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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:15:36pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:19:25pm
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plansbandc  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:21:57pm

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Citizen K  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:27:03pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:29:13pm
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MsJ  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:32:59pm

From downstairs. This Scheer guy is on television day in and day out… He’s the guy who wants to be the next PM. They’re trying to humanize him just like they did with Patrick Brown (who blew up, after months of making us call out his name in our sleep, because he sexually attacked a teenaged girl, ooops).

Progressive Conservatives. Bah.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:33:49pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:38:38pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:39:48pm
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Scottish Dragon  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:41:53pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:45:29pm
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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:48:36pm

re: #10 Scottish Dragon

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They can try, but they are going to have to go through many bodies to do it, including mine.

On the subject of transgender folks, here is a parent group in Nevada who want the right to bully transgender students. I’ve been blocked from posting on their page, but please feel free to add your voice. Before I was blocked, I was told by them (Erin Phillips is the president) that the anti-bullying laws would cover transgender children just fine, blah, blah, blah. I knew this was exactly the reason why they didn’t want this policy to pass.

Facebook

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:52:01pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Relevant thread

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ericblair  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:55:24pm

re: #11 The Vicious Babushka

כל הפוסל במומו פוסל “Someone who always finds flaws in others, has that flaw himself.”

“He who smelt it, dealt it.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:57:39pm

so full of shit

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 21, 2018 • 12:58:36pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

so full of shit

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I can’t even get a job interview now because the auto industry is getting pounded by tariffs.

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Belafon  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:03:52pm

re: #12 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch

So, when they call your daughter “whore” constantly, then there’s no recourse?

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:07:03pm

Left hanging on the last thread:

re: #407 Blind Frog Belly White

Honestly, I think it’s more efficient to simply make a couple easily discovered attempts to hack databases and such, without actually changing anything, and make Americans doubt the results of the vote. Great way to destroy democracy is to make everyone think it’s rigged. You don’t even have to actually rig anything.

re: #409 Anymouse 🌹

See also trust in the free press. When nearly half the populace thinks the press is somehow anti-American, you have successfully removed the one significant check on governmental power.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:07:21pm

Conservatives: “What Kavanaugh did two decades ago has no bearing on who he is today.”

Also Conservatives: “Hey, what about this tweet of yours from eight years ago that shows how much you secretly hate blacks you RACIST HYPOCRITE!!”

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:07:36pm

re: #17 Belafon

So, when they call your daughter “whore” constantly, then there’s no recourse?

I don’t know since they seem to think anti-bullying rules protect all kids, but them calling names doesn’t appear to be part of “bullying” based on their “logic.” I don’t get it.

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jaunte  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:09:27pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:12:02pm

FOX News Channel graphic:

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:15:02pm

Some people play with paper airplanes. So I thought how about a hydrogen powered paper rocket, to put a paper airplane up in the air with a bang. I need a better plane.

Facebook Video

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:15:28pm

re: #20 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch

I don’t know since they seem to think anti-bullying rules protect all kids, but them calling names doesn’t appear to be part of “bullying” based on their “logic.” I don’t get it.

If it doesn’t comport with what the conservative hive mind considers acceptable, then that person can be bullied.

It only matters if it affects a conservative personally.

See also: Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton.

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Skip Intro  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:18:19pm

re: #21 jaunte

I remember what happened to my IRA last week.

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Kilroy was here  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:19:12pm

I want to see this version in the White House

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:24:43pm

re: #11 The Vicious Babushka

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The social workers in my sister’s office boiled it down to “you spot it, you got it.”

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Jay C  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:25:36pm

re: #26 Kilroy was here

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I want to see this version in the White House

Why do I get the feeling that Abe Lincoln (though he was never known to have gambled in his life [?]) would have probably ended up cleaning this bunch out to their socks,, and departing the table with scrawled IOUs from Reagan and TR, and leaving with a couple of bon mots for the history books?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:28:00pm
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Kilroy was here  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:30:39pm

re: #29 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Funny.. but so damn fake.

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mmmirele  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:33:27pm

I’ve been back from Japan for 2 days, I’m nearly recovered and wondering why the hell I came back. Well, to vote my absentee ballot, of course!

The last 36 hours of my trip was kind of crazy. I got lost in northern Kyoto, did a ton of walking, got back to the hotel to pick up my bag, did more walking at the train station, more walking at Kansai airport, more walking at the Honolulu airport and more walking in Phoenix when I got back. Around 12-13 miles of walking, to be exact. My legs swelled up; my calves were as tight as bowling pins from water retention. (They’re not now, thankfully.)

But I had the best time and I want to go back. In fact, I’m kicking around ideas for my next trip.

I met these two guys at a potter’s studio in Shigaraki, located in Shiga prefecture. There are a zillion potters in that city and you could spend a month just going from one to another.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:34:33pm
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dangerman  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:35:24pm

re: #24 Anymouse 🌹

From the last thread…I came back late

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:42:33pm

re: #33 dangerman

From the last thread…I came back late

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dangerman  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:51:30pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

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ezzacto

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:52:09pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:57:20pm

Someone’s upset.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 21, 2018 • 1:58:47pm

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹

Someone’s upset.

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Ted is demanding a mandatory participation ribbon

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:00:26pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ted is demanding a mandatory participation ribbon

Poor little snowflake.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:02:00pm

re: #39 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Poor little snowflake.

I hope trump starts lobbying for nugent. It will be epic.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:03:12pm

Meanwhile in Canadian libertarianism:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:03:18pm

re: #40 I Would Prefer Not To

I hope trump starts lobbying for nugent. It will be epic.

I’m going to make my own Hall of Fame with hookers and blackjack…

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:07:24pm

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹

Someone’s upset.

Otoh, if there were a Hall of Fame for being “vulgar, disgusting, and obscene” Ted would be a charter member.

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Citizen K  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:09:29pm

re: #41 Anymouse 🌹

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:10:58pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ted is demanding a mandatory participation ribbon

We missed you in Vietnam, Ted. And, no, you don’t get any medals anyway. You can kiss mine if you let me pin them to my ass first.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:22:07pm

yep…I know this situation…

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sagehen  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:22:15pm

re: #28 Jay C

Why do I get the feeling that Abe Lincoln (though he was never known to have gambled in his life [?]) would have probably ended up cleaning this bunch out to their socks,, and departing the table with scrawled IOUs from Reagan and TR, and leaving with a couple of bon mots for the history books?

TR wouldn’t bet on cards, he’d insist it be sharpshooting or hand-to-hand combat or wilderness survival. Ike and Abe might give him some real competition, the others would not.

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sagehen  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:24:28pm

re: #31 mmmirele

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I met these two guys at a potter’s studio in Shigaraki, located in Shiga prefecture. There are a zillion potters in that city and you could spend a month just going from one to another.

Have you named them yet?

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William Lewis  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:29:50pm

re: #43 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Otoh, if there were a Hall of Fame for being “vulgar, disgusting, and obscene” Ted would be a charter member.

Sorry Ted but they don’t let pants shitting poachers in. Perhaps you could take some guitar lessons and start a decent band?

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:29:52pm

El Caudillo to be replanted.

Spain Plans To Move Franco’s Remains To A Madrid Cathedral

Decades after his death, Spain’s government passed legation [sic] allowing officials to move the remains of the country’s ex-dictator Francisco Franco out of the giant memorial that he built for himself.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Spain is altering what some see as a monument to fascism. By the end of this year, the Spanish government plans to exhume the remains of the late dictator Francisco Franco from a national monument. That same monument holds the remains of more than 33,000 people who fought on both sides of the Spanish Civil War, which brought Franco to power. As Lucia Benavides reports, there are unresolved questions in Spain’s past.

The Valle de los Caidos is incredible. The stone cross is 500 feet tall.

The monument was built in the 1950s and took up a major part of the national budget. NPR tells us that part of the labor force was made up of imprisoned Republicans. I have to admit I like the sound of that. Other than also being supported by Russia, though, these were very different Republicans.

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sagehen  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:32:31pm

re: #50 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

The monument was built in the 1950s and took up a major part of the national budget. NPR tells us that part of the labor force was made up of imprisoned Republicans. I have to admit I like the sound of that. Other than also being supported by Russia, though, these were very different Republicans.

Also not to be confused with Ireland’s Republicans.

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ObserverArt  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:34:53pm

Ted should go untango his wango and shut the hell up.

He shares the same personality traits as Trump; both full of shit liars that are beyond hypocritical and arrogant and living on their own big mouth created images.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:40:32pm

Really tired of people presenting incremental change as the fucking problem. The problem is conservative bigotry, always has been.

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William Lewis  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:44:09pm

Sometimes the people running a church actually do the Right thing. A case in point:

npr.org

Requiscat in pace, Brother Matthew.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:45:11pm

Trending hashtag on Twitter of transgender people saying they will not let conservatives erase them.

twitter.com

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:47:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:54:38pm
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Alephnaught  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:57:54pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

so full of shit

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As Stonekettle notes in a blog post recently, Trump going on about economic figures is pure diversionary techniques, the equivalent of “Hey, fellas, how about the game last night?”. If he’s going on about “biggest economy EVAH!!11!!ELEVENTLY!!!11!!”, it usually means he’s vexed about something else…

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 2:58:05pm

Very long comment thread:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:01:37pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:03:21pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:05:55pm

And the worry goes up because my son lives there. (Granted there are a million people there, but still.)

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:07:20pm

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹

Very long comment thread:

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That thread is so much awesomeness!

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Chrysicat  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:08:23pm

(Sorry I’m just now halfway through last night’s thread—there’s just too much to process just here to do anything else in the day).

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dangerman  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:17:09pm

re: #53 goddamnedfrank

Really tired of people presenting incremental change as the fucking problem. The problem is conservative bigotry, always has been.

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which is why i said last thread you aren’t “granted” natural rights

you always had/have them
its just sometimes they are suppressed by the Fed and state governments

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dangerman  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:19:57pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Jose Feliciano 1968 (I think) world series…

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dangerman  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:21:42pm

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹

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you support a pig you re a pig
you support a racist you re a racist
you support ……

take it from there
it’s not that hard

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:21:49pm

re: #66 dangerman

Jose Feliciano 1968 (I think) world series…

Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock, 1969

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:22:06pm

I’m so old that I remember a candidate trump claiming he would be the best friend the LBTGQ community ever had. Was that a hundred years ago or what?

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Ace-o-aces  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:23:05pm

re: #69 I Would Prefer Not To

I’m so old that I remember a candidate trump claiming he would be the best friend the LBTGQ community ever had. Was that a hundred years ago or what?

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dangerman  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:23:58pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock, 1969

true though that w asnt an ” all American” event.. you know like baseball

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Citizen K  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:24:46pm

re: #69 I Would Prefer Not To

I’m so old that I remember a candidate trump claiming he would be the best friend the LBTGQ community ever had. Was that a hundred years ago or what?

Funny thing about that….

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William Lewis  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:26:25pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Written by a slave owner pissed at the Redcoats for freeing any African slave they gained custody of. Only about White freedoms.

We should change to America The Beautiful instead.

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CarolJ  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:36:29pm

re: #52 ObserverArt

Even without his horrible politics and personality, he has too little to qualify. His output apparently consists of less than a full album, no song charted higher than #30, and few even want to cover what he has done. In fact, if it weren’t for his antics, he would have been forgotten years ago.

And it probably makes his odds even worse than zero. If he were likeable, he might get some kind of other award just for longevity. But he will get absolutely nothing ever.

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Interesting Times  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:40:15pm

re: #73 William Lewis

Written by a slave owner pissed at the Redcoats for freeing any African slave they gained custody of. Only about White freedoms.

We should change to America The Beautiful instead.

Agree. I’ve never liked Star-Spangled Banner - it’s got a ridiculously awkward melody bordering on obnoxious (so I’m not at all surprised to learn it started as a drinking song), and the lyrics are militaristic jingoism. America the Beautiful is infinitely more inspiring.

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TedStriker  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:45:57pm

re: #74 CarolJ

Even without his horrible politics and personality, he has too little to qualify. His output apparently consists of less than a full album, no song charted higher than #30, and few even want to cover what he has done. In fact, if it weren’t for his antics, he would have been forgotten years ago.

And it probably makes his odds even worse than zero. If he were likeable, he might get some kind of other award just for longevity. But he will get absolutely nothing ever.

Yet, Nugent will likely say that it’s those Dirty Music Industry Liberals keeping him, the Conservative Guitar Gawd, out of the RRHoF, instead of the cold, hard facts that you (and any rock music lover with more than two functioning brain cells) have laid out.

Sorry, Ted, you were a pretty decent guitar player in your prime, but history is littered with rock guitar players and other musicians that are simply better than you that will also never get into the HoF and for many of the same reasons.

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:47:02pm

US brigadier general wounded Thursday in Afghanistan attack
cnn.com

Yikes

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:53:19pm

I haven’t read as delusional comments since the last time I visited Freep (years ago).

“Mueller is a hack,” “It was Hillary who had the Russian contacts,” “5th Amendment Glen Simpson used to write for WSJ, so they’ve got his back.”

Sheesh. Anyway, hopefully it’s time for Roger Stone to get some jailhouse ink on his back.

wsj.com

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nowherenorth2  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:54:44pm

re: #76 TedStriker

That right there. That is it. It is the argument for Ted Nugent. Change the wording for comedians and comedy television and it works for Tim Allen.

Thank you

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 21, 2018 • 3:56:51pm

re: #78 Barefoot Grin

This is one reason why I switched from The Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post. That and being an amazon customer WaPo only costs me $48 a year. :)

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Belafon  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:16:20pm

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:19:40pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:20:41pm

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Charles Johnson  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:22:16pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:22:47pm

And the spoils system rolls on …

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TedStriker  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:27:08pm

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹

And the spoils system rolls on …

The best foreign service bribe money can buy.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:27:23pm

We are being served by fools in the press.

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CarolJ  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:35:11pm

re: #75 Interesting Times

Agree. I’ve never liked Star-Spangled Banner - it’s got a ridiculously awkward melody bordering on obnoxious (so I’m not at all surprised to learn it started as a drinking song), and the lyrics are militaristic jingoism. America the Beautiful is infinitely more inspiring.

I like America the Beautiful more too. Easier to sing and less bloodthirsty.
But I think we should have some competition for a new Anthem. While tradition is nice, I would love to see our best musicians and what they could come up with. A new Anthem would have no baggage at all and be written in a way that it would be more versatile. Even if we retained the old Anthem, there would be a whole class of patriotic songs that would be more inclusive, varied and in a wide variety of musical genres.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:35:46pm

re: #1 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Look at all the economic anxiety.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:37:19pm

re: #88 CarolJ

I like America the Beautiful more too. Easier to sing and less bloodthirsty.
But I think we should have some competition for a new Anthem. While tradition is nice, I would love to see our best musicians and what they could come up with. A new Anthem would have no baggage at all and be written in a way that it would be more versatile. Even if we retained the old Anthem, there would be whole class of patriotic music that would be more diverse, energetic and with a sense of inclusion in them.

If we did that I dread seeing “Gawd Bless The U.S.A.” as the new Anthem.

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CarolJ  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:42:23pm

re: #90 Joe Bacon 🌹

Gawd Bless the USA wouldn’t quality. It isn’t new, and more than that, under copyright by someone for who’s it is his only hit. The new Anthem would have to be in public domain so that people aren’t paying out their asses to play it at grade school baseball games. Also, we would also have a whole new class of great runner up songs as well.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:46:17pm

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Ace-o-aces  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:46:38pm
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CarolJ  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:48:27pm

Sometimes I think the “Feminism has made women unhappy” is a form of projection. They are unhappy because it used to be that some women felt they needed a husband regardless of how unpleasant the man was-and so some women settled for men like them. Nowadays, women feel they can live on their own and have a real choice as to whether or not to even marry.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:51:01pm

re: #94 CarolJ

Sometimes I think the “Feminism has made women unhappy” is a form of projection. They are unhappy because it used to be that some women felt they needed a husband regardless of how unpleasant the man was-and so some women settled for men like them. Nowadays, women feel they can live on their own and have a real choice as to whether or not to even marry.

“Accuse the other side of that which you are doing” also works as “It is projection with those (insert epithet) always.”

Funny how there don’t seem to be any liberal incels, either.

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ObserverArt  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:51:01pm

re: #84 Charles Johnson

Did you ever have the thought that some day you would be able to communicate with the President and call him Spanky?

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Ace-o-aces  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:52:49pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:53:44pm

re: #94 CarolJ

Sometimes I think the “Feminism has made women unhappy” is a form of projection. They are unhappy because it used to be that some women felt they needed a husband regardless of how unpleasant the man was-and so some women settled for men like them. Nowadays, women feel they can live on their own and have a real choice as to whether or not to even marry.

Well, you know, back then women weren’t encouraged, or for that matter even allowed to express their unhappiness. So, if you’re an unfeeling prick, and a moron to boot, you might think that women were happier than they are now that they can actually express it.

This is the same thinking that says blacks were happier as slaves, because they never complained.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:53:59pm

re: #94 CarolJ

Sometimes I think the “Feminism has made women unhappy” is a form of projection. They are unhappy because it used to be that some women felt they needed a husband regardless of how unpleasant the man was-and so some women settled for men like them. Nowadays, women feel they can live on their own and have a real choice as to whether or not to even marry.

When my mother and father were married, she wanted to borrow money to purchase a used Nash for them from someone in town.

She went down to the bank and came back a few minutes later with a loan for the car.

My father asked “Don’t I need to sign for that?” (Women were generally not permitted to borrow money on their own name in the late Fifties.)

Her answer was “Why, they don’t know you.”

He went down to the bank and got the same answer.

That was in the days when bankers generally knew their customers personally. While our banks here know my wife and me personally, in larger cities or mega-banks that’s not possible.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:55:19pm

re: #84 Charles Johnson

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:55:34pm

re: #97 Ace-o-aces

Wholly crap there’s a lot of conservaderp in that thread.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 21, 2018 • 4:57:32pm

re: #99 Anymouse 🌹

When my mother and father were married, she wanted to borrow money to purchase a used Nash for them from someone in town.

She went down to the bank and came back a few minutes later with a loan for the car.

My father asked “Don’t I need to sign for that?” (Women were generally not permitted to borrow money on their own name in the late Fifties.)

Her answer was “Why, they don’t know you.”

He went down to the bank and got the same answer.

That was in the days when bankers generally knew their customers personally. While our banks here know my wife and me personally, in larger cities or mega-banks that’s not possible.

Those were the old days when banks offered community services, like home and business loans, and savings accounts for kids to stash their allowance. Now, banks are profit-making enterprises to benefit the owners and top executives, who don’t even live in the same state as the bank branch is in.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:02:11pm

re: #99 Anymouse 🌹

re: #102 wheat-dogg

That is why I belong to a credit union. I am treated like a human being instead of a number.

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wrenchwench  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:05:08pm

re: #102 wheat-dogg

Those were the old days when banks offered community services, like home and business loans, and savings accounts for kids to stash their allowance. Now, banks are profit-making enterprises to benefit the owners and top executives, who don’t even live in the same state as the bank branch is in.

I started my bike shop when a guy I used to ride with told me I could do a better job if I opened my own shop than if I stayed at the shop I was working at with and for two bozos. He said I could get a loan. He was the president of a local bank. I submitted the business plan I had been working on (once in a while) for ten years. I got the ‘yes’ in half an hour. (He also let me ride without fear on some private property; ‘I know the owners, they won’t mind, I hold the paper on this’.)

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:10:02pm

CNN interviews a person who assaulted a reporter (Cory Lewandowski) on Trump’s call in Montana supporting Rep. Gianforte assaulting a reporter. Lewandowski would not comment negatively on Trump.

Why does CNN have people who openly call for their arrest or lynching on their shows?

Lewandowski won’t call out Trump praising assault on reporter

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wheat-dogg  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:11:05pm

re: #104 wrenchwench

I started my bike shop when a guy I used to ride with told me I could do a better job if I opened my own shop than if I stayed at the shop I was working at with and for two bozos. He said I could get a loan. He was the president of a local bank. I submitted the business plan I had been working on (once in a while) for ten years. I got the ‘yes’ in half an hour. (He also let me ride without fear on some private property; ‘I know the owners, they won’t mind, I hold the paper on this’.)

Community banking went downhill when the feds allowed S&Ls to branch out into investment banking, and banks to operate across state boundaries. Sure, it helped the banking industry and made them more competitive, but the collateral damage was customer service. How many people know the president of their bank personally now?

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wheat-dogg  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:11:26pm

Off to teach young minds.

Laterz.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:11:56pm

re: #102 wheat-dogg

Those were the old days when banks offered community services, like home and business loans, and savings accounts for kids to stash their allowance. Now, banks are profit-making enterprises to benefit the owners and top executives, who don’t even live in the same state as the bank branch is in.

Twenty years later, the same bank in Michigan my mother got her loan from (where I had my savings account) gave me a loan over the telephone when I was stationed at NAS Memphis.

I got the cheque in the mail with a note attached to the paperwork asking me to fill it in as soon as possible.

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mmmirele  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:12:16pm

re: #48 sagehen

Have you named them yet?

No, I wasn’t allowed to bring them home. (Seriously, the potter had two in the studio, but he would only sell one to a person in our group, because the other one wasn’t perfect.) I saw a lot of lion dogs in Japan but I just loved these two especially.

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wrenchwench  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:17:21pm

re: #106 wheat-dogg

Community banking went downhill when the feds allowed S&Ls to branch out into investment banking, and banks to operate across state boundaries. Sure, it helped the banking industry and made them more competitive, but the collateral damage was customer service. How many people know the president of their bank personally now?

Usually the golfers, not the cyclists, if anyone.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:18:34pm

re: #106 wheat-dogg

Community banking went downhill when the feds allowed S&Ls to branch out into investment banking, and banks to operate across state boundaries. Sure, it helped the banking industry and made them more competitive, but the collateral damage was customer service. How many people know the president of their bank personally now?

I know the presidents of both our banks, but when one is in a town of 1,100 and the other is in a town of 64 …

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Belafon  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:19:51pm

Ready for your American South history lesson on Doctor Who?

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jeffreyw  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:20:40pm

re: #93 Ace-o-aces

Don’t try this at home, folks. Leave it to the pros.

Imgur

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:22:56pm

Well, my new copy of Winamp crashed. It tried to send a bug report home by opening an E-mail in Outlook.

Turns out the E-mail address Winamp inserts into the address bar is structured incorrectly and Outlook rejects it. (It says “Winamp bug report” rather than an E-mail address.)

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:24:18pm

Completely OT and apropos of nothing: As you may know, Mrs. Fish and I spent the last week exploring the city of Rome as part of our tenth wedding anniversary celebration. While there, we discovered something remarkable. Tucked away in the middle of metropolitan Rome is an archaeological excavation known as the Largo de Torre Argentina. It contains four ancient temples built during the Roman Republic era, before Julius Caesar. The excavation also uncovered the beginnings of the ruins of the Theatre of Pompey, upon whose steps the aforementioned Caesar was murdered on the ides of March, 44 BC. But most incredible of all was a modern development which I never would have foreseen. Behold, the Cats of Rome:

They turned it into a cat shelter. They house dozens of cats inside a structure that has been built out of an ancient temple underneath the street. They care for the sick and lame ones (Italy has a strict no-kill law) and let those who are well enough roam free amongst the fallen statues and crumbling bricks.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:25:28pm

re: #87 Anymouse 🌹

We are being served by fools in the press.

[Embedded content]

As though Al Gore invented global warming. This is a quote from The World We Live In, a fantastic coffee table science book published by real journalists at Time-Life back in 1955:

Yet for the past century, temperatures have shown an upward trend. This has been particularly true in the last four decades (since 1915- SK), during which glaciers have been in retreat all around the world. The reasons for this gradual warming of the Earth cannot be defined with certainty. Along with water vapor and ozone, carbon dioxide helps to trap the Earth’s heat within the greenhouse of the atmosphere and prevents it from radiating away into space. In the last half century, the carbon dioxide ratio in the atmosphere has increased by 10%, a phenomenon which some attribute to expanding industry, pointing out that six billion tons of carbon dioxide pour from factory chimneys every year. (Emphasis added)

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plansbandc  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:26:15pm

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹

My dad was a banker. I remember him saying from the time I was very little what a sham S&Ls were. He was so right. He had friends who were bigwigs in S&Ls in Denver who got indicted. Wish I could have talked to him more about what happened.

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Belafon  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:33:07pm

This episode is intense.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:35:46pm

re: #118 Belafon

And at 9:00pm I will be heading to Cornwall to see how Ross Poldark and George Warleggan are doing.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:45:44pm

Hmm. I did not realize that the mention of a PBS series Poldark could end a thread. Either that or Dr Who must be one very good attention getter.

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CarolJ  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:48:32pm

re: #47 sagehen

I think of this era as a time where social drinking and social gambling was barely noticed. Lincoln no doubt did his share of both while schmoozing legislators and delegates in the infamous “smokefilled rooms” of the day. His gambling would only be noticed if it was excessive rather than a modest indulgence. He definitely would have skills in that area. Not a master, but good enough. Also Obama is a pretty good poker player which helped him dealing with the Illinois legislature as well.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:49:07pm

LOL

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:50:50pm
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sagehen  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:57:12pm

re: #120 PhillyPretzel

Hmm. I did not realize that the mention of a PBS series Poldark could end a thread. Either that or Dr Who must be one very good attention getter.

It’s excellent.

I’ll have to catch Poldark online.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:58:38pm
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PhillyPretzel  Oct 21, 2018 • 5:59:11pm

re: #124 sagehen

pbs.org should get you the most current episode.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:00:22pm

Born on this date in 1956, Carrie Fisher.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:06:32pm

re: #127 Anymouse 🌹

Born on this date in 1956, Carrie Fisher.

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Archangelus  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:07:02pm

re: #114 Anymouse 🌹

Wait wait wait wait waaaait… Winamp is still a thing?!?! Thought it went the way of the dodo long ago…
*Insert ‘mind blown’ imagery/animation here*

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:07:27pm

Municipal elections in London, Ontario tomorrow. For the first time, they are using ranked choice voting. London’s officials are saying the tabulations will take some time because they want to get this right.

London will be the first city in Canada to use ranked voting.

Check out the candidates on the sample ballot though… .

cbc.ca

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:10:43pm

re: #129 Archangelus

Wait wait wait wait waaaait… Winamp is still a thing?!?!
*Insert ‘mind blown’ imagery/animation here*

Winamp has been resurrected. The company has a beta version (really the last version with fixes for security problems and such), with a new version coming out soon.

winamp.com

A leaked version of Winamp 5.8 recently spread over the Internet. Consequently, we have decided to make this new version available to you, revised by us.

We therefore recommend that you download this version rather than any other as we guarantee it is safe for you to use.

They are updating Winamp to handle such things as video streaming and podcasting, which didn’t exist when the program was first released.

(You can currently stream video or podcasts in the latest version of Winamp if you have the URL.)

It has a couple new skins, along with the classic ultra-tiny radio button skin.

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Belafon  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:13:06pm

Great episode.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:15:32pm
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SteelPH  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:17:02pm

re: #133 Anymouse 🌹

Ah yes, the Kavanaugh approach.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:18:20pm

[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]

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Charles Johnson  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:19:01pm

Oops, bad url. The right one…

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MsJ  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:19:01pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:21:33pm
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Archangelus  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:22:35pm

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹

Winamp has been resurrected. The company has a beta version (really the last version with fixes for security problems and such), with a new version coming out soon.

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹

They are updating Winamp to handle such things as video streaming and podcasting, which didn’t exist when the program was first released.

Well considering it was first released back in 1997, that shouldn’t be THAT surprising…

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:24:13pm

re: #69 I Would Prefer Not To

I’m so old that I remember a candidate trump claiming he would be the best friend the LBTGQ community ever had. Was that a hundred years ago or what?

Nope. I remember that too. Just another Trumpian lie.

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:25:30pm

re: #139 Archangelus

Well considering it was first released back in 1997, that shouldn’t be THAT surprising…

I sent a manual bug report a few minutes ago noting that when it tried to send a crash report, it put “Winamp Bug Report” in the E-mail address bar rather than an actual E-mail address.

I like Winamp better than Windows Media Player. (I did back in the Nineties as well.)

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Anymouse 🌹  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:26:29pm

LOL

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bratwurst  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:27:00pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:28:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 21, 2018 • 6:31:53pm

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