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Charles Johnson  Sep 22, 2018 • 5:53:54pm

That clean guitar playing swampy licks throughout kills me. Don’t know who it is, but some very tasty shit with jazz inflections. Swamp jazz.

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wrenchwench  Sep 22, 2018 • 5:55:08pm

I thought I was out, you dragged me back in. Damned Master Spy.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 5:56:34pm

Appreciate you all listening to my canvass story from earlier. Weirdest thing ever that I’ve had working for a candidate and that’s including the guy on the phone who told me my candidate was an asshole.

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:05:11pm

Don’t worry, folks. Fox News is *on it.*

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:08:29pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

Don’t worry, folks. Fox News is *on it.*

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Glad they’re focused on what matters. Typical Dumb Fucks news. Bonus points for getting dumb and Dumber to comment. A friend of a friend made a great point that it’s always sexualizing something if the characters are gay but not if they’re straight.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:18:56pm

re: #5 HappyWarrior

Glad they’re focused on what matters. Typical Dumb Fucks news. Bonus points for getting dumb and Dumber to comment. A friend of a friend made a great point that it’s always sexualizing something if the characters are gay but not if they’re straight.

They realize that Bert and Ernie are Bert the Cop and Ernie the cabdriver from It’s a Wonderful Life…right? Were they gay?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:22:23pm

re: #6 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

They realize that Bert and Ernie are Bert the Cop and Ernie the cabdriver from It’s a Wonderful Life…right? Were they gay?

What’s even more pathetic is gay muppets anger conservatives more than Kavanaugh.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:23:25pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:23:53pm

Seems appropriate

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:25:15pm

About 60 miles to the north of my twenty.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:26:06pm

re: #9 I Would Prefer Not To

Seems appropriate

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She is correct of course. White male is the default mode in America.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:27:29pm

Left hanging on the last thread, because I’m slow.

re: #130 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Sorry, Dr. Maddow. I want a growing and accelerating avalanche of catastrophe for the GOP to go on indefinitely.

“You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.” - Fred to Super Chicken

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:28:14pm

re: #10 teleskiguy

About 60 miles to the north of my twenty.

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Well, at least you’re not in between them…

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jaunte  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:32:04pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:32:30pm

re: #13 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Well, at least you’re not in between them…

You see the town of Walden, in the middle of the lower smoke plume? That’s in the middle of a broad mountain valley called North Park. The air there resembled the factory sections of Beijing today.

And, some Colorado geography. North Park is north of Middle Park, which is north of… South Park.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:33:36pm

re: #10 teleskiguy

About 60 miles to the north of my twenty.

Looking at that photo, if the wind picks up a bit more or if there is more smoke, it will be over my town. (Next county to the east of the ones showing Scottsbluff and Harrisburg.)

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:34:05pm

re: #15 teleskiguy

You see the town of Walden, in the middle of the lower smoke plume? That’s in the middle of a broad mountain valley called North Park. The air there today resembled the factory sections of Beijing today.

And, some Colorado geography. North Park is north of Middle Park, which is north of… South Park.

Wow, that’s a deep geography lesson.///

As for the air: I empathize. When half of Canada was on fire a month and a half ago, the wild north country was enveloped in their smouldering remains. It actually looked more than slightly creepy, being cloudless late-summer days, but the sun was visibly diminished.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:34:08pm

re: #14 jaunte

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You assholes just don’t fucking get it do you? Enjoy being a party of wrinkled white dicks that don’t work unless you’re watching a blonde woman on FNC reenforce your backwards worldviews or Donald Trump mocking people.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:34:16pm

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹

From the previous thread:

When a large majority of men are shits, it only takes a few women being shits to screw everything up.

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:34:25pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

It might be worth googling some youtube videos of Yates McKendree. All I can say is that he doesn’t look 15.

rollingstone.com

Recorded over four days in the summer of 2017 that included the August 21st solar eclipse, the album marks both a period of personal metamorphosis for Hiatt and, in many ways, a musical return to form. Stripping his rootsy sound down to bare bones, Hiatt recorded the album as part of a trio of guitar, bass (Patrick O’Hearn), and drums (Kenneth Blevins).

The trio set up shop at friend and fellow musician Kevin McKendree’s home studio on his farm outside of town. McKendree added the occasional organ part to tracks, while his 15-year-old son, Yates McKendree, played additional guitar and engineered the LP. “Yates was our secret ingredient,” Hiatt says. The group recorded “around 15 songs” over the course of six days, 11 of which would make the final cut.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:34:35pm

re: #3 HappyWarrior

Appreciate you all listening to my canvass story from earlier. Weirdest thing ever that I’ve had working for a candidate and that’s including the guy on the phone who told me my candidate was an asshole.

Good on you for canvassing. All hands on deck needed to ensure a blue wave in November.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:35:17pm

re: #19 Belafon

From the previous thread:

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When a large majority of men are shits, it only takes a few women being shits to screw everything up.

Owens only knows Kavanaugh supports her worldview, that’s good enough. Sick that some women think this way.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:36:15pm

re: #19 Belafon

During this whole kerfuffle, I had a friend of mine talking about why this is the first time she posted - in public - about her sexual assault aboard ship in the US Navy. I had known about it for years and could vouch for the fact that she hesitated to talk about it on account of no one would believe her word over a man’s.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:37:42pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

That clean guitar playing swampy licks throughout kills me. Don’t know who it is, but some very tasty shit with jazz inflections. Swamp jazz.

From American Song Writer:

Hiatt recorded The Eclipse Sessions in Nashville with producer Kevin McKendree, drummer Kenneth Blevins, bassist Patrick O’Hearn, and guitarist/engineer Yates McKendree. The bulk of the album was recorded in the style of a trio, a decision made to allow plenty of space for Hiatt’s distinct voice and guitar styling to come through.

Ahead of The Eclipse Sessions’ release, Hiatt has shared a new track, “Over The Hill,” which perfectly encapsulates that stripped-down trio vibe. Hiatt’s rhythmic acoustic guitar and a laid-back beat from Blevins provide a rootsy backdrop for bluesy electric guitar licks and soulful verses from Hiatt, who uses the track to explore the personal growth often brought forth by aging.

americansongwriter.com

I’m not clear whether they mean Hiatt was on electric or Yates McKendree was. Either way, it’s well done.

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jaunte  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:38:10pm

That’s a bold move, Cotton.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:39:36pm

re: #25 jaunte

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That’s a bold move, Cotton.

This is the worst thing Fox does.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:41:18pm

re: #25 jaunte

Will they ever have a woman who was abducted by an alien (I have to include) from another planet?

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BigPapa  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:41:27pm

Conn Carroll is a name I forgot. I soon will again.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:42:17pm

Fucking bots now comparing Kavanaugh hearing to “lynching” of Black men in the 1930’s.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:42:57pm

We’re slowly making our way through Lost in Space. The episodes are too long. They could do the same story with some much tighter writing.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:43:05pm

re: #26 HappyWarrior

This is the worst thing Fox does.

What, no sexed-up pandas? I guess the whole “missing blonde women” distraction they ran all during the runup to the Iraq war wouldn’t be a comfortable fit right now…but I wouldn’t put it past them. “Tonedeaf” is their middle name.

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stpaulbear  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:43:30pm

Another batch of old musicians using the metaphor of being over the hill. Not prime Fairport, but it’s probably their best later line-up. Some cute Stones quotes.

Over the Next Hill

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:44:31pm

re: #28 BigPapa

Conn Carroll is a name I forgot. I soon will again.

Remember when Charles talked with Conn on Bloggingheads? Good times.

Parting Ways With the Right | Charles Johnson & Conn Carroll

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:44:56pm

re: #29 The Vicious Babushka

Fucking bots now comparing Kavanaugh hearing to “lynching” of Black men in the 1930’s.

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That shit needs to be banned and that person needs to be smacked. Wtf. Yeah denying someone confirmation is the same as murder. Oh and assholes, your hero Trump supported lynching yet Central Park Five, had a father arrested at a Klan rally, oh and Kavanaughs biggest critics are black. Fuck off.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:45:20pm
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MsJ  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:45:28pm

re: #3 HappyWarrior

Appreciate you all listening to my canvass story from earlier. Weirdest thing ever that I’ve had working for a candidate and that’s including the guy on the phone who told me my candidate was an asshole.

You know, when I read that before, is it possible that he said that he he is ill informed and when he said it was something he did he had no idea what he was coping to?

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:45:34pm

re: #29 The Vicious Babushka

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Edit: What my tweet says:

“The fact that you feel free to use that image to advance white supremacy says a lot about you. This image should be ranked with using the n-word, left to history books and Wikipedia pages.”

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:46:09pm

I want it on record that I oppose hanging Kavanaugh at this point in the process. Happy now, RWNJs?

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:46:32pm

re: #37 Belafon

I put that image in spoiler tags. You should too.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:47:08pm

re: #39 The Vicious Babushka

I put that image in spoiler tags. You should too.

Thank you.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:47:57pm

re: #39 The Vicious Babushka

Reload #37.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:47:59pm

re: #36 MsJ

You know, when I read that before, is it possible that he said that he he is ill informed and when he said it was something he did he had no idea what he was coping to?

I have no idea. I hope so. I really do because it was a weird af thing to confess to a stranger.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:49:40pm

LOLWUT “Liberal CA girls” are dressing as Tomato Lumpie for Halloween?

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:50:03pm

Does anyone know how to embed a tweet but not include the parent tweet?

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:50:52pm

re: #43 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT “Liberal CA girls” are dressing as Tomato Lumpie for Halloween?

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Do they come with guns to insert in the waist?

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:51:37pm

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:52:45pm

re: #43 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT “Liberal CA girls” are dressing as Tomato Lumpie for Halloween?

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WTF is she talking about and has she ever seen how her ideological godmother Coulter dresses? I don’t give af but Tomi is just being even more stupid than usual.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 6:56:49pm

Tomi’s got issues man. I guess I would too if I called myself pro choice in s movement that compares abortion to the Holocaust

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:00:04pm

Hmm, I read her post as a poorly done ‘clickbait’ style attempt to get viewers.

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jaunte  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:02:18pm

re: #43 The Vicious Babushka

Not sure what a hoochie is, but I would guess that’s Tombie Larper’s field of expertise.

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:02:43pm

re: #44 Belafon

Does anyone know how to embed a tweet but not include the parent tweet?

add ?noquote to the end of the URL. Doesn’t always work though.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:02:54pm

Step-father update:

His surgery appears to have been successful. All five toes were amputated; his colour is drastically improved this evening, and he is coherent again.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:03:21pm

re: #50 jaunte

Not sure what a hoochie is, but I would guess that’s Tombie Larper’s field of expertise.

Very outdated term for a slut Tomi’s immigration law violating Great Great grandpappy would have used.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:04:12pm

If you didn’t know, you do now.

It’s Jack Palance night on TCM

Ten Seconds to Hell starts in 10 mins

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dangerman  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:06:46pm

re: #29 The Vicious Babushka

Fucking bots now comparing Kavanaugh hearing to “lynching” of Black men in the 1930’s.

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desperation

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:07:23pm

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹

Great news about your step-father! Is your mother doing okay?

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:09:39pm

re: #51 Single-handed sailor

add ?noquote to the end of the URL. Doesn’t always work though.

Appreciate this! I bumped into that problem a few threads ago. And thanks to Belafon for asking the right questions.

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danarchy  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:10:34pm

re: #54 Dave In Austin

If you didn’t know, you do now.

It’s Jack Palance night on TCM

Ten Seconds to Hell starts in 10 mins

To me Jack Palance is the guy from Ripley’s Believe it or not! That’s what he was doing during my formative tv watching years.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:12:23pm

re: #30 Belafon

We’re slowly making our way through Lost in Space. The episodes are too long. They could do the same story with some much tighter writing.

I only made it through the first episode of the new series. Maybe I need to be 10 years old again to really enjoy the reboot.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:15:43pm

re: #53 HappyWarrior

Very outdated term for a slut Tomi’s immigration law violating Great Great grandpappy would have used.

Must be how they talk in Rapid City. “Officer Pup just arrested some hoochies and put ‘em in the hoosegow.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:17:33pm

re: #60 wheat-dogg

Must be how they talk in Rapid City. “Officer Pup just arrested some hoochies and put ‘em in the hoosegow.”

She’s so weird. She dresses very provactively herself but I guess shitting on liberal teenagers comes second nature when you’re an useless hack.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:18:12pm

re: #58 danarchy

Same here. My entire family would cozy up to watch that show and I didn’t know Palance was an actor until I saw him in “City Slickers” years later.

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dangerman  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:18:28pm

re: #58 danarchy

To me Jack Palance is the guy from Ripley’s Believe it or not! That’s what he was doing during my formative tv watching years.

bronk
Monte Walsh with Lee Marvin
the professionals

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:19:30pm

re: #43 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT “Liberal CA girls” are dressing as Tomato Lumpie for Halloween?

That thread has a ton of Tami Lowrent photos fired back at her …

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dangerman  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:21:41pm

re: #63 dangerman

bronk
Monte Walsh with Lee Marvin
the professionals

oh and Shane

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:21:44pm

re: #64 Anymouse 🌹

That thread has a ton of Tami Lowrent photos fired back at her …

That’s probably the reason for her Tweet.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:23:22pm

re: #56 ckkatz

Great news about your step-father! Is your mother doing okay?

She is out to a late dinner right now with my step-brother.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:25:53pm

re: #61 HappyWarrior

She’s so weird. She dresses very provactively herself but I guess shitting on liberal teenagers comes second nature when you’re an useless hack.

Lack of self-awareness seems to be a requirement to be a RWNJ pundit nowadays.

Some needs to create a Tomany Looren Hallowe’en costume: an American flag one-piece swim suit, yoga pants, bleach-blonde wig, and a fake Glock stuck in the front waistband of the yoga pants, preferably humming with blinking lights.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:26:28pm

The learned folk at Wikipedia are on the hoochie-coochie case:
Hoochie coochie

The hoochie coochie (/ˌhuːtʃi ˈkuːtʃi/) is a catch-all term to describe several sexually provocative belly dance-like dances. Also spelled hootchy-kootchy and a number of other variations, It is often associated with “The Streets of Cairo, or the Poor Little Country Maid” song, also known as “the snake charmer song.”

Such dances, or something similar, were performed at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London in 1851, the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, and the World’s Fair in Paris in 1889] Although such dances became wildly popular in the United States during the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, there is no evidence of them being known by the name, “Coochie Coochie” until about a year after the fair closed, and “Hoochie Coochie” about a year later

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Dave In Austin  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:27:45pm

re: #63 dangerman

Just got done watching that one……

Claudia……..
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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:27:59pm

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹

She is out to a late dinner right now with my step-brother.

Sounds like my family. Do what needs to be done. And then have dinner.

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BigPapa  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:28:52pm

So I had another Shitty Human Celebrity sighting today. I though it may have been the dry desert air, elevation, lack of regular copious amounts of fine distilled spirits. But alas, I was correct, and it happened to fast to react. With my Fam eating lunch in front of the market at the Grand Canyon South Rim park, and a silver SUV pulls up with two MAWG’s.

(Middle Age White Guys)

Two more MAWGs walk up with a few six packs of acceptable micro brew and groceries, slide in. The biggest and whitest dude slide in the back seat and one of the younger MAWGs opened the door for him and shut it. I was like ‘That MAWGy Mofo looks like Ryan Zinke.’ But they skulked away.

Thinking about it later at a nice drink well, I noticed there were James Mattis and Brett Kavanaugh doppelgangers and I’m thinking no, I’m seeing things.

Then I see this.

Missed another oppo to call out a shitburger. I saw Michelle Malkin in a wine shop a year ago but she was with her kids and husband and despite my cold stare wasn’t feeling compelled to make any scene. But if I saw Zinke with a little prep I prob would have said some crap about selling off the Grand Canyon to polluters. Channel Auntie Maxine.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:28:59pm

re: #63 dangerman

bronk
Monte Walsh with Lee Marvin
the professionals

He did the best Jekyll & Hyde too. Made-for-TV, unfortunately, so hard to get.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:29:11pm

Someone a few nights ago suggested I get on Amazon and use some of their services to do machine learning. After considering it, I decided it’s a good idea. Now, though, I’m overwhelmed. There’s a whole lot of stuff, and I’m having trouble finding where to get started.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:29:37pm

re: #71 ckkatz

Sounds like my family. Do what needs to be done. And then have dinner.

According to my sister, after my step-father came around after surgery, he told his son “take my wife out to dinner.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:32:52pm

re: #68 wheat-dogg

Lack of self-awareness seems to be a requirement to be a RWNJ pundit nowadays.

Some needs to create a Tomany Looren Hallowe’en costume: an American flag one-piece swim suit, yoga pants, bleach-blonde wig, and a fake Glock stuck in the front waistband of the yoga pants, preferably humming with blinking lights.

She wants to be the new Ann Coulter sooooo bad.

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:33:35pm

re: #75 Anymouse 🌹

According to my sister, after my step-father came around after surgery, he told his son “take my wife out to dinner.”

His first thoughts after waking up from extremely traumatic surgery are of the well-being of his wife? I am extremely impressed!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:33:50pm

We have a problem that needs rectifying at the Cyborg household:

Mrs. Cyborg has never seen Reservoir Dogs.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:34:17pm

Well, Voice of America still hasn’t been subverted to the cause of conservatism yet… .

learningenglish.voanews.com

WhyIDidntReport: After Trump Tweet, People Share Unreported Sexual Assaults

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:35:20pm

re: #77 ckkatz

His first thoughts after waking up from extremely traumatic surgery are of the well-being of his wife? I am extremely impressed!

My step-father is a pretty thoughtful guy.

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jaunte  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:35:22pm

re: #68 wheat-dogg

Some needs to create a Tomany Looren Hallowe’en costume: an American flag one-piece swim suit, yoga pants, bleach-blonde wig, and a fake Glock stuck in the front waistband of the yoga pants, preferably humming with blinking lights.

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:36:52pm

re: #72 BigPapa

Story of my life too. I usually recognize opportunity just after it exits.

Of course in this case, I suspect that Zinke and his co-conspirators don’t much care what us little people think.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:37:07pm

re: #76 HappyWarrior

She wants to be the new Ann Coulter sooooo bad.

Hallowe’en Ann Coulter costume would be easier: blonde wig on a skeleton suit.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:40:52pm

re: #83 wheat-dogg

Hallowe’en Ann Coulter costume would be easier: blonde wig on a skeleton suit.

Swastika armband.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:44:56pm

Speaking of Halloween, I have an interesting problem. I have a Beto sign up in my yard. All is well. But, come next month, we start decorating for Halloween, and we do most of the front yard, including a cemetery. I am trying to figure out what to do with the sign so that I’m not implying that I consider it a part of the decorations.

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:45:37pm

re: #78 Eclectic Cyborg

We have a problem that needs rectifying at the Cyborg household:

Mrs. Cyborg has never seen Reservoir Dogs.

It’s a brutal film. If she wants to watch it, she should be aware of that. When I was living in Denver one of my roommates had never seen. After some bong rips I talked him into watching it and him and I started watching it one afternoon. I told him it was a brutal film.

He stopped watching it, told me to “turn this fuckin’ shit off, man!” at the cops’ ear scene.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:46:26pm

re: #85 Belafon

Speaking of Halloween, I have an interesting problem. I have a Beto sign up in my yard. All is well. But, come next month, we start decorating for Halloween, and we do most of the front yard, including a cemetery. I am trying to figure out what to do with the sign so that I’m not implying that I consider it a part of the decorations.

Which Hogwarts house would Beto be sorted into? You could make that part ofthe yard a Harry Potter corner.

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:48:03pm

I never got why the SAW movies were so popular. Fuckin’ torture porn. Sick and disgusting.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:50:09pm

re: #85 Belafon

Speaking of Halloween, I have an interesting problem. I have a Beto sign up in my yard. All is well. But, come next month, we start decorating for Halloween, and we do most of the front yard, including a cemetery. I am trying to figure out what to do with the sign so that I’m not implying that I consider it a part of the decorations.

Put Ted Cruz’s years in the senate on a tombstone (ending in Jan 2019). People will figure out the Beto sign. Also, if you have a Beto sign you must give out the best candy.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:50:41pm

re: #88 teleskiguy

I never got why the SAW movies were so popular. Fuckin’ torture porn. Sick and disgusting.

I have never watched them, and don’t care to. I think my last torture/horror flick was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 40 years ago.

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jaunte  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:51:00pm

Add ‘em to your block collection.

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mmmirele  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:51:27pm

I had a nice afternoon at my mother and brother’s house. He got to tell me about his trials and travails with the home infusion provider while we watched Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. I like that things are getting back to normal now.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:52:06pm

re: #88 teleskiguy

I never got why the SAW movies were so popular. Fuckin’ torture porn. Sick and disgusting.

Ditto the Hostel series.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:53:10pm

re: #86 teleskiguy

Thanks, but she’s a Tarantino fan so I don’t think that will be an issue.

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:54:51pm

re: #94 Eclectic Cyborg

Well, then I’m with you, man. What the fuck. Why hasn’t she seen Reservoir Dogs?!?

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:55:14pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:56:09pm
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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:56:49pm

re: #89 I Would Prefer Not To

Put Ted Cruz’s years in the senate on a tombstone (ending in Jan 2019). People will figure out the Beto sign. Also, if you have a Beto sign you must give out the best candy.

We’re always, by far, the best decorated house for Halloween, for over a decade. And we give out a lot of candy because we buy a lot of candy.

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jaunte  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:56:54pm
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Patricia Kayden  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:56:59pm

re: #86 teleskiguy

The first scene of “Reservoir Dog” made me stop watching. Have never watched any Tarantino film.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:58:11pm

re: #96 Single-handed sailor

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Or maybe they like the New Yorkers who rejected Trump know you best. You’re an idiot who supports the closest thing this country has had to a Stalin.

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jaunte  Sep 22, 2018 • 7:58:39pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:00:02pm

re: #100 Patricia Kayden

IMHO his greatest film is Jackie Brown.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:00:03pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:01:01pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

IMHO his greatest film is Jackie Brown.

Pulp Fiction is a pretty awesome film too.

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Varek Raith  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:02:21pm

Bert and Ernie are gay aliens who abduct people.
-Fox News

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:02:22pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:02:30pm

Basterds or Django is probably my favorite to watch but Pulp is probably his best work if that makes sense.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:03:02pm

re: #107 goddamnedfrank

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:03:24pm

re: #105 Big Beautiful Door

Pulp Fiction is a pretty awesome film too.

Yeah. It’s a masterpiece. But I think Jackie Brown is better. The love story between Jackie and Max the bail bondsman, it’s some of Tarantino’s best writing.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:03:58pm

re: #108 HappyWarrior

Basterds or Django is probably my favorite to watch but Pulp is probably his best work if that makes sense.

Oh yeah, love Inglorious Basterds!

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:05:52pm

My UK Wildcats are 4-0 and having their best season since 1977, and I just finished a glass of wine, so I’m feeling pretty good right now.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:08:02pm

re: #108 HappyWarrior

Basterds or Django is probably my favorite to watch but Pulp is probably his best work if that makes sense.

Pulp Fiction is part artwork.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:08:41pm

re: #110 teleskiguy

Yeah. It’s a masterpiece. But I think Jackie Brown is better. The love story between Jackie and Max the bail bondsman, it’s some of Tarantino’s best writing.

Jackie Brown is his best because it just tells a story without trying to shock the audience or prove how clever and edgy Tarantino is.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:08:46pm

re: #112 Big Beautiful Door

My UK Wildcats are 4-0 and having their best season since 1977, and I just finished a glass of wine, so I’m feeling pretty good right now.

Since my son is doing grad school chemistry there, my wife was watching the football game.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:09:50pm

This, from FB of course, made me laugh. But I’m old enough to remember the album, so…

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:11:13pm

re: #114 goddamnedfrank

Jackie Brown is his best because it just tells a story without trying to shock the audience or prove how clever and edgy Tarantino is

Don’t forget what happened to Surfer Girl. Her encounters with Louis were pretty shocking.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:16:34pm

re: #116 I Would Prefer Not To

This, from FB of course, made me laugh. But I’m old enough to remember the album, so…

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I think Daniel Radcliffe would get a serious kick out of that.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:19:20pm

re: #117 teleskiguy

Don’t forget what happened to Surfer Girl. Her encounters with Louis were pretty shocking.

Also the worst parts of the film, but comparatively tame next to the gratuitous stunts he’s pulled elsewhere.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:22:15pm
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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:23:02pm

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹

What? Was she supposed to ask him out on a date or stab him?

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:24:05pm

Speaking of football, the Liberty Flames went down in such today, losing to North Texas 47-7. NT is now 4-0, including wins over SMU and Arkansas. Liberty is 1-2. I send them thoughts and prayers.

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retired cynic  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:25:27pm

re: #122 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Speaking of football, the Liberty Flames went down in such today, losing to North Texas 47-7. NT is now 4-0, including wins over SMU and Arkansas. Liberty is 1-2. I send then thoughts and prayers.

I don’t.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:26:40pm

Black metal legend elected to Norwegian town council against his will (Fact Magazine)

“My campaign was a picture of me holding my cat saying, ‘Please don’t vote for me.’”

Norwegian extreme music legend Fenriz is getting ready to release Arctic Thunder, the new album from his foundational black metal band Darkthrone, but he’s hit an unexpected speed bump. After agreeing to join a “backup list” of potential candidates for the local neighborhood council in Kolbotn, a suburb of Oslo, he was unexpectedly elected.

“They called and asked if I wanted to be on the list [of backup representatives],” he explained. “I said yeah, thinking I would be like 18th on the list and I wouldn’t really have to do anything. They just need a list to be able to … well, it’s hard to talk local politics in another language.”

(more)

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:27:23pm

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹

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We may be seeing dozens of Todd Akin moments all at once—six weeks before an election!

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jaunte  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:27:48pm
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Jay C  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:28:54pm

re: #96 Single-handed sailor

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Jeeezus, what a putz!
After seeing this, I don’t have to wonder any more why his siblings filmed an ad against him….

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:30:31pm

re: #96 Single-handed sailor

hmmm…

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:30:52pm

re: #127 Jay C

Jeeezus, what a putz!
After seeing this, I don’t have to wonder any more why his siblings filmed an ad against him….

You know, Rep. Gozer, I don’t have this problem in my family.

Maybe it’s just you.

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dell*nix  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:31:02pm

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:31:45pm

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹

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Yeah just like we don’t prosecute people who solicit hitmen. But thanks I didn’t think we’d keep North Dakota.

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stpaulbear  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:34:43pm

re: #129 Anymouse 🌹

You know, Rep. Gozer, I don’t have this problem in my family.

Maybe it’s just you.

I definitely have a sister I wouldn’t vote for.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:40:34pm

re: #132 stpaulbear

I definitely have a sister I wouldn’t vote for.

Well, you can vote for my sister then. /s

Actually, she isn’t interested in getting anywhere near a political office.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:40:46pm

re: #96 Single-handed sailor

Someone pointed out in the replies that Gosar is the dentist who can read body language.

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Targetpractice  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:42:33pm

So the claim is all the witnesses Prof. Ford has named have denied being at the party. You can be sure that the SJC Republicans will make a point of bringing that up at the hearing, even though they will not call a single one of those women or the other man named in the allegations to testify under oath, nor will they subpoena them if they refuse to appear. They’re “investigating” these allegations in the same manner a small-town sheriff does, i.e. going around to “talk” with the witnesses before concluding the victim is just “looking for attention” or “cried rape because she regretted agreeing to sex.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:43:48pm

Oh man, the ratio on Gozer’s tweet is so bad I can feel the cluebat from here.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:44:15pm

re: #129 Anymouse 🌹

You know, Rep. Gozer, I don’t have this problem in my family.

Maybe it’s just you.

“Gozer” is brilliant! Somebody ought to be able to do something with that.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:55:01pm

re: #129 Anymouse 🌹

You know, Rep. Gozer, I don’t have this problem in my family.

Maybe it’s just you.

I had a problem with my wacko religious nut brother in law who ran for a Pennsylvania school board. He wanted to force public schools to teach only biblical approved materials. I was asked about him, under the Hatch Act I couldn’t say anything but I DID send $$$ to the Democratic slate that opposed and defeated him…barely…51/49.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:55:39pm

re: #138 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

“Gozer” is brilliant! Somebody ought to be able to do something with that.

Well, I didn’t misspell his name accidentally; that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:57:40pm

Jackie Brown was pretty good but generally I’d rather watch the movies that Tarantino “references”

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:57:46pm

re: #139 Joe Bacon 🌹

I had a problem with my wacko religious nut brother in law who ran for a Pennsylvania school board. He wanted to force public schools to teach only biblical approved materials. I was asked about him, under the Hatch Act I couldn’t say anything but I DID send $$$ to the Democratic slate that opposed and defeated him…barely…51/49.

49% of the voters thought that was fine (shudder)

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 8:59:05pm

re: #142 Anymouse 🌹

49% of the voters thought that was fine (shudder)

Yes and that scared the YOU KNOW WHAT out of me!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:04:29pm

If your family member is not only wrong but dead wrong, then you should definitely oppose them. It’s one thing when you’re arguing over dinner. It’s another when they want to push their views through being a policy member. I love one of my conservative friends almost like a third brother but I could never support him for any office.

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fern01  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:07:09pm

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹

She is out to a late dinner right now with my step-brother.

So pleased to hear all is going well - also on the last thread I just read you have power again!

In desperate need of good news at the minute - my alcohol intake is becoming too habitual.

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retired cynic  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:11:00pm

re: #145 fern01

So pleased to hear all is going well - also on the last thread I just read you have power again!

In desperate need of good news at the minute - my alcohol intake is becoming too habitual.

I’m not drinking more, but I’m looking forward to it more.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:12:04pm

The iPhone XS has fully downloaded the backup and it’s synced with my watch. Amazed to see everything downloaded and no password re-entries needed.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:19:01pm

Hot take op-ed headline from the Los Angeles Times

How close is #MeToo to full riot mode?

“The Godfather” ends with a famous scene in which each of the heads of the five most powerful New York mafia families is assassinated. One is exiting a gilded elevator. One is in a white tuxedo. One is on the steps of the Foley Square courthouse. One is on a massage table. One is in bed with a prostitute.

They’re relishing their privileges, in other words. And suddenly they’re gone.

So far, despite the feminist anger that now burns brightly from sea to shining sea, no one has been shot point-blank in the eye at the behest of #MeToo. And though hundreds of men by my estimate — Vox had it at 219 in May — have been questioned or sidelined following credible reports of sexual harassment and abuse, violence is unlikely, right? Among feminists, assassins are few. Female activists don’t tend to riot, either.

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retired cynic  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:24:05pm

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹

As if resorting to violence in that situation would make things better. Dumb.

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:28:04pm

re: #78 Eclectic Cyborg

We have a problem that needs rectifying at the Cyborg household:

Mrs. Cyborg has never seen Reservoir Dogs.

A bit late, but may I suggest watching the original instead?

City on Fire It is just as brutal but it is a better and more original film than the hack’s rip off.

Why, no, I do not like Tarantino. I think he is the most over rated garbage in Hollywood.

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:29:38pm

re: #100 Patricia Kayden

The first scene of “Reservoir Dog” made me stop watching. Have never watched any Tarantino film.

I would argue that you have missed nothing.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:29:49pm
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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:31:03pm

Interesting rabbit hole -

Google Translate identifies ‘gosar’ as Swedish for ‘cuddles’. Not going any further.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:33:31pm
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:37:49pm
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Teukka  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:37:56pm

re: #153 ckkatz

Interesting rabbit hole -

Google Translate identifies ‘gosar’ as Swedish for ‘cuddles’. Not going any further.

Why not?

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:44:30pm

re: #154 Anymouse 🌹

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From what I gather, it’s Kavahaugh that’s been earning money from his actions.

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 9:59:06pm

re: #156 Teukka

Why not?

Well, instead, I plugged gozer into Google Translate.

It came back as Dutch for ‘guy’ with a synonym of geezer. So I looked up the origination of geezer which came back guiser and the fact that in British English it means well-dressed and also refers to a mummer. And of course, the root of guiser is ‘guise’. Which comes from the Middle English ‘gyse’, which derived from th Old French ‘guisse’(guise, manner, way) , which came from the Old Frankish ‘wisa’ (manner, way, fashion)

By the way, if you have a minute, I am intrigued,

1. Was Google Translate accurate on gosar?
2. Is there a root in Swedish similar to guise or wisa?

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Targetpractice  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:01:10pm

re: #154 Anymouse 🌹

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That good ol’ wingnut projection running at full tilt again. “She must be paid to do all this because that’s what we’d do!”

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:01:36pm
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thecommodore  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:07:09pm

Hmmmm…

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:08:28pm

We need to find a way to put self awareness in the water supply.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:09:28pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:16:01pm

re: #158 ckkatz

Well, instead, I plugged gozer into Google Translate.

Try googling Ghostbusters instead….

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:16:59pm

re: #161 thecommodore

Hmmmm…

The conservative BS machine is trying again with another conspiracy theory, after last night’s exploded spectacularly. Eleven tweets from the WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel:

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Teukka  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:17:56pm

re: #158 ckkatz

Well, instead, I plugged gozer into Google Translate.

It came back as Dutch for ‘guy’ with a synonym of geezer. So I looked up the origination of geezer which came back guiser and the fact that in British English it means well-dressed and also refers to a mummer. And of course, the root of guiser is ‘guise’. Which comes from the Middle English ‘gyse’, which derived from th Old French ‘guisse’(guise, manner, way) , which came from the Old Frankish ‘wisa’ (manner, way, fashion)

By the way, if you have a minute, I am intrigued,

1. Was Google Translate accurate on gosar?
2. Is there a root in Swedish similar to guise or wisa?

1. Indeed it was. Cuddles in the present tense. Another word with the same meaning is “myser”, often evoking a mental picture two kids and two parents eating snacks in front of the telly, as in Fredagsmys, a totally untranslatable Swedish word. A word of warning though, is that “fredagsmys” is a required behavior if living in Sweden for any length of time, just like fika.
[Edit: Picture: Image: Fredagsmys-fredagskos.png ]
2. Yes, “vis”. Note that the “vis” is also used for wise. Example: Janssons Frestelse på mammas vis.” (English: Jansson’s temptation [food dish] in mom’s way).

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:20:59pm

re: #164 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Try googling Ghostbusters instead….

Aha! Thank you for helping the “pop culture deficient” with the reference. :)

Still wondering/not wondering about Frank’s ‘bangs’ reference from yesterday. :)

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:24:48pm

re: #165 Anymouse 🌹

I don’t feel like reading her. What’s the latest, that not everyone Ford says was there is agreeing with her?

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BeachDem  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:27:52pm

re: #125 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

We may be seeing dozens of Todd Akin moments all at once—six weeks before an election!

As I mentioned last night, Charles Gaba/Brainwrap, has updated his GOP Rape Advisory Chart with 40 new entries.

dailykos.com

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:29:56pm

re: #167 ckkatz

Aha! Thank you for helping the “pop culture deficient” with the reference. :)

Still wondering/not wondering about Frank’s ‘bangs’ reference from yesterday. :)

I’m totally pop culture deficient, too—per the previous discussion, I though From Dusk till Dawn was the only Tarantino movie I’d seen all the way through. Turns out he was just in it, he didn’t direct it. Shows how much I know.

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austin_blue  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:34:15pm

re: #86 teleskiguy

It’s a brutal film. If she wants to watch it, she should be aware of that. When I was living in Denver one of my roommates had never seen. After some bong rips I talked him into watching it and him and I started watching it one afternoon. I told him it was a brutal film.

He stopped watching it, told me to “turn this fuckin’ shit off, man!” at the cops’ ear scene.

Yeah, but the inclusion of Stuck in the Middle With You was fucking brilliant.

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:35:02pm

re: #171 austin_blue

Yeah, but the inclusion of Stuck in the Middle With You was fucking brilliant.

Super Sounds of the 70s!

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wheat-dogg  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:48:01pm

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹

Among feminists, assassins are few.

Except maybe in the movies. Kill Bill, for example.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:48:19pm

Oh boy …

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:49:24pm

A bit dated tweet up there. Wonder what happened with this case? Another case of affluenza/IOKIYAR?

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:52:38pm

An excellent thread about how defensive random, uninvolved white people will become over having other white people’s clearly segregationist bullshit labeled as such.

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:54:50pm

re: #173 wheat-dogg

Except maybe in the movies. Kill Bill, for example.

Which is simply QT jacking off on camera. Bleah. Not quite as bad as Django Unchained or (worst of all of them) The Hateful Eight but that saying so little it’s not even funny. I can give a little bit of respect to Inglourious Basterds but that’s kind of like saying Convoy makes up for Peckinpah’s other movies while ignoring that films like Cross of Iron were far better than everything Tarantino has done all together.

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 10:59:31pm

re: #166 Teukka

1. Indeed it was. Cuddles in the present tense. Another word with the same meaning is “myser”, often evoking a mental picture two kids and two parents eating snacks in front of the telly, as in Fredagsmys a totally untranslatable Swedish word. A word of warning though, is that “fredagsmys” is a required behavior if living in Sweden for any length of time, just like fika.

2. Yes, “vis”. Note that the “vis” is also used for wise. Example: Janssons Frestelse på mammas vis.” (English: Jansson’s temptation [food dish] in mom’s way).

Thanks!

I have been curious about linguistic history of the English language over the past few years. And of course English originated from Old Norse. I have a cousin who lives in Hamburg, who has remarked on the linguistic similarities of the Low Countries dialects to English. (Frisian reportedly is the closest living language to English.)

It’s fascinating to learn of other nations’ and groups’ implicit cultural contexts. Such as the “Fredagsmys” you mentioned. I recently learned of the Danish ‘hygge’ only to find out that it was passe and ‘lagom’ was the in concept these days.

Additionally, I have recently been listening to some Swedish language folk music groups such as Gjallerhorn and Ranarim. Reportedly the song below has a lot of cultural and historical contexts to it.

Gjallarhorn - I Riden Så

Gjallarhorn - I Riden Så (Ye Ride So Carefully)

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:01:10pm
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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:01:15pm

re: #177 William Lewis

Which is simply QT jacking off on camera. Bleah. Not quite as bad as Django Unchained or (worst of all of them) The Hateful Eight but that saying so little it’s not even funny. I can give a little bit of respect to Inglourious Basterds but that’s kind of like saying Convoy makes up for Peckinpah’s other movies while ignoring that films like Cross of Iron were far better than everything Tarantino has done all together.

I always love it when people get wound up about movies, especially those that don’t take themselves seriously. And if anyone says anything bad about Sahara I will have to kick their butt.

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:02:54pm
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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:02:59pm

re: #166 Teukka

Odd question time. a-spyrian is an old english verb - To search, explore, trace, discover, explain; investigare, indagare, explorare, enucleare. I’m reminded of reconnaissance in modern English from the French.

What would be the equivalent be in old norse?

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wheat-dogg  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:04:32pm

re: #178 ckkatz

You might be interested in this. thegreatcourses.com

And this historyofenglishpodcast.com

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:06:27pm

re: #180 Belafon

I always love it when people get wound up about movies, especially those that don’t take themselves seriously. And if anyone says anything bad about Sahara I will have to kick their butt.

Sahara is a seriously underrated film by Humphry Bogart. I love that M3 ‘Lulu Belle” :D

;)

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Teukka  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:07:44pm

re: #178 ckkatz

Thanks!

I have been curious about linguistic history of the English language over the past few years. And of course English originated from Old Norse. I have a cousin who lives in Hamburg, who has remarked on the linguistic similarities of the Low Countries dialects to English. (Frisian reportedly is the closest living language to English.)

It’s fascinating to learn of other nations’ and groups’ implicit cultural contexts. Such as the “Fredagsmys” you mentioned. I recently learned of the Danish ‘hygge’ only to find out that it was passe and ‘lagom’ was the in concept these days.

Additionally, I have recently been listening to some Swedish language folk music groups such as Gjallerhorn and Ranarim. Reportedly the song below has a lot of cultural and historical contexts to it.

Gjallarhorn - I Riden Så

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Video

If you like a little more “pop-y” folk music, there’s Nordman. Viewer caution due to video subject matter of witch hunts (nothing gory, it’s from a documentary TV series which aired on Swedish TV a while back).

Nordman “I lågornas sken”

Tranlated Lyrics:

She was convicted by the words of two young neighbour boys
That she had devoted herself to the Devil’s lust [lit: been lustful around the Devil’s party table]
She is only seventeen years and along the road that they walk
She is being pushed like cattle [lit: an animal] receiving taunting words
She is trying to reach the eyes [lit: glance/gaze] of her beloved
But sees him turn around and leave
And among the ones who are watching
Is the punishment she gets
A proof of their ignorance [that they don’t understand]

Is she playing with wizardry and magic?
Can she awaken the rage of the sky?
Woah, from the light of the flames
Can she walk on water like they said?
Can she fool death with her power?
Woah, in the light of the flames

When the flames rise she prays [a prayer]
of being let of from enduring this nightmare
The one she trusted, he lowered his eyes [gaze]
And she saw how he turned around and left
She is alone and convicted
Despite the beg for mercy
Hence the sentence became to be purified in fire

Is she playing with wizardry and magic?
Can she awaken the rage of the sky?
Woah, from the light of the flames
Can she walk on water like they said?
Can she fool death with her power?
Woah, in the light of the flames

But then at last
All of a sudden the whole village becomes silent
All crying diminishes
Vanishes with the smoke
The smoke that rises to the sky

Has she been playing with wizardry and magic?
Has she now paid with her life?
Woah, in the light of the flames
Has she been playing with wizardry and magic?
Has she awoken the rage of the sky?
Woah, from the light of the flames
Has she walked on water like they said?
Has she fooled death with her pact?
Woah, in the light of the flames

Source: lyricstranslate.com

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austin_blue  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:10:48pm

re: #181 teleskiguy

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One of my favorite albums. Here’s another great tune from it:

Donald Fagen The Goodbye Look (HQ)

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:18:54pm

re: #183 wheat-dogg

You might be interested in this. thegreatcourses.com

And this historyofenglishpodcast.com

Funny you should mention them. :)

I recently finished Kenneth W. Harl’s one on The Vikings and sent it off to my sister’s as they were visiting her husbad’s kin in Norway. What surprised me was how involved the Swedes were in founding Russia. Including the name “Russia” and the choice of religion. And that Norwegians were a major factor in why Scotland is Scottish.

I will need to look up historyofenglishpodcast.com

Have you listened to Dan Carlin’s “Hardcore History” podcasts? I usually listen to them while doing yardwork.

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:21:06pm

re: #187 ckkatz

Funny you should mention them. :)

I recently finished Kenneth W. Harl’s one on The Vikings and sent it off to my sister’s as they were visiting her husbad’s kin in Norway. What surprised me was how involved the Swedes were in founding Russia. Including the name “Russia” and the choice of religion. And that Norwegians were a major factor in why Scotland is Scottish.

I will need to look up historyofenglishpodcast.com

Have you listened to Dan Carlin’s “Hardcore History” podcasts? I usually listen to them while doing yardwork.

you need to know this channel on Youtube I think (unless you allready do :) youtube.com

Seriously good stuff, 15 minutes max per episode.

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:24:47pm

re: #188 William Lewis

Thanks!

Did no know of them. Now subscribed. I’ll check them out after I finish listening to Teukka’s post of the Nordman.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:29:18pm

Wow, this is a really crappy take in a political cartoon on Dr. Ford, appearing in the Morgantown, WVa. Dominion Post newspaper.

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ckkatz  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:40:07pm

re: #185 Teukka

If you like a little more “pop-y” folk music, there’s Nordman. Viewer caution due to video subject matter of witch hunts (nothing gory, it’s from a documentary TV series which aired on Swedish TV a while back).

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Thanks for posting!

Interesting song, although somewhat grim. I will follow up with some of their other songs.

Currently listening to the dansband Titanix. (Think Abba style.) Sadly YouTube pulled their version of Carina off.

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:40:17pm

I think I have found what is, for me at least, a perfect response to the southern swastica.

I’m going to get and fly this:

smile.amazon.com

A US Cavalry guidon flag with the proper number of stars.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:40:57pm
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:48:48pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:50:16pm

Hmmm …

CNN Busted: Interview Of GOP Women Supporting Kavanaugh Includes Mostly GOP Operatives. (Goes to Daily Kos, more at the link):

A CNN interview with Republican women who support Kavanaugh featured one mother who asks “what teen hasn’t done this?”. Put aside the horrific proposition of such a woman raising a son or daughter with such a destructive attitude. What we aren’t told is that at least three of the women are Republican Party operatives. One woman, identified as Lourdes Castillo de la Pena worked on Ted Cruz’s campaign and hosted a $1000/plate fundraiser. Another woman has appeared sitting next to Trump at small business forums. Yet another is a failed Floridian House primary candidate.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 22, 2018 • 11:52:00pm

re: #192 William Lewis

I think I have found what is, for me at least, a perfect response to the southern swastica.

I’m going to get and fly this:

smile.amazon.com

A US Cavalry guidon flag with the proper number of stars.

I prefer this:

Participation Trophy
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William Lewis  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:00:03am

re: #196 Anymouse 🌹

I prefer this:

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that is a nice flag design, to be sure, but dude, where can I buy one to fly in the faces of the slime that fly the southern swastika? I can buy that one I showed you and shove it in their face and, in the end, I really like being able to do that. Fuck them. AND the horses they rode in on.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:07:34am

re: #197 William Lewis

that is a nice flag design, to be sure, but dude, where can I buy one to fly in the faces of the slime that fly the southern swastika? I can buy that one I showed you and shove it in their face and, in the end, I really like being able to do that. Fuck them. AND the horses they rode in on.

That’s true; I don’t think you can buy the Snowflake Swastika.

It would be fantastic if someone made that available for sale though.

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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:07:54am

re: #88 teleskiguy

I never got why the SAW movies were so popular. Fuckin’ torture porn. Sick and disgusting.

A-fucking-men.
Wouldn’t watch it on a bet.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:08:30am

I derive the most joy in life all over snowflakes.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:11:45am

This shit fucking kills me, everyone who pauses for one fucking second intrinsically understands this, but so many of us are pretending otherwise.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:15:13am

re: #187 ckkatz

Funny you should mention them. :)

I recently finished Kenneth W. Harl’s one on The Vikings and sent it off to my sister’s as they were visiting her husbad’s kin in Norway. What surprised me was how involved the Swedes were in founding Russia. Including the name “Russia” and the choice of religion. And that Norwegians were a major factor in why Scotland is Scottish.

I will need to look up historyofenglishpodcast.com

Have you listened to Dan Carlin’s “Hardcore History” podcasts? I usually listen to them while doing yardwork.

I’ve caught a few of them. Thanks for reminding me about them!

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:29:24am

Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s daughter Patti has an op-ed in the Washington Post on her own sexual assault by a music executive forty years ago.

washingtonpost.com

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:36:35am

People are the problem and you’ll never convince me otherwise.

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fern01  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:52:36am

re: #161 thecommodore

Dr Blasey Ford was almost raped and feared for her life when this party happened. That is why she remembers it. She doesn’t remember all the details - cannot remember the exact date or the exact house.

In my 2nd year at college we had a japanese professor (unusual for my college in the 1960s) and he invited us to his house for a party. I remember this because it was very unusual for staff members to ask students to their home & I had rarely before this drunk alcohol. I got exceeding ill drinking gin & lemonade. (I got home safely with no threats of violence - quite the opposite).

I don’t know when it was - other than the year, I don’t know where it was, other than the town & I don’t remember who the other students were (it was a strange subject & none of my close friends studied it). I remember it because of the impact on me. I remember the name of the professor.

I doubt any of the other people there would remember me & they probably don’t even remember the party. If they were reminded of it, they would probably agree that the party happened.

I think it quite likely that few of the people at the party with Dr Blasey Ford remember it - but I do believe that Kavenaur and his drunken friend believe that it happened - and they may well remember Dr Blasey Ford.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:45:12am

My regional newspaper has a “guest editorial” from the Grand Island (Nebr.) Independent trashing both Dr. Ford and Sen. Feinstein as playing a partisan eleventh hour “trick” on Kavanaugh.

On top of that, the op-ed claims “well, just because Mitch McConnell held up Merrick Garland for over a year, two wrongs don’t make a right.”

starherald.com

It also goes into the usual “why didn’t she report it then” nonsense.

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sagehen  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:50:24am

re: #205 fern01

I think it quite likely that few of the people at the party with Dr Blasey Ford remember it - but I do believe that Kavenaur and his drunken friend believe that it happened - and they may well remember Dr Blasey Ford.

I think it quite likely that Kavenaugh and his buddy believe it happened but have no memory of it or her — because they were just that drunk, and it was the sort of thing they did routinely enough that one specific instance wouldn’t make any particular impression.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:54:59am

Ottawa, Ont. and Gatineau, PQ. struck by two powerful tornadoes, leaving at the peak 300,000 people without power.

ottawacitizen.com (Ottawa Citizen, with video)

Nearly 100,000 homes and businesses remained without power Saturday night after stunned residents of Ottawa and Gatineau spent the day cleaning up, helping neighbours or simply gazing awestruck at the damage wreaked by two powerful tornadoes that tore through the region on Friday. (more)

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Targetpractice  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:55:56am

The double standard:

She must recall all details with perfect clarity, with any inconsistencies used to call into question her recall and suggest duplicity.

He just has to say “It never happened” and he gets taken at his word.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 23, 2018 • 2:03:26am

Movie quote of the Evening……

His spiritual energy is so great it makes his sword bigger

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sagehen  Sep 23, 2018 • 2:05:30am

re: #209 Targetpractice

The double standard:

She must recall all details with perfect clarity, with any inconsistencies used to call into question her recall and suggest duplicity.

He just has to say “It never happened” and he gets taken at his word.

But if it was a boy raped by a priest or a Little League coach, and he waited 30 years to tell anyone — nobody doubts him, because a man would just never make up such a thing. Of course it happened, he’s a hero for finally speaking up, and shame on the rest of us for being a society that made him feel compelled to stay quiet for so long.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 2:15:50am

re: #211 sagehen

But if it was a boy raped by a priest or a Little League coach, and he waited 30 years to tell anyone — nobody doubts him, because a man would just never make up such a thing. Of course it happened, he’s a hero for finally speaking up, and shame on the rest of us for being a society that made him feel compelled to stay quiet for so long.

Well, about that … no.

Aside from the church issues (both Catholic and Protestant, where abuse cases have been covered up for centuries), take a look at the WhyIDidntReport hashtag on Twitter. While the great majority of disclosures are women, a good number are men as well.

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

Trust me, folks will destroy you just as fast if you are a male.

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Amory Blaine  Sep 23, 2018 • 2:19:06am

re: #204 goddamnedfrank

Heh:

6. Open the windows or put the extractor fan on and boil the water rapidly until most of it has evaporated and you’re left with a salty sludge at the bottom. It takes about 2 hours to evaporate 2 litres of water, but it depends on the size of your saucepan and how fast you boil it.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2018 • 2:32:49am

Um …

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Targetpractice  Sep 23, 2018 • 2:40:16am

Personally, I’d be quicker to question perfect recall of events than a spotty memory after 30+ years, many of them apparently spent trying to repress the memory until brought back into the light by the guidance of a therapist.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 2:45:09am

re: #185 Teukka

Have you heard anything about this there? Some Chinese seem rather peeved, especially as the TV show showed Taiwan and Tibet as separate territories from the PRC.

Beijing is very sensitive about Tibet (which China has occupied off and on since the Qing dynasty) and Taiwan (which the Nationalists arguably invaded after the revolution). To suggest they are separate nations “insults” the Chinese people and “hurts their feelings.”

A Chinese tourist boycott of Sweden will of course bring Sweden to its knees.
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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 2:50:56am

re: #215 Targetpractice

Personally, I’d be quicker to question perfect recall of events than a spotty memory after 30+ years, many of them apparently spent trying to repress the memory until brought back into the light by the guidance of a therapist.

?

Can you elaborate?

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 23, 2018 • 2:52:37am
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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 2:59:35am

re: #211 sagehen

But if it was a boy raped by a priest or a Little League coach, and he waited 30 years to tell anyone — nobody doubts him, because a man would just never make up such a thing. Of course it happened, he’s a hero for finally speaking up, and shame on the rest of us for being a society that made him feel compelled to stay quiet for so long.

Joe Paterno
Jim Jordan
Dennis Hastert
&c

rainn.org

Millions of men in the United States have been victims of rape.

As of 1998, 2.78 million men in the U.S. had been victims of attempted or completed rape.
About 3% of American men—or 1 in 33—have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.
1 out of every 10 rape victims are male.

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Targetpractice  Sep 23, 2018 • 2:59:52am

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹

?

Can you elaborate?

The circumstances of events makes exact recall of past events, particularly ones over a long period of time, always difficult to impossible. For example, if you’re robbed at gunpoint, you’re more likely to remember the gun put in your face than you are the face of the robber.

If Prof. Ford said she could remember exact date/time, location, and all the little details of the events, I’d be suspicious on the grounds that such minutiae tends to be lost over the passage of time.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 3:01:38am

re: #220 Targetpractice

The circumstances of events makes exact recall of past events, particularly ones over a long period of time, always difficult to impossible. For example, if you’re robbed at gunpoint, you’re more likely to remember the gun put in your face than you are the face of the robber.

If Prof. Ford said she could remember exact date/time, location, and all the little details of the events, I’d be suspicious on the grounds that such minutiae tends to be lost over the passage of time.

Ah got it. Thanks.

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Lupin  Sep 23, 2018 • 3:05:53am

IMHO the BK situation is one of the more odious happening in recent years: as someone pointed out, this is just a job interview. The guy is a creep. He can easily be replaced. End of problem. I suppose he’ll end up being selected and once again it’ll look very very bad on your country. At our local “café philo” last week someone asked if americans were “serfs” (obviously not all of them). It’s really disheartening.

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Amory Blaine  Sep 23, 2018 • 3:11:58am

re: #214 goddamnedfrank

Idiocracy: Fuck You

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sagehen  Sep 23, 2018 • 3:25:46am

re: #219 Anymouse 🌹

Joe Paterno
Jim Jordan
Dennis Hastert
&c

rainn.org

Millions of men in the United States have been victims of rape.

As of 1998, 2.78 million men in the U.S. had been victims of attempted or completed rape.
About 3% of American men—or 1 in 33—have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.
1 out of every 10 rape victims are male.

Boys when they try to report have all the same difficulties as girls.

But grown men, decades after the fact… are taken at their word.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 3:45:13am

re: #224 sagehen

Boys when they try to report have all the same difficulties as girls.

But grown men, decades after the fact… are taken at their word.

I am going to have to duck out. It is late/early and has been a long day.

Nope. They are not.

One example (with citations) from Wikipedia:

A study done by Michelle Davies and Samantha McCartney discusses why men are often blamed or stigmatized for their rape. They found that heterosexual men were more likely to blame the victim, show less empathy for the victim, deny or diminish the seriousness of the attack, and were more likely to believe rape myths than heterosexual women and homosexual men.[116] One reason for this is the societal pressure placed on men to be strong, tough, and assertive rather than passive, gentle and “feminine” as mentioned earlier.[18][115][116] Another cause for negative reaction toward male rape victims is linked to homophobia. Davies and McCartney and previous research has found a correlation between male victim blame and homophobia, since male rape involving a male rapist is (nonconsensual) sex between two men. The study also revealed that heterosexual men were more likely to be against the victim if the victim was perceived to be homosexual rather than heterosexual.[116] Homosexual men, similar to heterosexual women, were made to feel like they had “asked for it” based on their behavior.

en.wikipedia.org

A little handout to read linked below.

Introduction

The rape of adult males has been so largely neglected and collectively denied that its invisibility has given rise to the notion that it just does not occur in our society. While some acknowledgement of male rape in prisons and jails has emerged in recent years, most people do not consider the sexual violation of adult males to be within the realm of possibility in non-institutional communities. When are men are raped, they are usually assaulted by other men.

Although it is possible for women to rape men, this crime has been documented and researched to an even lesser extent than same-sex rape.

The vast majority of male rapes are never reported, and although men constitute 5 to 10 percent of all victims who were raped as adults, they tend to report their assaults to authorities even less than women who have been raped (Scarce 1997). One study involving more than 3,000 adults in the Los Angeles area found that 7% of males in their sample had been raped in their adult lives (Sorenson et al. 1987). In one study on college students, researchers found that 16% of male respondents had been forced to have sex at some point in their adult lives (Struckman and Johnson 1992).

Very little research has been conducted on the rape of men, and service providers like rape crisis centers and hospitals often lack the in-depth knowledge and skill to adequately assist male survivors of sexual violence. Survivors often struggle alone, dealing with their trauma in isolation. More often than not, they are silenced by the fear that loved ones and service providers will fail to support them in their time of crisis.

Ohio Department of Health Rape Education and Prevention Program - When Men Are Raped

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Danack  Sep 23, 2018 • 3:46:39am

re: #222 Lupin

The guy is a creep. He can easily be replaced.

But not before the elections.

I am actually kind of concerned by how the GOP isn’t panicking about the midterm elections. Even though they are facing losing one of the houses of Congress, which would allow Democrats to start investigating Trumps crimes independently of the FBI, they don’t seem to be that concerned.

It’s almost as if they are expecting massive electoral fraud/tampering, and are hoping that they would have five republicans on the supreme court to be able to prevent any challenge to the election results.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 3:57:32am

re: #226 Danack

But not before the elections.

I am actually kind of concerned by how the GOP isn’t panicking about the midterm elections. Even though they are facing losing one of the houses of Congress, which would allow Democrats to start investigating Trumps crimes independently of the FBI, they don’t seem to be that concerned.

It’s almost as if they are expecting massive electoral fraud/tampering, and are hoping that they would have five republicans on the supreme court to be able to prevent any challenge to the election results.

OTOH they might be so used to being in power that they don’t see impending doom. Some seem to believe that Trump has coattails to ride in on.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 23, 2018 • 4:33:00am
Here are the first photos of the two American soldiers killed during the Korean War whose remains were returned to the U.S. last month.

The two, shown proudly wearing their Army uniforms in these official portraits, died within months of being deployed to Korea in 1950. Their remains were identified on Thursday.

nypost.com

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Nyet  Sep 23, 2018 • 4:52:01am
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Nyet  Sep 23, 2018 • 4:52:19am
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Nyet  Sep 23, 2018 • 4:52:37am
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Nyet  Sep 23, 2018 • 4:52:54am
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ericblair  Sep 23, 2018 • 5:25:07am

re: #226 Danack

But not before the elections.

I am actually kind of concerned by how the GOP isn’t panicking about the midterm elections. Even though they are facing losing one of the houses of Congress, which would allow Democrats to start investigating Trumps crimes independently of the FBI, they don’t seem to be that concerned.

The higher-ups looking at polls are trying to sound the alarm, but the knuckle-dragging window-lickers are so used to dismissing any news they don’t like as FAKE NOOZ that they actually believe the Red Wave.

That’s the essential problem with nationalist authoritarians: they eventually turn into such a mass of reality-denying incompetents that they can’t function. You can ignore reality for only so long before it kinda catches up with you.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2018 • 5:34:53am

re: #227 wheat-dogg

OTOH they might be so used to being in power that they don’t see impending doom. Some seem to believe that Trump has coattails to ride in on.

Think of the idiot Democrat who just lost a special election here in Texas in a district that hadn’t elected a Republican in over 100 years. He didn’t run ads or GOTV, and, unless Democrats pick up some state House seats this fall, has given the GOP a supermajority in the House. He thought he could win just being the Democrat.

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Danack  Sep 23, 2018 • 5:35:17am

(Recycling someone else’s idea to sound smart)

Both Senator Grassley and Mitch McConnel are bluffing on allowing Dr Ford to testify in public.

Both Grassley and Mitch McConnell know that Kavanaugh won’t survive Dr Ford’s and Kavanaugh’s own testimony on the subject of sexual assault. So their only path to winning is to make Dr Ford not testify.

They’ve both come out with really strong confident statements saying that “sure, we’ll let Dr Ford testify and then get him on the supreme court anyway” in the hope that if Dr Ford thinks her testimony won’t change anything, then there would be no point putting herself through the horrible publicity of actually testifying.

Unless Dr Ford withdraws and doesn’t appear before the committee, and assuming Kavanaugh himself is too bone-headed to with draw his nomination before then, Senator Grassley is going to have a sudden change of heart the morning of Dr Ford’s testimony and suddenly realise that “he doesn’t want to subject Dr Ford to any embarrassment” and so for her good, he’s going to withdraw/block Kavanaugh from being considered.

Idea taken from: dailykos.com

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2018 • 5:38:10am

re: #193 Belafon

Dr. Ford should talk to Hillary Cliton before Thursday as someone who knows how to deal with Congressional meetings.

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ericblair  Sep 23, 2018 • 5:43:26am

re: #222 Lupin

IMHO the BK situation is one of the more odious happening in recent years: as someone pointed out, this is just a job interview. The guy is a creep. He can easily be replaced. End of problem. I suppose he’ll end up being selected and once again it’ll look very very bad on your country. At our local “café philo” last week someone asked if americans were “serfs” (obviously not all of them). It’s really disheartening.

The Americans who support Trump and Kavenaugh are poujadistes. This is hardly unique to the United States.

I’m an American living in western Europe: there are more “recent” immigrants in western Europe than Americans usually think, but nowhere near the percentage of ethnic minorities in the US. When the percentages reach similar levels in Europe, unless we have a real change in our understanding of and approach to bigotry and nationalism, the reactions in Europe will be worse than in the US.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 23, 2018 • 5:45:51am

re: #82 ckkatz

Story of my life too. I usually recognize opportunity just after it exits.

Of course in this case, I suspect that Zinke and his co-conspirators don’t much care what us little people think.

Experience is something you get right after you needed it.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 5:52:22am

re: #234 Belafon

That sounds like Ben Jealous who is running for Governor here in Maryland. I have yet to see even one ad for him and I watch tv all the dang time.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 5:53:33am

re: #236 Belafon

Dr. Ford should talk to Hillary Cliton before Thursday as someone who knows how to deal with Congressional meetings.

Or Anita Hill.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:09:05am
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jeffreyw  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:21:59am

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Good morning!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:25:42am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

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GOP won’t care but only Trump could make a worse pick than Bork.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:28:55am

re: #43 The Vicious Babushka

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:29:13am

re: #243 HappyWarrior

GOP won’t care but only Trump could make a worse pick than Bork.

I suspect Trump picked Kavanaugh as part of his effort to ingratiate himself with the Old Money factions of the GOP, who still consider Trump a parvenu.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:30:09am

re: #228 Shropshire Slasher

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nypost.com

I hope there are people who still remember them all these years later.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:32:42am

re: #245 wheat-dogg

I suspect Trump picked Kavanaugh as part of his effort to ingratiate himself with the Old Money factions of the GOP, who still consider Trump a parvenu.

Right, I think Kavanaugh was going to be a finalist on any SCOTUS shortlist for a Republican President. But I think Trump definitely got the short of it from his advisers that Kavanaugh is a strong believer in protecting the executive and that probably is what sold him in the end. But anyhow what we’re seeing with Kavanaugh is how the GOP establishment is definitely just as messed up as Trump.

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Old Liberal  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:43:41am

re: #82 ckkatz

Story of my life too. I usually recognize opportunity just after it exits.

Of course in this case, I suspect that Zinke and his co-conspirators don’t much care what us little people think.

Isn’t Zinke another of those former Navy Seals that we should be worshiping because they are so amazing and honorable? Like Greitens?

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:47:30am

re: #247 HappyWarrior

Right, I think Kavanaugh was going to be a finalist on any SCOTUS shortlist for a Republican President. But I think Trump definitely got the short of it from his advisers that Kavanaugh is a strong believer in protecting the executive and that probably is what sold him in the end. But anyhow what we’re seeing with Kavanaugh is how the GOP establishment is definitely just as messed up as Trump.

I’m reading Fear now (up to chapter 9), and Woodward captures the completely ad hoc nature of the Trump campaign and transition. I am quite sure Bannon was one of his main sources, because Bannon is portrayed as the guy who saved the Trump campaign from itself. Left to its own devices, the campaign would have imploded under Manafort and the rest of the “Island of the Misfit Toys,” as Bannon is quoted as saying.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:49:25am

re: #249 wheat-dogg

I’m reading Fear now (up to chapter 9), and Woodward captures the completely ad hoc nature of the Trump campaign and transition. I am quite sure Bannon was one of his main sources, because Bannon is portrayed as the guy who saved the Trump campaign from itself. Left to its own devices, the campaign would have imploded under Manafort and the rest of the “Island of the Misfit Toys,” as Bannon is quoted as saying.

I believe it. The campaign was burning before Bannon came along. I guess it’s no wonder why he has an arrogant touch to him.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:56:25am

re: #250 HappyWarrior

I believe it. The campaign was burning before Bannon came along. I guess it’s no wonder why he has an arrogant touch to him.

I hate Bannon, but I have to admit his strategy was correct. He could see Trump could win, taking the Trumpian attitude of “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” As Woodward describes it, every RNC operative, including Chris Christie and Rinsed Pubis, were convinced Trump was going to tank in the GE. If Woodward discusses the Russian tampering of the election, I am not up to that point yet, but he does describe the intelligence agencies’ briefing of Trump regarding their joint intel. He criticizes Comey’s decision to tell Trump about the Steele dossier and the pee tapes as idiotic, given Trump’s tendency to view everything as a personal attack. Trump focused on the Steele dossier only, and basically dismissed the security briefing as irrelevant.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 6:58:12am

re: #30 Belafon

We’re slowly making our way through Lost in Space. The episodes are too long. They could do the same story with some much tighter writing.

I thought they were doing homage to Irwin Allen with all the disaster sequences.

Parker Posey makes Dr Smith really evil!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:02:28am

re: #251 wheat-dogg

I hate Bannon, but I have to admit his strategy was correct. He could see Trump could win, taking the Trumpian attitude of “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” As Woodward describes it, every RNC operative, including Chris Christie and Rinsed Pubis, were convinced Trump was going to tank in the GE. If Woodward discusses the Russian tampering of the election, I am not up to that point yet, but he does describe the intelligence agencies’ briefing of Trump regarding their joint intel. He criticizes Comey’s decision to tell Trump about the Steele dossier and the pee tapes as idiotic, given Trump’s tendency to view everything as a personal attack. Trump focused on the Steele dossier only, and basically dismissed the security briefing as irrelevant.

I haven’t read Fear yet. Not going to any time soon since I’m exhausted by this WH. Maybe after Midterms.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:12:05am

re: #253 HappyWarrior

I haven’t read Fear yet. Not going to any time soon since I’m exhausted by this WH. Maybe after Midterms.

There are more juicy bits coming up, I’m sure. I did reach the now-famous section where Trump tells Gary Cohn the USA should just borrow lots of money, then resell it later to make a profit. After Cohn explains why that’s a bad idea, Trump then suggests Treasury can just print more money to deal with the debt. Oh, and I’ve gotten through the Cabinet explaining to Trump why NATO is actually a pretty good idea.

I’ve heard that Kavanaugh described as the Forrest Gump of the GOP, always being in the right place at the right time to get ahead. Trump is like Chance Gardiner in Being There, except he’s not at all funny or likeable, and this is real life.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:14:35am

re: #254 wheat-dogg

There are more juicy bits coming up, I’m sure. I did reach the now-famous section where Trump tells Gary Cohn the USA should just borrow lots of money, then resell it later to make a profit. After Cohn explains why that’s a bad idea, Trump then suggests Treasury can just print more money to deal with the debt. Oh, and I’ve gotten through the Cabinet explaining to Trump why NATO is actually a pretty good idea.

I’ve heard that Kavanaugh described as the Forrest Gump of the GOP, always being in the right place at the right time to get ahead. Trump is like Chance Gardiner in Being There, except he’s not at all funny or likeable, and this is real life.

So far, Fear describes a Trump who is not evil or actively colluding with the Russians, but is very simple-minded and easy to control.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:19:02am

re: #255 wheat-dogg

So far, Fear describes a Trump who is not evil or actively colluding with the Russians, but is very simple-minded and easy to control.

The Manchurian dumbass.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:20:22am

re: #254 wheat-dogg

There are more juicy bits coming up, I’m sure. I did reach the now-famous section where Trump tells Gary Cohn the USA should just borrow lots of money, then resell it later to make a profit. After Cohn explains why that’s a bad idea, Trump then suggests Treasury can just print more money to deal with the debt. Oh, and I’ve gotten through the Cabinet explaining to Trump why NATO is actually a pretty good idea.

I’ve heard that Kavanaugh described as the Forrest Gump of the GOP, always being in the right place at the right time to get ahead. Trump is like Chance Gardiner in Being There, except he’s not at all funny or likeable, and this is real life.

Yeah Durbin and I have been using the Gump for Kav lol.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:21:26am

re: #255 wheat-dogg

So far, Fear describes a Trump who is not evil or actively colluding with the Russians, but is very simple-minded and easy to control.

Yeah that sounds about right to me.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:24:31am

re: #258 HappyWarrior

Yeah that sounds about right to me.

Trump is like Jim Carrey’s Truman, except Trump believes real life is a TV show, instead of the other way around.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:26:39am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:28:48am

re: #259 wheat-dogg

Trump is like Jim Carrey’s Truman, except Trump believes real life is a TV show, instead of the other way around.

Haha, I’ll have to use that. No argument there.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:39:38am

Make Bangladesh Great Again!

Joking aside, these tariff wars are just going to prompt manufacturers to find cheaper sources of labor, so the developing countries will benefit, at least in the short term.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:46:20am

We got another typhoon in the Pacific, Trami. It’s predicted to pass over Taiwan later this week. Right now it’s a cat 4, predicted to become cat 5.

wunderground.com

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:47:29am

Woke Glen Beck freaks me out more than woke Joe Walsh.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 7:51:32am

re: #264 MsJ

Woke Glen Beck freaks me out more than woke Joe Walsh.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:00:11am

I don’t think this is good news. China already has a debt problem from the runaway real estate boom.

From the cited Financial Times article:

ft.com

“When these bonds are getting promoted, they mostly get apportioned to banks, which have no choice but to buy them. Non-bank investors prefer other bonds with higher yields and better liquidity,” said a Shanghai-based bond analyst at a mid-sized Chinese investment bank.

He added that local governments often reward banks willing to buy local-government bonds by placing deposits at that bank.

Global watchdogs and China’s finance ministry have warned that rising local-government debt poses risks to the financial system. Such debt totalled 51 per cent of GDP at the end of 2017, according to the IMF’s broadest definition.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:01:49am

re: #253 HappyWarrior

I haven’t read Fear yet. Not going to any time soon since I’m exhausted by this WH. Maybe after Midterms.

I must confess I have been stuck at the beginning because reading about the election remains a too painful experience that I never want to relive. But I plan to soldier on.

re: #255 wheat-dogg

So far, Fear describes a Trump who is not evil or actively colluding with the Russians, but is very simple-minded and easy to control.

Color me skeptical. He knows his money is from Russia and he knows he has been laundering money from the Russian mob for years. In NY real estate, he has been working with criminals his entire life. He doesn’t CARE — the American public was foolish enough or corrupt enough to elect him president and he has no reason to believe that he will face any consequences for his actions. He’s escaped punishment for his entire life.

He’s easy to control??? What about the entire Republican party?

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:04:07am

re: #267 Hecuba’s daughter

I must confess I have been stuck at the beginning because reading about the election remains a too painful experience that I never want to relive. But I plan to soldier on.

Color me skeptical. He knows his money is from Russia and he knows he has been laundering money from the Russian mob for years. In NY real estate, he has been working with criminals his entire life. He doesn’t CARE — the American public was foolish enough or corrupt enough to elect him president and he has no reason to believe that he will face any consequences for his actions. He’s escaped punishment for his entire life.

He’s easy to control??? What about the entire Republican party?

I’m only up to chapter 10.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:04:36am

re: #253 HappyWarrior

I haven’t read Fear yet. Not going to any time soon since I’m exhausted by this WH. Maybe after Midterms.

It’s a long tough job to get through. Burdened with great detail, lightened with his style. You can tell how cross referenced the sources are. But there really is only one great way to read it. Not possible yet. Hindsight on a failed man and his admin.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:07:56am

re: #253 HappyWarrior

I’m almost through it. What Fear makes very very clear is the flat out cognizant dissonance. Trump rails at the WTO, get told we win 87% of the cases brought, and he just denies it. Acts like it’s where we never win. Goes on the attack against things that HELP US.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:10:02am

re: #269 Unshaken Defiance

It’s a long tough job to get through it. Burdened with great detail, lightened with his style. You can tell how cross referenced the sources are. But there really is only one great way to read it. Not possible yet. Hindsight on a failed man and his admin.

The histories written about this administration will not be kind. I predict that even the GOP, if it still exists in some form, will repudiate Trump much as it has W Bush.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:11:04am

re: #270 Unshaken Defiance

I’m almost through it. What Fear makes very very clear is the flat out cognizant dissonance. Trump rails at the WTO, get told we win 87% of the cases brought, and he just denies it. Acts like it’s where we never win. Goes on the attack against things that HELP US.

I am forever using that.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:11:24am

re: #270 Unshaken Defiance

I’m almost through it. What Fear makes very very clear is the flat out cognizant dissonance. Trump rails at the WTO, get told we win 87% of the cases brought, and he just denies it. Acts like it’s where we never win. Goes on the attack against things that HELP US.

Senile old man, or narcissist who believes he’s the smartest guy in the room. Hard to say what’s in play here.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:14:11am

re: #264 MsJ

Woke Glen Beck freaks me out more than woke Joe Walsh.

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That’s so strange coming from him.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:15:59am

re: #267 Hecuba’s daughter

I must confess I have been stuck at the beginning because reading about the election remains a too painful experience that I never want to relive. But I plan to soldier on.

Color me skeptical. He knows his money is from Russia and he knows he has been laundering money from the Russian mob for years. In NY real estate, he has been working with criminals his entire life. He doesn’t CARE — the American public was foolish enough or corrupt enough to elect him president and he has no reason to believe that he will face any consequences for his actions. He’s escaped punishment for his entire life.

He’s easy to control??? What about the entire Republican party?

Lust for power makes some people very easy to control, if the one(s) doing the controlling is promising access and help to gain that power.

Even if Trump is such a dumbass that he had no idea of the Russian help that was going in the background, helped along by his campaign without his knowledge, it was still Trump’s campaign.

You should know. You are responsible for everything done in your name. Sorry if you are that dense and out of control…bucks stop there on your desk name plate.

And if you can’t control a campaign you sure as hell are not fit for the office of president.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:16:23am

re: #269 Unshaken Defiance

It’s a long tough job to get through it. Burdened with great detail, lightened with his style. You can tell how cross referenced the sources are. But there really is only one great way to read it. Not possible yet. Hindsight on a failed man and his admin.

A friend had been texting me about his progress through the book, which he just finished. He described the experience as “laughing and despising” all the way through. So I am going to bite the bullet and get through the nightmare beginning.

The day of the election, I was truly afraid and pessimistic about the outcome. And except for occasional bits of good news — the Virginia election, Doug Jones, and Conor Lamb — the future of this country remains very uncertain and somewhat bleak.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:18:17am

Yes, there is a conservative war on women.

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:18:29am

i ran 18 miles this morning
if such a thing can be a breeze, it was a breeze.

i havent run this long since 2010
and for a host of reasons, i am in much better condition than i was back then.
and than i was a mere 2 1/2 years ago when i tore a muscle, had to take 8 months off and start again from zero.

half of long running is psychological.
i am getting comfortable with the idea that i now can run these long distances relatively easily.

nevertheless 18 miles
so i’m still telling everybody

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:19:15am

re: #277 jaunte

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Yes, there is a conservative war on women.

Conservatism won’t ever be destroyed but man it needs fixed immediately.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:22:44am

re: #277 jaunte

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Yes, there is a conservative war on women.

This is Canada. So is there some woman in an important governmental position who would be prompting this outrage? It’s not like it’s the UK, where voters may be legitimately disgusted with Theresa May.

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Old Liberal  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:24:44am

re: #278 dangerman

i ran 18 miles this morning
if such a thing can be a breeze, it was a breeze.

i havent run this long since 2010
and for a host of reasons, i am in much better condition than i was back then.
and than i was a mere 2 1/2 years ago when i tore a muscle, had to take 8 months off and start again from zero.

half of long running is psychological.
i am getting comfortable with the idea that i now can run these long distances relatively easily.

nevertheless 18 miles
so i’m still telling everybody

Honestly amazing to me. I don’t know how I could work myself up to that level anymore. Congratulations.

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wheat-dogg  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:26:12am

Mr Sandman is calling. Good night from China, all!

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:26:17am

re: #280 Hecuba’s daughter

This is Canada. So is there some woman in an important governmental position who would be prompting this outrage? It’s not like it’s the UK, where voters may be legitimately disgusted with Theresa May.

They’re actually chanting it about a man. It’s just the worst thing they could think of.

thestar.com

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:26:26am
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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:26:53am

re: #278 dangerman

i ran 18 miles this morning
if such a thing can be a breeze, it was a breeze.

i havent run this long since 2010

……..
everybody

Congrats! At my age, my knees wouldn’t survive a one mile run!

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:27:39am

Oh no, sorry, I got that wrong. They’re chanting about the previous administration of Kathleen Wynne.

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stpaulbear  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:29:14am

re: #266 wheat-dogg

Alfons López Tena #FBPE

@alfonslopeztena
China floods debt market with new bond to boost infrastructurehttps://on.ft.com

9:09 AM - Sep 23, 2018

That worked out so well for Puerto Rico’s economy before the storm. Another scheme where everyone loses their money except the bankers.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:29:58am

re: #279 HappyWarrior

Conservatism won’t ever be destroyed but man it needs fixed immediately.

Like so many terms, conservatism no longer reflects what the word and movement may have been at one time.

It is a host word for a cruel movement of power hungry money people using their dimmest bulbs as foot soldiers to attack anyone resisting.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:30:01am
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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:30:34am

Not quite what I wanted to read up on given where so many of us live. Charles, I hope you never sold the bunker under the airport…

Earth Science
Something Unexpected and Weird Is Happening Beneath California’s Deadliest Faults

The findings of this study demonstrate that small earthquakes that occur adjacent to and between faults can have very different style of deformation than the large ground rupturing earthquakes produced along active faults. This means that scientists should not use the information recorded by these small earthquakes in the San Bernardino basin to predict loading of the nearby San Andreas and San Jacinto faults.

gizmodo.com

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:32:08am

re: #289 jaunte

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Not being confirmed to the Supreme Court is not the same as having one’s life ruined. There is no entitlement to serving as a SCOTUS Justice. If that were the case, millions of us could argue that our lives are being ruined because we don’t have that opportunity. Graham is such a dumb person, it’s a wonder he can breathe and walk at the same time.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:32:29am

re: #274 HappyWarrior

That’s so strange coming from him.

It’s not the first time. He’s been like this for months.

It freaks me out.

If he thinks the left will welcome his change of heart, he has another think coming. We don’t support charlatans. He should have just said he’s Q.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:33:23am

re: #291 Patricia Kayden

S. E. Cupp tweeted the same argument earlier today. It must be the morning talking point.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:34:55am

re: #293 jaunte

S. E. Cupp tweeted the same argument earlier today. It must be the morning talking point.

It’s an extremely dumb argument even by conservative standards.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:36:08am

re: #294 Patricia Kayden

I’ll bet a lot of the #MeToo storytellers have heard it before.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:36:49am

re: #289 jaunte

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OFFS shut up. He only has a great reputation because men like you cover for him. His juvenile Yale club says all we need to know about the real Brett Kavanaugh. Sexist drunk.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:37:29am

re: #291 Patricia Kayden

Not being confirmed to the Supreme Court is not the same as having one’s life ruined. There is no entitlement to serving as a SCOTUS Justice. If that were the case, millions of us could argue that our lives are being ruined because we don’t have that opportunity. Graham is such a dumb person, it’s a wonder he can breathe and walk at the same time.

If he’s not confirmed, it’s likely he will lose his current judgeship. Especially if Ford initiates an investigation.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:39:57am

re: #297 MsJ

If he’s not confirmed, it’s likely he will lose his current judgeship. Especially if Ford initiates an investigation.

No, its a lifetime app’t as well. If he doesn’t resign, there aren’t 67 votes in the Senate to impeach him, and he isn’t going to be indicted on a 37 year old accusation.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:42:12am

What the hell is wrong with Corbyn? Sounds like he’s mimicking Trump’s “war on the media” nonsense. Not good.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:43:34am

re: #298 Big Beautiful Door

No, its a lifetime app’t as well. If he doesn’t resign, there aren’t 67 votes in the Senate to impeach him, and he isn’t going to be indicted on a 37 year old accusation.

Yep. Criminal cases require proof beyond a reasonable doubt; for such an old case, given the evidence currently available, it would be difficult for any prosecutor to surmount this obstacle.

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William Lewis  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:44:07am

re: #265 wheat-dogg

We must have entered a parallel universe somehow.

Key word - daughters. When evil comes home, even the devil gets woke.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:44:16am

re: #299 Patricia Kayden

What the hell is wrong with Corbyn? Sounds like he’s mimicking Trump’s “war on the media” nonsense. Not good.

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Yeah I’m not a fan of his.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:44:33am

re: #287 stpaulbear

That worked out so well for Puerto Rico’s economy before the storm. Another scheme where everyone loses their money except the bankers.

China and Puerto Rico aren’t remotely the same. With the second largest economy in the world and a massive trade surplus, China can take on all the debt it can sell.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:46:22am

re: #299 Patricia Kayden

What the hell is wrong with Corbyn? Sounds like he’s mimicking Trump’s “war on the media” nonsense. Not good.

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Are there any sensible parties left in the UK? It looks like both the left and right are incompetent, corrupt, and anti-democratic.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:47:55am

re: #304 Hecuba’s daughter

Are there any sensible parties left in the UK? It looks like both the left and right are incompetent, corrupt, and anti-democratic.

I’m afraid not, no. And with Brexit looming, its a really bad time for the UK to have no competent leadership.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:48:03am

re: #292 MsJ

It’s not the first time. He’s been like this for months.

It freaks me out.

If he thinks the left will welcome his change of heart, he has another think coming. We don’t support charlatans. He should have just said he’s Q.

Your comment reminded me of something I heard earlier on the local Columbus NBC politics show.

Former, and much-loved, Democratic mayor of Columbus Mike Coleman is working on a concept of building a “radical middle” movement that hopefully gets people back into a working agreement thinking instead of us and them. Here is an opinion piece he wrote for The Columbus Dispatch.

I admire him for at least trying.

And if anyone remembers earlier there was mention of Columbus billionaire and Republican backer Les Wexner no longer identifying as a Republican. The linked article mentions him and how his thinking leads to what Colemen would like to see happen.

The Columbus Dispatch - Column: Return to civility may depend on the Radical Middle

A bit of the meat of the article:

Les Wexner, founder and chairman of L Brands, is a lifelong Republican who, like most business leaders, is not prone to talking publicly about political issues.

But last August the violence of white supremacists in Charlottesville resulted in the death of an anti-racist protester. President Trump, instead of denouncing the hate groups, gave them a pass. He blamed “both sides” for the tragedy.

After a couple of sleepless nights, Wexner could not remain silent.

“As the leader of an enterprise, as an individual, as a citizen, I will not tolerate this,” Wexner said last August in a widely shared speech to nearly 700 of his employees.

“The question is, what do I do? I’m going to speak out.”

That day, Wexner joined the new Radical Middle.

“Radical Middle” might sound like an oxymoron — except that middle ground is a space that remains largely unclaimed today.

Liberals and conservatives rarely talk to one another anymore. They get their news from different sources, tailored to their respective ideologies. They communicate with likeminded individuals on social media, creating impenetrable echo chambers. The only thing they seem to have in common with those of opposing philosophies is intolerance for each other’s viewpoints.

The New Normal is a nation where degradation, insults, lies and unethical, immoral behavior are accepted and expected. Too many public people behave as if basic human decency is outmoded and no longer has a place in today’s national conversation.

And the political middle? More than ever, it is equated with equivocation, inaction and wimpiness.

Those among the political extremes, despite their collective volume, represent a small minority of Americans. And yet they dominate our political conversations — and, consequently, our government.

Richard Nixon once used the term “silent majority” to describe those who were offended by the 1960s counterculture. Members of today’s silent majority are appalled by the degradation of our political discourse and yearn for basic values of democracy.

The silent majority must become the Radical Middle and demand decency, respect, integrity, honesty, morality, truth and ethical behavior, despite our different political stripes. These values must be pursued with fervor and purpose.

…more at link…

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:48:44am

re: #301 William Lewis

Key word - daughters. When evil comes home, even the devil gets woke.

Hah!! Ted Cruz certainly isn’t woke. Neither is any other member of the GOP in Congress or the Senate. At least not yet.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:50:18am

re: #286 jaunte

Oh no, sorry, I got that wrong. They’re chanting about the previous administration of Kathleen Wynne.

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:53:44am

re: #281 Old Liberal

Honestly amazing to me. I don’t know how I could work myself up to that level anymore. Congratulations.

thanks
slowly and carefully
in bite sized chunks
with the inevitable set backs and disappointments

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sagehen  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:54:35am

re: #269 Unshaken Defiance

It’s a long tough job to get through. Burdened with great detail, lightened with his style. You can tell how cross referenced the sources are. But there really is only one great way to read it. Not possible yet. Hindsight on a failed man and his admin.

This is why the book doesn’t talk much about the Russia investigation. Woodward is meticulous about sourcing and confirmation, and the only people who know jack shit about what the Mueller team is doing… have their lips stapled shut. There’s no verifiable info coming from that office. (yet. when it’s all done, when they’re allowed to talk, they’ll have a lot to say.)

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:55:16am

re: #285 Hecuba’s daughter

Congrats! At my age, my knees wouldn’t survive a one mile run!

i have been very lucky with knees and hips
absolutely no issues
some people are like that

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:55:57am

re: #235 Danack

(Recycling someone else’s idea to sound smart)

Both Senator Grassley and Mitch McConnel are bluffing on allowing Dr Ford to testify in public.

Both Grassley and Mitch McConnell know that Kavanaugh won’t survive Dr Ford’s and Kavanaugh’s own testimony on the subject of sexual assault. So their only path to winning is to make Dr Ford not testify.

They’ve both come out with really strong confident statements saying that “sure, we’ll let Dr Ford testify and then get him on the supreme court anyway” in the hope that if Dr Ford thinks her testimony won’t change anything, then there would be no point putting herself through the horrible publicity of actually testifying.

Unless Dr Ford withdraws and doesn’t appear before the committee, and assuming Kavanaugh himself is too bone-headed to with draw his nomination before then, Senator Grassley is going to have a sudden change of heart the morning of Dr Ford’s testimony and suddenly realise that “he doesn’t want to subject Dr Ford to any embarrassment” and so for her good, he’s going to withdraw/block Kavanaugh from being considered.

Idea taken from: dailykos.com

I don’t think they can block her from testifying now but I agree that there was a stratagem of saying they wanted to hear from her while being also negotiating in bad faith in an attempt to stack the deck against her accepting their “offer.” Now that she’s called their bluff I think their only out is to hope that Kavanaugh withdraws his nomination, which I don’t see happening either because he, his Federalist Society backers and Trump all want this too badly. From their perspective a real threat exists that nobody can get confirmed after the November elections so they’re doing everything in their power to jam him through come hell or high water.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:56:46am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:57:24am

re: #301 William Lewis

Key word - daughters. When evil comes home, even the devil gets woke.

True but a lot of the other guys defending Kavanaugh have daughters too. I hate Beck too but this is a better take than I’ve seen from most men of his ideological persuasion.

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:57:32am

re: #289 jaunte

Sen Graham: “Am I supposed to ruin this guy’s reputation based on an accusation?” Perfect misleading rhetorical Q. 2 better ones:

*”Is SCOTUS seat an entitlement?”
*”Isn’t it ok to insist on impeccable integrity since a Justice judges everyone else’s reputations?”

here’s a third:

if he factually did do it, hasnt he deceived you and the committee by either omission or commission? isn’t his “impeccable integrity” a lie?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:57:32am

re: #212 Anymouse 🌹

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sagehen  Sep 23, 2018 • 8:58:07am

re: #278 dangerman

i ran 18 miles this morning
if such a thing can be a breeze, it was a breeze.

i havent run this long since 2010
and for a host of reasons, i am in much better condition than i was back then.
and than i was a mere 2 1/2 years ago when i tore a muscle, had to take 8 months off and start again from zero.

half of long running is psychological.
i am getting comfortable with the idea that i now can run these long distances relatively easily.

nevertheless 18 miles
so i’m still telling everybody

The only way to get me to run more than 1/2 a mile… is if something is chasing me.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:00:37am

re: #304 Hecuba’s daughter

Are there any sensible parties left in the UK? It looks like both the left and right are incompetent, corrupt, and anti-democratic.

The Liberal Democrats who made strides but not enough.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:01:43am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:01:50am

re: #318 MsJ

The Liberal Democrats who made strides but not enough.

Yep. I like Nick Clegg. The SNP is good too as is the SDLP but they’re both tegionsl.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:02:11am

re: #319 Patricia Kayden

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Damn.

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:03:15am

re: #312 goddamnedfrank

I don’t think they can block her from testifying now but I agree that there was a stratagem of saying they wanted to hear from her while being also negotiating in bad faith in an attempt to stack the deck against her accepting their “offer.” Now that she’s called their bluff I think their only out is to hope that Kavanaugh withdraws his nomination, which I don’t see happening either because he, his Federalist Society backers and Trump all want this too badly. From their perspective a real threat exists that nobody can get confirmed after the November elections so they’re doing everything in their power to jam him through come hell or high water.

there is a can of worms here waiting to be opened. and i dont me wrt ‘he did this to others’. just her own claim.

she is likely going to weave in the names or at least descriptions of other people who it’s going to be really hard to ignore as potential witness/testifiers

they wont be able to end it with just her appearance alone

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:03:50am

Just getting it together this morning after a late night out last night. Long-ish post behind the button..

Paul Simon’s farewell concert was an amazing event. Flushing Meadows Corona Park was transformed into a huge concert venue for the evening, and I’d easily estimate the crowd at at least 50,000 people. Paul and his band were firing on all cylinders, and the set was a parade of his hits, both solo and with that Artie fella (he didn’t show, I heard he was appearing somewhere in the Midwest last night). The only ‘guest’ who made it to the stage was Paul’s wife Edie Brickell, who came out for the whistling part in ‘Me & Julio.’ Jimmy Fallon and Lorne Michaels showed up backstage, and I got within yelling distance of Mayor DiBlasio. He’s a tall dude. But I digress…

The show was very emotional for everyone, being the last of a 50 date tour and the capper on a long and distinguished career. Paul told some pretty funny stories throughout the set about his high school and growing up in Queens, reminiscences about band members who had passed on, and a short game of catch with people in the crowd at the top of the set (he bought a new ball glove and wanted to try it out).

The best part of the show for me was his short comment before he played ‘American Tune:’

‘Weird times, huh?’

Crowd cheers

‘Don’t. Give. Up.’

Crowd cheers even louder.

And after nearly 2 hours of hits, 2 encores and lots of terrific musicianship, the band left the stage and Paul did a solo turn on the song that introduced us all to him in the first place, ‘Sounds of Silence.’ He was in tears when he left the stage, and there was nary a dry eye in the house.

We got to attend the after party, held in the Hall of Science on the old World’s Fair grounds. A fun, low-key affair. Had a couple beers, ate some finger food, talked at length with Paul’s guitarist about dopey stuff like his guitars, and had a lot of fun playing with the interactive exhibit projected onto the walls of the hall. We left the party as it was winding down at about 1AM and drove on home.

Ipsos - I’m sorry we didn’t get to meet up! The General Admission and VIP areas were more segregated and harder to get around than I thought they would be.

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sagehen  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:04:13am

re: #298 Big Beautiful Door

No, its a lifetime app’t as well. If he doesn’t resign, there aren’t 67 votes in the Senate to impeach him, and he isn’t going to be indicted on a 37 year old accusation.

3 counts of perjury from his SCOTUS hearing… the stolen e-mails, his involvement with Pickering and Pryor noms, and the bullshit evasions on financial questions (baseball tickets. sure. okay.) — either somebody paid off his debts, or his gambling had a few good weeks at convenient times.

Those accusations are not 37 years old.

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:05:41am

re: #317 sagehen

The only way to get me to run more than 1/2 a mile… is if something is chasing me.

another approach: try chasing something ;-)

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ericblair  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:05:43am

re: #299 Patricia Kayden

What the hell is wrong with Corbyn? Sounds like he’s mimicking Trump’s “war on the media” nonsense. Not good.

It’s what’s always been wrong with dear Jezza. He is a 1970s era Trotskyite, gadfly rebel backbencher who ended up leader of the Labour party through a series of semi-coincidences that made it easy for a bunch of committed but lazy outsiders to take over the membership. Hasn’t had one new thought since about 1979. Doesn’t like the EU much, since they’re a nasty bunch of neoliberal drones who would fuck up the Great British Socialist Revolution. Also, because the USSR didn’t like them, and no, I’m not kidding about this.

Once there, he did the normal thing that rebels do if they achieve power, which is to crush all dissent within the party and ignore the actual opponent. (Rebels don’t generally hate the power structure, they just hate where they are in it.) This has not gone over well, and there’s been one attempted leadership coup (the Chicken Coup) plus all sorts of leadership versus elected MP fuckery. Jezza has always come down as the voice of the Party membership against the nasty unfaithful elected Labour representatives, which, um, ok.

So anyway, it’s party conference time. Jezz has been completely waffly on Brexit, declaring that it is just a distraction from the fight against inequality and the struggle of the working class and all that good stuff. However, the membership has been increasingly and now overwhelmingly for a second referendum, like 90%/10% or something, and forced Jezz’s hand towards calling for Labour rejecting the Brexit deal. Actual labour unions have been consistently against Brexit, but Jezz and his buddies support Labour and the People, not necessarily labour and the people, so Jezz kind of ignored this.

So this doesn’t make him look too good in the papers, and Jezz is not very happy about it, looks like. The red top right wing rags are as bad as Fox News, but he’s not just talking about them. So, we must apparently force the media to make him look good. The similarities to US politics are an exercise for the reader.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:05:53am

re: #317 sagehen

The only way to get me to run more than 1/2 a mile… is if something is chasing me.

If I had to run 30 feet I’d be dead. I’m lucky to be able to do grocery shopping now, my knees are that fucked up.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:06:47am

Took the big cat (Pepper) out front for a stroll in the grass. I started to bring her in but nooooo. So I took a minute and grabbed this.

Sunday Morning Light Macro

After a moment the Manx cat (stays inside too critter aggressive) starts to meow out a window sounding scared. Pepper jumps up and heads for the door to get back in. Because her fur sister was scared. When I let her in she got a huge greeting from Manx cat. Talk about genuine affection.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:13:42am

um, damn

A former Trump campaign spokesperson was accused of slipping an abortion pill into his pregnant girlfriend’s smoothie — sending her to the hospital and nearly causing her to go into a coma, according to court documents.

Jason Miller — who served on President Trump’s 2016 campaign and transition team — announced he was quitting his role as CNN political commentator Saturday to “focus on clearing [his] name” and fighting the accusations detailed in recent court documents.

The explosive court filings, first reported by Splinter News, allege that prior to Miller’s high-profile extramarital relationship with A.J. Delgado — another Trump campaign staffer — he had an affair with an unnamed woman he met at Rachel’s Gentleman’s Club, an Orlando strip club.

When the dancer found out she was pregnant, Miller allegedly dosed her drink with an abortion pill, without her knowledge, according to the court documents.

The pill caused the woman to wind up in the emergency room “bleeding heavily and nearly went into a coma,” the documents state. She was hospitalized for two days with “the abortion pill possibly reacting with potential street drugs in her system” at the time she drank the smoothie, according to the documents.

nypost.com

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:15:01am

re: #326 ericblair

Can Corbyn be replaced before the next election is called? Is there much of an appetite for that in the Labour rank and file?

It feels as if Labour has had a spate of horrible leaders going back to Tony Blair who wholeheartedly supported the unnecessary Iraq war.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:16:10am

re: #317 sagehen

There is some deep physiology with this stuff. In HS I ran cross country, did okay, not great. Tried out for track, did not really have competitive foot speed. But could train all day. From my twenties on did martial arts of one kind or another. I can’t go distance but three minute rounds were something I could bounce back from in one minute, go another. Now obviously the man in front of me might prevail and run me out or down. Something about the off on cycle I can deal with. Even now it shows but with much more humble late fifties limits. No more hard sparring.

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sagehen  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:17:34am

re: #329 Shropshire Slasher

um, damn

nypost.com

Would you call me shallow if I said he doesn’t look like a guy who could pull that many girlfriends and contribute to that many pregnancies?

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:22:39am

Then there’s this:

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:24:46am

re: #332 sagehen

Would you call me shallow if I said he doesn’t look like a guy who could pull that many girlfriends and contribute to that many pregnancies?

Nope. My first thought was “take heart, Incels, there’s Jason Miller….”

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:24:55am
the pill caused the woman to wind up in the emergency room “bleeding heavily and nearly went into a coma,” the documents state. She was hospitalized for two days with “the abortion pill possibly reacting with potential street drugs in her system” at the time she drank the smoothie, according to the documents.

Considering the pill could cause these kinds of complications (especially for someone unaware they’d taken it), I wonder why the writer felt it responsible to throw “street drugs” into the sentence.

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:26:25am

re: #332 sagehen

Would you call me shallow if I said he doesn’t look like a guy who could pull that many girlfriends and contribute to that many pregnancies?

He looks like a thumb that someone drew a face on with a Sharpie.

I mean, I’m no prize, but damn. I guess power really is the ultimate aphrodisiac if women are trying to get with that dude.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:26:53am

It wasn’t stealth drug assaulter Jason Miller’s fault, it was the Street Drugs.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:28:44am

re: #335 jaunte

Considering the pill could cause these kinds of complications (especially for someone unaware they’d taken it), I wonder why the writer felt it responsible to throw “street drugs” into the sentence.

Especially when the odds are that Miller purposefully gave her an overdose since it was his intention to terminate her pregnancy.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:28:46am

“Possibly.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:29:20am

re: #333 dangerman

Then there’s this:

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Oh wow.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:31:58am

re: #312 goddamnedfrank

I don’t think they can block her from testifying now but I agree that there was a stratagem of saying they wanted to hear from her while being also negotiating in bad faith in an attempt to stack the deck against her accepting their “offer.” Now that she’s called their bluff I think their only out is to hope that Kavanaugh withdraws his nomination, which I don’t see happening either because he, his Federalist Society backers and Trump all want this too badly. From their perspective a real threat exists that nobody can get confirmed after the November elections so they’re doing everything in their power to jam him through come hell or high water.

Add in the polls for Kavanaugh go further down by the minute and Susan Collins saying there are now 7 unsure Republicans (take that for what it’s worth), the media snooping around everywhere and the American public now more aware of the whole show than one week ago and the Republicans have their work cut out for them.

Mitch has got to be wondering how this is going to turn even if publicly he is acting so sure of it all.

Kind of reminds me of Rudy saying the Mueller thing was just about over how many times and how long ago now?

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ericblair  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:32:17am

re: #330 Patricia Kayden

Can Corbyn be replaced before the next election is called? Is there much of an appetite for that in the Labour rank and file?

It feels as if Labour has had a spate of horrible leaders going back to Tony Blair who wholeheartedly supported the unnecessary Iraq war.

Yes, but he’s likely to win again, with the current composition of Labour members (i.e. lots of hard lefties who signed up to vote for Corbyn, but don’t have any other attachment to the party). Jezz lost a vote of non-confidence by the Labour MPs quite badly, but didn’t step down because the rules didn’t say he had to. The guy who wrote the rules thought any leader would step down at that point and never thought it would have to be mandated. The whole leadership election would take maybe six months, anyway.

So the whole system is paralyzed by shitty leadership in both Labour and Tories, who are pretty much the worst people you’d want for the jobs in a crisis, but there they are. The real political hope out of all of this is, sort of ironically, the House of Lords, who haven’t been shy about calling all of this Brexit bullshit what it is, and could stop this thing once Britain is really staring into the void. Still, I’m not travelling to the UK in April 2019.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:34:40am
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:34:44am

Good parenting right here.

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BigPapa  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:36:00am

Conn Carroll getting dunked on was an unexpected delight this weekend

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Interesting Times  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:43:26am

We desperate need a word to describe this phenomenon (that is, a time period that, due to endless fuckery occurring therein, feels much, much longer than it actually was):

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:44:10am

re: #343 jaunte

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Anything, absolutely anything that relates to his character and fitness and suitability for the bench is “appropriate”

Just cause it’s a new hearing session doesn’t mean some things should be off limits

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:46:33am

re: #346 Interesting Times

We desperate need a word to describe this phenomenon (that is, a time period that, due to endless fuckery occurring therein, feels much, much longer than it actually was):

Also a reminder that it has been only six days since Dr. Blasey came public with her story. Six. Days

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And she was slimed before the first day was out
And by some people who seemed to have a great degree of certainty

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:47:03am

re: #346 Interesting Times

We desperate need a word to describe this phenomenon (that is, a time period that, due to endless fuckery occurring therein, feels much, much longer than it actually was):

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The Germans or Scandinavians must.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:51:03am

Sewing consternation among the opposition.

I put this on my FB.

And get this— all (sic)

While you still use chemicals and electricity in your business everyday. you are one of the biggest pulluters. hypocrisy much?

Reply—Where I work we are in strict compliance with more agencies than Fox has pretty blondes for talking points.

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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:54:16am

re: #278 dangerman

i ran 18 miles this morning
if such a thing can be a breeze, it was a breeze.

i havent run this long since 2010
and for a host of reasons, i am in much better condition than i was back then.
and than i was a mere 2 1/2 years ago when i tore a muscle, had to take 8 months off and start again from zero.

half of long running is psychological.
i am getting comfortable with the idea that i now can run these long distances relatively easily.

nevertheless 18 miles
so i’m still telling everybody

I shall be like the Republicans and choose my bible verses selectively.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:54:51am

re: #350 Unshaken Defiance

No comment on all the indictments, just “No, u the pulluter.”

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:57:06am
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Jay C  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:57:19am

re: #348 dangerman

And she was slimed before the first day was out
And by some people who seemed to have a great degree of certainty

And at least AFAICT, it’s becoming increasing obvious that the Republicans who are backing Brett Kavanaugh had buckets of slime already primed to toss even before Christine Ford’s name became public, AND: knew where they were going to toss them.

And anyway, just as an aside: I’ll disagree with the take that Judge Kavanaugh - if he isn’t confirmed to the SC, by whatever circumstances - “can just go back to the District Court” or wherever without some damage to his rep. Oh, he’ll still have the job, but I think he’s probably going to be tarred as “Judge Rapey McRapeface” for the rest of his career.

I’d add a sympathetic soundtrack, but my thumbnail violin seems to have slid off and gotten misplaced: easy when they’re that small.

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:57:47am

re: #350 Unshaken Defiance

By the same guy who called me a “dummy” just this morning. LOL.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2018 • 9:59:46am

rainy, gloomy, chilly day here in TheBackwoods, so I’m baking bread and stuff.
First out of the oven is a multigrain sourdough that I mixed up last night and let ferment overnight. It also has sunflower seeds and craisins.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:02:10am

re: #353 goddamnedfrank

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Ouch but she’s right.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:02:30am

After watching the shit that Ford went thru, death threats, having to go into hiding, what woman is going to willingly put themself on the line - for someone else? People who work for a living can’t stop working and go into hiding.

Someone who saw it first hand would say they didn’t remember. Hell, I’m a by the book and do what’s right kind of person and if have to think long and hard about running* my life, because this is what is happening.

*Ruining (corrected)

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:02:43am

Apparently Steve King only knows rapists.

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:03:16am

re: #354 Jay C

I’d add a sympathetic soundtrack, but my thumbnail violin seems to have slid off and gotten misplaced: easy when they’re that small.

A simple ‘womp womp’ will suffice.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:03:45am

re: #359 jaunte

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Apparently Steve King only knows rapists.

Must have missed when Gorsuch was accused of rape rather than a Shitty Scalia clone.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:08:33am

re: #359 jaunte

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Varek Raith  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:10:27am

re: #359 jaunte

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Apparently Steve King only knows rapists.

Jeebus…

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:11:11am
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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:12:15am

re: #359 jaunte

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Apparently Steve King only knows rapists.

Or is Steve King just flat out a rapist?

What a despicable deplorable humanoid-like being.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:13:03am

re: #364 goddamnedfrank

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Maybe he should be disgraced? Or he could withdraw his nomination. He’s a grown man not an adorable puppy but I guess right wing Supreme Court justices are adorable puppies to NRO.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:13:32am

re: #365 ObserverArt

Or is Steve King just flat out a rapist?

What a despicable deplorable humanoid-like being.

That was my first thought. I’m sure Mr. King had his own “rough horseplay” as a teenager, if not longer.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:14:01am

re: #365 ObserverArt

With blind spots the size of cantaloupes.

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sagehen  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:16:12am

foreignaffairs.com
How Trump Is Repelling Foreign Investment

This year, net inward investment into the United States by multinational corporations—both foreign and American—has fallen almost to zero, an early indicator of the damage being done by the Trump administration’s trade conflicts and its arbitrary bullying of companies and governments. This shift of corporate investment away from the United States will decrease long-term U.S. income growth, reduce the number of well-paid jobs available, and reinforce the ongoing shift of global commerce away from United States.

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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:16:48am

re: #359 jaunte

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Apparently Steve King only knows rapists.

Actually if it’s the new standard every Republican in the country would be qualified.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:18:11am

re: #359 jaunte

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Apparently Steve King only knows rapists.

Their thinking is that any man can be accused of sexual assault, so all they have to do is nominate someone and a Democrat-lesbian-feminist will come along and accuse him. He’s not even noting that we’re basing her credibility on the fact that she reported it to her therapist in 2012.

Wait until he figures out that women can also be accused of sexual assault.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:20:00am

re: #371 Belafon

Wait until he figures out that women can also be accused of sexual assault.

Well that’s different!!!11!!!!

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Interesting Times  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:20:02am

re: #353 goddamnedfrank

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On this note, see this excellent 16-tweet thread on the GOPer perversion of the presumption of innocence:

Conclusion:

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electrotek  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:20:34am
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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:23:29am
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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:28:24am

Typical Old Fart Republican (You know the type):

“The little ladies are getting in the damn way what with all their crying about men just wanting a little love, you know.

They are missin’ the point worrying about men just being men.

Men have needs, and we needs to pack this court right here right now. So, I suggest for a better world for the little ladies they just hush up now and stand over there while us men get the job done like we always do.

Plus, we don’t need the womens trying to stop boys just being boys. It is natural, God intended it that way”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:29:16am

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BeachDem  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:32:17am

re: #317 sagehen

The only way to get me to run more than 1/2 a mile… is if something is chasing me.

Ditto. (I often find driving 18 miles to be a semi-monumental task.)

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:37:54am

re: #378 BeachDem

Ditto. (I often find driving 18 miles to be a semi-monumental task.)

‘at’s my girl!! 😂😂😂

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Jay C  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:38:08am

re: #375 jaunte

And BTW, what about the other four Republican women in the Senate
(Capito- WV, Ernst- IA, Fischer- NE, Hyde-Smith- MS)? AFAICT, scarcely a peep out of any of them on anything to do with the Kavanaugh nomination. Not really surprising.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:43:45am

Just giving you guys advance notice that I’m probably going to lose my shit for a little while if Kavanagh gets confirmed.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:44:41am

re: #380 Jay C

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And BTW, what about the other four Republican women in the Senate
(Capito- WV, Ernst- IA, Fischer- NE, Hyde-Smith- MS)? AFAICT, scarcely a peep out of any of them on anything to do with the Kavanaugh nomination. Not really surprising.

I mentioned in a comment above that I heard Susan Collins say there are 7 other Republican Senators that are undecided so she isn’t the only one with concerns.

Again, it is Collins and they are the Republicans. Maybe some of those you mention are part of that 7 along with the guys like Flake, Corker and Sasse.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:45:22am

re: #381 Eclectic Cyborg

That is okay I know I have become a bit too sarcastic ever since DT won.

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BeachDem  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:47:51am

re: #358 MsJ

After watching the shit that Ford went thru, death threats, having to go into hiding, what woman is going to willingly put themself on the line - for someone else? People who work for a living can’t stop working and go into hiding.

Someone who saw it first hand would say they didn’t remember. Hell, I’m a by the book and do what’s right kind of person and if have to think long and hard about running* my life, because this is what is happening.

*Ruining (corrected)

There is, in my experience, another reason why people don’t/can’t remember a specific incident. BECAUSE IT HAPPENED ALL THE DAMN TIME! During my high school and college years (yes, it was the dark ages and we wore onions on our belts), sadly it was a dog bites man story.

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jeffreyw  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:50:14am

Lasagna, chillin’:

Imgur

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:50:40am

re: #383 PhillyPretzel

That is okay I know I have become a bit too sarcastic ever since DT won.

You should see my dispensary bills…

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:51:18am

re: #381 Eclectic Cyborg

Just giving you guys advance notice that I’m probably going to lose my shit for a little while if Kavanagh gets confirmed.

As we all probably will.

But I’m looking back at how this week developed, and where we are today as opposed to last Sunday. Kavanaugh’s confirmation was considered pretty much a lead-pipe cinch last weekend, even as the Ford story first hit the news.

Inside a week, the confirmation is a more open question than ever, Ed Whelan got exposed and vilified for one of the most dishonest defenses ever, and the PR firm responsible for lots of dirty shit was dragged out into the sunlight. One of their executives resigned due to his sexual misconduct, and Republicans are now pretty much damned whether they confirm Kavanaugh or not.

Gotta hand it to Senate Dems. They grabbed the narrative and turned what might have been a rote confirmation into a street fight, which they’ve so far fought to a draw.

Could any of us have foreseen this nomination not sailing through a Republican-controlled Congress? Not to sound all cliche or anything, but this is why we fight.

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BeachDem  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:54:54am

re: #371 Belafon

Their thinking is that any man can be accused of sexual assault, so all they have to do is nominate someone and a Democrat-lesbian-feminist will come along and accuse him. He’s not even noting that we’re basing her credibility on the fact that she reported it to her therapist in 2012.

Wait until he figures out that women can also be accused of sexual assault.

Here’s a post that one of our fucking school board members shared. Of course, she said one of her kid’s friends must have been messing around on her computer and done it without her knowledge. Uh huh.

wyff4.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 23, 2018 • 10:55:42am

re: #388 BeachDem

I really hate these assholes.

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sagehen  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:01:12am

re: #380 Jay C

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And BTW, what about the other four Republican women in the Senate
(Capito- WV, Ernst- IA, Fischer- NE, Hyde-Smith- MS)? AFAICT, scarcely a peep out of any of them on anything to do with the Kavanaugh nomination. Not really surprising.

Interesting coincidence: Shelly Moore Capito is also an alumnae of Holton-Arms.

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:04:51am

re: #384 BeachDem

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:04:53am
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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:04:56am

re: #387 makeitstop

As we all probably will.

But I’m looking back at how this week developed, and where we are today as opposed to last Sunday. Kavanaugh’s confirmation was considered pretty much a lead-pipe cinch last weekend, even as the Ford story first hit the news.

Inside a week, the confirmation is a more open question than ever, Ed Whelan got exposed and vilified for one of the most dishonest defenses ever, and the PR firm responsible for lots of dirty shit was dragged out into the sunlight. One of their executives resigned due to his sexual misconduct, and Republicans are now pretty much damned whether they confirm Kavanaugh or not.

Gotta hand it to Senate Dems. They grabbed the narrative and turned what might have been a rote confirmation into a street fight, which they’ve so far fought to a draw.

Could any of us have foreseen this nomination not sailing through a Republican-controlled Congress? Not to sound all cliche or anything, but this is why we fight.

And we have to keep in mind all of this is adding up against Trump and the Republicans.

The sum affect is what I am counting on and hopefully we see that come together the first Tuesday of November.

If the elections go off as they should.

Sadly now we have to be more concerned than ever before our elections might not be legit. I never thought I’d ever have to admit that, but here we are.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:06:18am

Gah, the media is being absolutely horrible today.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:06:28am

re: #388 BeachDem

Here’s a post that one of our fucking school board members shared. Of course, she said one of her kid’s friends must have been messing around on her computer and done it without her knowledge. Uh huh.

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wyff4.com

Blaming her kids. Classy.

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:09:59am

Beto fucking rocks. I want my reps to play air drums now, too.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:11:42am

found on breitbart this morning


Once the GOP gets it’s super majority on Nov 6th. It’s time to repeal the 17th Amendment. Then the Dems will be truly Done.

The States legislative bodies will send their representative to the Senate. Look at the voting maps people. Its all Red. The rural people will finally have a voice.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:12:28am

re: #395 HappyWarrior

Blaming her kids. Classy.

These people have ready made excuses for when they are called on their bullshit:

“My account was hacked.”
“My assistant/secretary posted that.”
“My kids must have done it.”

And the ever popular “It was a joke!”

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:12:44am

re: #362 MsJ

Wow!!! So all men have attempted to sexually assault women? What exactly is he saying about men?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:13:22am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:13:41am

re: #397 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

found on breitbart this morning


Once the GOP gets it’s super majority on Nov 6th. It’s time to repeal the 17th Amendment. Then the Dems will be truly Done.

The States legislative bodies will send their representative to the Senate. Look at the voting maps people. Its all Red. The rural people will finally have a voice.

We got Trump for President and he thinks rural GOP voters DON’T have a voice? I will never understand how people can think this way.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:15:45am
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Varek Raith  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:16:09am

Land area =/= Votes.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:17:09am
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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:18:07am

Blasphemy! Four door Mustang, based on an Australian BA Falcon.

My eyes hurt from looking at it.

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:18:41am

re: #364 goddamnedfrank

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My q to national review:. So?

Are you saying he must be confirmed because otherwise…

Cause that’s assinine
Even for you

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BeachDem  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:20:12am

re: #391 MsJ

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electrotek  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:20:58am

re: #405 makeitstop

Blasphemy! Four door Mustang, based on an Australian BA Falcon.

My eyes hurt from looking at it.

Ford Corporate should have never cancelled Australian production then.

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:25:23am

re: #381 Eclectic Cyborg

Just giving you guys advance notice that I’m probably going to lose my shit for a little while if Kavanagh gets confirmed.

You won’t be alone
Last poll half the country doesn’t want him

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:28:10am

re: #387 makeitstop

As we all probably will.

But I’m looking back at how this week developed, and where we are today as opposed to last Sunday. Kavanaugh’s confirmation was considered pretty much a lead-pipe cinch last weekend, even as the Ford story first hit the news.

Inside a week, the confirmation is a more open question than ever, Ed Whelan got exposed and vilified for one of the most dishonest defenses ever, and the PR firm responsible for lots of dirty shit was dragged out into the sunlight. One of their executives resigned due to his sexual misconduct, and Republicans are now pretty much damned whether they confirm Kavanaugh or not.

Gotta hand it to Senate Dems. They grabbed the narrative and turned what might have been a rote confirmation into a street fight, which they’ve so far fought to a draw.

Could any of us have foreseen this nomination not sailing through a Republican-controlled Congress? Not to sound all cliche or anything, but this is why we fight.

In this case there was an important truth out there…

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jeffreyw  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:31:20am
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Jay C  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:33:59am

re: #401 Eclectic Cyborg

We got Trump for President and he thinks rural GOP voters DON’T have a voice? I will never understand how people can think this way.

Seventeener nonsense pops up out of the RW cesspool with regularity. Supposedly, the “rationale” is that since State Legislatures in “real America” are more “representative” (i.e. controlled by dedicated wingnuts) letting said Leges chose Senators will guarantee a permanent supply of Dedicated Wingnut Senators: a permanent majority, of course, since there are presumed to be more “red” states than “blue” ones, populations notwithstanding.
Ideology uber alles, of course: and yet another indication of how RWNJs really view democracy - the Voice Of The People always must be heard and hearkened to: as long as the message is the “correct” one…

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MsJ  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:35:13am

re: #399 Patricia Kayden

Wow!!! So all men have attempted to sexually assault women? What exactly is he saying about men?

Apparently just that.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:40:05am

re: #412 Jay C

Seventeener nonsense pops up out of the RW cesspool with regularity. Supposedly, the “rationale” is that since State Legislatures in “real America” are more “representative” (i.e. controlled by dedicated wingnuts) letting said Leges chose Senators will guarantee a permanent supply of Dedicated Wingnut Senators: a permanent majority, of course, since there are presumed to be more “red” states than “blue” ones, populations notwithstanding.
Ideology uber alles, of course: and yet another indication of how RWNJs really view democracy - the Voice Of The People always must be heard and hearkened to: as long as the message is the “correct” one…

Which is why I always get pissed when I hear any Republican talk about there being a lack of bipartisanship in our government.

What they really mean is Democrats have to agree with the Republicans.

And a lot of that thinking grew out of Reaganism.

I will never forget when a whole side of our politics was reduced to a single letter “L.”

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Teddy's Person  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:42:13am

re: #399 Patricia Kayden

Wow!!! So all men have attempted to sexually assault women? What exactly is he saying about men?

He’s not saying anything about men. This is a misogynistic dogwhistle implying that women will lie about sexual assault and no man is “safe.”

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retired cynic  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:43:37am

re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth

rainy, gloomy, chilly day here in TheBackwoods, so I’m baking bread and stuff.
First out of the oven is a multigrain sourdough that I mixed up last night and let ferment overnight. It also has sunflower seeds and craisins.

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I want. (And it’s not on my diet. But I want, anyway!)

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:46:08am
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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:47:46am
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jaunte  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:48:07am
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BeachDem  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:50:33am

Meanwhile, here in the South by dog Carolina:

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:53:22am

re: #401 Eclectic Cyborg

We got Trump for President and he thinks rural GOP voters DON’T have a voice? I will never understand how people can think this way.

40+ years of brainwashing from the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine!

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:54:03am

An excellent point…

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 23, 2018 • 11:56:55am

Trump Administration job interview:

Rape murder arson and rape

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:02:17pm

re: #420 BeachDem

Meanwhile, here in the South by dog Carolina:

I can help but wonder. Did the water recede so quickly that the fish were left stranded? or, Did something in the flood waters kill the fish?

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:02:20pm

re: #422 Charles Johnson

An excellent point…

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Sure is.

And what do we have for president…a reality show Mussolini.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:05:44pm

re: #424 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I can help but wonder. Did the water recede so quickly that the fish were left stranded? or, Did something in the flood waters kill the fish?

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coal sludge, hog manure/urine, overwhelmed municipal water treatment plants… take your choice.

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Scottish Dragon  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:06:09pm

re: #43 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT “Liberal CA girls” are dressing as Tomato Lumpie for Halloween?

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Scottish Dragon  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:08:26pm

re: #424 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I can help but wonder. Did the water recede so quickly that the fish were left stranded? or, Did something in the flood waters kill the fish?

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Both

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danarchy  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:11:20pm

re: #428 Scottish Dragon

Both

Could also be that the salt water fish suddenly found themselves in fresh or at least less salty water.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:12:14pm
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Scottish Dragon  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:14:09pm

re: #429 danarchy

Could also be that the salt water fish suddenly found themselves in fresh or at least less salty water.

Nothing like swimming in allegedly fresh water that is clouded with toxic coal ash and pig shit. Really adds a whole new level of difficulty to your survival algorithm.

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BeachDem  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:14:36pm

re: #424 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I can help but wonder. Did the water recede so quickly that the fish were left stranded? or, Did something in the flood waters kill the fish?

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Don’t know—but here are some more shots near Wilmington, NC—gross.

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mmmirele  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:15:16pm

re: #346 Interesting Times

We desperate need a word to describe this phenomenon (that is, a time period that, due to endless fuckery occurring therein, feels much, much longer than it actually was):

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Courtney Milan is a romance writer but she’s also a (former? dunno if she’s practicing) lawyer. She was also a clerk for Alex Kozinski, the sleazebag former 9th circuit judge and one of the women who exposed his sleazebaggery to the public under her legal name, Heidi Bond. So she knows what she’s talking about in this area.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:17:40pm

re: #426 Backwoods_Sleuth

coal sludge, hog manure/urine, overwhelmed municipal water treatment plants… take your choice.

Plus the water becomes too warm and lacking in proper amounts of oxygen from all the mess you mention. The fish get caught out in the bad conditions.

It should be a picture to humans that something very similar could happen to us.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:21:21pm

re: #430 Charles Johnson

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Ari is a lawyer and professional word bender as a former press secretary for “W” Bush. Just keepin’ his head in the game.

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:21:40pm

re: #430 Charles Johnson

The reason Professor Ford’s lawyers don’t want an outside lawyer to ask questions is because they don’t want a woman to be the questioner. They prefer the optics of all male questioners. It shows how politically calculating her lawyers are.

hey ari:
it’s the committee’s business
who made it so there are no female republicans on the committee?
not ‘the dems’

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:23:02pm

re: #417 Charles Johnson

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And hopefully, voters who see Ted’s ad and don’t find talking to Black people frightening will come out and vote for Beto. All this racial dogwhistling may backfire on Ted as it has on DeSantis in Florida.

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Scottish Dragon  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:23:05pm
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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:26:04pm
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BeachDem  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:36:50pm

My fucking senator:

“What do you expect me to do? What am I supposed to do? Go ahead and ruin this guy’s life? I don’t know when it happened, I don’t where it happened, and everybody being named in regard to being there said it didn’t happen,” Graham said. “Unless there’s something more, no, I’m not going to ruin Judge Kavanaugh’s life over this, but she should come forward, she should have her say, she will be respectfully treated.”

Sure, Lindsey—whatever you say.

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:38:15pm

re: #432 BeachDem

Too bad there aren’t clutters of cats around to eat all that fish.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:40:45pm

re: #439 Patricia Kayden

I’ve watched that point - that it’s a job interview - grow from a few people to most of the Democrats online. I doubt most Congresspeople read the replies to their tweets. The need aids assigned to monitoring what goes online to see when a good point happens.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:41:10pm
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Jay C  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:41:30pm

re: #441 freetoken

Too bad there aren’t clutters of cats around to eat all that fish.

No, that’s probably a good thing: how toxic are those fish likely to be after swimming around (and dying) in coal-ash-waste?

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:41:37pm

re: #440 BeachDem

My fucking senator:

“What do you expect me to do? What am I supposed to do? Go ahead and ruin this guy’s life? I don’t know when it happened, I don’t where it happened, and everybody being named in regard to being there said it didn’t happen,” Graham said. “Unless there’s something more, no, I’m not going to ruin Judge Kavanaugh’s life over this, but she should come forward, she should have her say, she will be respectfully treated.”

Sure, Lindsey—whatever you say.

She can come and say what she wants, but I will, with all southern charm and respect, ignore her and vote for Kavanaugh anyway because I’ve already decided weeks ago.

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TedStriker  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:43:36pm

re: #445 ObserverArt

She can come and say what she wants, but I will, with all southern charm and respect, ignore her and vote for Kavanaugh anyway because I’ve already decided weeks ago.

“And, because me and DT are on the down low, we must confirm Kavanaugh to give the president a victory!”

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:43:41pm

re: #444 Jay C

No, that’s probably a good thing: how toxic are those fish likely to be after swimming around (and dying) in coal-ash-waste?

Are they coal-ash victims? I thought the fish died because they couldn’t live in the mix of sea and fresh water, or that they were stranded.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:44:08pm

The Fall of Dilbert

From working-class hero to egomaniacal Trump supporter


More at link.
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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:45:16pm

re: #441 freetoken

Too bad there aren’t clutters of cats around to eat all that fish.

well done

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:46:42pm

re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The Republicans are in a jam now. This is not what they wanted to have go down at all.

This week is going to be epic with all the posturing that will be going on.

Everyone might have to pass out some Oscars after this week is over.

Or, does Monday dawn with a statement of candidate withdrawal from consideration?

Buckle up! It’s gonna get bumpy.

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BeachDem  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:49:48pm

re: #445 ObserverArt

She can come and say what she wants, but I will, with all southern charm and respect, ignore her and vote for Kavanaugh anyway because I’ve already decided weeks ago.

And first, asshole Lindsey says:

…the committee’s Republicans were “11 politicians who haven’t done a trial in about 20 years. I thought it would be really smart to have somebody come in that knows what the hell they’re doing.”

So, he admits that the Republicans on the committee are a bunch of idiots who don’t know what they’re doing. Then, he pontificates in an oh-so-lawyerly fashion:

…he characterized Blasey Ford’s allegations as being “too old for a criminal trial. You’d never bring a lawsuit because it’s uncertain. You couldn’t even get a warrant.”

Gahhh—I truly cannot stand him.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:50:04pm
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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:53:17pm

if, in fact, they did know about this in advance,
re: #333 dangerman

then it’s another example of how that side really does think it can get away with just about anything - that no one’s gonna question, dig, investigate…

the same way it seems DJT didnt think anyone was really gonna look into the trump org, the foundation, his personal finances, etc - let alone how poorly russiagate was ‘hidden’

think about it
they got manafort on tax evasion - most of which was by a clear paper and email trail
mueller is milking cohen - they got him on tax evasion with respect to taxi medallions

and we know that what they spill has nothing to do with what they themselves got nabbed for

so you surround yourself with those kind of compromised people, vulnerable doesnt begin to describe the position you put yourself in

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TedStriker  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:54:03pm

re: #448 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

The Fall of Dilbert

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More at link.

Nice burn, but Adams didn’t just become an egotistical libertarian asshole overnight, he obviously has believed what he believes for a long, long, time and came to feel that he could start to let his freak flag fly, especially with the rise of Trump and all that’s entailed in the public discourse, and damn us plebs that don’t like that.

The plebs who read his strips and bought his books and licensed merchandise.

His syndication and licensing contracts must be damn near iron-clad…

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 23, 2018 • 12:58:41pm
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TedStriker  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:01:21pm

re: #455 Single-handed sailor

If there were ever a modern-day gross representation of the hoary old stereotypical greedy “international Jew” with his hands on the levers of power, Adelson would have to be it.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:03:20pm

re: #456 TedStriker

If there were ever a modern-day representation of the hoary old stereotypical greedy “international Jew” with his hands on the levers of power, Adelson would have to be it.

Which is one of many indications that the GOP - with its casino operators, evangelicals, and tycoons working together - is all about power.

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:16:08pm

re: #457 Belafon

Which is one of many indications that the GOP - with its casino operators, evangelicals, and tycoons working together - is all about power.

The Dems still sorta think you can’t govern if you don’t win

The r’s figure you can just buy it
then do what you want
Cause you can buy it again if you have to

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:17:17pm
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sagehen  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:17:41pm

re: #455 Single-handed sailor

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So Sheldon Adelson is donating 1/10 of his tax cut to support the incumbents who gave him that tax cut, and will continue to do whatever he wants.

If 55,000 middle income families each donate a week’s pay to those incumbents’ challengers, who they believe will do what they want instead…

The races will have even funding.

This is what passes for democracy.

But it’s those 55,000 middle income families who are just voting for “free stuff”, not Sheldon and Miriam.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:18:00pm
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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:21:41pm

re: #459 Charles Johnson

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17 year old kept a calendar? Ludicrous enough
That would have recorded attempted rapes?

Assinine and desperate

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:22:10pm

re: #461 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

My son lived by his calendar in school, though he didn’t keep dates with friends in it. At the end of the school year, he was happy to toss them.

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:24:08pm

re: #463 Belafon

My son lived by his calendar in school, though he didn’t keep dates with friends in it. At the end of the school year, he was happy to toss them.

What kid thinks “one day I might have to prove where I was”
Or wasn’t…

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:25:08pm

re: #461 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

[3/ Honestly, if he’s such a tool that he kept detailed calendars of parties, movie outings, time with the rents when he was a junior in high school, that’s maybe the best reason to vote no yet.]

If he kept underage gatherings with booze at somebody’s house when the adults were gone on a calendar, he was too stupid for high school. If he thinks now that any calendars from back then help his case for being on a higher court, he’s too stupid for the court he’s on now.

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ckkatz  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:27:24pm

re: #182 William Lewis

Odd question time. a-spyrian is an old english verb - To search, explore, trace, discover, explain; investigare, indagare, explorare, enucleare. I’m reminded of reconnaissance in modern English from the French.

What would be the equivalent be in old norse?

Interesting question!

The search was a lot longer, but I think that this page answers your question:

Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spurjaną
en.wiktionary.org

Old Norse: spyrja
Old English: spyrian
Swedish: spörja
English: speer, speir, spere

For the modern English usage of speer/speir
merriam-webster.com

Middle English (Scots) speren, from Old English spyrian to seek after; akin to Old English spor spoor

Ask, Inquire

[Note that the reference above to “Scots” is to the Lowland Scots language, a Germanic based language, not to the Highland Scots Gaelic.
en.wikipedia.org ]

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Cheechako  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:28:13pm

Would I be surprised if the ink on his calendar was not manufactured until 2000?

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:29:33pm

re: #467 Cheechako

Would I be surprised if the ink on his calendar was not manufactured until 2000?

I would be surprised if the FBI was allowed to find out that information.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:30:39pm

re: #461 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I have a diary from my 20s so I wouldn’t be surprised if Kavanaugh had a diary from his teenage years. However, him keeping a calendar from when he was 17 sounds like a bridge way too far.

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Scottish Dragon  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:32:06pm

re: #454 TedStriker

Nice burn, but Adams didn’t just become an egotistical libertarian asshole overnight, he obviously came to feel that he could start to let his freak flag fly, especially with the rise of Trump and all that’s entailed in the public discourse, and damn his reputation and career.

His syndication contract must be iron-clad…

The guy who does 9 Chickweed Lane? Brooke McEldowney? His descent into fucking insanity has been epic…

Chickweed was witty and funny for awhile. Lots of stuff for adult women. Lot’s of stuff about music and ballet, and a little risque.

Sexy but still cute.

Then he started a faerie and demon sexcapade called Pigborn and, demon rape….ahem. People impaled on thorn trees.

Demon rape.

Demon impaled on stuff.

Demon impaler as a music tuner.

Then the overt sex and lazy self indulgence drifted over into Chickweed and his WW2 series.


The strip is now a years long running gag on how many unlikely sex positions can be managed with a ballerina.

And it doesn’t even manage to be funny for the most part.

That is how you wreck your own talent.

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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:33:55pm

re: #467 Cheechako

Would I be surprised if the ink on his calendar was not manufactured until 2000?

Verify the kerning!

Even if it was hand written

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Interesting Times  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:36:02pm

Let’s hope all Red State Dems follow this lead:

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William Lewis  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:38:17pm

re: #470 Scottish Dragon

Stopped reading a while ago. Pity it’s gotta even worse.

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William Lewis  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:38:58pm

re: #466 ckkatz

Thanks! I appreciate your time and the information.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:39:31pm
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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:40:27pm
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dangerman  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:47:56pm

re: #466 ckkatz

Interesting question!

The search was a lot longer, but I think that this page answers your question:

Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spurjaną
en.wiktionary.org

Old Norse: spyrja
Old English: spyrian
Swedish: spörja
English: speer, speir, spere

For the modern English usage of speer/speir
merriam-webster.com

Middle English (Scots) speren, from Old English spyrian to seek after; akin to Old English spor spoor

Ask, Inquire

[Note that the reference above to “Scots” is to the Lowland Scots language, a Germanic based language, not to the Highland Scots Gaelic.
en.wikipedia.org ]

Thanks
This was keeping me up nights

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sagehen  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:48:55pm
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ckkatz  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:53:30pm

re: #477 dangerman

:)

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:53:30pm

re: #462 dangerman

17 year old kept a calendar? Ludicrous enough
That would have recorded attempted rapes?

Assinine and desperate

Wait until you see the merit badges. Impressive.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2018 • 1:57:25pm

re: #464 dangerman

What kid thinks “one day I might have to prove where I was”
Or wasn’t…

The kid that is going to be judge one day and knows there is a girl out there that 30 years later is going to bring him down with some lies.

Be prepared! Like a good scout.

So kids. If you plan on being president some day, keep noted calendars, video and audio record everything and by all means have your birth certificate verified by the CIA and FBI, then kept in a vault.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 23, 2018 • 5:02:28pm

re: #459 Charles Johnson

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Are all the calendars signed by Epstein’s mother?


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