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austin_blue  Dec 24, 2018 • 7:43:34pm

Nice!

And the family thing makes it even better.

Happy Holidays to all, Dear Lizards.

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2018 • 7:44:51pm

Peace, at least for tonight.

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can't think of a decent username  Dec 24, 2018 • 7:48:06pm

Presents have been opened for another year — the best stuff I got: a book called “Coyote America” by Dan Flores (a natural history nonfiction book about coyotes, natch), enough Amazon gift card loot to actually frighten me, a handmade glass rocket my sister made for me, and a nice new jacket.

I probably spent way too much on everyone else this year — and now I have to worry if I’ll be able to get this much next year for everyone once I’ve gone broke… :/

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austin_blue  Dec 24, 2018 • 7:49:51pm

{Jules Suzdaltsev Retweeted Donald J. Trump}

This photo is from Sunday - someone tracked down the newspaper on his desk.

Also reports state that there is not a Marine guarding the Oval Office door as is protocol.

Folks, he’s clearly not there.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Christmas Eve briefing with my team working on North Korea - Progress being made. Looking forward to my next summit with Chairman Kim! ]

Tee hee! Busted!

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 24, 2018 • 7:55:23pm

There are very few people in my family for whom I would buy holiday presents.

My sister and I pooled resources and purchased an apartment-sized washing machine and microwave oven for my mother in Chicago. They were delivered and set up a couple days ago. (My mother can no longer get into the basement laundry of her apartment building.)

Our friend in Victoria, BC (who sent us the Tim Horton’s coffee and chocolate) received knitted slippers, mittens, and two toques my wife made.

My wife and I do not usually buy specific holiday gifts for each other (mostly because we surprise each other with gifts all year long).

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freetoken  Dec 24, 2018 • 7:55:46pm

re: #375 Anymouse 🌹

Who is Allahpundit?

As his pseudonym indicates, a pundit online, who hung around the Salem Communications websites, PJM, etc. He usually towed the “conservative” (read wingnut or glibertarian) line, except when it came to fundamentalist religious stuff.

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freetoken  Dec 24, 2018 • 7:57:35pm

It’s going to be cold (for us) and rainy on Christmas… and get colder all week.

I hatez winter.

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freetoken  Dec 24, 2018 • 7:59:39pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:02:31pm

re: #6 freetoken

Thanks. I’ve seen that name quoted before, but I never knew who the person was. Salem Media sites were never something that interested me much.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:06:15pm

I just wanted to pop in and wish everyone a happy and merry everything and FFS let’s hope this coming year is better than this train wreck has been.

Our houseguests are settling in, presents under the tree, little one is sleeping and the grown ups are having a drink and a snack. We have many miles to go and lots of healing for all of us to do, but we have each other so maybe we’ll be ok. That’s all I got right now.

And thanks again to my secret Santa who gave me another year of LGF, I’m touched by your generosity and kindness. Love to all of you and thanks to Charles for keeping this place going. Hugs!!!!

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:09:38pm

We did a wreath this year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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nines09  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:16:25pm

Where would we be without The Kinks?

Have yourself a merry merry Christmas
Have yourself a good time
But remember the kids who got nothin’
While you’re drinkin’ down your wine

The Kinks - Father Christmas

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:24:59pm

Shameless Page Promotion (which also has an embedded shameless page promotion to one of my wife’s Websites):

Why Do Atheists Celebrate Christmas? (Goes to the right-hand column of Little Green Footballs)

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austin_blue  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:30:57pm

This is the best Violin/Harp duo in the world. They are friends of ours.

Chris is great, a world-class player in the Shetland style, but just watch how Catriona utilizes the harp as a rhythm instrument.

Chris Stout & Catriona McKay WHITE NIGHTS-LIVE

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KGxvi  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:35:49pm

re: #4 austin_blue

{Jules Suzdaltsev Retweeted Donald J. Trump}

This photo is from Sunday - someone tracked down the newspaper on his desk.

Also reports state that there is not a Marine guarding the Oval Office door as is protocol.

Folks, he’s clearly not there.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Christmas Eve briefing with my team working on North Korea - Progress being made. Looking forward to my next summit with Chairman Kim! ]

Tee hee! Busted!

Maybe the Marine was forloughed

///

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BlueGrl21  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:38:11pm

Love to all of you in this little corner of the interwebs. It’s a good one.

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:44:29pm

Stopping in to wish all the lizards a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from my wife and I.

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Amory Blaine  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:46:09pm

Happy Holidays to all of you guys!

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austin_blue  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:46:15pm

Godammitt, let me try this again. Stupid Youtube:

Chris Stout & Catriona McKay WHITE NIGHTS-LIVE

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:47:45pm
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plansbandc  Dec 24, 2018 • 8:47:49pm

Happy Holidays Lizards!

Love to you all!

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:00:01pm

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to everyone in Eastern Time Zone.

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:00:05pm

I can’t help but picture Donny being visited by the Ghosts of Impeachment Past, Present, and Future on this night.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:01:16pm

I was out for a little while, so I’m way late, but God Jul, Mele Kalikimaka, and all that jazz to lizards one and all!

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austin_blue  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:04:29pm

re: #24 Targetpractice

I can’t help but picture Donny being visited by the Ghosts of Impeachment Past, Present, and Future on this night.

There were actually four ghosts.

Who is his Marley?

I’d go with Roy Cohn.

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:08:31pm

re: #26 austin_blue

There were actually four ghosts.

Who is his Marley?

I’d go with Roy Cohn.

Good call. The Ghost of Impeachment Present, ol’ Tricky Dick himself, is right now counseling Donny to burn the tapes.

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nicdanger  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:10:51pm

Here’s to”Dreaming of a Mueller Christmas” everyone.and Happy New year too! You guys (and gal)lizards are the best bunch on the the web,bar none !

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:18:13pm

I was 18 when this came out—it really hit me in the niblets. Still does:

Carpenters Merry Christmas Darling

“Carpenters Merry Christmas Darling (rare 1970 single version) Karen later re-recorded the lead vocals, because she thought that she sounded too gravelly although it was perfect as always”

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SteveMcGriftFlynnComey... ...corruptemoligate RN  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:20:11pm

re: #21 Patricia Kayden

Always loved that song. Joyous

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:23:28pm

re: #29 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I was 18 when this came out—it really hit me in the niblets. Still does:

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Video

She was just the very, very best.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:30:36pm

re: #31 retired cynic

She was just the very, very best.

And what she calls “gravelly”, I call “sexy”….

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:32:57pm

re: #32 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

She wasn’t trying for sexy. She was just singing things straight up, and nobody else has ever been able to do it just like that.

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CleverToad  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:33:40pm

Heading out to the 11pm carols and communion service in a few minutes. Got my mom to the 5pm service with my son, then home to make her oyster stew and let her open ALL of her presents. None of this ‘wait for the morning’ for that little old lady. She says it’s a Norwegian tradition, but it’s also because her dad worked swing shift at the Anaconda Copper smelter for years, so they opened their presents when he got home at midnight. Not too many presents in the depths of the Great Depression, but lots of memories in 94 years.

Best surprise of the day — a tin of popcorn from the neighbor mom of the three little kids who walk past us every weekday on their way to the elementary school. They dressed up as ‘the three bears’ for Halloween, so that’s what we call them now. Hubby chats with them whenever he’s out working on the front flowerbeds — lets them pick flowers and strawberries in season, and they all enjoy themselves. That man has a big red ‘S’ for ‘Sucker’ on his forehead that any little kid can see. Going to be a hoot to watch him with grandkids someday (but not soon, thank you, our son is only 20).

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate; hope for a relatively peaceful day tomorrow for all of the Lizards. Love this sane-crazy little corner of the internets: music, critters, political insights, support, pizza fights, friendship, food pics, and pun threads. Especially the pun threads. Thank you, Charles, for this sandbox, and good wishes for all of you out there.

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Skip Intro  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:33:57pm

Merry Christmas all, and for one blessed day please let Trump STFU.

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BeachDem  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:34:19pm

Haven’t posted in a while—trying to keep my miserable moods to myself. But wanted to wish everyone Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate.

Also, this is the only holiday song I can actually tolerate, by the artist I sadly lament was gone way too soon.

Dan Fogelberg 1980 Same Old Lang Syne

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:36:03pm

re: #36 BeachDem

I’m so sorry you are having miserable moods. We miss you!

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:36:28pm

Not quite Christmas music, but certainly in the spirit of the moment.

Iframe

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austin_blue  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:37:04pm

re: #36 BeachDem

Haven’t posted in a while—trying to keep my miserable moods to myself. But wanted to wish everyone Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate.

Also, this is the only holiday song I can actually tolerate, by the artist I sadly lament was gone way too soon.

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Howdy!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:37:39pm

re: #24 Targetpractice

I can’t help but picture Donny being visited by the Ghosts of Impeachment Past, Present, and Future on this night.

Now that would make for an epic SNL skit.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:37:48pm

re: #33 retired cynic

She wasn’t trying for sexy. She was just singing things straight up, and nobody else has ever been able to do it just like that.

It doesn’t count if you’re trying….

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KGxvi  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:38:47pm

re: #33 retired cynic

She wasn’t trying for sexy. She was just singing things straight up, and nobody else has ever been able to do it just like that.

Amy Winehouse came close. Sucks that she had such terrible people in her life

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:39:02pm

re: #29 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

On of my moms favorites. She loved the Carpenters. They made her happy about the time she remarried. I think of her when I hear this.

RIP Mom.

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Belafon  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:40:16pm

This DK diary has a couple of interesting nuggets:

Mnuchin is just play-acting,” says one investment strategist. “It looks like he was instructed to go out and do something, and he jumped on the first thing he thought of.”

The panic right now seems to come not from the market — which is indeed operating so far as it should — but from the Treasury Secretary, responding to the President.

And:

President Trump has weighed dismissing Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a source familiar with the president’s thinking told Bloomberg News.

Another source told Bloomberg said that Mnuchin’s future at the helm of the Treasury Department depends on whether the market continues to drop.

Trump’s unhappiness with his treasury chief was reported the day after Mnuchin released a statement seeking to reassure financial markets as stocks continued to plunge. Mnuchin’s statement came following reports that Trump was considering firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:41:49pm

re: #26 austin_blue

There were actually four ghosts.

Who is his Marley?

I’d go with Roy Cohn.

Richard Nixon?

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BeachDem  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:42:04pm

re: #37 retired cynic

I’m so sorry you are having miserable moods. We miss you!

Thanks. I’ll get over it—I’ve just been subscribing to Thumper’s mother’s quote—

If you can’t say somethin’ nice, don’t say nothin’ at all.

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:44:23pm

re: #46 BeachDem

We’re pretty good at receiving somethin’ that is not nice, and enjoying it.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:46:39pm

And now to mess up the musical interlude for Christmas (2:25)

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:48:25pm

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹

Incoming flurry of downfists to vote that sucker into oblivion … /s

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:48:32pm

re: #36 BeachDem

Haven’t posted in a while—trying to keep my miserable moods to myself. But wanted to wish everyone Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate.

Also, this is the only holiday song I can actually tolerate, by the artist I sadly lament was gone way too soon.

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Saw him in Jackson MS about ‘77. Was great concert.

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teleskiguy  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:50:59pm

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BeachDem  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:52:31pm

re: #50 Eventual Carrion

Saw him in Jackson MS about ‘77. Was great concert.

I saw him many times and each concert was a magical experience. When I had my first office, I had the lyrics from “The Last Nail” hung over my desk, mounted with a gigantic nail. Loved him a lot.

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2018 • 9:57:30pm

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹

Richard Nixon?

Nah, Nixon is the Ghost of Impeachment Present, showing Donny all the people who are suffering because of his presidency, as well as his former cronies who are watching their lives crumble due to their guilty pleas.

Next, the Ghost of Impeachment Future will show up: Mike Pence in a black robe, showing him the future where he’s sitting in a jail cell, while President Pelosi signs bills into law that reverse much of the damage done by his failed presidency before swearing in Justice Garland.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2018 • 10:20:13pm
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nines09  Dec 24, 2018 • 10:28:48pm

Merry Christmas to one and all. I’m up late for whatever reason. Brain in high gear. I’m just dropping this off to says thanks for the opportunity to engage. In the meat world my frustration has been maxed out by the ignorance of people who do not pay attention to anything. It’s like walking through a fucking aquarium. Sometimes here we sit and spin, but it serves a purpose.
It’s a good thing. Hope your corner of the world has some peace. I know I’m lucky in so many ways. What a ride.
Have a great Christmas Morning.
Good night.

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teleskiguy  Dec 24, 2018 • 10:37:43pm

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2018 • 10:40:57pm

Found myself realizing there’s another Christmas movie I could watch tomorrow: Trading Places. For some reason, the ending feels especially satisfying this year…

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austin_blue  Dec 24, 2018 • 10:44:49pm

re: #42 KGxvi

Amy Winehouse came close. Sucks that she had such terrible people in her life

Amy was always a shooting star that was going to burn out before it hit the ground. A damn shame. What a talent, what a voice. Too many demons.

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teleskiguy  Dec 24, 2018 • 10:46:36pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 24, 2018 • 10:52:27pm

re: #59 teleskiguy

I hung out with this band in a hotel room in Aspen years ago. It was pretty debaucherous.

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austin_blue  Dec 24, 2018 • 10:55:28pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

I hung out with this band in a hotel room in Aspen years ago. It was pretty debaucherous.

Band. Tour. Normal.

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teleskiguy  Dec 24, 2018 • 10:59:12pm

re: #61 austin_blue

Band. Tour. Normal.

Check out this documentary by my favorite rock ‘n’ roll touring circus Umphrey’s McGee. They’ve been touring for 20 years.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 24, 2018 • 11:01:03pm

Merry Christmas in Mythical Time Zone.

Ave Maria - Bach/Gounod, 4:38

Celtic Woman - Ave Maria

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2018 • 11:17:16pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 24, 2018 • 11:25:15pm

I’m off to bed. Have a joyful holiday.

Let It Snow! - Rosemary Clooney (2:24)

Rosemary Clooney sings “Let It Snow!”

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 25, 2018 • 12:30:25am

This thread is bonkers, so glad I never dowloaded this app.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 25, 2018 • 1:05:36am

Fucking coyotes AMIRIGHT?

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Targetpractice  Dec 25, 2018 • 1:10:51am

Trump asks himself how he can further sink the market after rumors of firing Powell caused Christmas Eve bloodbath, hits on an idea…

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 25, 2018 • 1:36:30am

re: #68 Targetpractice

Pretty soon his entire Cabinet will consist of Acting This and Acting That.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 1:52:43am

re: #69 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Pretty soon his entire Cabinet will consist of Acting This and Acting That.

How convenient for the XXV Amendment. Can an Acting Cabinet member vote to remove a President from office temporarily?

Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 25, 2018 • 2:04:00am

re: #70 Anymouse 🌹

How convenient for the XXV Amendment. Can an Acting Cabinet member vote to remove a President from office temporarily?

As I understand it, even an acting Cabinet secretary has to be confirmed by the Senate. In that case, he or she would be a Constitutional Cabinet secretary with all the powers vested in the office.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 2:08:19am
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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 25, 2018 • 2:28:25am

I believe I have found Donald’s next trophy wife: Anna “Delvey”.

vanityfair.com

And then came the decisive moment: an episode that unfolded like the climax of a staged drama. Anna reappeared in the lobby of the trainer’s apartment, just as I left civil court. The trainer called me immediately and we decided to confront Anna together. The trainer also invited a friend of hers—someone she thought would be helpful—and the four of us convened at the Frying Pan, a bar on the West Side Highway. Anna was crying behind oversize sunglasses. She was wearing the same dress that she’d worn for weeks (a loan from her night’s stay in the trainer’s apartment). “Have you seen what they’re saying about me?” she whined. Apparently, the night before, an article had come out in the New York Post calling Anna a “wannabe socialite.” She’d stiffed the Beekman for her stay. Her belongings had been detained. She was being charged with several misdemeanor offenses, including an embarrassing dine-and-dash incident.

At an outdoor table, surrounded by young professionals boisterously enjoying after-work drinks, the four of us existed in our own little world. “We are here because we want to help you,” the trainer began. “But to do that, we need to hear some truth from you, Anna.” It was the same old song and dance: Anna stuck to her story, claiming that all she’d said was true; nothing was her fault. Anna sat across from me as the women relentlessly pressed for answers, for names, for a way to reach Anna’s family. I said very little as I watched. I seemed to float outside of my body, while tears ran down my cheeks. Against the raised voices and direct accusations, Anna’s face assumed an unsettling blankness. Her eyes were empty. I suddenly realized that I didn’t know her at all. With this epiphany came a sort of release and a strange calmness. I understood the women’s anger and disbelief; I’d had those feelings for months. But I had come through to the other side, and I knew that there was only one answer.

The next day, I e-mailed the New York County District Attorney’s Office, linking to an article about Anna: “I think this girl is a con artist,” I wrote. An hour later, my cell phone rang. The caller I.D. read “United States.” I picked up the phone, as I stepped away from my desk. “We think you’re right,” a voice said.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 2:33:08am

My wife made a movie script suggestion for an existing franchise.

Home Alone 6: At the White House

Plot: A child is left alone over Christmas Eve in the White House with only a cellular telephone and a Twitter account. Hilarity ensues.

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Teukka  Dec 25, 2018 • 3:10:25am
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fern01  Dec 25, 2018 • 3:17:36am

re: #16 BlueGrl21

Love to all of you in this little corner of the interwebs. It’s a good one.

And luv to you too - it’s a friendly little corner to be.

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Varek Raith  Dec 25, 2018 • 3:21:21am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 3:41:10am

Me to my wife just now: Merry Christmas, Sweetie.

Wife: Why would I marry Christmas? Is he a disabled vet too? Am I supposed to collect the whole set?

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 25, 2018 • 3:54:03am

re: #74 Anymouse 🌹

I’m not so sure about the “hilarity ensues” claim.

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MsJ  Dec 25, 2018 • 4:12:18am

re: #72 Anymouse 🌹

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Dave In Austin  Dec 25, 2018 • 4:30:56am

Morning Lizards…. Happy Holidays (I guess).

That’s about the best I can do….

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 25, 2018 • 4:38:47am
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MsJ  Dec 25, 2018 • 4:44:00am
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PhillyPretzel  Dec 25, 2018 • 4:52:41am

re: #83 MsJ

He is an expert idiot.

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jeffreyw  Dec 25, 2018 • 4:59:04am

Imgur


Good morning!

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:01:41am

Nebraska becomes the fifth state to join PSYPACT. It is an interstate compact which becomes active when seven states join it, allowing streamlined care and treatment amongst professionals and patients across state lines, including telecare.

Illinois previously joined the compact, but it does not become active in that state until 2020 (assuming two more states join the compact).

The Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald has details of the interstate compact and how it works here.

Approved in February 2015 by the ASPPB Board of Directors, the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT) has been created to facilitate telehealth and temporary in-person, face-to-face practice of psychology across jurisdictional boundaries. PSYPACT is an interstate compact, which is an agreement between states to enact legislation and enter into a contract for a specific, limited purpose or address a particular policy issue.

(more)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:02:37am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:10:58am

he is such a miserable moron

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fern01  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:11:12am

He’s crashed the Asian Markets

US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve have triggered losses in Japanese stocks and other Asian markets, following heavy Wall Street losses as a result of the President’s intervention.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 has fallen by an unusually large margin
The Nikkei 225 fell by an unusually wide margin of 5 per cent to 19,155.14.
The Shanghai Composite Index ended off 0.9 per cent at 2,504.82 after being down as much as 2.3 per cent at midday.

abc.net.au

The Joy of Christmas is difficult this year.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:16:50am

And, here is Mr. tribe’s tweet, not just a screen capture

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:20:09am
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dirkdigglerjr  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:23:01am

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to each and everyone in the Lizardom! Thanks to all for making this such a special place. This community means so much, and it is wonderful to be a small part of it.

With that being said, how much of a total asshole can you be to try and ruin Santa Claus and Christmas for a 7-year-old? Such a horrible, horrible person.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:29:50am

How long before this is the official position of the US Government?

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Ming5000  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:31:10am

re: #89 fern01

He’s crashed the Asian Markets

abc.net.au

The Joy of Christmas is difficult this year.

I am clinging to the improving chance the new House will be seated without some Trump shenanigans throwing out the whole election. That is the ember keeping me warm this week.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:37:12am

re: #94 Ming5000

Same here. That and the possibility of Mueller releasing his findings.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:39:05am

Biden 42; Trump 36
Sanders 38; Trump 37
Trump 37; O’Rourke 30

Trump support consistent.
My take, Bernie Bros replied Undecided for Beto

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:40:07am

re: #96 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Run Joe Run. :)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:43:41am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:44:13am

re: #95 PhillyPretzel

Same here. That and the possibility of Mueller releasing his findings.

That will come in good time, we are just so big into sensation and bombshells that we grow impatient with his thorough and methodical approach.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 5:57:37am

re: #97 PhillyPretzel

Run Joe Run. :)

I don’t want Uncle Joe to run, nor Bernie. Jan 20, 2021 Biden will be 78, Sanders 79. Halfway through their (first) term the stresses of the job will likely have advanced them physically to an equivalent of at least their mid-to-late 80s. And, no telling their mental capacity.
Nope, not after watching the confused ramblings of Orin hatch, and remembering then serving Senator’s Strom Thurmond & Robert Byrd (that was like watching disturbingly bad puppetry)

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:02:45am

re: #100 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I don’t want Uncle Joe to run, nor Bernie. Jan 20, 2021 Biden will be 78, Sanders 79. Halfway through their (first) term the stresses of the job will likely have advanced them physically to an equivalent of at least their mid-to-late 80s. And, no telling their mental capacity.
Nope, not after watching he confused ramblings of Orin hatch, and remembering then serving Senator’s Strom Thurmond & Robert Byrd (that was like watching disturbingly bad puppetry)

I respect Joe, but I agree. He’s beyond retirement age. Human longevity may have increased dramatically during my lifetime, but someone in his or her late 70s should not be considering becoming POTUS. Besides, these poll numbers assume that the Trump of tomorrow will have the same popularity as the Trump of today, and I am not so sure The Donald can continue to con the American public for much longer.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:04:25am

OK, that cat looks how I feel after my traditional Christmas breakfast of apple pie ala mode (w/ extra ala mode)

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:10:02am

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MsJ  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:10:07am
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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:11:32am

re: #5 Anymouse 🌹

There are very few people in my family for whom I would buy holiday presents.

My sister and I pooled resources and purchased an apartment-sized washing machine and microwave oven for my mother in Chicago. They were delivered and set up a couple days ago. (My mother can no longer get into the basement laundry of her apartment building.)

Our friend in Victoria, BC (who sent us the Tim Horton’s coffee and chocolate) received knitted slippers, mittens, and two toques my wife made.

My wife and I do not usually buy specific holiday gifts for each other (mostly because we surprise each other with gifts all year long).

That must be huuuuge

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Belafon  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:11:33am

So, it looks like someone is going through my account trying to find things to report, because my account is locked over this from 2015, something in response to a problem of trying to slow down on Mars if I remember correctly:

@marytattoo @WhiteHouse If it weren’t for the earth’s atmosphere, I could kill you by dropping a pillow on you. Slowing down is hard.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:19:46am

re: #105 dangerman

That must be huuuuge

LOL

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:20:52am

only the best…

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:20:53am

re: #106 Belafon

How ridiculous.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:25:27am

1st idiot this morning…..

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:27:34am

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump stepped into the presidency without any foreign policy or poltical experience so it’s all good.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:27:56am

Merry Christmas, Lizards!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:28:17am

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

President Trump’s acting secretary of defense will step into the role with no foreign policy or military experience

They wanted an outsider and got a fellow who is so outside that no insider will even work for him

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Archangelus  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:39:03am

Good morning/evening/afternoon Lizards! How goeth the Christmas day? :)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:39:40am

So, Toblerone sales could see an annual reduction of 137 individual packages to right-wing d-bags? While they expand their potential customer market by like a billion people? I’m sure Mondelēz International is totally concerned

//

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Dave In Austin  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:42:55am

#RomneyBot2024

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William Lewis  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:44:16am

Happy Christmas, Merry New Year & Jolly Holidays!

If anyone needs a movie suggestion, Spiderman into the Spiderverse is the best movie in theaters right now. Well, maybe not THE best but 1) it’s really really really good and 2) really really really fun & funny. It’s a movie about comic book super heros that actually looks like a comic book.

Go. You’ll be glad you did.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:46:54am

This looks amazing!

Us - Official Trailer [HD]

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:51:47am

re: #101 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

I respect Joe, but I agree. He’s beyond retirement age. Human longevity may have increased dramatically during my lifetime, but someone in his or her late 70s should not be considering becoming POTUS. Besides, these poll numbers assume that the Trump of tomorrow will have the same popularity as the Trump of today, and I am not so sure The Donald can continue to con the American public for much longer.

That and despite Mr. Biden being widely popular, he will not be around forever, even if there is nothing to indicate he couldn’t complete an entire term.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:54:50am

re: #115 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

So, Toblerone sales could see an annual reduction of 137 individual packages to right-wing d-bags? While they expand their potential customer market by like a billion people? I’m sure Mondelēz International is totally concerned

//

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That’s a Kosher certification symbol on the package, not Halal. (Not that it makes a difference to wingnuts. Just sayin’.)

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:57:04am

re: #118 Dr Lizardo

A little too scary for me but I’ll watch it since I loved “Get Out”.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 25, 2018 • 6:59:51am

re: #121 Patricia Kayden

A little too scary for me but I’ll watch it since I loved “Get Out”.

It’s nice to see something original in this era of reboots, remakes and sequels.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:04:05am

He’s on TV Blathering!!

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:09:17am

I’m back from South America in time to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Humbug or whatever. Enjoy the day!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:09:58am

re: #68 Targetpractice

Trump asks himself how he can further sink the market after rumors of firing Powell caused Christmas Eve bloodbath, hits on an idea…

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It’s like the political version of firing the coach just because the team has lost a few games.

Only this time it’s the GM wanting to fire the coach after the GM was responsible for kneecapping the teams prospects in the first place.

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Belafon  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:15:54am

re: #125 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s like the political version of firing the coach just because the team has lost a few games.

Only this time it’s the GM wanting to fire the coach after the GM was responsible for kneecapping the teams prospects in the first place.

Is Jerry Jones one of Trump’s advisers? (And I am a cowboys fan.)

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darthstar  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:16:14am

Merry Xmas lizardim.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:16:38am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:22:30am

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s just a level or two above Trump on the idiot scale.

Personally, I think a black Bond should be the next step.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:22:50am

re: #69 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Pretty soon his entire Cabinet will consist of Acting This and Acting That.

My question: can the President appoint Acting Secretaries and then never get Senate approval?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:22:50am

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

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never wanted a transgender 007, but now I do. Fuck Piers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:23:01am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:24:22am

re: #130 Hecuba’s daughter

My question: can the President appoint Acting Secretaries and then never get Senate approval?

In this case I am going to say yes, because as long as the GOP controls the senate they won’t do shit about anything Trump does.

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plansbandc  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:24:50am

Merry Christmas to all Lizards celebrating! Hope everyone has a joyous day!

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Decatur Deb  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:24:55am

Good Christmas to all lizards. Our early celebration is over and the kids are back to their homes with loot and doggy bags.

Best movie nomination: A Christmas Without Snow , a look at the brutal world of inner-city choir practice. imdb.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:26:02am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:27:08am

re: #116 Dave In Austin

#RomneyBot2024

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I read the thread — she is a dishonest hack, but apparently that goes with the territory of being Republican. They want a wall but are not willing to exchange it for DACA. True compromise is totally foreign to the nature of the new Republican party.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:27:23am

re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth

Whoever writes that account does a really good job.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:27:25am

re: #126 Belafon

Is Jerry Jones one of Trump’s advisers? (And I am a cowboys fan.)

I was, long ago, but Jones is so odious I just can’t.

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jeffreyw  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:28:26am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:28:27am

re: #138 Eclectic Cyborg

Whoever writes that account does a really good job.

it’s the same as DogRates

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MsJ  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:29:34am

re: #116 Dave In Austin

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:31:11am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:32:15am

moron

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:33:14am

re: #121 Patricia Kayden

A little too scary for me but I’ll watch it since I loved “Get Out”.

I was only willing to watch “Get Out” after learning enough to realize that it wasn’t a true horror movie, especially after Golden Globes treated it as a comedy. This, however, looks different — way too frightening for me.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:33:58am
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MsJ  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:34:25am

re: #138 Eclectic Cyborg

Whoever writes that account does a really good job.

I think it’s the We Rate Dogs guy. I think he does both.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:34:37am
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:35:08am

I’m headed over the river and through the woods to the inlaws. Have a very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:38:48am

re: #100 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I don’t want Uncle Joe to run, nor Bernie. Jan 20, 2021 Biden will be 78, Sanders 79. Halfway through their (first) term the stresses of the job will likely have advanced them physically to an equivalent of at least their mid-to-late 80s. And, no telling their mental capacity.
Nope, not after watching the confused ramblings of Orin hatch, and remembering then serving Senator’s Strom Thurmond & Robert Byrd (that was like watching disturbingly bad puppetry)

Let em all run
I have total confidence that our process sorts them out

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:43:38am

re: #110 Dave In Austin

1st idiot this morning…..

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That is why you have advisors … A good CEO never knows every nook and cranny and listens to top advisors

Then make one of the goddamn advisors the CEO

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:45:39am

“That is why you have advisors … A good CEO never knows every nook and cranny and listens to top advisors.”

But Trump DOESN’T listen to his advisors.

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:46:04am

re: #115 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

So, Toblerone sales could see an annual reduction of 137 individual packages to right-wing d-bags? While they expand their potential customer market by like a billion people? I’m sure Mondelēz International is totally concerned

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Yeah cause the fine print is how I decide what candy bar to grab at the register

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Decatur Deb  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:46:51am

Long, long, before Tweet was TWX, a DoD message format from the all-caps era of the teletype. This is Mattis’ holiday twix to all hands. It evokes GEN Washington, but it has overtones of the Night’s Watch:

R 192339Z DEC 18
FM SECDEF WASHINGTON DC
TO ALDODACT
INFO RUEKJCS/SECDEF COMMUNICATIONS WASHINGTON DC
BT

UNCLAS
SUBJ/HOLIDAY MESSAGE 2018
ALDODACT 26/18
ADDRESSEES PASS TO ALL SUBORDINATE COMMANDS

1. WE IN THE U.S. MILITARY ARE PRIVILEGED TO DEFEND AMERICA, ESPECIALLY AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, FOR WE ENSURE OUR FELLOW AMERICANS CELEBRATE THIS SEASON OF HOPE IN PEACE AND SAFETY.

2. WE KNOW OUR FREEDOMS ARE NOT GUARANTEED BY THEMSELVES; THEY NEED DEFENDERS.

3. THIS MONTH, MANY IN OUR MILITARY WILL BE SERVING FAR FROM THEIR LOVED ONES. IT IS DIFFICULT WORK, BUT THIS IS NOTHING NEW: SINCE WASHINGTON CROSSED THE DELAWARE ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN 1776, AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE MISSED HOLIDAYS TO DEFEND OUR CITIZENS’ EXPERIMENT IN DEMOCRACY.

4. TO THOSE IN THE FIELD OR AT SEA, “KEEPING WATCH BY NIGHT” THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, YOU SHOULD RECOGNIZE THAT YOU CARRY ON THE PROUD LEGACY OF THOSE WHO STOOD THE WATCH IN DECADES PAST. IN THIS WORLD AWASH IN CHANGE, YOU HOLD THE LINE.

5. STORM CLOUDS LOOM, YET BECAUSE OF YOU YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS LIVE SAFE AT HOME. MOST DON’T KNOW YOUR NAMES BUT ALL ARE CONFIDENT THEIR FREEDOMS AND THEIR FAMILIES WILL BE KEPT SAFE.

6. FAR FROM HOME, YOU HAVE EARNED THE GRATITUDE AND RESPECT OF YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS AND IT REMAINS MY GREAT PRIVILEGE TO SERVE ALONGSIDE YOU.

7. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND MAY GOD HOLD YOU SAFE.

RELEASED BY: CAPT HALLOCK MOHLER JR., DOD EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:48:02am

re: #153 dangerman

Yeah cause the fine print is how I decide what candy bar to grab at the register

I do look at the fine print — namely the list of ingredients, all of them!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:48:15am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:51:22am

O_o

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:52:58am

merry fucking christmas

I can tell you when the government will be open: January 3 for certain

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:55:00am

re: #155 Hecuba’s daughter

I do look at the fine print — namely the list of ingredients, all of them!

Of course that
But not the other…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:58:14am

If only he would shut the fuck up for one day…

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:58:46am

re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth

Less like Bond villains than Bond villain underlings - underlings that the villain disposes of between the first and second acts.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:58:55am
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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 25, 2018 • 7:59:48am

Christmas sadness and a little pity party.

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:00:47am

re: #161 Dr Lizardo

Less like Bond villains than Bond villain underlings - underlings that the villain disposes of between the first and second acts.

Red shirts

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:01:25am

Every time I see Trump holding a wired phone to his face I am reminded of this picture:

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:01:36am

re: #163 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

Christmas sadness and a little pity party.

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:04:00am

re: #163 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

Christmas sadness and a little pity party.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:04:56am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:05:01am

re: #162 The Vicious Babushka

WHAT WALL?!?

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:05:32am

re: #163 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:08:59am

re: #163 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:10:14am

re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter

Yeah, “Get Out” want a traditional horror. Felt more like a commentary on liberal racism. This looks different in a gory way.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:12:48am

re: #163 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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Belafon  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:13:18am

re: #130 Hecuba’s daughter

My question: can the President appoint Acting Secretaries and then never get Senate approval?

What can happen is that most of their decisions can be challenged in court.

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MsJ  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:15:04am

re: #171 Eclectic Cyborg

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:15:35am

re: #174 Belafon

What can happen is that most of their decisions can be challenged in court.

That might be a possibility. A GOP congress will actively ignore the most blatant violations of the law on the part of Trump, even after Mueller documents them in meticulous and irrefutable detail.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:16:04am

re: #174 Belafon

What can happen is that most of their decisions can be challenged in court.

But if the courts are stacked with Trump favourites…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:16:21am

re: #175 MsJ

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:17:42am

re: #163 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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Belafon  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:17:58am

re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg

But if the courts are stacked with Trump favourites…

Which piss him off because they keep voting against him anyway.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:19:32am

re: #180 Belafon

Which piss him off because they keep voting against him anyway.

Not the Texas guy who voted against the ACA.

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Jay C  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:22:28am

re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You can just imagine the dialogue/scenario:

VILLAIN: “Steven, Steven… you had just one simple job: how difficult could it have been to assassinate just those twelve world leaders??”
STEVE: “I’m sorry, sir. We had the job all set up, but James Bond suddenly came in and disrupted the whole operation”
VILLAIN: “James Bond, eh? Hmmm. Let me see your gun for a moment, Steven. Hmmm.”
**BLAM!!!**
LOUISE: [screams]
VILLAIN: “Tsk, tsk. Now, now, my dear: no need for upset. Just remember you now qualify for our organization’s special benefits.”
LOUISE: “Benefits?”
VILLAIN: “Yes. The job is yours, now. Congratulations.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:24:03am

re: #163 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

Christmas sadness and a little pity party.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:25:03am

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹

Fixed bad tag above.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:26:12am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:27:21am

re: #172 Patricia Kayden

Yeah, “Get Out” want a traditional horror. Felt more like a commentary on liberal racism. This looks different in a gory way.

This is how much I need to avoid true horror movies: The “Sixth Sense” kept me up for several days. There were only a couple minutes that terrified me — when seeing the film the second time, I closed my eyes during those brief segments and was ok. “Us” looks like a film where my eyes would have to be shut much of the time.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:28:24am

this is fine…

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Skip Intro  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:28:28am

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

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only the best…

But he is one hell of a lobbyist for Boeing.

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Nyet  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:29:18am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:31:15am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:32:02am
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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:33:36am

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:35:38am
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mmmirele  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:38:53am

re: #163 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:41:08am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:43:02am

re: #189 Nyet

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Is it a surprise to anyone that our girl Ann would hang out with Holocaust deniers?

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Teukka  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:47:02am

re: #196 Hecuba’s daughter

Is it a surprise to anyone that our girl Ann would hang out with Holocaust deniers?

Hmm…

No.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:48:00am

re: #194 mmmirele

Perhaps if I’d had you as an attorney I would have gotten a fairer shake in my divorce.

At least the judge went to jail for corruption later.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:48:52am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:51:05am

re: #196 Hecuba’s daughter

Is it a surprise to anyone that our girl Ann would hang out with Holocaust deniers?

She loves critical thinkers?

/

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:52:40am

re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth

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this is fine…

Good reporting to confirm

But like we didn’t already know?

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:53:24am

Josh Bernstein (wingnut preacher and conservative podcaster) has a list of “traitors.” You’ll never guess who they are (everyone who ever opposed Trump, is a liberal, an FBI agent, a whole bunch of people I never heard of, &c).

Goes to Utah Outcasts, caution for vulgarity because wingnuts don’t deserve any better, 7:21

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:53:40am

re: #194 mmmirele

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:53:44am
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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:57:02am

re: #192 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:57:04am

re: #201 dangerman

Good reporting to confirm

But like we didn’t already know?

Not terribly interested in people who will not go on the record and we get good cop/bad cop whipsawing of the press.

If they think Trump is a danger, they should say so. They should not be able to say “he’s a danger, protect my job so I can continue to collect a paycheck.”

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HappyWarrior  Dec 25, 2018 • 8:58:36am

re: #189 Nyet

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No surprise there.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:01:34am
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William Lewis  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:04:43am

re: #163 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

Christmas sadness and a little pity party.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:05:17am

re: #206 Anymouse 🌹

Not terribly interested in people who will not go on the record and we get good cop/bad cop whipsawing of the press.

If they think Trump is a danger, they should say so. They should not be able to say “he’s a danger, protect my job so I can continue to collect a paycheck.”

I cannot believe that Bolton will remain to support Donald Chamberlain.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:09:27am

On the weather schedule today (not Dean Martin or Shirley Jones):

Dean Martin & Shirley Jones - “Let It Snow” - LIVE - CHRISTMAS (1979)

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:10:44am

re: #210 Hecuba’s daughter

I cannot believe that Bolton will remain to support Donald Chamberlain.

Of course he will. Who else will hire him?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:11:16am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:13:15am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:13:41am

Rebecca Shoenkopf retweeted our esteemed host Charles Johnson:

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:16:20am

re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m so done with the unkind.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:16:36am

You’re a mean one, Mr. Trump

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:17:11am

re: #87 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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All the rest of this whole stupid scene aside, you think a 7 year old knows “marginal”?

I mean you’re talking to a child

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:19:04am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

You’re a mean one, Mr. Trump

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and he just keeps on making up shit:

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MsJ  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:19:47am

This explains it.

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Nyet  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:20:07am

re: #189 Nyet

BTW, finished Cole’s tell-all book today. If you can ignore the personality of the author and him being an unreliable narrator, it does provide a window into the world of the “Hollywood conservatives” and the Lizards could find many other familiar names in it.

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SteveMcGriftFlynnComey... ...corruptemoligate RN  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:22:25am

Freaking code blue on Christmas

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:22:49am

re: #222 Nyet

BTW, finished Cole’s tell-all book today. If you can ignore the personality of the author and him being an unreliable narrator, it does provide the window into the world of the “Hollywood conservatives” and the Lizards could find many other familiar names in it.

Is Cole actually a grifter who didn’t believe in Holocaust denial but thought it was a gig that would bring him money?

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:23:25am

re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth
Live Update!

Border Crossers

Totally kidding that image is from that time a cop that pulled a gun on kids on his lawn and fired a shot.

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:24:24am

re: #209 William Lewis

re: #209 William Lewis

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:26:00am

re: #218 dangerman

All the rest of this whole stupid scene aside, you think a 7 year old knows “marginal”?

I mean you’re talking to a child

My eldest knew “marginal” at age 7, but she also knows that Trump lies about everything, so there’s that, too.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:27:33am

Beto is the real deal this Christmas!

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:27:41am

Merry Christmas!
Garbage disposal just quit. Half our network went down, but the coffee is great and family awaits across the valley. As soon as I close up this tab it’s a Trump free zone around me.

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:28:01am

re: #227 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

My eldest knew “marginal” at age 7, but she also knows that Trump lies about everything, so there’s that, too.

Sure your kids are exceptional…)-;
And in retrospect I don’t know who I was referring to as the child

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Nyet  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:28:43am

re: #224 Hecuba’s daughter

Is Cole actually a grifter who didn’t believe in Holocaust denial but thought it was a gig that would bring him money?

I think he was serious about denial (thinking himself an actual skeptic) up until about 1995.

After that, as he freely admits, he played both sides for money. Producing bona-fide Holocaust documentaries under one pseudonym, and denial materials under some others simultaneously.

Currently I wouldn’t call him a Holocaust denier (since he came to admit a) existence of extermination camps for Jews; b) extermination policies against Jews; c) millions of deaths due to these policies; d) including mass gassings in the camps on an industrial scale), but he does cling onto some denier claims, esp. in regard to Auschwitz, so I call him an Auschwitz denier.

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:29:31am

re: #229 Unshaken Defiance

Merry Christmas!
Garbage disposal just quit. Half our network went down, but the coffee is great and family awaits across the valley. As soon as I close up this tab it’s a Trump free zone around me.

Sometimes it feels like my garbage disposal is connected to my Internet

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:30:59am

re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth

and he just keeps on making up shit:

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Is that why ICE is dropping off migrants at bus stations in San Diego during the Christmas holiday? You’d think if they were so dangerous and vicious, ICE wouldn’t just dump them out en masse like that.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:32:11am

Merry Christmas from Zooey and Ric [his cats, photographs], more at the link:

Every Christmas, Brandon Friedman does a thread of photos of people with their Christmas guns and their fingers on the trigger, in contravention of gun safety. Looks like this is the first tweet.

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b_sharp  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:32:35am

re: #78 Anymouse 🌹

Me to my wife just now: Merry Christmas, Sweetie.

Wife: Why would I marry Christmas? Is he a disabled vet too? Am I supposed to collect the whole set?

I like her.

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freetoken  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:32:55am

re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth

There are no front lawns on the border.

There are some residences not far from the border, but one has to cross the surveilled line, park, and drainage ditch to get to them.

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:34:08am

re: #232 dangerman

Sometimes it feels like my garbage disposal is connected to my Internet

Must have been the Trump tweets. More than a simple middle class InSinkErator or modest firewall could handle.

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freetoken  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:34:15am

Tens of thousands of people come to San Diego from Mexico daily.

The San Diego - Tijuana border was at one time the busiest international border in the world.

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freetoken  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:35:08am

I have walked across the border myself. Used to be really easy, before America went down its dark xenophobic path.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:35:57am

re: #232 dangerman

Sometimes it feels like my garbage disposal is connected to my Internet

Fortunately, your garbage disposal isn’t in my neck of the woods. It would be down more than it was up, and you’d constantly be calling the manufacturer for a downtime credit.

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darthstar  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:36:16am

re: #127 darthstar

Merry Xmas lizardim.

Now, with more doggo.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:37:12am

re: #235 b_sharp

I like her.

I do too. You can’t have her (unless you are part of the set she is collecting). /s

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nines09  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:38:22am

Merry Christmas all.

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freetoken  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:39:08am

Here are the closest residences to the border: goo.gl

They are right next to the strip mall that is adjacent to the crossing.

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b_sharp  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:39:28am

re: #114 Archangelus

Good morning/evening/afternoon Lizards! How goeth the Christmas day? :)

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I got Scotch whiskey flavoured caramels.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:41:57am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:42:56am

Saccharine obsequious statement from the VA:

WASHINGTON - In light of the possibility of a partial federal government shutdown, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie released the following statement:

“Thanks to the leadership of President Trump and Congress, VA is fully funded for fiscal year 2019, and in the event of a partial government shutdown, all VA operations will continue unimpeded.

“We thank the president and Congress for their commitment to our nation’s heroes in funding VA, and stand ready to provide all of the VA benefits and services our Veterans have earned.”

va.gov

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:45:39am

LOL! She’s good.

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freetoken  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:47:06am

Here is what you see when you are on the TJ side of the border, looking north to those residences:

The fence - note it is already a fence of metal - is the border. The road on the north side is patrolled (see the truck in the background.)

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wrenchwench  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:47:37am

re: #244 freetoken

Here are the closest residences to the border: goo.gl

They are right next to the strip mall that is adjacent to the crossing.

I’m not going to look for a link or anything helpful, but Nogales is, or was, basically one town with an international border running through it. No lawns, though. It’s Arid zona and Sonora.

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MsJ  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:48:05am
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b_sharp  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:49:41am

re: #242 Anymouse 🌹

I do too. You can’t have her (unless you are part of the set she is collecting). /s

I have my hands full with my own wife. She doesn’t let me collect other wives for some reason.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:50:15am

My wife is trolling me by E-mail now, after reading this book in high school in the original language (Polish). She has another copy in English and the translation is horrible. (That said, I can’t read or speak Polish, which she never lets me get over.)

Oto możliwy prezent od mojego drogiego męża. Ta (stara) edycja zawiera tekst w języku angielskim i polskim. Polski jest łatwiejszy do odczytania - złe tłumaczenie.

Maria Ochorowicz-Monatowa to ikona polskiej sztuki kulinarnej. Uniwersalna książka kucharska zawiera przeszło dwa tysiące dwieście przepisów. Autorka zawarła tu nie tylko dyspozycje posiłków, ale także mnóstwo porad dotyczących zdrowej diety oraz zalecanego odżywiania się przy różnych chorobach. Nowością jest dział poświęcony kuchni jarskiej. Obok bardzo prostych i podstawowych przepisów, zawiera również receptury na dania bardziej wyszukane.

goodreads.com

Translation:

Here is a possible gift from my dear husband. This (old) edition contains text in English and Polish. Polish is easier to read - bad translation.

Maria Ochorowicz-Monatowa is an icon of Polish culinary art. The versatile cookbook contains more than two thousand two hundred recipes. The author has not only included meals, but also plenty of advice on a healthy diet and recommended nutrition for various diseases. A new section is devoted to vegetarian cuisine. In addition to very simple and basic recipes, it also contains recipes for more sophisticated dishes.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:51:28am
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b_sharp  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:51:49am

My son sent us a copy of “Whose Boat is This Boat” . This is your president?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:52:20am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

You’re a mean one, Mr. Trump

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You’re A Mean One, Mr. Trump (Grinch Parody)

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:52:23am

re: #249 freetoken

Here is what you see when you are on the TJ side of the border, looking north to those residences:

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The fence - note it is already a fence of metal - is the border. The road on the north side is patrolled (see the truck in the background.)

Might be worth tweeting at Trump. Then again, maybe not. His bots and followers will declare “fake border” or something.

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Jay C  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:55:58am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹

Rebecca Shoenkopf retweeted our esteemed host Charles Johnson:

Charles is right, of course, but his comment needs one minor addition for better accuracy:

Maybe some day the American people will notice this unchanging cycle: Democratic president, economy booms. Republican president, deficit grows while rich people get a lot richer, things go to shit. Republicans blame Democrats. With no pushback.

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freetoken  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:56:07am

re: #257 Anymouse 🌹

The haters want to hate - that is all they can do.

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Belafon  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:56:56am

re: #181 Hecuba’s daughter

Not the Texas guy who voted against the ACA.

He wasn’t appointed by Trump.

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BigPapa  Dec 25, 2018 • 9:58:13am

Blaring Perry Como and Frank and my wife is humming as she buzy bees around the condo. Feels like Christmas now.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:00:01am

re: #218 dangerman

All the rest of this whole stupid scene aside, you think a 7 year old knows “marginal”?

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:03:07am

Being trolled by Republicans now.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:04:35am

re: #255 b_sharp

My son sent us a copy of “Whose Boat is This Boat” . This is your president?

Stephen Made Trump’s Hurricane Response Into A Children’s Book

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wrenchwench  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:04:56am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:09:21am

re: #265 wrenchwench

There is a ton of conservaderp whataboutism in that thread.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:10:38am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:13:17am

Jordan Peterson declared yesterday he is no longer an atheist.

As it turns out if you’ve followed any of his nonsensical rhetoric, he was never an atheist. He just kept trying to redefine religion or Christianity to mean things they don’t mean so he could define atheism as a religion.

(19:33 of Jordon Peterson explaining his new position—gag)

Jordan Peterson: Why Am No Longer An Atheist Anymore

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:17:57am
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sagehen  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:19:50am

re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter

I was only willing to watch “Get Out” after learning enough to realize that it wasn’t a true horror movie, especially after Golden Globes treated it as a comedy. This, however, looks different — way too frightening for me.

I’m with you.

Even “Get Out”, which I was willing to watch for the same reasons you cite… I could only watch 20 minutes at a time, with silly sitcoms between segments.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:20:37am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:23:45am

re: #270 sagehen

I’m with you.

Even “Get Out”, which I was willing to watch for the same reasons you cite… I could only watch 20 minutes at a time, with silly sitcoms between segments.

I was sitting here thinking, what’s the last horror film I saw that really made my skin crawl? Not scare me or frighten me…..but rather, left with me feeling disturbed?

Probably Noroi, directed by Kōji Shiraishi.

Honorable mention goes to (of all things) Event Horizon, which also falls into the category of “if only they’d had another three weeks to edit the film, it would’ve been a damn masterpiece”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:23:54am

re: #270 sagehen

I’m with you.

Even “Get Out”, which I was willing to watch for the same reasons you cite… I could only watch 20 minutes at a time, with silly sitcoms between segments.

It was a bit heavy, I found it okay but my GF had trouble with it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:26:48am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:27:12am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:32:18am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:33:10am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:37:02am

Eight minutes ago:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:39:15am
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Archangelus  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:40:00am

re: #277 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Plot twist: half-way through the movie, the dogs’ owners are revealed to be Steven Mnuchin and Louise Linton..

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:42:07am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:46:19am
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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:53:38am

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]
I mean, Kanye West was in the Oval Office M’Fing! I mean, think about that. That’s crazy weird.”

Tan suit

Dijon mustard

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:54:05am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:54:23am

re: #283 dangerman

Tan suit

Dijon mustard

Arugula

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:55:20am

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Fanta…. brilliant

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 10:58:23am
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BigPapa  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:00:15am

All I want for Christmas is for you dilettantes not to pineapple pizza this thread

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dangerman  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:00:31am

re: #282 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

[Embedded content]
: 8-year-old Guatemalan boy dies in US custody

This was all so goddamn inevitable/predictable

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makeitstop  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:02:52am

Merry Christmas, all you Lizards! I’m watching the Bucks put the wood to the Knicks, other than that it’s a pretty good day. Hope everyone is enjoying the enjoyment.

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BigPapa  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:02:55am

But there was a Fugelsang vs Larry the Cable Guy scrum on Twitter. It was over before it started. Basically, MMA vs WWF.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:04:55am

re: #288 BigPapa

All I want for Christmas is for you dilettantes not to pineapple pizza this thread

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BigPapa  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:05:34am

New show idea:

Stand up comedy, but the audience is other comedians who dish out some insults.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:06:12am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:08:47am

I have complaints.

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Cheyenne WY
317 AM MST Tue Dec 25 2018

…POTENTIAL FOR WINTER CONDITIONS TO IMPACT POST CHRISTMAS TRAVEL
OVER THE SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE LATE TONIGHT THROUGH
THURSDAY…

Morrill-Cheyenne-
Including the cities of Angora [population 1], Bridgeport, Bayard, Redington [population 8 when the Christian church camp is closed for the winter], Brownson [ghost town], and Sidney

They left my town out again

317 AM MST Tue Dec 25 2018

…WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
THURSDAY MORNING…

* WHAT…Heavy snow and blowing snow possible. Light freezing
drizzle may precede the main threat for heavy snow. Winds may
gust as high as 35 MPH.

* WHERE…Southern Nebraska Panhandle, including portions of
Interstate 80 and Highway 385.

* WHEN…Freezing drizzle may cause minor travel disruptions as
early as Wednesday morning. Heavy snow could develop by late
Wednesday afternoon and persist through Thursday.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:09:36am

re: #292 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

[Embedded content]

OOOH Pineapple American Cheese ziti!

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BigPapa  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:10:51am

re: #292 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

WTF? Oh hell no. Needs chipotle sriracha.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:13:16am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:16:44am

re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth

What a jerk.

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:18:29am

Trump and his cult followers have turned this country into the Killing Fields.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:18:48am

re: #282 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Motherfucker. I guess this is the new normal in Trumpland 😡

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:24:02am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:29:03am

I’m seriously stoked about this gift. My wife knows me well! If I don’t post much for the next month this is why. 👍🏻

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wrenchwench  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:32:41am

re: #302 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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So far I have found nothing besides info from the CBP press release. I want to know where they were apprehended. Alamagordo is an hour and a half drive from the border.

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harlequinade  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:35:54am

re: #303 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s amazing! Enjoy :)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:36:37am

re: #282 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

8-year-old Guatemalan boy dies in US custody

Deterrent effect…bring your children here and they might die.

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William Lewis  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:44:05am

re: #303 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m seriously stoked about this gift. My wife knows me well! If I don’t post much for the next month this is why. 👍🏻

[Embedded content]

Enjoy! it’s great fun and Nintendo brought in a bunch of people from Skyrim to teach them how to do an open world. They learned well.

When you’ve finally come up for air from it, be sure to try Warframe - it’s a free to play download.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 25, 2018 • 11:56:46am

re: #204 Anymouse 🌹

[Embedded content]

I forwarded that clip to the Secret Service. Hope they visit that closet queen!

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b_sharp  Dec 25, 2018 • 12:56:29pm

re: #268 Anymouse 🌹

Jordan Peterson declared yesterday he is no longer an atheist.

As it turns out if you’ve followed any of his nonsensical rhetoric, he was never an atheist. He just kept trying to redefine religion or Christianity to mean things they don’t mean so he could define atheism as a religion.

(19:33 of Jordon Peterson explaining his new position—gag)

[Embedded content]

He’s the Deepak Chopra of bad philosophy.

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b_sharp  Dec 25, 2018 • 12:57:11pm

re: #268 Anymouse 🌹

Jordan Peterson declared yesterday he is no longer an atheist.

As it turns out if you’ve followed any of his nonsensical rhetoric, he was never an atheist. He just kept trying to redefine religion or Christianity to mean things they don’t mean so he could define atheism as a religion.

(19:33 of Jordon Peterson explaining his new position—gag)

[Embedded content]

Listen to his debates with Matt Dillahunty.

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b_sharp  Dec 25, 2018 • 12:58:27pm

re: #272 Dr Lizardo

I was sitting here thinking, what’s the last horror film I saw that really made my skin crawl? Not scare me or frighten me…..but rather, left with me feeling disturbed?

Probably Noroi, directed by Kōji Shiraishi.

Honorable mention goes to (of all things) Event Horizon, which also falls into the category of “if only they’d had another three weeks to edit the film, it would’ve been a damn masterpiece”.

V loves Event Horizon. I found it predictable.

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b_sharp  Dec 25, 2018 • 1:00:07pm

re: #282 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

[Embedded content]

Fuck. Really?


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