Paul McCartney Shows He Still Has Some Funk Left: “Who Cares”

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Starring: Paul McCartney & Emma Stone
Directed by: Brantley Gutierrez & Ryan Heffington
Produced by: Kyle Schember & Michael W. Abbott
Executive Producers: Kathy Eldon, Regina Scully, Jennifer Gross, Ann Gilbertson Haggart, Pat Chandler
Production Company: Subtractive Inc.
In Association with: Creative Visions, Artemis Rising, and The Blue Chip Foundation

Dancers: Nataly Santiago, Stephanie Crousillat, Heather Lang, Gabe Katz, Jesse Kovarsky, Nelson Chalas

Written by: Brantley Gutierrez & Luke Weinstock
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
Choreographer: Ryan Heffington
Production Designer: Leigh Poindexter
Costume Designer: Carol Beadle
Editor: R. P. Adams
Colorist: Tom Poole / Company 3
Make Up: Rachel Goodwin
Hair Stylist: Mara Roszak
Dancer Make Up & Special Prosthetics: Kabuki

Label: Capitol Records

Management: Scott Rodger

Music video by Paul McCartney performing Who Cares. © 2018 MPL Communications Inc, under exclusive license to UMG Recordings, Inc.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 20, 2018 • 8:59:46pm

Awesome tune. Takes a rare type of talent to be so good for so long.

Rock on, Mr. Mccartney.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:00:41pm

I’ve got my Christmas music on. Janis Joplin Big Brother & the Holding Company Live at Winterland ‘68

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Targetpractice  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:01:34pm

You know, I’m beginning to envy Britain. The worst they have to deal with is incompetent leadership and a looming economic crisis. May’s an utter moron, but so far there’s no indication that she’s Vlad’s puppet.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:06:22pm

re: #3 Targetpractice

You know, I’m beginning to envy Britain. The worst they have to deal with is incompetent leadership and a looming economic crisis. May’s an utter moron, but so far there’s no indication that she’s Vlad’s puppet.

I dunno. At least our opposition is fairly sane. We have Pelosi and they have Corbyn but damn it ain’t good.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:06:51pm

re: #3 Targetpractice

You know, I’m beginning to envy Britain. The worst they have to deal with is incompetent leadership and a looming economic crisis. May’s an utter moron, but so far there’s no indication that she’s Vlad’s puppet.

The Brexit idea was pushed by Vlad, just like the Yellow Jackets in France, vote Trump in the USA, and probably things we haven’t caught on to yet. I’m sure the Puppet Master is not done.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:16:09pm

re: #5 Single-handed sailor

The Brexit idea was pushed by Vlad, just like the Yellow Jackets in France, vote Trump in the USA, and probably things we haven’t caught on to yet. I’m sure the Puppet Master is not done.

Also vote Jill and vote Bernie in the US. And didn’t Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage work willingly with Putin?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:16:14pm

Trump’s going to wake up all pissed off at Mattis. The insults are going to flyyyy.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:17:55pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:19:09pm

re: #7 GlutenFreeJesus

Trump’s going to wake up all pissed off at Mattis. The insults are going to flyyyy.

LOW IQ SLACKER, A LOW ENERGY GENERAL WHO COULDN’T GENERAL HIMSELF OUT OF A PAPER BAG. A CLOWN!

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:20:36pm
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HappyWarrior  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:22:07pm

re: #10 Single-handed sailor

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Remember when Trump deserved a Nobel for the Kim meeting. That was fun.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:25:36pm

re: #10 Single-handed sailor

N. Korea says sanctions relief is ‘touchstone’ for U.S. commitment to Korean Peninsula denuclearization

He’s just crazy enough to do it. Let’s see what the Pentagon would think about that. Although a military coup wouldn’t be much of an improvement.

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austin_blue  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:30:02pm

McCartney can still rock it, and Emma Stone, is as usual, brilliant. What an actress, what a chameleon.

And that make-up artist did absolutely brilliant work in that video.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:40:49pm

Woman Adopts Senior Dog And Later Discovers It Was Her Childhood Puppy

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:40:50pm

This is what you get for cuckolding yourself to the US, Canada.

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:41:47pm

I’m getting sick and tired of Conservatives saying immigrant children are murderers, rapists, and terrorists.

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makeitstop  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:43:16pm

re: #13 austin_blue

McCartney can still rock it, and Emma Stone, is as usual, brilliant. What an actress, what a chameleon.

And that make-up artist did absolutely brilliant work in that video.

It’s a deceptively simple-looking video. There’s a lot going on, between the makeup, costuming, editing and coreography that just kind of pops in and out. This will probably take multiple viewing to catch it all. Very subtle and stylish.

Real good tune, too. Yay, Macca!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 20, 2018 • 9:49:56pm

re: #16 DodgerFan1988

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I’m getting sick and tired of Conservatives saying immigrant children are murderers, rapists, and terrorists.

These people need to be punished severely for how they’re treating these children.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:00:25pm

So, I wake up here in Europe and the first thing I see is that Defense Secretary Mattis is stepping down.

Who’s gonna replace him?

It’s gonna be Donnie, Jr., isn’t it?

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austin_blue  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:02:26pm

re: #17 makeitstop

It’s a deceptively simple-looking video. There’s a lot going on, between the makeup, costuming, editing and coreography that just kind of pops in and out. This will probably take multiple viewing to catch it all. Very subtle and stylish.

Real good tune, too. Yay, Macca!

Agreed! It’s really cool, and yes, a really good tune.

Not bad for an old man, eh?

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Targetpractice  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:04:59pm

re: #19 Dr Lizardo

So, I wake up here in Europe and the first thing I see is that Defense Secretary Mattis is stepping down.

Who’s gonna replace him?

It’s gonna be Donnie, Jr., isn’t it?

Strongly suspect it’s gonna be somebody within the DoD infrastructure, in the hopes of avoiding another Senate confirmation fiasco. He’s already set himself up with one for Barr as AG.

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austin_blue  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:09:02pm

re: #19 Dr Lizardo

So, I wake up here in Europe and the first thing I see is that Defense Secretary Mattis is stepping down.

Who’s gonna replace him?

It’s gonna be Donnie, Jr., isn’t it?

Sure, why not? He has extensive experience on Safari in Africa, so why shouldn’t he run the DoD? Knows how to shoot animals. Handy with a rifle. Geopolitics and force projection should be a breeze.

Makes perfect sense in Trumpworld.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:14:23pm

Meh, they shoot at International Orange deer in Canada.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:15:44pm

re: #22 austin_blue

Sure, why not? He has extensive experience on Safari in Africa, so why shouldn’t he run the DoD? Knows how to shoot animals. Handy with a rifle. Geopolitics and force projection should be a breeze.

Makes perfect sense in Trumpworld.

Yep. With Trump’s idiocy, you never know. LOL, maybe he’ll put Ivanka in as Secretary of Defense, or maybe Jared the Boy Wonder.

Most likely though, as Targetpractice said, it’ll be someone within the DoD infrastructure.

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austin_blue  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:15:59pm

re: #18 HappyWarrior

These people need to be punished severely for how they’re treating these children.

They need to go to prison for how they are running these concentration camps. Nielson first. She-wolf of the Nazi right, whether she realized that was the job she was taking or not, it’s what she has become.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:17:22pm

Off to work. Back later, Lizards.

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austin_blue  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:19:18pm

re: #24 Dr Lizardo

Yep. With Trump’s idiocy, you never know. LOL, maybe he’ll put Ivanka in as Secretary of Defense, or maybe Jared the Boy Wonder.

Most likely though, as Targetpractice said, it’ll be someone within the DoD infrastructure.

Agreed, but which toadie he’s placed in DoD will get elevated? His political appointments are pretty renowned for not knowing a fucking thing about their departments.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:19:39pm

From the previous thread:

re: #259 Hecuba’s daughter

Sorry that my context was unclear — I meant most red states. There are a few Republican states that are not hostile to the ACA, but in general, it is the Republicans who are trying to destroy health care for average Americans.

Our state’s Unicameral sure is. That said, in the midterm elections the referendum to expand Medicaid and join the ACA was passed overwhelmingly by the voters.

The plan from the GOP here seems to be to ignore the referendum when the Unicameral opens for business.

re: #295 Jay C

Is that really accurate? I thought the ERA had a time-limit for ratification, which expired many years ago.

The time limit is not in the proposed amendment, but in a separate piece of legislation which could be repealed. Repeal that and the ERA is back on.

re: #303 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

I make too much money to qualify for subsidies and can’t afford a plan without a huge deductible that I couldn’t meet. I am able to be on COBRA with my ex-husband’s work for three years. I have now passed year one. I am screwed when COBRA runs out.

And the GOP plan is also to privatise Tricare and the VA.

Every person treated by the VA has a preëxisting condition. My wife and I would be left uninsurable.

re: #301 austin_blue

Obama kept an agreement, SOFA, that was negotiated by the Shrub Admin.

It was always a bullshit attack on Obama. He had nothing to do with SOFA. He just implemented it.

Same with TARP.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:23:55pm

re: #24 Dr Lizardo

Yep. With Trump’s idiocy, you never know. LOL, maybe he’ll put Ivanka in as Secretary of Defense, or maybe Jared the Boy Wonder.

Most likely though, as Targetpractice said, it’ll be someone within the DoD infrastructure.

Erik Prince. They’ll argue that Betsy De Vos’ confirmation hearings cover him too, what with being brother and sister.

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austin_blue  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:26:57pm

re: #23 Single-handed sailor

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Meh, they shoot at International Orange deer in Canada.

When I lived in Michigan, 35 years ago, a hunter shot a bull and then explained he thought it was spike-horned buck.

Humans. Half are on the left-hand side of the bell curve. All of them can buy rifles at Wal-Mart.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:29:44pm

re: #19 Dr Lizardo

So, I wake up here in Europe and the first thing I see is that Defense Secretary Mattis is stepping down.

Who’s gonna replace him?

It’s gonna be Donnie, Jr., isn’t it?

Newt Gingrich

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:31:50pm

I’m getting a bad bad feeling that something is going to happen to take Trump and Pence out. Trump is hell bent on shutting down the government and that’s going to piss a lot of people off. Especially the Secret Service agents who will have to watch him without being paid.

Every day that brings us closer to a Democratic House is going to push Fearless Feeder further into meltdown mode. I got a feeling that a lot of career military officers are getting tempted to openly rebel against him. It’s going to get very ugly.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:33:20pm

Police in suburban Denver solve decades-old cold case murder (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald).

Commerce City, Colorado police (suburb of Denver) have solved a cold case murder from 1996. They determined the murder fled to Mexico, where he lived under an assumed name, was jailed there on a different charge, then after leaving jail was himself murdered in Ciudad Juarez in 2010.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:33:26pm

re: #31 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Newt Gingrich

Mike Mulvaney. He’ll be the new press secretary and Secretary of the Interior as well.

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CarolJ  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:42:49pm

Of course he will have to shuffle the deck chairs on the Titanic. Nobody with any sense is going to join this mess. We better pay attention to the vice, acting-and otherwise whoever is the highest ranked person in the Civil Service for their agency. Because they will be the ones running the joint. And nobody can handle two agencies at all, let alone well.

I have a feeling a few more Cabinet Officers are going to be beating feet out of this Administration. Nobody wants to be left holding the smelly bag of Trump or doing things they simply cannot do.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:45:24pm

Going through my regional newspaper for local news. Not much happening around here.

- Business fire in Scottsbluff last night.
- Torrington woman arrested on charges of drug possession after the Postal Inspection Service intercepted a package from overseas with an obscure Schedule 2 opioid. After the Torrington (Wyo.) Police searched her house, they found a bunch of the drug.
- Two Scottsbluff people (a woman and her son) were arrested for selling cannabidiol from their store after being warned by the Scottsbluff Police Department. (That is a major felony here.) She is out on bond but her son remains jailed. They intend on turning their trial into a referendum on the illegality of CBD in Nebraska. (She was formerly addicted to opiods after pain treatment, and with new pain her son convinced her to try CBD.) There is a long article at the link about them and the issue of CDB here (with our Attorney General on the warpath about CBD).

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:45:29pm
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austin_blue  Dec 20, 2018 • 10:56:22pm

re: #34 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Mike Mulvaney. He’ll be the new press secretary and Secretary of the Interior as well.

Well, he’s run out of Generals, either by criminal conviction or disgust, hasn’t he?

He’s just not very good at this Presidenting thing, is he?

The “experts” in their fields are all gone, unless you count bankers like Mnuchin and Ross as experts. Ross is certainly involved with money laundering through his ties to a certain Russian controlled bank in a small Mediterranean island and Mnuchin is so dirty you want to take a shower every time you see his picture.

Most of the other mooks in other Cabinet positions are incompetent. DeVos? Perry? Carson?

His next DoD selection could well be Yanni. Why the hell not?

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 20, 2018 • 11:26:45pm
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Single-handed sailor  Dec 20, 2018 • 11:30:18pm
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sagehen  Dec 20, 2018 • 11:34:12pm
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Single-handed sailor  Dec 20, 2018 • 11:40:50pm
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DodgerFan1988  Dec 20, 2018 • 11:43:04pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 20, 2018 • 11:48:25pm

Coloradans can now change their gender identity on their birth certificates (KMGH Channel 7 Denver)

DENVER — The Colorado Department of Health and the Environment has approved a major change to the way state birth certificates work.

During its monthly meeting on Wednesday, the board voted to allow more identifying options for birth certificates. There will now be four options: male, female, X and intersex.

The move follows a state change on Nov. 30 to driver’s licenses and identification cards that added the third option of “X” for a person’s sex.

When a child is born, their birth certificate will only have three options: male, female and intersex. “X” is left out since it is not a biological characteristic, said Chris Wells with the department of helath and environment. It will be available for adults who want to amend their birth certificates.

The board of health also approved simplifying the process to change the gender identity on a birth certificate. Under current requirements, a person must undergo gender reassignment surgery and prove it to a judge in order to qualify for the change to their birth certificate.

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Cue wingnut outrage.

Denver City Council also advanced a ban on so-called reparative therapy.

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sagehen  Dec 20, 2018 • 11:49:22pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 20, 2018 • 11:53:19pm

re: #45 sagehen

And the GOP sits on its thumbs because of tax cuts.

Conservatives continuing to grasp power for its own sake, and the only Republicans speaking out are those not in the government.

Ana Navarro is being thrown under the bus tonight on social media as a RINO, and conservatives are attacking John Brennan as a “traitor.”

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 20, 2018 • 11:54:28pm

Doncha just hate when you go to light the roach and your mustache goes up in stinky flames?

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austin_blue  Dec 20, 2018 • 11:54:38pm

I’m going to bed. This day has been just stupid.The idiot in the WH is just incompetent, and there’s not much we can do about it, except whine.

I hate whining. It’s not in my nature, but if the rest of the Government won’t act, what can we do? Scream, I suppose, but we are casting it into the air.

What I want to do is kick Government balls, at all levels, so hard they retract up the inguinal canals of everyone who has been kicked, to get their attention. And tell them to STOP THIS SHIT.

Night all, the craziness is taking its toll.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 20, 2018 • 11:58:19pm

re: #48 austin_blue

I’m going to bed. This day has been just stupid.The idiot in the WH is just incompetent, and there’s not much we can do about it, except whine.

I hate whining. It’s not in my nature, but if the rest of the Government won’t act, what can we do? Scream, I suppose, but we are casting it into the air.

What I want to do is kick Government balls, at all levels, so hard they retract up the inguinal canals of everyone who has been kicked, to get their attention. And tell them to STOP THIS SHIT.

Night all, the craziness is taking its toll.

Incompetent, or foreign agent?

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austin_blue  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:00:52am

re: #47 Single-handed sailor

Doncha just hate when you go to light the roach and your mustache goes up in stinky flames?

This is why Dog invented hemostats.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:01:02am

Does The Treasury Department Have A Teensy Russian Spy Problem? We Are Just Asking! (Wonkette, more at the link):

This is another story about the Treasury Department, but don’t worry, it’s not boring. (Honest! Was the story about the Treasury Department un-sanctioning Paul Manafort’s Russian oligarch sugar daddy boring? NOPE.)

This story involves Russia and spies and perhaps a spot of NO COLLUSION, NO COLLUSION, YOU ARE THE COLLUSION. And as usual, it involves people’s clandestine efforts to get their hands on HOT HARD DELICIOUS SWEET ‘N’ SOUR HILLARY CLINTON DIRTS! Because when the Trump era is over, when we write the book on WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED — no seriously, we are planning on writing that book, so if you’re a big publisher who wants to go ahead and give us an advance, send us an email (NO NUDES) — it will be about how the entire American political system went apeshit because some people have a mental disorder that compels them to go to any lengths, even betray their country, to get CLINTON SECRETS.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:11:16am

WHOA! The hops in Torpedo Extra IPA will wake you up with one sip!

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:12:55am

Military Times is speculating that Blackwater will be going into Afghanistan to replace people Trump wants to pull out.

militarytimes.com

Remember, James Mattis had a hand in this.

If Blackwater returns, it would be the return of a private security contractor that was banned from Iraq, but re-branded and never really went away. By 2016 Blackwater had been re-branded several times and was known at the time as Constellis Group, when it was purchased by the Apollo Holdings Group. Reuters reported earlier this year that Apollo had put Constellis up for sale, but in June the sale was put on hold.

Blackwater’s founder and former CEO Erik Prince has courted President Donald Trump’s administration since he took office with the idea that the now 17-year Afghan War will never be won by a traditional military campaign. Prince has also argued that the logistical footprint required to support that now multi-trillion dollar endeavor has become too burdensome. Over the summer and into this fall Prince has engaged heavily with the media to promote the privatization; particularly as the Trump administration’s new South Asia Strategy, which was crafted with Mattis, passed the one-year mark.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:14:18am

re: #5 Single-handed sailor

The Brexit idea was pushed by Vlad, just like the Yellow Jackets in France, vote Trump in the USA, and probably things we haven’t caught on to yet. I’m sure the Puppet Master is not done.

It is not illegal for Russia to influence politics in America other countries. The illegal part is when US citizens actively collude (or “engage in synergy”) with foreign nationals, especially when those are connected with foreign governments, to influence US elections.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:16:58am

re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is not illegal for Russia to influence politics in America other countries. The illegal part is when US citizens actively collude (or “engage in synergy”) with foreign nationals, especially when those are connected with foreign governments, to influence US elections.

Collude engage in synergy conspire.

Collusion is the conservative misnaming to claim “it’s not a crime.” Conspiracy is a crime.

Just as I argued in the past the press should use the term “lie” to describe lies, the term “conspire” should be used to describe conspiracy. Words matter.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:17:19am

re: #30 austin_blue

When I lived in Michigan, 35 years ago, a hunter shot a bull and then explained he thought it was spike-horned buck.

Humans. Half are on the left-hand side of the bell curve. All of them can buy rifles at Wal-Mart.

“Think about this; think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of ‘em are stupider than that.”

-George Carlin

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:18:58am

re: #47 Single-handed sailor

Doncha just hate when you go to light the roach and your mustache goes up in stinky flames?

Europeans use paper filter tips, you can buy ‘em at any kiosk where they sell tobacco and papers

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:22:33am

re: #47 Single-handed sailor

Doncha just hate when you go to light the roach and your mustache goes up in stinky flames?

Ouch. At least I don’t have that particular worry (since that’s illegal here). Unfortunately Canada won’t let me stay there (I’m not wealthy enough or have a skill Canada wants).

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:31:53am

re: #58 Anymouse 🌹

Ouch. At least I don’t have that particular worry (since that’s illegal here). Unfortunately Canada won’t let me stay there (I’m not wealthy enough or have a skill Canada wants).

me neither, and I was born there. I still have not visited a California cannabis store. I should make that a NY resolution.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:35:28am

re: #59 Single-handed sailor

me neither, and I was born there. I still have not visited a California cannabis store. I should make that a NY resolution.

Have not been back to ‘States since legalization, pot is pretty much decriminalized all over Europe, coffee shops in the Netherlands and “buyers’ clubs” in Spain and Denmark.

Alas, I have all but given up, small amounts just give me a headache and make me feel stupid and if I smoke enough to faze me, it knocks me out completely and puts me into a state of existential catatonic shock…

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:37:06am

re: #59 Single-handed sailor

me neither, and I was born there. I still have not visited a California cannabis store. I should make that a NY resolution.

My wife and I have had the pleasure in Colorado, though for obvious reasons we won’t bring that home.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:38:27am

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹

My wife and I have had the pleasure in Colorado, though for obvious reasons we won’t bring that home.

Finland is still very strict about cannabis…odd, considering they use alcohol as a form of liquid heroin.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:39:17am

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹

My wife and I have had the pleasure in Colorado, though for obvious reasons we won’t bring that home.

Yes, I bet neighboring states have a bug up their ass over that.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:39:47am

re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Finland is still very strict about cannabis…odd, considering they use alcohol as a form of liquid heroin.

They only recently legalised liquor over 100 proof here.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:41:44am

re: #64 Anymouse 🌹

They only recently legalised liquor over 100 proof here.

Anything above 5% has to be purchased from a state liquor store.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:42:43am

re: #64 Anymouse 🌹

which is really a waste because spirits over 80 proof don’t taste any better. Being a rum fan I have had my experiences with 151., oh god have I had my experiences.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:43:08am

re: #63 Single-handed sailor

Yes, I bet neighboring states have a bug up their ass over that.

Here when Colorado legalised cannabis, the state proposed closing all unpaved roads between Nebraska and Colorado. (There are only nine paved roads between the states.)

The Unicameral wanted to make it legal for civilians to patrol armed along the state line looking for people smuggling. (It’s not like anyone ever brought maryane into Nebraska before.)

Ranchers and farmers with property on both sides of the state line went ballistic, noting closing unpaved roads would be a massive headache for them to run their farms and ranches.

The legislature dropped that idea, and instead, county sheriffs in the border counties set up “safety checkpoints” on the paved roads to look for “seatbelt violations” and such (read maryjane).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:43:20am

re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Anything above 5% has to be purchased from a state liquor store.

You can now buy a 1,000 pack of beer in Finland

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:45:15am

When we planned a party in Manitoba one group would go to the beer store and get the beer and wine, another group would go to the liquor commission for the hard liquor and a third group would head to a store for the mixers.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:50:14am

re: #69 Single-handed sailor

When we planned a party in Manitoba one group would go to the beer store and get the beer and wine, another group would go to the liquor commission for the hard liquor and a third group would head to a store for the mixers.

Seems complicated.

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:51:47am

Coventry Carol

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:52:13am

re: #69 Single-handed sailor

When we planned a party in Manitoba one group would go to the beer store and get the beer and wine, another group would go to the liquor commission for the hard liquor and a third group would head to a store for the mixers.

First I heard of Beer Stores:

“We found a mouse in our beer, eh?”

Strange Brew - mouse in a bottle

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:02:54am

… and every Canadian has 8 empty 12ers in his basement.

/and thanks for ‘undo “add basemnt” to dictionary’ Firefox programmers.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:04:30am

My weather station is saying Winter Solstice.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:09:32am

re: #74 Single-handed sailor

My weather station is saying Winter Solstice.

I can feel it lurching to a stop and turning around…

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Scout  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:11:06am

By the way, all of us good and decent people around the world who want to stomp down on the trump Crime Syndicate should give a very warm shout out to David Fahrenthold, the reporter at The Washington Post whose work blew the lid off the wrongdoing at the trump charity organization. If it wasn’t for his journalism, the authorities likely would never have investigated.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:13:06am

re: #76 Scout

By the way, all of us good and decent people around the world who want to stomp down on the trump Crime Syndicate should give a very warm shout out to David Fahrenthold, the reporter at The Washington Post whose work blew the lid off the wrongdoing at the trump charity organization. If it wasn’t for his journalism, the authorities likely would never have investigated.

Fer chrissakes, Trump has been blatantly flouting the Emoluments Clause and engaging in clear conflicts of interest but his own party will not take him to task about it or even try to get him to reign it in.

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sagehen  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:13:06am

re: #74 Single-handed sailor

My weather station is saying Winter Solstice.

It’s Duncan MacLeod’s 426th birthday!!

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

re: #78 sagehen

It’s Duncan MacLeod’s 426th birthday!!

There can be only one.

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:20:56am

Kate of mcmansionhell.com made a list of her favorite articles she’s written this year. I missed this one the first time round:

Image: betsy_1.png

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Scout  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:22:17am

re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Fer chrissakes, Trump has been blatantly flouting the Emoluments Clause and engaging in clear conflicts of interest but his own party will not take him to task about it or even try to get him to reign it in.

I’m curious. What does that have to do with The Post’s good reporting?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:24:16am

re: #81 Scout

I’m curious. What does that have to do with The Post’s good reporting?

Only that it should be superfluous…

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:25:10am

“front turret for keeping a vigilant lookout for poor people”:

Image: betsy_2.png

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:25:18am

re: #81 Scout

I’m curious. What does that have to do with The Post’s good reporting?

Nobody here really knows what the WP says because we’ve all already exceeded our 3 articles per year.

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Scout  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:26:41am

re: #84 Single-handed sailor

Nobody here really knows what the WP says because we’ve all already exceeded our 3 articles per year.

LOL

Surely I can’t be the only person here who subscribes …

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:27:08am

re: #80 freetoken

Our Homes Don’t need Formal Spaces

I recall our next-door neighbors who lived in their cellar and kept their upstairs living room for “formal purposes”, with runner mats on the carpet and plastic covering on the chairs, I remarked that they should put up velvet ropes as well…

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:29:01am

“… this is just a White House Black Market outlet store…”

Image: 3_exterior_3.png

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:31:55am

re: #81 Scout

I’m curious. What does that have to do with The Post’s good reporting?

Isn’t the true problem that Trump should have been incarcerated years ago? His financial empire was based on money laundering and other illegal activities; but no one seems interested in investigating financial fraud because it is very complicated and expensive to uncover. Trump never should have gotten close to public office but our criminal justice system is very inadequate in investigating white collar crime or providing sufficient penalties to deter these activities.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:33:57am

re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recall our next-door neighbors who lived in their cellar and kept their upstairs living room for “formal purposes”, with runner mats on the carpet and plastic covering on the chairs, I remarked that they should put up velvet ropes as well…

My friend’s very Japanese family had plastic covered furniture and plastic runners over the carpet from 1964 when I met him until around 2004.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:35:15am

Oooh, I got yet another spam claiming the spammer has my password at an unnamed porn site and will publish all my details on my non-existent social media accounts.

If I find that you have shared this message with someone else, the video will be immediately distributed.

Bring it, Chowderhead. No you’re not getting $715 in Bitcoin or anything else from me.

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:37:46am

In watching the various “flipper” and “fixer upper” TV shows, one of their common traits is training the public on what the latest fad may be, so that the viewers will run out and spend lots of money at Lowe’s etc.

Part of the process is teaching the viewers to all use the same language. One of the most popular phrases is “open concept.”

The problem is… the shows never discuss the problems with “open concept”, and why rooms were invented in the first place.

As noted by some commentators (including Kate) recently, public spaces are getting louder and louder in part because now they are just one big open room with lots of hard surfaces.

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Scout  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:38:25am

re: #88 Hecuba’s daughter

Isn’t the true problem that Trump should have been incarcerated years ago? His financial empire was based on money laundering and other illegal activities; but no one seems interested in investigating financial fraud because it is very complicated and expensive to uncover. Trump never should have gotten close to public office but our criminal justice system is very inadequate in investigating white collar crime or providing sufficient penalties to deter these activities.

I agree with all that — 100 percent. But my original post was merely aimed at giving The Post kudos for reporting on the “charity” organization, period. I think they deserve credit for good work, that’s all. It made the world better. We need more of it, from all media and investigative authorities. I got the impression (probably misplaced) that Wendell was pooh-poohing The Post’s work.

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:41:02am

The reason “open concept” is pushed so hard by the flippers is because Americans are being inundated by images of McMansions and their oversized nature, but the flippers are flipping small houses.

How to make a small house not feel like a let-down after viewing all those 5000 sqft McMansions?

Tear down the walls so you get one big room. Of course, you only get one big room under the whole roof, in those flipped bungalows.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:41:14am

re: #90 Anymouse 🌹

Oooh, I got yet another spam claiming the spammer has my password at an unnamed porn site and will publish all my details on my non-existent social media accounts.

Bring it, Chowderhead. No you’re not getting $715 in Bitcoin or anything else from me.

People pay for porn?

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Scout  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:45:49am

I’ve been reading a lot the last couple of hours about how the Kurds in Syria are being hung out to dry by trump. It’s one of the most disgusting things he’s done, and that’s really saying something. Those people have been shedding real blood, and now the U.S. is saying “screw you.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:49:36am

re: #94 Single-handed sailor

People pay for porn?

I don’t (though there are premium channels for advert free porn).

The idea of the scam is the person claims they will post a side-by-side video of the porn you were watching with your camera recording what you were doing at the time.

Unless my camera can film through electrical tape over it, I don’t think that would work. And I don’t think you can post video to LGF.

A scammer would probably do better with my erotic Romance novel editing job, but even that wouldn’t matter to anyone I know.

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:51:30am

When the average American sees images of houses like this (San Diego) show-off:

It’s an overwrought (emphasis on “wrought”) mess… but will seem impressive enough… so to get the feeling of grandiose size the flippers (and current new house builders) get rid of walls so one has just one big room in your house.

Getting back to that showcase… for all the glory of that fireplace, notice that there is no wood in the woodboxes:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:54:04am

re: #98 freetoken

When the average American sees images of houses like this (San Diego) show-off:

Europeans have learned to be happy to be able to visit a place like this once in a while for dinner or coffee, they do not feel the need to live in it…

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:57:29am

re: #98 freetoken

You could fit my house and car in that room.

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:01:22am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹

The thing about that house is that it actually has a very attractive front:

It’s as if the architect who designed the bones of the house went on vacation when the outside was put together, and some interior decorator then dressed up in the inside with all the whims of contemporary American show-the-world-that-I’m rich vulgarity.

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LastYearsMan  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:01:58am

I will never cease to be impressed and awed by the shitty shitty taste of the truly rich.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:06:32am

re: #102 LastYearsMan

I will never cease to be impressed and awed by the shitty shitty taste of the truly rich.

If I were ever truly rich, I would probably continue to live in a house like mine. (I might get a new Smart with more options though.)

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:07:43am

re: #102 LastYearsMan

I will never cease to be impressed and awed by the shitty shitty taste of the truly rich.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:09:16am

A girlfriend from New Jersey was looking at a new housing development on the outskirts of Phoenix and commented “Are those houses or shopping malls?”

Then it occurred to me: this is what they are after.

Your own private shopping mall, downstairs the furniture showroom, cooking and housewares emporium, the den is the electronics store, upstairs the gallery of shops: bath accessories, shoe store, toy store, sporting goods store.

With an auto showroom in the garage and driveway, of course…

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:16:00am

Why It Mattered (and Still Matters) that Flynn Continued to Hide His True Relationship with Turkey (emptywheel, more at the link):

The guy who managed the first steps of the process that led to Trump announcing a withdrawal of troops from Syria yesterday was hiding secret ties to both Russia and Turkey when that process started. That’s one of the reasons why it matters that Mike Flynn lied about his relationship with Turkey for so long. It means that both Russia and Turkey have always known Flynn and Trump were vulnerable because they were hiding lies about their ties with those countries.

In this post, I noted that while the work Flynn did as an unregistered foreign agent for Turkey reportedly ended not long after election day (though WSJ reported that he and his spawn met with representatives of Turkey in mid-December to speak further about Fethullah Gulen), that relationship with Turkey would remain unregistered — that is, Flynn would continue to lie about the true nature of it — all the way through his guilty plea on December 1, 2017. For some reason, virtually everyone reporting on Flynn is getting this wrong, claiming that his March 7, 2017 registration — the one he has pled guilty to lying on — constitutes full disclosure about his ties to Turkey. It did not, because it hid that he was working, knowingly, for Turkey.

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:28:49am

Recommend read:

The Curse of an Open Floor Plan

On HGTV shows like Fixer-Upper and Property Brothers, almost every renovation involves removing walls to facilitate open-concept living. Families celebrate their future ability to oversee the kids in the living room from the kitchen, or to watch television from the sink, believing such split duties will constitute comfort and liberation. Like every dream to “have it all,” this one too is a fantasy. (In fact, the rise of the phrase “open-concept” offers its own testimony to the role that televised fancy has played in the drive to combine spaces together. It started as a distinctly Canadian name for “open-plan,” but since some of the most popular HGTV shows were filmed in Canada, the term spread in the United States. Architecture’s ideas are always best when imagined rather than built.)

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:37:36am

re: #91 freetoken

In watching the various “flipper” and “fixer upper” TV shows, one of their common traits is training the public on what the latest fad may be, so that the viewers will run out and spend lots of money at Lowe’s etc.

Part of the process is teaching the viewers to all use the same language. One of the most popular phrases is “open concept.”

The problem is… the shows never discuss the problems with “open concept”, and why rooms were invented in the first place.

As noted by some commentators (including Kate) recently, public spaces are getting louder and louder in part because now they are just one big open room with lots of hard surfaces.

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Shiplap. That’s the go-to wall treatment for that one woman designer from Texas. Every single house she and her husband redo has at least one room with effin’ shiplap, whether it suits the house or the decor or not.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:45:28am

re: #107 freetoken

Way back in the ’60s and early ’70s, there was a push in education for the “open classroom” in elementary school, where instead of segregating kids by age group or school grade in separate rooms the school would have “pods” or “zones” separated by partitions. The theory was it would be easier to move kids around based on their skill level, and easier to combine classes when appropriate.

The creators of said concept had apparently never worked with school-age children, because open classrooms were for the most part a disaster. Too much noise, too many distractions, and too easy for teachers to lose track of a wondering kid who might find another pod’s lesson more interesting than his or her own.

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:45:47am

re: #108 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Ship lap. That’s the go-to wall treatment for that one woman designer from Texas. Every single house she and her husband redo has at least one room with effin’ ship lap, whether it suits the house or the decor or not.

Chip and Joanna ended their show, but have now announced that they are in talks with Discovery (who bought the Scripps TV networks) to have their own network.

Yes, Mrs. Gaines loves shiplap. Not my thing, but I guess that is Texas’ style.

The Gaines’ show though was never really about remodeling, but rather about presenting an idealized, definitely Evangelical, family.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:48:43am

re: #108 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

This is shiplap.

apartmenttherapy.com

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:51:01am

re: #110 freetoken

Chip and Joanna ended their show, but have now announced that they are in talks with Discovery (who bought the Scripps TV networks) to have their own network.

Yes, Mrs. Gaines loves shiplap. Not my thing, but I guess that is Texas’ style.

The Gaines’ show though was never really about remodeling, but rather about presenting an idealized, definitely Evangelical, family.

I tried to figure out how two people could maintain a farm, a greenhouse, four or five kids, a remodeling business and a TV show, and gave up. Either they have employees off camera or they’re effin’ space aliens.

And yes to the Evangelical Xianity providing the backdrop.

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freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:51:52am

re: #112 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

As in all other “reality TV” shows, what is on camera is not real.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 2:52:56am

re: #113 freetoken

As in all other “reality TV” shows, what is on camera is not real.

Rather like the current occupants of the White House.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 21, 2018 • 3:01:25am

Winter is here.

Our family has a tradition of celebrating the holidays a week or so early to accommodate all the kids’ work and in-law obligations. The first component is asleep in Daughter2’s old room, others are arriving tonight and tomorrow. At peak we will have sub-families lodged in two vintage camping trailers in the yard, and a handful of compatible dogs out back.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 3:08:54am

re: #115 Decatur Deb

Winter is here.

Our family has a tradition of celebrating the holidays a week or so early to accommodate all the kids’ work and in-law obligations. The first component is asleep in Daughter2’s old room, others are arriving tonight and tomorrow. At peak we will have sub-families lodged in two vintage camping trailers in the yard, and a handful of compatible dogs out back.

we had a lovely dusting of snow last Sunday and had just put up the tree so my girlfriend and i declared it an Early Christmas and celebrated it as such

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 3:11:19am

LOL

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 3:13:19am
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Decatur Deb  Dec 21, 2018 • 3:24:50am

re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What is the strange white stuff on the roofs and fields?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 3:51:13am

re: #119 Decatur Deb

What is the strange white stuff on the roofs and fields?

We also ask that question…last time we had a proper white Christmas with a blanket of know that lasted more than a day was in 2010.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 3:51:52am

(7:03) A very special counsel Christmas

A Very Special Counsel Christmas

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:08:03am

re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We also ask that question…last time we had a proper white Christmas with a blanket of know that lasted more than a day was in 2010.

We’re scheduled for a slight chance of snow Monday and Monday night, then sunny and 40 F for Christmas Day.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:17:45am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:18:42am

re: #123 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Top Utah paper blasts Chaffetz as he mulls run for governor: “His political career should be over”

They don’t retreat, they reload!

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Dave In Austin  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:23:34am

It’s up and having a movement.

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SteelPH  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:26:11am

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated!

Also haven’t had a whole lotta time between projects and holiday stuff to actually check in here.

Hi.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:27:10am

re: #125 Dave In Austin

Nope. You own this lock stock and barrel. Even said so last week, or did you already forget? You know, your “Proud to shut the Gov. down ” moment.

Trump has always been able to have his cake and eat it, too. He does not see that as ever changing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:28:00am

If there is a government shutdown over Xmas, then NORAD will not be able to track Santa as is not an essential service…

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Dave In Austin  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:30:02am

Evil Dems!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:31:09am

re: #129 Dave In Austin

Evil Dems!!

Desperation

We desperately need comprehensive reform of our immigration and naturalization laws and policies.

A wall is just a publicity stunt.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:36:27am

re: #129 Dave In Austin

Evil Dems!!

[Embedded content]

Repeat after me Donnie, the only people who want your stupid wall are people who know less about the border than you. Great countries don’t need walls. As for open borders, I’d much rather that than treating our southern border like the DMZ.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:36:51am

re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Desperation

We desperately need comprehensive reform of our immigration and naturalization laws and policies.

A wall is just a publicity stunt.

What this is, is a Vanity demand.

I guarantee if he couldn’t have is face and name on it, he would walk away and never say another word on it.

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Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:39:56am

re: #129 Dave In Austin

Evil Dems!!

“Even thought the Great MAGA Wall is already built and keeping out Terrorists Dems must Fund or shutdown the Gov long time.!”

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Targetpractice  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:50:04am

re: #129 Dave In Austin

Evil Dems!!

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Donny, there was a bill headed towards your desk yesterday that would have prevented a shutdown. You not only yanked Ryan’s chain as the House GOP were preparing to vote upon it, you publicly announced you would not sign that bill. So this is your shutdown, as you proclaimed it would be!

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 4:52:02am

re: #129 Dave In Austin

Evil Dems!!

Trump doesn’t need a single Democratic vote to pass this. Every Democrat and independent can vote against it and is would still pass with Republican support.

His monument to racism and narcissism is failing because his own party can’t muster support for it, and Mexico sure as hell isn’t paying for it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:06:57am

he’s raving

pretty sure that “nuclear option” doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.

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Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:12:30am

re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Even President Ronald Reagan tried for 8 years to build a Border Wall, or Fence (or slated thing, or virtual wall, or…)”

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:19:32am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹

Here when Colorado legalised cannabis, the state proposed closing all unpaved roads between Nebraska and Colorado. (There are only nine paved roads between the states.)

The Unicameral wanted to make it legal for civilians to patrol armed along the state line looking for people smuggling. (It’s not like anyone ever brought maryane into Nebraska before.)

Ranchers and farmers with property on both sides of the state line went ballistic, noting closing unpaved roads would be a massive headache for them to run their farms and ranches.

The legislature dropped that idea, and instead, county sheriffs in the border counties set up “safety checkpoints” on the paved roads to look for “seatbelt violations” and such (read maryjane).

Because I’m sure up until now no-one has ever brought maryjane into Nebraska!//

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:22:43am

Good morning Lizards:

FEAR THE POWER OF A WINGNUT BOYCOTT!!!

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:23:38am

re: #139 bd(Redacted)

Good morning Lizards:

FEAR THE POWER OF A WINGNUT BOYCOTT!!!

Companies should start begging conservatives to boycott them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:26:30am

re: #140 Anymouse 🌹

Companies should start begging conservatives to boycott them.

This is true, but in the end, I think hat Nike’s decision to run a Kaepernick campaign was as much a business decision as an ideological one, they just have a lot more savvy marketing research people and were willing to take a big risk.

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:27:07am

re: #140 Anymouse 🌹

Companies should start begging conservatives to boycott them.

LOL, they didn’t exactly put Oreos out of business either.

btw, they are coming out with a dark chocolate Oreo. Shame the wingnuts can’t eat them…

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:29:14am

Four teenagers collaborated over the Intertubes to create this video.

Feliz Navidad cover by Andrei Cerbu , Andreea Munteanu , Robert Ciubotaru & Kalonica Nicx

While the execution could be improved — Andreea to my ear sounds a little flat — these are four really good musicians who AFAIK are still in high school.

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:33:38am

re: #140 Anymouse 🌹

Companies should start begging conservatives to boycott them.

The only companies that need to fear a wingnut boycott are products aimed at old and/or crazy people.

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jeffreyw  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:35:20am

Imgur


Good morning!

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:35:29am

re: #135 Anymouse 🌹

Trump doesn’t need a single Democratic vote to pass this. Every Democrat and independent can vote against it and is would still pass with Republican support.

His monument to racism and narcissism is failing because his own party can’t muster support for it, and Mexico sure as hell isn’t paying for it.

The Senate requires 60 votes — so he does need some Democrats. And he won’t get them.

Nancy was originally confident that he didn’t have the votes in the House — but they caved. Maybe this is the time that we will get comprehensive immigration reform, once she is Speaker.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:35:36am

re: #144 bd(Redacted)

The only companies that need to fear a wingnut boycott are products aimed at old and/or crazy people.

RW have been successful in the past, remember GHW Bush calling for a boycott of Warner Brothers over Cop Killer or what happened to the Dixie Chicks.

But they are no longer just something that can be summoned up and expected to be effective.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:37:31am

Today’s Cudgel…..

I guess it can be said that tDump45 Re-Founded ISIS. Blatantly Re-Founded…… Tell me again about the Emails!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:50:07am

re: #48 austin_blue

I’m going to bed. This day has been just stupid.The idiot in the WH is just incompetent, and there’s not much we can do about it, except whine.

I hate whining. It’s not in my nature, but if the rest of the Government won’t act, what can we do? Scream, I suppose, but we are casting it into the air.

What I want to do is kick Government balls, at all levels, so hard they retract up the inguinal canals of everyone who has been kicked, to get their attention. And tell them to STOP THIS SHIT.

Night all, the craziness is taking its toll.

Have mercy on civil servants whose hands are tied by the RePUTIN Party!

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:52:46am

Greets and saluts from the flooding and damp NYC metro area. Lots of rain overnight and flooding is a threat through the next day or so. Fun times.

Doesn’t help the mood either that this is also the shortest daytime day in the Northern Hemisphere. It just sucks.

But this brightened my mood a bit.

Well, that and listening to Joe Satriani

Joe Satriani - Thunder High On The Mountain - G3 2018

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steve_davis  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:54:06am

re: #14 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

[Embedded content]

Video

I need to get a job as Google Translator: “No, goddamnit, you cannot start a sentence with ‘Until recently’ followed by a comma, followed by a sentence that has nothing to do with ‘until recently.’” My translations would be longer and more involved, by default.

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:55:29am

Trump’s admin is swiss cheese. It’s got more holes and vacancies than any other admin at this time in the presidency.

It isn’t normal. He can’t find anyone to fill positions, and it’s sabotage.

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 21, 2018 • 5:55:47am

Holiday shoppers flocking to dispensaries for cannabis Christmas gifts

Christmas Cheer!

Imagine the first Christmas after prohibition went down.

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steve_davis  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:04:39am

re: #44 Anymouse 🌹

Coloradans can now change their gender identity on their birth certificates (KMGH Channel 7 Denver)

(more)

Cue wingnut outrage.

Denver City Council also advanced a ban on so-called reparative therapy.

if conservatives react to this in typical fashion, there will be a ton of them who will undergo gender reassignment surgery so they can stick it to the man here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:14:35am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:15:23am

re: #152 lawhawk

Trump’s admin is swiss cheese. It’s got more holes and vacancies than any other admin at this time in the presidency.

It isn’t normal. He can’t find anyone to fill positions, and it’s sabotage.

[Embedded content]

But how much of this is a deliberate refusal to fill positions in order to sow chaos and destroy the Deep State?

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:17:32am

re: #156 Hecuba’s daughter

But how much of this is a deliberate refusal to fill positions in order to sow chaos and destroy the Deep State?

Forget the so-called Deep State, conservatives have been out to destroy government since Ronald Reagan.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:17:53am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:18:31am

re: #156 Hecuba’s daughter

But how much of this is a deliberate refusal to fill positions in order to sow chaos and destroy the Deep State?

I seem to recall he once laughed it off and said he was saving the taxpayers money.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:19:08am

just silly, y’all…

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:19:51am

re: #157 Anymouse 🌹

Forget the so-called Deep State, conservatives have been out to destroy government since Ronald Reagan.

I wonder if it’s Trump thinking he can do it all, so why fill all those positions that would just suck money away from his bilking the US government?

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:20:14am

He’s refusing to fill positions in every federal agency, including DHS and DOD.

This is sabotage. It’s not merely trying to reduce the size of government. He’s making it impossible to do that because there’s no one in positions to oversee an orderly reduction.

It sows chaos and undermines functioning government. That’s the point, and the GOP are cheering on flamethrowers regardless of the damage.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:20:35am

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

Say goodbye to autumn.

December Solstice in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, USA is on Friday, December 21, 2018 at 3:23 pm MST.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:24:25am

Bullshit alert — this is the latest outrageous outrage from the wingnuttisphere.

Dim Jim of course is pumping this news item, but implies that the entire UK school system has adopted this policy. It has not. It is only one local school council, as this article from the Telegraph clearly states.

telegraph.co.uk

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:24:31am

heh

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:26:01am

re: #157 Anymouse 🌹

Forget the so-called Deep State, conservatives have been out to destroy government since Ronald Reagan.

Yes — BUT not when it came to the State Department or Department of Defense. Every step taken in the past had a valid strategic interest that was designed to benefit this county, even when it upended decades of practice, such as Kissinger and Nixon’s opening to China. This is the first Republican administration who deliberately and maliciously wants to destroy America’s role in the world.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:26:27am

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

Is Mourning Joe (spelling intentional) going on Cletus Safaris now? Haven’t we been subjected to enough of that?

And by the way Joe, how many hours did you give Donald Trump on call ins? Have you admitted your part yet in this disaster?

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ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:26:39am

re: #17 makeitstop

It’s a deceptively simple-looking video. There’s a lot going on, between the makeup, costuming, editing and coreography that just kind of pops in and out. This will probably take multiple viewing to catch it all. Very subtle and stylish.

Real good tune, too. Yay, Macca!

Morning!

Good tuneage. Good video.

But silly me, that thing I noticed and liked the best was Sir Paul has decided to forego the hair dye! And he looks so much better for it. Maybe he has been that way for some time, but the most recent images of him I saw was with his funky brown hair.

And no to catch up…

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:28:28am

Trump’s such a great negotiator (self professed), that he can’t negotiate a deal on this.

Funny how that works. Congress has told him in no uncertain terms this isn’t happening, and Trump will shut it down to placate his white nationalist base.

That’s who benefits from the shutdown - because they see that Trump will put their interests over all else.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:29:29am

re: #166 Hecuba’s daughter

Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree on that. My experience is all my life conservative politicians and their voters have been complaining “we’re not the world’s police” and “why are we supporting other nations” and “we could save [some imagined number of dollars] if we discontinued foreign aid to [help veterans, help the homeless, help homeless veterans, name something they continually vote against, whataboutism, &c].

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:30:02am

re: #164 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Bullshit alert — this is the latest outrageous outrage from the wingnuttisphere.

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Dim Jim of course is pumping this news item, but implies that the entire UK school system has adopted this policy. It has not. It is only one local school council, as this article from the Telegraph clearly states.

telegraph.co.uk

Roses are red, conservatives are brain dead.

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:30:40am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:37:59am

Trump Says A Government Shutdown Would ‘Last For A Very Long Time’ (goes to Huffington Post, caution for auto-play video):

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a midnight deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump said Friday a closure would drag on “for a very long time” and he tried to build the case that congressional Democrats would bear responsibility if there’s no deal over his demand for U.S.-Mexico border wall money.

Only a week ago, Trump said he would be “proud” to shut down the government, which Republicans now control, in the name of border security. “I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down,” he asserted.

But with the hours dwindling before the midnight deadline, Trump sought to reframe the debate and make Democrats the holdouts to settling an impasse that threatens hundreds of thousands of federal workers on the eve of the end-of-the-year holidays.

(more)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:39:09am

yay us!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:39:45am
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Belafon  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:41:30am

re: #170 Anymouse 🌹

Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree on that. My experience is all my life conservative politicians and their voters have been complaining “we’re not the world’s police” and “why are we supporting other nations” and “we could save [some imagined number of dollars] if we discontinued foreign aid to [help veterans, help the homeless, help homeless veterans, name something they continually vote against, whataboutism, &c].

While they would say that, they were more than willing to use the military to be the world’s current Empire. That’s why so many are mad that Trump is going to remove troops from Syria.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:41:48am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:41:58am

re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth

Edged you out by ten seconds. /s

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:43:12am

re: #176 Belafon

While they would say that, they were more than willing to use the military to be the world’s current Empire. That’s why so many are mad that Trump is going to remove troops from Syria.

But they won’t tell him “no.” If they actually cared, they would tell him “no.”

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:44:39am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:44:46am

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Absolutely. I mean yeah the Syria decision is bad but so were the other things they accepted.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:46:08am

re: #180 lawhawk

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That’s why it was a bad decision. It wasn’t thought over at all and it’s going to cause more refugees. And obviously I’m fine with taking in refugees but I know Trump won’t be.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:47:39am

Lots of seething wingnuts this morning.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:49:15am

STFU Lindsey

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Dave In Austin  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:49:50am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:50:26am

re: #183 Dave In Austin

Lots of seething wingnuts this morning.

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Maybe if you idiots instead of spreading deranged hatred of Obama and embrace of this unqualified gutless punk actually reported the news, you wouldn’t be shocked that Trump is doing what Putin wants but I get it, no one teaches introspection at FNC and it started with Ailes and Murdoch.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:52:18am

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

Do Democrats hate President Trump so much they can’t see the need for more funding for border security? Do they hate President Trump so much they’re unwilling to compromise?

yes, it’s all about Trump and all about hate

because the Wall is all about security

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:52:53am

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

STFU Lindsey

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You really need to just admit that you’re not there to represent South Carolina Lindsay but to do Trump’s bidding. I don’t want to hear about compromise when your side isn’t giving anything up and the people of this country don’t want a wall. Move to 1980’s East Germany if you like walls so much.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:52:59am

I forgot about lunatic Tata.

There’s the moron’s next Sec of Defense

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Charmingly Persistent  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:53:28am

re: #15 Single-handed sailor

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This is what you get for cuckolding yourself to the US, Canada.

WTF?!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:55:04am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I forgot about lunatic Tata.

There’s the moron’s next Sec of Defense

Yep. And Tata got fired from his last job too.

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Belafon  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:55:20am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹

But they won’t tell him “no.” If they actually cared, they would tell him “no.”

There is only one way they can change the decision now: impeachment. With any other president, they could have just made the budget so that he couldn’t, but they taught this president to ignore that. If all of them stood up and said no, he would just call them names and double down.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:55:48am

Is Tata implying Mattis is responsible for the rise of ISIS?

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:56:46am
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Belafon  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:56:59am

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

STFU Lindsey

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:58:15am

FnF also had military genius Geraldo Rivera on this morning to claim that the stable genius is making the right moves with Syria and border wall.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2018 • 6:58:37am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I forgot about lunatic Tata.

There’s the moron’s next Sec of Defense

Never heard of him. Is he a Putin fan who dismisses the value of alliances with other democracies?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:02:46am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

General Anthony Tata, author, “Dark Winter.”

A guy who writes novels…works well with a reality-TV Prez

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:03:07am

re: #194 Barefoot Grin

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Reagan and Bush I remember had a very constructive conversation about immigration. Not an admirer of Reagan but Trump is more Buchanan than Reagan on immigration.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:04:09am

re: #194 Barefoot Grin

Reagan 4/4/80: “Rather than talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems and make it possible for them to come here legally, with a work permit, and then while they are working and earning here, they pay taxes here.”

You are confusing the Historical Ronald Reagan with the blank-canvas-onto-which-we-project-our-image-of-the-ideal-conservative Reagan.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:04:15am

re: #197 Hecuba’s daughter

Never heard of him. Is he a Putin fan who dismisses the value of alliances with other democracies?

A crazy man who insists John Brennan is a communist while sucking off the President who loves a KGB man.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:04:27am

re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A guy who writes novels…works well with a reality-TV Prez

Dan Quayle thought The Hunt for Red October was for real, remember….

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:05:03am

re: #196 Barefoot Grin

FnF also had military genius Geraldo Rivera on this morning to claim that the stable genius is making the right moves with Syria and border wall.

Geraldo? Oh good. I forgot how much he knows about national security.//

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:05:20am

re: #192 Belafon

There is only one way they can change the decision now: impeachment. With any other president, they could have just made the budget so that he couldn’t, but they taught this president to ignore that. If all of them stood up and said no, he would just call them names and double down.

Well, they can also pass a budget, let him veto it, then override his veto.

They don’t care. They care about grasping and expanding their own power, not standing up for the USA’s place in the world.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:08:14am

Including me … if this drags on for a long time (as Trump indicated), we do have savings to pay our bills for a little while, but it will get tough quickly (especially if my mother’s, step-father’s, or brother-in-law’s health takes a drastic turn for the worse).

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:08:44am

re: #205 Anymouse 🌹

Oops, left out the tweet above:

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BlueSpotinAL  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:09:30am

My plan to take a picture of myself flipping off Mar-a-Lago a couple of days ago went awry. Going up A1A I saw road signs saying that you couldn’t go north on A1A starting today because the Asshole will be in residence. Road still open, so I thought OK, here is my chance. The side of Mar-a-Lago that faces A1A is not labeled, so must be a side entrance. By the time I looked at Google Maps again, it said I had passed it, so I had to settle off for flipping the bird in the general direction behind me.

I saw a shitload of Mansions, particularly on the beach side of A1A, wondering where all of this money came from for all of these people. The main purpose of driving A1A was to visit a modest mansion by the 6th richest man in America at the time (Henry Flagler), built as an engagement/wedding present for his third wife. Well worth the visit if you like that sort of thing.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:10:04am
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Dr. Matt  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:13:19am
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:14:14am

re: #207 BlueSpotinAL

My plan to take a picture of myself flipping off Mar-a-Lago a couple of days ago went awry. Going up A1A I saw road signs saying that you couldn’t go north on A1A starting today because the Asshole will be in residence. Road still open, so I thought OK, here is my chance. The side that faces A1A is not labeled, so must be a side entrance. By the time I looked at Google Maps again, it said I had passed it, so I had to settle off for flipping the bird in the general direction behind me.

I saw a shitload of Mansions, particularly on the beach side of A1A, wondering where all of this money came from for all of these people. On the way, visited a modest mansion by the 6th richest man in America at the time (Henry Flagler), built as an engagement/wedding present for his third wife. Well worth the visit if you like that sort of thing.

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That Flagler guy got around. Fort Flagler, on that toilet-seat-shaped island off Port Townsend, is where they filmed An Officer and a Gentleman.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:17:07am

re: #195 Belafon

Do Democrats hate President Trump so much they can’t see the need for more funding for border security? Do they hate President Trump so much they’re unwilling to compromise?

Yes to both.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:17:21am

another trumpster who doesn’t understand tariffs (also, “bullions”)

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ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:19:48am

Trump isn’t going to bullshit out of this one.

I have a feeling by Monday he is going to cave.

Why? Because all today and all over the weekend he is going to get slammed.

And if Donny has one need it is to be liked, even if he isn’t. Fake adulation!

Gotta go do some grocery hunting…

I have a feeling this thread is going to explode while I am gone.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:21:08am

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

another trumpster who doesn’t understand tariffs (also, “bullions”)

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Boom you understand economics less than Trump.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:21:49am

re: #211 Dr. Matt

Yes to both.

The question is why shouldn’t we hate him? He’s a disgrace.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:21:55am

re: #213 ObserverArt

Trump isn’t going to bullshit out of this one.

I have a feeling by Monday he is going to cave.

Why? Because all today and all over the weekend he is going to get slammed.

And if Donny has one need it is to be liked, even if he isn’t. Fake adulation!

Gotta go do some grocery hunting…

I have a feeling this thread is going to explode while I am gone.

Monday is Xmas Eve. Will any of the pond scum even be in DC to vote on a clean CR?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:22:44am

re: #213 ObserverArt

Trump isn’t going to bullshit out of this one.

I have a feeling by Monday he is going to cave.

Why? Because all today and all over the weekend he is going to get slammed.

And if Donny has one need it is to be liked, even if he isn’t. Fake adulation!

Gotta go do some grocery hunting…

I have a feeling this thread is going to explode while I am gone.

If it gets Faux and Fiends back to praising him for WALL!!!, instead of dissing him for the Syria pullout, he’ll be happy.

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:24:08am

re: #164 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Bullshit alert — this is the latest outrageous outrage from the wingnuttisphere.

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Dim Jim of course is pumping this news item, but implies that the entire UK school system has adopted this policy. It has not. It is only one local school council, as this article from the Telegraph clearly states.

telegraph.co.uk

I was confused at first until I realized that yes, indeed, trans boys and men and people who identify as nonbinary may indeed have periods since the uterus is still there. Oh, the outrage!!1! However are young people going to wrap their heads around that one?!? Oh, noes!!11!

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ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:26:06am

re: #216 Dr. Matt

Monday is Xmas Eve. Will any of the pond scum even be in DC to vote on a clean CR?

Probably not, but watch him turn it into a promised Christmas gift to America…and a lump of coal for the Democrats.

He’ll say he did it to show his toughness and to send a message how bad and evil Democrats are. Especially Schumer and Pelosi. But as soon as January 3 comes around he will sign a clean funding bill and America will get back to work and get paid, etc.

Donny likes theater. Trump Saves Christmas!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:26:45am

re: #213 ObserverArt

Trump isn’t going to bullshit out of this one.

I have a feeling by Monday he is going to cave.

He cannot cave in front of Fox News and his Rabid Base…

He just cannot.

And the GOP is stuck with supporting him, just like the Tories are stuck with Brexit.

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makeitstop  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:26:55am

re: #126 SteelPH

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated!

Also haven’t had a whole lotta time between projects and holiday stuff to actually check in here.

Hi.

Good to see you, SPH. Hope all is well.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:28:00am

OTD in Space - Dec. 21: Apollo 8 Launches to the Moon

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Dr. Matt  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:28:30am

Macbook question: How do I change the settings for the calendar app? Right now the work week is displayed Mon to Sun and I want to change it to Sun to Sat. TIA.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:30:27am

re: #223 Dr. Matt

Macbook question: How do I change the settings for the calendar app? Right now the work week is displayed Mon to Sun and I want to change it to Sun to Sat. TIA.

That’s how it is in the Bible, Sunday is the seventh day!!!

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Dr. Matt  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:34:04am

re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That’s how it is in the Bible, Sunday is the seventh day!!!

I’m down-dinging you. :) . //

Found the setting. It’s under the Language and Region system preferences.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:35:50am

re: #225 Dr. Matt

I’m down-dinging you. :) . //

Found the setting. It’s under the Language and Re(li)gion system preferences.

set from “Christian” to “Heathen”

(But really, calendars in Germany all start on a Monday, it confuses the heck out of me now to look an an American calendar)

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:36:58am

re: #218 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

I was confused at first until I realized that yes, indeed, trans boys and men and people who identify as nonbinary may indeed have periods since the uterus is still there. Oh, the outrage!!1! However are young people going to wrap their heads around that one?!? Oh, noes!!11!

The youngsters will take it in stride. Some adults, though, cannot.

Here in China, a couple of middle school teachers — one male, one female — asked their female students to log their periods on a chart in their classrooms. It sounds creepy, but there is a real phobia about periods in China. No one traditionally ever talked about them. Then, during the 2016 Olympics, a Chinese swimmer admitted on camera that she was on her period and it may have contributed to her not doing as well as usual. She also opened the eyes of Chinese women to the possibility of using tampons, which until then were largely mistrusted. So, charting the students’ periods makes a formerly mysterious and shameful bodily function into something more normal and acceptable.

Not sure how it would play in the USA, though.

Article about the swimmer, Fu Yuanhui.
theguardian.com

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Dr. Matt  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:37:20am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

set from “Christian” to “Heathen”

(But really, calendars in Germany all start on a Monday, it confuses the neck out of me now to look an an American calendar)

I’m disappointed that C and F are the only options for temperature. I prefer K.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:39:07am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

set from “Christian” to “Heathen”

(But really, calendars in Germany all start on a Monday, it confuses the heck out of me now to look an an American calendar)

China does the same thing. I thought it was because it’s a secular society and Sunday is just another day here.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:40:42am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:40:58am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

set from “Christian” to “Heathen”

(But really, calendars in Germany all start on a Monday, it confuses the neck out of me now to look an an American calendar)

I only have one upfist to give.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:42:28am

re: #228 Dr. Matt

I’m disappointed that C and F are the only options for temperature. I prefer K.

Rankine Scale or go home.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:42:32am

re: #225 Dr. Matt

I’m down-dinging you. :) . //

Found the setting. It’s under the Language and Region system preferences.

Never did figure out why login items is under “Users & Groups”. And it took me a long time to realize they moved “play stereo as mono” from “Audio” to “Accessibility”. When did that happen?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:44:44am

re: #232 Anymouse 🌹

Rankine Scale or go home.

Réaumur or I’ll cut a mofo!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:46:14am

Narrator’s Voice: No, you haven’t

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:47:45am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:48:05am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:49:16am

but, of course…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:49:47am

re: #229 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

China does the same thing. I thought it was because it’s a secular society and Sunday is just another day here.

It makes sense as that Sunday is part of the “weekend”

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:50:49am

#TrumpResign is in the trending category on Twitter.

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plansbandc  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:51:18am

re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That might actually be enough.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:52:59am

re: #241 plansbandc

That might actually be enough.

If you live in a cabin in the middle of a lake in the middle of the Finnish forest, then it makes good sense to bring over a 1,000-pack

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:54:51am

Continuing to build a strong military and supporting the troops /s

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:55:23am
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nines09  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:57:35am

re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

You can now buy a 1,000 pack of beer in Finland

Imagine the size of the cooler.
Some picnic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 7:59:37am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:00:34am

re: #245 nines09

Imagine the size of the cooler.
Some picnic.

If you live in Finland, you just lower it into the nearest lake…

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:01:28am

re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s a nice way of saying “the spray-tanned overgrown toddler no longer has a babysitter and man, we’re fucked”.

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darthstar  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:02:06am
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nines09  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:02:40am

re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If you live in Finland, you just lower it into the nearest lake…

Your fjord or mine?

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:03:20am

re: #243 Anymouse 🌹

Trump can’t get his Daisy air rifle border wall, so he’s going to make sure everyone else gets beautiful clean coal in their stockings this Christmas.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:06:11am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:06:58am

re: #250 nines09

Your fjord or mine?

Finland has shallow lakes no fjords to speak of…looks more like Minnesota

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:07:16am

re: #243 Anymouse 🌹

Continuing to build a strong military and supporting the troops /s

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Dipshit.

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:07:17am

re: #227 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

The youngsters will take it in stride. Some adults, though, cannot.

Here in China, a couple of middle school teachers — one male, one female — asked their female students to log their periods on a chart in their classrooms. It sounds creepy, but there is a real phobia about periods in China. No one traditionally ever talked about them. Then, during the 2016 Olympics, a Chinese swimmer admitted on camera that she was on her period and it may have contributed to her not doing as well as usual. She also opened the eyes of Chinese women to the possibility of using tampons, which until then were largely mistrusted. So, charting the students’ periods makes a formerly mysterious and shameful bodily function into something more normal and acceptable.

Not sure how it would play in the USA, though.

Article about the swimmer, Fu Yuanhui.
theguardian.com

I remember that swimmer and how people were shocked that she said anything. Good grief! This country has a shitload of hangups.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:07:20am
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nines09  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:08:03am

re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Ah.

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:08:11am

re: #231 Anymouse 🌹

I only have one upfist to give.

You and your upfists. LOL. It sounds sooo incredibly wrong.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:10:40am

re: #252 Anymouse 🌹

The House has passed a short-term spending bill that includes the $5.7 billion Trump requested for border

So now they send it to the Senate so they can claim the Democrats own the shutdown

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:12:46am

re: #95 Anymouse 🌹

Ugh (13:25)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:13:25am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:13:56am

re: #252 Anymouse 🌹

Plenty of conservaderp in Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet.

As a (former) elected local official, the federal government pays for all kinds of local things.

USDA paid for our water tower repairs. The EPA paid for our reverse osmosis units for our water system. USDA has given us a matching grant to upgrade our sewer system next year (replacing all the pipes). Various federal funding paid to replace our village lead water pipes up to people’s homes.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:14:29am

re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Live by Fucks and Fiends support, die by it I guess. Maybe if you actually learned to lead, you’d realize that Brian Kilmeade is just another clueless asshole like you are.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:15:46am

He’s only mad about the shutdown because he will be blamed and he can’t hide out in Mar Al Lago surrounded by asskissers.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:16:17am

re: #258 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

You and your upfists. LOL. It sounds sooo incredibly wrong.

Mixing S&M Romance editing with commenting at LGF is hazardous.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:16:47am

re: #255 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

I have had a few Chinese (female) students who are quite frank in expressing why they are not feeling well on certain days. One even wrote a story for an assignment about her sitting in class one day, and unbeknownst to her, she had leaked fluid and stained her white dress. When she stood up, her deskmate, who was a guy, quickly came to her rescue and wrapped his jacket around her waist, telling her of her plight. She then went home to change clothes.

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:20:32am

re: #260 Scottish Dragon

Chiggy Killer is no fan of Trump… and calls Trump out for lying about Reagan, immigration, and the wall.

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:20:48am

re: #266 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

I have had a few Chinese (female) students who are quite frank in expressing why they are not feeling well on certain days. One even wrote a story for an assignment about she was sitting in class one day, and unbeknownst to her, had leaked fluid and stained her white dress. When she stood up, her deskmate, who was a guy, quickly came to her rescue and wrapped his jacket around her waist, telling her of her plight. She then went home to change clothes.

I think that’s great because it’s nothing that women and men should be afraid to talk about and it shouldn’t be embarrassing.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:24:12am
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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:26:45am
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Belafon  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:29:34am

re: #230 Anymouse 🌹

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And even the boys can’t keep the ratio in Trump’s favor.

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:30:38am

Listening to HS band students playing Christmas tunes in the library. Just heard a clarinet/saxophone quartet do a Joy to the World medley that pretty damned good. Only thing missing was people in scarves warming themselves by a firepit and some hot cocoa!

Not a bad day at all.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:30:52am
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makeitstop  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:31:10am

re: #262 Anymouse 🌹

Plenty of conservaderp in Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet.

As a (former) elected local official, the federal government pays for all kinds of local things.

USDA paid for our water tower repairs. The EPA paid for our reverse osmosis units for our water system. USDA has given us a matching grant to upgrade our sewer system next year (replacing all the pipes). Various federal funding paid to replace our village lead water pipes up to people’s homes.

I don’t know if I’m just interpreting your comment wrong, but AOC is pretty much the last person I’d accuse of ‘conservaderp.’

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:31:59am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:33:32am

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, Lizards, pack it in, she’s on to us. ////

Image: j01pgqwo0wnz.gif

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:33:59am

Thanks to Mr. Johnson for introducing Sir Paul McCartney’s new video. That is quite an interesting song.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:34:25am
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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:35:45am

re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So in other words, checkmate, Trump. You own this.

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makeitstop  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:36:13am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:36:20am

re: #275 makeitstop

I don’t know if I’m just interpreting your comment wrong, but AOC is pretty much the last person I’d accuse of ‘conservaderp.’

No, I meant the responses to her tweet. Sorry I wasn’t clear. Much rum, past bedtime, too cold.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:36:21am
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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:37:17am

re: #282 Anymouse 🌹

No, I meant the responses to her tweet. Sorry I wasn’t clear. Much rum, past bedtime, too cold.

Your apology… is acceptable on one condition…

Pass the rum.

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:37:59am

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

You don’t have the votes..

You don’t have the votes..

You need congressional approval and you don’t have the votes.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:38:01am

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I kinda like Coons for AG or SoS. He’s not a particularly charismatic guy but he’s politically savvy.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:38:23am

re: #284 lawhawk

Your apology… is acceptable on one condition…

Pass the rum.

Indeed. Rum now!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:38:35am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:39:32am

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It’s a typical Trump tweet. Whine and brag.

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Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:44:23am

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

Heaven help us…

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:45:16am

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Great Wall of China did not work. Hadrian’s Wall was mostly for show. The Berlin Wall worked, but required considerable manpower and armaments to make it effective. Also, it’s gone now.

Medieval cities were walled to protect them from marauding armies. They were not quite so effective once cannons came into play.

Walls are good at holding up roofs, though.

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plansbandc  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:45:24am

Christ he’s dumb. Really fucking stupid and petty and cruel.

Firing people with HIV is another gut punch. Just endlessly cruel and vile. I hate him.

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Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:45:55am

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

“I know tech, and the technology things, science, better than anyone. Only I can fix. I’m very SMART.”

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:46:43am

re: #292 plansbandc

Christ he’s dumb. Really fucking stupid and petty and cruel.

Firing people with HIV is another gut punch. Just endlessly cruel and vile. I hate him.

He’s got nothing redeemable about him. Only that he can’t live forever.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:47:02am

re: #293 Sir John Barron

“I know tech, and the technology things, science, better than anyone. Only I can fix. I’m very SMART.”

I’m smaht. I can do things!

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Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:48:06am

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think we’ve heard this one from Huck Sanders before.

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Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:48:27am

re: #292 plansbandc

Christ he’s dumb. Really fucking stupid and petty and cruel.

Firing people with HIV is another gut punch. Just endlessly cruel and vile. I hate him.

What is this about? Who did he fire?

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:49:26am

Every single day I relive the dismay I had when I learned Trump had been elected. It was like the bottom fell out of my world.

Today was especially bad.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:49:57am

re: #297 Sir John Barron

What is this about? Who did he fire?

People in the armed forces who are HIV-positive

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plansbandc  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:50:18am

re: #297 Sir John Barron

They’re throwing people with HIV out of the military.

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mmmirele  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:50:40am

This is infuriating. My sister is smarter than this. It’s on her FB header.

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:51:18am

re: #291 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

The Great Wall of China did not work. Hadrian’s Wall was mostly for show. The Berlin Wall worked, but required considerable manpower and armaments to make it effective. Also, it’s gone now.

Medieval cities were walled to protect them from marauding armies. They were not quite so effective once cannons came into play.

Walls are good at holding up roofs, though.

The Berlin Wall was meant to keep a population in, not to keep people out. It required over 40,000 Soviet soldiers to man it, complete with barbed wire, mines, etc., and it still failed to stop East Germans from escaping to the West - often at terrible cost in loss of life.

40,000 soldiers across… wait for it… just under 100 miles.

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Scottish Dragon  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:52:11am
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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:52:44am

re: #302 lawhawk

The Berlin Wall was meant to keep a population in, not to keep people out. It required over 40,000 Soviet soldiers to man it, complete with barbed wire, mines, etc., and it still failed to stop East Germans from escaping to the West - often at terrible cost in loss of life.

40,000 soldiers across… wait for it… just under 100 miles.

That’s why Trump is pulling out of Syria and Afghanistan. Repositioning the troops.
//

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plansbandc  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:53:02am

re: #298 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

I cried. I’ve cried more over the past 2 years than any time since I was a child.

A friend of mine threw up when she found out he won.

My sister has developed an ulcer, and she has no money to do anything about it.

Serious despair.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:53:36am

re: #301 mmmirele

This is infuriating. My sister is smarter than this.

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Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:54:12am

re: #299 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

People in the armed forces who are HIV-positive

OK I read the link further down the thread, seems something about military who haven’t deployed…like a backdoor way of getting rid of people. Since most US military don’t deploy overseas (right?) this seems a rather odd condition to impose on them.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:55:13am

re: #298 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Every single day I relive the dismay I had when I learned Trump had been elected. It was like the bottom fell out of my world.

Today was especially bad.

What upsets me is the evidence was there. We knew he was unqualified, rash, etc. At least when Buchanan was elected, he had a resume.

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Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:55:14am

re: #301 mmmirele

This is infuriating. My sister is smarter than this.

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So sorry, I know how frustrating this can be.

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makeitstop  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:55:18am

re: #297 Sir John Barron

What is this about? Who did he fire?

He’s considering discharging HIV-positive service members.

Like the man says, the cruelty is the fucking point.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:55:50am

re: #284 lawhawk

Your apology… is acceptable on one condition…

Pass the rum.

I can’t fit the bottle in my Ethernet port.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:57:01am

re: #311 Anymouse 🌹

I can’t fit the bottle in my Ethernet port.

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The very least you could do is post an image.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:57:02am

re: #305 plansbandc

I cried. I’ve cried more over the past 2 years than any time since I was a child.

A friend of mine threw up when she found out he won.

My sister has developed an ulcer, and she has no money to do anything about it.

Serious despair.

It’s like watching a civilization crumble in real time. Trump may not finish his term in office, but he’s already damaged the USA in countless ways to the extent it will take years to recover.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:57:52am

re: #309 Sir John Barron

So sorry, I know how frustrating this can be.

Ditto. My one conservative friend admitted he was being a jackass with all the bs memes

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:58:14am

re: #304 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

That’s why Trump is pulling out of Syria and Afghanistan. Repositioning the troops.
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Pat Roberson ran on exactly that idea, to prevent people from leaving. I was in the Navy at the time, and was seriously considering deserting if that happened.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:58:47am

re: #313 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

It’s like watching a civilization crumble in real time. Trump may not finish his term in office, but he’s already damaged the USA in countless ways to the extent it will take years to recover.

That’s why it’s important to get the nominee right. It’s why we can’t just do ideological purity like Labour did. We don’t need a Corbyn.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:58:56am

re: #308 HappyWarrior

What upsets me is the evidence was there. We knew he was unqualified, rash, etc. At least when Buchanan was elected, he had a resume.

*We* knew, but 63 million voters did not, or did not care. And the GOP may have known, but also did not care. It’s those two facts that bring me even more despair.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 8:59:41am

re: #317 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

*We* knew, but 63 million voters did not, or did not care. And the GOP may have known, but also did not care. It’s those two facts that bring me even more despair.

Absolutely.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:00:58am

Well, at least I have a new passport. That part of the government is working, at least.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:01:42am

Seen this morning as I sprinted through a number of internet holes.

Jim Webb for Sec. of Def.

I don’t see it.
Not that he couldn’t do it. I don’t see Trump capable of putting a Democrat in his cabinet. Not even a right-wing hawk Dem like Webb

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:01:46am

re: #317 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

*We* knew, but 63 million voters did not, or did not care. And the GOP may have known, but also did not care. It’s those two facts that bring me even more despair.

I told myself in 2016 that things would have to get a whole lot worse before they could even start to get better…and they are still getting worse.

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Teukka  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:01:50am

So… This scrolled by in a FB group…

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:03:06am

re: #301 mmmirele

This is infuriating. My sister is smarter than this. It’s on her FB header.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:03:20am

moron

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:04:00am

re: #312 HappyWarrior

The very least you could do is post an image.

Rum O’Clock
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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:04:53am

Time for bed here. It’s now the weekend here,, and I need to rest up for two holiday parties.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:06:04am

re: #320 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Seen this morning as I sprinted through a number of internet holes.

Jim Webb for Sec. of Def.

I don’t see it.
Not that he couldn’t do it. I don’t see Trump capable of putting a Democrat in his cabinet. Not even a right-wing hawk Dem like Webb

That would be an interesting full circle for Webb- from Reagan’s Naval secretary to Bush critic as a Dem Senator to serving Trump. I don’t see it tho. Webb might make sense in a more based in reality GOP admin.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:06:17am

re: #325 Anymouse 🌹

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Rum O’Clock

Thank you.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:07:20am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:07:35am

I tbh could see Erik Prince or that wacky general he quoted today tho.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:08:55am

re: #329 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Gaetz is pretty young. Younger than my Grand Uncle Bill was when he was commissioned during WWII. Ain’t nothing stopping his fat right wing ass from enlisting.

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:09:01am

re: #330 HappyWarrior

Prince is under investigation by Mueller and federal prosecutors…. it’d be inviting a hellish confirmation battle.

That other nut is more likely.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:09:43am

re: #332 lawhawk

Prince is under investigation by Mueller and federal prosecutors…. it’d be inviting a hellish confirmation battle.

That other nut is more likely.

Yeah I think you’re right and we know Trump loves generals.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:10:16am

re: #328 HappyWarrior

Thank you.

There’s a Secret Sticker on Every Label of Sailor Jerry Rum (Goes to Fortune, more at the link):

If you’re a regular Sailor Jerry drinker, there’s a good chance you’ve been accidentally throwing out a collectible sticker every time you finish a bottle of the rum.

The key is taking off the label. Behind the traditional label of every bottle, the brand has placed a clear collectible sticker featuring the art of famous tattoo artist Normal Collins aka “Sailor Jerry.”

Roughly five or six different designs are in rotation at any given time, and they change things up fairly regularly, which makes the stickers pretty collectible.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:12:31am

re: #334 Anymouse 🌹

There’s a Secret Sticker on Every Label of Sailor Jerry Rum (Goes to Fortune, more at the link):

D’oh didn’t know that. TBH I’ve been cutting back on drinking. Under 220 for the first time in 3 years and I couldn’t be happier.

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ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:14:00am

Just back from grocery shopping.

I almost had the entire side of my Rabbit crunched. I was coming up to an intersection and as I was moving right and going up the right hand lane, a guy in a beat to hell Honda Civic decided he was in the wrong lane and just started to come over right at about the front fender of my car. I laid on the horn but he was still moving. I’m scuffing the curb on the passenger side and and watching his front fender inch closer and closer in my side window. He finally stopped and it must have been about a 1/16th inch between us.

I gave him some shit about watching what he was doing and he told me to “shut the fuck up, I didn’t hit you”

I said yeah, how close were you and I scrubbed my tires and hub caps on the curb.

Go fuck yourself he yells at me. People.

My heart still hasn’t calmed down. Phew…that was close.

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Interesting Times  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:15:30am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:15:45am

re: #335 HappyWarrior

D’oh didn’t know that. TBH I’ve been cutting back on drinking. Under 220 for the first time in 3 years and I couldn’t be happier.

Drinking keeps me at 115#. Otherwise I would lose weight. /s

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:17:16am

re: #338 Anymouse 🌹

Drinking keeps me at 115#. Otherwise I would lose weight. /s

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I haven’t been 115 since I was 12 lol. TBH I’ve taken up edibles more the past six months. No hangovers, no problems.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:18:07am

Fox and Friends are still assholes.

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:18:20am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:18:49am

re: #339 HappyWarrior

I haven’t been 115 since I was 12 lol. TBH I’ve taken up edibles more the past six months. No hangovers, no problems.

Ooh, edibles … major crime here … as I’ve noted to Teleskiguy, when the wind blows from the south we can smell freedom here.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:19:42am

re: #342 Anymouse 🌹

Ooh, edibles … major crime here … as I’ve noted to Teleskiguy, when the wind blows from the south we can smell freedom here.

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Not legal here either haha.

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Teukka  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:21:01am

re: #337 Interesting Times

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Am I sensitive when I suspect the tweeter is going to get hit with a C & D from ICP, and the World Federation of Juggalos and Juggalettes?

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Interesting Times  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:22:02am

re: #344 Teukka

Am I sensitive when I suspect the tweeter is going to get hit with a C & D from ICP, and the World Federation of Juggalos and Juggalettes?

Well, I certainly see why they’d be profoundly offended by the comparison.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:22:42am

John’s trying….

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:23:15am

re: #345 Interesting Times

Well, I certainly see why they’d be profoundly offended by the comparison.

One is a clown and the other are mere musicians. Yeah I can see why the juggolos would be offended.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:24:37am

re: #346 Dave In Austin

John’s trying….

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Cornyn. You’re a hack. Texas deserves better than a Trump toady like you and Cruz. Actually learn about the border instead of saying stupid rw talking points.

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plansbandc  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:25:10am

re: #343 HappyWarrior

I can’t smoke anything, so edibles are my way of indulging in the evil weed. When I’m in Colorado, that is. Really hoping, with the new Dem Governor, we will legalize it here.

May end up getting a medical card for it though. My doc is all for it.

Love tinctures. A few drops and life is much much better. Enjoy enhanced sunflower seeds a lot too.

Dude and I have decided if they legalize it here, we will make some infused butter to add to whatever we eat. Now that would be heaven. <3

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:27:19am

re: #346 Dave In Austin

John’s trying….

He sure is. He’s really trying. /s

We’re back in the Trump market again, as the Dow starts heading down below the open after quick cashing in. No one is insane enough to hold onto stocks when Trump has all weekend to tweet.

Fortunately I’m too poor to own stocks.

marketwatch.com

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:27:27am

fukkkkkkkkkkkk…

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:27:41am

re: #349 plansbandc

I can’t smoke anything, so edibles are my way of indulging in the evil weed. When I’m in Colorado, that is. Really hoping, with the new Dem Governor, we will legalize it here.

May end up getting a medical card for it though. My doc is all for it.

Love tinctures. A few drops and life is much much better. Enjoy enhanced sunflower seeds a lot too.

Dude and I have decided if they legalize it here, we will make some infused butter to add to whatever we eat. Now that would be heaven. <3

It helps my anxiety a lot. Just wish it would outright legalized. I find booze more destructive than weed.

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ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:28:06am

re: #252 Anymouse 🌹

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…29 years old and already a massive pain in the ass to Republican governance.

I’m liking her more and more.

Hopefully with Nancy at the top and Alexandria bringing up the youth from the rear, it will squeeze all the rest of the Democrats into the same thinking and they can form a solid House that takes no shit.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:28:30am

re: #351 lawhawk

fukkkkkkkkkkkk…

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Cue the loving Christians praying for her demise. Get well RBG.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:28:50am

re: #348 HappyWarrior

Cornyn. You’re a hack. Texas deserves better than a Trump toady like you and Cruz. Actually learn about the border instead of saying stupid rw talking points.

Cornyn voted for the budget that Trump torpedoed.

I swear you could just use cardboard cutouts for conservative politicians, and a recorder to utter their talking points.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:28:53am

re: #353 ObserverArt

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…29 years old and already a massive pain in the ass to Republican governance.

I’m liking her more and more.

Hopefully with Nancy at the top and Alexandria bringing up the youth from the rear, it will squeeze all the rest of the Democrats into the same thinking and they can form a solid House that takes no shit.

She’s great.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:29:18am

re: #355 Anymouse 🌹

Cornyn voted for the budget that Trump torpedoed.

I swear you could just use cardboard cutouts for conservative politicians, and a recorder to utter their talking points.

The cardboard cutouts would be smarter.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:29:57am

re: #278 Anymouse 🌹

Thanks to Mr. Johnson for introducing Sir Paul McCartney’s new video. That is quite an interesting song.

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Still waiting for Maggie to apologize for all the lies she’s pushed.

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Interesting Times  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:30:18am

re: #351 lawhawk

fukkkkkkkkkkkk…

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These could have been discovered as a result of her earlier fall/broken ribs, in which case, that scary-enough episode might have been a blessing in disguise (that is, it allowed them to find these tumors before they could spread further).

That’s what I’m telling myself, anyway (knock wood, throw salt over shoulder, wear rabbit’s foot, etc)

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Teukka  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:31:15am

re: #359 Interesting Times

These must have been discovered as a result of her earlier fall/broken ribs, in which case, that scary-enough episode might have been a blessing in disguise (that is, it allowed them to discover these tumors before they could spread further).

That’s what I’m telling myself, anyway (knock wood, throw salt over shoulder, wear rabbit’s foot, etc)

Orders economy bag of four-leaf clovers, pallet of horse shoes…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:31:55am

re: #346 Dave In Austin

“The Senate UNANIMOUSLY passed a bipartisan solution to avoid a shutdown. Then you threw another temper tantrum and convinced the House to ignore that compromise.”

Trumps is trying to get the Dems to own it, but as someone pointed out, there are receipts!!!

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:33:20am

re: #354 HappyWarrior

Cue the loving Christians praying for her demise. Get well RBG.

Placing my trust in the lifelong training of skilled surgeons and competent doctors.

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plansbandc  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:33:35am

re: #352 HappyWarrior

Yep. I would get the med card for anxiety. Would rather use it than Xanax.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:34:34am

re: #358 Joe Bacon 🌹

Still waiting for Maggie to apologize for all the lies she’s pushed.

Why would she do that? She’s still pushing them.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:35:43am
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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:36:57am

re: #364 Anymouse 🌹

Not a few minutes after she posted that - the markets went into a freefall…

the likely cause? reports of RBG surgery/illness. It’s recovered a bit, but still.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:37:27am

re: #306 HappyWarrior

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gocart mozart  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:37:53am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:39:45am

re: #368 gocart mozart

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Need to give him one of old time Prussian helmets.

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:40:49am

re: #349 plansbandc

I know some folks that dislike edibles do like the tinctures, all lab tested so they can dose right. Like my wife who has asthma bad enough that a whiff of any smoke puts her to the inhaler.

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plansbandc  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:41:00am

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Broad With Sass  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:41:17am

Andrea just reported that RBG’s lesions were indeed found as part of the broken rib situation.

That’s how they found my Mom’s lung cancer, broken rib xray…glad they found RBG’s early…sadly wasn’t the case for Mom

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:42:34am

re: #365 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

can’t listen at work, what’s the gist of what he said?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:42:38am

WTF?

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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:43:02am

re: #359 Interesting Times

These must have been discovered as a result of her earlier fall/broken ribs, in which case, that scary-enough episode might have been a blessing in disguise (that is, it allowed them to discover these tumors before they could spread further).

That’s what I’m telling myself, anyway (knock wood, throw salt over shoulder, wear rabbit’s foot, etc)

That’s how they found my father’s lung tumors: he fell and broke some ribs. In his case, it was metastasized melanoma, and he opted not to treat, because he was 90 and had many other serious ailment and pain.

Lordy, lordy, this scares me.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:47:50am

re: #373 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

can’t listen at work, what’s the gist of what he said?

Trump promised, his supporters cheered, Mexico will pay for the wall. And, the republicans have the gall to claim the Dems have empty words.
The White House is in free fall, the market is in free fall
You guys control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Learn to govern

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Skip Intro  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:48:12am

re: #374 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

WTF?

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And that’s how Michael Cohen blackmailed Falwell into being the first “evangelical” to support Trump.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:49:20am

re: #377 Skip Intro

And that’s how Michael Cohen blackmailed Falwell into being the first “evangelical” to support Trump.

for the price of ten Stormy Danielses

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Skip Intro  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:49:37am

See? He’s not lying.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:49:45am

re: #366 lawhawk

Not a few minutes after she posted that - the markets went into a freefall…

the likely cause? reports of RBG surgery/illness. It’s recovered a bit, but still.

I have a suspicion that the markets really don’t have much to do with transient political or social issues, and a bunch to do with government policies and conservative mismanagement. That said, I am not an economist nor an investor.

Yesterday …

One wag noted that if the plane was going down, Katy Tur needed to let RBG use her as a flotation device; while Katy Tur’s reporting is important. we need RBG more.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:50:53am

re: #376 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

WOW. From a blue dog no less. I honestly think this is really the beginning of the end. There’s no one left to be a “steady hand” for the republicans to hide behind and they really have to own it now. Corker (I know he is on his way out) seems to have gone ape shit as well.

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makeitstop  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:52:55am

re: #381 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

WOW. From a blue dog no less. I honestly think this is really the beginning of the end. There’s no one left to be a “steady hand” for the republicans to hide behind and they really have to own it now. Corker (I know he is on his way out) seems to have gone ape shit as well.

We’re near the breaking point for sure.

I do not see how any Republican can keep this charade going for much longer. Something has to give here.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:53:05am

re: #374 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

WTF?

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“befriended”

LOLOL

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:53:45am

re: #374 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

WTF?

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So Jerry Jr was getting it on with his pool boy…

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:54:53am

re: #384 Joe Bacon 🌹

So Jerry Jr was getting it on with his pool boy…

Or his wife, or maybe both of them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:55:33am

re: #384 Joe Bacon 🌹

So Jerry Jr was getting it on with his pool boy…

Right out of a cheezy porn flick

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:55:43am

re: #384 Joe Bacon 🌹

So Jerry Jr was getting it on with his pool boy…

That would be one guess. Another would be money laundering (since that guy and his father are also suing Falwell, Jr. for some sort of breach of contract over business investment).

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:55:54am

re: #385 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Or his wife, or maybe both of them.

We goin ridin on the Three Way O Love in a pink Cadillac…

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makeitstop  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:57:22am

re: #387 Anymouse 🌹

The president says chances for a shutdown are “very good,” per pool.

He thinks a shutdown would be a good thing? What the fuck is wrong with him?

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:57:48am

re: #389 makeitstop

He thinks a shutdown would be a good thing? What the fuck is wrong with him?

Where do you want me to start?

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:58:20am

re: #386 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Right out of a cheezy porn flick

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plansbandc  Dec 21, 2018 • 9:59:25am
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:01:16am

Obamacare continues to function pretty well despite every effort made by the GOP to damage and kill it. A surge of last week signups brought 2018 registrations up to only 4% off last years, not bad considering that the individual mandate was repealed and the Administration spent no money on advertising. Something that didn’t happen was a mass abandonment of the exchanges (remember last year when there was fear some counties wouldn’t have any policies to choose from? Didn’t happen this year!) or a huge spike in premiums. And of course several states’ voters voted to expand Medicaid because their GOP governments refuse to. Turns out that the ACA was a pretty good law considering how well its held up under all the attacks launched against it!

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Jay C  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:01:53am

Am I alone in thinking the House’s last-minute passage of the “Wall Budget” is basically Paul Ryan’s and the 115th Congress’s last “Fuck You” to the Democrats and the country in general?

Tossing.a final hot potato to the Senate while attempting to look like the Great American Heroes to the rubes for upholding Trump’s BS Wall project (but, as usual with today’s GOP, bugging out and leaving somebody else to hose away the shit…)

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makeitstop  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:02:26am

re: #390 lawhawk

Where do you want me to start?

Point taken.

But this is what I mean - he keeps going father out on that limb of destroying government.

Even the hard core has to begin to realize it’s intentional at some point.

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ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:02:48am

re: #286 HappyWarrior

I kinda like Coons for AG or SoS. He’s not a particularly charismatic guy but he’s politically savvy.

We don’t need charisma right now. Especially in Congress. We need tough negotiating worker bees…and Coons is all that.

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Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:02:59am

re: #389 makeitstop

He thinks a shutdown would be a good thing? What the fuck is wrong with him?

Rumors of a shutdown are Fake News and also a shutdown would be Long and Really Great and DJT would totally own it but it would be Dems fault even though there will be no shutdown just fake news but if a shutdown happens it’s a total win for Team MAGA.

.

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Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:03:49am

re: #380 Anymouse 🌹

I have a suspicion that the markets really don’t have much to do with transient political or social issues, and a bunch to do with government policies and conservative mismanagement. That said, I am not an economist nor an investor.

Yesterday …

One wag noted that if the plane was going down, Katy Tur needed to let RBG use her as a flotation device; while Katy Tur’s reporting is important. we need RBG more.

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS RBG DOING ON A MUTHERFCKING AIRPLANE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:04:49am

re: #292 plansbandc

Christ he’s dumb. Really fucking stupid and petty and cruel.

Firing people with HIV is another gut punch. Just endlessly cruel and vile. I hate him.

He is the best and most dumb guy, like ever. He’s dumber than all the dumbest people. He’s a great dummy, all the dummies know it.

This I can tell you!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:05:34am

re: #389 makeitstop

He thinks a shutdown would be a good thing? What the fuck is wrong with him?

Because it would make the Democrats look bad and show us that he puts America First!!!

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makeitstop  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:06:06am
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Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:07:32am

re: #400 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because it would make the Democrats look bad and show us that he puts America First!!!

“We really need The Wall, which we already have and which Mexico has already paid for!”

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:08:34am

re: #401 makeitstop

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Hopefully this is the camel that breaks the back from the military rank and file supporting the GOP.

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:08:44am

re: #395 makeitstop

That’s the point. They wanted a saboteur. They wanted to watch it burn down. Some of them think this is the best way to get more tax cuts, or end social programs (that many of them rely on!) because it will stop others (read: nonwhites) from using.

The border wall is a proxy for the white nationalism that Trump fronts.

The sabotage of functioning govt is something the GOP has been engaging in for years, but has taken on a new desperation under Trump, as he’s actually going ahead with this insanity.

There aren’t any rational GOPers willing to stand up and stop this nonsense because the party is led increasingly by the very extremists who want this to happen.

Russia timed their intervention into American politics perfectly - capitalizing on a primed GOP that is nativist, inward looking, and wholly ignorant of world events, foreign policy, all while we see right wing extremism is the Putin agenda worldwide.

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ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:11:01am

re: #306 HappyWarrior

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It is because people don’t care about truth and actual facts.

They want to make a point and that is all it is, whether the point is supported or not.

They want what they ‘know’ to be right…even if wrong.

Yeah, that makes no sense, but here we are.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:12:57am

re: #394 Jay C

Am I alone in thinking the House’s last-minute passage of the “Wall Budget” is basically Paul Ryan’s and the 115th Congress’s last “Fuck You” to the Democrats and the country in general?

Tossing.a final hot potato to the Senate while attempting to look like the Great American Heroes to the rubes for upholding Trump’s BS Wall project (but, as usual with today’s GOP, bugging out and leaving somebody else to hose away the shit…)

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KGxvi  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:16:13am

This fucking guy:

Facing a midnight deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump said Friday a closure would drag on “for a very long time” and he tried to build the case that congressional Democrats would bear responsibility if there’s no deal over his demand for U.S.-Mexico border wall money.

Motherfucker, we have you on video saying you’d take the mantle. I really do hope Congress just says fuck it, and overrides his veto on a clean CR. It’s time to neuter this moron.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:18:33am

re: #407 KGxvi

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ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:22:31am

re: #358 Joe Bacon 🌹

Still waiting for Maggie to apologize for all the lies she’s pushed.

Hahahahahahahaaaa,

That’s a good one Joe.

Apologize never. She will say she was just reporting the facts. She’s too arrogant to admit she had any play in normalizing The Great Orange Beastie.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:23:21am
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retired cynic  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:23:50am

re: #146 Hecuba’s daughter

The Senate requires 60 votes — so he does need some Democrats. And he won’t get them.

Nancy was originally confident that he didn’t have the votes in the House — but they caved. Maybe this is the time that we will get comprehensive immigration reform, once she is Speaker.

I think one reason they caved was so they could “stick it to Nancy”.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:25:09am

re: #410 Anymouse 🌹

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Do you ever get tired of lying, Sarah? Not very Christian of you.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:25:49am

re: #301 mmmirele

This is infuriating. My sister is smarter than this. It’s on her FB header.

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ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:26:30am

re: #365 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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This is what Tim Ryan is good for.

Being from that tough part of Ohio makes him a perfect junk-yard-dog type.

Sic ‘em Tim!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:27:08am

re: #411 retired cynic

I think one reason they caved was so they could “stick it to Nancy”.

Yes, that is all that it is about, and they will shout “Democrat shutdown!!!” so loud for so long that it will start to stick…

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ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:27:40am

re: #369 HappyWarrior

Need to give him one of old time Prussian helmets.

…to sit on!

Stick it Big Don.

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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:28:48am

Growing up, my folks only drank Manischewitz. Heavy malaga was their drink of choice, but they also had amaretto and a few other flavors. These are decidedly not good wines. Syrupy sweet.

Yet, there’s a thriving business for those wines… among folks from the Caribbean. Some will use it for baking (okay, I get that), or for dessert toppings (again, I get that), but to drink straight up?

More power to ya!

418
ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:32:22am

re: #394 Jay C

Am I alone in thinking the House’s last-minute passage of the “Wall Budget” is basically Paul Ryan’s and the 115th Congress’s last “Fuck You” to the Democrats and the country in general?

Tossing.a final hot potato to the Senate while attempting to look like the Great American Heroes to the rubes for upholding Trump’s BS Wall project (but, as usual with today’s GOP, bugging out and leaving somebody else to hose away the shit…)

More like Ryan buying a few hours to get out of town and not having Trump in his ear as he does it.

419
mmmirele  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:33:11am

re: #413 The Vicious Babushka

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420
nines09  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:33:30am

re: #417 lawhawk

Don’t you remember saying “Man Oh Manischewitz” like “Holy Cow”?
I still remember the Kings Wine jingle.

421
dangerman  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:33:34am

re: #16 DodgerFan1988

[Embedded content]

I’m getting sick and tired of Conservatives saying immigrant children are murderers, rapists, and terrorists.

They love to use the word “babies” incorrectly

These are babies.
It’s appropriate to use the word babies here

422
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:33:39am

re: #412 HappyWarrior

Do you ever get tired of lying, Sarah? Not very Christian of you.

For a lot of Christians, it’s very Christian of them. Conservatism is the “religion of Jesus” and lying in the name of Jesus was promoted by Martin Luther.

423
Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:34:09am
424
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:36:40am
425
ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:36:45am

re: #410 Anymouse 🌹

[Embedded content]

Sarah really is having to shovel it today.

When is she leaving?

I understand lying like she does is not good for the Christian soul.

426
Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:38:25am

Fox News pointing out trump owns the shutdown…

427
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:39:57am

re: #424 Anymouse 🌹

Wishful thinking. Trump will not give a conciliatory farewell speech and depart. If he leaves at all, it’ll be in handcuffs kicking and screaming, torching what’s left of the country. That’s what happens when a crime syndicate takes over the White House and officials do nothing.

Kicking and screaming and calling for an uprising.

428
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:41:05am

re: #426 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Fox News pointing out trump owns the shutdown…

wow, if Fox is not buying it, it is really time to go hunker down in the bunker

429
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:41:22am

re: #427 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Kicking and screaming and calling for an uprising.

I’m good. A pale blue dot completely surrounded by conservatopia.

430
lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:41:35am

Also worth noting that at this point, Mueller’s “self funding” as they’ve seized assets worth more than the cost of investigation to date. I know that’s not how it gets funded, but it’s another reminder that the cost has been more than worth it.

431
jaunte  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:43:57am
432
dangerman  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:44:41am

re: #424 Anymouse 🌹

[Embedded content]

the trump / nixon similarities are getting frightenin

No they are not

Trump left that piker nixon in the dust long ago

433
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:49:45am

Trump is turning up the Rhetoric that Democrats are for open borders and criminality.

Because he sees that as the only alternative to the Wall…er, I mean, Metal Slat Thing.

434
makeitstop  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:49:56am

Not sure what this means…

435
jaunte  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:50:00am

No one steals more valor than Trump.

436
jaunte  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:51:18am
437
KGxvi  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:53:16am

re: #415 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, that is all that it is about, and they will shout “Democrat shutdown!!!” so loud for so long that it will start to stick…

There needs to be commercials running during every commercial break of every college bowl game, NFL game, and Christmas day NBA game that has Trump claiming the mantle of the shutdown.

438
ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:53:36am

re: #428 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

wow, if Fox is not buying it, it is really time to go hunker down in the bunker

I’m still going with Monday and he folds!

If the business tycoons get to Murdoch, they will slam Trump for the shutdown.

439
Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:54:45am

and the hits just keep on coming.

440
nines09  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:54:56am

I feel like I’m watching some horrible B movie with a plot so obvious you want to scream at the screen or demand your money back.

441
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:55:52am

re: #434 makeitstop

Not sure what this means…

Possibly reporting on the alleged connexions between her and the NRA.

We’ve seen this cognitive dissonance happen in Kilmeade’s brain before, like for instance when he tried to wrap his little head around why Trump stood by Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and drooled so hard he left a wet spot so large Finland decided it was a fjord and named it.

It’s All Fun And Games Until ‘Fox & Friends’ Says Trump Invented ISIS (Wonkette)

Writing about Brian Kilmeade going after Sarah Huckabee Sanders on “FOX and Friends.”

And we’re going to see it again, because it kills us to say this, but we think Kilmeade is actually the smartest person on the “Fox & Friends” idiot couch, because it certainly isn’t Steve Doocy or Ainsley Earhardt, which means by process of elimination it has to be him.

(more)

442
dangerman  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:56:52am

Melted onions with green beans and black beans
Cashew chicken
A large layered salad
And now onto the pralines

443
nines09  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:59:15am

It’s like when the first Rent To Own stores opened and that guy you knew wasn’t the brightest light confirmed it by saying, “All I have to do is pay them $19.00 a month and they will replace my $300.00 refrigerator for life! IT’S A GREAT DEAL!”

444
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 10:59:59am

re: #437 KGxvi

There needs to be commercials running during every commercial break of every college bowl game, NFL game, and Christmas day NBA game that has Trump claiming the mantle of the shutdown.

And NORAD has to announce that it cannot track Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve because it is not a vital service.

445
dangerman  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:01:18am

re: #428 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

wow, if Fox is not buying it, it is really time to go hunker down in the bunker

Wasn’t that a Jethro Tull song?

446
Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:03:58am
447
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:04:05am

The burning question of whether Santa Claus is an essential employee has been answered.

448
Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:04:06am

re: #442 dangerman

Melted onions with green beans and black beans
Cashew chicken
A large layered salad
And now onto the pralines

I haven’t had to bring lunch since Monday.
Tuesday, my Minions and I took my retiring Minion out to lunch.
Wednesday, a vendor did a ‘Lunch and Learn’ seminar.
Yesterday, the landlord sponsored a taco truck to feed us.
Today, there’s a company sponsored goodbye lunch for my retiring Minion.

Plus employees and vendors keep bringing in cookies and such. Someone brought Danish Butter Cookies in a tin. A coworker put a note on it saying “Please save the tin for me.” I told him I was doing my part to clear it out for him.

449
dangerman  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:05:21am

re: #443 nines09

It’s like when the first Rent To Own stores opened and that guy you knew wasn’t the brightest light confirmed it by saying, “All I have to do is pay them $19.00 a month and they will replace my $300.00 refrigerator for life! IT’S A GREAT DEAL!”

Welfare recipients driving caddilacs on $20; a week!

450
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:05:31am

re: #445 dangerman

Wasn’t that a Jethro Tull song?

Johnny’s playroom
Is a bunker filled with sand
He’s become a third world man
Smoky Sunday
He’s been mobilized since dawn
Now he’s crouching on the lawn
He’s a third world man….

451
lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:06:29am

re: #435 jaunte

I’ve done more damage to ISIS than all recent presidents….not even close! - DJT

FTFY

452
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:08:34am

Just got a call from the state water lab asking where our annual nitrate water test is, as they mailed it two weeks ago.

“I didn’t get a test kit.”

They say they’ll mail out another one right away, and I’d better get it in the mail by Wednesday or else.

Why am I doing this for free? Why does half the state government have my home telephone number?

453
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:09:30am

re: #449 dangerman

Welfare recipients driving caddilacs on $20; a week!

Young bucks, buying t-bone steaks (thanks for that, Reagan).

454
jaunte  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:11:04am
455
Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:12:23am

The Senate vote to proceed to spending bill is moving very slowly. It’s been stuck at 43 yes - 45 no for over a half an hour.

456
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:13:47am

re: #454 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Simpsons - Monorail Song

457
Dr. Matt  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:14:25am

Status of the procedural vote?

458
dangerman  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:14:44am

re: #453 Anymouse 🌹

Young bucks, buying t-bone steaks (thanks for that, Reagan).

+1

459
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:15:32am

re: #454 jaunte

Pres. Trump says “the wall will pay for itself on a monthly basis.”

Just like my rent-to-own refrigerator!!!

460
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:17:01am

From CNN:
“The President and first lady’s suitcases have been packed, according to a person familiar with the matter, and some of the aides who were supposed to travel with Trump also arrived to the White House today prepared to fly this afternoon, just in case.”

Yeah, not going to happen.

461
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:17:59am

re: #460 Anymouse 🌹

From CNN:
“The President and first lady’s suitcases have been packed, according to a person familiar with the matter, and some of the aides who were supposed to travel with Trump also arrived to the White House today prepared to fly this afternoon, just in case.”

Yeah, not going to happen.

Soon we will be hearing about how he sacrificed his Christmas to defend America’s Border Safety…

462
calochortus  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:19:06am

re: #461 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Soon we will be hearing about how he sacrificed his Christmas to defend America’s Border Safety…

Even though he probably won’t sacrifice a thing.

463
ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:19:18am

re: #456 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

[Embedded content]

Video

Heh…The Music Man revisited.

Actually a bit of a rip-off…but hey, what are you gonna do?

464
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:19:22am

re: #461 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Soon we will be hearing about how he sacrificed his Christmas to defend America’s Border Safety…

Maybe I’m dense, but how exactly does a government shutdown prevent him from going to Florida?

465
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:20:08am

re: #464 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Maybe I’m dense, but how exactly does a government shutdown prevent him from going to Florida?

It would look bad even by Trump standards

466
freetoken  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:20:08am

Just a bit over 3 hours until the winter solstice.

467
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:21:43am

re: #462 calochortus

Even though he probably won’t sacrifice a thing.

His bone spurs acted up before he could lead the second battle of the Alamo.

468
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:24:03am

re: #466 freetoken

Just a bit over 3 hours until the winter solstice.

Phil Plait discusses this today. It may be the shortest day, but if it’s neither the latest sunrise nor the earliest sunset, it’s hard to get excited about.

469
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:25:45am

re: #464 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Maybe I’m dense, but how exactly does a government shutdown prevent him from going to Florida?

A partial shutdown ends non-essential travel. The President traveling to Florida is non-essential, regardless of what he thinks about it.

470
calochortus  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:26:21am

re: #468 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Phil Plait discusses this today. It may be the shortest day, but if it’s neither the latest sunrise nor the earliest sunset, it’s hard to get excited about.

We celebrate all of those events at our house. Today is the day we should be sacrificing the Holly King (before his power begins to wane) and install an Oak King who will have a lovely 6 months before he gets done in…

471
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:26:59am
472
Belafon  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:27:27am

re: #378 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

for the price of ten Stormy Danielses

Men get paid even more than women to hide affairs.

473
calochortus  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:27:28am

re: #469 Anymouse 🌹

A partial shutdown ends non-essential travel. The President traveling to Florida is non-essential, regardless of what he thinks about it.

He’ll just issue and executive order and presto! Florida here he comes.
/

474
Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:28:01am

re: #461 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Soon we will be hearing about how he sacrificed his Christmas to defend America’s Border Safety…

He saved Christmas and secured the Border at the same time.

/

475
lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:28:06am

re: #469 Anymouse 🌹

A partial shutdown ends non-essential travel. The President traveling to Florida is non-essential, regardless of what he thinks about it.

Not true. The president traveling is essential, regardless of the circumstances and who is in the office.

We can agree that he shouldn’t do it, but this is Trump and GOP we’re talking about. They disregard what they should or shouldn’t do and care about only enriching themselves and their cronies.

476
dangerman  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:28:29am

re: #466 freetoken

Just a bit over 3 hours until the winter solstice.

I am not a fan of winter or cold
And this is my favorite day

While all days are 24 hours..
The amount of daylight starts to increase….

477
Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:29:08am

re: #471 Anymouse 🌹

The Beautiful Wall exists and Mexico will pay but Dems must pay, too. Gov shutdown Long Time.

/

478
ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:29:21am

re: #466 freetoken

Just a bit over 3 hours until the winter solstice.

Happy Yule Day!

I wonder if Wendell celebrates it?

479
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:32:33am

“Trump may eat a large jail.” LOL

480
ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:33:29am

re: #478 ObserverArt

Happy Yule Day!

I wonder if Wendell celebrates it?

Or Teukka?

481
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:36:20am

Six years ago:

482
dangerman  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:36:50am

From the wapo…I’m not gonna link on this phone…

The president has complained to aides about how unfair it is that he is blamed for the market’s slide and for growing unease about an economic slowdown in the months to come

Selfish and clueless prick
He caused it and yet it’s unfair
Screw the rest of the country eating the actual market losses, it’s all about him

483
Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:39:29am
484
calochortus  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:39:40am

re: #482 dangerman

From the wapo…I’m not gonna link on this phone…

Selfish and clueless prick
He caused it and yet it’s unfair
Screw the rest of the country eating the actual market losses, it’s all about him

He’s only responsible when the market goes up. Why can’t people see that?

485
Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:40:09am

re: #452 Anymouse 🌹

Just got a call from the state water lab asking where our annual nitrate water test is, as they mailed it two weeks ago.

“I didn’t get a test kit.”

They say they’ll mail out another one right away, and I’d better get it in the mail by Wednesday or else.

Why am I doing this for free? Why does half the state government have my home telephone number?

Why are you doing this at all? They voted you out! Let the Nazi do it.

486
ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:40:35am

re: #482 dangerman

From the wapo…I’m not gonna link on this phone…

Selfish and clueless prick
He caused it and yet it’s unfair
Screw the rest of the country eating the actual market losses, it’s all about him

He’s just being Trump.

He has never been responsible for anything.

Thin skinned narcissistic gas bag…grumble, mumble…

487
Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:41:02am

re: #481 Anymouse 🌹

Six years ago:

There’s always a tweet

488
Sir John Barron  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:41:53am

re: #481 Anymouse 🌹

Six years ago:

“No gridlock! Dems are blocking! Will have Beautiful shutdown long time. Beautiful Wall.”
/

489
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:44:59am

There’s now a hilarious GoFundMe to build escalators over Trump’s border wall (Mashable)

The money actually goes to RAICES.

And on the GoFundMe to steal money fund a wall, someone put in “Mexico-$0”

490
Single-handed sailor  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:45:03am
491
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:45:58am

re: #482 dangerman

From the wapo…I’m not gonna link on this phone…

Selfish and clueless prick
He caused it and yet it’s unfair
Screw the rest of the country eating the actual market losses, it’s all about him

He claimed all the credit for it rising, he gets the blame for it falling.

That’s why presidents usually don’t weigh in on the market.

492
calochortus  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:46:58am

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493
dangerman  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:49:38am

re: #485 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

Why are you doing this at all? They voted you out! Let the Nazi do it.

Peaceful transfer of power
“Not my job anymore”

494
gocart mozart  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:50:54am
495
KGxvi  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:53:38am

re: #490 Single-handed sailor

What’s in the letter?

Building permit applications for Trump Tower Moscow?

496
ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:53:39am

Just reading on ESPN on how Carolina Panther’s Eric Reid has been chosen seven times for the HFL’s “random” drug testing program.

Which is highly unusual.

So, the thinking is he is being targeted by the NFL because he stood up to the NFL and Trump by joining in with Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling during the National Anthem protest.

The NFLPA (player’s union) is thinking since Reid filed a grievance with the NFL they are taking it out on him. The NFL says it has no responsibility in who is chosen and how often because it is random and handled by an outside agency.

Yeah right. Can you say Trump…who is probably pushing this?

Link to article: ESPN - Ron Rivera: ‘If my name came up that many times, I’d buy a lottery ticket’

(Ron Rivera is his coach)

497
Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:54:36am

Ooooo! Republicans are bitching about Trump in private! I guess that 25th Amendment thing is just around the corner, then.
/

498
Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:55:18am

re: #495 KGxvi

What’s in the letter?

Building permit applications for Trump Tower Moscow?

Self evaluation for his annual performance review.

499
ObserverArt  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:55:20am

re: #488 Sir John Barron

“No gridlock! Dems are blocking! Will have Beautiful shutdown long time. Beautiful Wall.”
/

500
KGxvi  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:55:54am

re: #497 Blind Frog Belly White

Ooooo! Republicans are bitching about Trump in private! I guess that 25th Amendment thing is just around the corner, then.
/

[Embedded content]

Until they start doing it in public, I don’t give a fuck. I’ve no time for profiles in mediocrity.

501
lawhawk  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:58:45am
502
gocart mozart  Dec 21, 2018 • 11:58:57am
503
jaunte  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:00:42pm
504
Skip Intro  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:02:52pm

re: #497 Blind Frog Belly White

Ooooo! Republicans are bitching about Trump in private! I guess that 25th Amendment thing is just around the corner, then.
/

[Embedded content]

LEt’s not get carried away.

505
Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 21, 2018 • 12:03:34pm

re: #500 KGxvi

Until they start doing it in public, I don’t give a fuck. I’ve no time for profiles in mediocrity.

“Profiles In Servile Cowardice”

506
retired cynic  Dec 21, 2018 • 1:20:32pm

re: #268 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

I think that’s great because it’s nothing that women and men should be afraid to talk about and it shouldn’t be embarrassing.

In that regard, my first period happened when I was at junior high school and I had no idea what had happened or why. I never lived it down, at least in my mind.


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