Sunday Jam: Scary Pockets w/ Monica Martin, “Sex & Candy”

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A cover of “Sex & Candy” by Scary Pockets.

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Musicians
Lead vocal: Monica Martin
BGVs: Jarrett Johnson, Loren Smith, Loren Battley
Guitar: Ryan Lerman
Tpt: Jumaane Smith
Sax: Morgan Jones
Keys: Jack Conte
Drums: Tamir Barzilay
Bass: Daniel Aged

Recording Engineer: Caleb Parker
Mixing/Mastering: Caleb Parker
Video: Ricky Chavez

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403 comments
1
Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:04:52pm

Groovy cover. I like it.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:06:08pm

Stolen from FB

Not Guns
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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:06:50pm

re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To

Stolen from FB

[Embedded content]

That’s the fucking truth right there.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:07:31pm

Every thread needs cat pictures…

Egypt cat mummies discovered in ancient tombs

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a collection of mummified cats and scarab beetles in a series of ancient tombs.

Image: _104262126_050515460.jpg

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jaunte  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:07:45pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:09:20pm

re: #4 freetoken

Every thread needs cat pictures…

Egypt cat mummies discovered in ancient tombs

Image: _104262126_050515460.jpg

I thought the rule was “every thread needs Pie.”

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:10:03pm

Oh thank God! I don’t know if any of you watch Lucky Dog (Saturday 7:30 am Eastern) on CBS, But it’s my favorite show on television. I was very worried about them.

Instagram

Massive wildfire engulfing entire area around ranch. All areas were evacuated last night at 11pm. Im out of town so my cousin @humaliwo8 evacuated all dogs safely. He literally packed up his truck with smoke and flames all around. Thanks cuz, the dogs owe you their life. This is the last pic taken before evacuation. Dogs are all safe. Not sure if ranch is. Will update as we know. 🙏

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BigPapa  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:10:08pm

re: #4 freetoken

I had a buddy with a few cats. The one with the most maniacal meow was named Feedback. More than likely any reanimated cat mummy would sound like feedback. Probably smell like him too.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:10:31pm

re: #6 I Would Prefer Not To

I thought the rule was “every thread needs Pie.”

Cats and pie are not mutual exclusions.

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jaunte  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:10:56pm

It’s hard to believe a Senator is using the “if you like them so much, let them come live with you” bullshit, but here we are.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:11:39pm

re: #10 jaunte

Trump is dragging the entire Republican party into the sewer with him.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:11:56pm

re: #5 jaunte

You know Tom, maybe learn to debate like a man instead of a right wing moron on Twitter. You have to be in this country to get refuge status and apply for it and I know people like Stephanie, they’d gladly welcome refugees to our neighborhoods. MAybe oyu should go fuck yourself, you fucking asshole who disgraces the uniform he wears by sucking up for Trump.

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jaunte  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:12:13pm

2018: U. S. Senator disparages virtue.

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Dave In Austin  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:12:20pm

re: #4 freetoken

Every thread needs cat pictures…

Egypt cat mummies discovered in ancient tombs

Image: _104262126_050515460.jpg

But the curse!!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:12:43pm

re: #10 jaunte

It’s hard to believe a Senator is using the “if you like them so much, let them come live with you” bullshit, but here we are.

I know people who have done just that but it gets in the way of Cotton’s agenda to acknowledge them.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:13:35pm
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Dave In Austin  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:14:52pm
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PhillyPretzel  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:15:23pm

re: #16 GlutenFreeJesus

Only a few months ago. Wow. Things change under DT.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:15:49pm

If you like them so much, you host them is how a fucking child debates but then again Tom Cotton is a fucking chlid. And yeah Tom I’d be fine with more refugees in this country. They do a lot more positive for this country than scumbuckets like you and the Orange asshole.

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:16:10pm

re: #11 freetoken

Trump is dragging the entire Republican party into the sewer with him.

Tom Cotton was already there.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:17:04pm

re: #20 BeachDem

Tom Cotton was already there.

As with Dante’s Hell, there are levels in Sewer-dom.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:19:10pm

Since it’s Armistice Day, my favorite 60s band:

Procol Harum The Final Thrust

And here’s the whole animated film:

War Game (2002) by Dave Unwin - Exclusive Full Animated Film

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William Lewis  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:19:43pm

Ming5000:

CL’d as an expression for still being on the previous thread comes from a late member of the board known by the alias Curious Lurker. She would write these wonderfully thought out passages that would inevitably take her so long to finish that she’d end up left behind as the new thread picked up steam.

Later, after she passed away, a lizard mentioned being “CL’d” when they were still on the previous thread and the expression took off as for many of us it was a way to remember a dear friend.

That said, I also want to thank you for your comment. I wore my French WWI T-shirt to church today.

and when a well meaning church lady was going around taking pictures of the veterans in our parish, I simply stood up and said that I’d rather she remembered the 1.4 million Poilus who died in the mud and slaughter. She took a picture of the shirt instead of me.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:20:37pm

re: #11 freetoken

Trump is dragging the entire Republican party into the sewer with him.

They already were there wading about. It wasn’t much of a step to go in the rest of the way.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:22:13pm

re: #24 MsJ

They already were there wading about. It wasn’t much of a step to go in the rest of the way.

That’s very true and tbh any Republican would have appointed Kavanaugh.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:24:38pm

re: #25 HappyWarrior

That’s very true and tbh any Republican would have appointed Kavanaugh.

Of the current ilk, yes. But I don’t think a Romney would have. And he’d have withdrawn his name long before the Congressional hearing fiasco.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:26:14pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:27:27pm

re: #26 MsJ

Of the current ilk, yes. But I don’t think a Romney would have. And he’d have withdrawn his name long before the Congressional hearing fiasco.

True.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:27:56pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

So when does Trump attack this guy and his apologists say “he’s just fighting back.”

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:28:59pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

“It’s like watching measles or polio return.”

We’re working on that, too.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:34:35pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:38:20pm

re: #22 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Since it’s Armistice Day, my favorite 60s band:

[Embedded content]

And then there’s:

Youtube Video

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:38:46pm

re: #31 goddamnedfrank

Are you still sheltered in place?

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:39:27pm

re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg

Groovy cover. I like it.

*walks in like disco lemonade*

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:41:09pm

re: #11 freetoken

Trump is dragging the entire Republican party into the sewer with him.

Or because they were already in the sewer, the GOP picked Trump to lead them. I don’t believe that Trump can drag anyone where he/she doesn’t want to be dragged.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:41:21pm
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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:41:55pm

re: #11 freetoken

Trump is dragging the entire Republican party into the sewer with him.

Dragging? Fuck, many of them were there first and had cozy seats.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:42:32pm

re: #33 MsJ

Are you still sheltered in place?

No, my evac order was rescinded last night. Most of the hills around here got scorched to shit tho’.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:45:03pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:46:02pm

re: #31 goddamnedfrank

Wow, just total flat-out lying. I wonder if he made it up himself or is repeating something he got on Facebook or Breitbart?

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:54:31pm

re: #5 jaunte

tom cotton demonstrates he doesnt know the first thing about how asylum works

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:55:28pm

re: #11 freetoken

Trump is dragging the entire Republican party into the sewer with him.

some are running there ahead of him, clearing the way and laying out the carpet

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:57:37pm

re: #17 Dave In Austin

on the West Wing it went in the official diaries as “barbecuing”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 1:59:04pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:03:16pm

re: #44 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

It’s not like former soldiers with PTSD are going on killing sprees. why not cut the budget. lets start with mental health services.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:09:10pm
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PhillyPretzel  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:09:54pm

re: #46 MsJ

Dial telephones.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:10:09pm

re: #46 MsJ

Dial up modems I guess.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:10:52pm

re: #47 PhillyPretzel

Dial telephones.

Saying “call Broadway 3 5794”.

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makeitstop  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:12:15pm

re: #46 MsJ

Rabbit-ear TV antennas - with hunks of aluminum foil on the ends.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:12:18pm

I hope the Democrats make a thing out of the truth about how military vets are really treated by Republicans. It’s time to take away the Republican lies about how they are the party that supports the military.

What they support is the military manufacturers. That is where the US budget goes. And that is why the Republicans like their wars. It is good for business.

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:12:21pm

re: #49 MsJ

Or as Lady Edith said in an episode of Downton Abbey, “I would like to make a trunk call to London.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:12:34pm

re: #47 PhillyPretzel

Dial telephones.

My telephone resembles that remark.

re: #46 MsJ

So does my typewriter.

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:13:08pm

re: #44 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

VA secretary has begun planning budget cuts requested by Trump. stripes.com …

- cutting the VA budget is like cutting medicare / social security
- not like cutting most other aspects of the federal budget

- these are benefits and promises made by the gov’t and earned when one agreed, signed up, became a soldier and did his/her tours

- argue about the rest of the federal government all you want. what it should/or should not do or fund.

- there are no ‘hard choices’ at play here.
- these are promises broken by an administration that is perfectly capable of keeping them if it wanted to

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:14:18pm

re: #46 MsJ

“hi-fi”

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:14:33pm

re: #45 I Would Prefer Not To

It’s not like former soldiers with PTSD are going on killing sprees. why not cut the budget. lets start with mental health services.

You know, if I were more conspiratorially-minded, I’d almost think that this shit is planned to benefit the NRA/ammosexual lobby; weaken existing gun laws, oppose new one, and weaken mental health treatment to make gun massacres more and more common, thereby driving a certain segment of the public to buy more and more guns.

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:15:08pm

re: #52 PhillyPretzel

Or as Lady Edith said in an episode of Downton Abbey, “I would like to make a trunk call to London.”

also used in murder on the orient express

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:16:03pm

re: #50 makeitstop

Rabbit-ear TV antennas - with hunks of aluminum foil on the ends.

Watch it!

I have a set of Radio Shack digital TV rabbit ears. I use them for local stations so I don’t have to stream them and save my data for the real cable stations.

They work great, although sometimes they need to be tweaked slightly as it seems the signal likes to change a bit and get effected by walking around the room.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:20:23pm

re: #46 MsJ

Slide Rule.

They no longer needed to be a thing while I was in elementary school.

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:21:00pm

re: #58 ObserverArt

Watch it!

I have a set of Radio Shack digital TV rabbit ears. I use them for local stations so I don’t have to stream them and save my data for the real cable stations.

They work great, although sometimes they need to be tweaked slightly as it seems the signal likes to change a bit and get effected by walking around the room.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:21:21pm

re: #52 PhillyPretzel

Or as Lady Edith said in an episode of Downton Abbey, “I would like to make a trunk call to London.”

Party lines!

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:22:40pm

re: #61 MsJ

Party lines!

Partying like it’s 1899…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:23:52pm
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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:24:26pm

re: #46 MsJ

i owned one automatic my entire life

even though her dad owns a harley, my 20 year old niece got in my car and had no idea what i was “doing” with the shifter

she’d never been in a car with a manual transmission

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:24:51pm

re: #46 MsJ

That’s what we had, before we upgraded to this…

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:25:37pm

re: #46 MsJ

TV Channels signing off late every night with the national anthem.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:26:22pm

I was listening to parts of the Cleveland Browns game today on radio in my Kitchen making a snack. Browns games are on a right wing religious radio station in central Ohio. A station I would normally never tune in and listen.

They did a commercial at halftime for The Hugh Hewitt show (which they must have on during the week) and Hugh had a pre-recorded message saying stay tuned for the show on Monday as he discusses the Blue Wave that never came.

Whut???

Either Hugh was off radio all week and made that message before the elections or Hugh is going to stretch reality real hard and somehow try to convince his wingnuts that everything is fine and dandy…no need to worry, Republicans have Trump’s back.

Hugh is a strange guy.

I noticed though…Chuckles Todd mast not have had him on today, I saw a bit of his panel and no Hugh.

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:26:23pm

re: #61 MsJ

My late mom had a few stories about those party lines. A nosy neighbor was spreading stories about my mom and her family. An operator and mom got on when she was spreading her gossip and that is how my mom got a private line.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:26:25pm

re: #65 Blind Frog Belly White

[Embedded content]

What is that?

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Jay C  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:27:22pm

re: #46 MsJ

“VHF” and “UHF” television broadcasts.

One my earliest TV-tech memories goes back to Los Angeles back in the Neolithic Era. The Rams (L.A. Rams at the time) were playing a big game - which was blacked out locally by NFL restrictions (told you, it was a LONG time back), and a local paper ran a piece on how to build your own UHF antenna - a piece of broomstick, several coat hangers and about 2 yards of naked copper wire were involved, I recall - to pull in the UHF signal from a station in (I think) San Diego.
Which even with “high-tech” store-bought antennas was a chancy thing. Assuming one’s TV even went past Channel 13….

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:27:55pm

re: #67 ObserverArt

I was listening to parts of the Cleveland Browns game today on radio in my Kitchen making a snack. Browns games are on a right wing religious radio station in central Ohio. A station I would normally never tune in and listen.

They did a commercial at halftime for The Hugh Hewitt show (which they must have on during the week) and Hugh had a pre-recorded message saying stay tuned for the show on Monday as he discusses the Blue Wave that never came.

Whut???

Either Hugh was off radio all week and made that message before the elections or Hugh is going to stretch reality real hard and somehow try to convince his wingnuts that everything is fine and dandy…no need to worry, Republicans have Trump’s back.

Hugh is a strange guy.

I noticed though…Chuckles Todd mast not have had him on today, I saw a bit of his panel and no Hugh.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:28:27pm

re: #66 bd(soros funded)

TV Channels signing off late every night with the national anthem.

Better that than this:

End of Civilization Video

///

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:28:31pm

re: #40 Charles Johnson

Wow, just total flat-out lying. I wonder if he made it up himself or is repeating something he got on Facebook or Breitbart?

that’s every word from the moron-in-chief.
really

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fern01  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:29:14pm

re: #26 MsJ

Of the current ilk, yes. But I don’t think a Romney would have. And he’d have withdrawn his name long before the Congressional hearing fiasco.

You really think so - Romney might have been a Jeff Flake - but I can’t believe he would have voted No. Why?

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KingKenrod  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:29:24pm

Television Color Bars

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KingKenrod  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:30:27pm

I remember my parents always scrambling to get to the bank before 3PM, somthing I’ve never come close to doing.

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:31:43pm

american express traveler’s checks

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:31:44pm

re: #46 MsJ

The dewey decimal system

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:34:18pm

Can’t wait till this is available nearby:

They Shall Not Grow Old - Official Trailer (2018)

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:34:52pm

re: #55 dangerman

“hi-fi”

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:35:17pm

re: #63 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

This is very important. The few Democrats featured on the Sunday morning shows need to ask hosts why more Democrats aren’t being featured. Ditto for print medium. Why isn’t the NYT and Washington Post featuring voters like me: women of color who voted overwhelmingly for Democrats?

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Jay C  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:35:51pm

re: #69 MsJ

What is that?

An electric rotator for a broadcast TV antenna?

If so, it’s not all that “ancient”: the first summer house we bought (1993) had a roof antenna with a little dial rotator in the living room to turn the aerial to bring in the over-the-air stations which were all our area (Berkshires) had. The builder had considerately put little numbered stickers on the dial to point to which station we were supposed to pull in.

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fern01  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:36:01pm

href=”/comment/63/12072737” class=”rep”>#63 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

The only person worth reading from the NYT

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:36:01pm

re: #70 Jay C

“VHF” and “UHF” television broadcasts.

One my earliest TV-tech memories goes back to Los Angeles back in the Neolithic Era. The Rams (L.A. Rams at the time) were playing a big game - which was blacked out locally by NFL restrictions (told you, it was a LONG time back), and a local paper ran a piece on how to build your own UHF antenna - a piece of broomstick, several coat hangers and about 2 yards of naked copper wire were involved, I recall - to pull in the UHF signal from a station in (I think) San Diego.
Which even with “high-tech” store-bought antennas was a chancy thing. Assuming one’s TV even went past Channel 13….

My folks bought a console model GE TV (B & W of course) in—I want to say April—1964. They got a great deal because after the end of the month it would have had to have had a UHF tuner.

The picture tube blew before a year was out….

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:36:37pm

re: #75 KingKenrod

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:37:00pm

re: #77 dangerman

american express traveler’s checks

Oh man.
I’m flashing back to the Army paying me in traveler’s checks in basic

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:37:47pm

re: #85 Blind Frog Belly White

ahh yes a test pattern. I remember those.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:37:57pm

re: #82 Jay C

An electric rotator for a broadcast TV antenna?

If so, it’s not all that “ancient”: the first summer house we bought (1993) had a roof antenna with a little dial rotator in the living room to turn the aerial to bring in the over-the-air stations which were all our area (Berkshires) had. The builder had considerately put little numbered stickers on the dial to point to which station we were supposed to pull in.

Bingo!

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makeitstop  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:38:29pm

re: #77 dangerman

american express traveler’s checks

With Karl Malden pitching them.

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jeffreyw  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:38:30pm

re: #46 MsJ

Taking the knob off the TV so my little sister couldn’t change the channel.

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:38:53pm

re: #84 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

My folks bought a console model GE TV (B & W of course) in—I want to say April—1964. They got a great deal because after the end of the month it would have had to have had a UHF tuner.

The picture tube blew before a year was out….

“black and white television”
or what we used to call “television”

remember those?
you had to actually stand up to change a channel or the volume or fix the vertical hold

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:38:53pm

re: #74 fern01

You really think so - Romney might have been a Jeff Flake - but I can’t believe he would have voted No. Why?

I don’t think Romney would have put up Kavanaugh in the first place. And as much as I dislike Rmoney, he’s serious about his religion. Had he put Kav up, I don’t think he’d have gone through once the accusations came out.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:39:44pm

re: #78 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

The dewey decimal system

Isn’t that still used in libraries?

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:39:48pm

re: #82 Jay C

Do not laugh too hard. You can get those on amazon.
amazon.com

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:40:33pm

re: #90 jeffreyw

Taking the knob off the TV so my little sister couldn’t change the channel.

The warble of a 56k modem (I actually had a few older than that, but don’t remember them specifically).

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:40:59pm

re: #90 jeffreyw

Taking the knob off the TV so my little sister couldn’t change the channel.

needle-nose pliers when the nob got lost for good.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:41:07pm

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:41:27pm

re: #95 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The warble of a 56k modem (I actually had a few older than that, but don’t remember them specifically).

150/300 baud high speed telephone coupler

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:41:27pm

re: #82 Jay C

An electric rotator for a broadcast TV antenna?

If so, it’s not all that “ancient”: the first summer house we bought (1993) had a roof antenna with a little dial rotator in the living room to turn the aerial to bring in the over-the-air stations which were all our area (Berkshires) had. The builder had considerately put little numbered stickers on the dial to point to which station we were supposed to pull in.

I’ve never seen that before. To high falutin’ for my fam, I guess. 😂

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:41:31pm

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:42:24pm

re: #98 dangerman

150/300 baud high speed telephone coupler

You got me beat, by the time I was “connected” they were making them small enough to fit inside the computer. I think my first modem was a 1200 baud ISA beast, but I wouldn’t know off the top of my head because that’s before I was into the hardware side.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:42:33pm

re: #93 MsJ

Isn’t that still used in libraries?

Absolutely. All public libraries AFAIK. The Library of Congress system is only in academic institutions.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:43:04pm

re: #102 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Absolutely. All public libraries AFAIK. The Library of Congress system is only in academic institutions.

While true, I don’t know if they teach it (or the card catalog) to kids anymore. Why bother when you can look it up on the library computer?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:44:04pm

re: #94 PhillyPretzel

Do not laugh too hard. You can get those on amazon.
amazon.com

Only way to get uncompressed 1080p.

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:44:09pm

re: #97 Blind Frog Belly White

Yes. I remember that too. My late dad had a large console that held the am/fm tuner the switcher and a turntable. The speakers were upfront.

images.search.yahoo.com

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:44:15pm

re: #97 Blind Frog Belly White

I’ve never heard of 16. 78’s we long gone by my era but my brother still has some.

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:44:45pm

postage stamps

// 1/2

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:44:45pm

re: #48 HappyWarrior

Dial up modems I guess.

Paper maps and card catalogues at Libraries.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:45:28pm
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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:45:56pm

re: #103 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

While true, I don’t know if they teach it (or the card catalog) to kids anymore. Why bother when you can look it up on the library computer?

If think so; you probably use the computer to look up the DD number. Cards are likely long gone.

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:47:08pm

re: #106 MsJ

I’ve never heard of 16. 78’s we long gone by my era but my brother still has some.

it was 16 and 2/3 actually
and 33 and 1/3

i’ve never seen a real 16 record
we had lots of opera and show music on 78’s - large album ‘books’

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:47:19pm

re: #99 MsJ

I’ve never seen that before. To high falutin’ for my fam, I guess. 😂

The nearest TV stations were 60 miles away. We had a 30’ mast antenna in the backyard. We had t re-aim the antenna for different stations.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:47:37pm

re: #103 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

While true, I don’t know if they teach it (or the card catalog) to kids anymore. Why bother when you can look it up on the library computer?

Well, they still have to be shelved in a certain order so you can find them. The computer will tell you the (Dewey Decimal) call number, and that’s where you have to go to get the book.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:47:45pm

re: #110 MsJ

If think so; you probably use the computer to look up the DD number. Cards are likely long gone.

Betcha my little library here in my backwater town probably still has cards. I used to be proud at being good at navigating the card catalog.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:48:13pm
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Patricia Kayden  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:49:17pm

Good. I have no problem with Nancy Smash keeping her position.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:49:20pm

Also, those slide thingys that stores used to use to take credit cards.

And for something a little more modern but still outdated: scrambled porn on the PPV channels. :P

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makeitstop  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:49:21pm

re: #111 dangerman

it was 16 and 2/3 actually
and 33 and 1/3

i’ve never seen a real 16 record
we had lots of opera and show music on 78’s - large album ‘books’

16 RPM was mainly used for spoken word stuff and instructional recordings, because the fidelity got really crappy when the turntable was moving that slowly. You could fit a ton of boring content onto a side of a record, though.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:50:09pm

re: #117 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, those slide thingys that stores used to use to take CCs.

And for something a little more modern but still outdated: scrambled porn on the PPV channels. :P

Well, on the topic of slides, slide rules? I didn’t have to use one in school, but my dad taught me how to use one because that’s how he learned to do math as an engineer.

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:51:33pm

re: #113 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well, they still have to be shelved in a certain order so you can find them. The computer will tell you the (Dewey Decimal) call number, and that’s where you have to go to get the book.

in the context of this conversation, cause i dont want to rag on young people in general is:
im sure they have no problem computer, to number, to the stacks, to find the book.

do they know the numbering is called “the dewey decimal system” and that the numbers mean categories?

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:54:01pm

re: #78 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

The dewey decimal system

re: #93 MsJ

Isn’t that still used in libraries?

re: #102 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Absolutely. All public libraries AFAIK. The Library of Congress system is only in academic institutions.

re: #103 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

While true, I don’t know if they teach it (or the card catalog) to kids anymore. Why bother when you can look it up on the library computer?

re: #110 MsJ

If think so; you probably use the computer to look up the DD number. Cards are likely long gone.

re: #113 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well, they still have to be shelved in a certain order so you can find them. The computer will tell you the (Dewey Decimal) call number, and that’s where you have to go to get the book.

re: #114 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Betcha my little library here in my backwater town probably still has cards. I used to be proud at being good at navigating the card catalog.

Librarians…they don’t make them like they used to:

UHF Conan The Librarian

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:54:13pm

Wow

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:54:16pm

re: #112 Blind Frog Belly White

The nearest TV stations were 60 miles away. We had a 30’ mast antenna in the backyard. We had t re-aim the antenna for different stations.

I’m from Chicago. WGN was like 5 miles from my house. PBS WTTW was 2 miles.

Both are still there.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:54:22pm
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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:58:02pm

It’s LAX operational?

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CleverToad  Nov 11, 2018 • 2:59:27pm

re: #111 dangerman

it was 16 and 2/3 actually
and 33 and 1/3

i’ve never seen a real 16 record
we had lots of opera and show music on 78’s - large album ‘books’

I’ve never seen a 16 & 2/3 record either
But my mother has several shelves full of 78’s, lots of opera, operettas, show tunes. I’m going to have to deal with them someday soon…

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:00:11pm

“lucy ricardo”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:02:40pm

re: #118 makeitstop

16 RPM was mainly used for spoken word stuff and instructional recordings, because the fidelity got really crappy when the turntable was moving that slowly. You could fit a ton of boring content onto a side of a record, though.

Whereas most of us used it to make LPs and 45s sound funny.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:03:01pm

Santa Ana winds never picked up around here… and now there are high clouds.

Still cool and dry.

I just don’t like this time of year. Besides the fire threat, my sinuses object to this kind of weather.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:03:09pm

re: #127 dangerman

“lucy ricardo”

Vegamitavitamin.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:04:52pm

re: #78 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

The dewey decimal system

My kids all had to learn it as part of their volunteer library work.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:04:56pm

re: #130 MsJ

Vegamitavitamin.

“Do you pop out at parties?”

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:06:00pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:06:59pm

re: #126 CleverToad

I’ve never seen a 16 & 2/3 record either
But my mother has several shelves full of 78’s, lots of opera, operettas, show tunes. I’m going to have to deal with them someday soon…

I don’t think anybody’s ever seen a 16 2/3 RPM record. That choice had disappeared from turntables by the 70s, along with 78.

I do remember having to fool around with 45 RPM adapters—there was a pain in the ass. The big ones that fit on the spindle of a changer were OK, but if your turntable wasn’t a changer you had to put those little plastic inserts in each record. And back in when they fell out.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:16:01pm

You know what else has gone the way of the Dodo? Big ass home speaker systems that filled up an entire living room.

Nowadays surround systems are smaller but more powerful than the old giant rigs.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:16:44pm

A friend just sent me a link to Chuck Prophet. This is great stuff for me.

Chuck Prophet - ’ Would you love me’

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:18:56pm

re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg

You know what else has gone the way of the Dodo? Big ass home speaker systems that filled up an entire living room.

Nowadays surround systems are smaller but more powerful than the old giant rigs.

I also remember when .1% total harmonic distortion was entry-level for quality audio systems. Now you can pay ungodly amounts of money for “home theater” systems with 9% THD.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:20:13pm
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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:20:21pm

Nostalgia: Glass milk and pop bottles and having to return them to the store for credit or for the milk delivery driver to pick up and replace. HDPE and PET plastics put an end to all that.

Though the coated paper milk carton has managed to hang on….but you don’t have to return them.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:23:22pm

re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg

You know what else has gone the way of the Dodo? Big ass home speaker systems that filled up an entire living room.

Nowadays surround systems are smaller but more powerful than the old giant rigs.

Still using my Magneplanar 2.5R speakers, after buying them new 30 years ago.

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makeitstop  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:23:46pm

re: #139 ObserverArt

Nostalgia: Glass milk and pop bottles and having to return them to the store for credit or for the milk delivery driver to pick up and replace. HDPE and PET plastics put an end to all that.

Though the coated paper milk carton has managed to hang on….but you don’t have to return them.

When we went to DC last month, we went into an ice cream store that had milk and cream in glass quart and half-gallon bottles, which were returnable to the store.

I almost wanted to buy one and bring it home, but my wife talked me out of it.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:24:19pm

bbs’s.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:24:31pm

re: #139 ObserverArt

One thing I always enjoyed while in Japan was stopping at the little newsstand in the train station to buy some “gyuunyuu”, that is, milk. the 250ml size came in … glass bottles! You drank it on the spot, then returned the glass bottle to the vendor.

And like so many things, milk in Japan is, in my opinion, superior to what I can buy here, at least in most stores.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:26:09pm

re: #140 Blind Frog Belly White

Still using my Magneplanar 2.5R speakers, after buying them new 30 years ago.

Carver Amazing Line Source speakers won’t fit in a room with an 8’ ceiling, so big speakers aren’t all gone.

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CleverToad  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:29:52pm

re: #44 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

VA budget cuts for Veterans Day. Republican as all heck, y’all

Slightly sideways, similar topic, have been thinking about this poem all day, along with “Tommy A” posted in the last thread: a young Kipling’s angry riff off of Tennyson’s famous poem, written in 1890, 36 years after the infamous Charge in Crimea.

The Last of the Light Brigade
There were thirty million English who talked of England’s might,
There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night.
They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade;
They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade.

They felt that life was fleeting; they knew not that art was long,
That though they were dying of famine, they lived in deathless song.
They asked for a little money to keep the wolf from the door;
And the thirty million English sent twenty pounds and four !

They laid their heads together that were scarred and lined and grey;
Keen were the Russian sabres, but want was keener than they;
And an old Troop-Sergeant muttered, “Let us go to the man who writes
The things on Balaclava the kiddies at school recites.”

They went without bands or colours, a regiment ten-file strong,
To look for the Master-singer who had crowned them all in his song;
And, waiting his servant’s order, by the garden gate they stayed,
A desolate little cluster, the last of the Light Brigade.

They strove to stand to attention, to straighen the toil-bowed back;
They drilled on an empty stomach, the loose-knit files fell slack;
With stooping of weary shoulders, in garments tattered and frayed,
They shambled into his presence, the last of the Light Brigade.

The old Troop-Sergeant was spokesman, and “Beggin’ your pardon,” he said,
“You wrote o’ the Light Brigade, sir. Here’s all that isn’t dead.
An’ it’s all come true what you wrote, sir, regardin’ the mouth of hell;
For we’re all of us nigh to the workhouse, an’ we thought we’d call an’ tell.

“No, thank you, we don’t want food, sir; but couldn’t you take an’ write
A sort of ‘to be continued’ and ‘see next page’ o’ the fight?
We think that someone has blundered, an’ couldn’t you tell ‘em how?
You wrote we were heroes once, sir. Please, write we are starving now.”

The poor little army departed, limping and lean and forlorn.
And the heart of the Master-singer grew hot with “the scorn of scorn.”
And he wrote for them wonderful verses that swept the land like flame,
Till the fatted souls of the English were scourged with the thing called Shame.

O thirty million English that babble of England’s might,
Behold there are twenty heroes who lack their food to-night;
Our children’s children are lisping to “honour the charge they made - “
And we leave to the streets and the workhouse the charge of the Light Brigade!

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:32:19pm

re: #40 Charles Johnson

Wow, just total flat-out lying. I wonder if he made it up himself or is repeating something he got on Facebook or Breitbart?

Probably heard it from Rush Limbaugh.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:32:29pm

re: #140 Blind Frog Belly White

Still using my Magneplanar 2.5R speakers, after buying them new 30 years ago.

I also bought some Magnepans about 30 years ago. I think they were the first version of the 1.5R. Not the real little ones (were they the .5R?), the next size up.

Never really liked box-speakers after that.

And ribbons are the way to go for high frequency reproduction.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:35:47pm

re: #125 MsJ

It’s LAX operational?

Yes. The fire would have to burn through all of Santa Monica to get there.

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CleverToad  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:38:41pm

re: #139 ObserverArt

Nostalgia: Glass milk and pop bottles and having to return them to the store for credit or for the milk delivery driver to pick up and replace. HDPE and PET plastics put an end to all that.

Though the coated paper milk carton has managed to hang on….but you don’t have to return them.

Bought a couple of glass bottles of pop this summer from a little tourist shop in Buena Vista that had about 66 rare varieties in stock — Route 66 Root Beer and Kickapoo Joy Juice. How’s that for nostalgia? But yes, not something I see on a regular basis.

Glass milk bottles, on the other hand, are still an everyday feature. We get milk & cream etc. from a local dairy that delivers every week. More expensive than the grocery store but soooo much better. Since my little old mom has to have her four little glasses of milk every day, I figure it’s worth it for her health. (That’s my excuse, anyway)

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:39:43pm

re: #140 Blind Frog Belly White

Still using my Magneplanar 2.5R speakers, after buying them new 30 years ago.

A roommate of mine in the 90’s bought a pair of Magneplanar ribbon speakers, they absolutely overwhelmed our tiny living room.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:40:34pm

re: #150 goddamnedfrank

But it was a glorious way for the room to be overwhelmed, yes?

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:40:46pm

Tucker Carlson lying? Go on.

Thread.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:41:11pm

re: #141 makeitstop

When we went to DC last month, we went into an ice cream store that had milk and cream in glass quart and half-gallon bottles, which were returnable to the store.

I almost wanted to buy one and bring it home, but my wife talked me out of it.

When I was in elementary school, the milkman brought us our eggs, milk, ice cream and cheese every week — maybe every three days, I don’t remember now. He’d collect the empty milk bottles, too.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:41:36pm
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Kilroy was here  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:42:30pm

Try explaining why car needs a “Choke”.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:44:02pm

re: #155 Kilroy was here

Try explaining why car needs a “Choke”.

I’m amused by the “start button” in modern cars, because the old ‘51 Hudson I used to have also had one. It at least had an automatic choke and tranny.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:44:07pm

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wheat-dogg  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:44:56pm

re: #157 I Would Prefer Not To

Wait. I know that! You’re a biohazard, right?

//

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:48:33pm

re: #158 wheat-dogg

Wait. I know that! You’re a biohazard, right?

//

Supporter of the 45th president/bio hazard, what’s the difference?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:58:19pm

re: #159 I Would Prefer Not To

Supporter of the 45th president/bio hazard, what’s the difference?

I should have known those 45 RPM adapter inserts I was talking about would come to symbolize evil….

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2018 • 3:58:52pm

I use a set of Yamaha NS-10M Studio Monitors for my TV with a Sherwood Receiver to drive them. They got blown up many years ago from a spike in a Phase Linear amp. I had them reconed, etc. In that time we bought other monitors for music I mention in the next paragraph. So I use them for TV with less power to keep them safe.

Downstairs in my sound studio where I have my drums and music mixing equipment I use smaller Yamaha MSP5 near field active studio monitors for the computer sound like listen to YouTubes, CD player, music mixing in the computer, monitoring sound in the studio, etc.

I have a 6 connector switch box to switch the different sources to the speakers and with them being self powered there are very few wires.

Out in the studio main room we have 400 watt active Seismic Audio 10” monitors with dome tweeters. They also work off the switch box for different sources. They are connected to the ‘snake’ that connects all the mics to the mixer for the studio.

I love active speakers because the amps inside are matched to the speakers and it makes them harder to blow up! Really though, it’s just nice to not have amplifiers.

I’ve grown to like monitor style speakers because they are made to give a good sound of what the source is, not colored in any way.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:04:04pm

Well, it’s nice to reminisce about the old days, but now I must teach young minds about the new days. Or at least about English. Ta-ta!

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Dave In Austin  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:05:11pm
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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:07:26pm

re: #139 ObserverArt

Nostalgia: Glass milk and pop bottles and having to return them to the store for credit or for the milk delivery driver to pick up and replace. HDPE and PET plastics put an end to all that.

Though the coated paper milk carton has managed to hang on….but you don’t have to return them.

with cream (tulip) tops

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dangerman  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:08:31pm

re: #142 Belafon

bbs’s.

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Teddy's Person  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:14:51pm

re: #46 MsJ

According to my students this quarter - Jerry Garcia.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:16:33pm
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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:20:16pm

Stupid people don’t do so good in prison do they?

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plansbandc  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:22:04pm

re: #106 MsJ

Had a couple of 78’s found some 16s in a box of old records. My kiddie record players had 16, 33, 45, and 78. Damn. I’m older than I thought.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:23:09pm

re: #168 bd(soros funded)

Stupid people don’t do so good in prison do they?

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Yep, Infowars is so accurate that they spent the first half of Election Day convinced a “red tsunami” was building up because “There’s nobody at the polls in liberal strongholds!”

You know, from the people who, in any other year, scream “IT’S SLOW IN RED DISTRICTS BECAUSE EVERYBODY’S AT WORK, YOU LAZY LIBTARDS!!!”

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Interesting Times  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:24:58pm

Facebook Post

Notice what’s missing in the ACA-repealers photo vs. what’s missing in the one of their replacements?

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:25:42pm

re: #170 Targetpractice

Yep, Infowars is so accurate that they spent the first half of Election Day convinced a “red tsunami” was building up because “There’s nobody at the polls in liberal strongholds!”

You know, from the people who, in any other year, scream “IT’S SLOW IN RED DISTRICTS BECAUSE EVERYBODY’S AT WORK, YOU LAZY LIBTARDS!!!”

CNN IS LYING ABOUT THE FIRE JACOB, STAY PUT!

//

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:25:42pm

re: #168 bd(soros funded)

I see Jake has updated his twitter tag line on his header.

“Head of the Most Well-Known Opposition Research Firm in the World”

Yeah, sure Jake. Say, what are you well-known for again?

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:26:11pm

As for the “I’m so old…” discussion, I’ll throw in my two cents. I remember getting one of these as a birthday present the first year it came out:

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Kilroy was here  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:26:20pm

And the lead widens

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:26:31pm

re: #174 Targetpractice

As for the “I’m so old…” discussion, I’ll throw in my two cents. I remember getting one of these as a birthday present the first year it came out:

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Still have mine. Still works.

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plansbandc  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:26:45pm

re: #139 ObserverArt

Dairy delivery was fun. The milkman would come at 4:30 AM. I would often wake up to great him. (total morning child) I remember him giving me buttermilk.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:27:19pm

re: #176 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Still have mine. Still works.

Same here. Still eats batteries like they’re going out of style.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:27:54pm

If you had to choose who was sent to prison Wohl or rage Furby how much would you celebrate when you found out it was both?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:28:20pm

re: #178 Targetpractice

Same here. Still eats batteries like they’re going out of style.

My dad probably had a budget tab dedicated to AA batteries when I was a young teenager.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:29:04pm

re: #168 bd(soros funded)

Stupid people don’t do so good in prison do they?

Yeah okay keep on telling yourself guy who talks to imaginary gay hipsters in LA coffee houses.

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:29:07pm

re: #179 I Would Prefer Not To

If you had to choose who was sent to prison Wohl or rage Furby how much would you celebrate when you found out it was both?

I’d pee myself if they were assigned the same cell.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:29:56pm

re: #180 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

My dad probably had a budget tab dedicated to AA batteries when I was a young teenager.

Every Christmas was a case of “What sort of batteries does it use and how many?”

Whereas today, it’s “You’re gonna have to wait awhile for that to charge properly.”

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Amory Blaine  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:30:24pm

HBO antennas.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:30:31pm

re: #175 Kilroy was here

And the lead widens

[Embedded content]

Bwahahaha Hewitt really thought that McSally was this awesome candidate and she looks like she lost and it looks like Sinema is oging to push 50% possilby.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:30:53pm

The Younger Boy and I took Rango and Dory out for a walk, since the air got better. Here’s Dory trying to catch up….

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:31:16pm

re: #183 Targetpractice

Every Christmas was a case of “What sort of batteries does it use and how many?”

Whereas today, it’s “You’re gonna have to wait awhile for that to charge properly.”

Remember when we didn’t have to charge our controllers or do software updates for our games. Kind of a blessing and a curse IMO.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:32:31pm

re: #187 HappyWarrior

Remember when we didn’t have to charge our controllers or do software updates for our games. Kind of a blessing and a curse IMO.

To be fair, at least nowadays I don’t have to switch versions of my video drivers to be compatible with a specific game I want to play.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:32:55pm

re: #187 HappyWarrior

Remember when we didn’t have to charge our controllers or do software updates for our games. Kind of a blessing and a curse IMO.

I remember a lot of grumbling and cursing from my dad whenever I wanted to install a new game on the family desktop, because that was before the wonders of Direct X and so you had to mess with the graphics setting with each new game.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:33:16pm
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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:34:14pm

Hell, speaking of consoles, I remember killing hours playing the original Super Mario on an original NES.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:34:28pm

re: #190 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Can we just get rid of this asshole already and send him to a Siberian island with no cell phone reception and worse no golf courses.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:37:41pm

re: #143 freetoken

One thing I always enjoyed while in Japan was stopping at the little newsstand in the train station to buy some “gyuunyuu”, that is, milk. the 250ml size came in … glass bottles! You drank it on the spot, then returned the glass bottle to the vendor.

And like so many things, milk in Japan is, in my opinion, superior to what I can buy here, at least in most stores.

When I was an exchange student there in 1982-3 you could buy these for lunch at the high school. I still remember the cardboard lid with the little tab to pick at; also “coffee milk” was an option. Living there later I was independent and so just bought liters for my apt. fridge. Loved the butter and thick breakfast toast, too.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:37:44pm
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guachi  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:38:22pm

Democrat Katie Hobbs has edged ahead of Republican Steve Gaynor by 150 votes in the Arizona Secretary of State race.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:39:18pm

re: #194 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Check the facial expressions of the men in the boats in the woodblock print of the great wave off Kanagawa.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:40:11pm

re: #195 guachi

Democrat Katie Hobbs has edged ahead of Republican Steve Gaynor by 150 votes in the Arizona Secretary of State race.

Woot. Every little bit counts.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:45:21pm

I still remember needing to use payphones or asking to use someone’s phone to make a call if I was away from home. You have to explain to kids these days what “Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares” means.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:46:00pm

re: #100 Blind Frog Belly White

Brylcreem TV Commercial 1950’s

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:46:53pm

Wait, that career path seems somehow familiar….

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:46:58pm

re: #198 Targetpractice

I still remember needing to use payphones or asking to use someone’s phone to make a call if I was away from home. You have to explain to kids these days what “Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares” means.

Yeah we would hang out at the mall, shopping center, or town center and we’d need change to use a payphone.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:48:07pm

re: #198 Targetpractice

I still remember needing to use payphones or asking to use someone’s phone to make a call if I was away from home. You have to explain to kids these days what “Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares” means.

My grandmother had a rotary phone up until she died in 2003. Because it was leased, the phone company demanded its return when we closed out her account.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:48:12pm

re: #200 Ace-o-aces

Wait, that career path seems somehow familiar….

The only reason why Reps typically don’t make good candidates is that they’re not high profile as governors and senators. Beto doesn’t have that problem. I’ll say it now but if Beto were to run, I’d volunteer immediately. There are other prospective candidates I like but I really like this guy.

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:48:34pm

Insane:

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:48:40pm

re: #202 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

My grandmother had a rotary phone up until she died in 2003. Because it was leased, the phone company demanded its return when we closed out her account.

Yeah my Dad’s Mom had one too.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:49:42pm

re: #204 bd(soros funded)

Insane:

The GOP as the Party of Rich White Men is absolutely confirmed.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:49:49pm

re: #174 Targetpractice

As for the “I’m so old…” discussion, I’ll throw in my two cents. I remember getting one of these as a birthday present the first year it came out:

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Apple’s Newton. I was in my 30s… Maybe 40s, I don’t recall. But I saw a brand new v1.0 Newton.

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A Mom Anon  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:49:59pm

re: #197 HappyWarrior

Conservatives gained the control they have now by starting at the local level. It’s past time for us to do the same. Every elected office that turns Democrat is a chance to turn back the madness one more little step. All policy change is incremental. Patience and a steady push forward is what will work to fix this mess.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:50:48pm

re: #208 A Mom Anon

Conservatives gained the control they have now by starting at the local level. It’s past time for us to do the same. Every elected office that turns Democrat is a chance to turn back the madness one more little step. All policy change is incremental. Patience and a steady push forward is what will work to fix this mess.

Exactly.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:50:49pm

re: #207 MsJ

Apple’s Newton. I was in my 30s… Maybe 40s, I don’t recall. But I saw a brand new v1.0 Newton.

My first programming experiences - what started me down that fateful path to the top-tier techno-wizard I am today - were writing crude BASIC programs on my elementary school’s Apple IIe and IIgs library computers.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:52:45pm

re: #194 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Makes me think of Sylk (?? Did I get that right?)

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:54:09pm

re: #142 Belafon

bbs’s.

I ran my BBS on one of these … with a 1,200 baud modem

Commodore 64 Start Screen
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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 4:56:41pm

re: #198 Targetpractice

I still remember needing to use payphones or asking to use someone’s phone to make a call if I was away from home. You have to explain to kids these days what “Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares” means.

We have a payphone in our town. A local call is still a quarter, but I can’t imagine what a long-distance call would be.

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:01:16pm

re: #203 HappyWarrior

The only reason why Reps typically don’t make good candidates is that they’re not high profile as governors and senators. Beto doesn’t have that problem. I’ll say it now but if Beto were to run, I’d volunteer immediately. There are other prospective candidates I like but I really like this guy.

I just got his thank you email to donors. Really good.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:05:25pm

re: #214 retired cynic

I just got his thank you email to donors. Really good.

I’ll understand completely why if he doesn’t run but I hope he considers it at least or he’s considered for VP.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:05:57pm

re: #204 bd(soros funded)

Insane:

That says it all as to why Trump only ever tries to appeal to his White base.

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:05:59pm

re: #202 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

My grandmother had a rotary phone up until she died in 2003. Because it was leased, the phone company demanded its return when we closed out her account.

Wonder how much she ended up paying for that phone after all of those years of leasing?

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:06:57pm

re: #200 Ace-o-aces

I’d vote for him in a heartbeat. He couldn’t win in a red state but would most likely beat Trump in a romp.

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Amory Blaine  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:07:30pm

Man who made Election Day threats while holding an AR-15 charged with felonies

Brandon Baker, 20, told police he would be governor of the state “tomorrow” while holding an AR-15 outside his Milwaukee apartment building Tuesday morning, according to a criminal complaint that outlined multiple charges.

Baker was charged Saturday with recklessly endangering safety, carrying a concealed weapon, maintaining a drug trafficking place, possession with intent to deliver THC and possession of LSD.

According to the complaint:

Milwaukee police officers responded Tuesday to the area near Baker’s apartment building at 2903 W. Michigan St. after a call about shots being fired in the area around 5 a.m. The officers found Baker standing outside the building holding a black Colt AR-15.

The officers asked Baker to put down the AR-15. Baker did not put down the weapon and said he was running for governor. It was Election Day.

Baker said he was going to be governor and that he had a right to have guns. He told the officers he was going to start a militia.

Baker held up his cellphone and told officers he was broadcasting on Twitter.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:07:36pm

re: #204 bd(soros funded)

Insane:

Jesus Christ what a weisswurst fest.

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:07:42pm

re: #198 Targetpractice

I still remember needing to use payphones or asking to use someone’s phone to make a call if I was away from home. You have to explain to kids these days what “Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares” means.

You kids with your quarter pay phones:

Thank you for your time, ah, you’ve been so much more than kind
And you can keep the dime

Operator - Jim Croce

Now get off my lawn.

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:08:12pm

re: #217 bd(soros funded)

Wonder how much she ended up paying for that phone after all of those years of leasing?

When the phone company in my home town took out the last party line which included my aunt, they made her give up the phone she’d had since the late Seventies.

In the Sixties and early Seventies when I was growing up, my family’s telephone number was 1-2 (one long ring, two short rings).

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:08:38pm

re: #185 HappyWarrior

Hugh Hewitt must be having a sad right about now. Good.

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:09:59pm

Been hearing owls lately, a lot. Feeding the horses tonight, they sounded off, and it was just light enough that I could see the darker lumps on the branches. Two big ones, only about two feet apart. I talked to them for a while, and then one flew off. Great.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:10:03pm

re: #200 Ace-o-aces

Wait, that career path seems somehow familiar….

The organization he had here, and the discipline was massive and really impressive.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:13:29pm

re: #223 Patricia Kayden

Hugh Hewitt must be having a sad right about now. Good.

Yep.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:13:36pm

re: #217 bd(soros funded)

Wonder how much she ended up paying for that phone after all of those years of leasing?

I have no idea, but I don’t think it was all that much.

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:15:42pm

re: #224 retired cynic

Been hearing owls lately, a lot. Feeding the horses tonight, they sounded off, and it was just light enough that I could see the darker lumps on the branches. Two big ones, only about two feet apart. I talked to them for a while, and then one flew off. Great.

that’s awesome

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:16:55pm
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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:17:25pm

re: #227 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I have no idea, but I don’t think it was all that much.

Are phone companies still charging people a touch tone fee?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:20:47pm

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹

They know a lot more about gun wounds than you do Ann who has lived in a right wing bubble your entire life. And we take them seriously when they tell us not do that shit. So you fail again Asshole Annie.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:22:11pm

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹

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NRA tells ER docs to “stay in their lane,” continue to tell cops, politicians, doctors, etc how to do their jobs when it comes to gun policy.

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Unabogie  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:22:38pm
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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:23:24pm

re: #233 Unabogie

Excellent. Excellent.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:25:27pm

re: #233 Unabogie

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And it’s always the same refrain they eventually fall back to: “If you’re so cool with them being here, then let them stay at your place!”

Why, shithead, because you personally own the rest of the fucking country?

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:26:30pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:26:58pm

re: #232 Targetpractice

NRA tells ER docs to “stay in their lane,” continue to tell cops, politicians, doctors, etc how to do their jobs when it comes to gun policy.

I’d love to know what Dana Loesch actually knows about gun policy other than what the NRA pays her to say. Yeah I’ll definitely take the word of people who treat gun wounds daily over a bunch of sheltered lobbyists who have never had to see the consequences of gun violence in their life.

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:28:18pm

NJTV has on right now a very good program called GI Jews.
njtvonline.org

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Unshaken Defiance  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:29:30pm

…

Never mind worst timing…

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:30:02pm

Shooting happens at synagogue

Gun-humpers: “They shoulda had armed guards!”

Shooting happens at high school

Gun-humpers: “They need to arm the teachers!”

Shooting happens at movie theater

Gun-humpers: “They need to get rid of gun-free zones!”

Doctors speak out for gun control

Gun-humpers: “DON’T TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT! STAY IN YOUR LANE!!!”

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:31:26pm

re: #230 bd(soros funded)

Are phone companies still charging people a touch tone fee?

Not to my knowledge … nearly all phone service is touch-tone. Rotary phones work on now digital central offices because they have integrated circuits which detect the on-off of the rotary dial and convert to touch tone.

Interestingly, many local businesses around here (and the VA) with their recordings have “press or dial 1” for option A, “press or dial 2” for option B, &c.

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:32:59pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:33:49pm

re: #199 The Vicious Babushka

Brylcreem.com

An Icon Since 1928.
Brylcreem was an instant hit with British soldiers during WWII. It quickly became standard issue for military pilots, who had a reputation for being cutting edge and sophisticated, to keep their longer hair perfectly in place during intense air battles.

Through the decades the look has stuck. From slick 50’s ad execs to today’s red carpet. 89 years later, the look continues to be an icon of men’s style.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:37:12pm

I think the best way to put it for my generation is we’re one of those “transition” generations.

What do I mean by that? I mean we came of age just as there was a massive burst in technological advancement, such that everything change for us “overnight.” Like how when I was a wee tot, cellphones were something you carried around by a strap and were almost the exclusive domain of those with money (i.e. stock brokers, politicians, businessmen, etc). Yet, by the time I was starting high school, everybody had a cellphone and pay phones were an endangered species.

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Single-handed sailor  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:40:50pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:42:36pm

re: #243 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Brylcreem.com

Don Jr. & Eric use more than a “li’l dab”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:44:07pm

re: #174 Targetpractice

As for the “I’m so old…” discussion, I’ll throw in my two cents. I remember getting one of these as a birthday present the first year it came out:

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I’m so old I still remember Paying $2599 for the original Macintosh 128K the first day Macs came on the market. Took it home and was just amazed.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:45:05pm

re: #100 Blind Frog Belly White

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Interesting history.
Robert Gundlach (1926-2010) was a physicist who invented the modern photocopier. His father, Emanuel Gundlach, was the chemist who invented Wildroot hair cream.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:45:20pm

re: #247 Joe Bacon 🌹

I’m so old I still remember Paying $2599 for the original Macintosh 128K the first day Macs came on the market. Took it home and was just amazed.

Grew up with an IBM PC. Of all the skills I curse myself for allowing to atrophy, being able to work with MSDOS is pretty high up there.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:46:03pm

re: #248 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Interesting history.
Robert Gundlach (1926-2010) was a physicist who invented the modern photocopier. His father, Emanuel Gundlach, was the chemist who invented Wildroot hair cream.

Brings back memories of Al Capp’s Fearless Fosdick ads for Wildroot!

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:47:05pm

re: #247 Joe Bacon 🌹

I’m so old I still remember Paying $2599 for the original Macintosh 128K the first day Macs came on the market. Took it home and was just amazed.

Zedushka bought a 40MB hard drive for $500. In 1989.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:47:54pm

re: #246 The Vicious Babushka

Don Jr. & Eric use more than a “li’l dab”

They probably use illegally harvested whale oil, just as a matter of principle.

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:48:44pm

re: #247 Joe Bacon 🌹

I’m so old I still remember Paying $2599 for the original Macintosh 128K the first day Macs came on the market. Took it home and was just amazed.

We bought a Kaypro a month before the first Apple came out. We were sick, because the Kaypro cost the same amount. We did jump ship for the original Mac, and I have been Apple all the way since then.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:48:51pm

re: #251 The Vicious Babushka

Zedushka bought a 40MB hard drive for $500. In 1989.

When the first 1GB HDDs came on the market: “Who would ever fill one of those up?”

When the first 1TB HDDs came on the market: “How are we ever going to fill one of those up?”

*sigh*

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mmmirele  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:48:58pm

re: #252 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

They probably use illegally harvested whale oil, just as a matter of principle.

When I was in Japan, we were served whale at one meal. I don’t think anyone touched it.

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:49:52pm

re: #249 Targetpractice

Grew up with an IBM PC. Of all the skills I curse myself for allowing to atrophy, being able to work with MSDOS is pretty high up there.

I never saw a computer until I went in the Navy. The first computerised test stands I worked with used punched tape to load programs onto a 1M drum drive hooked to a nitrogen canister to keep out water and dust.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:50:02pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:50:53pm

When I took my first programming class in FORTRAN at ltu.edu we used punch cards!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:51:51pm

re: #253 retired cynic

We bought a Kaypro a month before the first Apple came out. We were sick, because the Kaypro cost the same amount. We did jump ship for the original Mac, and I have been Apple all the way since then.

A couple of months after the Mac came on the market, the offered an 512 KB Memory expansion card for $995.

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:52:28pm

I’m old enough to remember when there were no moon landing hoaxers, because everyone around the world watched it on television.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:53:11pm

re: #257 The Vicious Babushka

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At least we’re getting closer to the truth: The fucker didn’t want to sit in his armored limo for 2.5 hrs when there was nothing in it for him. No big photo op, no big press pool, no speaker’s podium, just a quiet and solemn ceremony for men he doesn’t give a flying fuck about. Why leave his warm and comfy hotel room when he can just send “The Help” to do it in his place?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:53:43pm

re: #260 Anymouse 🌹

I’m old enough to remember when there were no moon landing hoaxers, because everyone around the world watched it on television.

Unfortunately, the flat earthers were claiming a hoax even before Apollo 11 touched down near the Sea of Tranquility. The bad crazy has only gotten worse since then.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:53:58pm

re: #260 Anymouse 🌹

I’m old enough to remember when there were no moon landing hoaxers, because everyone around the world watched it on television.

Back then it was the John Birchers pushing conspiracy hoaxes from the CFR to Cloud seeding…

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:55:01pm

re: #263 Joe Bacon 🌹

Back then it was the John Birchers pushing conspiracy hoaxes from the CFR to Cloud seeding…

THE UN IS FUNDING THE FREEDOM RIDERS. //. But I guess at least they were honest about their contempt for the civil rights movement compared with the modern conservatives who try to claim the CRM as their own cause.

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William Lewis  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:56:37pm

re: #207 MsJ

Apple’s Newton. I was in my 30s… Maybe 40s, I don’t recall. But I saw a brand new v1.0 Newton.

My best friend in high school had his parents get him a brand new TRS-80 (later called the Model 1). 4kb ram, tape recorder for mass storage & a TV for video. Nothing else was ever quite like typing in a game, saving it slowly to tape and then running it for the first time - possibly the most fun I had with any computer prior to discovering UNIX. We’d listen to Boston and the Ramones while programming it.

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lawhawk  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:56:43pm

re: #41 dangerman

Cotton and the rest of the GOP are white nationalists.

They don’t know or care about the law or the facts.

Cotton will also lie and obfuscate about the law, which requires someone to be in the US to claim asylum, either at a port of entry, or anywhere else.

This isn’t something they can claim while in their nation - while they’re trying to flee from violence and mayhem.

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:57:12pm

re: #257 The Vicious Babushka

On top of the rest of the bullshit, why would it have taken 2-1/2 hours each way to go less than 60 miles?

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:58:06pm

re: #267 BeachDem

On top of the rest of the bullshit, why would it have taken 2-1/2 hours each way to go less than 60 miles?

They’d stop at 3 drive thrus

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:58:31pm

re: #266 lawhawk

Also, by suggesting a “safe third country”, what Cotton is doing is saying refugees should just show up at other countries’ borders, not ours.

No explanation why.

Oh… I guess America is exceptional.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 11, 2018 • 5:58:57pm

It is widely accepted knowledge here that all Republicans elected to office in Washington are either outright villains or cowards. However, I am temporarily awarding a pass to Dan Crenshaw who was a hero who sacrificed for this country and who proved himself a man of forgiveness and humor during the SNL sketch last evening. So let’s see if he is capable of overcoming the toxic atmosphere exhaled by Washington Republicans.

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lawhawk  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:00:25pm

Doctor Who isn’t messing around with this new season with deep concepts and exploring hate, bigotry, racism, and I think it’s great.

The latest episode is examining the partition of Pakistan/India in 1947.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:00:54pm

re: #271 lawhawk

Doctor Who isn’t messing around with this new season with deep concepts and exploring hate, bigotry, racism, and I think it’s great.

The latest episode is examining the partition of Pakistan/India in 1947.

Bet that’s triggering a lot of assholes but good.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:02:36pm

re: #272 HappyWarrior

Bet that’s triggering a lot of assholes but good.

The New Doctor Who episodes triggered the snowflakes with the first episode showing Rose with her black boyfriend.

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William Lewis  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:02:37pm

re: #271 lawhawk

Doctor Who isn’t messing around with this new season with deep concepts and exploring hate, bigotry, racism, and I think it’s great.

The latest episode is examining the partition of Pakistan/India in 1947.

Is Britain getting the smackdown it deserves for how bad a hash that was?

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:02:49pm

re: #267 BeachDem

On top of the rest of the bullshit, why would it have taken 2-1/2 hours each way to go less than 60 miles?

They lied about that too.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:03:41pm

re: #266 lawhawk

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Cotton and the rest of the GOP are white nationalists.

They don’t know or care about the law or the facts.

Cotton will also lie and obfuscate about the law, which requires someone to be in the US to claim asylum, either at a port of entry, or anywhere else.

This isn’t something they can claim while in their nation - while they’re trying to flee from violence and mayhem.

They’re effectively trying to conflate “refugee” with “immigrant.” That a person coming here seeking to flee their home country has no intent on returning to said home country, so they’re effectively an immigrant who is bypassing the “legal” form of immigration. The fact that claiming asylum as a refugee is a perfectly legal form of entry to the US is being smothered under a mountain of bullshit “outrage” that these refugees are “cutting to the front of the line!”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:05:10pm

Right now, come January, the guy won’t even have a job.
Call me crazy, but, I’m not sure how a former junior 3-term Congressman makes realistic run for the Presidency when he’s not even at least in office to get some national exposure

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:05:43pm

re: #275 The Vicious Babushka

They lied about that too.

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Yeah, the idea that they called off the motorcade because Trump didn’t want to “inconvenience” French citizens is laughable. This is a man who is constantly traveling to rallies which means road closures and traffic snarls that inconvenience people here in his own country, why would a man who famously couldn’t give a shit less about foreigners whose personal wealth is less than 9 figures suddenly worry that he’s causing them trouble?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:06:35pm

re: #271 lawhawk

Doctor Who isn’t messing around with this new season with deep concepts and exploring hate, bigotry, racism, and I think it’s great.

The latest episode is examining the partition of Pakistan/India in 1947.

I saw the preview and my jaw dropped. Mrs. Fish didn’t understand, so I had to fill her in on the historical context. She kinda stared for a minute at the TV, like, “…OH.”

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:07:00pm

re: #277 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Right now, come January, the guy won’t even have a job.
Call me crazy, but, I’m not sure how a former junior 3-term Congressman makes realistic run for the Presidency when he’s not even at least in office to get some national exposure

Beto should run for Speaker of the House, you don’t have to be a member to be elected Speaker!!!

//

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Interesting Times  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:07:07pm

re: #278 Targetpractice

To say nothing of how he barged into Pittsburgh when they specifically asked him NOT to due to the burden of providing security for him plus the massacre victims’ funerals.

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lawhawk  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:09:45pm

re: #274 William Lewis

Is Britain getting the smackdown it deserves for how bad a hash that was?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:10:55pm

re: #280 bd(soros funded)

Beto should run for Speaker of the House, you don’t have to be a member to be elected Speaker!!!

//

That’s how you end up with a Republican Speaker with a Democrat majority

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:11:01pm

Why hasn’t @FoxNews tweeted in 3 days?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:11:07pm

re: #281 Interesting Times

To say nothing of how he barged into Pittsburgh when they specifically asked him NOT to due to the burden of providing security for him plus the massacre victims’ funerals.

Friends back home said the crowds who rose to protest KKKraKKKer JerKKK were the largest protests since the Black Construction Coalition demonstrations in the late 60s.

For those who don’t know, most Construction Unions in Pittsburgh were whites-only until the early 70s when judges forced what was callled the “Philadelphia Plan” now known as affirmative action on the unions. This is what triggered the Wallace backlash that eventually led to Reagan Democrats.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:11:21pm

re: #265 William Lewis

My best friend in high school had his parents get him a brand new TRS-80 (later called the Model 1). 4kb ram, tape recorder for mass storage & a TV for video. Nothing else was ever quite like typing in a game, saving it slowly to tape and then running it for the first time - possibly the most fun I had with any computer prior to discovering UNIX. We’d listen to Boston and the Ramones while programming it.

My friend had one. He used to drag it to our house all the time (my ex was in the Navy so out house was where everyone went).

Other than mainframe work stations, that was my first intro to PCs. I loved the games. I was fascinated by it…by the whole thing.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:11:32pm

re: #282 lawhawk

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BlueSpotinAL  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:11:36pm

re: #91 dangerman

“black and white television”
or what we used to call “television”

remember those?
you had to actually stand up to change a channel or the volume or fix the vertical hold

Or tell your children to do it for you. The original remote control.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:12:11pm

re: #284 bd(soros funded)

Why hasn’t @FoxNews tweeted in 3 days?

Townhall had a possible explanation yesterday: They’re waging a silent boycott against Twitter because it didn’t do enough to “protect” Tucker.

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lawhawk  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:12:47pm
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jeffreyw  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:12:53pm

re: #202 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

My grandmother had a rotary phone up until she died in 2003. Because it was leased, the phone company demanded its return when we closed out her account.

I remember when the phone co upgraded us to a rotary. They fired all the operators soon after.

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:12:59pm

re: #289 Targetpractice

Townhall had a possible explanation yesterday: They’re waging a silent boycott against Twitter because it didn’t do enough to “protect” Tucker.

lol, that’ll learn ‘em!

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De Kolta Chair  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:13:38pm

Having grown up in the very regressive, repressive, and proudly racist State of Arizona from the mid-sixties through the early eighties, I am in shock that Kyrsten Sinema may well be the next Senator.

Fucking insane, in a very very good way.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:15:00pm

I remember when the first chess computers—Boris and Chess Challenger came on the market in 1976. I was so curious to play them! Went to Gimbel’s Department Store in Pittsburgh to play demonstration games. Oh, I was so shocked to see how EAP they played. Knocked both of them out in 25 moves!

Several salespeople watched me play. They were shocked with how easy I beat them. I may have discouraged buyers…

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:15:08pm

re: #290 lawhawk

Saline plants to irrigate California. !!! Put that boy in a plane and fly him up and down the state, so he can decide where to put them, and how to get the sea water to them.

Idiot.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:15:32pm

re: #292 bd(soros funded)

lol, that’ll learn ‘em!

If it’s the answer, it’s a rather asinine one. Why? Because Fox has a massive bullhorn that could be making this clear to the entire public that they’re turning their back on Twitter. Yet they’ve been totally silent on the matter, including Tucker “Man of a Thousand Constipated Looks” Carlson who supposedly is the “victim.”

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Interesting Times  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:15:59pm

re: #289 Targetpractice

Townhall had a possible explanation yesterday: They’re waging a silent boycott against Twitter because it didn’t do enough to “protect” Tucker.

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uriel  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:16:56pm

re: #289 Targetpractice

Townhall had a possible explanation yesterday: They’re waging a silent boycott against Twitter because it didn’t do enough to “protect” Tucker.

I guarantee you at least half the higher ups are sincerely asking the other half, “Why *can’t* we just switch everything over to gab?”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:16:58pm

re: #297 Interesting Times

Wait, what the fuck happened to Tucker Carlson? What did I miss?

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:17:35pm

“How do we respond to Twitter’s refusal to protect Tucker?”

“I know, we could organize a massive boycott that would hurt their bottom line and scare Jack into being our bitch yet again!”

“Nah, too complicated.”

“Well, how about we just go totally silent and leave people guessing?”

“BRILLIANT!”

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:18:17pm

re: #299 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Wait, what the fuck happened to Tucker Carlson? What did I miss?

Some people showed up at his house to protest him.

Cops came, no one arrested but the wingnuts are treating it as the end of the world.

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lawhawk  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:18:28pm

Wait, Fox is deciding to pwn the libs by shutting the fuck up on Twitter?

Cool, keep owning them. I see how they think this is winning. Bigly.

Why don’t they make this boycott permanent? It’d be the start of the deprogramming needed to get things back on track - and to continue rolling back the regressive know nothing red tide that Fox brought in like a toxic algae bloom.

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:19:06pm

Shadow banning yourself to own the libs?

//

brilliant!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:19:23pm

They sure showed me. //

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:19:56pm

re: #301 bd(soros funded)

Some people showed up at his house to protest him.

Cops came, no one arrested but the wingnuts are treating it as the end of the world.

Oh, it was over that whole thing. Sheesh. Honestly, leftist protesters have been pretty mild compared to some of the shit the right-wing mobs do.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:20:16pm

re: #301 bd(soros funded)

Some people showed up at his house to protest him.

Cops came, no one arrested but the wingnuts are treating it as the end of the world.

The accusations started at “A bunch of protestors showed up at his house while he wasn’t there and scared his children!”

And in classic wingnut fashion, they ballooned to the point that Tucker claimed that a bunch of violent Antifa terrorists tried to kick in his door and raid his house, the cops had to be called, and multiple arrests happened for all the damage done to his home and the threats made to his family.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:22:07pm

re: #204 bd(soros funded)

Insane:

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:22:50pm

One of the largest media companies in the world decides to battle another media source by going silent?

Really?!

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:23:47pm

re: #308 bd(soros funded)

I suspect it is just a test. Murdoch wants to gauge how far he can push the next step, of being the puppet master behind the fascist puppet.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:24:16pm

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹

I’ve had to add a few doctors to the people I follow.

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:24:46pm

I guess FoxNews painted themselves into a corner.

If they publically came out against Twitter all of their employees and viewers would swear off Twitter like they did Kuerig, NFL, Nike, Starbucks…….etc.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:25:23pm

See, when it was “They scared his children!”, they had some measure of bipartisan agreement that the protestors might have gone too far.

But they can never stop there, they always have to embellish because if they can get a little sympathy for scared children, then children scared by somebody trying to break in should totally lead to more sympathy!

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:26:14pm

re: #266 lawhawk

Cotton and the rest of the GOP are white nationalists.

They don’t know or care about the law or the facts.

Cotton will also lie and obfuscate about the law, which requires someone to be in the US to claim asylum, either at a port of entry, or anywhere else.

This isn’t something they can claim while in their nation - while they’re trying to flee from violence and mayhem.

Don’t forget his letter to Iran trying to undermine President Obama (and getting schooled on Constitutional Law by Iran in return). Nearly the whole GOP congressional caucus signed that unlawful letter.

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makeitstop  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:27:26pm

My Knicks are getting waxed by the Magic tonight. It’s hard to root for a young team some nights.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:27:48pm

re: #313 Anymouse 🌹

Don’t forget his letter to Iran trying to undermine President Obama (and getting schooled on Constitutional Law by Iran in return). Nearly the whole GOP congressional caucus signed that unlawful letter.

You mean the jackasses who now want Kerry arrested for trying to maintain the Nuke Deal?

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:28:45pm

re: #312 Targetpractice

See, when it was “They scared his children!”, they had some measure of bipartisan agreement that the protestors might have gone too far.

But they can never stop there, they always have to embellish because if they can get a little sympathy for scared children, then children scared by somebody trying to break in should totally lead to more sympathy!

I’m calling bs on that tactic ever since Trump said that Barron saw Kathy Griffen hold up a prop and think it was his dad. THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

Wingnuts hiding behind their kids is weak.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:29:14pm

re: #277 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Right now, come January, the guy won’t even have a job.
Call me crazy, but, I’m not sure how a former junior 3-term Congressman makes realistic run for the Presidency when he’s not even at least in office to get some national exposure

How did a two year Senator from Illinois end up at the top of the ticket? It’s not like he made a lot of noise there.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:30:07pm

re: #317 Belafon

How did a two year Senator from Illinois end up at the top of the ticket? It’s not like he made a lot of noise there.

Because Soros wanted him there.

/ducks

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:31:25pm

re: #317 Belafon

How did a two year Senator from Illinois end up at the top of the ticket? It’s not like he made a lot of noise there.

They had been planning that for decades, starting with the fake birth announcement placed in that Honolulu paper!!

//

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:33:25pm

What brought Obama to everyone’s attention was his 2004 speech. I guarantee you that Beto’s run in Texas has caught a lot of people’s attention.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:33:47pm

re: #320 Belafon

What brought Obama to everyone’s attention was his 2004 speech. I guarantee you that Beto’s run in Texas has caught a lot of people’s attention.

My thoughts exactly. There are friends of mine from CANADA who know who Beto O’Rourke is.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:37:00pm

Somehow, I think I’d rather have somebody from the minor leagues running in 2 years. I try to look at those we have in the majors and all I can see is their flaws.

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Single-handed sailor  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:37:51pm
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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:38:18pm

re: #219 Amory Blaine

Man who made Election Day threats while holding an AR-15 charged with felonies

Whoo-boy…

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:38:20pm

As long as we don’t have 15 people run and we end up with Michael Avenatti, I think we look at all the candidates and see which one is the best.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:40:20pm

re: #260 Anymouse 🌹

I’m old enough to remember when there were no moon landing hoaxers, because everyone around the world watched it on television.

Oh, they were there, they just didn’t have the big-ass megaphone of the Internet.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:40:46pm

re: #277 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Right now, come January, the guy won’t even have a job.
Call me crazy, but, I’m not sure how a former junior 3-term Congressman makes realistic run for the Presidency when he’s not even at least in office to get some national exposure

What has Mitt Romney been doing politically since he was governor?

Answer: Running for president. Often.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:41:37pm

re: #322 Targetpractice

Somehow, I think I’d rather have somebody from the minor leagues running in 2 years. I try to look at those we have in the majors and all I can see is their flaws.

This.

With contemporary media sources and electronic devices, we can pick apart anything and anyone to where all we see are their flaws.

Back in the day the electorate was less likely to be so influenced by image management.

This problem - of image being everything - came to be an issue with Nixon-Kennedy. Kennedy looked younger and handsomer than Nixon.

Ever since, the electronic image has been gaining more purchase among the American electorate.

This is why Trump is able to work his marks so effectively - their input into their minds is managed, electronically, very well.

So I’m all for bringing up good looking, charismatic figures from what you call the “minors”.

Shallow as that may sound, this is what life is like in 21st century America.

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:42:21pm

re: #327 ObserverArt

What has Mitt Romney been doing politically since he was governor?

Answer: Running for president. Often.

He fought Evander Holyfield

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:43:48pm

My wife turned it on the Michelle Obama interview on ABC. Michelle was describing when she met Obama. I guess her friends were telling her about Barack, but she didn’t really know if she wanted to meet him. And then she said “And in walks Barack Obama. And Barack Obama has always walked the way Barack Obama walks, like he’s got all the time in the world.”

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:46:15pm

re: #307 Belafon

In the replies to the original tweet, a handy chart:

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:49:37pm

LOL (ninety seconds)

Weekend Update: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized - SNL

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:49:57pm

re: #328 freetoken

This.

With contemporary media sources and electronic devices, we can pick apart anything and anyone to where all we see are their flaws.

Back in the day the electorate was less likely to be so influenced by image management.

This problem - of image being everything - came to be an issue with Nixon-Kennedy. Kennedy looked younger and handsomer than Nixon.

Ever since, the electronic image has been gaining more purchase among the American electorate.

This is why Trump is able to work his marks so effectively - their input into their minds is managed, electronically, very well.

So I’m all for bringing up good looking, charismatic figures from what you call the “minors”.

Shallow as that may sound, this is what life is like in 21st century America.

I call it the “minors” because really, our political system really has started working like a sports league. The young and promising folks largely try to start at the local and state levels, getting recognition there for building up records that might be short but amazing or long but consistent. Then they get drafted to run for US Congress, getting a boost to the majors by running on those records. And our presidential primaries have become the all-star games, where the exceptional few who folks feel have a chance battle out to see who will face off for the big game.

Now, sometimes we’ll see exceptional player who get drafted straight to the majors, while other times we’ll see the old warhorses decide to drop back to the minors to either retire or aim for that jump at the presidential game by building up a better record. And many in the minors never get called up to the majors, either because they just don’t have the talent, the recognition, or the money. But the usual cycle continues: Start low, work your way up, and eventually either retire back down or just out entirely.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:50:40pm

re: #316 bd(soros funded)

I’m calling bs on that tactic ever since Trump said that Barron saw Kathy Griffen hold up a prop and think it was his dad. THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

Wingnuts hiding behind their kids is weak.

Here is what happened:

TRUMP: OMG did you see that? Kathy Griffin killed me! SHE KILLED ME!

BARRON: Chill Dad, you’re right here. Nobody killed you.

TRUMP: Then whose head is that? It looks like my head! Nobody else has hair like mine!

BARRON: That’s a fake head, Dad.

TRUMP: FAKE NEWS, FAKE NEWS! KATHY GRIFFIN KILLED ME!!!

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wheat-dogg  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:52:00pm

re: #198 Targetpractice

I still remember needing to use payphones or asking to use someone’s phone to make a call if I was away from home. You have to explain to kids these days what “Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares” means.

Those days were fading even way back in the 1970s. The booths got smaller.

Superman - Wrong Type Phone Booth

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wheat-dogg  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:55:44pm

re: #247 Joe Bacon 🌹

I’m so old I still remember Paying $2599 for the original Macintosh 128K the first day Macs came on the market. Took it home and was just amazed.

I just paid $110 for a 4 TB portable hard drive. Next year, it will probably be half that price.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:56:16pm

re: #327 ObserverArt

What has Mitt Romney been doing politically since he was governor?

Answer: Running for president. Often.

So, Beto’s goal should be to fail to be nominated as the Democratic candidate in 2020, lose the presidential election in 2024, campaign against the Democratic candidate in 2028, then essentially publicly beg the new Democratic president-elect to be Secretary of State and not get nominated, and finally successfully get elected as the Senator for Utah in 2030?

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Danack  Nov 11, 2018 • 6:56:48pm

Oh ffs:

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:01:55pm

re: #333 Targetpractice

I remember this candidate, who spent her whole life training for the presidency.

The Trump model - get people to hate.
The Obama model - give a good speech and be really good at organizing an election (which, in my mind, is a very good indicator of ability).
The Bush model - Get drunk, get sober, borrow and buy a baseball team, use your dad’s connections, and sound like an idiot.
The Clinton model - Be a governor, and be VERY good at talking to people.
The Bush model - Be the VP.
The Reagan model - appeal to racism with phrases like “welfare queen” and “the seven scariest words.”

Three of those people had been governors, and none of us want two of them in now, and the third, Clinton, couldn’t even become the party nominee anymore. And I would still rank Obama as the best in the group because of the giant hole he managed to dig us out of, the triumph of the ACA, and he did it all while black. And you would would be hard pressed to map that to what you knew about him before 2009.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:04:18pm
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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:04:33pm

re: #336 wheat-dogg

I just paid $110 for a 4 TB portable hard drive. Next year, it will probably be half that price.

$35 for a Quad Core, 1.2GHz Raspberry Pi that has 1GB ram, HDMI, WiFi, and four USB ports. Ten years ago, that cost over $1000.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:04:34pm

re: #337 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

So, Beto’s goal should be to fail to be nominated as the Democratic candidate in 2020, lose the presidential election in 2024, campaign against the Democratic candidate in 2028, then essentially publicly beg the new Democratic president-elect to be Secretary of State and not get nominated, and finally successfully get elected as the Senator for Utah in 2030?

No. Just pointing out you do not have to be in a current office to run for President.

I’m not recommending it for Beto. But it could be done.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:06:01pm

I’d order a pineapple pizza.

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dell*nix  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:08:40pm

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

Fill in the well with a dump truck.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:09:49pm

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:10:01pm

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

I’d order a pineapple pizza.

Build the wall?

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:12:00pm

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

I’d order a pineapple pizza.

I’d probably spend too much time trying to think who was the worst use of human skin and they’d die before I could finally make a decision.

Oh well, that is what happens when neither have any redeeming qualities. /

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:12:54pm

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

I’d throw down half a broken pool stick, tell them I’m starting a gang, and then laugh after the fight was over.

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Skip Intro  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:14:53pm

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

I’d order a pineapple pizza.

I don’t see no stinking well.

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bd(soros funded)  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:18:13pm

re: #349 Skip Intro

I don’t see no stinking well.

Fake Well!

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wheat-dogg  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:21:26pm

I confess, as a guy this question never occurred to me before. Astronaut Abby has the answers.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:22:06pm

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

I’d order a pineapple pizza.

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Tell to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Can’t go around, expecting others to save them, else they’ll never learn to save themselves.

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:24:05pm

Yikes, Sinéad O’Conner (on her new account) is getting dragged by conservatives, Muslims, and all sorts of other people over a tweet for saying she doesn’t want to spend any time with white people again because they’re all disgusting.

Conservatives are calling her a racist, Muslims are doing the same and pointing out that sort of attitude is not in keeping with Islam, &c.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:24:28pm

re: #351 wheat-dogg

I confess, as a guy this question never occurred to me before. Astronaut Abby has the answers.

I would suggest we focus on solving the radiation problem first. The question is an important one, but surviving the trip without dying of radiation poisoning seems to take precedence at the moment.

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William Lewis  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:27:48pm

re: #354 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I would suggest we focus on solving the radiation problem first. The question is an important one, but surviving the trip without dying of radiation poisoning seems to take precedence at the moment.

water tanks for the trip surround the habitat portion of the ship. Best rad shield we have.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:31:00pm

Me: “I need to start getting ready for work.”

Cat: “Oh, you’re sitting down? Cool! I was looking for a warm place to lay down.”

Me: “Uhm, I need to get to work.”

Cat: *purrs louder*

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:31:43pm
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wheat-dogg  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:33:25pm

re: #357 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I think Obama is taking over the presidential consoling duties for Trump, who can’t seem to master being human.

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:34:00pm

re: #353 Anymouse 🌹

Yikes, Sinéad O’Conner (on her new account) is getting dragged by conservatives.

O’Conner strikes me as the kind of person who changes religion often. She’ll probably be a Hare Krishna by next year. It’s kind of like then Snoop Dogg decided to become a Muslin, which I am guessing ended as soon as he discovered marijuana was prohibited.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:37:47pm
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Single-handed sailor  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:38:10pm
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plansbandc  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:38:19pm

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:39:05pm

re: #359 Ace-o-aces

O’Conner strikes me as the kind of person who changes religion often. She’ll probably be a Hare Krishna by next year. It’s kind of like then Snoop Dogg decided to become a Muslin, which I am guessing ended as soon as he discovered marijuana was prohibited.

Someone on that thread suggested that Scientologists will be boarding up their places and putting up “we moved” signs in case she tries them next.

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:39:24pm

Welp. So much for McSally’s dignified, quiet, honorable reaction to losing:

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:42:40pm

re: #364 BeachDem

Welp. So much for McSally’s dignified, quiet, honorable reaction to losing:

Kemp, Scott, DeSantis, now McSally … it sounds like desperation.

The problem is that by calling the very integrity of elections into question, they are both doing our rivals’ work for them, and are likely to get someone killed.

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Skip Intro  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:44:08pm

re: #357 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

That’s the way a human being responds to tragedy.

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:46:52pm

re: #364 BeachDem

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 11, 2018 • 7:53:14pm
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Ace-o-aces  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:01:15pm

My grandfather was upset when Communism fell in Poland because he felt they deserved to suffer more. He did not have many fond memories of the place.

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:02:29pm
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ipsos  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:16:41pm

re: #104 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Only way to get uncompressed 1080p.

Erm… no. The current over-the-air DTV standard (“ATSC 1.0”) can only go up to 1080i. Good, but not as good as the 1080p you can get off a Blu-Ray or some streaming services.

The next DTV standard (“ATSC 3.0”) will be able to do 1080i and even 4K. But the tuner in your current TV set won’t be able to receive it without an adapter, and it’s only being broadcast on a test basis in Phoenix right now.

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:25:20pm

re: #371 ipsos

Erm… no. The current over-the-air DTV standard (“ATSC 1.0”) can only go up to 1080i. Good, but not as good as the 1080p you can get off a Blu-Ray or some streaming services.

The next DTV standard (“ATSC 3.0”) will be able to do 1080i and even 4K. But the tuner in your current TV set won’t be able to receive it without an adapter, and it’s only being broadcast on a test basis in Phoenix right now.

Television is far too complicated for me now. I don’t ever see me buying one again.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:28:58pm

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Interesting Times  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:29:52pm

My thoughts exactly :/

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guachi  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:31:31pm

re: #372 Anymouse 🌹

Television is far too complicated for me now. I don’t ever see me buying one again.

Missing out. 4k movies look amazing on any mid to high end set. And, with Black Friday around the corner, sets, players, and movies are cheaper than they’ll be until next Black Friday.

Jaw dropping quality (disc version, not streaming)

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gwangung  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:32:31pm

re: #374 Interesting Times

My thoughts exactly :/

Um, we can’t . That’s the scary thing.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:38:13pm

re: #374 Interesting Times

My thoughts exactly :/

It’s not the first election after Trump that proves who we are, it’s the second.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:40:10pm

We now go live to the Entitled Housewives of Malibu:

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:44:28pm

re: #11 freetoken

Trump is dragging the entire Republican party into the sewer with him.

They’ve been in the sewer for decades. Trump hopped in with them, lit a match and blew the lines wide open.

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:51:54pm

re: #375 guachi

Missing out. 4k movies look amazing on any mid to high end set. And, with Black Friday around the corner, sets, players, and movies are cheaper than they’ll be until next Black Friday.

Jaw dropping quality (disc version, not streaming)

Well, reading up on the standards (ATSC and ATSC 3.0), it already looks like folks are trying to prevent required inclusion of ATSC 3.0 tuners (the same fight that happened with UHF tuners under NTSC), claiming they need a “market-based solution” (in other words, most sets probably wouldn’t have the new standard, just as when UHF stations came on the air most sets weren’t required to have UHF tuners, resulting in UHF stations going dark).

I don’t own a television set now, so I don’t see how all the wrangling over what sort of standard will or won’t be approved is going to help me decide to spend a significant fraction of what I spent on my house or car on a television set.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 8:52:53pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:01:41pm

re: #381 MsJ

It could be even worse sad to say.

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ipsos  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:09:02pm

re: #372 Anymouse 🌹

Television is far too complicated for me now. I don’t ever see me buying one again.

Nah… the cool thing these days is that even the very cheapest TV you can buy is almost universally multi-standard. Spend 400 or 500 bucks on a 60-inch set and you can throw just about anything at it, from 480i legacy SD content all the way to 4K. Nearly everything now connects via HDMI.

And if your next set doesn’t have an ATSC 3.0 tuner (though I think the market will ultimately demand it will), for 50 bucks or less you’ll be able to get a cheap tuner dongle with an antenna connection on one end and an HDMI output on the other.

Use your existing broadband connection and you can pay SlingTV or YouTube TV or one of the other “OTT” streaming services 40 or 50 bucks a month and get 100 channels of live TV. Or if you end up moving to Chicago, plug in a 20 dollar antenna and you’ll get 70 channels for free.

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MsJ  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:13:53pm
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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:19:02pm

Are you fucking kidding me?

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:31:21pm

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

I’d order a pineapple pizza.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:34:23pm

The idiots are steady idioting.

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:41:51pm

re: #383 ipsos

Well, we’ll have to see. My wife has her Hulu account, and theatre-quality sound and larger-than-life video was never really first on my list of things to do. Might be because I didn’t grow up with television in the first place (we didn’t get a TV until I was about fourteen or so).

Well, tomorrow is the village board meeting. The county prosecutor/village attorney is supposed to let me know the results of the village election, which are still not published anywhere.

The new board is sworn in as the first order of business on the December agenda, so if I wasn’t reëlected, that will be my last board meeting (and then only for a few minutes).

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:43:47pm

re: #387 goddamnedfrank

FYI the new Q-Anon / Pizzagate conspiracy theory is that the secret liberal Hollywood child molester cabal is using space based microwave lasers to destroy all the evidence against them.

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:43:55pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:45:08pm

re: #381 MsJ

🌻It’s me Lucia! 🌻
@JMyers1971
* Nov 10, 2018
Once Trump is gone, how do we convince the world that we aren’t going to let 31% of the Fox brainwashed population EVER put another one like him in office???

MsJoanne
@MsJoanne
We can’t.

US will never reclaim what we had. The world order changed. Sure, driven by Russia but he got 60 mm votes. You don’t live that down.

Global Politicos need to understand that right wing policies hurt people. Voters read their needs into trump. Could def happen again.

10:52 PM - Nov 11, 2018

Never is a long time. If we had failed last week, we probably would be doomed. But we succeeded.

In the modern age, where no one recalls the past and everything moves at light speed, if the Democrats take complete control in 2020 with a strong candidate and the Trump administration vanishes, we will regain our status in the world, especially since there seems no one on the horizon to take over leadership of the free world. Merkel will soon be gone, Macron is unpopular, Brexit is damaging Britain, and Canada is too small. We are the last best hope of the Western world; and we can recover.

Or maybe I’m just too much of an optimist.

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:46:45pm

I don’t know what Republicans are complaining about with the time it takes to count ballots in elections with counties over a million people such as Broward and Maricopa.

My town’s election results are already certified and I can’t find out what the election result is in a town of 128 with about seventy eligible voters. Cry me a river.

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wheat-dogg  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:49:11pm

re: #387 goddamnedfrank

They watch too many SF movies. A “directed energy beam” — like a particle beam — would ionize the atmosphere before it ever reached the ground, so it would be pretty obvious something was up. Microwaves at the required intensity would heat up everything, not just brush and trees, and disrupt communications for everyone. The atmosphere is opaque to X-rays and gamma rays, for the most part, and IR would heat up the air as well as the ground (and everything on it).

In short, “directed energy beams” is a fantasy concocted by the same people who disbelieve we landed on the Moon but also believe that the government controls the weather and our minds with magic rays from space.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:49:23pm

re: #392 Anymouse 🌹

I don’t know what Republicans are complaining about with the time it takes to count ballots in elections with counties over a million people such as Broward and Maricopa.

My town’s election results are already certified and I can’t find out what the election result is in a town of 128 with about seventy eligible voters. Cry me a river.

That’s because it’s Republicans who are counting slowly. They only care if Democrats are actually trying to track down all votes.

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:51:56pm

Bwahahaha the memo line on this cheque …

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:53:31pm
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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2018 • 9:57:20pm

The third one is clever af!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 10:06:29pm

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

I’d order a pineapple pizza.

Offer them thoughts and prayers…

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 10:09:43pm

re: #370 Ace-o-aces

Why are we not surprised that Garrison did the artwork?

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Anymouse 🌹  Nov 11, 2018 • 10:13:35pm

re: #399 Joe Bacon 🌹

Why are we not surprised that Garrison did the artwork?

Well, I suppose they could have gotten Scott Adams.

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Kilroy was here  Nov 11, 2018 • 10:16:17pm

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

I’d order a pineapple pizza.

I’d have a little construction to do over the well before the chili and taco cookout.

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 12, 2018 • 12:47:09am

re: #387 goddamnedfrank

The idiots are steady idioting.

This whole thread is like an endless stream of stupid. Like digging in a stupid mine and hitting a vein of pure stupid.

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Ming5000  Nov 12, 2018 • 3:35:02am

re: #393 wheat-dogg

They watch too many SF movies. A “directed energy beam” — like a particle beam — would ionize the atmosphere before it ever reached the ground, so it would be pretty obvious something was up. Microwaves at the required intensity would heat up everything, not just brush and trees, and disrupt communications for everyone. The atmosphere is opaque to X-rays and gamma rays, for the most part, and IR would heat up the air as well as the ground (and everything on it).

In short, “directed energy beams” is a fantasy concocted by the same people who disbelieve we landed on the Moon but also believe that the government controls the weather and our minds with magic rays from space.

This will be good ammo for the Thanksgiving dinner non-political discussion block.


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