-style marching is very much what they should do - present a firm, organised stance that can act as a deterrent simply by them showing up. What they then did, by pointing rifles at the non-Nazis, was revolting but not surprising for US cops. But by and large, Western world police outside America are trained to defuse situations, keep the peace, and preserve lives. Drawing a weapon and pointing it in anger is a huge deal. Actually firing it even more so.
In America, though, police are taught that their main role is to have gunfights with bad guys, and to crack skulls if the bad guys don’t have guns. And it shows.
Toronto police are now saying nine are dead and sixteen injured.
re: #92 Weaselone
I’d just create a higher tax bracket and tax dividends/long term capital gains at regular rates and slap an additional penalty on short term capital gains. Shares held in retirement accounts would retain their tax advantages. To keep the tax code “simple” I’d raise the standard deduction and collapse the lower brackets into fewer brackets.
That may make the tax code simpler for certain people in lower income groups, but fewer brackets tend not to make calculations simple; the complexity of our code is the determination of income and deductions, not the tax rates. One of the negative aspects of raising the standard deduction is that it may harm charitable giving.
re: #143 Renaissance_Man
The marching took place after the Nazis left. It was directed solely at the counter protesters and “ANTIFA”.
As the racists and alt-right are sharpening their pitchforks, I’d like to remind them that #Toronto is probably their definition of Hell, daily, people of all races/cultures manage to live fairly peacefully. So kindly find another bandwagon to justify your hatred. #torontoattack
— Joy Henderson (@Joyhenderson78) April 23, 2018
re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter
I realize this. That’s why I put quotes around simpler.
re: #137 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Today is Rapture Day.
Do we have anyone missing?
“after the rapture two hearts meet….”
Really thrilled to see conservative economists agreeing with us that a job guarantee will give workers better wages and benefits. And to think, people say bipartisanship is dead. https://t.co/rTcQGOQR5P pic.twitter.com/yyGgIPb0dM
— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) April 23, 2018
the conservative argument against a job guarantee is literally “it will raise wages.” literally. like, they’re literally saying that to reporters. https://t.co/5uuKZbNGvd
— abolish ice. send homan to the hague. (@SeanMcElwee) April 23, 2018
re: #147 A dark and stormy covfefe
Oh man her comment thread is filling up with conservative racist hatred.
Again, when the guy we’re talking about is THIS FUCKING GUY RIGHT HERE, well, folks, you’re going to have work harder to convince me that he didn’t use a racist dog-whistle.
Frankly, as a Trump supporter, don’t you get sick of having to spend all your time denying his past? pic.twitter.com/hkZC4eVCTH— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 23, 2018
re: #151 Anymouse 🌹
Oh man her comment thread is filling up with conservative racist hatred.
Not surprised hashtag Toronto is breaking into a Venn diagram of hate between “this is what diversity and multiculturalism brings/Islam=terror” and “when will the Parkland teens march against vans?”
Tea Pain’s gonna go out on an limb and say that a buck-naked feller with an assault rifle does not qualify as a “well-regulated militia.”#WaffleHouseShooting #GunReformNow
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) April 23, 2018
I checked out Yonge and Finch Streets on Google Maps. Lots and lots of Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other Asian and South Asian restaurants there and to the south (vehicle direction).
Was he going for mostly Asian immigrants? Hmmm…
re: #153 Barefoot Grin
Not surprised hashtag Toronto is breaking into a Venn diagram of hate between “this is what diversity and multiculturalism brings/Islam=terror” and “when will the Parkland teens march against vans?”
While we don’t know yet what happened, watch how fast they drop it if:
a) He was a Trump supporter.
b) He is a white guy.
On the other hand, the foghorns will go to eleven if he is anything other than a white guy.
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹
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As if pressure to provide high paying jobs with good benefits is a bad thing. Must be nice to work for a Think Tank where you get paid to degrade people wanting a better life.
Read the comments. Almost 100% saying “lay off Kevin, man!” (I agree, though I’m not a huge KS fan.)
Watch @ThatKevinSmith’s full interview with @savannahguthrie and @craigmelvin pic.twitter.com/j490aL4vu3
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 23, 2018
Why is he still dressing like that? https://t.co/2oE5DUTAAn
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) April 23, 2018
In light of @brithume claiming I never have a basis for my statements and he and @ingrahamAngle taking shots at me for my harmless comments re Mr. Hannity on CNN yesterday, I think it’s only fair that I shed light on some critical FACTS re the situation:https://t.co/2RElSDoiNn
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) April 23, 2018
re: #152 Anymouse 🌹
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We love you Kanye. #FreeMeekMill!
— Craig R. Brittain (R-AZ) for US Senate Staff 🆒 (@Brittain4Senate) April 23, 2018
This is the lamest attempt to attract the African American vote ever. https://t.co/Zqx04JA6GL
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 23, 2018
Whelp.
CTV interviewed the MP who represents that riding in Toronto, Ali Eshassi. Stand by for more derp. Plus, he is a member of the Liberal Party.
Three times as many atheists as Muslims though, so maybe we’ll get the slagging. Or maybe the multi-cultural nature of that district.
Breakdown of the Willowdale riding by language:
Languages: 35.7% English, 19.1% Chinese, 9.8% Persian, 9.2% Korean, 5.8% Russian, 2.6% Tagalog, 1.7% Italian, 1.6% Spanish, 1.3% French, 1.2% Arabic
Religions: 46.0% Christian (20.6% Catholic, 4.3% Christian Orthodox, 3.2% Presbyterian, 2.4% United Church, 2.4% Anglican, 1.8% Baptist, 6.5% Pentecostal, 11.3% Other), 11.6% Muslim, 6.6% Jewish, 2.9% Buddhist, 1.8% Hindu, 30.4% No religion
NEW: 25-year-old Alek Minassian identified as the suspected driver who ran down pedestrians in Toronto, killing at least 9, sources confirm to CBS News. https://t.co/SMF8S8GCbN pic.twitter.com/hJ9mo7sn7S
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 23, 2018
re: #153 Barefoot Grin “Not surprised hashtag Toronto is breaking into a Venn diagram of hate between “this is what diversity and multiculturalism brings/Islam=terror”“
I’ve actually spent a considerable amount of time thinking about how my life may have been different if some of the ancestors of these racist *ssholes hadn’t snatched my ancestors out of Africa and enslaved them in America. My dad was a very smart guy who didn’t graduate from high school but retired from a federal civil service job as a sheetmetal mechanic. My mom graduated from high school but never worked because my dad didn’t want her to. I’ve oftentimes wondered what more my dad could have accomplished with his smarts if he’d been born in another country, a country where he wouldn’t have been judged as being “lesser than ___” based solely on the amount of melanin in his skin.
re: #156 Anymouse 🌹
While we don’t know yet what happened, watch how fast they drop it if:
a) He was a Trump supporter.
b) He is a white guy.On the other hand, the foghorns will go to eleven if he is anything other than a white guy.
So we’re back to sweating what a murder’s ethnicity is going to be, dreading the reaction? Just like the Cascade Mall shooter last year. “He’s Turkish.” “Oh, no!” (Turned out he was a Christian and a Trump supporter, but that didn’t matter….)
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹
Whelp.
CTV interviewed the MP who represents that riding in Toronto, Ali Eshassi. Stand by for more derp. Plus, he is a member of the Liberal Party.
Three times as many atheists as Muslims though, so maybe we’ll get the slagging. Or maybe the multi-cultural nature of that district.
Breakdown of the Willowdale riding by language:
Languages: 35.7% English, 19.1% Chinese, 9.8% Persian, 9.2% Korean, 5.8% Russian, 2.6% Tagalog, 1.7% Italian, 1.6% Spanish, 1.3% French, 1.2% Arabic
Religions: 46.0% Christian (20.6% Catholic, 4.3% Christian Orthodox, 3.2% Presbyterian, 2.4% United Church, 2.4% Anglican, 1.8% Baptist, 6.5% Pentecostal, 11.3% Other), 11.6% Muslim, 6.6% Jewish, 2.9% Buddhist, 1.8% Hindu, 30.4% No religion
Sounds like a place a wingnut would hate.
re: #158 Barefoot Grin
Why is he dressed like that?
Because he’s a fairly successful movie maker (I’m a mark) that doesn’t need to wear a stupid suit to please you. That’s why.
CTV is now noting massive security around Maple Leaf Square (where the Toronto Maple Leafs are about to play).
Cinnamon bread pic.twitter.com/TDyiaQHKXW
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) April 23, 2018
re: #163 The Vicious Babushka
NEW: 25-year-old Alek Minassian identified as the suspected driver who ran down pedestrians in Toronto, killing at least 9, sources confirm to CBS News. https://t.co/SMF8S8GCbN pic.twitter.com/hJ9mo7sn7S
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 23, 2018
An Armenian?! Didn’t see that coming!
re: #163 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #172 austin_blue
Minassian (also Minasian and Minasyan) is usually an Armenian surname. 95% of Armenains are Christian.
Yeah name sounded Armenian to me too as well as the given name.
re: #172 austin_blue
Minassian (also Minasian and Minasyan) is usually an Armenian surname. 95% of Armenains are Christian.
Watch right-wing twitter get really quiet all-of-a-sudden….
re: #174 Ace-o-aces
Watch right-wing twitter get really quiet all-of-a-sudden….
Nah something about false flags.
re: #174 Ace-o-aces
Watch right-wing twitter get really quiet all-of-a-sudden….
I think they think Armenians iz Ay-rabs, anyway. They think Persians are, so….
re: #164 majii
“Not surprised hashtag Toronto is breaking into a Venn diagram of hate between “this is what diversity and multiculturalism brings/Islam=terror”“
I’ve actually spent a considerable amount of time thinking about how my life may have been different if some of the ancestors of these racist *ssholes hadn’t snatched my ancestors out of Africa and enslaved them in America. My dad was a very smart guy who didn’t graduate from high school but retired from a federal civil service job as a sheetmetal mechanic. My mom graduated from high school but never worked because my dad didn’t want her to. I’ve oftentimes wondered what more my dad could have accomplished with his smarts if he’d been born in another country, a country where he wouldn’t have been judged as being “lesser than ___” based solely on the amount of melanin in his skin.
I love reading your posts for many reasons, but one is that my mother is from west-central Georgia (maybe 20 or 30 miles south of Newnan) and I spent a good part of many summers there with my grandparents. As such, my understanding of Georgia culture is terribly skewed. In family lore there were things to be proud of: grandfather’s dad was illiterate and cruel, but he worked hard and put his siblings through UGA (and his children). But in my child’s heart, I knew he did it on the backs of the underpaid black Americans who worked for him in his fields and peach business. I think I won’t say much more (for one, I have to go cook dinner), but I think you know the story. Suffice it to say that at his funeral in the early 1980s the black community stood outside of the Primitive Baptist church he attended while the white community sat inside for the service. In attendance was Herman Talmadge.
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
“Cinnamon bread”
LOL. I wish Star Trek transporters were real because I’d buy one for me and one for you to use when you get to cooking so you could send me some of your dishes. I’m willing to pay a fee, of course.
re: #177 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I think they think Armenians iz Ay-rabs, anyway. They think Persians are, so….
They’re not white like me, they can’t be Christians! God help these people if they ever met Bosnians.
re: #177 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I think they think Armenians iz Ay-rabs, anyway. They think Persians are, so….
They’s furriners, in any case.
If it is indeed correct that that van was stopped at Sheppard Avenue, the son of a bitch was hitting people for over a mile.
WTF? That’s terrifying.
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
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ok it is time for this lil pup who is checking if some body might be baking something good in the oven
nope no food in the oven but this pup does not let it bother her no she says oh well and goes on with her day we should all be this care free tbh
via https://t.co/kwsAzJrtb0 pic.twitter.com/5Pr5szteYi— darth™ (@darth) April 23, 2018
re: #183 HappyWarrior
They’re not white like me, they can’t be Christians! God help these people if they ever met Bosnians.
The only Armenian I know personally is Buddhist. So, there’s that…
re: #187 Blind Frog Belly White
They’s furriners, in any case.
Yup. Just like Danny and Marlo Thomas.
re: #191 Blind Frog Belly White
The only Armenian I know personally is Buddhist. So, there’s that…
I thought you’d know more being in Cali. I don’t know any myself. Not a big Armenian ex pat community here in NoVa.
re: #192 austin_blue
Yup. Just like Danny and Marlo Thomas.
I thought they were of Lebanese descent.
re: #103 dangerman
Turns out FL is humid. Who knew?
(And yet somehow despite this I am smiling in all the race photos.)
((I do not recommend 4 races in 8 days with the last two on about 10 hours of sleep in 3 days. I do recommend running a half marathon with a fellow member of LGF.))
re: #192 austin_blue
Yup. Just like Danny and Marlo Thomas.
Weren’t the Thomas’ Lebanese???
Maybe I missed something in the convo…
re: #194 HappyWarrior
I thought they were of Lebanese descent.
Indeed; in Marlo’s case, she’s also half-Sicilian.
re: #195 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Turns out FL is humid. Who knew?
(And yet somehow despite this I am smiling in all the race photos.)
((I do not recommend 4 races in 8 days with the last two on about 10 hours of sleep in 3 days. I do recommend running a half marathon with a fellow member of LGF.))
But not me, unless you know CPR or are extremely patient.
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re: #164 majii
I wish there was someway to fix the racism problem in the USA. I can only make sure I don’t engage in it, and don’t permit others around me from using slurs or such.
Aside from my limited experience with segregated schools, where I went to an all-white school in K and part of 1st until my mother got my sister and me the hell out of Dixie, I remember clearly one story.
We lived on base at NAS Patuxent River in Maryland as children. My father was in Vietnam at the time.
Across the street from us was a white woman named Thelma with a daughter named Wilma. Next door to us were two African-American children named Marshall and Sylvia. All of us were the same age.
My sister and I were allowed in Marshall and Sylvia’s home and they were allowed in ours. Wilma’s mother would never let her play with us when either Marshall or Sylvia was with us. This caused a lot of friction between Wilma and her mother.
One day Sylvia was climbing the rose trellis outside our house, and my mother yelled out at her as loud as she could “Get off that trellis or I’ll through a bucket of mop water on you.” Sylvia’s mother called back “Don’t come dripping on my clean floor!”
Thelma would come to my mother to try to figure out how to thread the needle of racism with her child … my mother’s opinion was “that’s her problem.” Eventually Wilma was allowed to play at our house when Marshall and Sylvia were at it, she could play at Marshall and Sylvia’s house, but letting Marshall and Sylvia in her house was a bridge too far for her.
re: #194 HappyWarrior
I thought they were of Lebanese descent.
They are/were, but, you know, They Are Not Like Us.
re: #198 Blind Frog Belly White
But not me, unless you know CPR or are extremely patient.
//
dangerman was patient for me, I can be patient.
We did discuss pushing the last 3 miles but ended up only doing the last mile and a half or so because nobody wanted vomit involved.
Melania Trump will serve @MichelleObama’s collard greens recipe to the Macrons.
First she steals their inauguration cake… Now the collards.https://t.co/JS43ckgPZ9— mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) April 23, 2018
re: #188 austin_blue
If it is indeed correct that that van was stopped at Sheppard Avenue, the son of a bitch was hitting people for over a mile.
WTF? That’s terrifying.
He went about 3km before he stopped.
huffingtonpost.ca (includes map)
JUST IN: White House says Trump will host a US military troop review on the South Lawn tomorrow for Macron. “With the practice tracing back to the 17th century…” they said. Says @MarcusReports, “They’ve been doing this since the 1600s? I don’t think so.” pic.twitter.com/CDftp0Emve
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) April 23, 2018
TBH I’d hate to be “pure” anything. I like being descended from multiple nationalities with vastly different cultures.
re: #201 klys (maker of Silmarils)
dangerman was patient for me, I can be patient.
We did discuss pushing the last 3 miles but ended up only doing the last mile and a half or so because nobody wanted vomit involved.
Reminds me of my rule for climbing Old La Honda*: you should get to the top feeling like you’re gonna puke, but if you actually DO puke, you pushed too hard.
*Local benchmark climb. IIRC, my personal record is roughly twice as long as it took Eric Heiden
re: #188 austin_blue
If it is indeed correct that that van was stopped at Sheppard Avenue, the son of a bitch was hitting people for over a mile.
WTF? That’s terrifying.
“Vans don’t kill people….”
re: #195 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Turns out FL is humid. Who knew?
(And yet somehow despite this I am smiling in all the race photos.)
((I do not recommend 4 races in 8 days with the last two on about 10 hours of sleep in 3 days. I do recommend running a half marathon with a fellow member of LGF.))
Hey klys, good to see ya.
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #205 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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imma guessing the yam doesn’t get to show off with that yuge military parade that he wanted…
re: #208 HappyWarrior
That doesn’t sound right.
Troop reviews have been conducted by US Presidents before, but the XVII Century is a bit too long ago for that.
re: #178 Barefoot Grin
…” Suffice it to say that at his funeral in the early 1980s the black community stood outside of the Primitive Baptist church he attended while the white community sat inside for the service. In attendance was Herman Talmadge.”
I’m related to MLK via my mother’s side of the family [Coretta Scott King-Alabama connection.] MLK hit the nail on the head when he noted that Sunday is the most segregated day of the week n America, especially in the south. Generally speaking, it’s still that way.
re: #213 Anymouse 🌹
Troop reviews have been conducted by US Presidents before, but the XVII Century is a bit too long ago for that.
Yeah. Considering Washington became President in the 18th.
re: #208 HappyWarrior
That doesn’t sound right.
It’s not, especially on the South Lawn of the White House.
I think the first military review there took place when the British Commander told his troops to Burn The Motherfucker Down.
For those now making a joke of our calls for gun safety in the wake of the Toronto Van incident and calling for “van control”, it is not funny. However, if serious, I would be happy to discuss laws regulating gun ownership that are similar to what we have with vans.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) April 23, 2018
His daughter was killed in the Parkland school shooting… https://t.co/JYP8a903tt
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 23, 2018
re: #209 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
“Vans don’t kill people….”
Next thing you know, liberals will want to register vans and have drivers tested and licensed!
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re: #214 majii
…” Suffice it to say that at his funeral in the early 1980s the black community stood outside of the Primitive Baptist church he attended while the white community sat inside for the service. In attendance was Herman Talmadge.”
I’m related to MLK via my mother’s side of the family [Coretta Scott King-Alabama connection.] MLK hit the nail on the head when he noted that Sunday is the most segregated day of the week n America, especially in the south. Generally speaking, it’s still that way.
Related to MLK? That is sooooo cool. Hey though I found out last night I’m related likely to one of MLK’s forerunners, the priest who coined the term Boycott has my third great Nana’s surname and is from the same town in Ireland where she was from.
re: #213 Anymouse 🌹
Troop reviews have been conducted by US Presidents before, but the XVII Century is a bit too long ago for that.
I figure Trump thought there was a 0th Century.
re: #201 klys (maker of Silmarils)
dangerman was patient for me, I can be patient.
We did discuss pushing the last 3 miles but ended up only doing the last mile and a half or so because nobody wanted vomit involved.
Hi klys!
Nice to see you around.
re: #195 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Long time no see!!
re: #182 majii
“Cinnamon bread”
LOL. I wish Star Trek transporters were real because I’d buy one for me and one for you to use when you get to cooking so you could send me some of your dishes. I’m willing to pay a fee, of course.
I wish there was a way to bottle up the smell! Seriously I think people would pay money just to smell the aroma of this bread.
re: #223 Hecuba’s daughter
Long time no see!!
Real long time. A couple weeks back, I was about to ask if she’d dropped off the face of the Earth. Then dangerman posted about the 1/2 Marathon.
Beer time! Tonight a Real Heavy from Real Ale Brewing, Blanco, TX.
re: #197 TedStriker
Indeed; in Marlo’s case, she’s also half-Sicilian.
Sicilia’s still a furrin’ country though, just like Lebania and Armenistan!
re: #224 The Vicious Babushka
I wish there was a way to bottle up the smell! Seriously I think people would pay money just to smell the aroma of this bread.
YES!!!!!!!!
Not this guy, however: pic.twitter.com/karLA40IN1
— Jonathan Goldsbie (@goldsbie) April 23, 2018
That thread is filling up with derp.
I do wish they added more demographics though.
— JDE (@jdougecpa) April 23, 2018
Demographics? Assault-style rifles, other rifles, pistols, &c. Those would be the demographics to study, but I’ll bet that’s not what the poster meant.
The “what about Chicago” people also rarely mention Louisiana (far more dangerous).
re: #229 A dark and stormy covfefe
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re: #208 HappyWarrior
That doesn’t sound right.
This White House has been the absolute worst when it comes to copy editing their statements.
JUST IN: Sen. Rand Paul says he supports Mike Pompeo nomination, having “received assurances” that Pompeo agrees with Pres. Trump on Iraq, Afghanistan wars. https://t.co/RBrzetWqLS
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) April 23, 2018
Rand Paul, “non-interventionist”. https://t.co/smarT31s7C
— Zachary #FBPE (@zatchry) April 23, 2018
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Having received assurances from President Trump and Director Pompeo that he agrees with the President on these important issues, I have decided to support his nomination to be our next Secretary of State.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 23, 2018
Anyone who was under the impression that I am an independent thinker with integrity, please disregard that libertarian fan fiction and henceforth think of me as the weaselly opportunistic piece of shit I really am. Thank you. https://t.co/jbOFc18aMZ
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) April 23, 2018
re: #94 lawhawk
1) using a phone to try and avoid domestic law enforcement surveillance?
2) using a smart phone that is most likely being tapped by multiple foreign agencies because Trump is not exactly one to keep opsec or handling of classified info at the top of the list of things to do.He probably doesn’t want the calls logged in the official logs, and doesn’t want people knowing he’s spending all his time talking with Hannity and others while they’re all subject to further investigation.
Well, I’m sure the Israelis have recordings, and the Brits, but the Germans may be a more likely source. Perhaps they could pass them on to the WashPO pretending they were coming from Wikileads?
re: #216 austin_blue
It’s not, especially on the South Lawn of the White House.
I think the first military review there took place when the British Commander told his troops to Burn The Motherfucker Down.
Don’t get your drawers in a twist. It is common practice to have a military review on the south lawn during official “State” visits, such as Macron’s
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
re: #225 Blind Frog Belly White
Real long time. A couple weeks back, I was about to ask if she’d dropped off the face of the Earth. Then dangerman posted about the 1/2 Marathon.
Eh, I figure most people are probably not interested in my weekly mileage log.
Although I did go a whole 9 days without running this past month. While we were in Japan and mr. klys got me sick.
I have pictures somewhere that I should process and post.
.@PressSec: “At some points Democrats have to decide whether they love this country more than they hate this president.” pic.twitter.com/gVQPfDSZ0B
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 23, 2018
Hey Sarah, I’m a Democrat. I served in Saudi Arabia ‘02, Iraq ‘05, Afghanistan ‘10 and Afghanistan ‘12.
At no time did I ever see you over there. I never saw a Trump either.
Trump worked with Russia to undermine our democracy. You’re cool with it.
We aren’t. Fuck you. https://t.co/rvQLZHgMJl— Jon Surginer (@jmsurginer2) April 23, 2018
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It should be more than evident by now.
Tea Pain’s gonna go out on an limb and say that a buck-naked feller with an assault rifle does not qualify as a “well-regulated militia.”#WaffleHouseShooting #GunReformNow
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) April 23, 2018
re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
I was laughing watching that pup. She reminds me of Penelope Penny. Ms. PP roams the kitchen looking for anything I might drop from the countertop when I’m cooking. Last night it was sugar and flour since I was baking a pound cake. She thought she was going to get more chicken because she knew I was baking some. She’d already eaten her daily ration but seemed to think I’d give her more. Yes, the chicken I was cooking was for her, but she didn’t know I was baking it for her to eat for the next 3-4 days. That child sure loves chicken, and I’m at fault because I indulge her by buying it and cooking it especially for her. When it gets close to 8 PM, she gets antsy because she knows it’s time for mama to cut her chicken up and put it in her special bowl. I’m guilty, and I’m the reason she’s soooo spoiled. Besides her grain-free Purina kibble, Ms. PP likes chicken, bananas, Parmesan cheese, vanilla wafers, and milk.
re: #239 ObserverArt
How much longer before people figure out Rand Paul is a complete fraud?
It should be more than evident by now.
Ron always struck me as a true believer, and I could sort of admire him for that, even though he was too far afield even by my libertarian standards. Rand strikes me as the preacher’s son type - he knows the right words to say, and how to play the crowd, but you know he doesn’t really believe any of that horseshit.
Trump shows Macron his phones pic.twitter.com/sqvq9Hm3wv
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) April 23, 2018
“…and these are maps showing i won the electoral college”
“oui…are these the same maps u brought to show me last year at the G7 in sicily and then again when we met in paris?”
“…”
“…”
“…i won the electoral college”
“i see” pic.twitter.com/2B3D6eWAXt— darth™ (@darth) April 23, 2018
re: #244 KGxvi
Ron always struck me as a true believer, and I could sort of admire him for that, even though he was too far afield even by my libertarian standards. Rand strikes me as the preacher’s son type - he knows the right words to say, and how to play the crowd, but you know he doesn’t really believe any of that horseshit.
He definitely believes the “remove the social safety net for everyone else but me” part, he doesn’t believe the “personal responsibility” part.
The next arrogant Yankee who declares to me “Florida isn’t the South,” I’m gonna show em… https://t.co/BSwPoIPtiz
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) April 23, 2018
re: #99 Kragar
This menu is why I could never be President: thehill.com I’d serve fried chicken and mashed potatoes with sweet potato pie for dessert. None of this unpronounceable froo-froo garbage.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) April 23, 2018
Actually, Airwick, you COULD be president given the GOP will fucking elect any POS to hold such office.
Sen. Rand Paul: “I have changed my mind,” will support Mike Pompeo nomination.
“I take him at his word that he does and has incorporated the idea that the Iraq War was a mistake.” https://t.co/CFdzczE0fE pic.twitter.com/Y07xghcJRZ— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) April 23, 2018
“I take him at his word.”
fucking moron.
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m still always struck by how, even in 2018, the president’s Oval Office desk doesn’t have a computer on it. The only difference between now and 1910 is a couple of phones.
re: #239 ObserverArt
How much longer before people figure out Rand Paul is a complete fraud?
It should be more than evident by now.
It was obvious from the get go if you were paying attention to him. Not you OA but dumbasses that thought he was principled.
Twitter still infested with Nazis which Twitter won’t suspend under their own rules for hate speech … It’s going to require a mass-exodus of people from Twitter accounts to get their attention (in other words, supporting Nazis trumps the convenience of sending a tweet to my kid and such).
NOTICE - This white supremacist Trump advocate >> @WRGAMAGA << is a public supporter of the NSM Neo-Nazi movement. He’s been suspended twice for making death threats to women at political rallies. pic.twitter.com/0B4pERZy4L
— Levon Delights (@LevonDelights) April 23, 2018
re: #244 KGxvi
Ron always struck me as a true believer, and I could sort of admire him for that, even though he was too far afield even by my libertarian standards. Rand strikes me as the preacher’s son type - he knows the right words to say, and how to play the crowd, but you know he doesn’t really believe any of that horseshit.
Ron believes what he says. He’s a bigoted kook but he’s one with some principles. Rand is a politician all the way.
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹
Twitter still infested with Nazis which Twitter won’t suspend under their own rules for hate speech … It’s going to require a mass-exodus of people from Twitter accounts to get their attention (in other words, supporting Nazis trumps the convenience of sending a tweet to my kid and such).
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re: #248 Dr. Matt
Actually, Airwick, you COULD be president given the GOP will fucking elect any POS to hold such office.
LOL Airwick.
re: #247 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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“and in the spring we will have a blooming new press secretary” pic.twitter.com/RNBpGnFuxa
— darth™ (@darth) April 23, 2018
Department of ridiculous pettiness: Trump invited NO Democrats or journalists to the state dinner with Macron. This is unusual, to say the least.
politico.com
re: #258 petesh
Department of ridiculous pettiness: Trump invited NO Democrats or journalists to the state dinner with Macron. This is unusual, to say the least.
politico.com
Someone will leak when he makes an ignorant statement about France.
Trump shows Macron his phones pic.twitter.com/sqvq9Hm3wv
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) April 23, 2018
So bizarre. Comey also noted in his memos that Trump was really jazzed by the White House phones. https://t.co/xymcER1fJR
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 23, 2018
The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is earning $375,000 a year. That’s nearly twice the annual compensation given to his predecessor and at least $150,000 more a year than any previous CDC director. https://t.co/xM6luxV9qi
— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) April 23, 2018
re: #202 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀“Melania Trump will serve @MichelleObama’s collard greens recipe to the Macrons. First she steals their inauguration cake… Now the collards.theroot.com …”
I’m ROTFLMBO! I’d skip that item at the upcoming state dinner because unless those collard greens are prepared a certain way, they won’t be MO’s or Mrs. Robinson’s collard greens. I’ll hazard a guess that MO probably didn’t give MT all of the special ingredients for those collard greens that she’d include in the recipe she’d use for PBO and her own family members. You don’t just cut em, put ‘em in water, boil ‘em, put a little salt on ‘em, and slap some butter on ‘em. Cook them this way, they’ll taste like crap.
Huffington Post has profiles of the four killed in the mass-murder in Nashville.
One person was an athlete and gifted college student, one was a local musician, one was a cook at the restaurant.
huffingtonpost.com
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re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Melania is also in that same pose as the “family portrait” in Trump Tower where Barron is riding a toy lion, Melania is wearing a dress that is being held up by fishing wire and Donald is sitting with his fingers making a triangle between his knees which means “Vlad owns my balls.”
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That’s nearly twice the annual compensation given to Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, who had the job for six months before resigning in January. Her annual pay rate was $197,300.
re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth
which pink floyd album is this pic.twitter.com/a0uQx6rsNp
— Hunter Lurie (@hunterlurie) April 23, 2018
re: #263 majii
“Melania Trump will serve @MichelleObama’s collard greens recipe to the Macrons. First she steals their inauguration cake… Now the collards.theroot.com …”
I’m ROTFLMBO! I’d skip that item at the upcoming state dinner because unless those collard greens are prepared a certain way, they won’t be MO’s or Mrs. Robinson’s collard greens. I’ll hazard a guess that MO probably didn’t give MT all of the special ingredients for those collard greens that she’d include in the recipe she’d use for PBO and her own family members. You don’t just cut em, put ‘em in water, boil ‘em, put a little salt on ‘em, and slap some butter on ‘em. Cook them this way, they’ll taste like crap.
If Michelle personally prepared them, she should add Minnie’s special ingredient that she put in the chocolate pie.
re: #267 goddamnedfrank
Feels like it should be a Zeppelin album cover… like Led Zeppelin VII?
re: #263 majii
“Melania Trump will serve @MichelleObama’s collard greens recipe to the Macrons. First she steals their inauguration cake… Now the collards.theroot.com …”
I’m ROTFLMBO! I’d skip that item at the upcoming state dinner because unless those collard greens are prepared a certain way, they won’t be MO’s or Mrs. Robinson’s collard greens. I’ll hazard a guess that MO probably didn’t give MT all of the special ingredients for those collard greens that she’d include in the recipe she’d use for PBO and her own family members. You don’t just cut em, put ‘em in water, boil ‘em, put a little salt on ‘em, and slap some butter on ‘em. Cook them this way, they’ll taste like crap.
No shit. I do a half collard/half mustard greens recipe with lots of bacon, garlic, onions, thyme, Tabasco, and the magic secret additive…
balsamic vinegar!
Nom nom noms.
I’d also make a joke about this being the first time that Trump has used a shovel, but I’m guessing he’s done plenty of ground breaking ceremonies where he’s scooped a pile of dirt that someone else then had to do real work over.
re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth
Remember the stories about the phones at Mar-o-largess?
Kris Kobach lied about why he was held in contempt of court to Deadbart, and shifted blame for the post card issue onto others.
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re: #265 The Vicious Babushka
Brigitte Macron doesn’t look happy wearing stiletto heels on the grass. For that matter neither does Melania.
Melania is also in that same pose as the “family portrait” in Trump Tower where Barron is riding a toy lion, Melania is wearing a dress that is being held up by fishing wire and Donald is sitting with his fingers making a triangle between his knees which means “Vlad owns my balls.”
Why is Melon schlepping a purse around the White House?
re: #269 KGxvi
Feels like it should be a Zeppelin album cover… like Led Zeppelin VII?
All I know for sure is that somebody just discovered the Photoshop Sharpen tool.
re: #269 KGxvi
Feels like it should be a Zeppelin album cover… like Led Zeppelin VII?
Yeah Floyd’s albums are more trippy.
re: #277 HappyWarrior
Yeah Floyd’s albums are more trippy.
Those stilettos are way trippy, but they do aerate the lawn.
Nature hates this guy.
Kauai Shark Attack Victim Survived Bites from a Bear and a Rattlesnake (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
He is from Grand Junction, Colo.
re: #275 goddamnedfrank
All I know for sure is that somebody just discovered the Photoshop Sharpen tool.
That explains why it looks faked.
re: #279 Anymouse 🌹
Nature hates this guy.
Kauai Shark Attack Victim Survived Bites from a Bear and a Rattlesnake (Honolulu Star-Advertiser, caution for auto-play video)
He is from Grand Junction, Colo.
Mother Nature: “I don’t know why, Dylan. But there’s just something about you that PISSES ME OFF!”
re: #279 Anymouse 🌹
Nature hates this guy.
Kauai Shark Attack Victim Survived Bites from a Bear and a Rattlesnake (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
He is from Grand Junction, Colo.
Or he’s a lucky bastard too.
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth“”I take him at his word.” fucking moron.”
You got that right. I’m 5’8” tall and weigh about 130 lbs. and I wouldn”t trust Pomepeo or Rand Paul to pick me up and hold me for two seconds withhout dropping me. Why? Because they’re GOPers, and GOPers do not have a history of telling the truth about anythng.
re: #279 Anymouse 🌹
Nature hates this guy.
Kauai Shark Attack Victim Survived Bites from a Bear and a Rattlesnake (Honolulu Star-Advertiser, caution for auto-play video)
He is from Grand Junction, Colo.
Nature is like a woman…
Trump using his personal cellphone more: report https://t.co/WVJdBKXlw5 pic.twitter.com/WDCHz7Giwf
— The Hill (@thehill) April 23, 2018
I never want to hear about Hillary’s private server again. https://t.co/7YznBe6Mv8
— Denizcan James (@MrFilmkritik) April 23, 2018
re: #283 majii
“”I take him at his word.” fucking moron.”
You got that right. I’m 5’8” tall and weigh about 130 lbs. and I wouldn”t trust Pomepeo or Rand Paul to pick me up and hold me for two seconds withhout dropping me. Why? Because they’re GOPers, and GOPers do not have a history of telling the truth about anythng.
Yup. Rand Paul is making words that don’t mean anything (and he probably knows it).
re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s almost like the email thing was politicized by people who find every fault with HRC possible.
Holy shit! Take a look at the video of the perp getting taken down in Toronto!
Now, that’s a policeman using good judgement and restraint. In the US, he would have been shot to shit.
re: #256 HappyWarrior“e: #247 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 [Embedded content] Why do people think being a racist fuckwad is funny? It’s not.”
It’s not funny to you, it’s not funny to me, and it’s not funny to a whole lot of other persons, but it’s funny to them because they’re *ssholes.
re: #287 HappyWarrior
It’s almost like the email thing was politicized by people who find every fault with HRC possible.
I sure hope you’re not suggesting that their obsession was in any way disingenuous.
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re: #289 majii
“e: #247 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 [Embedded content] Why do people think being a racist fuckwad is funny? It’s not.”
It’s not funny to you, it’s not funny to me, and it’s not funny to a whole lot of other persons, but it’s funny to them because they’re *ssholes.
I’m not even sure how it’s funny to anyone, even racists.
re: #288 austin_blue
Holy shit! Take a look at the video of the perp getting taken down in Toronto!
Now, that’s a policeman using good judgement and restraint. In the US, he would have been shot to shit.
“Shoot me!”
“CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!”
re: #293 Stanley Sea
Geo HW in intensive care.
Statement by the Office of @GeorgeHWBush on President Bush’s health. pic.twitter.com/8UkB53JHqD
— Jim McGrath (@jgm41) April 23, 2018
re: #294 Blind Frog Belly White
Honestly I wouldn’t necessarily be surprised if he passes in the next year or so. It’s not uncommon among folks who have been married for 50+ years to both pass within about a year. Sure, by that point they are of similar age which makes it more likely, but grief is also a stressor on the body.
re: #288 austin_blue
Holy shit! Take a look at the video of the perp getting taken down in Toronto!
Now, that’s a policeman using good judgement and restraint. In the US, he would have been shot to shit.
I can’t play CBC video on my computer, but CTV has the same cell phone recording.
Hope your degree was not in English…..surely its cheque ?
— Lee Wiffen (@extrawide) April 23, 2018
1. it’s 2. Spelled “check in the US. Where I live. 3. My degrees, plural, are in classical languages and comparative literature, you absolute drawer. https://t.co/dEGDULGoUN
— Olivia Waite (@O_Waite) April 23, 2018
And yet here you are with your racist profile all up in my mentions.
On a side note, there’s a reason I prefer dogs to people and you’re it. Being called a dog, well, I’ll take that as a compliment. Thanks. pic.twitter.com/6AevuJ6g9z— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 23, 2018
re: #294 Blind Frog Belly White
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re: #295 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Honestly I wouldn’t necessarily be surprised if he passes in the next year or so. It’s not uncommon among folks who have been married for 50+ years to both pass within about a year. Sure, by that point they are of similar age which makes it more likely, but grief is also a stressor on the body.
That’s pretty much what I said the day Barbara Bush died, that HW probably would join her within the year.
Heartbreak kills.
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
No one here bashes me on my spelling.
I’ve never written a sentence such as “I checked my cheque, after the checker said I didn’t sign my cheque.”
re: #301 Anymouse 🌹
I’ve never written a sentence such as “I checked my cheque, after the checker said I didn’t sign my cheque.”
At one place I worked my manager used to write “Czech” when it was payday…
Ep. 87: Bev Vincent Flight Fright https://t.co/41GtqY2jB4 / via LiljasLibrary #StephenKing
— Club Stephen King 🎈 (@ClubSTEPHENKING) April 22, 2018
Afraid of flying? Let @BevVincent @StephenKing @joe_hill and more - push you out the plane without a parachute! https://t.co/eOl88HVxAO
— StephenKingPodcast (@SKingPodcast) April 22, 2018
Fasten your seatbelts. The ride is going to get very, very rough. https://t.co/V454Fan81v
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 23, 2018
re: #303 The Major
At one place I worked my manager used to write “Czech” when it was payday…
When we’re out of the area and my wife sees a sign that says “no checks” she usually makes a comment about why do they hate Slavs.
Pizzagate. Death Panels. Jade Helm. Deep State. Birth Certificate. 911. Crisis Actors. Everything Soros. Agenda 21. FEMA camps. Gun confiscation. I mean, stop me when we get to the part where conservatives don’t believe the shit they read on the Internet, okay? pic.twitter.com/3sPaNtWieO
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 23, 2018
Fox News host calls on Trump to fire Scott Pruitt https://t.co/HdM7CWjoqR
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 23, 2018
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Please ignore Fox News & don’t fire Swamp Monster @EPAScottPruitt. Pruitt is so awesomely corrupt that he glows in the dark of your #CabinetOfCorruption. Helps Dems in Nov!
Can you please have Pruitt be the closer at one of your unhinged, toxic rallies? https://t.co/rAWs4S2eZU— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 23, 2018
re: #295 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Honestly I wouldn’t necessarily be surprised if he passes in the next year or so. It’s not uncommon among folks who have been married for 50+ years to both pass within about a year. Sure, by that point they are of similar age which makes it more likely, but grief is also a stressor on the body.
My parents were born 8 days apart and died a year and 8 days apart. (They only made it to 48 years of marriage0 because, duh, they died)
A bit of good news. A victory against creeping authoritarianism in Armenia:
Mr. de Waal compared the protesters to the professional, urban elite who turned out to protest President Vladimir V. Putin’s re-election in 2012 after he served as prime minister for one term to avoid term limits. Some Armenians even referred to their leader’s maneuver as “pulling a Putin,” Mr. Giragosian of the Regional Studies Center said.
re: #308 BeachDem
My parents were born 8 days apart and died a year and 8 days apart. (They only made it to 48 years of marriage0 because, duh, they died)
I was born the day Mr. w joined the Navy.
When I join, we’ll both die, I think.
Email I received in response to my tweet about Jay Feely holding a gun in a prom pic with his daughter and her date.
Good talk. pic.twitter.com/iJlcGnXKdg— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 23, 2018
Wait—I want some free milk.
Which girls are giving it away and is it organic?
(Also—OH MY GOD WHY ARE PEOPLE.) https://t.co/URBgBaOulO— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) April 23, 2018
Golfing While Black: Pennsylvania golf club apologizes for calling the police on its black women members https://t.co/aHr4opgZ0f
— TheWalkerCollective (@AFirm4Creatives) April 23, 2018
Can’t sit at Starbucks. Can’t ask for utensils at Waffle House. Can’t use our gym memberships. And now, apparently, can’t use golf memberships either.
Think about the psychic cost of being one of us in 2018. And, if your name is John Aravosis, consider shutting the fuck up. https://t.co/zIsbHexxBc— Not THAT Jamie, k? (@thewayoftheid) April 23, 2018
re: #308 BeachDem
My parents were born 8 days apart and died a year and 8 days apart. (They only made it to 48 years of marriage0 because, duh, they died)
My grandmother died about a year and a month after my grandfather, after 50+ years of marriage.
I want to make it to 50 years with mr. klys.
re: #310 wrenchwench
I was born the day Mr. w joined the Navy.
When I join, we’ll both die, I think.
I survived the Navy. So did my mother. (It has now been fifty years since my father was killed … my mother is still quite alive. You can see her at O’Hare playing harp, hammered dulcimer, flute, and psaltery. Tell her hello for me.)
re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth
York. Next county over from where I grew up in the ‘Alabama’ section of Pennsylvania.
Toronto is a remarkably safe city given it’s size. Multiculturalism is a strength it has, not a weakness. Think about how many times it makes the national news for bad things, not many.
Also think about how many people this guy could have killed with assault rifles and bump stocks.
re: #314 Anymouse 🌹
I survived the Navy. So did my mother. (It has now been fifty years since my father was killed … my mother is still quite alive. You can see her at O’Hare playing harp, hammered dulcimer, flute, and psaltery. Tell her hello for me.)
I have survived O’Hare more than once.
re: #86 ObserverArt
“Could potentially” had better soon be “has been charged with multiple counts.”
Accessory before the fact.
A natural r/o unit to remove arsenic.
futurism.com
A moss is being studied that removes arsenic from water and binds it to its own structure. Since very few organisms eat moss, that takes arsenic out.
re: #295 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Honestly I wouldn’t necessarily be surprised if he passes in the next year or so. It’s not uncommon among folks who have been married for 50+ years to both pass within about a year. Sure, by that point they are of similar age which makes it more likely, but grief is also a stressor on the body.
My parents were mere pikers at a mere 44 years. My mother died first, and it took my dad two years to get over it; but he only had another six months after that, which I think is very sad. On the bright side, he went suddenly, in his sleep, and had played a little golf only two days before.
CTV is reporting President Geo. HW Bush has been hospitalised with an infection.
re: #323 Anymouse 🌹
Yup. Blood infection and hospitalized a day after Barbara was laid to rest.
I’ve never seen this!
George H.W. Bush, Yale baseball captain, with Babe Ruth, 70 years ago this June: pic.twitter.com/Xzi9WxaCQ2
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 23, 2018
This is pretty cool. Speed-corrected film of streets of NYC in 1911. Unfortunately, nothing from the tenements.
Spokesman: George HW Bush Hospitalized (CTV)
Published Monday, April 23, 2018 7:16PM EDT
Last Updated Monday, April 23, 2018 7:27PM EDTHOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife Barbara, a spokesman said Monday.
Jim McGrath said on Twitter that the 93-year-old Bush is “responding to treatments and appears to be recovering.” He was admitted Sunday morning to Houston Methodist Hospital after an infection spread to his blood, McGrath said.
Barbara Bush was laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony attended by her husband and former presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and their wives, along with current first lady Melania Trump.
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Pence: Christian
Sullivan: Christian
Mnuchin: Jewish
Mattis Christian
Sessions: Christian
Zinke: Christian
Perdue: Christian
Azar; Unk
Ross: Christian
Acosta: Christian
Carson: Christian
Chao: Christian
Perry: Christian
DeVos: Christian
Wilkie: Christian
Nielsen: Unk
Your move pic.twitter.com/6gvV7Y2B6a— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 23, 2018
re: #314 Anymouse 🌹
You can see her at O’Hare playing harp, hammered dulcimer, flute, and psaltery. Tell her hello for me.
Which terminals ?
but OF COURSE……….
BREAKING: Jeff Flake tells @mitchellreports he will vote YES on Pompeo, clearing path for favorable recommendation from Senate Foreign Relations committee - @frankthorp
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) April 23, 2018
hahahahahaa
pwned…
FIXED: Why is Mediate promoting the idea that everyone who isn’t mainstream is far-right?
(I’ll be here all day, folks.)@ScottAdamsSays pic.twitter.com/khupujCE5Y— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 23, 2018
thanks for reading Dave! https://t.co/KosBWO0l5P
— Caleb Ecarma (@calebecarma) April 23, 2018
Hi Caleb! You’re an embarrassment to journalism! But allow me to give you a chance to redeem yourself! Can you list all the reasons @ScottAdamsSays is far right so I can retweet you? It’s been sad watching @Mediaite turn into this but it’s par for the course. cc: @danabrams https://t.co/VVSVO6cOJb
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 23, 2018
let’s see, Dave. Scott has:
1)regularly appeared on the conspiracy site Infowars
2)defended holocaust deniers
3)believes in the Seth Rich conspiracy
4)claimed Hillary was “likely to trigger a race war” and caused the “uptick in domestic racial violence… to win the election” https://t.co/zAa9DcLTfY— Caleb Ecarma (@calebecarma) April 23, 2018
re: #322 petesh
My parents were mere pikers at a mere 44 years. My mother died first, and it took my dad two years to get over it; but he only had another six months after that, which I think is very sad. On the bright side, he went suddenly, in his sleep, and had played a little golf only two days before.
I have to go back to my Great Great Grandfather to find a ‘died within a year’ pair in my family. That was in 1900. Everyone else lasted years, sometimes decades after their spouse passed.
SQUEE!!!!
WARNING: YOU MAY DIE OF CUTENESS.
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re: #331 The Major
Which terminals ?
I’m not sure. She usually plays at the base of one of the underground tunnels between the escalator to the terminal and the tunnel to the parking area.
JUST CUT THE BULLSHIT AND THROW IT STEVE.
(i_am_half_burrito reddit) pic.twitter.com/lMR7UON4Bg— Clint Falin (@ClintFalin) April 21, 2018
Watching the video of the Toronto cop taking down the perp, I keep thinking
When did LEOs in America become such cowards that they don’t have a mindset of “arrest first”, but “save my own ass by shooting first and not necessarily needing any provocation”? Isn’t that why so may unarmed people, especially POC, get shot?
That man was obviously full-out ready to get “suicided by a cop”, but the cop kept his cool, called his bluff and made the arrest. And it was obvious why. The perp was a coward who couldn’t kill himself.
Why is it so very different across Lake Erie, where a child gets shot down in cold blood for pointing a toy and going “Pow! Pow!?
We have deadly serious LEO problem in this country and the NRA is a damn big part of the reason with their insistence that SovCits should be able to outgun Mr. PoPo.
re: #335 Blind Frog Belly White
I have to go back to my Great Great Grandfather to find a ‘died within a year’ pair in my family. That was in 1900. Everyone else lasted years, sometimes decades after their spouse passed.
All the men in my family have died early in their lives as far back as I can find.
After my mother, I am the oldest person in my family, and (other than my son), everyone else is a woman or a girl.
re: #339 austin_blue
Why is it so very different across Lake Erie, where a child gets shot down in cold blood for pointing a toy and going “Pow! Pow!?
Toronto’s actually on the opposite shore of Lake Ontario… but I know it all looks the same from down there on the shores of Lady Bird Lake ;)
And yes… why, indeed?
Sarah Sanders: “We don’t comment on ongoing investigations.”
Trump: pic.twitter.com/3ugImlIxes— JRehling (@JRehling) April 23, 2018
re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Azar is of Lebanese and Polish descent i believe. He’s actually from my grandparents’ hometown. Nielsen? Judging by her name and looks, she looks very Nordic. It’s hilarious when Trumpers don’t do their homework. And by the way, Obama having lots more Jews in his cabinet never stopped wingnuts from claiming he was Antisemitic so Mnuchin or no Mnuchin, Trump is still an anti Semite.
re: #336 The Vicious Babushka
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Is that yours? /s
re: #335 Blind Frog Belly White
I have to go back to my Great Great Grandfather to find a ‘died within a year’ pair in my family. That was in 1900. Everyone else lasted years, sometimes decades after their spouse passed.
The closest I can think of is my maternal grandfather’s parents. His mom died first about a year before he was drafted for Korea and his Dad died four years later, only a month after he married. I unfortunately don’t have any photos of them. My only great grandparent pair I lack photos of. Funnily enough, I do have photos of his mom’s mother, brother, and sister. He always told us that my mom strongly resembled his mom and that she was a tall woman but I don’t know if he meant tall relatively or actually tall.
re: #342 ipsos
Toronto’s actually on the opposite shore of Lake Ontario… but I know it all looks the same from down there on the shores of Lady Bird Lake ;)
And yes… why, indeed?
**tugs forelock in geographical shame**
re: #344 HappyWarrior
Azar is of Lebanese and Polish descent i believe. He’s actually from my grandparents’ hometown. Nielsen? Judging by her name and looks, she looks very Nordic. It’s hilarious when Trumpers don’t do their homework. And by the way, Obama having lots more Jews in his cabinet never stopped wingnuts from claiming he was Antisemitic so Mnuchin or no Mnuchin, Trump is still an anti Semite.
Well, he’s on record saying he likes those Jewish guys to count his money. Mnuchin is the Treasury Secretary.
re: #336 The Vicious Babushka
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CTV about to host a live press conference with the Toronto Police and Mayor.
ctvnews.ca
They’re truely made for each other.
In a strange turn of events this morning, @kanyewest is tweeting out clips of Dilbert comic creator turned pro-Trump pundit Scott Adams. Kanye has become a conservative media favorite over the weekend. pic.twitter.com/lhr7cXrOKT
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 23, 2018
re: #348 Anymouse 🌹
Well, he’s on record saying he likes those Jewish guys to count his money. Mnuchin is the Treasury Secretary.
Yeah but he doesn’t have a funny hat. // Joking aside, this reminds me of when Wingnut friend tried to pull using Charlie Kirk “Trump has appointed more women to cabinet posts than any President” in history and had only a photo of one cabinet level officer, Nikki Haley. I nudged him and reminded him about HRC, Loretta Lynch, Kathleen Sebeilus, Susan Rice, and even though they weren’t cabinet but also Justices Kagan/Sotomayor and Janet Yellen. He sort of admitted he was wrong without saying it.
re: #346 HappyWarrior
I have a pair of great-grandparents who were both born the same year and both died within a few months of each other. (And who seemed, all in all, to have had the most untroubled, happiest lives of any of my ancestors.)
re: #351 DodgerFan1988
They’re truely made for each other.
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Gee I’m old enough to remember when conservatives hated Kayne when he said Bush didn’t care about black people. Didn’t like Kayne then, don’t like him now. He’s an obnoxious gas bag.
re: #353 ipsos
I have a pair of great-grandparents who were both born the same year and both died within a few months of each other. (And who seemed, all in all, to have had the most untroubled, happiest lives of any of my ancestors.)
I don’t have anything like that. I do have two neat coincidences with my grandfathers. Both left handed and both married to women older than them. Also related but not a coincidence but I’m named after both.
re: #347 austin_blue
**tugs forelock in geographical shame**
**ipsos admits to having posted something not long ago identifying the river that runs through Austin as the Missouri, so we’re even, right?**
re: #353 ipsos
I have a pair of great-grandparents who were both born the same year and both died within a few months of each other. (And who seemed, all in all, to have had the most untroubled, happiest lives of any of my ancestors.)
My great-grandfathers died before I was born. Two of my great-grandmothers were alive when I was an adult (my father’s maternal grandmother, who died a few months after her daughter did, and my mother’s maternal grandmother, for whom I was given emergency leave from Spain).
re: #295 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Honestly I wouldn’t necessarily be surprised if he passes in the next year or so. It’s not uncommon among folks who have been married for 50+ years to both pass within about a year. Sure, by that point they are of similar age which makes it more likely, but grief is also a stressor on the body.
My dad never recovered from his depression after my Mom passed - he went a few months later, despite the medical diagnosis - he died of a broken heart.
re: #357 Anymouse 🌹
My great-grandfathers died before I was born. Two of my great-grandmothers were alive when I was an adult (my father’s maternal grandmother, who died a few months after her daughter did, and my mother’s maternal grandmother, for whom I was given emergency leave from Spain).
All of my great-grandparents died before I was born. And it’s funny…after posting that this particular set had a happy, untroubled life, I remembered that this great-grandfather’s father went through a bankruptcy at his business in 1936, which was the same year he and his wife both died. So maybe they weren’t as happy as they appear in retrospect. History tells funny stories.
Honestly it just astounds me when I meet people who know their great grandparents. My great grands feel so distant to me perhaps because 9/16 were foreign born and all 16 were born in the 19th century.
re: #360 HappyWarrior
Honestly it just astounds me when I meet people who know their great grandparents. My great grands feel so distant to me perhaps because 9/16 were foreign born and all 16 were born in the 19th century.
I had one great-great grandmother who was alive until I was eighteen.
re: #360 HappyWarrior
Honestly it just astounds me when I meet people who know their great grandparents. My great grands feel so distant to me perhaps because 9/16 were foreign born and all 16 were born in the 19th century.
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re: #361 Anymouse 🌹
I had one great-great grandmother who was alive until I was eighteen.
Damn. I don’t even know what happened to some of mine second great grands. And hell I have one that I don’t know who he is. There’s no father listed on my grandmother’s mother’s baptism. I hope it wasn’t a rape and the father just died before she was born and the practice was just not to record it.
re: #362 ipsos
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re: #363 HappyWarrior
Damn. I don’t even know what happened to some of mine second great grands. And hell I have one that I don’t know who he is. There’s no father listed on my grandmother’s mother’s baptism. I hope it wasn’t a rape and the father just died before she was born and the practice was just not to record it.
I have a photo with my great-great grandmother when I was a child (a five-generation photo), and another with my son (another five-generation photo).
re: #360 HappyWarrior
Honestly it just astounds me when I meet people who know their great grandparents. My great grands feel so distant to me perhaps because 9/16 were foreign born and all 16 were born in the 19th century.
My father’s parents were dead before I was born. My grandfather was gunned down in Chicago breaking up a fight, and my grandmother drank herself to death.
No great-grandparents were still alive when I was born.
BREAKING: Federal agent: Waffle House shooting suspect’s father “could potentially” face charges for giving weapons back to son.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 23, 2018
This father is going through a lot and I think we should be merciful. I’d say only life in prison is just. https://t.co/lTfbQRC8YL
— President Shithole (@Unabogie) April 24, 2018
re: #365 Anymouse 🌹
I have a photo with my great-great grandmother when I was a child (a five-generation photo), and another with my son (another five-generation photo).
I only have photos of 6 of my second great grands. It’s obvious that the German side was the most affulent. I’m honestly shocked we got one of my grandfather’s maternal grandmother in Slovenia and of my grandmother’s paternal grandfather in Slovakia.
re: #353 ipsos
I have a pair of great-grandparents who were both born the same year and both died within a few months of each other. (And who seemed, all in all, to have had the most untroubled, happiest lives of any of my ancestors.)
My mother’s parents were born in 1893, 6 months apart, and they died at the age of 92, 6 months apart.
A brief look at the legal career of the President’s nominee to the Fifth Circuit, Kyle Duncan:
-he tried make it harder to vote
-he worked to limit women’s access to contraception
-he attempted to restrict the rights of LGBT individuals
He has no place on the bench. #StopDuncan— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) April 23, 2018
re: #371 Backwoods_Sleuth
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In other words, he’s another bit of red meat to the far-right base.
Those are Conservative values. This is exactly the kind of person the toxic-right wants on the bench, and we’ve allowed the toxic-right to gain power.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 24, 2018
On the telephone with my eldest cousin … she notes there is a hepatitis outbreak traced to CMU and Meijer’s in Mount Pleasant.
re: #371 Backwoods_Sleuth
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But will he be “strict constructionist”*
*Someone who does whatever the Heritage Foundation wants.
well, well, well…
Republicans and Dems both concerned about new allegations of misconduct involving Ronny Jackson, and are investigating them to determine if they’re true and could derail his nomination. Dems met privately tonight, as hearing may now be delayed. Our story: https://t.co/v7OKRZ1Fo7
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 23, 2018
Washington (CNN)Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are raising concerns about allegations involving Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the department of Veterans Affairs and are reviewing them to determine if they are substantial enough to upend his nomination.
Committee members have been told about allegations related to improper conduct in various stages of his career, two sources said.
The sources say the committee is in talks to delay Wednesday’s confirmation hearing as they try to figure out the allegations.
None of the senators would publicly detail the specifics of the allegations. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
misuse of the word ‘Svelt”
— Alan Pearlstein 🤙🏼 (@AlanPearlstein) April 23, 2018
also he said DJT was 238 lbs
— Lippsy (@MamiLipps) April 23, 2018
re: #360 HappyWarrior
Honestly it just astounds me when I meet people who know their great grandparents. My great grands feel so distant to me perhaps because 9/16 were foreign born and all 16 were born in the 19th century.
My great grandmother (my mother’s mother’s mother) was one of my all-time favorite people. She had a rough life, and deep poverty, but was the sweetest person ever. She died when I was 8.
re: #345 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth
well, well, well…
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Dems investigating, Repubs warming up to belt out another round of “Party Uber Allies.”
re: #370 retired cynic
My mother’s parents were born in 1893, 6 months apart, and they died at the age of 92, 6 months apart.
My mother’s parents, the grandfather I talked about earlier, were born a little later. He died a year later and we know he was heartbroken about losing her and realizing he often treated her like shit. My dad’s father died in his 70s and his mother died at 98. She died young. Her mother lived to 104, her brother to 102, and her sister to 99. Dad is 92 and doing pretty well.
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Americans are the stupidest people.
huffingtonpost.com
this is going to end well, right?
Russia says it could move a missile system to Syria, warning Israel of ‘catastrophic consequences’ if it attacks https://t.co/IOoyWGzv4q pic.twitter.com/spEbh9UkIz
— The Independent (@Independent) April 23, 2018
re: #382 VegasGolfer
Americans are the stupidest people.
huffingtonpost.com
Politics is too corrupt so I won’t vote. Yeah that makes sense guys. You make the corruption even worse by not voting.
[hushed David Attenborough voiceover] watch as the siberian tangerine troglodyte spends a rare few seconds engaged in actual labor pic.twitter.com/o1ZMNv4pvh
— shauna (@goldengateblond) April 23, 2018
re: #341 Anymouse 🌹
All the men in my family have died early in their lives as far back as I can find.
After my mother, I am the oldest person in my family, and (other than my son), everyone else is a woman or a girl.
A while back, my siblings and I were discussing longevity in the family, since Dad’s due to turn 100 in June. One sister asked, “Which one of us will make it to 100? Will any?”
I spent a lot of time looking at our family history. I noted that while we all like to remember the Great Grandmother who lived to 100, or the Grandmother who lived to 97, we also had a lot of ancestors who died in their 60s.
My grandfather died at age 29 during the Spanish Flu Pandemic 100 years ago. My father was born a few months later and lived to be 92.
re: #384 HappyWarrior
Politics is too corrupt so I won’t vote. Yeah that makes sense guys. You make the corruption even worse by not voting.
It’s a common sentiment in fascist failed democracies. It’s the underlying purpose behind the push of ‘government is always bad’ - loss of faith in the value of good government, and a resignation that nothing will change. I am sure it’s something you would hear often in places like Russia and Hungary.
Prager University, which filed one of the free speech v. tech platform lawsuits that @ReedAlbergotti and I wrote about earlier this month (https://t.co/wLTqM0EV1B), has appealed its case to the 9th Circuit.https://t.co/u47jstCXP6
— Matt Drange (@mattdrange) April 24, 2018
These conservative grievance lawsuits are all going to get thrown out. https://t.co/JNsz4miYmt
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 24, 2018
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Breaking: Rage Furby’s wife is leaving him.
Trouble in paradise, eh?
Just for shits and grins, here’s a picture from their wedding.
re: #387 The Vicious Babushka
My grandfather died at age 29 during the Spanish Flu Pandemic 100 years ago. My father was born a few months later and lived to be 92.
I lost three of my six living great grands to that pandemic. Brutal.
re: #390 teleskiguy
Trouble in paradise, eh?
Just for shits and grins, here’s a picture from their wedding.
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Pre-Furby, I see. She looks kinda-sorta mail order.
re: #384 HappyWarrior
Politics is too corrupt so I won’t vote. Yeah that makes sense guys. You make the corruption even worse by not voting.
Gee if you think it’s so corrupt, maybe you could run for office?
a) Too busy …
b) Don’t want to take the time to learn …
c) I’m above politics …
d) &c
re: #392 austin_blue
Pre-Furby, I see. She looks kinda-sorta mail order.
As I recall, he used to refer her as his “hawt Asian wife.”
re: #393 Anymouse 🌹
Gee if you think it’s so corrupt, maybe you could run for office?
a) Too busy …
b) Don’t want to take the time to learn …
c) I’m above politics …
d) &c
e) I don’t actually like people.
re: #391 austin_blue
I lost three of my six living great grands to that pandemic. Brutal.
There was a family legend since disproven that my grandfather had twin siblings that died during it. Not true as it turns out. Fate is cruel. My great grandfather’s first wife died of TB. If she hadn’t, I wouldn’t be here. I also keep on thinking about how different things would be if it was my immigrant ancestor that stayed in Europe rather than crossing the Atlantic. I really think that’s why while I obviously see myself as American also haev no problem seeing beyond that too.
re: #394 Anymouse 🌹
As I recall, he used to refer her as his “hawt Asian wife.”
Kinda like how Milo refers to ‘my black husband’?
I suspect that gets stale after a couple times hearing it.
re: #388 Renaissance_Man
It’s a common sentiment in fascist failed democracies. It’s the underlying purpose behind the push of ‘government is always bad’ - loss of faith in the value of good government, and a resignation that nothing will change. I am sure it’s something you would hear often in places like Russia and Hungary.
That’s exactly why Ronald Reagan pushed that line.
Conservatism is fundamentally opposed to democracy.
re: #395 Blind Frog Belly White
e) I don’t actually like people.
F) I don’t actually give a fuck, I just like to be a holier than thou douche.
re: #360 HappyWarrior
Honestly it just astounds me when I meet people who know their great grandparents. My great grands feel so distant to me perhaps because 9/16 were foreign born and all 16 were born in the 19th century.
I only knew one of my great grands but she lived till I was 36 (she was 102). Her daughter, my maternal grandmother, lived till 2013 and age 105. My daughter was 36 that year.
re: #401 HappyWarrior
F) I don’t actually give a fuck, I just like to be a holier than thou douche.
That’s a winner!
re: #392 austin_blue
Pre-Furby, I see. She looks kinda-sorta mail order.
[insert “that’s racist” gif]
I think they met at school.
So it looks like Justice is going to approve the Sinclair/Tribune deal. And Sinclair is already refusing to run MoveOn ads (at full price).
We’re so fucked.
We always have problems here finding people to run for the village board (but never problems finding complaints about it).
When it was proposed that we actually “pay” the village board, I threw all my support behind it. ($100 a month isn’t exactly a get-rich-quick scheme.)
A bunch of people complained when we passed the ordinance. I pointed out “perhaps some people will file to run for office then to repeal it.”
re: #402 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I only knew one of my great grands but she lived till I was 36 (she was 102). Her daughter, my maternal grandmother, lived till 2013 and age 105. My daughter was 36 that year.
Wow man. My longest lived great grand I think was my Dad’s paternal grandmother. 88 when she died when Dad was 16. Only grandparent Dad has memories of. His father’s father died before he was born. His mom’s mom died when his mom was just a child and her dad died when Dad was a toddler. Fortunately, I got in touch with one of Dad’s older cousins who knew Pap-Pap and gave me some good stories. Apparently the man didn’t like Truman. Unfortunately my cousin hasn’t told me whether it was for lefty or righty reasons because as you know, no one liked Truman then. If I had to guess it would be for lefty since his daughter, my Nana was a dyed in the wool Dem and Pap Pap was a working class Catholic of Irish descent but I don’t know.
re: #404 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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I think they met at school.
Yeah, I think it’s best to give her some agency. She probably loved him very much (edited) at some point for whatever reasons she had. It happens. It’s possible that she was/is deeply conservative too and was attracted by his politics. Who knows.
People love to bellyache about “career politicians” but so many career politicians are able to actually understand issues ratehr than self proclaimed people with “common sense” do. Yeah I’m looking at you Tea Party Wave of 2010.
re: #394 Anymouse 🌹
As I recall, he used to refer her as his “hawt Asian wife.”
Yes, he did. And he also used her as a shield against accusations of racism and white supremacism. “Oh yeah?! Why don’t you tell my hot Asian wife I’m a white supremacist?”
Chuck has repeatedly tried to dox other people’s divorce records for his various smear campaigns.
If I don’t write this up (I’m only wavering because I don’t want to drag Bernadette into Chuck’s nightmare universe any more than she already is, and I certainly don’t want to inadvertently put her in danger), someone else will.
re: #392 austin_blue
Pre-Furby, I see. She looks kinda-sorta mail order.
Isn’t there a certain amount of time an immigrant bride has to stay married to avoid deportation? Bet she just went past that time limit… ;)
A collection of 3000 year old mummified parrots from ancient Egypt … pic.twitter.com/CGkP9I7Mzr
— S.A.Baloch (@asmaaan208) April 23, 2018
Norwegian Blues https://t.co/YcDx90ugBh
— Julie Rainford (@JuRainford) April 24, 2018
re: #412 William Lewis
Isn’t there a certain amount of time an immigrant bride has to stay married to avoid deportation? Bet she just went past that time limit… ;)
She’s American from what I know guys. TBH I’m surprised he found someone to put up with him.
CTV is now reporting another person died in the Toronto attack (10 dead, 15 injured).
The police have said there is no motivation known for the attack yet.
ctvnews.ca
re: #411 Charles Johnson
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re: #384 HappyWarrior
Politics is too corrupt so I won’t vote. Yeah that makes sense guys. You make the corruption even worse by not voting.
100% of the comments point out how stupid that is.
re: #418 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
100% of the comments point out how stupid that is.
That’s my tongue in cheek point.
re: #417 MsJ
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re: #402 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I only knew one of my great grands but she lived till I was 36 (she was 102). Her daughter, my maternal grandmother, lived till 2013 and age 105. My daughter was 36 that year.
My older siblings are as much as 12 years older than me, so the oldest of them got to know 3 of their great grandmothers. I only knew the one who made it to 100.
re: #417 MsJ
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Leslie Jones, apparently unaware that 40 years ago they really played hockey without helmets
No helmets!!! pic.twitter.com/qb9uKKYZ34
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) April 24, 2018
re: #411 Charles Johnson
Yes, he did. And he also used her as a shield against accusations of racism and white supremacism. “Oh yeah?! Why don’t you tell my hot Asian wife I’m a white supremacist?”
Chuck has repeatedly tried to dox other people’s divorce records for his various smear campaigns.
If I don’t write this up (I’m only wavering because I don’t want to drag Bernadette into Chuck’s nightmare universe any more than she already is, and I certainly don’t want to inadvertently put her in danger), someone else will.
Let someone else. You don’t have to report on a nobody, just because you share a name.
re: #422 Blind Frog Belly White
My older siblings are as much as 12 years older than me, so the oldest of them got to know 3 of their great grandmothers. I only knew the one who made it to 100.
My two great-grandmother I knew were born in 1890 and 1896, and died in 1984 and 1993.
Just your run of the mill psychopath
Canada’s Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale says, based on current information, van crash “does not appear to be connected in any way to national security” https://t.co/lF10J2q4c5 pic.twitter.com/2IKrwLPGS8
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 24, 2018
re: #425 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Let someone else. You don’t have to report on a nobody, just because you share a name.
Mr. Johnson is doing a good service reporting on Chuck … he has a long history of Chuck’s crap.
And he does have to protect his own good name, since when the media reports on Chuck they frequently confuse the two.
re: #424 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Ahh, the days of the Broad Street Bullies (Flyers). Yes I know there is a documentary.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #411 Charles Johnson
Yes, he did. And he also used her as a shield against accusations of racism and white supremacism. “Oh yeah?! Why don’t you tell my hot Asian wife I’m a white supremacist?”
Chuck has repeatedly tried to dox other people’s divorce records for his various smear campaigns.
If I don’t write this up (I’m only wavering because I don’t want to drag Bernadette into Chuck’s nightmare universe any more than she already is, and I certainly don’t want to inadvertently put her in danger), someone else will.
You will write it better and with more respect for Bernadette than the next guy will.
Come to think of it, With the exception of Dad’s Dad, I don’t think any of my grandparents knew their grandparents. Mom’s parents? Their grandparents were all in Europe. Nana was born while her parents and older siblings and uncle lived with the grandmother but Great Great Nana Joyce died when Nana wasn’t even two she’d have no memories of her. Bummer there’s no photo that I know of the two together. Dad’s Dad, his dad’s parents died in his teens but his mom’s parents died before he or his siblings were born.
re: #428 Anymouse 🌹
Mr. Johnson is doing a good service reporting on Chuck … he has a long history of Chuck’s crap.
And he does have to protect his own good name, since when the media reports on Chuck they frequently confuse the two.
At the same time Chuck will probably fundraise off of someone celebrating his “misery”.
re: #428 Anymouse 🌹
Mr. Johnson is doing a good service reporting on Chuck … he has a long history of Chuck’s crap.
And he does have to protect his own good name, since when the media reports on Chuck they frequently confuse the two.
Reporting on some loser’s divorce is not a “good service”, like reporting on and debunking the hateful things he says is.
re: #427 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Even moreso than you’d imagine, if this is legit:
CBC is now discussing this Facebook post (whose veracity has yet to be confirmed but is increasingly looking like it could be legit): pic.twitter.com/Ix5fxSriLi
— Jonathan Goldsbie (@goldsbie) April 24, 2018
re: #426 Anymouse 🌹
My two great-grandmother I knew were born in 1890 and 1896, and died in 1984 and 1993.
It just goes to show you how funny things are. I’m young enough to be your kid but all but one of my great grandparents is older than yours. My great grandparents dates of birth range from 1874-1898. Can’t tell you on the second great grands though since some of them I don’t all know their dates of birth.
re: #428 Anymouse 🌹
Mr. Johnson is doing a good service reporting on Chuck … he has a long history of Chuck’s crap.
And he does have to protect his own good name, since when the media reports on Chuck they frequently confuse the two.
Whatever happened to that asshole, anyway? Last I heard he was reduced to trying to, or at least threatening to, sue Twitter and/or Facebook for refusing to tolerate his repeated TOS violations.
re: #433 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Reporting on some loser’s divorce is not a “good service”, like reporting on and debunking the hateful things he says is.
There is that. Chuck getting a divorce is not news … if he does something to smear or attack his wife though that should be noted.
re: #434 A dark and stormy covfefe
Even moreso than you’d imagine, if this is legit:
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Definitely seems lkely. Holy fuck in any case.
BTW guys if you’re into genealogy, tehre are folks that will colorize old photos or restore them for free on FB. I knwo we rag on FB sometimes but this has been valuable in breathing life into the long deceased. I’ll post one after this to show you what I mean.
re: #429 PhillyPretzel
Ahh, the days of the Broad Street Bullies (Flyers). Yes I know there is a documentary.
en.wikipedia.org
It’s also kind of funny since I’m pretty sure that she’s watching Slap Shot from 1977. Though, it could one of the direct-to-video sequels from earlier this century.
re: #438 HappyWarrior
Definitely seems lkely. Holy fuck in any case.
Another guy upset that he can’t get laid? Jesus.
re: #437 Anymouse 🌹
Chuck getting a divorce is not news … if he does something to smear or attack his wife though that should be noted.
But if she’s pregnant and has filed the papers, isn’t that just a scintilla relevant?
re: #438 HappyWarrior
Definitely seems lkely. Holy fuck in any case.
That would certainly require checking, since all sorts of people rush to create Facebook and Twitter accounts in others’ names when there is a crime/tragedy/disaster.
It hits all the points of an MRA though.
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re: #322 petesh
My parents were mere pikers at a mere 44 years. My mother died first, and it took my dad two years to get over it; but he only had another six months after that, which I think is very sad. On the bright side, he went suddenly, in his sleep, and had played a little golf only two days before.
My mother was lucky. Her parents, my grandparents managed 70 married years together.
My grandfather died at 94. My grandmother, stubborn as she was lasted till 105. She was lucid and vibrant till 103.
re: #434 A dark and stormy covfefe
Even moreso than you’d imagine, if this is legit:
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It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s fake but, if not then he was a serious asshole “men’s rights activist” type psycho.
re: #442 The Major
But if she’s pregnant and has filed the papers, isn’t that just a scintilla relevant?
She supposedly gave birth last year. That’s the reason rage furby gave for not attending the yam’s inauguration.
Not a picture but still my favorite genealogy find:
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re: #445 dangerman
My mother was lucky. Her parents, my grandparents managed 70 married years together.
My grandfather died at 94. My grandmother, stubborn as she was lasted till 105. She was lucid and vibrant till 103.
Married seventy years? I’ll be lucky if I live that long. (My wife and I would have to live to 2067 to be married seventy years, so I don’t think that’s happening.)
re: #448 Backwoods_Sleuth
She supposedly gave birth last year. That’s the reason rage furby gave for not attending the yam’s inauguration.
Oh dear, a Rage Furby for the new era. Anyhow, I don’t give him much thought unless he’s harassing innocent people.
re: #436 Blind Frog Belly White
Whatever happened to that asshole, anyway? Last I heard he was reduced to trying to, or at least threatening to, sue Twitter and/or Facebook for refusing to tolerate his repeated TOS violations.
Been following both of those cases - Twitter filed a scathing motion to dismiss his lawsuit and the judge probably will. And Chuck may end up on the hook for Twitter’s legal expenses under anti-SLAPP statutes.
His argument boils down to “Twitter owes me a living! Waaah!” Here’s the latest Furby filing.
re: #360 HappyWarrior
Honestly it just astounds me when I meet people who know their great grandparents. My great grands feel so distant to me perhaps because 9/16 were foreign born and all 16 were born in the 19th century.
Me too! My family were all late to marry, for various reasons. Three of my grandparents died before I could talk with them (I do have photos with all three); the fourth, my mothers mother was absolutely lovely, I lived with her for a short time and I have her grandmother (sic) clock chiming in my living room. But even she died when I was fifteen.
Trump is reportedly increasingly relying on his personal cell phone to contact outside advisers, according to multiple sources inside and outside the White House. https://t.co/BQIAAyrwnR
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 23, 2018
There was a recent and prolonged debate about someone using a personal device for government work
Did Trump and his allies have an opinion? I can’t remember if they weighed in… https://t.co/HjAUgmLs8R— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) April 23, 2018
The Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins just held a moment of silence before their hockey game tonight.
re: #454 petesh
Me too! My family were all late to marry, for various reasons. Three of my grandparents died before I could talk with them (I do have photos with all three); the fourth, my mothers mother was absolutely lovely, I lived with her for a short time and I have her grandmother (sic) clock chiming in my living room. But even she died when I was fifteen.
I’m lucky that I ahd three of my four grandparents and know all my first cousins but yeah it’s always bothered me I never kenw my Dad’s Dad. My older cousins have great stories about him. One was about him taking them to see Jaws against my aunt’s wishes. They were 10 and 8.
Everything Trump Touches, Dies.
Remember when Trump picked the seemingly unqualified White House physician to run a large federal agency? https://t.co/B542AXbncI
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 24, 2018
I was telling Mrs. FBW that I think a lot of Trump associates, and especially Cohen and Trump himself are like Icarus - they fly too close to the sun. Cohen could have gotten away for the rest of his life being a minor thug money launderer and fixer to a corrupt, mobbed up businessman, if only that businessman hadn’t decided to make himself richer and more famous by ALMOST being elected President, and then completely failing that by getting actually elected.
re: #455 Blind Frog Belly White
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re: #445 dangerman
My mother was lucky. Her parents, my grandparents managed 70 married years together.
My grandfather died at 94. My grandmother, stubborn as she was lasted till 105. She was lucid and vibrant till 103.
Good for her!
Not relevant, but I cannot now resist:
“I want to die quietly in my sleep like my father … not screaming like his passengers.”
—Bob Monkhouse
“They laughed when I said I wanted to be a professonal comedian. Well, they’re not laughing now!”
—Bob Monhouse
[exit stage left for several hours, to clean the tomatoes off my suit]
I have no pictures of my great grandparents but I do have a picture of my great great grandfather Peter Bacon who was the Brigadier General in charge of the DC militia.
Union Brigadier General Peter Francis Bacon
He’s buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC
Twin Peaks Season 3 is LIT. pic.twitter.com/ayJQFFnvIU
— Laurie Crosswell (@lauriecrosswell) April 23, 2018
re: #461 Joe Bacon 🌹
I have no pictures of my great grandparents but I do have a picture of my great great grandfather Peter Bacon who was the Brigadier General in charge of the DC militia.
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re: #437 Anymouse 🌹
There is that. Chuck getting a divorce is not news … if he does something to smear or attack his wife though that should be noted.
Charles, I’d have to agree here; Chuck’s a dick and I doubt his soon-to-be ex-wife is much better, but I kind of having a problem with the idea of a front page post about their divorce. For people not in the know about them (which is almost everyone else), it just seems scurrilous and titillating for no real good reason, even though most of us know why it’s a thing. It’s one thing for us to discuss it here in the comments, but it’s seems to me to be a exceedingly bad idea to put it as a Page or post on the front page.
One of my Great Grandfathers went by the name of Wiley J. Banning, which sounds like something either Grouch Marx or WC Fields might have used. He was an Osteopath, and we have one of his cards, with his pic on one side and a glowing description of the wonders of Osteopathy on the other. It reads like pure snake oil, and I say that knowing that my Mom’s side of the family is chock full of Osteopaths. I suspect they got in under the wire to be taken seriously as physicians, and nowadays Osteopaths (D.O.s) are trained much like M.D.s, but that card - wow.
re: #411 Charles Johnson
Yes, he did. And he also used her as a shield against accusations of racism and white supremacism. “Oh yeah?! Why don’t you tell my hot Asian wife I’m a white supremacist?”
Chuck has repeatedly tried to dox other people’s divorce records for his various smear campaigns.
If I don’t write this up (I’m only wavering because I don’t want to drag Bernadette into Chuck’s nightmare universe any more than she already is, and I certainly don’t want to inadvertently put her in danger), someone else will.
Personally I’d let it go. Writing it up is not a good look because while she very well might suck as much as he does she never tried to make herself into public figure. One of the more painful aspects of my own divorce was the way one of our gossipy mutual acquaintances cruelly turned our misery into a public spectacle.
re: #467 goddamnedfrank
Personally I’d let it go. Writing it up is not a good look because while she very well might suck as much as he does she never tried to make herself into public figure. One of the more painful aspects of my own divorce was the way one of our gossipy mutual acquaintances cruelly turned our misery into a public spectacle.
Agreed.
re: #467 goddamnedfrank
Concur. I think attacking Chucky’s “work” is a useful endeavor, but going after his personal life isn’t.
re: #464 HappyWarrior
Anyone else have famous relatives?
I do. My great-great-great-great grandfather, killed in the Revolutionary War at age 34. He had four children, and here I be!
re: #464 HappyWarrior
Anyone else have famous relatives?
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re: #467 goddamnedfrank
Personally I’d let it go. Writing it up is not a good look because while she very well might suck as much as he does she never tried to make herself into public figure. One of the more painful aspects of my own divorce was the way one of our gossipy mutual acquaintances cruelly turned our misery into a public spectacle.
QFT
She’s not a public figure at all; how many times have we raised holy hell when RWNJs drag family members (such as the Obama daughters) into their beefs with “liberals” they hate?
It ain’t right, no matter who does it.
re: #472 teleskiguy
I do. My great-great-great-great grandfather, killed in the Revolutionary War at age 34. He had four children, and here I be!
Sad he died so young but awesome ancestor.
re: #464 HappyWarrior
My cousin - en.wikipedia.org
Texas man sentenced to 50 years for $1.2M fajita scheme that “spun out of control”: https://t.co/gTZnsgBBDD pic.twitter.com/ZkYayn397z
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) April 24, 2018
fajita scheme…don’t that beat all…
re: #455 Blind Frog Belly White
Something something Obama’s Blackberry… .
Here’s a picture of the White House calligrapher writing a place card for French president Emmanuel Macron’s state visit. The calligrapher has a higher security clearance than Jared Kushner. pic.twitter.com/KYDD2NKIxq
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 24, 2018
re: #476 HappyWarrior
Sad he died so young but awesome ancestor.
The shit the British did to his dead body… ugh! Fuck war.
I have two. Sgt Mike Strenk of the Iwo Jima flag photo and director Frank Perry. He’s Katy’s uncle but I’m not related to Katy since Katy’s Mom and Franks are different. It’s pre funny since Frank Perry adapted my favorite Cheever short story as a movie.
re: #477 A dark and stormy covfefe
My cousin - en.wikipedia.org
WHAT A RAD FUCKING COUSIN! I want to go skiing with her.
re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth
To be clear, it was the WIFE who called the women to apologize on behalf of her husband and father in law.
— Tabarnak (@BirchandMaple) April 23, 2018
re: #454 petesh
Me too! My family were all late to marry, for various reasons. Three of my grandparents died before I could talk with them (I do have photos with all three); the fourth, my mothers mother was absolutely lovely, I lived with her for a short time and I have her grandmother (sic) clock chiming in my living room. But even she died when I was fifteen.
My mother has her maternal grandmother’s Westminster chime mantle clock. My mother repaired it many years ago when the motor died (she found a replacement), and I repaired it the last time I was there (the chimes out of tune).
I always loved that clock as a child.
Only Prince himself knew the key code for his Music Vault, so it had to be drilled open after he died, with the estate’s archivist apparently discovering enough unreleased music to release a new album “every year for the next century”. pic.twitter.com/GxlWRUSL2w
— Eric Alper (@ThatEricAlper) April 23, 2018
Interesting discussion in the replies. Should we have even busted the vault door down?
heh
“The valuable lesson that Rand is not his father.” Man, even when admitting he was wrong, Glenn manages to embarrass himself. pic.twitter.com/b6oBB9GXwc
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) April 23, 2018
No really. https://t.co/atckg5KyiM
— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) April 23, 2018
re: #151 Anymouse 🌹
Oh man her comment thread is filling up with conservative racist hatred.
Doesn’t matter. What she said was the truth.
I always read the Gideon Bibles in hotel rooms but how lovely to see a rare signed edition. pic.twitter.com/GPtBZFeWnp
— Dr Adam Rutherford (@AdamRutherford) April 23, 2018
Trump and Macron planting Paul Ryan’s spine at the White House pic.twitter.com/6wrTY4wQ3V
— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) April 24, 2018
re: #488 Backwoods_Sleuth
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GG, excellent judge of character. pic.twitter.com/unpsWZyhkc
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) April 23, 2018
re: #480 Anymouse 🌹
Something something Obama’s Blackberry… .
Obama’s Blackberry that he had to fight to keep and then gave up. And Hillary’s Blackberry that wound up leading to “Emailgate” because a State Dept staffer got curious and checked to see if she had a .gov email address assigned as part of an FOIA request.
re: #497 Anymouse 🌹
Rand Paul is not Rand Paul’s father. Stop the presses.
Both Pauls are horrible for different reasons.
There’s a little “Trump skulking debate” hovering here. Yikes. pic.twitter.com/qXzirkduEI
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 24, 2018
I really hope our president isn’t grabbing Brigitte Macron here. https://t.co/jdPKEWI8jA
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 24, 2018
REAL scene from the Costco in Prescott, Arizona today!
Won’t be long before @Comey joins @HillaryClinton in the toilet paper aisle to sell/sign discounted books. pic.twitter.com/N94uEPQKQ4— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 21, 2018
So you grabbed a copy from the display, put it in a toilet on the shelf, took a picture, and then what? Left it there for some clerk to restock?
Why do you have no respect for people trying to just do their job? https://t.co/3tZ3wH02K4— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 24, 2018
re: #487 teleskiguy
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You people saying the vault should remain closed are high. He wanted to release more music. Warner wouldn’t let him. We’re not talking about a few unfinished demos, we’re talking complete albums.
— Jamal Bruton (@jamalbruton) April 23, 2018
twitter is having altogether too much fun with this photo.
so gracious of the French president to help Trump fill in another one of Melania’s escape tunnels pic.twitter.com/HtpUS39ZAC
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) April 23, 2018
The police blotter of two of my direct ancestors.
as for Thomas & Rebecka: “They are guilty of intertaining & inviting mens servants such as they might well suspect came in disorderly sinnful base way, in ye night when ther Gouernors were in bed, to drink strong watter, they also have received stollen goods, and that against ther light, for when Sloper brought the bushell of corne, he said it was not safe for him to receive it, yet did so. They buy a heiffer of 5 pound price wch they might vpon grounds declared to them, conceit [sic] she stollen, and when it was told them it was stole, yet then promised to conceal it. The Court considered what a micheivous example this is, and how dangerous it is to nourish vnrighteousness & disorder in a plantation. “Therfore the sentenc of ye court is that Thomas Meekes paye twenty pownds a fine for these misdemenours and miscariages, and when Fido & Sloper is wipped, he and his wife are to come to ye whipping post, and stand ther, putting each of them one hand into ye hole of the post, and stand ther while ye others whipped: that they may haue part of ye shame wch ther sinn deserveth: and to give security for the fine, or paye it presently, and to paye the due charges of the prison.. “Mr. Goodanhouse before the court ingageth himselfe, for ye payment of this fine wthin a moneth: and ingageth himselfe in 10 pounds more, for the appearance of Thomas Meekes and his wife to fullfil the sentence of ye Court when Fido and Sloper are whipped.” [Added later: The preceding quotations can be found in *Ancient Town Record, Volume I: New Haven Town Records 1649-1662*, edited by Franklin Bowditch Dexter, New Haven CT (New Haven Colony Historical Society) 1917, p 3-14, under “AT A COURT HELD AT NEW-HAVEN THE 5TH OF FEBRUARY 1649 [i.e. 1649-50], p 1-14]
re: #487 teleskiguy
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re: #500 Kragar
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Get yourself some help. Desperately seeking attention like this is just sad.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 24, 2018
She really does need help. This is about the least fucked up thing she’s done to get attention.
re: #495 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Glenn discovering that a douchebag he championed because they were supportive of his pet cause has turned out to be a douchebag?
Quelle surprise!
re: #505 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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She really does need help. This is about the least fucked up thing she’s done to get attention.
Millennial Canadian Coulter is desperate. She’ll be yesterday’s news before she knows it.
re: #487 teleskiguy
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He’s dead. They either belong to someone he dedicated them to, or they go public. He didn’t take them with him.
re: #506 Targetpractice
Glenn discovering that a douchebag he championed because they were supportive of his pet cause has turned out to be a douchebag?
Quelle surprise!
Glenn repeatedly shows he’s a poor judge of character.
21 Books You Don’t Have to Read (GQ)
They go after certain classics and why they fail miserably. The Bible is one of the books.
Noting this to my wife, she says you definitely need to read the Bible (she’s an atheist). You need to know what the wingnuts are misrepresenting, and the book when actually read is the best manual for making an atheist.
re: #510 Anymouse 🌹
21 Books You Don’t Have to Read (GQ)
They go after certain classics and why they fail miserably. The Bible is one of the books.
Noting this to my wife, she says you definitely need to read the Bible (she’s an atheist). You need to know what the wingnuts are misrepresenting, and the book when actually read is the best manual for making an atheist.
I think everyone should be required to read the Bible because you will not fully understand the West without it.
re: #510 Anymouse 🌹
I’d argue that you should read every book on both lists. But try to read them without prejudice because you’ll only see what you expect to see otherwise.
re: #354 HappyWarrior
Gee I’m old enough to remember when conservatives hated Kayne when he said Bush didn’t care about black people. Didn’t like Kayne then, don’t like him now. He’s an obnoxious gas bag.
Can’t stand him either. A few hit songs but otherwise an annoying blowhard.
re: #492 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Horrible car attack in Toronto
Maybe they should ban automobiles?
You can ban stuff all day, but you can’t ban evil— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 24, 2018
You can’t ban straw men either, because it definitely wouldn’t stop people from idiotically flogging them https://t.co/emepwUeVA1
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) April 24, 2018
re: #411 Charles Johnson
Yes, he did. And he also used her as a shield against accusations of racism and white supremacism. “Oh yeah?! Why don’t you tell my hot Asian wife I’m a white supremacist?”
Chuck has repeatedly tried to dox other people’s divorce records for his various smear campaigns.
If I don’t write this up (I’m only wavering because I don’t want to drag Bernadette into Chuck’s nightmare universe any more than she already is, and I certainly don’t want to inadvertently put her in danger), someone else will.
Let someone else do it. This isn’t worth pursuing.
re: #500 Kragar
Are they all children? And the comments, gaaa.
He knows the BEST people…
JUST IN: Mysterious allegations may threaten Trump’s pick for VA chief: reports https://t.co/oxpriZh5aY pic.twitter.com/TXvMeTaiTZ
— The Hill (@thehill) April 24, 2018
re: #519 bratwurst
Hostile work environment
drinking on the job
Improper dispensing of meds
re: #520 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Hostile work environment
drinking on the job
Improper dispensing of meds
Molesting patients?
re: #515 Backwoods_Sleuth
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i can’t believe i took this photo…. i’ve been staring at it all day because i used to look up to photographers who did this so much and nOW I’M THAT GUY. I TOOK THIS PICTURE OF OUR OWN GALAXY ARM!!! pic.twitter.com/oEhu0wYS7E
— abdul (@Advil) April 22, 2018
It’s on Twitter so take it with a grain
“unspecified concerns” about ronny jackson referring to various points in his career.
I can tell you right now what those concerns are @maddow ,
he’s a cokehead.— SUN (@ictussunshine) April 24, 2018
You can’t ban straw men either, because it definitely wouldn’t stop people from idiotically flogging them— Mark Follman
Mr. Follman doesn’t know it yet, but I’m stealing that. (That would make a good E-mail tag line.)
re: #524 gocart mozart
It’s on Twitter so take it with a grain
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Doesn’t the military test?
I’d bet if I had to on some kind of abuse tho.
re: #521 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Molesting patients?
Reports are coming in that Dr. Ronny Jackson, who told us Trump grew an inch at age 70 and is definitely not obese, cannot be trusted.
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) April 24, 2018
The Premier of Ontario and a spokesman for the Federal Government of Canada have both said there is no “national security” issue (so far) related to the mass-murder in Toronto today.
re: #512 William Lewis
I’d argue that you should read every book on both lists. But try to read them without prejudice because you’ll only see what you expect to see otherwise.
No such thing as a truly bad read. I’m reading Count of Monte Cristo now. Is it a little too romantic? And is the dialogue a little too fancy? Sure but it’s a great story.
Speaking of good reads, someone should re-adapt The Sun Also Rises. No idea who I’d have play Jake, Robert, or Brett tho.
re: #510 Anymouse 🌹
21 Books You Don’t Have to Read (GQ)
They go after certain classics and why they fail miserably. The Bible is one of the books.
Noting this to my wife, she says you definitely need to read the Bible (she’s an atheist). You need to know what the wingnuts are misrepresenting, and the book when actually read is the best manual for making an atheist.
I also disagree with the guys assessment that Twain was racist against blacks from his example in Huckleberry Finn (history also backs up that he wasn’t one towards blacks; Wikipedia does point out he wasn’t as kind to Native Americans when he was young, which seems to have changed a bit as he got older). The guy fails to notice both how Train gets onto those who go after Jim, as well as how Jim’s tone and manners change when he’s on the raft with Huck. He also fails to realize who Twain’s target is: Someone young, who might pick up the book as a kid, thinking it’s about Huck’s travels when it’s about Huck and Jim’s relationship.
re: #532 Belafon
I note I am an unlettered barbarian; other than the Bible I have read none of those books. (There are some I haven’t heard of.)
re: #487 teleskiguy
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Yes. Absolutely yes. The pyramid’s contents. Similar.
re: #124 gwangung
Creole (i.e., non-white) food?
(Though the talk about jambalaya is getting me hungry….)
Had some in the fridge - got hungry, too.
re: #535 Anymouse 🌹
I note I am an unlettered barbarian; other than the Bible I have read none of those books. (There are some I haven’t heard of.)
I’ve read three completely, the bible, about 80%. I have Gravity’s Rainbow, and other works by Pynchon, but I’ve only read The Crying of Lot 49. I’ve heard of 18 of the total books.
Don’t agree much with that article about books not to read.
I’ve read nine of the ones he wants to replace, and two of the replacements. Just claiming a book is tedious or boring without reflecting at all on its other merits is pretty petty. Not to mention that sometimes you do need to work at reading in order to get more out of the work.
re: #532 Belafon
Yep. That whole list is full of uneducated blather like that.
I have been scanning old scrapbooks since I don’t want to move them, plus the fact that a few of them are damp and mildew smelling at this time.
Came across a Buffalo newspaper clipping of one of my great uncles. It noted that he had voted for Grover Cleveland once and that he said he was voting for Johnson in this election.
Also found a few old photographs of my maternal grandfather. One dated from 1900 and included him as a four year old. Another was one of the few I have seen of him in his World War I uniform.
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re: #486 Anymouse 🌹
My mother has her maternal grandmother’s Westminster chime mantle clock. My mother repaired it many years ago when the motor died (she found a replacement), and I repaired it the last time I was there (the chimes out of tune).
I always loved that clock as a child.
How great! Yes, I loved the chimes of grandma’s when I was 7 and 8 (my parents were abroad), and she knew it and willed her to me. I let my parents keep her for decades, but I’ve had her now for decades and it’s gorgeous. It was grandma’s wedding present in, I think, 1907. A clock expert told me it was an unusual design that was discontinued because it was thought to be unreliable. 111 years later, well, still going …
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