Very Special More News: Radioactive Wild Boars Are Coming for Us

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The boars are back in town! After a special investigative report on a show from which this show is legally distinct, it appears as though the boars know we’re onto them. They have upped their game. They are *coming for us*, and the people must be told.

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1
HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:23:35pm

CLed:
I really thought that it was almost universally agreed that Donald Trump was a sad attention seeking clown until two years ago. God, my dad’s father was terrified by the possibility of Reagan becoming President. What the hell would he say about a man like Trump. Big Dad as we call him was a NLRB lifer, along with his brother the first college graduates in his family and TBH probably the first ever in my direct line. He was kind, compassionate, intelligent, loyal, etc. Everything that Trump ain’t.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:25:59pm

I believe it. Their intelligence has certainly evolved, since they are now several times smarter than the average suburbanite hunter here in DFW. Certain liberal activists and fake media wannabes might suggest that, in fact, it’s the hunters who have gotten dumber and the pigs are no smarter than 20th century swine. This position does not play well with the Metroplex NRA contingent.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:26:24pm

Hmmm…
Why do I get the feeling that the current President will attempt to misuse this system in the next 24 months?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:27:25pm

re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Hmmm…
Why do I get the feeling that the current President will attempt tomissuse this system in the next 24 months?

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Great. I already get the stupid robocalls. Now I have to get texts from him when he’s upset that someone said something mean about him.

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:28:13pm

re: #2 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I believe it. Their intelligence has certainly evolved, since they are now several times smarter than the average suburbanite hunter here in DFW. Certain liberal activists and fake media wannabes might suggest that, in fact, it’s the hunters who have gotten dumber and the pigs are no smarter than 20th century swine. This position does not play well with the Metroplex NRA contingent.

Speaking as a fellow Metroplexer, I have to ask: Are you wet enough yet?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:29:17pm
Radioactive Wild Boars Are Coming for Us

Well…beats Killer Shrews, I suppose….

The Killer Shrews (1959)

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:32:14pm

re: #5 Belafon

Speaking as a fellow Metroplexer, I have to ask: Are you wet enough yet?

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:34:01pm

re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:35:10pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:38:53pm

re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Hmmm…
Why do I get the feeling that the current President will attempt to misuse this system in the next 24 months?

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And the test message will be: WITCH HUNT!!

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:42:01pm

Anyone else seeing the connection between climate change denial-ism in high authority and FEMA underestimating the flood threat posed by storms?

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TedStriker  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:44:50pm

re: #11 Unshaken Defiance

Anyone else seeing the connection between climate change denial-ism in high authority and FEMA underestimating the flood threat posed by storms?

And, in both cases, getting people killed through faulty and/or incomplete information.

When the adults are back in charge, there really needs to a reckoning about this shit.

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b_sharp  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:45:48pm

re: #6 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well…beats Killer Shrews, I suppose….

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No, nothing beats Killer Shrews.

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TedStriker  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:46:04pm

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

And the test message will be: WITCH HUNT!!

Text messages which come from the National Command Authority (generally) can’t be disabled or blocked.

Oh, joy…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:48:35pm

heh…

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:49:14pm

re: #9 Unshaken Defiance

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Dude I don’t want to know but I don’t feel right about this guy.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:49:42pm

re: #15 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

heh…

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Jared? He was just a coffee boy. Ivanka barely knows him. //

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:51:09pm

re: #14 TedStriker

Text messages which come from the National Command Authority (generally) can’t be disabled or blocked.

Oh, joy…

If and when the Mueller investigation really comes for him, he’ll use it to call for an armed uprising.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:51:48pm

re: #18 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

If and when the Mueller investigation really comes for him, he’ll use it to call for an armed uprising.

Hopefully they arrest him first.

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TedStriker  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:52:36pm

re: #16 HappyWarrior

Dude I don’t want to know but I don’t feel right about this guy.

Let’s face it…Kavanaugh could be a real-life Hannibal Lecter and the GOPers would still defend him and put him on SCOTUS.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:53:12pm

At first I thought he was flipping the camera the bird. But nope.
It was just your traditional MAGA “I’m all in on being a racist piece of shit” hand signal

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:54:14pm

re: #20 TedStriker

Let’s face it…Kavanagh could be a real-life Hannibal Lecter and the GOPers would still defend him and put him on SCOTUS.

No doubt. “Well he’s still a strict constructionist. I’m uncomfortable with the census taker liver eating but it’s just not my place to judge.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:55:16pm

re: #21 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

At first I thought he was flipping the camera the bird. But nope.
It was just your traditional MAGA “I’m all in on being a racist piece of shit” hand signal

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Rich shit buddy considering your MAGA cult leader cut your budget. Stop it with the stupid fucking hand signals.

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can't think of a decent username  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:56:30pm

re: #22 HappyWarrior

No doubt. “Well he’s still a strict constructionist. I’m uncomfortable with the census taker liver eating but it’s just not my place to judge.”

I’ve been expecting some major GOP figure to be unmasked eventually as a murderer or serial killer — it just seems like the final frontier of depravity the party has set itself on.

Of course, the party will rally around him. The preschoolers buried in Stephen Miller’s basement were certainly No Angels.

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Cheechako  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:57:29pm

re: #21 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

At first I thought he was flipping the camera the bird. But nope.
It was just your traditional MAGA “I’m all in on being a racist piece of shit” hand signal

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Well done Coasties! Quick, decisive action.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 6:58:44pm

re: #24 can’t think of a decent username

I’ve been expecting some major GOP figure to be unmasked eventually as a murderer or serial killer — it just seems like the final frontier of depravity the party has set itself on.

Of course, the party will rally around him. The preschoolers buried in Stephen Miller’s basement were certainly No Angels.

I heard one of them didn’t want to go to bed one night but you should see the stories about the kittens he strangled.

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:00:17pm
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b.d.(my doppelganger did it)  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:00:33pm

re: #5 Belafon

Speaking as a fellow Metroplexer, I have to ask: Are you wet enough yet?

I personally have enjoyed watching things go from dead to growing 3 feet within a week here in Cow Town.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:00:36pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:02:26pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:07:49pm

He’s off on a full-fledged Twitter rant. Still talking about Hurricane Maria, quadrupling down on his Puerto Rico death count conspiracy. This fuckin’ guy.

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:10:08pm

Ranting away on Twitter in his bedroom at 10 o’clock at night on a Friday in the middle of a massive disaster. Words fail me right now.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:10:57pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:12:21pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

He’s off on a full-fledged Twitter rant. Still talking about Hurricane Maria, quadrupling down on his Puerto Rico death count conspiracy. This fuckin’ guy.

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I really wish Kelly would reset the password on his account and or deactivate it. This shit is pathetic.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:12:49pm

re: #32 teleskiguy

Ranting away on Twitter in his bedroom at 10 o’clock at night on a Friday in the middle of a massive disaster. Words fail me right now.

Evil.

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:13:03pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

He’s off on a full-fledged Twitter rant. Still talking about Hurricane Maria, quadrupling down on his Puerto Rico death count conspiracy. This fuckin’ guy.

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Leave it to Trump to make Elon Musk’s breakdown look like nothing’s wrong.

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fern01  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:13:28pm

re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Hmmm…
Why do I get the feeling that the current President will attempt to misuse this system in the next 24 months?

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So he really will be able to start WWIII with a tweet

Unbelievable invasion of privacy that phone companies could be forced to go with this - even worse if they are doing it voluntarily.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:14:23pm

I’m ready for him to go trial and be the first President to die in prison.

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:14:38pm

re: #34 HappyWarrior

By all accounts once he’s in the Executive Residence he’s completely untethered from anyone.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:16:23pm

re: #39 teleskiguy

By all accounts once he’s in the Executive Residence he’s completely untethered from anyone.

Fuck. He’s not going to leave is he? Maybe we trick him into thinking there’s a huuuuge golf tournament at ADA Florence.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:17:13pm

I never thought this would happen to our country. It’s titally bizarre.

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b.d.(my doppelganger did it)  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:18:01pm

John Kerry on Bill Maher.

Who the hell are we going to nominate?

Biden is 75 and Kerry is 74.

Terry Mcauliffe is the best obvious name but boy he sucked as DNC head, he was better as governor but he is a middle looking guy that I have a hard time trusting.

Give me either Hawaiian Senators too.

The Castros? Too timid…
Sen. Warren…..nope too much baggage and can’t articulate her great stances.
Bernie?…. please.

I am at a loss. I would empty my pockets for Sherrod Brown

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:19:38pm

re: #37 fern01

So he really will be able to start WWIII with a tweet

Unbelievable invasion of privacy that phone companies could be forced to go with this - even worse if they are doing it voluntarily.

Naaah, just Civil War 2.

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:20:14pm

re: #40 HappyWarrior

Fuck. He’s not going to leave is he? Maybe we trick him into thinking there’s a huuuuge golf tournament at ADA Florence.

Once he’s no longer president, the new one can have him removed by force.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:21:06pm

re: #42 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)

John Kerry on Bill Maher.

Who the hell are we going to nominate?

Biden is 75 and Kerry is 74.

Terry Mcauliffe is the best obvious name but boy he sucked as DNC head, he was better as governor but he is a middle looking guy that I have a hard time trusting.

Give me either Hawaiian Senators too.

The Castros? Too timid…
Sen. Warren…..nope too much baggage and can’t articulate her great stances.
Bernie?…. please.

I am at a loss. I would empty my pockets for Sherrod Brown

Harris? Booker? Duckworth?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:21:25pm

re: #44 Belafon

Once he’s no longer president, the new one can have him removed by force.

True, true :)

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:21:46pm

re: #42 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)

John Kerry on Bill Maher.

Who the hell are we going to nominate?

Biden is 75 and Kerry is 74.

Terry Mcauliffe is the best obvious name but boy he sucked as DNC head, he was better as governor but he is a middle looking guy that I have a hard time trusting.

Give me either Hawaiian Senators too.

The Castros? Too timid…
Sen. Warren…..nope too much baggage and can’t articulate her great stances.
Bernie?…. please.

I am at a loss. I would empty my pockets for Sherrod Brown

Chill. It does not matter at this point. Obama was mostly unknown in 2006. Someone will run and win the nomination and we will support them and the republicans will say they are the most leftist person in the universe. It’s a marathon that hasn’t even started. The Republicans only want to know who we like so they can start demonizing them. Never play the game on their terms. Never.

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Jay C  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:24:05pm

re: #42 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)

Chris Murphy?

Kirsten Gillibrand?

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:24:24pm

re: #40 HappyWarrior

Maybe we trick him into thinking there’s a huuuuge golf tournament at ADA Florence.

There are five courses within ten miles of Florence.

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b.d.(my doppelganger did it)  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:24:36pm

re: #47 I Would Prefer Not To

Chill. It does not matter at this point. Obama was mostly unknown in 2006. Someone will run and win the nomination and we will support them and the republicans will say they are the most leftist person in the universe. It’s a marathon that hasn’t even started. The Republicans only want to know who we like so they can start demonizing them. Never play the game on their terms. Never.

Thank you.

I am freaking out about the race when the entry forms haven’t even been allowed yet.

Starting to see the obnoxious and misleading, flag waving Cruz ads on TV here bashing Beto and it is pissing me off.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:25:44pm

Also this. In the next election, Republicans are going to have to defend trump and his policies, even if he is not on the ticket.

And with that, Good Night.

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:26:35pm
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can't think of a decent username  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:26:37pm

(bows head humbly)

I will graciously accept the nomination.

(starts stockpiling crowbars)

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:27:18pm

re: #51 I Would Prefer Not To

Also this. In the next election, Republicans are going to have to defend trump and his policies, even if he is not on the ticket.

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And with that, Good Night.

That’s exactly what I’ve beeb trying to argue will be their undoing. Trump is more vulnerable with a record.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:28:44pm

re: #52 teleskiguy

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He’s such a whiny brat who will never take responsibility. He needs to be removed.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:28:59pm

re: #41 HappyWarrior

I never thought this would happen to our country. It’s titally bizarre.

+1 for the typo. :-)

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:29:44pm

re: #56 Bubblehead II

+1 for the typo. :-)

Ha! Good catch but yes.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:29:47pm

re: #50 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)

Thank you.

I am freaking out about the race when the entry forms haven’t even been allowed yet.

Starting to see the obnoxious and misleading, flag waving Cruz ads on TV here bashing Beto and it is pissing me off.

Well…
Technically the entry forms are allowed already. Trump’s 2020 campaign registered in Jan 2017.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:35:13pm
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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:36:35pm

Night Lizards.

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William Lewis  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:38:31pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

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amen little Survivor.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:38:36pm

He’s locked himself in the bathroom, hasn’t he?
Also, it took him 18 minutes to compose the followup tweet

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jaunte  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:38:42pm

Mueller’s team is not distracted.

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William Lewis  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:39:56pm

re: #42 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)

John Kerry on Bill Maher.

Who the hell are we going to nominate?

Biden is 75 and Kerry is 74.

Terry Mcauliffe is the best obvious name but boy he sucked as DNC head, he was better as governor but he is a middle looking guy that I have a hard time trusting.

Give me either Hawaiian Senators too.

The Castros? Too timid…
Sen. Warren…..nope too much baggage and can’t articulate her great stances.
Bernie?…. please.

I am at a loss. I would empty my pockets for Sherrod Brown

I like Tammy Baldwin. Queer. Woman. Progressive.

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sagehen  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:40:10pm

re: #379 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch

I’ve also got to find a good documentary on 9-11 (if anyone has any suggestions…I have Hulu and Amazon) for my eldest to watch so she has a better understanding of what happened that day. She wasn’t born yet and she has a writing assignment for her English class.

imdb.com
These two french filmmakers were doing a somewhat routine documentary about a New York City rookie firefighter, and happened to be there that day. They saw the plane overhead, they rushed to the scene and were in the building until everyone got ordered out….

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:41:24pm

re: #42 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)

John Kerry on Bill Maher.

Who the hell are we going to nominate?

Biden is 75 and Kerry is 74.

Terry Mcauliffe is the best obvious name but boy he sucked as DNC head, he was better as governor but he is a middle looking guy that I have a hard time trusting.

Give me either Hawaiian Senators too.

The Castros? Too timid…
Sen. Warren…..nope too much baggage and can’t articulate her great stances.
Bernie?…. please.

I am at a loss. I would empty my pockets for Sherrod Brown

I’ll gladly support Sherrod Brown, Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania, Congressman Adam Schiff or Amy Klobuchar.

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William Lewis  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:41:53pm

re: #60 Bubblehead II

Night Lizards.

I hope things are going good for you. You’ve chosen one hell of a path and I am honored to even know you as you take it. May the good one keep his blessing on you and yours.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:43:09pm

There’s a lot of good names. They just need to distinguish themselves. I’m glad it’s a wide open field.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:43:24pm

“Fuck Puerto Rico!” - The President of the United States, basically.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:45:41pm
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Jay C  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:47:08pm

re: #69 Eclectic Cyborg

“Fuck Puerto Rico!” - The President of the United States, basically.

Mainly for making him look bad.
Nice to know Our Prez has his priorities straight….

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:47:17pm

He really is a pathetic son of a bitch and anyone who still supports him is seriously messed up.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:48:05pm

re: #71 Jay C

Mainly for making him look bad.
Nice to know Our Prez has his priorities straight….

We’re eventually going to find out he didn’t know that they were Americans.

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Jay C  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:48:29pm

re: #73 HappyWarrior

We’re eventually going to find out he didn’t know that they were Americans.

Or care….

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:50:22pm

BOARS

Evening Lizardim.

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jaunte  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:50:52pm

re: #72 HappyWarrior

He really is a pathetic son of a bitch and anyone who still supports him is seriously messed up.

I saw Nan Hayworth earlier this evening making the claim to Steve Kornacki that the latest Paul Manafort news meant that the “walls were really closing in on Peter Strzok and Hillary Clinton.” So, yes.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:51:40pm

re: #74 Jay C

Or care….

Yep. We’ll find out he was bitching about the media the night of the storm. Well he’s doing it right now for Florence.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:52:53pm

It’ll be sweet justice if the Carolinas vote Blue as a result of his incompetency!

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jaunte  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:53:27pm

Trump wouldn’t care even if they were New Yorkers. He doesn’t have that emotion.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:53:45pm

re: #76 jaunte

I saw Nan Hayworth earlier this evening making the claim to Steve Kornacki that the latest Paul Manafort news meant that the “walls were really closing in on Peter Strzok and Hillary Clinton.” So, yes.

How stupid do you have to be to get that? Goddamn. Obama was wrong. They’re in another galaxy because of FNC. Last i saw Trump hired Manafort not Clinton or Sztrok. Man I hate conservatives for creating a false reality for millions.

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:54:18pm

re: #66 Joe Bacon 🌹

I’d rather Adam Schiff duke it out with Ted Lieu for Dianne Feinstein’s seat. That would be a difficult choice.

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jaunte  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:55:15pm

re: #80 HappyWarrior

I find Kornacki difficult to watch because he just lets nutty stuff like that go by without even raising his eyebrow.

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b.d.(my doppelganger did it)  Sep 14, 2018 • 7:58:15pm

[trump] Nobody cared how many people died in PR until I just brought it up!! [/trump]

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b.d.(my doppelganger did it)  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:00:24pm

re: #82 jaunte

I find Kornacki difficult to watch because he just lets nutty stuff like that go by without even raising his eyebrow.

When the lowest allowable nerd/geek level is Chris Hayes then it leaves all other talent too much latitude.

//?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:02:25pm

re: #76 jaunte

I saw Nan Hayworth earlier this evening making the claim to Steve Kornacki that the latest Paul Manafort news meant that the “walls were really closing in on Peter Strzok and Hillary Clinton.” So, yes.

Yeah and Kornacki NEVER challenged anything that liar said!

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:03:45pm

Some music.

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dangerman  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:04:05pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

He’s off on a full-fledged Twitter rant. Still talking about Hurricane Maria, quadrupling down on his Puerto Rico death count conspiracy. This fuckin’ guy.

[Embedded content]

He’s going with “they didn’t die in the hurricane”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:05:01pm

Those old people were going to die anyway./:

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:05:24pm

re: #87 dangerman

He’s going with “they didn’t die from the hurricane”

I’m waiting for him to use the Alex Jones bullshit about Al Gore having a microwave tower in Antartica manipulating the weather!

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sagehen  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:08:33pm

re: #73 HappyWarrior

We’re eventually going to find out he didn’t know that they were Americans.

Sea Mexicans!

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MsJ  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:08:53pm

Please tell me there will be a way to block this motherfucker from texting my cell phone.

I, in no way, want anything trump on my phone.

Fuck that. Absolutely fuck that.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:09:46pm

re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Hmmm…
Why do I get the feeling that the current President will attempt to misuse this system in the next 24 months?

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Just so I get to answer “FUCK YOU” back, I’m good.

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:10:31pm

re: #91 MsJ

Please tell me there will be a way to block this motherfucker from texting my cell phone.

I, in no way, want anything trump on my phone.

Fuck that. Absolutely fuck that.

You live in Canada, yes? Pretty sure it only applies to United States phone numbers.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:11:20pm

re: #90 sagehen

Sea Mexicans!

Yep.

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:11:36pm

He’s bustin’ out some oldies!

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jaunte  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:11:38pm
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dangerman  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:15:53pm

re: #95 teleskiguy

He’s bustin’ out some oldies!

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When President Obama said that he has been to “57 States,” very little mention in Fake News Media. Can you imagine if I said that…story of the year! @IngrahamAngle

Ladies and gentlemen, the president is two actual six year olds stacked up inside a trump suit

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:16:46pm

re: #95 teleskiguy

He’s bustin’ out some oldies!

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He was a candidate number one and FNC did talk about it non stop. God you’re pathetic. And you had to be corrected on whether you voted in primaries or not. You’re a stupid President but an even worse person.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:17:17pm

re: #97 dangerman

Ladies and gentlemen, the president is two actual six year olds stacked up inside a trump suit

No, two six years olds was Trump all along.

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MsJ  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:17:38pm

re: #93 teleskiguy

You live in Canada, yes? Pretty sure it only applies to United States phone numbers.

My cell is American. I’ve had the same number for almost 20 years.

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William Lewis  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:18:01pm

I’m in one hell of a good mood tonight so here’s a bit better than usual “my current mood” post:

David Bowie - Heroes

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:18:16pm

The way he constantly is looking for approval from FNC is so pathetic from someone who claims the media is fake.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:19:40pm

Please wake me up and tell me HRC landslided him and he got indicted.

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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:20:32pm

re: #100 MsJ

My cell is American. I’ve had the same number for almost 20 years.

Well, just like the rest of us Murkan blokes, you’re jolly well fucked. There is no way to turn it off.

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:22:16pm

Make sure your volume is up. My dog doesn’t know what to think.

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can't think of a decent username  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:23:36pm

If you need something to mellow you out before bedtime…

Mountain Man - Animal Tracks

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:25:24pm

I am just so sick of this. I’m sick of him. Sick of stupid bragging. Sick of whining. Sick of his trashy family including his two stupid sons, phony daughter, & nepotism benefited son in law.Sick of how FNC treats him like a pampered brat. Sick of his advisers who are cowards. Sick of Congressionsl Republicans who care more about getting right wing judges on the bench than what’s good for the country. Sick of his base who really thinks he’s not only a good president but a good person too.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:35:04pm

re: #96 jaunte

When they auction off manafort’s seized real estate they won’t get anywhere near it’s assumed value.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:35:54pm

re: #58 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Well…
Technically the entry forms are allowed already. Trump’s 2020 campaign registered in Jan 2017.

Because Obama was always campaigning.

//

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:36:34pm

re: #109 Eventual Carrion

Because Obama was always campaigning.

//

That’s different.///

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William Lewis  Sep 14, 2018 • 8:53:01pm

For anyone who is curious about the way songs are produced, here is an amazing bit by Toni Visconti on producing David Bowie’s “Heroes”. To me, this was the most amazing thing about how a song is created than anything I’ve ever listened to.

Toni Visconti on producing David Bowie’s “Heroes”

Toni Visconti on producing David Bowie’s “Heroes”

For Charles, I’m sure, this is nothing new. But for an old punk who never got a contract? well, that’s a fun difference :D

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jaunte  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:00:52pm

This ruin of a human

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:01:27pm

re: #91 MsJ

Please tell me there will be a way to block this motherfucker from texting my cell phone.

I, in no way, want anything trump on my phone.

Fuck that. Absolutely fuck that.

Unless you root or jailbreak the device, I don’t think there is.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:05:45pm

re: #112 jaunte

@realDonaldTrump
When President Obama said that he has been to “57 States,” very little mention in Fake News Media. Can you imagine if I said that…story of the year! @IngrahamAngle

This ruin of a human

There are almost 1,000,000 citizens sitting in the dark in the middle of a massive natural disaster.
But, he needs to rehash a slip of the tongue that occurred over 10 years ago

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austin_blue  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:06:26pm

re: #366 HappyWarrior

If a Democrat fucked up the disaster relief for a very red state or a very white state, we’d hear that they were being punished for being Republican or white by the very people who blame Puerto Rico on FNC for what happened. This is fucking sick. It’s fucking sick how Trump refuses to take any responsibility for what happened. It’s fucking sick how FNC is always there to pat him on his fat orange ass and tell him “It’s all right, Donald, you did great, it’s the media, Democrats, etc’s fault that you’re being criticized.” FNC really is a disgrace to the total concept of what a free media is supposed to be. The media isn’t supposed to be the President’s voice and FNC has been the past two years.

But a Democratic President wouldn’t do that. He would make sure that FEMA was competently staffed and funded and deliver a quality response, as his job demanded.

When was the last time a Democratic FEMA response was substandard, regardless of where it happened?

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jaunte  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:06:41pm

re: #114 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

“The worst” doesn’t begin to cover it.

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:07:05pm

re: #91 MsJ

Please tell me there will be a way to block this motherfucker from texting my cell phone.

I, in no way, want anything trump on my phone.

Fuck that. Absolutely fuck that.

Take solace in this: When the Democratic president in 2021 sends a message warning everyone to evacuate the cities before the aliens destroy them, traffic will only be half as bad as it could have been.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:07:16pm

Yeah, about removing statues of traitors “erasing history”:

Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum (Goes to the Dallas Morning News)

AUSTIN — History curriculum in Texas remembers the Alamo but could soon forget Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller.

As part of an effort to “streamline” the social studies curriculum in public schools, the State Board of Education voted Friday to adjust what students in every grade are required to learn in the classroom. Among the changes, board members approved the removal of several historical figures, including Clinton and Keller, from the curriculum.

The board also voted to keep in the curriculum a reference to the “heroism” of the defenders of the Alamo, which had been recommended for elimination, as well as Moses’ influence on the writing of the nation’s founding documents, multiple references to “Judeo-Christian” values and a requirement that students explain how the “Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict” in the Middle East.

(more)

As a reminder, what goes in Texas textbooks tends to wind up in other states.

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retired cynic  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:08:38pm

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹

Yeah, about removing statues of traitors “erasing history”:

Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum (Goes to the Dallas Morning News)

(more)

As a reminder, what goes in Texas textbooks tends to wind up in other states.

Who did Helen Keller piss off?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:09:36pm

re: #119 retired cynic

Who did Helen Keller piss off?

She’s a woman. ‘Nuff said.

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:09:44pm

re: #119 retired cynic

Who did Helen Keller piss off?

“How do we justify removing Hillary Clinton from the history books?”
“I know, let’s remove Helen Keller. She was all touchy-feely anyway.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:10:17pm

re: #119 retired cynic

Who did Helen Keller piss off?

She was a member of the Socialist Party, generally liberal and feminist.

She was born in 1880 and died in 1968.

en.wikipedia.org

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:11:02pm

You finally get your data organized and your neural network set up, and, when you run it, you realize it’s going to take 6 hours for each training epoch.

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:12:11pm

I doubt a gofundme to help me build a real computer I can do machine learning on would get very far.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:12:18pm

re: #123 Belafon

You finally get your data organized and your neural network set up, and, when you run it, you realize it’s going to take 6 hours for each training epoch.

I wrote a genetic algorithm last night to run a puzzle solver. Would have been faster as a brute-force, but I asked Mrs. Fish if I should get fancy and she said, “Yes.” Took an hour to run 46 million combinations.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:12:51pm

re: #124 Belafon

I doubt a gofundme to help me build a real computer I can do machine learning on would get very far.

Rent a GPU-capable virtual machine from Microsoft or Amazon.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:13:04pm

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹

Yeah, about removing statues of traitors “erasing history”:

Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum (Goes to the Dallas Morning News)

(more)

As a reminder, what goes in Texas textbooks tends to wind up in other states.

My question: do the Texas textbooks explain that Texas enforced Jim Crow laws, including barring intermarriage between races until Loving vs Virginia in 1967? Or is the Texas history of racism ignored in these books?

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wheat-dogg  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:14:43pm

I am puzzled. How can you impeach someone who is not in office?

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:14:56pm

re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter

My question: do the Texas textbooks explain that Texas enforced Jim Crow laws, including barring intermarriage between races until Loving vs Virginia in 1967? Or is the Texas history of racism ignored in these books?

Remember, they were the ones who wanted to change references to the slave trade as “the Atlantic Triangle Trade.”

They also try to insert creationism every year, and have inserted that Moses is an important character in the formation of US laws.

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:19:56pm

re: #119 retired cynic

Who did Helen Keller piss off?

They always confuse her for Anne Frank.

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:20:53pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:21:07pm

re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter

My question: do the Texas textbooks explain that Texas enforced Jim Crow laws, including barring intermarriage between races until Loving vs Virginia in 1967? Or is the Texas history of racism ignored in these books?

The State Board of Education last updated the standards in 2010, approving several requirements pushed by the board’s most conservative members, including teaching Texas high schoolers that Moses “informed the American founding documents.”

The board also decided that students should have to “compare and contrast” the First Amendment clause barring establishment of a state religion with the doctrine of the separation of church and state.

Now, the board will consider axing the 2010 standards and amending several others, like moving “slavery” to the head of a list of the causes of the Civil War. Currently, slavery comes in the middle of a the list that also includes states’ rights, sectionalism and protective tariffs.

dallasnews.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:21:21pm

re: #129 Anymouse 🌹

Remember, they were the ones who wanted to change references to the slave trade as “the Atlantic Triangle Trade.”

They also try to insert creationism every year, and have inserted that Moses is an important character in the formation of US laws.

They also support the notion that Robert E. Lee is a hero and statues honoring him should be preserved in the public square. In fact, it’s not a surprise that a majority of Texans supported Trump: the only part of their past that they want to inculcate in their children is the battle at the Alamo.

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:21:39pm

re: #126 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Rent a GPU-capable virtual machine from Microsoft or Amazon.

That would be an interesting thought. I’m trying to decide how much it would be worth it while I am learning.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:22:08pm

re: #115 austin_blue

re: #366 HappyWarrior

If a Democrat fucked up the disaster relief for a very red state or a very white state, we’d hear that they were being punished for being Republican or white by the very people who blame Puerto Rico on FNC for what happened. This is fucking sick. It’s fucking sick how Trump refuses to take any responsibility for what happened. It’s fucking sick how FNC is always there to pat him on his fat orange ass and tell him “It’s all right, Donald, you did great, it’s the media, Democrats, etc’s fault that you’re being criticized.” FNC really is a disgrace to the total concept of what a free media is supposed to be. The media isn’t supposed to be the President’s voice and FNC has been the past two years.

But a Democratic President wouldn’t do that. He would make sure that FEMA was competently staffed and funded and deliver a quality response, as his job demanded.

When was the last time a Democratic FEMA response was substandard, regardless of where it happened?

That’s a great point too.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:22:09pm

re: #133 Hecuba’s daughter

They also support the notion that Robert E. Lee is a hero and statues honoring him should be preserved in the public square. In fact, it’s not a surprise that a majority of Texans supported Trump: the only part of their past that they want to inculcate in their children is the battle at the Alamo.

REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!!

But … but what about —

NO STFU JUST REMEMBER THE ALAMO AND NOTHING ELSE ABOUT TEXAS HISTORY!!!

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:22:57pm

re: #133 Hecuba’s daughter

They also support the notion that Robert E. Lee is a hero and statues honoring him should be preserved in the public square. In fact, it’s not a surprise that a majority of Texans supported Trump: the only part of their past that they want to inculcate in their children is the battle at the Alamo.

Yeah, and several states also support that notion. My son graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:23:17pm

re: #134 Belafon

That would be an interesting thought. I’m trying to decide how much it would be worth it while I am learning.

Microsoft Azure, I believe you get some free credits for your first month? It’s certainly worth it to use what you can to help further your learning.

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:23:21pm

re: #136 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!!

But … but what about —

NO STFU JUST REMEMBER THE ALAMO AND NOTHING ELSE ABOUT TEXAS HISTORY!!!

History for Texas has generally been rather fluid anyway. As my college Texas history teacher pointed out, after the Civil War, Texas suddenly became a Western state.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:27:47pm

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹

….Now, the board will consider axing the 2010 standards and amending several others, like moving “slavery” to the head of a list of the causes of the Civil War. Currently, slavery comes in the middle of a the list that also includes states’ rights, sectionalism and protective tariffs….

That seems like a step forward — slavery as the top item. I have always hated the term “states’ rights” which represents to me the right of states to retain laws discriminating against African-Americans. That was manifestly true during my teenage years in the turbulent 60’s.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:29:17pm

Also this unimportant part of Helen Keller’s life:

Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, amid numerous other causes. The Deaf community was widely impacted by her. She traveled to twenty-five different countries giving motivational speeches about Deaf people’s conditions. She was a suffragette, pacifist, radical socialist, birth control supporter, and opponent of Woodrow Wilson. In 1915 she and George A. Kessler founded the Helen Keller International (HKI) organization. This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition. In 1920, she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:30:22pm

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹

Also this unimportant part of Helen Keller’s life:

She was very involved in the Socialist Party the same time my Great-Grandfather was. She was also instrumental in organizing the IWW.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:32:05pm
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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:34:00pm

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹

This particular tweet seems like a strange one to choose as a breaking point. I expected someone associated with Trump to say this.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:34:16pm

re: #140 Hecuba’s daughter

That seems like a step forward — slavery as the top item. I have always hated the term “states’ rights” which represents to me the right of states to retain laws discriminating against African-Americans. That was manifestly true during my teenage years in the turbulent 60’s.

I’ve always hated that too. States rights too often in this country has been an excuse to limit civil rights and it’s why I don’t worship the 10th.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:34:35pm

re: #145 HappyWarrior

I’ve always hated that too. States rights too often in this country has been an excuse to limit civil rights and it’s why I don’t worship the 10th.

“Mix ‘em up. I’m tired of States’ Rights.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:34:42pm

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹

Ms. Haberman has thirty times the followers of that tweeter, but she is getting the ratio hammer, and he has just as many likes on his tweet as hers.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:36:04pm

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:36:16pm

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹

Also this unimportant part of Helen Keller’s life:

An amazing lady all the way around. Pretty rich Texas is getting her out of the history books considering they love to complain about removing CSA participation trophies.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:36:37pm

re: #146 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

“Mix ‘em up. I’m tired of States’ Rights.”

Yea

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:36:52pm

re: #150 HappyWarrior

Yea

George Thomas was a national treasure.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:37:23pm

This is so cute it doesn’t even seem real:

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Belafon  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:37:32pm

re: #146 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

“Mix ‘em up. I’m tired of States’ Rights.”

“The 2018 poll winner of the reason for the Civil War is…Slavery.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:38:39pm

re: #151 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

George Thomas was a national treasure.

I’m more proud of him being our native son than Lee. But guess which one has schools, highways, etc named after him? Those of us with Union blood need to get our heroes remembered too.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:39:28pm

re: #144 Belafon

This particular tweet seems like a strange one to choose as a breaking point. I expected someone associated with Trump to say this.

Everyone has a breaking point when they are being gaslit. Hence my cancellation of The Economist when they decided to double down on having Steve Bannon as a speaker at the event they are sponsoring in New York.

We fought a war over the ideas he promotes. The whole world was involved including the UK.

Maggie Haberman has been Trump’s hagiographer ever since he started running. More and more people are becoming aware she is not unbiased.

And didn’t she say she was leaving Twitter after she got called out over another water carry for Trump?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:40:53pm

re: #153 Belafon

“The 2018 poll winner of the reason for the Civil War is…Slavery.”

Apu Explains the Civil War’s Cause

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:41:07pm

re: #155 Anymouse 🌹

Maggie Haberman has been Trump’s hagiographer ever since he started running. More and more people are becoming aware she is not unbiased.

And didn’t she say she was leaving Twitter after she got called out over another water carry for Trump?

Little Richard: The Girl Can’t Help It

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:43:05pm

She’s really getting hammered in the comments.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:44:18pm

re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg

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Most funny thing for me as a Southerner is seeing people like Corey Stewart who are about as Southern as borscht embracing the CSA. I’ve always felt pride that my grandfather’s grandfather fought on the right side. Was he a racial liberal even by that era? Probably not but did he choose his adoptive country over the right to own people, yes. And I’m proud of that. If he was a racial liberal, all the better.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:45:18pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:45:30pm

re: #159 HappyWarrior

about as Southern as borscht

Updinged for that quote alone. That was awesome.

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:46:53pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:47:10pm

I don’t expect people to hate their CSA ancestors but to be objective about their cause. And when I see them try to say they weren’t racist. Just hell no. Was every man who fought the CSA as ugly as Nathan Forrest? No but all fought to preserve slavery and I’m glad they failed. I’m glad that Southern planters went bankrupt after the war.

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:47:17pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:48:29pm

re: #160 Joe Bacon 🌹

Next up: President has no knowledge of his presidential campaign.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:49:05pm

re: #161 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Updinged for that quote alone. That was awesome.

I’ve likewise told people my mom is about as Irish as a pierogi. :) I actually finally had borscht. No one told me it was hot. I always thought borscht was served cold. Dunno why since it’s assici with cold places like Russia.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:51:06pm

re: #164 Ace-o-aces

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Seriously it was a silly error done by a candidate exhausted. If Trump did it, he’d probably lie and double down that there were 57 states. Obama realized he goofed. That’s the difference and the sad idiots are so much on Trumps nut that they don’t see that.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:51:26pm

re: #164 Ace-o-aces

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:52:37pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:53:23pm

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:53:42pm

re: #166 HappyWarrior

I’ve likewise told people my mom is about as Irish as a pierogi. :) I actually finally had borscht. No one told me it was hot. I always thought borscht was served cold. Dunno why since it’s assici with cold places like Russia.

I don’t touch beets but apparently there is a version served cold during the summer.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:54:28pm

I like how he thinks there was little mention because the right wingers treated it as proof that Obama was stupid and all liberal criticism of Bush’s intelligence was invalid. It was a stupid gaffe unlike I dunno continuing to claim unemployment was worse than at the very worst of the depression and then acting like you fixed the unemployment problem even though the rate had been fairly steady since Obama left.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:55:01pm

re: #167 HappyWarrior

Seriously it was a silly error done by a candidate exhausted. If Trump did it, he’d probably lie and double down that there were 57 states. Obama realized he goofed. That’s the difference and the sad idiots are so much on Trumps nut that they don’t see that.

It was used by wingnuts promoting the birther conspiracy that he was actually referring to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which has fifty-seven members.

That said, his 57 state mistake paled in comparison to his mustard choices or wearing a tan suit.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:55:23pm

re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter

I don’t touch beets but apparently there is a version served cold during the summer.

Doesn’t surprise me. Beets are good but borscht is low on my Eastern European dishes. Pierogis are of course number one.

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:55:37pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 9:55:52pm

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹

It was used by wingnuts promoting the birther conspiracy that he was actually referring to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which has fifty-seven members.

That said, his 57 state mistake paled in comparison to his mustard choices or wearing a tan suit.

Yeah I remember that stupidity.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:00:31pm

And let me add before I sleep that it’s disgusting that he whine about a harmless gaffe as a big storm hits the East Coast. He’s a coward who is too irresponsible to be President or honestly an adult.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:00:48pm

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:12:44pm

Controversy Surrounds New Pulaski County Newspaper’s Name

URANUS, Mo. — A new newspaper is being launched in Pulaski County.

“The Uranus Examiner.”

That’s the name Natalie Sanders, the managing editor, announced Wednesday afternoon.

“We had thought about Constitution, but most of our, the people who love us, and who were part of coming up with the name, liked the ‘examiner’ better,” Sanders said.”

The announcement was made Wednesday at a Chamber of Commerce Luncheon after the Waynesville Daily Guide was shut down by their parent company, GateHouse Media, on Friday.

The the man they consider the “Mayor of Uranus”, Louie Keen, is backing the new weekly newspaper to fill the void left behind by the Waynesville Daily Guide.

(more at Channel 3, Springfield, Mo.)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:15:02pm

Pleasant dreams

Click to Reveal
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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:18:21pm

re: #180 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Pleasant dreams

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What the heck is CDC trying to do here, spin up fear of nuclear war like Burt the Turtle?

Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle Civil Defense Film

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sagehen  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:22:09pm

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹

It was used by wingnuts promoting the birther conspiracy that he was actually referring to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which has fifty-seven members.

That said, his 57 state mistake paled in comparison to his mustard choices or wearing a tan suit.

And arugula. Real Americans eat iceberg lettuce. Only communists eat arugula.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:23:42pm

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹

The Uranus Probe would have been wittier, IMO.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:25:28pm

re: #181 Anymouse 🌹

What the heck is CDC trying to do here, spin up fear of nuclear war like Burt the Turtle?

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When I was in grade school we were required to watch this film every year from grades 1-6. There was another required film with Dave Garroway talking about fallout. He demonstrated the effect of fallout by sprinkling glitter on a tabletop. Scared the crap out of me when he did this…

Dave Garroway Explains Fallout

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wheat-dogg  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:29:27pm

KalonicaNicx from Indonesia rocks some Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd - Another Brick On The Wall Drum cover by Kalonica Nicx

She’s 13.
drummagazine.com

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wheat-dogg  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:47:48pm

And on the other side of the world, a youngster is doing a documentary about how la roya fungus and climate change is affecting her family.

My Beautiful Nicaragua (Trailer)

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:49:30pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:52:32pm

you know when you get to that point in the airplane flight where you can feel that you’re losing altitude and the plane will soon be on the ground?

that’s what happened to the trump movement this week

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:53:34pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 10:57:42pm

As a reminder …

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 11:03:28pm

re: #188 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

you know when you get to that point in the airplane flight where you can feel that you’re losing altitude and the plane will soon be on the ground?

that’s what happened to the trump movement this week

We can hope. I’ll believe it when I see it.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 14, 2018 • 11:08:51pm

Tropical Storm Florence is predicted by NHC to go through Ohio, then exit the USA through New York City.

nhc.noaa.gov

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 14, 2018 • 11:17:44pm

re: #13 b_sharp

No, nothing beats Killer Shrews.

you mean Killer ((Shrews))?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 14, 2018 • 11:23:11pm

re: #95 teleskiguy

When President Obama said that he has been to “57 States,” very little mention in Fake News Media. Can you imagine if I said that…story of the year!

That was bad enough, but remember when Obama doubled down in an early-morning follow-up tweet claiming that when he made the statement there were actually 57 states but the GOP kicked seven of them out just to make him look bad?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 14, 2018 • 11:27:08pm

re: #163 HappyWarrior

I don’t expect people to hate their CSA ancestors but to be objective about their cause. And when I see them try to say they weren’t racist. Just hell no. Was every man who fought the CSA as ugly as Nathan Forrest? No but all fought to preserve slavery and I’m glad they failed. I’m glad that Southern planters went bankrupt after the war.

This is another one of those examples where memes and tweets do not carry the nuance: yes, many of those who fought for the Confederate cause never owned a slave.

But of course, those who owned 20 slaves or more were exempt from the draft, they had to stay home and tend to their property…

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 14, 2018 • 11:35:49pm

Bookmark this

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Nyet  Sep 14, 2018 • 11:39:14pm

Meanwhile Novaya Gazeta, based on the Bellingcat/The Insider info, has established Petrov’s (one of the Skripal poisoners) connection to the Ministry of Defence. novayagazeta.ru

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 14, 2018 • 11:58:00pm

This is obviously Russian propaganda. Don’t believe the denial.

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sagehen  Sep 15, 2018 • 12:04:19am

re: #189 goddamnedfrank

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Bernie Sanders was born in 1941.

Even aside from all the other reasons I wouldn’t want him… he’s just too old.

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 15, 2018 • 12:08:26am

If you ever want to locate the Russian Navy look for the Russian tug boats on the shipping traffic map. It’s a big tell.

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sagehen  Sep 15, 2018 • 12:11:05am

re: #200 sagehen

Bernie Sanders was born in 1941.

Even aside from all the other reasons I wouldn’t want him… he’s just too old.

reminder: He’s still not a Democrat. And he’s still not released any tax returns.

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austin_blue  Sep 15, 2018 • 12:25:16am

re: #201 Single-handed sailor

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If you ever want to locate the Russian Navy look for the Russian tug boats on the shipping traffic map. It’s a big tell.

Russia has a GDP around the size of the State of Texas.

Fuck their military. It’s all bluster. It’s also going to bankrupt them. And the Kleptocracy will steal what’s left.

Night all, sweet scaly dreams.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 15, 2018 • 12:26:27am

re: #200 sagehen

Bernie Sanders was born in 1941.

Even aside from all the other reasons I wouldn’t want him… he’s just too old.

Age is not the disqualifier for me. Sanders is about the age of my mother (she is a year older), but if she lives up to other women in my family, she has at least thirty more good years in her.

The more I learn about Senator Sanders, the less I like what I see, which makes me regret my support of him during the state caucus.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 15, 2018 • 12:31:21am

re: #203 austin_blue

Russia has a GDP around the size of the State of Texas.

Fuck their military. It’s all bluster. It’s also going to bankrupt them. And the Kleptocracy will steal what’s left.

Night all, sweet scaly dreams.

It’s been said the world’s most expensive hobby is having the second-best military. Theirs doesn’t even approach second-best.

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 15, 2018 • 1:51:21am

I don’t know who uploads tv episodes to the web every night but he must have gone out drinking tonight, that bastard.

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freetoken  Sep 15, 2018 • 2:20:49am

The closing of the AURA facility remains a mystery. The statement released by the cooperative running it has not helped quench conspiracy proposals.

Why is Sunspot Solar Observatory closed?

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 15, 2018 • 2:35:54am

re: #207 freetoken

Some kind of powder mailed there, some radioactive delivery leaked. The post office was also closed so it probably had something to do with a package.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 2:41:48am

re: #67 William Lewis

I hope things are going good for you. You’ve chosen one hell of a path and I am honored to even know you as you take it. May the good one keep his blessing on you and yours.

Morning Lizards. I hope your evening went well. The Delta II ICESAT-2 is scheduled for a little more than 3 hours from now. This will be the last time a Delta II rocket will be used.

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freetoken  Sep 15, 2018 • 2:55:06am

New documentary from DW, about the crash:

The crash - the investment bank Lehman Brothers | DW Documentary

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wheat-dogg  Sep 15, 2018 • 2:56:04am

Sir Paul talks about how he wrote some The Beatles’ songs.

Paul McCartney Breaks Down His Most Iconic Songs | GQ

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wheat-dogg  Sep 15, 2018 • 3:08:02am

re: #210 freetoken

New documentary from DW, about the crash:

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There’s been several retrospectives published recently, ten years on. Here’s one.

The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis foreignaffairs.com

While not directly related to the 2007-8 crash, this Guardian article describes how a clever banker figured out how rich people could move their money around without having to deal with pesky exchange rates and currency controls, while the Bretton Woods agreement was still in effect. Short version: Bearer bonds

The Real Goldfinger: The London Banker Who Broke the World
theguardian.com

I had the thought reading the Guardian article that Nixon’s decision to de-couple the dollar from hard metals was the point when the USA began to lose its place at the top of the world financial system. Fixing the dollar to a set gold price had all other countries over a barrel, and effectively prevented smaller national economies from growing. Once the gold peg was gone, and everything floated on world markets, those national economies were free to exploit market conditions. China certainly did.

I’m sure economists have worked this all out already, but I’m a slow learner wrt econ.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 15, 2018 • 3:12:14am

re: #212 wheat-dogg

Bearer bonds were the McGuffin in Die Hard, if you remember. Because of worldwide money laundering laws, they are a thing of the past, but if you had a bearer bond, it only listed its face value, not its owner or purchaser. So, the holder of one of these things could walk into any major bank around the world and either deposit the proceeds or get cash from the bond, no questions asked.

Life was so simple then.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 4:50:15am
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freetoken  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:13:24am

America, specifically Missouri, 2018:

South county legislators’ views on education span all sides of spectrum

[…]

And on the other side of the spectrum, south county’s other senator Sen. Andrew Koenig, R-Manchester, questions the current practices of public education and says more students need to be enrolled in private schools.

[…]

“Too often it’s more of an atheistic viewpoint, and they refuse to teach the other side,” Koenig said of public-school curriculum.

The senator contends that schools should focus on not just teaching evolution in science class, but also instruct students on more of a creationism-focused viewpoint.

“They don’t even teach the flaws in evolution,” he said of science teachers.

One of those flaws, Koenig believes, can be seen in the four-winged fruit fly, which was created by scientists in a lab to demonstrate aspects of evolution such as how modifying a gene can change the entire structure of a species. The line of inquiry led to a Nobel Prize in 1996.

[…]

As another example from science, Koenig pointed to the bacterial flagellum, which is comprised of over 40 proteins.

It is so complex that it could only have been designed rather than developed over time through evolution, he said.

[…]

He’s getting his talking points from the DiscoTute.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:20:58am

ICESAT-2 launch is now live on Periscope. This is the last time a Delta II rocket will be used. T -25 and counting.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:28:17am

re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth

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A healthy conservatism Mr. Sasse was Chuck Hagel. Perhaps you know him.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:29:16am

re: #218 freetoken

They have to have their “creationism” don’t they. Oy Vey.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:31:12am

Props to Ornstein btw. Sasse needs to be called out. Him and Rubio are concern trolls not Senators.

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jeffreyw  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:34:24am

Imgur


Good morning!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:34:25am

Brought up Rubio because Sasse and him even though they are from very different states remind me of each other in a bad way.

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:34:58am

re: #189 goddamnedfrank

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:36:30am

Man the difference between the ULA mission control dress (suites and ties) and Space X (Jeans and Ts/Polo shirts) is pretty stark.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:47:20am

re: #225 Belafon

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Yeah his lack of transparency is a big issue and his opponents would be foolish to ignore that. His age does concern me as well a little tbh but it’s low on why I will ultimately prefer someone like Harris, Booker, or someone else over him. I also just don’t see him as a leader. He’s more like Trump in leadership style than I want out of my President.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:51:09am

MrBWS just called…they’ve gotten their assignment: Castle Hayne, NC…just a few miles from where Florence made landfall.
On their way now, and it’s pouring down rain.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:55:03am

re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth

MrBWS just called…they’ve gotten their assignment: Castle Hayne, NC…just a few miles from where Florence made landfall.
On their way now, and it’s pouring down rain.

Hope he stays safe and as dry as possible.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:56:46am

Go for launch.

pscp.tv

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:58:36am

T -4 minutes.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 5:59:23am

re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth

As HW said I hope and pray he stays safe. In a situation like that dry is not an option.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:00:20am
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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:01:36am

T -1

pscp.tv

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:01:51am

re: #233 Dave In Austin

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But I thought Californians didn’t matter.//

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:02:36am

Ignition and liftoff.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:07:30am

MECO and stage separation.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:08:03am

Second engine start and fairing separation.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:13:41am

SECO 1

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:19:49am

OT Just got a good deal on an OXO good grips napkin holder. They normally run $19.95 on amazon and I got mine for $4.92 at Wegmans.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:22:36am

It’s the hottest record on the shelves right now and it shut down the iTunes servers over at Apple. Everyone wants to hear this and get down with Paul M.

Wait till you hear his cover of William Shatner singing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds!

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:26:24am

re: #241 Joe Bacon 🌹

Pity he does not sing opera. /

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dangerman  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:32:05am

re: #131 Single-handed sailor

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HHe’s entering the Nixon-talking-to-the-paintings stage/blockquote>

Good. Now we know where we’re at on the timeline

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:34:27am

Obama Caught Summoning Hurricane Florence To Make Trump’s Hurricane Response Look Bad

Obama’s acquiring of ancient occult powers has been well documented in the moral media community. In this recent photograph, Obama is seen standing before a desecrated Civil War monument in South Carolina and summoning Hurricane Florence.
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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:36:22am

re: #244 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

That is hip-wader country. Correction Chest wader country

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dangerman  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:38:43am

re: #159 HappyWarrior

Most funny thing for me as a Southerner is seeing people like Corey Stewart who are about as Southern as borscht embracing the CSA. I’ve always felt pride that my grandfather’s ! fought on the right side. Was he a racial liberal even by that era? Probably not but did he choose his adoptive country over the right to own people, yes. And I’m proud of that. If he was a racial liberal, all the better.

Brilliant

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dangerman  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:42:40am

re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter

I don’t touch beets but apparently there is a version served cold during the summer.

I have never had hot borscht.
Always cold
With sour cream
Some people add potatoes

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Jay C  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:45:55am

re: #205 Anymouse 🌹

It’s been said the world’s most expensive hobby is having the second-best military. Theirs doesn’t even approach second-best.

Yeah, but the Russian military is perfectly adequate for their needs: which is to basically back up Russian bullying of their neighbors. Their military may be second-rate, but that matters little if all you are contemplating fighting are third-rate forces (like, say Georgia).

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dangerman  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:45:56am

re: #188 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

you know when you get to that point in the airplane flight where you can feel that you’re losing altitude and the plane will soon be on the ground?

that’s what happened to the trump movement this week

As the plane plummets…”no it didn’t”

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fern01  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:46:57am

re: #95 teleskiguy

He’s bustin’ out some oldies!

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1 misspeak vs 4782 lies - and counting

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fern01  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:49:35am

re: #97 dangerman

Ladies and gentlemen, the president is two actual six year olds stacked up inside a trump suit

My granddaughter is 6 & her intelligence, speech and understanding of the world in which she lives are so far ahead of trump - that should read “2 blocks of wood stacked up ..”

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:50:24am

#2 Second engine burn and shut down.

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dangerman  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:50:47am

re: #197 Single-handed sailor

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Hey, Nihilist Arby’s

Pointless, my ass.
I’m the only one of me there will ever be

Fight me

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SteelPH  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:54:44am

If I’m reading correctly, Brett Kavanaugh is apparently a rapist(or at least an attempted one).

Yup, totally someone I want serving a lifetime on the bench.
//not enough in the goddamn world

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:55:21am

ICESAT-2 separation & deployment.

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dangerman  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:57:08am

re: #225 Belafon

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If he wants to run as a dem *first* he registers as a dem
Then his tax returns
then we’ll talk

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 15, 2018 • 6:58:24am

re: #242 PhillyPretzel

Pity he does not sing opera. /

He’s in the Ruddigore phase where the Presidents and First Ladies are stepping out of the pictures torturing him!

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dangerman  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:00:10am

re: #250 fern01

1 misspeak vs 4782 lies - and counting

And keeping track of and counting all those lies had to be made a thing because there were so many

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Teukka  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:00:46am

re: #241 Joe Bacon 🌹

It’s the hottest record on the shelves right now and it shut down the iTunes servers over at Apple. Everyone wants to hear this and get down with Paul M.

Wait till you hear his cover of William Shatner singing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds!

[Embedded content]

Stole that.

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dangerman  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:02:05am

re: #251 fern01

My granddaughter is 6 & her intelligence, speech and understanding of the world in which she lives are so far ahead of trump - that should read “2 blocks of wood stacked up ..”

How they gonna tweet?
No thumbs. ;-)

What did Kerry recently say? Intelligence of a six year old boy and the insecurity of a thirteen years old girl. Something like that

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fern01  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:03:52am

I think I love Walter Shaub

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b_sharp  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:05:44am

I can remember when there were some funny boob threads on LGF. I guess the Boob-in-Chief kinda takes the fun out of it.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:07:28am

re: #262 b_sharp

I can remember when there were some funny boob threads on LGF. I guess the Boob-in-Chief kinda takes the fun out of it.

Did somebody say boobies?
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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:13:42am

#3 second stage restart and shutdown.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:14:18am

re: #264 Bubblehead II

#3 second stage restart and shutdown.

What’s today’s flight?

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:15:56am

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹

Maggie Haberman
✔
@maggieNYT
* 15h
John Dowd emails other lawyers involved in the Trump case and says of Manafort, “PM has no info on President or campaign.”

SpicyFiles
@SpicyFiles
Final straw Maggie.
You’ve spent months normalizing Trump.
Minimizing just how dangerous he is.
But most importantly there are really decent reporters at the NYTs and tweets like yours undercut their hardwork.
Unfollowed & Subscription canceled

6:21 PM - Sep 14, 2018
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699 people are talking about this

In this case, I think Maggie may be unjustly criticized. She isn’t signaling her agreement with Dowd — only reporting on what he’s doing. Without this tweet,
I certainly wouldn’t have been aware of Dowd’s attempt to protect his client. Perhaps it’s even a subtle mock of these efforts.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:17:01am

#265 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

What’s today’s flight?

ICESAT-2 was the primary. The 4 cube sats are assorted space weather experiments.

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SteelPH  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:20:03am

re: #266 Hecuba’s daughter

In this case, I think Maggie may be unjustly criticized. She isn’t signaling her agreement with Dowd — only reporting on what he’s doing. Without this tweet,
I certainly wouldn’t have been aware of Dowd’s attempt to protect his client. Perhaps it’s even a subtle mock of these efforts.

At the same time, she’s breathlessly repeating it without even a hint of being at all critical of it.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:20:40am

Cube sat deployment has started. Once completed there will be a 4th burn of the second stage to return it to earths atmosphere to burn up.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:25:02am

re: #256 dangerman

If he wants to run as a dem *first* he registers as a dem
Then his tax returns
then we’ll talk

There is nothing that Bernie could do to get me to support him in the primaries. He is as owned by Putin as Trump, has been very ineffective as a Senator, and has not shown a particular regard for the minorities who are an essential part of the Democratic party.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:34:01am

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹

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“Spicy Files” is a moron.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:35:44am
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b_sharp  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:35:52am

re: #270 Hecuba’s daughter

There is nothing that Bernie could do to get me to support him in the primaries. He is as owned by Putin as Trump, has been very ineffective as a Senator, and has not shown a particular regard for the minorities who are an essential part of the Democratic party.

He sounds like a one issue thinker. From what I’ve seen of him, he either doesn’t understand or he ignores the complexity of the economy/social structure/tribalism interaction.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:36:01am

re: #268 SteelPH

At the same time, she’s breathlessly repeating it without even a hint of being at all critical of it.

“Breathlessly reporting”? Well, I guess that’s true, since it’s on Twitter and thus didn’t require speech. But seriously - she’s telling you a fact. That’s called “reporting”. You may have heard of it. Does she really have to tell you how to think about it?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:36:49am

re: #111 William Lewis

For anyone who is curious about the way songs are produced, here is an amazing bit by Toni Visconti on producing David Bowie’s “Heroes”. To me, this was the most amazing thing about how a song is created than anything I’ve ever listened to.

Toni Visconti on producing David Bowie’s “Heroes”

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Video

For Charles, I’m sure, this is nothing new. But for an old punk who never got a contract? well, that’s a fun difference :D

wow. Amazing video of how a song was made. I love how he is able to take it apart without worshiping it. He even calls some of the pieces “cheesey.” I love the song more know. thanks for posting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:37:49am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:38:34am

re: #274 Blind Frog Belly White

Note also that she retweeted this reply to that Tweet.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:41:40am

grab a beverage for this thread:

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SteelPH  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:43:59am

re: #274 Blind Frog Belly White

“Breathlessly reporting”? Well, I guess that’s true, since it’s on Twitter and thus didn’t require speech. But seriously - she’s telling you a fact. That’s called “reporting”. You may have heard of it. Does she really have to tell you how to think about it?

Breathlessly repeating.
At least get it right before you insult me.

And speaking of said insult, at no point did I ever even imply that I needed her to think for me. That you immediately jumped to this conclusion is downright insulting to my intelligence and tells me an awful lot about your reactionary defense of any and all criticism of her journalism skills.

But hey, thanks for implying I’m an idiot. I really appreciate it.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:45:28am

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

grab a beverage for this thread:

What an asshole.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:50:43am

re: #279 SteelPH

You appear to be demanding she pass judgement for you. Why?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:50:50am

and here’s the one Ali brought home:

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calochortus  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:52:15am

re: #281 Blind Frog Belly White
re: #279 SteelPH

It’s too early for all this. Maybe you could let it drop?

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SteelPH  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:52:25am

re: #281 Blind Frog Belly White

You appear to be demanding she pass judgement for you. Why?

No, but you appear to still believe I’m a moron.
Thanks for playing though.

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SteelPH  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:53:35am

re: #283 calochortus

It’s too early for all this. Maybe you could let it drop?

Point taken. I’m gone.
Goodbye for now.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:54:57am

Please take the fight private.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:55:16am

re: #280 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire

What an asshole.

There are far too many out there these days.

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calochortus  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:55:25am

re: #285 SteelPH

You don’t have to leave…

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calochortus  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:56:04am

re: #287 Eclectic Cyborg

There are far too many out there these days.

Always were. Now we just get to hear about all of them.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:57:41am

re: #289 calochortus

True. :(

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BigPapa  Sep 15, 2018 • 7:59:34am

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ll grab 3, and a steak. But at least I’ll pay for them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:01:25am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:03:29am

sad trombones and tiny violins…

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calochortus  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:04:37am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

sad trombones and tiny violins…

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And I’m OK with all of that.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:06:01am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

sad trombones and tiny violins…

She should probably be more worried about indictment(s).

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:06:04am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

sad trombones and tiny violins…

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Self fucking inflicted. No sympathy.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:07:05am

One thing they do on the Right is to make certain people into betes noires, and then any action taken or word uttered by that person MUST BE bad, somehow. It’s like Dick Deadeye in HMS Pinafore: “From such a face and form as mine, the noblest sentiments sound like the black utterances of a depraved imagination”.

I’d rather we didn’t do that on the Left.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:07:42am

re: #295 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire

She should probably be more worried about indictment(s).

I don’t care what Ivanka thinks, do you?

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Jay C  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:08:38am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

sad trombones and tiny violins…

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Well, if the Asshole-in-Chief is so upset, he can always get away from it by resigning….

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:08:45am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

I wonder if Itzhak Perlman takes requests?

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:08:54am

re: #298 I Would Prefer Not To

I don’t care what Ivanka thinks, do you?

Not really.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:09:00am

re: #243 dangerman

Wait till he hits the Ruddigore phase where the former Presidents step out of the pictures and yell at him!re: #266 Hecuba’s daughter

In this case, I think Maggie may be unjustly criticized. She isn’t signaling her agreement with Dowd — only reporting on what he’s doing. Without this tweet,
I certainly wouldn’t have been aware of Dowd’s attempt to protect his client. Perhaps it’s even a subtle mock of these efforts.

Nope. It’s fair game to shame the #1 asskisser of Trump. She joins the roster of Stenographers that include Miller the Killer, Jeff Jabberjaw Gerth, and James I Led A Lynch Mob to Get Dr. Wen Ho Lee Risen.

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makeitstop  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:09:49am

re: #296 Eclectic Cyborg

Self fucking inflicted. No sympathy.

It figures that the only one Trump trusts is that fucking toady Miller.

I’m hoping Mueller finds his filthy hands in the Russian cookie jar.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:12:05am

re: #298 I Would Prefer Not To

I don’t care what Ivanka thinks, do you?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:13:38am

re: #303 makeitstop

It figures that the only one Trump trusts is that fucking toady Miller.

I’m hoping Mueller finds his filthy hands in the Russian cookie jar.

Oh, I’m just waiting for Round 2 on Tuesday Night when Miller’s rabbi once again takes that little Nazi to the woodshed for another whacking!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:15:03am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:16:42am

hahahahaaa

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:16:55am

Stephen Miller reminds me of a remark a coworker made years ago about someone: “Bad protoplasm.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:17:39am

re: #305 Joe Bacon 🌹

Oh, I’m just waiting for Round 2 on Tuesday Night when Miller’s rabbi once again takes that little Nazi to the woodshed for another whacking!

Former rabbi. Is there any evidence that he still attends religious services? And it would probably be at a Trump-supporting congregation.

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makeitstop  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:17:59am

Any of you Ohio-area Lizards know of this guy?

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calochortus  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:19:55am

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, Miller is the last person I’d trust too. Oh wait. That’s not what was meant is it?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:19:56am

Have you seen that Steven Miller
Crawling in the dirt
And for Mr. Steven Miller
Life is getting worse
Always having slime to play around in

Have you seen that Steven Miller
In his starched brown shirt?
You will find that Steven Miller
Stirring up the dirt
Always have brown shirts to play around in

In his cube with all Trump’s backing
He don’t care what goes on around
In his eyes there’s something lacking
Oh he needs a God-damned whacking

Everywhere there’s Steven Millers
Living racist lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their KKK wives
Losing all their minds when no one serves them

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:20:45am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:22:58am

re: #310 makeitstop

Any of you Ohio-area Lizards know of this guy?

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I’ve heard of him.

This part of the article…wowser:

Wexner called Obama’s visit to Ohio this week a “great moment for the community,” according to the Dispatch.

“I was struck by the genuineness of the man; his candor, humility and empathy for others,” Wexner said.

The newspaper noted that the comments stand in stark contrast to what the GOP supporter has said about President Trump.

The billionaire CEO reportedly said in a speech last year that he was “ashamed” by Trump’s response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that erupted in violence and led to the death of a 32-year-old woman.

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calochortus  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:24:27am

re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth

I don’t know about everyone else, but the one thing that has been missing from my cell phone is messages direct from Trump. My only hope is that maybe it won’t go through on a flip phone?

(Side note: because I’m on a plan with family members with “normal” phones, I occasionally get a text message that I’m nearly out of data. On a dumb phone.)

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:26:31am

re: #315 calochortus

I have an iPhone and I have yet to get one. If I did get anything like that I would probably block it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:27:09am

re: #315 calochortus

I don’t know about everyone else, but the one thing that has been missing from my cell phone is messages direct from Trump. My only hope is that maybe it won’t go through on a flip phone?

(Side note: because I’m on a plan with family members with “normal” phones, I occasionally get a text message that I’m nearly out of data. On a dumb phone.)

I’ve got a flip phone (GoPhone). It can get text messages. Not sure what they mean by “test message” though. Just to be on the safe side, I figure I can just keep the phone turned off for the 30 minutes they’ll be sending the message (starting at 2:18 p.m. on September 20)

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BeachDem  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:27:13am

re: #310 makeitstop

Any of you Ohio-area Lizards know of this guy?

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Les Wexner, Limited Brands—built New Albany—pretty big name in Ohio.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:28:56am
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calochortus  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:29:34am

re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, I can text too, it’s just that they said “most” cell phones. I’m hoping an older phone might save me.
I don’t expect there will be much in the way of actual messages because I can think of nothing that would annoy the majority of Americans more than constant messages from Trump. Talk about needing a call blocker.

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makeitstop  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:29:54am

re: #316 PhillyPretzel

I have an iPhone and I have yet to get one. If I did get anything like that I would probably block it.

From what I’ve read, the Presidential Alert System is not blockable.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:30:02am

re: #316 PhillyPretzel

I have an iPhone and I have yet to get one. If I did get anything like that I would probably block it.

Same here. If that message appears on my phone it will be blocked. Oh and that would go for my Apple Watch, too!

Now if it’s not blockable I’ll send a lovely reply to his Ass-Holeyness!

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:31:18am

re: #321 makeitstop

Then I will visit an Apple Store and get a refund. DT is on my personal call block list.

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calochortus  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:31:19am

I’d better go get ready for my day. Catch you all later. Be good.

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BigPapa  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:33:08am

re: #324 calochortus

I’d better go get ready for my day. Catch you all later. Be good.

NO!

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calochortus  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:33:40am

re: #325 BigPapa

NO!

OK, at least have fun.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:35:28am

FEMA to test ‘Presidential Alert’ system next week

The test is supposed to take place at 2:18 p.m. EDT on Sept. 20. Under the Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act of 2006, cellphone users cannot opt out of the presidential alerts.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:35:33am

re: #319 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I don’t think Collins is going to run for reelection. She’s going to retire and attempt to have it both ways. To hard right she’s a hero who voted to gut abortion right and to the rest of the world she;s going to market herself as an “Moderate Republican.” and get some speaking gigs, corporate deals, etc.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:35:50am

re: #325 BigPapa

NO!

You can’t tell me what to do! This is why Trump won!!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:38:24am
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BigPapa  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:38:24am

re: #326 calochortus

OK, at least have fun.

NO! Oh, uh, yeah, thanks. I will.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:39:51am
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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:40:04am

re: #327 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire

It looks like I will be getting rid of my cell phone then. That is one way of opting out of a message.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:46:04am

re: #310 makeitstop

Any of you Ohio-area Lizards know of this guy?

From the link:

Wexner called Obama’s visit to Ohio this week a “great moment for the community,” according to the Dispatch.
“I was struck by the genuineness of the man; his candor, humility and empathy for others,” Wexner said.

The newspaper noted that the comments stand in stark contrast to what the GOP supporter has said about President Trump.

The billionaire CEO reportedly said in a speech last year that he was “ashamed” by Trump’s response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that erupted in violence and led to the death of a 32-year-old woman.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:46:28am

re: #333 PhillyPretzel

It looks like I will be getting rid of my cell phone then. That is one way of opting out of a message.

Why? The Pumpkin Pinochet can’t by law use it as his personal communication medium.

The wireless emergency alerts (WEA) system was authorized by Congress in 2015 under a law that states the “system shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety.”

It’s just an upgrade to the already existent emergency broadcast system that also requires Presidential authorization to activate (except for testing).

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electrotek  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:46:51am

THREAD:

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:49:13am

re: #335 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire

In a technical sense, President Trump is, himself, a man-made disaster. A good lawyer could argue this into a disturbing precedent.

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Jay C  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:49:44am

re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth

pretty soon, these sorry fuckers are going to be barefoot, dressed in potato sacks, listening to jug bands for entertainment.

Like they aren’t, already?

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:50:00am

re: #335 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire

So far there has not been anything that can stop DT. Rules and laws mean nothing to him. He will think and try to use this system for his personal use. That is what I am afraid of.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:53:05am

re: #335 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire

Why? The Pumpkin Pinochet can’t by law use it as his personal communication medium.

The wireless emergency alerts (WEA) system was authorized by Congress in 2015 under a law that states the “system shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety.”

It’s just an upgrade to the already existent emergency broadcast system that also requires Presidential authorization to activate (except for testing).

anything he doesn’t like is a “threat to public safety”.

also, laws don’t apply to him…just ask Rudy…or Kavanaugh.

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jaunte  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:54:38am
Experts didn’t appear to be too concerned that Trump, known to use his smartphone to blast opponents, berate subordinates and take shots at the news media on Twitter, could abuse WEA.

“If you separate this from the politics and personality of any individual president then this is a great idea and an amazing use of technology to reach everybody if they’re in harms way,” said Karen North, director of the Annenberg Digital Social Media program at the University of Southern California.

UCLA communications professor Tim Groeling agreed, writing via email, “broadcast-based emergency alert systems … have remained professional and impartial over decades.”

nbcnews.com

Factoring out Donald Trump, everything will be normal, say experts.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:56:43am

re: #335 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire

Why? The Pumpkin Pinochet can’t by law use it as his personal communication medium.

The wireless emergency alerts (WEA) system was authorized by Congress in 2015 under a law that states the “system shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety.”

So, “There’s a Palace Coup! Help me. Fight back!” Fits within the allowable parameters?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:57:49am

Just got done canvassing. Beautiful chilly day for it but not a lot of people home but I’m impressed by the Wexton campaign’s organization. They’ve done this for granted on a smaller level but they have an organized team and they’re coordinating with Kaine and working to create a liberal veterans support group so if Jen wins, it won’t surprise me if that’s an issue she works on.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 8:58:28am

re: #339 PhillyPretzel

So far there has not been anything that can stop DT. Rules and laws mean nothing to him. He will think and try to use this system for his personal use. That is what I am afraid of.

And I am trusting in those who actually run the system to prevent that sort of abuse.

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sagehen  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:00:23am

re: #309 Hecuba’s daughter

Former rabbi. Is there any evidence that he still attends religious services? And it would probably be at a Trump-supporting congregation.

No, it wouldn’t be a Trump-supporting congregation. It’s his childhood rabbi, from a Reform synagogue in Santa Monica.

The Trumpiest synagogues are hard-right Orthodox, and mostly in Israel. Even the wingiest rightiest American synagogues are barely half wingers.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:00:49am

re: #342 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

So, “There’s a Palace Coup! Help me. Fight back!” Fits within the allowable parameters?

Again. The message has got to get through the people actually running the system.

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Skip Intro  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:01:28am

re: #335 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire

Well if it’s against the law I’m sure Trump won’t abuse it. It would be like having the managers of his blind trust out campaigning for him. Not allowed.

Of course, that makes this somewhat confusing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:01:37am

‘I came across the cat just lying there next to the box of cat food it had knocked off. ‘It had clearly tried to go for the food but I don’t know it must have just given up. ‘I asked the cashier if she knew there was a cat over in the pet aisle ‘She said yes she knew it was there and that it was a regular.

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ObserverArt  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:03:15am

re: #233 Dave In Austin

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I wouldn’t trust Brad Parscale near a computer. That guy is a walking virus.

I still think when the details come out (could be years) Parscale will have played a big part in the Russian bot activities on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, all of ‘em.

He sure is polishing up now that he is making millions being a digital dirtbag. Nice sunglasses for a slimeball.

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Jay C  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:04:50am

re: #339 PhillyPretzel

So far there has not been anything that can stop DT. Rules and laws mean nothing to him. He will think and try to use this system for his personal use. That is what I am afraid of.

OTOH, that might also just mean that there will be millions of more folks pissed off that the Orange Anus is annoying them with idiotic texts. I’m not sure Trump using a non-blockable emergency-notification system - which is supposed to be reserved for real emergencies/disasters - for his own uses (to do what? Campaign for himself? Bitch about “Fake News!” or “Witch Hunt! ? Insult his critics?) is going have quite the positive PR he might imagine…

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:05:27am

re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thank you. I needed that. :)

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can't think of a decent username  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:06:04am

re: #350 Jay C

OTOH, that might also just mean that there will be millions of more folks pissed off that the Orange Anus is annoying them with idiotic texts. I’m not sure Trump using a non-blockable emergency-notification system - which is supposed to be reserved for real emergencies/disasters - for his own uses (to do what? Campaign for himself? Bitch about “Fake News!” or “Witch Hunt! ? Insult his critics?) is going have quite the positive PR he might imagine…

Especially if he’s waking people up at 4 a.m. with all-caps “NO COLLUSION” texts.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:07:10am

speak of the devil I just got an “unknown caller” on my cell phone. This is too creepy.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:07:40am

re: #347 Skip Intro

Well if it’s against the law I’m sure Trump won’t abuse it. It would be like having the managers of his blind trust out campaigning for him. Not allowed.

Of course, that makes this somewhat confusing.

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Sorry about that—my “copy” didn’t work.

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sagehen  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:07:57am

re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And liberals don’t feel safe to express their opinions in the military or the police department or the accounting firm or the coal mine or the midwest diner that NYT keeps sending reporters to.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:10:21am

re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yeah? Well maybe their views shouldn’t be so assholish. I don’t wear my politics with my coworkers usually.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:11:03am

re: #355 sagehen

And liberals don’t feel safe to express their opinions in the military or the police department or the accounting firm or the coal mine or the midwest diner that NYT keeps sending reporters to.

Yep but we’re supposed to feel sorry that So and so who hates Muslims can’t say it!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:11:06am

Please refresh my #354.

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BeachDem  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:12:25am

re: #334 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

From the link:

Les Wexner is huge in Ohio. It is a BFD.

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ObserverArt  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:13:41am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

sad trombones and tiny violins…

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Oh dear!

Impeachment will not look good on Ivanka.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:14:51am

I’m sorry but I get real tired of conservatives complaining about being ostracized for their views when LGBT kids still worry about being killed or disowned, where immigrant children are taunted and told to go home.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:17:34am
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PhillyPretzel  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:19:53am

re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth

The middle photo is all over the University of Penn campus in West Philly. I have never been able to get a good shot of one.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:24:54am

MrBWS just called…they’ve been pulled off the road (flooding is my guess) and are sitting in their trucks in a Lowe’s parking lot in Garner.
And it’s raining so hard they can’t go “forage for food” (his words)

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:27:28am

re: #361 HappyWarrior

I’m sorry but I get real tired of conservatives complaining about being ostracized for their views when LGBT kids still worry about being killed or disowned, where immigrant children are taunted and told to go home.

Or anyone who looks like a brown person, whether they’re an immigrant or not.

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ObserverArt  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:27:50am

re: #310 makeitstop

Any of you Ohio-area Lizards know of this guy?

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Hell yeah. You can’t live in Columbus and not know Les Wexner. Actually he is pretty well known in New York for his retailing background and the women’s fashion lines he has owned and sold over time.

He has also donated to Democrats a little, but no surprise he is a big Republican backer. He has gotten more conservative as he became more rich and older.

John Kasich a good friend and benefactor. I hope he cuts the damn party off…but that is a slim chance. He’s just being Ohio’s Sheldon Adelson.

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electrotek  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:28:14am

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:30:09am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:33:17am

re: #365 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Or anyone who looks like a brown person, whether they’re an immigrant or not.

Yes. Plenty of Native Americans told to “go home.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:34:22am

re: #367 electrotek

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

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Well looks like my kook state Senator started a trend.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:45:26am

I did not know that so many police have 401Ks

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ObserverArt  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:46:50am

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve heard of him.

This part of the article…wowser:

Owner of Limited Brands.

Saw this on a Google search.

Wexner was ranked #11 on Harvard Business Review’s Top 100 Best Performing CEOs of 2015, and #34 in 2016. Over the years he built a retailing and marketing conglomerate, which currently includes: Victoria’s Secret, Pink (Victoria’s Secret), Bath & Body Works, Henri Bendel, The White Barn Candle Company, and La Senza.

Started Limited Stores in many a mall back in the 80s and grew from there. He has warehouses and distribution centers all over the east side of the Columbus area. He had owned Lane Bryant and other stores too…like Express.

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SteveMcGriftFlynnComey... ...corruptemoligate RN  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:49:00am

re: #361 HappyWarrior

The thing about “conservatives” feeling uncomfortable is that they don’t have a conservative bone in their body. I can’t think of anything they want that is actually conservative. They are radical right wing zealots who hate society.

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BeachDem  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:54:54am

re: #372 ObserverArt

Owner of Limited Brands.

Saw this on a Google search.

Started Limited Stores in many a mall back in the 80s and grew from there. He has warehouses and distribution centers all over the east side of the Columbus area. He had owned Lane Bryant and other stores too…like Express.

Also started New Albany—and then there are all the OSU things, like the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Wexner Medical Center. (I know you know all this OA—putting it in for non-Ohioans)

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ObserverArt  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:56:56am

re: #374 BeachDem

Also started New Albany—and then there are all the OSU things, like the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Wexner Medical Center. (I know you know all this OA—putting it in for non-Ohioans)

Ahh…you probably have known ALL the history of Les.

Heh.

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BeachDem  Sep 15, 2018 • 9:58:26am

re: #375 ObserverArt

Ahh…you probably have known ALL the history of Les.

Heh.

Yep—remember the first Limited store downtown. (And still do a lot of work with New Albany.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:03:18am
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ObserverArt  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:03:28am

re: #376 BeachDem

Yep—remember the first Limited store downtown. (And still do a lot of work with New Albany.)

I did some ad production work at Shelly Berman Communications for The Limited, back in ‘75. Summer freelance job at CCAD. Got real familiar with the ‘culture’ of that whole group of folks. That was all right before the company really took off. A few years later Les was big man in Columbus.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:09:44am
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electrotek  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:15:21am

Hypocrisy, what’s that?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:18:29am

re: #380 electrotek

Hypocrisy, what’s that?

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He’s a refugee himself ffs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:24:55am

Rudy’s sources are the voices in his head…

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:27:49am

re: #382 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rudy’s sources are the voices in his head…

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Can’t wait for Rudy himself to be arrested.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:29:27am

Pretty sure the reasoning behind giving the moron-in-chief the ability to “test message” every cell phone is just another way his caretakers are giving him little presents to stave off tantrums.

I mean, really, why on earth is it necessary to give this perk to him? The emergency warning system works just fine as it is now.

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can't think of a decent username  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:30:56am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:36:28am
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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:37:09am

re: #253 dangerman

Hey, Nihilist Arby’s

Pointless, my ass.
I’m the only one of me there will ever be

Fight me

In a mere century, no-one will remember you ever existed. Eat Arby’s

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:45:18am

re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’m glad this is being done. He was more than a name. Someone people loved and lost.

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retired cynic  Sep 15, 2018 • 10:53:50am

re: #376 BeachDem

Yep—remember the first Limited store downtown. (And still do a lot of work with New Albany.)

I just wanted to know how you and SS are doing, storm-wise and all!

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Old Liberal  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:00:03am

re: #380 electrotek

Hypocrisy, what’s that?

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I think you are missing the meaning of the word “ultimately”. Tibetan Buddhists would go back to Tibet if China would stop their oppression. Many refugees, even “economic refugees”, hope one day that they can have a good life in their original home. When I was in my 20’s there were plenty of people going up to Alaska to work the oil fields so they could “come home” with a wad of cash to have a better place in life.
I think people forget that not all 200+ million people in Mexico and Central America have come crashing the border because they would rather live in the U.S. Most of those that come faced grinding poverty and/or existential threats.

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dangerman  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:04:50am

re: #383 HappyWarrior

Can’t wait for Rudy himself to be arrested.

While on tv

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:05:26am

re: #391 dangerman

While on tv

Yes, please.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:08:05am

re: #383 HappyWarrior

Can’t wait for Rudy himself to be arrested.

Or disbarred!

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dangerman  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:08:20am

re: #387 Big Beautiful Door

In a mere century, no-one will remember you ever existed. Eat Arby’s

That makes me finite.
Not pointless

I’d still eat Arby’s if they fight me first

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:08:22am

re: #393 Joe Bacon 🌹

Or disbarred!

Why not both?

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BeachDem  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:08:43am

re: #389 retired cynic

I just wanted to know how you and SS are doing, storm-wise and all!

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makeitstop  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:08:44am

re: #393 Joe Bacon 🌹

Or disbarred!

Why not both?

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wrenchwench  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:16:51am

re: #390 Old Liberal

I think you are missing the meaning of the word “ultimately”. Tibetan Buddhists would go back to Tibet if China would stop their oppression. Many refugees, even “economic refugees”, hope one day that they can have a good life in their original home. When I was in my 20’s there were plenty of people going up to Alaska to work the oil fields so they could “come home” with a wad of cash to have a better place in life.
I think people forget that notall 200+ million people in Mexico and Central America have come crashing the border because they would rather live in the U.S. Most of those that come faced grinding poverty and/or existential threats.

For him to say this in Europe to Europeans makes me think he does not believe a person can rightfully relocate on a permanent basis. If a person wants to go back to where they came from, fine. If they don’t, I believe they should be made to feel comfortable in a new home. Doesn’t matter why they want to. Could be economic, could be to avoid violence, whether from someone they know or a gang or a war or anything. We are fortunate to have such a big country in which we can move around at will. I hope I’m not alone in being willing to share.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:26:27am

re: #398 wrenchwench

For him to say this in Europe to Europeans makes me think he does not believe a person can rightfully relocate on a permanent basis. If a person wants to go back to where they came from, fine. If they don’t, I believe they should be made to feel comfortable in a new home. Doesn’t matter why they want to. Could be economic, could be to avoid violence, whether from someone they know or a gang or a war or anything. We are fortunate to have such a big country in which we can move around at will. I hope I’m not alone in being willing to share.

Said better than I could.

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Old Liberal  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:52:31am

re: #398 wrenchwench

For him to say this in Europe to Europeans makes me think he does not believe a person can rightfully relocate on a permanent basis. If a person wants to go back to where they came from, fine. If they don’t, I believe they should be made to feel comfortable in a new home. Doesn’t matter why they want to. Could be economic, could be to avoid violence, whether from someone they know or a gang or a war or anything. We are fortunate to have such a big country in which we can move around at will. I hope I’m not alone in being willing to share.

I guess we would have to ask him to elaborate. I don’t think it implies that. If he said “Tibet is for Tibetans” and “Tibetans should go back to Tibet”, would we think he was a Tibetan supremacist? I think most of the refugees were driven out, and had no desire to leave. I think to say that they should go back is recognizing that they have a right of return. In Western Sahara, for example, there are tens of thousands of refugees living in desert camps with nowhere to return to. Teenagers today have lived their entire lives in these camps supported by the UN. They would like to go home, Morocco begs to differ. I think the best long term resolution is for refugees to return safely to their homes as soon as possible. If some want to stay, I support that. The more time that passes, the less chance there is of ever returning even if they want to, as their property and places have been taken and their children raised in a different culture.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:58:25am

re: #388 HappyWarrior

I’m glad this is being done. He was more than a name. Someone people loved and lost.

Hope they play that tape at the trial of the cop.

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Belafon  Sep 15, 2018 • 11:58:37am

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s not called a coup here. It’s called the 25th amendment.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 15, 2018 • 12:04:26pm

re: #400 Old Liberal

I guess we would have to ask him to elaborate. I don’t think it implies that. If he said “Tibet is for Tibetans” and “Tibetans should go back to Tibet”, would we think he was a Tibetan supremacist? I think most of the refugees were driven out, and had no desire to leave. I think to say that they should go back is recognizing that they have a right of return. In Western Sahara, for example, there are tens of thousands of refugees living in desert camps with nowhere to return to. Teenagers today have lived their entire lives in these camps supported by the UN. They would like to go home, Morocco begs to differ. I think the best long term resolution is for refugees to return safely to their homes as soon as possible. If some want to stay, I support that. The more time that passes, the less chance there is of ever returning even if they want to, as their property and places have been taken and their children raised in a different culture.

Remember, in addition to the Dalai Lama being a refugee from current-day Tibet, the Tibetans are fairly recent refugees up on that plateau from their former territorial range. It’s just remarkably tone-deaf, especially considering the European audience.

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wrenchwench  Sep 15, 2018 • 12:14:58pm

re: #400 Old Liberal

I guess we would have to ask him to elaborate. I don’t think it implies that. If he said “Tibet is for Tibetans” and “Tibetans should go back to Tibet”, would we think he was a Tibetan supremacist? I think most of the refugees were driven out, and had no desire to leave. I think to say that they should go back is recognizing that they have a right of return. In Western Sahara, for example, there are tens of thousands of refugees living in desert camps with nowhere to return to. Teenagers today have lived their entire lives in these camps supported by the UN. They would like to go home, Morocco begs to differ. I think the best long term resolution is for refugees to return safely to their homes as soon as possible. If some want to stay, I support that. The more time that passes, the less chance there is of ever returning even if they want to, as their property and places have been taken and their children raised in a different culture.

I see no benefit in figuring out what the Dalai Lama thinks. I don’t think refugees should be kept in camps, even nice ones like the Turks have on the Syrian border. They should live in the neighborhoods of the host.

Generations of refugees have made this (the US) their home. Navajos and Apaches could be understood for wanting them to go back to where they came from. They make better hosts from the little pieces of their original homes they were forced to live on than some of their interlopers do.

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wrenchwench  Sep 15, 2018 • 12:15:50pm

re: #403 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Remember, in addition to the Dalai Lama being a refugee from current-day Tibet, the Tibetans are fairly recent refugees up on that plateau from their former territorial range. It’s just remarkably tone-deaf, especially considering the European audience.

It’s refugees all the way down.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 15, 2018 • 12:20:28pm

re: #404 wrenchwench

I see no benefit in figuring out what the Dalai Lama thinks. I don’t think refugees should be kept in camps, even nice ones like the Turks have on the Syrian border. They should live in the neighborhoods of the host.

Generations of refugees have made this (the US) their home. Navajos and Apaches could be understood for wanting them to go back to where they came from. They make better hosts from the little pieces of their original homes they were forced to live on than some of their interlopers do.

And the Athabaskan-speaking peoples like the Apache (including the Navajo Apache), were much later intruders into North America—we should ask the Hopi and Papago and whoever how they feel about that.

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wrenchwench  Sep 15, 2018 • 12:53:38pm

re: #406 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

And the Athabaskan-speaking peoples like the Apache (including the Navajo Apache), were much later intruders into North America—we should ask the Hopi and Papago and whoever how they feel about that.

Hopis believe they emerged from the ground, right where they are today. Apaches came later, and settled* where the House Builders weren’t, according to them. Reality is whatever you were born into, until you find otherwise (if that happens in your life).

*wrong word. They moved around a lot.


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