Friday Night Jam: Tom Misch, “It Runs Through Me” (Feat. De La Soul)

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Official Video for It Runs Through Me (feat. De La Soul)

Taken from Tom Misch’s debut album “Geography”

Stream / Buy: tommisch.lnk.to

Credits:

Director – Joshua Osborne
Commissioner – Duncan Murray
Executive Producer – Ben Schneider
Producer – Johnny Griffith
Producer – Tom O’Driscoll
Production Company - Radical Media
Production Assistant - Ester Viana
1st AD – Chris Malin
Runner – Gabriel Brown
Runner – Lewis Osborne

Cast

Tom Misch
Pos - De La Soul
Yussef Dayes - Drums
Isobella Burnham - Bass
Jamie Leeming - Guitar
Sam Wills - Keys
Pippa Melody
Kaidi Akkinibi
Fergie - Engineer

DOP – Diana Olifirova
1st AC – Kate Molins
2nd AC – James Wicks
Steadicam – Josh Brooks
Gaffer – Ben Ransley
Spark – Mark Stewart
Spark – Chris Barber

Art Director – Bon Walsh
Art Assistant – Kerfi Sakari
Art Assistant - James Middleton

Still Photographer - Ryan O’Toole Collett

Stylist – Luci Ellis
Stylist Assistant – Mh’ya Mclean
Make up Artist – Emma Regan

Editor – Hasani Franke @ Work Editorial
Post Producer – Julian Marshall @ Work Editorial

Colourist – Joseph Bicknell @ CHEAT
Online – Doug Haynes @ CHEAT
Post Producer – Franky Chadwick @CHEAT

Sound Designer – Simon Epstein

Studio engineer – Jamie McEvoy

Thanks to:
Take 2, Jason Heritage, Panalux, Kelly Amunsen, CHEAT, Work Editorial, Miloco Studios, Sam Langford, Jamie McEvoy, Cyril Mendel

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Lyrics:

VERSE:

1, 2, 3, 4

I love the way it flows, I love the way it grows
There’s something in this sound that takes me far
It’s like a special song, can move my mood along
But I cannot say your here through my guitar

She told me add the bassline, and everything will be alright
She told me that the groove is mine, it will take us through the night
And where I’ll go, can’t explain I’ll never know
But it’s beautiful

CHORUS:

You can’t take this away from me, the way I hear the melody
The waves bring clarity, running through me
You can’t take this away from me, the way I hear the melody
The waves bring clarity, running through me

I love the way it sings, all the joy that it brings
Remember skating down the road towards the park
I can never say no, you with that summer glow
The music gives me sun when winter starts

She told me add the bassline, and everything will be alright
She told me that the beat is mine, it will rock us through the night
And where I’ll go, can’t explain I’ll never know
But it’s beautiful

CHORUS X 2

DE LA SOUL:

Yo, I wear notes like coats, blues like do’s
Warmth and the rhythm, soul that glues
The bounce in my bones, the jazz in my spine
The hop is my home, rap is my grind

I’m grinding on the back side of life, we dance
She threw me a chance, her hands in my pants
Actually my pockets, holding me tight
Whispering a dream I could hold in the night

Blood tight, a rhythm that’s throbbing my vein
Wake up and write it on the pad, the pains
Like church the organ will invite my tears
Like birth, the crying let you know I’m here

Held by the song that gave me a name
Dressed by the verse that gave me a claim
It’s just bass in the line, safe to inhale
And if you live well…

Belong for years in this day you will be
A time is octave to play for the tree
Is rooted in every single nerve in me
The nerve of he, with noise the key

In music that opens the mind to be free
Whenever you’re hot headed ?? you a breeze
Beneath the clouds you allowed to see in clarity through harmony
Someone harming me – that won’t be done
I stand protected by the laws of fun
And am perfected through the rhymes of run
Walk it this way and leave the party stunned
This music, it launched me
With no aim, I’ve landed
On some plain
Where I am I can’t explain, I never know but it’s beautiful so

CHORUS

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237 comments
1
Belafon  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:22:10pm

I finally got around to watching the “Feel First Life” video you put up yesterday, and it kind of reminds me of the movie 9.

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:32:07pm

These people are fucking insufferable.

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Belafon  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:32:27pm
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Belafon  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:34:14pm

re: #2 teleskiguy

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Big Beautiful Door  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:38:05pm

re: #3 Belafon

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The entire basis of the NRA movement to make the Second Amendment mean that people can build a personal arsenal of military grade weapons is to prepare for a race war they believe is coming.

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Belafon  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:39:40pm

re: #2 teleskiguy

These people are fucking insufferable.

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Oh, and he got his actress wrong. It was Scarlett Johansson.

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Belafon  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:41:08pm

re: #5 Big Beautiful Door

The entire basis of the NRA movement to make the Second Amendment mean that people can build a personal arsenal of military grade weapons is to prepare for a race war they believe is coming want to start.

FTFY

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:42:24pm

re: #4 Belafon

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Larry Elder has always been a liar for the Republican Party. Still remember when he trashed Maxine Waters endlessly, said he would run against her as a Republican and he lost that primary in a landslide.

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:42:42pm

re: #6 Belafon

“Facts are stupid things.”

-Ronald Reagan

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sagehen  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:54:08pm

re: #5 Big Beautiful Door

The entire basis of the NRA movement to make the Second Amendment mean that people can build a personal arsenal of military grade weapons is to prepare for a race war they believe is coming.

They’ve given up “predicting” it… they’re determined to start it.

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austin_blue  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:54:10pm

re: #2 teleskiguy

These people are fucking insufferable.

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What the fuck does that even *mean*?

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 8:56:08pm

re: #11 austin_blue

What the fuck does that even *mean*?

They’re pissed because Canadian actors are better.

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:00:35pm

Here’s a bloodhound trying to talk.

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jaunte  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:02:22pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

My dog, asleep on the sofa, woke up and started ruffing at that.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:04:31pm

re: #14 jaunte

My dog, asleep on the sofa, woke up and started ruffing at that.

Rango, OTOH, slept right through it.

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jaunte  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:05:55pm

WOOOOOF

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:06:04pm

That moment when you hear a neighbor screaming run out and see one pug in her hands. But she has two and the other one is running in circles in the street. HT to LWC for hearing all this. And grabbing my glasses after I scooped up the second pug puppy who licked or kicked (not sure) them off my face onto the street. Cars lights and rain. Anyway we got both pugs off the street for public safety.

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ipsos  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:06:40pm

re: #17 Unshaken Defiance

Pug-lic safety?

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:07:51pm

re: #18 ipsos

Hilarious slightly hazardous chaos with pugs.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:09:40pm

re: #18 ipsos

Pug-licK safety?

FTFY

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Dave In Austin  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:13:29pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:14:45pm

Speaking of dogs, Dory got to play the World’s Cutest Watch Dog tonight. There was a noise outside, and she became really alert, and barked and growled quietly. OMG, it was so CUTE!!!!

Rango opened one eye, and slightly raised one ear.

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whitebeach  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:16:25pm

re: #9 teleskiguy

“Facts are stupid things.”

-Ronald Reagan

Facts are alternative things.

We know this now.

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:17:23pm

This is Leo the Tude, my delinquent yet lovable dog. Picture was taken a few years ago. He’s outside right now, loving the snow and cold temperatures, being the thick furred funny fucker he is.

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:18:30pm

Źzzzzzzzaaaaap boom goes the transformer and all I got is cell phone. First rain.

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austin_blue  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:21:23pm

re: #12 Single-handed sailor

They’re pissed because Canadian actors are better.

Some are great! But bitching that a Canadian is playing Neil Armstrong is just petty.

Tom Hanks played a gay, AIDS infected man in Philadelphia and a mentally challenged man in Forrest Gump. He was neither.

Chris Hemsworth is an Australian playing a Norse God. He’s not.

Jennifer Lawrence played a trailer trash girl in Winter’s Bone” and a talented archer in a dystopian future in the Hunger Games films. She grew up as a middle class kid in Kentucky. She is none of those things.

It’s just a stupid, stupid meme. It’s called acting.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:29:56pm

More bullshit after the jump…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:30:57pm

re: #4 Belafon

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retired cynic  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:32:38pm

re: #28 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Quack!

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:32:56pm

re: #25 Unshaken Defiance

Źzzzzzzzaaaaap boom goes the transformer and all I got is cell phone. First rain.

So far we got 0.01” since July 1st. We got it somewhere in the last 10 days, I never even saw a wet patio.

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:36:10pm

I was especially touched when Vietnam War Veteran John Musgrave described his dog keeping him from committing suicide in Ken Burns & Lynn Novick’s recent documentary “The Vietnam War.”

Sometimes I think us humans don’t deserve dogs.

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retired cynic  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:36:48pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

I was especially touched when Vietnam War Veteran John Musgrave described his dog keeping him from committing suicide in Ken Burns & Lynn Novick’s recent documentary “The Vietnam War.”

Sometimes I think us humans don’t deserve dogs.

animals

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whitebeach  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:38:31pm

re: #26 austin_blue

Some are great! But bitching that a Canadian is playing Neil Armstrong is just petty.

Tom Hanks played a gay, AIDS infected man in Philadelphia and a mentally challenged man in Forrest Gump. He was neither.

Chris Hemsworth is an Australian playing a Norse God. He’s not.

Jennifer Lawrence played a trailer trash girl in Winter’s Bone” and a talented archer in a dystopian future in the Hunger Games films. She grew up as a middle class kid in Kentucky. She is none of those things.

It’s just a stupid, stupid meme. It’s called acting.

Oh, come on.

Humphrey Bogart owned a bar in Casablanca and shot a Nazi officer dead.

Marlon Brando led a major New York crime family.

Donald Trump was a sociopathic shit of a fake boss.

It takes only one out of three on this multiple choice test to score an A.

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austin_blue  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:42:32pm

re: #33 whitebeach

Oh, come on.

Humphrey Bogart owned a bar in Casablanca and shot a Nazi officer dead.

Marlon Brando led a major New York crime family.

Donald Trump was a sociopathic shit of a fake boss.

It takes only one out of three on this multiple choice test to score an A.

Ooh! I got an A+! I knew that right away!

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whitebeach  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:44:48pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

I was especially touched when Vietnam War Veteran John Musgrave described his dog keeping him from committing suicide in Ken Burns & Lynn Novick’s recent documentary “The Vietnam War.”

Sometimes I think us humans don’t deserve dogs.

Last night or the night before I was watching “The Great American Read” on public broadcasting, and the category was love stories. To my great pleasure, one of the books discussed was London’s “The Call of the Wild.” I would also have nominated “White Fang.” The man knew and loved his dogs.

But if you go online and vote for the greatest American book, there is but one, and its title is “Huckleberry Finn.”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:45:48pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

I was especially touched when Vietnam War Veteran John Musgrave described his dog keeping him from committing suicide in Ken Burns & Lynn Novick’s recent documentary “The Vietnam War.”

Sometimes I think us humans don’t deserve dogs.

My thought is that dogs live short lives because otherwise, they’d eventually get tired of our shit.

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:47:17pm

re: #35 whitebeach

I’ve read all those books. I re-read “The Call Of The Wild” last spring.

😉

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whitebeach  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:51:10pm

re: #36 Blind Frog Belly White

My thought is that dogs live short lives because otherwise, they’d eventually get tired of our shit.

They’re tired of our shit from the moment they first lick our hands. But they love us anyway. I honestly don’t believe we’d have made it without them.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:53:07pm

re: #38 whitebeach

They’re tired of our shit from the moment they first lick our hands. But they love us anyway. I honestly don’t believe we’d have made it without them.

One of my favorite memes is “We were wolves, wild and free! Then we discovered you had couches.”

40
Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 9:53:55pm

Our dummy is dressed. Every few hours I re-pose him when I walk by.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:00:21pm

re: #35 whitebeach

Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire” was my favorite work. It showed how man doesn’t deserve dogs.

42
Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:03:50pm

Nobody won the MegaMillions tonight.

Jackpot on Tuesday is estimated at 654 million…

43
retired cynic  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:04:23pm

re: #42 Joe Bacon 🌹

Nobody won the MegaMillions tonight.

Jackpot on Tuesday is estimated at 654 million…

Oo, better go buy a ticket!

44
Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:09:06pm

re: #43 retired cynic

Even I’ll donate $2 to the stupid tax for that jackpot.

45
wheat-dogg  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:10:20pm

Power is out here too. Clear, sunny skies, no wind. It’s just Chynaa.

46
Kragar  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:13:22pm
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whitebeach  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:16:32pm

re: #41 Single-handed sailor

Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire” was my favorite work. It showed how man doesn’t deserve dogs.

To me the main thing it showed was how idiotic it is to try to live in a place where the temperature drops to minus 50 or more degrees Fahrenheit. I’m a Gulf Coast boy.

48
Anymouse 🌹  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:22:15pm

Storm warnings go up for the south half of Portugal in advance of Hurricane Leslie.

ipma.pt

O IPMA informa que às 03:00 TUC (04:00 locais da Madeira e Portugal continental) de dia 13 de outubro, o centro do furacão LESLIE localizava-se 385 km a noroeste (NW) da ilha da Madeira e 1125 km a oeste-sudoeste (WSW) de Lisboa, com um mínimo de pressão de 976 hPa. O furacão LESLIE está a deslocar-se para este-nordeste (ENE) a 57 km/h.

The IPMA [Portugal’s Met Office] says as of 03:00 UTC (04:00 local) on 13 October, the center of Hurricane Leslie is 385 km northeast of Madeira Island and 1,125 km west-southwest of Lisbon, with a minimum pressure of 976 hPa. Hurricane Leslie is moving east-northeast at 57 km/h.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:23:23pm

re: #47 whitebeach

To me the main thing it showed was how idiotic it is to try to live in a place where the temperature drops to minus 50 or more degrees Fahrenheit. I’m a Gulf Coast boy.

Being a Canadian who grew up in California, I couldn’t agree more. Although I did like skiing off into the Sierra back country with 40 lbs of shit on my back in winter when I was young.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:24:40pm

re: #47 whitebeach

To me the main thing it showed was how idiotic it is to try to live in a place where the temperature drops to minus 50 or more degrees Fahrenheit. I’m a Gulf Coast boy.

When my wife and I were in Sacramento a couple years ago, the temps dropped that low here. (That flooded my basement when the pipes froze.)

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whitebeach  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:24:58pm

re: #46 Kragar

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It’s time and past time for us to realize that we are living in the updated version of 1933 Germany, and heading fast for 1937 and beyond.

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austin_blue  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:29:59pm

Night all, I’m out. Best wishes for all those still missing after Michael.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:30:24pm

re: #51 whitebeach

It’s time and past time for us to realize that we are living in the updated version of 1933 Germany, and heading fast for 1937 and beyond.

Not yet. We have the benefit of the historic record.

What you didn’t see in 1933 were massive marches and protests such as the Women’s March. Political organisation against creeping authoritarianism. Flipping more and more seats away from the GOP in special elections (such as Alabama).

Each generation of Americans needs to learn what conservatism really stands for in this country. The current younger generation is learning really fast, and younger baby boomers like myself won’t let the know-nothings win without challenge.

Running away might have worked in the Thirties, and it still took hundreds of millions of dead to stop the conservative march to fascism in WW2. Now there is no place safe. Running away will not save anyone.

54
Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:33:28pm

re: #46 Kragar

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:34:30pm

I’m watching Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House”. I never read the book so I don’t know if it is closely related or not. The story line is captivating and has it’s creepy moments.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:36:37pm

Hey, you know how runners and cyclists will sometimes joke after a lousy run/ride, by saying,

You know those days when you feel strong, and fast, and like you could keep going forever?

This was NOT one of those days.

Well, today actually WAS one of those days! It was GREAT!!! I felt a lot less like an old fat slow guy than I usually do!

57
whitebeach  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:39:20pm

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹

Not yet. We have the benefit of the historic record.

What you didn’t see in 1933 were massive marches and protests such as the Women’s March. Political organisation against creeping authoritarianism. Flipping more and more seats away from the GOP in special elections (such as Alabama).

Each generation of Americans needs to learn what conservatism really stands for in this country. The current younger generation is learning really fast, and younger baby boomers like myself won’t let the know-nothings win without challenge.

Running away might have worked in the Thirties, and it still took hundreds of millions of dead to stop the conservative march to fascism in WW2. Now there is no place safe. Running away will not save anyone.

Hope is how every human being moves to tomorrow, but sometimes tomorrow is there before we do anything except munch popcorn while watching the trailers for coming attractions.

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Kragar  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:44:29pm
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Kragar  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:50:56pm
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Kragar  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:52:25pm
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Kragar  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:53:52pm

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 12, 2018 • 10:55:38pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:00:23pm
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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:00:32pm

re: #58 Kragar

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Not this asshole.

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:04:14pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:05:28pm

Well, I don’t really pay attention to my karma points here, but I see I’ve shot past 100,000 in the relatively short time I’ve been here.

So, to the unnamed person who put me past that milestone, hey thanks. Come over to my house, I have beer.

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Targetpractice  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:05:36pm

re: #59 Kragar

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“I was just cleaning it and it went off” should never apply to 20mm rotary cannons.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:06:37pm

re: #67 Targetpractice

“I was just cleaning it and it went off” should never apply to 20mm rotary cannons.

Sounds like someone bypassed the weight-on-wheels switch.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:09:18pm

re: #59 Kragar

It’s all fun and games, until someone forgets ramp safing SOPs

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Kragar  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:10:02pm

re: #65 teleskiguy

FLIP SIDE!

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:13:34pm
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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:14:03pm

Donald Trump, just like he is today.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:14:49pm

re: #72 Single-handed sailor

Donald Trump, just like he is today.

Oops, I blame the rum, not the weed.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:16:21pm

re: #70 Kragar

FLIP SIDE!

What person (celebrity, politician, writer, etc) from pre-Twitter days would’ve had an incredibly insufferable Twitter feed?

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 12, 2018

George Lincoln Rockwell, Willis Carto, George Wallace.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:16:23pm

The discussion of past figures on Twitter inspired this thought: If Jimmy Hoffa had just had an Apple watch….

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:19:39pm

re: #74 Anymouse 🌹

George Lincoln Rockwell, William Carto, George Wallace.

Oh no, George Wallace was an entertaining sonofabitch for quotes. His twitter feed would have united the country against segregation.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:19:55pm

re: #75 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

The discussion of past figures on Twitter inspired this thought: If Jimmy Hoffa had just had an Apple watch….

He’d still be dead…

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:24:02pm

re: #77 I Would Prefer Not To

He’d still be dead…

But we might have audio!

Jayzuz, did I just type that? I feel dirty.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:25:48pm

re: #75 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

The discussion of past figures on Twitter inspired this thought: If Jimmy Hoffa had just had an Apple watch….

If Jimmy Hoffa had a Fitbit…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:27:43pm

Wait, what?

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:28:32pm

re: #77 I Would Prefer Not To

He’d still be dead…

We might still get his last GPS ping.

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:32:03pm

Wu-Tang Clan knows what’s up.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:35:45pm

re: #82 teleskiguy

Wu-Tang Clan knows what’s up.

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Maybe so, but do they know how to Wang Chung Tonight?

Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight (HQ)

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:40:20pm

All nine members.

Triumph

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:43:51pm

moral relativism

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:46:42pm
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Single-handed sailor  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:48:23pm

video at link.

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Kragar  Oct 12, 2018 • 11:59:49pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 13, 2018 • 12:05:51am

Trump supporter calls 911 on black Lyft driver for not turning on the radio

Video at link. The passenger was an utter douche bag even by Trumpster standards.

Living while black is becoming a regular news category.
Man who fired shotgun at lost black boy seeking directions says he’s ‘tired of being a victim’

Babysitting while black’: Woman calls police on male babysitter with white children

Baggage Claim Becky’: Delta apologizes for calling the police on black woman with damaged luggage

The depressing thing is that this kind of thing, and much worse, has always gone on and is only now getting some worthwhile attention in the media.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 13, 2018 • 12:07:11am

The Rude Pundit:

“It Was a Big Solving”: That Kanye Visit to Trump Was Even Weirder and Stupider Than You Heard

….snip….

Here you go, straight from the White House. You paid for this motherfuckin’ transcript. You may as well enjoy it. You could title it “Dumb Motherfuckers in DC”:

“MR. BROWN: And I like North Korea.

THE PRESIDENT: I like North Korea too.

MR. BROWN: (Inaudible.)

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah. Yeah. Well, he’s — turned out to be good. Dialogue. We had a little dialogue. And Secretary of State just came back — Mike. He just came back from North Korea. We had very good meetings, and we’ll meet again. But we’re doing good. No more nuclear testing. No more missiles going up. No more nothing. And it’s — that was headed to war. That was headed to war.

MR. BROWN: Yeah. I mean, it was — to me, it seemed like that.

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah. It was so close. We spoke — I spoke to President Obama. I will tell you, that was headed to war. And now it’s going to be — I believe it’s going to work out very well.

MR. WEST: You stopped the war —

THE PRESIDENT: We really stopped the war. Saved millions of lives. You know, Seoul has 30 million people. You don’t realize how big. Thirty million people who are right near the border; 30 miles off the border. Millions of people would have been killed. And I will say, Chairman Kim has been really good. Really good. And we’ve made a lot of progress.

That’s nice that you say that, because that’s a big — that’s a big thing. These folks were covering — they were covering North Korea not — I think not very promisingly. And there were a lot of problems. President Obama said that was his biggest problem. And I don’t say anything is solved —

MR. WEST: You, day one, solved one of the biggest problems.

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah.

MR. WEST: We solved one of the biggest problems.

THE PRESIDENT: It was a big solving. And not solved yet, but I think we’re along — I think we’re on the way.”

Between that insanity and Jared Kushner seeming more uncomfortable than he had ever been in his entire, pasty-white life, America was, for just a moment, great again.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 13, 2018 • 12:07:15am

re: #88 Kragar

One people, one country, one President.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 13, 2018 • 12:32:11am

Just saw the video of the freak shooting at the kid who was asking directions in Detroit. Holy moly, what an asshole! Interesting that he felt free to do this right in front of his own surveillance camera. Turns out he had a prior for shooting at a man during a road rage incident. Issues.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 13, 2018 • 12:44:38am

re: #92 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I’ve lived n California for 58 years. I’ve never needed a weapon, I’ve never felt the need for a weapon. I’ve never seen a bar fight. Fucking liberals, living life in peace. Imagine that.

John Lennon - Imagine [HQ]

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 13, 2018 • 12:59:26am

Maybe I should order a MAGA hat before Halloween.

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 1:08:40am

Mega Millions jackpot gets to record territory!

The current Mega Millions record jackpot - a $656 million prize on March 30, 2012 - may very well be history by next Tuesday, October 16. After no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Friday night - the white balls 4, 24, 46, 61 and 70, plus the gold Mega Ball 7 - Tuesday’s estimated jackpot is a whopping $654 million ($372.6 million cash). That amount would be the second-largest prize in the history of the game, and enthusiasm about the jackpot is escalating!

“It’s so exciting for our players, and all of us, to see the Mega Millions jackpot getting so close to an all-time record level,” said Gordon Medenica, Lead Director of the Mega Millions Consortium and Director of Maryland Lottery and Gaming. “With a little luck, we may still break that record by Tuesday. And there’s even more fun with $862 million in combined jackpots for Mega Millions and Powerball. Jackpot fever is definitely sweeping the country!”

[…]

Boggling my mind at the size of these jackpots. And the MD official was wrong - since no one won Powerball on Wed, it’s jackpot is now $314 million for a total of the two games of $968 million in their top prizes.

All this reminds me that there is a vast pool of money out there now denominated in US dollars.

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 1:15:44am

When the jackpots are small they increment from draw to draw by about $30M. Between today and next Tuesday the top prize increased by $106M.

So the number of ticket buyers increases by about 3.5x when the jackpot gets really huge, over the normal weakly play.

State incomes from lottery games have surged the past couple of years, as the overall economy got out of its 2008 recession blues.

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 1:30:24am

re: #95 freetoken

I guess the MD official was commenting before Friday’s draw, so he was correct in the $862M figure.

Now it’s $968M.

If no one wins the Powerball jackpot today (Saturday) the combined jackpots of the two games will soar past a billion dollars (annuitized.)

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ericblair  Oct 13, 2018 • 1:46:05am

re: #91 Single-handed sailor

One people, one country, one President.

One Party, One Village, One Idiot.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 13, 2018 • 1:57:24am

I make a mean huevos rancheros, they are to die for, but they can cause heartburn. This is how I feel 12 hours after breakfast.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 2:15:20am

Dim Jim seems worried.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 13, 2018 • 2:19:28am

re: #100 wheat-dogg

Dim Jim seems worried as dim as always.

FTFY.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 2:25:48am

re: #101 Dr Lizardo

In fact, if the hex works, I wouldn’t object. But I’m thinking nah.

If magic really worked, magic wielders would have taken over the world thousands of years ago, Dr Strange notwithstanding.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 13, 2018 • 2:26:35am

re: #100 wheat-dogg

Dim Jim seems worried.

Democrat Witches to Hex Justice Kavanaugh in Occult Ritual on Saturday

If elected President, I promise to remove Brett Kavanaugh and replace him with Tom. He’s played Santa Claus—that’s qualification enough, right?

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 2:30:28am

Lately, to wind down from my busy teaching and administrating schedule, I’ve been catching up on decades of neglected anime. Right now, I’m in the first third of Star Blazers- Space Battleship Yamato 2199, and hooked. The artwork is amazing!

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 2:31:25am

Also, I bought a bottle of Ballantine’s.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 13, 2018 • 2:40:50am

re: #105 wheat-dogg

Also, I bought a bottle of Ballantine’s.

Ale? I don’t think I’ve heard of that since 1974.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 3:31:16am

re: #100 wheat-dogg

Dim Jim seems worried.

This goes back to the Wiccans who got together to pray Christian imprecatory prayers cast a binding spell on Donald Trump when he won the election. “Hex” sounds more scary than “spell” (which is the Wiccan equivalent of “prayer”).

Bear in mind imprecatory prayers are noted in a whole bunch of places in the Bible (as in wishing evil or confusion on your enemies) while Wiccan prayers spells are meant to avert harm (Wicca does not permit using prayer magic for evil).

Christine O’Donnell’s “I’m not a witch” comes from her dabbling in Wicca as a teenager when it was dug up on her as opposition research by another Republican.

Fear drives conservative voters, so scary prayer hexes will work just fine, especially during Hallowe’en, and why give up the hits.

In this case, SMOTI refers to a bookshop in New York holding such an event, a prayer binding ritual for Brett Kavanaugh.

To this atheist, it’s all magic regardless of whether you call it a prayer or a spell; I see no difference, but boy, oh, boy does the label matter to conservatives (and many Christians as well).

It’s why you get Christians (especially conservatives) condemning everything from D&D to Harry Potter to “Charmed”: They actually fear those things because they use fictionalised versions of prayer magic.

It’s why you occasionally get Christian pastors who call for killing Wiccans here (the Biblical admonition to kill witches being the justification).

Wonkette has a write-up on Jim Hoft’s latest insanity about the book shop and its imprecatory prayer binding spell:

Right Wing Nutjobs Very Scared Of All The Witchcraft We Are Going To Do To Them

Since Democrats aren’t the party of theocrats (it’s the GOP which has been that way all my life, since RJ Rushdooney propounded on Christian Reconstructionism and Ronald Reagan invited them in) and for the most part doesn’t care what your religion is (though a surprising number of Democratic voters hold atheists can’t be moral as well), conservatives can continually paint liberals as “in league with Satan” and other such crap.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 13, 2018 • 3:44:16am

re: #93 Single-handed sailor

I’ve lived n California for 58 years. I’ve never needed a weapon, I’ve never felt the need for a weapon. I’ve never seen a bar fight. Fucking liberals, living life in peace. Imagine that.

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In 2017, private citizens committed just 317 justifiable homicides in the United States. Even this would be largely unnecessary if the NRA did not make guns easily available to criminals by insisting that millions of people, practically everyone in fact, should have a gun for self defense.
I think of this as the “circle of death.” The NRA demands that millions of law abiding citizens should have guns. Violent criminals inevitably acquire some of the resulting millions of guns. A handful of the law abiding end up shooting some of these criminals. The NRA then uses these episodes to support its demand for guns for everyone

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 3:44:52am

As the article notes, Ben Shapiro on his website The Daily Wire is bellyaching about this bookstore as well, equating this to feminism, thus feminism is evil (and therefore a tool of the Devil).

Expect to see this make it to FOX before too much longer, as the right wing fever swamps are all over it, as is Charisma Magazine (the largest-circulation Evangelical magazine in the USA).

The bookstore in question is a New Age bookstore.

The actual event is listed here: facebook.com

Please join us for a public hex on Brett Kavanaugh, upon all rapists and the patriarchy at large which emboldens, rewards and protects them. We are embracing witchcraft’s true roots as the magik of the poor, the downtrodden and disenfranchised and it’s history as often the only weapon, the only means of exacting justice available to those of us who have been wronged by men just like him.

He will be the focal point, but by no means the only target, so bring your rage and and all of the axes you’ve got to grind. There will also be a second ritual afterward - “The Rites of the Scorned One” which seeks to validate, affirm, uphold and support those of us who have been wronged and who refuse to be silent any longer.

50% of the event proceeds will be donated to charity:
25% to the Ali Forney Center and 25% to Planned Parenthood.

Please note that no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 3:47:16am

re: #106 Single-handed sailor

Ale? I don’t think I’ve heard of that since 1974.

Nae, sonny. Scotch.

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 3:48:32am

Looking at the UK headlines, and Brexit is as usual coming up as a mess.

Boris Johnson is now trying to outdo Trump in being a strong man… while PM May seems totally out to lunch. In Northern Ireland the DUP is trying to play both sides, and farmers who depend on EU subsidies all of a sudden are waking up to the fact that no EU means no EU subsidies.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 3:48:40am

re: #107 Anymouse 🌹

Someone tweeted that the Harry Potter series are the most commonly banned books in the USA.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 3:50:58am

re: #111 freetoken

Looking at the UK headlines, and Brexit is as usual coming up as a mess.

Boris Johnson is now trying to outdo Trump in being a strong man… while PM May seems totally out to lunch. In Northern Ireland the DUP is trying to play both sides, and farmers who depend on EU subsidies all of a sudden are waking up to the fact that no EU means no EU subsidies.

May is foundering right now. I can’t imagine how’s she’s going to maintain a majority at the rate she’s going. You’d think that Labour could take advantage of her situation, but they’re as OTL as she is.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 13, 2018 • 3:54:50am

re: #107 Anymouse 🌹

It’s also something of a win-win for the fundie nutjobs. If there is indeed a “Blue Wave” this November, the fundies will be able to blame the ‘forces of Satan’ accordingly.

It’s a feedback loop.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 13, 2018 • 3:56:39am

re: #113 wheat-dogg

British political press is running stories that May is thinking of ditching her informal coalition with the DUP and trying to ram through her Brexit bill in the Parliament.

Omnishambles, as our British cousins like to say.

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 3:58:17am

re: #113 wheat-dogg

re: #115 Dr Lizardo

May is dependent upon the DUP to be PM. Without them she can’t win a confidence vote.

If the Labor party wasn’t currently being run by a zombie it might be able to make some headway here.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 3:59:41am

re: #116 freetoken

I’m sure the Queen wishes she could wield some political power, because the government needs someone to knock some sense into their heads.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:00:17am

re: #112 wheat-dogg

Someone tweeted that the Harry Potter series are the most commonly banned books in the USA.

That would not be true.

Last year’s American Library Association list they don’t even make the top ten.

ala.org
(Scrolling down the page goes to previous years.)

Almost all of the books on the list last year were challenged for discussing LGBT issues or sex in general, and the perennial favourite “To Kill a Mockingbird” is in there.

The top book last year had a frank discussion of suicide.

Harry Potter books are usually a blip the year they come out, then fade from the lists.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:01:43am

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹

You and your pesky facts!

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:03:43am

Radio host and quintessential Lubbockite Wade Wilkes manages to combine racism, gun nuttery and Republican campaigning in a single meme.

Facebook Post

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:04:22am

Yesterday a whole bunch of scare articles came out about DNA testing. Here is one from Vox with a very scary headline:

Ancestry DNA databases can be used to find you — even if you don’t sign up

It’s very misleading.

First off, to get to you via DNA you have to be tested.

Sure, your relatives can be found if they are in a DNA database and through further information gathering you can be roped into that family, because you have information now online outside of DNA databases.

Anyone who uses Facebook ought not complain about loss of anonymity, because Facebook (and other companies) already know more about you than any DNA identity can reveal.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:06:36am

re: #119 wheat-dogg

You and your pesky facts!

They have a liberal bias.

My wife is also the former public library director here.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:08:59am

re: #117 wheat-dogg

I’m sure the Queen wishes she could wield some political power, because the government needs someone to knock some sense into their heads.

Does the House of Lords have any say in this, or are they just watching the Dumpster fire in Commons thinking “what a gang of idiots?”

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:09:55am
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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:11:17am

Part of the problem is that “DNA” is now a magic word.

Because determinism is so strong in the thinking of humans, the belief that DNA determines this or that makes it scary and powerful.

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:13:58am

Here’s another story that just came out, though it is more thoughtful:

When a DNA Test Reveals Your Daughter Is Not Your Biological Child

As DNA-testing companies sell millions of kits, they’ve started to rearrange families. The tests have reunited long-lost cousins and helped adoptees find their birth parents, donor-conceived kids their sperm donors. They have also, in some cases, uncovered difficult family secrets.

[…]

Definitely.

Yet that has always been true of genealogy. Long ago someone made famous the maxim that if you don’t want to know what is hiding in the closet then don’t open the closet door.

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Swampwitch  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:21:39am

re: #99 Single-handed sailor

This week on The Walking Dead…Dale Gribble eats Ladybird. Hank Hill, “Dammit Dale!”

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:21:50am

re: #121 freetoken

Yesterday a whole bunch of scare articles came out about DNA testing. Here is one from Vox with a very scary headline:

Ancestry DNA databases can be used to find you — even if you don’t sign up

It’s very misleading.

First off, to get to you via DNA you have to be tested.

Sure, your relatives can be found if they are in a DNA database and through further information gathering you can be roped into that family, because you have information now online outside of DNA databases.

Anyone who uses Facebook ought not complain about loss of anonymity, because Facebook (and other companies) already know more about you than any DNA identity can reveal.

They’re afraid DNA will prove massive inbreeding in conservative populations.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:22:11am

re: #123 Anymouse 🌹

Does the House of Lords have any say in this, or are they just watching the Dumpster fire in Commons thinking “what a gang of idiots?”

I’m hazy on how the British government operates, but I’m not sure the Lords can do much about Brexit after Commons has passed a bill and it’s gotten the monarch’s assent. In fact, I’m just blowing hot air here. I have no idea how or why Brexit ever became a thing, other than Cameron’s idiocy.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:24:26am

22 Reasons to Pray the Cursing Psalms (Goes to Praypsalm dot org)

Christian apologia on why the imprecatory prayers in Psalms should be prayed, using justification from both the Old and New Testaments.

It starts:

The imprecatory (or cursing or vengeance) psalms are probably the most difficult obstacle Christians face when taking up the Psalms as their own prayers.

Because looking at those and thinking “maybe this book is not inspired” does not fit into the worldview; the world must fit into the religion.

That makes it really easy for cynical people to exploit the devout, for example climate change denial. (Only God has the ability to destroy the world, not humans.)

It’s always “It’s God’s law” not “the book hates the same people I do.”

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:25:11am

re: #126 freetoken

My son-in-law’s dad, who was adopted as a child, is quite reticent about my poking into his family history. So, I’ve avoided the entire issue.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:27:57am

re: #123 Anymouse 🌹

Does the House of Lords have any say in this, or are they just watching the Dumpster fire in Commons thinking “what a gang of idiots?”

“Glad I wasn’t born into THAT lot.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:28:46am

re: #129 wheat-dogg

I’m hazy on how the British government operates, but I’m not sure the Lords can do much about Brexit after Commons has passed a bill and it’s gotten the monarch’s assent. In fact, I’m just blowing hot air here. I have no idea how or why Brexit ever became a thing, other than Cameron’s idiocy.

According to Wikipedia, font of all human ken [citation needed]:

The House of Lords scrutinises bills that have been approved by the House of Commons. It regularly reviews and amends Bills from the Commons. While it is unable to prevent Bills passing into law, except in certain limited circumstances, it can delay Bills and force the Commons to reconsider their decisions. In this capacity, the House of Lords acts as a check on the House of Commons that is independent from the electoral process.

As for how Brexit became a thing, it was floated by some pundits that was Russia’s “test run” before the US election. Note Russia is also involved in both the California and Texas secessionist movements (and the guy who ran the California one lives in Russia).

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:32:34am

People are afraid of what they do not know, and DNA is a subject not well understood by most people.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:33:08am
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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:37:00am

Speaking of scaring the masses:

Same-Sex Mice Give Birth Thanks To Gene Editing

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences say they’ve successfully bred healthy mice from two mothers by way of new genetic engineering techniques.

According to the study published Thursday, researchers were able to accomplish the feat by genetically editing embryonic stem cells containing one parent’s DNA and injecting it into the unfertilized eggs of another.

A total of 29 mice from two mothers were born using 210 embryos, and all 29 of them were able to grow into adulthood. Even more impressive, the engineered mice were still able to have babies of their own.

They say the reason for the experiment was to explore why some animals - like certain reptiles and fish - can reproduce without a partner and others cannot, and to figure out what it would take for same-sex reproduction in mammals.

[…]

Share that with all your homophobic friends and tell them that men are no longer needed on this planet.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:38:31am

Interestingly, looking back at that American Library Association list of banned books over the last ten years (it goes father), “Captain Underpants” and Maya Angelou are on the list more than Harry Potter. (Maya Angelou made the list for being sexually explicit and offensive language.)

In each decade, the overwhelming number of books challenged are for sex or offensive language. “Satanic” gets an honourable mention as a small fraction of the challenges.

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:41:01am

From the research paper:

Generation of Bimaternal and Bipaternal Mice from Hypomethylated Haploid ESCs with Imprinting Region Deletions

Summary

Unisexual reproduction is widespread among lower vertebrates, but not in mammals. Deletion of the H19 imprinted region in immature oocytes produced bimaternal mice with defective growth; however, bipaternal reproduction has not been previously achieved in mammals. We found that cultured parthenogenetic and androgenetic haploid embryonic stem cells (haESCs) display DNA hypomethylation resembling that of primordial germ cells. Through MII oocyte injection or sperm coinjection with hypomethylated haploid ESCs carrying specific imprinted region deletions, we obtained live bimaternal and bipaternal mice. Deletion of 3 imprinted regions in parthenogenetic haploid ESCs restored normal growth of fertile bimaternal mice, whereas deletion of 7 imprinted regions in androgenetic haploid ESCs enabled production of live bipaternal mice that died shortly after birth. Phenotypic analyses of organ and body size of these mice support the genetic conflict theory of genomic imprinting. Taken together, our results highlight the factors necessary for crossing same-sex reproduction barriers in mammals.

In other words, two mommies works, two daddies didn’t.

Share that with all your men-are-the-true-victims friends and tell them they are obsolete.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:44:08am

re: #136 freetoken

Speaking of scaring the masses:

Same-Sex Mice Give Birth Thanks To Gene Editing

Share that with all your homophobic friends and tell them that men are no longer needed on this planet.

Feminazis are gonna genocide all the men!!!11!!2!!uno!!!dos!!!

In the meantime, Science News reported yesterday a similar experiment with two male mice (using a surrogate female mouse for a host).

sciencenews.org

For the first time, researchers have created mice with two dads. No female contributed to the rodents’ genetic makeup.

This unusual reproduction took place in a lab where researchers gathered fathers’ stem cells, and used them to produce embryos that were implanted into surrogate mothers. The technique required scientists to edit the animals’ genes in order for the mice to mature enough to be born. Even so, mouse pups with only fathers died a few days after birth, researchers report October 11 in Cell Stem Cell. By contrast, previous research and this study have shown that some gene-edited mice with only mothers can survive to adulthood and have offspring of their own.

(more)

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:46:46am

re: #138 freetoken

From the research paper:

Generation of Bimaternal and Bipaternal Mice from Hypomethylated Haploid ESCs with Imprinting Region Deletions

In other words, two mommies works, two daddies didn’t.

Share that with all your men-are-the-true-victims friends and tell them they are obsolete.

In mammals, two X chromosomes = female, an X and a Y = male, and occasionally there are various other combinations that present in different ways. Two Y chromosomes, however = a disorganized mass of cells that miscarries early. That ought to tell you something….

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:47:54am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹

IOW, the Book of Genesis got the order of creation all wrong. Eve came first, then Adam as an afterthought.
/

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:50:35am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹

It’s the same study as in the one I linked.

Using two males as sources of the haploid cells did result in live births, but the offspring died shortly after that.

Using two females as the source results in live births that were able to grow into functioning adults.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:53:48am

re: #142 freetoken

Yeah, you were quicker than I was, plus you linked the actual study whereas I went for a popular press article.

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:54:26am

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹

Trust in the freetoken. The freetoken is good.

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:55:47am

Meanwhile, our garbage is piling up, a long ways away:

Increase in plastics waste reaching remote South Atlantic islands

The amount of plastic washing up onto the shores of remote South Atlantic islands is 10 times greater than it was a decade ago, according to new research published today (8 October) in the journal Current Biology.

Scientists investigating plastics in seas surrounding the remote British Overseas Territories discovered they are invading these unique biologically-rich regions. This includes areas that are established or proposed Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

The study shows for the first time that plastic pollution on some remote South Atlantic beaches is approaching levels seen in industrialised North Atlantic coasts.

[…]

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 4:57:14am

re: #145 freetoken

Those Wall-E robots might just be necessary.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 13, 2018 • 5:09:40am

re: #121 freetoken

Tell that to the Golden State killer.

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ericblair  Oct 13, 2018 • 5:18:01am

re: #133 Anymouse 🌹

According to Wikipedia, font of all human ken [citation needed]:

As for how Brexit became a thing, it was floated by some pundits that was Russia’s “test run” before the US election. Note Russia is also involved in both the California and Texas secessionist movements (and the guy who ran the California one lives in Russia).

The House of Lords overall thinks Brexit is a bad idea, and is basically the only real way out of this mess. They can and have substantially amended Brexit bills, but can’t reverse course by themselves.

The Leave campaign was heavily (and illegally) funded by a dick businessman named Arron Banks, who donated 9m pounds after being offered a sweetheart deal in Russian mining operations (detailed here.) May’s government has been quite reluctant to follow up on this, and the main investigation now seems to be in Canada (because of the connection with the Cambridge Analytica spinoff company).

You would think that having this entire crisis being based on an illegal campaign involving a corrupt businessman and a hostile foreign power would inspire some urgency, but curiously not.

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jeffreyw  Oct 13, 2018 • 5:53:43am

Imgur


Good morning!

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freetoken  Oct 13, 2018 • 5:56:49am

re: #147 Shropshire Slasher

Tell that to the Golden State killer.

But as I wrote, it takes information other than DNA to come to an identity.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 13, 2018 • 6:26:04am
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steve_davis  Oct 13, 2018 • 6:28:55am

re: #30 Single-handed sailor

So far we got 0.01” since July 1st. We got it somewhere in the last 10 days, I never even saw a wet patio.

re: #41 Single-handed sailor

Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire” was my favorite work. It showed how man doesn’t deserve dogs.

Favorite part of that story is when the man plots to kill the dog to warm his hands, only to discover that the cat has already plotted successfully to kill both the man and the dog through exposure to the elements, in order to collect the insurance money.

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steve_davis  Oct 13, 2018 • 6:30:42am

re: #46 Kragar

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so, okay, the chinese guy and the arab looking dude aren’t aware that this would be the point in Nazi Germany where they’d be getting euthanized as sub-human?

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2018 • 6:43:24am

Donald Trump will sell/is selling the country down the river.

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Citizen K  Oct 13, 2018 • 7:06:16am

Jesus fuck. I just learned about the Proud Boys shit in Manhattan. And of course, the police privileged them with protection while letting the counter-protestors get the shit beat out of them without consequence.

Tell me it’s the ‘uncivil’ lefties that are the super hyperviolent crazies. I fucking dare you. I absolutely fucking dare you.

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2018 • 7:06:17am

“…the notion that large and emotional political crowds are necessarily to be distrusted because they are large and emotional has a very short history in this country and, unfortunately, a lot of influential people seem to be attached to it—so much so that, one day, they wake up blinking in the sunshine and wonder how all that damn tea got in the harbor.”

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steve_davis  Oct 13, 2018 • 7:08:26am

re: #106 Single-handed sailor

Ale? I don’t think I’ve heard of that since 1974.

a bottle of empty ballantine’s can be traded in for the complete Lovecraft paperback run from the 70’s.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 13, 2018 • 7:12:21am

So, I just watched The Bourne Identity for the third time, after reading the novel. I still think the movie is great. So what if the script took liberties with the book.

I want a Morris Mini, too.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2018 • 7:22:51am

re: #128 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

They’re afraid DNA will prove massive inbreeding in conservative populations.

They’re all scared of finding out they’re black.

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2018 • 7:55:04am

re: #100 wheat-dogg

Dim Jim seems worried.

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Jim thinks witches and hexes are real?
Otherwise wtf?

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Citizen K  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:11:20am
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jaunte  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:12:45am
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Ace-o-aces  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:18:28am

re: #160 dangerman

Jim thinks witches and hexes are real?
Otherwise wtf?

Judging by the replies, a lot of his followers do.
Always seemed ironic that Dim Jim is followed by a large number of fundamentalists who would condemn him to hellfire for being gay.

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ObserverArt  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:22:25am

Reading down through the last thread, etc., and I just have to post this image. I bring it out when a certain subject comes up.

Sherman Statue - Lancaster Ohio

Birthplace statue. Ohio proud.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:34:25am

re: #164 ObserverArt

I was born there. Went to the Sherman House in school field trips in elementary school. Back when history wasn’t controversial.

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Teukka  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:39:06am

*sighs* Did this get posted already?

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danarchy  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:40:15am

re: #59 Kragar

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I think it is time for someone from Lockheed Martin to make a sales call…

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:40:41am

Hello from wet SoCal. A tip of my hat and appreciation to a crew that fixed a blown transformer in just a few hours. They worked in rain and with lightning around, that’s gotta be a bit of a pucker factor for those people. I expected delays thinking hurricanes back east had drained the manpower away for good reason.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:42:32am

There was discussion here on “if you don’t understand a referendum, just vote no” which I vehemently pushed back on.

The correct response is “If you don’t understand a referendum, learn about it first.”

Voting “no” on Massachusetts referendum 3, which is getting a whole lot of advertising for the “no” camp is a case in point.

The aim of the referendum is to repeal the 2016 expansion of a 2011 law. That expansion protects trans rights.

A no vote repeals the 2016 extension, meaning “no I don’t want to keep it.” The wording is exceptionally deceptive, designed to make supporters of those expanded rights (and those who don’t understand the confusing wording) to cast a “no” vote.

boston.com

The take away part is right here:

Don’t get confused by the wording of the bill; this part is pretty simple:

A YES VOTE would keep in place the current law, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity in places of public accommodation.

A NO VOTE would repeal this provision of the public accommodation law.

The referendum is intentionally misleading by conservative supporters of potty police.

Their advert also is misleading, making you think for a “yes” vote you can be jailed and fined for an improper report.

The atheist counter-apologetics YouTube trans rights activist Essence of Thought breaks down both the advert and the provisions of the referendum, along with the current non-discrimination law from 2011, why voting “no” not only hurts trans people, but all children of any gender orientation. (Essence of Thought is also trans.)

If you live in Massachusetts, vote “YES” - and by the way, even in nominally liberal states you are not safe from conservative rodent copulation.

(17:34, goes to Essence of Thought’s YouTube channel)

When Anti-Trans Hate Puts All Children In Real Danger | #KeepMASafe #YesOn3

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Citizen K  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:43:24am
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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:55:34am

re: #170 Citizen K

Ah, the fascist-curious NYT will never change… .

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lawhawk  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:59:35am

re: #65 teleskiguy

Andy Kaufman and John Belushi because their comic genius was insane and meant for online
Winston Churchill because his inspiration was all consuming.
Alexander Hamilton (because he was nonstop).

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 13, 2018 • 8:59:54am

Ocular migraine. Irritating. Currently in the growth stage, and slightly off center of my field of vision, allowing me to still see what I’m typing, but not what I’ve just typed.

And now I’m singing, in my head, “I’m havin’ a migraine….An ocular migraine” to the tune of “We’re havin’ a heat wave”, because a mind is a terrible thing.

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Citizen K  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:02:49am

re: #171 Anymouse 🌹

Ah, the fascist-curious NYT will never change… .

Especially when we literally had fascist political violence in Manhattan courtesy of the Proud Boys and not only did the police do nothing, but they were outright protected and encouraged by the police watching it go down. The Dems have nothing that even approaches it, but according to the NYT (including their ‘picks’ from their comments), it’s Dems creating and encouraging unprecedented unconscionable hyperviolent mobs neverbefore seen in politics or some godamn shit.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:04:09am

Okay, I took that description of Massachusetts Referendum 3 and put it on the right hand column of Little Green Footballs, so a shameless page promotion goes here:

Vote Yes on Mass. Referendum 3

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:07:05am

So, not germane to politics or world affairs or anything, but I’ve found a nice little early Halloween treat for you all.

Something Evil - a 1972 made-for-TV movie (CBS) starring Darren McGavin, Sandy Dennis and Ralph Bellamy.

And directed by Steven Spielberg. He directed this one after he did Duel and it’s been noted that it shares some similarities with his later film, Poltergeist (of course, there’s debate as to whether Spielberg did in fact direct Poltergeist and just let Tobe Hooper take credit for it, the reason for that being, IIRC, Spielberg was under contract and couldn’t direct another film at that time).

Enjoy!

Something Evil (1972)

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ObserverArt  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:09:30am

re: #151 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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I don’t know why, but for some odd reason I saw those images of the ‘roo in the creek and thought of Vlad Putin.

I think it was the bare chest and the nose!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:19:29am
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ObserverArt  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:21:35am

re: #173 Blind Frog Belly White

Ocular migraine. Irritating. Currently in the growth stage, and slightly off center of my field of vision, allowing me to still see what I’m typing, but not what I’ve just typed.

And now I’m singing, in my head, “I’m havin’ a migraine….An ocular migraine” to the tune of “We’re havin’ a heat wave”, because a mind is a terrible thing.

Get out of any light or close your eyes for some time and just deep breath and relax. It should go right away.

It seems as you get older and are a migraine headache sufferer all that happens is the visual aura thing. I haven’t had that in a few years, but when I was still getting migraines all I had was the visuals, though not as intense. Just getting out of the light fore a few minutes seemed to always work.

Sure don’t miss the trifecta of full-blown migraines when younger. Visual first, head knocking headache second, nausea third. Down for the count.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:21:58am

so brave…

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:25:13am

re: #155 Citizen K

Jesus fuck. I just learned about the Proud Boys shit in Manhattan. And of course, the police privileged them with protection while letting the counter-protestors get the shit beat out of them without consequence.

Tell me it’s the ‘uncivil’ lefties that are the super hyperviolent crazies. I fucking dare you. I absolutely fucking dare you.

The GOP, FOX, and the right wing fever swamps already are, with the NYT providing a view from nowhere.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:27:47am

re: #171 Anymouse 🌹

Ah, the fascist-curious NYT will never change… .

Which is a funny comment because there’s a reply in there comparing the Democrats to the Nazis and making Antifa be equal to the SA.

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wrenchwench  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:33:24am
Friday Night Jam: Tom Misch

Does he really have a microphone, or is that a Speedplay pedal?

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:34:26am

re: #182 Belafon

Which is a funny comment because there’s a reply in there comparing the Democrats to the Nazis and making Antifa be equal to the SA.

Well, they haven’t retracted their endorsement of Adolph Hitler yet back in the Thirties.

The New York Times should always be viewed as fascist-curious, when even after a World War they won’t retract their endorsement.

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TedStriker  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:35:20am

re: #61 Kragar

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Yup, the gun works.

Whoops…

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makeitstop  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:39:51am

Every good boy deserves beer.

Depending on how much you dote on your dog, you’ll read news of a Houston couples’ new line of dog beers in one of a few ways. But let’s get one detail clear right away: There is no alcohol, or hops, or brewer’s yeast in these “beers;” they’re made of chicken and pork and vegetable broth. Okay, now let’s talk about the concept of paying $5 for a drink for your dog.

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jeffreyw  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:46:29am

Who was it that was talking about their foot massager? We bought one after seeing positive comments. Ollie is Shiatsu curious.

Imgur

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A Mom Anon  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:46:53am

re: #186 makeitstop

I saw that at Petsmart before my Abby died. Seriously? Abby liked beer, and no I never let her have more than a little poured into my hand. All this gourmet weirdness for our pets is a tad much sometimes…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:47:50am

he is so full of shit

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:48:52am
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makeitstop  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:49:23am

re: #188 A Mom Anon

I saw that at Petsmart before my Abby died. Seriously? Abby liked beer, and no I never let her have more than a little poured into my hand. All this gourmet weirdness for our pets is a tad much sometimes…

Yeah, and 5 bucks a can is a little, umm, pricey. You can get some marrow bones and boil them up for a coupla bucks…

I would like to have one of the cans, though, just for giggles.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:51:45am
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danarchy  Oct 13, 2018 • 9:56:14am

re: #188 A Mom Anon

I saw that at Petsmart before my Abby died. Seriously? Abby liked beer, and no I never let her have more than a little poured into my hand. All this gourmet weirdness for our pets is a tad much sometimes…

So I get these little packets of wet food, usually just something like shredded chicken in broth, to mix with my dogs dry food. I usually buy them by the case, I recently realized that they cost more per unit than a can of tuna fish.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:04:53am

re: #193 danarchy

I did that too, only with salmon for Abby.

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Alephnaught  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:04:55am

re: #105 wheat-dogg

Also, I bought a bottle of Ballantine’s.

I always remember going to Dumbarton as a kid- just a train journey down the Clyde coast from Glasgow- and just before we got into Dumbarton, we passed by the Ballantine’s distillery, which was protected by guard GEESE!

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:09:15am
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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:13:29am

I need to go into town, so catch y’all later.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:14:31am

Oh yeah, if you hadn’t heard.

That’s around 6.5% of the entire f-22 fleet

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retired cynic  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:19:14am

re: #198 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Oh yeah, if you hadn’t heard.

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That’s around 6.5% of the entire f-22 fleet

Who the heck is in charge of this show? All heads should roll, from the top down.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:24:51am

re: #198 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

As a former sailor on an aircraft carrier, I have to ask why no one thought to put pilots in them and fly them somewhere else?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:26:14am

re: #100 wheat-dogg

Dim Jim seems worried.

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I think SMOTI ought to be afraid of his upcoming court case!

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BigPapa  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:26:46am

re: #200 Belafon

As a former sailor on an aircraft carrier, I have to ask why no one thought to put pilots in them and fly them somewhere else?

As a former pizza chef, alarm installer, and ball losing duffer, I have to ask the same thing. Fuel em up and fly em out.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:26:55am

Tornado warning for Ellis and Johnson counties here in Texas, south of Dallas.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:28:01am

re: #199 retired cynic

Who the heck is in charge of this show? All heads should roll, from the top down.

They were down for maintenance, non-flyable. A number of other aircraft were left behind too. Several QF-16s and Mu-2s have been spotted through holes in the heavily damaged hangers across the base.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:28:23am

re: #203 Belafon

Tornado warning for Ellis and Johnson counties here in Texas, south of Dallas.

Or “The oppressive government interrupted the show I was watching to tell me about danger 80 miles away. How dare they?!”

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:28:58am

re: #204 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

They were down for maintenance, non-flyable. A number of other aircraft were left behind too. Several QF-16s and Mu-2s have been spotted through holes in the heavily damaged hangers across the base.

Well, then, never mind.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:28:58am

re: #200 Belafon

As a former sailor on an aircraft carrier, I have to ask why no one thought to put pilots in them and fly them somewhere else?

Pilots are more valuable than planes.

The F-22s left behind could not fly for either mechanical or safety reasons, said a spokeswoman, who also said all the hangars on base were damaged.

Edit: I should have hit load on the four unloaded comments before I replied. DirtDart’s got this.

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BigPapa  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:36:34am

re: #206 Belafon

Well, then, never mind.

Yeah!

(goes back to pizza and losing golf balls)

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ObserverArt  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:36:50am

re: #199 retired cynic

Who the heck is in charge of this show? All heads should roll, from the top down.

I agree. It’s not like they didn’t know a huge hurricane was coming.

They are military aircraft. Fly the damn things to a safer setting. They’ve done it before. Many times they fly them up here to Ohio at store them either in Dayton at Wright-Patt or in Columbus at Rickenbacker.

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:37:04am

re: #199 retired cynic

TheDrive had an article, the flyable planes were flown out. Readiness of that fleet is not good. Um was not before the storm.

Many F-22s, T-38s, and QF-16s, as well as other aircraft that call the base home, were able to escape to areas unaffected by the storm, but some were also left behind because they were not capable of flight.

thedrive.com

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:37:41am

re: #198 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

A shame they couldn’t withstand 150 mph winds.

/

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ObserverArt  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:40:16am

re: #204 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

They were down for maintenance, non-flyable. A number of other aircraft were left behind too. Several QF-16s and Mu-2s have been spotted through holes in the heavily damaged hangers across the base.

That is a lot of aircraft down for maintenance. Is that usual?

And part two, is having expensive aircraft needing repair good to have sitting on the ground at an airport on a coast open for storm activity?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:41:05am

Now, the question will become: What to do with Tyndall?
100% of housing is not safe/suitable for occupation. Footage basically shows that every structure has sustained heavy damage. A high percentage are a total loss
Tyndall is the USAF F-22 and air battle manager schoolhouse. Functions that likely won’t be able to be performed there for years

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Alephnaught  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:49:44am

re: #115 Dr Lizardo

British political press is running stories that May is thinking of ditching her informal coalition with the DUP and trying to ram through her Brexit bill in the Parliament.

Omnishambles, as our British cousins like to say.

Well, actually, I noticed the Guardian was reporting yesterday that Theresa May’s latest wizard wheeze to keep the DUP onside was to agree to extend the transition period beyond the currently negotiated 21 months to some unspecified amount of time, so that the “backstop” scenario, in which the EU starts treating Northern Ireland in a different way to the rest of the UK if they don’t sort out the border issues, (A red line for the DUP.) doesn’t happen.

Which in effect, would mean that the UK doesn’t really leave the EU, it just leaves behind having any say in EU rules affecting it for an unspecified amount of time after “Brexit”. Which I can’t imagine will please Brexiters. I suspect Mrs Mày is trying to buy some time, as well as forcing the ball into the DUP’s court. Don’t know how successful that’s going to be….

Secret plans to allow an extension of the transition period in the Brexit withdrawal agreement could result in the UK living under all EU rules well beyond the 21 months so far negotiated, the Guardian can reveal.

The expected offer of an extension is designed to convince Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist party, that the “backstop” plan to avoid the creation of a hard border on the island of Ireland will never come into force.

A longer transition period would mean the whole of the country would be locked into a prolonged period of what EU diplomats have previously described as a state of “vassalage”, with the House of Commons being forced to accept Brussels regulations without having any say on them.

So, in this scenario, “Brexit” means the UK becomes a vassal state of the EU for an unspecified period of time. Like, you said: omnishambles.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:53:02am

those sneaky Dems CHANGED THE DISTRICT MAP!!11!!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:54:39am
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PhillyPretzel  Oct 13, 2018 • 10:58:58am

re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth

He just got the kiss of death from DT.

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retired cynic  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:05:20am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:08:12am

gaaaaaaahhhhhh

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:10:19am

re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth

gaaaaaaahhhhhh

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Andy Barr’s opponent is a military vet, something that Andy is not.
So much for the moron-in-chief’s loving the military…

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Charles Johnson  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:11:22am
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Charles Johnson  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:11:52am
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Charles Johnson  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:15:17am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:18:44am

EKU releases contract with Trump. Here’s what his campaign is paying for KY rally.

President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign will pay Eastern Kentucky University $10,800 to rent Alumni Coliseum on Saturday, according to a contract EKU released late Tuesday.

The campaign also will reimburse EKU for other anticipated or unanticipated costs incurred by the event, which is expected to fill the arena’s 6,000 seats. Trump is appearing in part to support U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, a Republican who is locked in a toss-up race with retired fighter pilot Amy McGrath in Central Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District.

According to the contract, obtained by the Herald-Leader under the Kentucky Open Records Act, EKU will not use its own police for the event and cannot bill the campaign for security expenses. Instead, the campaign will pay for private security contractors. A paragraph apparently referring to security plans was redacted in the document.

Read more here: kentucky.com

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:21:47am

re: #163 Ace-o-aces

Judging by the replies, a lot of his followers do.
Always seemed ironic that Dim Jim is followed by a large number of fundamentalists who would condemn him to hellfire for being gay.

Just wait till the Radical Xtians get their dominionist State. SMOTI, Milo, L’il Lucien, Andy Sullivan, Tammy Brice and I bet ol’ Diamond & Silk will be shocked when they’re rounded up and sent to the special camp for “reprogramming”!

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:23:48am

‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: GOP overwhelmed by Democratic cash

A deluge of Democratic spending in the final days of the battle for the House has triggered recriminations among Republicans and forced the party to lean on its biggest patron to salvage their majority.

Since the end of July, Republican candidates in the 70 most contested races have reserved $60 million in TV ads, compared to $109 million for Democratic hopefuls, according to figures compiled by media trackers and reviewed by POLITICO. The disparity is almost certain to grow, as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg makes good on plans to spend nearly $80 million to help Democrats flip the House.

“From Democrat candidates to outside groups, we’ve never seen anything like this before,” said Brian Walsh, president of the pro-Trump America First Action super PAC. “They are dumping in cash by the truckload.”

The article talks about Republicans running to their rich benefactors begging for more money.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:26:46am

re: #226 Belafon

‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: GOP overwhelmed by Democratic cash

The article talks about Republicans running to their rich benefactors begging for more money.

Just waiting for the RepubliKKKlans to give Bloomberg the George Soros treatment!

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:27:47am
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Alephnaught  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:29:48am

re: #223 Charles Johnson

“He’s tough, he’s a bully, but boy things are getting done,”

So, this is the 2018 version of “He made the trains run on time”, and not even remotely true.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:34:04am
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Belafon  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:34:37am

re: #227 Joe Bacon 🌹

Just waiting for the RepubliKKKlans to give Bloomberg the George Soros treatment!

The problem, if they try, is that Bloomberg isn’t afraid to get in front of a camera.

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:36:14am
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Belafon  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:37:53am

re: #232 jaunte

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Good point. I’ve read that one of the reasons there were so many hijackings during Reagan’s time was that he was influenced by the television spectacle and gave into ransom demands.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:43:24am
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jaunte  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:43:30am
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Belafon  Oct 13, 2018 • 11:44:06am

re: #235 jaunte

[Embedded content]

LOLOLOL

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Oct 13, 2018 • 12:20:56pm

re: #229 Alephnaught

So, this is the 2018 version of “He made the trains run on time”, and not even remotely true.

It wasn’t true then, either.


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