Another Great Track From Nick Johnston’s New Album: “A Cure Promised”

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This is the second single off of my upcoming album, ‘Wide Eyes in the Dark’.
To be released April 19th 2019.

Benny Greb- Drums
Kevin Scott - Bass
Eric Guenther - Piano/Keyboards
Nick Johnston - Guitar

Composed, arranged and co-produced by Nick Johnston
Co-produced with Eric Guenther
Engineered by Scott Giffin
Mixed by John Douglass
Mastered by Kris Crummett
Artwork by Matt Kidby
Video shot by Wyatt Clough

All music written and arranged by Nick Johnston

© 2019 Remarkably Human Inc.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 25, 2019 • 7:39:22pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 25, 2019 • 7:46:21pm

Anyway this ACA case is absurd. I can’t see Roberts buying it after he voted to save the ACA twice.

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William Lewis  Mar 25, 2019 • 7:48:01pm

OT: So as some have noted, it’s spring cleaning time. To me that equals spring haircut time …

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 25, 2019 • 7:56:58pm

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Citizen K  Mar 25, 2019 • 7:59:12pm

re: #2 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Anyway this ACA case is absurd. I can’t see Roberts buying it after he voted to save the ACA twice.

I’m not going to underestimate the sheer partisanship of the GOP court, especially with the hard 5-4 lock that they have there. Hoping for Roberts to save us feels like underscoring just how dire the straits are.

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plansbandc  Mar 25, 2019 • 8:01:39pm

re: #3 William Lewis

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 25, 2019 • 8:03:44pm

Thread on how the Republican Party went from “The Party of Lincoln” to a white nationalist party.

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 25, 2019 • 8:39:25pm

[Scissors not included]

Dude, where’s my Imperial T.I.E. Fighter?

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 25, 2019 • 8:39:53pm
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gocart mozart  Mar 25, 2019 • 8:41:11pm
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De Kolta Chair  Mar 25, 2019 • 8:46:33pm

re: #10 gocart mozart

Can someone explain to me the purpose of The View?

Because medical waiting rooms aren’t boring enough already?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 25, 2019 • 8:50:01pm

re: #11 De Kolta Chair

Because medical waiting rooms aren’t boring enough already?

I wish.

Got even sicker sitting in a waiting room with fucking 19th Century Fox blaring…

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2019 • 8:52:43pm

re: #12 Joe Bacon 🌹

I wish.

Got even sicker sitting in a waiting room with fucking 19th Century Fox blaring…

The waiting room at the clinic I go to has some healthcare network thing they play that seems to have been created just for clinics.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 25, 2019 • 8:52:57pm

re: #3 William Lewis

OT: So as some have noted, it’s spring cleaning time. To me that equals spring haircut time …

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re: #5 Citizen K

I’m not going to underestimate the sheer partisanship of the GOP court, especially with the hard 5-4 lock that they have there. Hoping for Roberts to save us feels like underscoring just how dire the straits are.

He would do it to save the GOP.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 25, 2019 • 8:55:16pm

I can remember when Daytime TV was fun to watch with game shows, variety shows, Lucy, Andy, Danny reruns and Dialing for Dollars with classic movies.

Now Daytime TV on the networks has degenerated into Dialing for Bullshit.

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gocart mozart  Mar 25, 2019 • 9:00:11pm
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plansbandc  Mar 25, 2019 • 9:09:07pm

re: #11 De Kolta Chair

I watched The View a few times in the 90’s. Felt like it was making a solid effort to set women back 50 or so years. It has only gotten more stupid. Amazing how so many women centered things are so bad, especially on network TV. Hmm. I wonder who owns, runs and controls network TV?

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plansbandc  Mar 25, 2019 • 9:13:28pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 25, 2019 • 9:23:28pm

These four guys from Arizona are good.

Todd’s Tots

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Citizen K  Mar 25, 2019 • 9:26:05pm

It’s a fucking international pathology at this rate.

EDIT: Well…this seems like an important chaser:

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KGxvi  Mar 25, 2019 • 9:50:06pm

re: #5 Citizen K

I’m not going to underestimate the sheer partisanship of the GOP court, especially with the hard 5-4 lock that they have there. Hoping for Roberts to save us feels like underscoring just how dire the straits are.

Here’s the thing, though… judges, particularly Supreme Court Justices very rarely reverse their own decisions. For that to happen, something major has to have changed between the two cases. It’s highly unlikely that CJ Roberts is going to find anything so different that he’s going to change his mind completely and decide that the law is now unconstitutional when it wasn’t just a couple of years ago.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2019 • 9:55:19pm

re: #21 KGxvi

Here’s the thing, though… judges, particularly Supreme Court Justices very rarely reverse their own decisions. For that to happen, something major has to have changed between the two cases. It’s highly unlikely that CJ Roberts is going to find anything so different that he’s going to change his mind completely and decide that the law is now unconstitutional when it wasn’t just a couple of years ago.

Let’s hope that Roberts stands for the rule of law. Perhaps also Gorsuch? After all, wasn’t Gorsuch recently the 5th vote supporting the liberal judges?

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teleskiguy  Mar 25, 2019 • 9:59:03pm

Desert Search For Techno Allah

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KGxvi  Mar 25, 2019 • 10:02:28pm

re: #22 Hecuba’s daughter

Let’s hope that Roberts stands for the rule of law. Perhaps also Gorsuch? After all, wasn’t Gorsuch recently the 5th vote supporting the liberal judges?

I haven’t looked at recent voting patterns, but it’s not uncommon to see different configurations of majorities in Supreme Court cases. 538 has this about the Court prior to Kavanaugh’s appointment, there’s a handy chart that shows that Sotomayor and Roberts have agreed on decisions about two-thirds of the time since Gorsuch took the bench (not sure if that includes unanimous or per curium decisions).

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 25, 2019 • 10:23:45pm

[22:22:33] alanis morisette preg @ 44
[22:23:01] <~Tarkus> that’s ironic.

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CleverToad  Mar 25, 2019 • 11:10:50pm

Well, there goes another trip around the sun. Two more years to Medicare, good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.

Can’t say I fancy the present that AG Barr dumped in my lap — something seems a bit noisome under the ostentatious wrapping. Pardon me if I don’t open it for a couple of days.

G’night, Lizards one and all. Sweet dreams of sanity again someday.

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Mar 25, 2019 • 11:14:22pm

re: #23 teleskiguy

I actually played once or twice with a couple of the musicians on that cut.
(San Francisco has/had a ridiculously incestuous music scene)

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 25, 2019 • 11:30:03pm

Just as an observation in re: Facebook, it really is a haven for boomers now. There are several former high school classmates who have been reminiscing about Senior Cut Day and other such formative events of our misspent youth in a FB group they formed. Me, I had a pretty good time in high school, but a much more interesting life afterward, so reminiscing about The Good Old Days has less appeal.

I figure since I have spent the last 35 years working with people perpetually younger than me (aka teenagers), I’ve developed a better appreciation of the Now than of the Past. Also, I left my hometown in 1978 forever and have never had a yen to return to it.

We now resume our regularly scheduled programming, now in progress.

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sagehen  Mar 25, 2019 • 11:50:59pm

re: #28 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Just as an observation in re: Facebook, it really is a haven for boomers now.

And Facebook know it. Which is exactly why they bought Instagram and Whatsapp.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 25, 2019 • 11:55:28pm

re: #21 KGxvi

Here’s the thing, though… judges, particularly Supreme Court Justices very rarely reverse their own decisions. For that to happen, something major has to have changed between the two cases. It’s highly unlikely that CJ Roberts is going to find anything so different that he’s going to change his mind completely and decide that the law is now unconstitutional when it wasn’t just a couple of years ago.

I think the DOJ new position is red meat for the base. They have to know how ridiculous this legal theory is, and are probably confident that at least Roberts won’t vote to overturn the ACA based on it.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 26, 2019 • 12:20:55am

Donna is absolute goddamned toxic trash.

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2019 • 12:22:02am

Another one…

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 26, 2019 • 1:04:17am

re: #32 Teukka

Another one…

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Being a FSB agent is a lot like being an Al Qaida #2.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2019 • 1:20:25am
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Dave In Austin  Mar 26, 2019 • 1:50:57am

re: #19 teleskiguy

These four guys from Arizona are good.

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They come from the great little town of Prescott, Az.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2019 • 3:54:06am

Companies like Verizon fear wrath of shareholders much more than wrath of cat lovers.

And when anyone tries to convince you that corporations are people, this is proof of the contrary.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 4:36:09am

re: #37 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Companies like Verizon fear wrath of shareholders much more than wrath of cat lovers.

Unless a major shareholder is also a major cat lover.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2019 • 4:38:37am

re: #38 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

only if it their own cat thatis trapped up there…

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Sufficient unto the day...  Mar 26, 2019 • 4:42:36am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 26, 2019 • 4:46:20am

re: #40 Sufficient unto the day…

you miss the point, they would not care if you were to drop dead

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:05:52am

Luna’s been in hospital for a while, but she’s back!

Metallica-Nothing Else Matters Gayageum가야금ver. by Luna루나

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jeffreyw  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:09:21am

Good morning!

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:13:23am

re: #3 William Lewis

OT: So as some have noted, it’s spring cleaning time. To me that equals spring haircut time …

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:14:26am

re: #34 Patricia Kayden

The DOJ just officially became an arm of a single politcal party.

Someone please explain to me how the USA is not now a Hybrid Regime on the Democratic/Authoritarian axis.

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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:14:48am

re: #8 De Kolta Chair

[Scissors not included]

[Embedded content]

Dude, where’s my Imperial T.I.E. Fighter?

Emporer Trumpatine : there were fine people on both sides.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:20:55am

re: #28 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Just as an observation in re: Facebook, it really is a haven for boomers now. There are several former high school classmates who have been reminiscing about Senior Cut Day and other such formative events of our misspent youth in a FB group they formed. Me, I had a pretty good time in high school, but a much more interesting life afterward, so reminiscing about The Good Old Days has less appeal.

I figure since I have spent the last 35 years working with people perpetually younger than me (aka teenagers), I’ve developed a better appreciation of the Now than of the Past. Also, I left my hometown in 1978 forever and have never had a yen to return to it.

We now resume our regularly scheduled programming, now in progress.

living in your ‘glory days’ misses that the present is a gift* every minute of every day

*(see what i did?)

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:27:15am

re: #36 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Ever see a skeleton of a cat in a tree?

/

/

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:27:28am

WTFITS

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:27:32am

re: #47 Man, DangerMan

living in your ‘glory days’ misses that the present is a gift* every minute of every day

*(see what i did?)

I really feel sad for people who consider their high school days as the best time of their lives. Mine were OK, but the following 40-odd have been much better (for the most part — I had some setbacks, but who doesn’t?).

Maybe I’ll get all nostalgic in my dotage.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:29:50am

re: #40 Sufficient unto the day…

And even if I didn’t have insurance then, do you think that its some kind of “gotcha” question?

“Oh, you didn’t have insurance then? Well, you say you need insurance, so how come you still alive, huh?”

That’s not how insurance works.

or how any of this works

- while quite a lot of diseases manifest later in life, many hit the younger and even the just born

- health insurance also covers injuries, most of which i’d guess are not predictable.

- the way some conditions were being classified as ‘pre-existing’ before the ACA - acne, certain infections, etc, were clearly for the purpose of denying coverage to someone who had paid their premiums - ie claiming a false application

‘i havent had an accident in 20 years’ is no reason to cancel your car insurance or not wear your seatbelt

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:32:45am

re: #45 Rocky-in-Connecticut

The DOJ just officially became an arm of a single politcal party.

Someone please explain to me how the USA is not now a Hybrid Regime on the Democratic/Authoritarian axis.

electoral-vote.com addressed this today w/r/t the Barr letter, though he’s the boss of the entire DOJ, so…

For most of U.S. history, presidents managed to pick AGs who were able to be a functional part of the president’s team, but independent enough to put the country ahead of the man in the Oval Office. But that tradition has weakened considerably in the past 50 years or so; JFK’s appointment of his brother probably didn’t help, nor did Richard Nixon’s (temporary) appointment of Robert “Saturday Night Massacre” Bork, nor George W. Bush’s appointment of Alberto “Hatchet Man” Gonzales. Presumably, we will soon know if Bill Barr will be added to the roll of dishonor.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:35:30am

re: #50 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

I really feel sad for people who consider their high school days as the best time of their lives. Mine were OK, but the following 40-odd have been much better (for the most part — I had some setbacks, but who doesn’t?).

Maybe I’ll get all nostalgic in my dotage.

i doubt it
you’re a forward thinker

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:37:53am

re: #53 Man, DangerMan

For some people, high school was their life’s high point.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:37:59am

re: #51 Man, DangerMan

or how any of this works

- while quite a lot of diseases manifest later in life, many hit the younger and even the just born

- health insurance also covers injuries, most of which i’d guess are not predictable.

- the way some conditions were being classified as ‘pre-existing’ before the ACA - acne, certain infections, etc, were clearly for the purpose of denying coverage to someone who had paid their premiums - ie claiming a false application

‘i havent had an accident in 20 years’ is no reason to cancel your car insurance or not wear your seatbelt

I am really dumbfounded by people who don’t understand the basic premise of insurance, a financial product that has existed for at least 400 years. Yes, the premiums are a nuisance, but they’re a bit like taking your blood pressure meds to prevent an aneurysm, rather than skipping them and blowing out an important blood vessel.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:40:21am

It is quite sad that any person would consider a four-year stint (effectively less than 5% of your life) while you were still beginning to discover what life is about, to be the best part of said life.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:40:45am

re: #53 Man, DangerMan

i doubt it
you’re a forward thinker

That’s a fair assessment. :-) I’m also an optimist, though recent events in the USA have challenged that attitude a great deal.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:41:02am

re: #54 Shropshire Slasher

For some people, high school was their life’s high point.

The high point of my life is RIGHT NOW. I think it’s stupid to dwell on the past and say “I should have done this or that.” Whatever you did before IS DONE.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:42:24am

re: #55 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

I am really dumbfounded by people who don’t understand the basic premise of insurance, a financial product that has existed for at least 400 years.

With their worship of the past and “western culture”, you would think that the idea of insurance would be mandatory. If it was good enough for the British ships, it’s good enough for you.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:46:15am

re: #58 The Vicious Babushka

The high point of my life is RIGHT NOW. I think it’s stupid to dwell on the past and say “I should have done this or that.” Whatever you did before IS DONE.

Yup. I advise my students not to pass up golden opportunities when they pass their way, because when you’re older you’re gonna regret not grabbing the ring when you had the chance. I suspect many people who yearn for the Good Old Days of high school are really lamenting the loss of the dreams they had when they were teens, dreams they gave up to do whatever family and society expected of them.

When I was in HS, I dreamed of traveling the world. And going into space. I’m working on the first dream now. The second will probably require a shiteload more cash.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:50:26am

re: #55 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

I am really dumbfounded by people who don’t understand the basic premise of insurance, a financial product that has existed for at least 400 years. Yes, the premiums are a nuisance, but they’re a bit like taking your blood pressure meds to prevent an aneurysm, rather than skipping them and blowing out an important blood vessel.

Odds, risk, probabilities, I haven’t had a problem so far, and the inevitable, “I never needed it/got away with it” thinking

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:51:08am

OH SHIT

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:52:26am

I got a measles vaccination in 1974 at the same time my oldest kids got theirs.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:54:05am

re: #58 The Vicious Babushka

The high point of my life is RIGHT NOW. I think it’s stupid to dwell on the past and say “I should have done this or that.” Whatever you did before IS DONE.

Wise ones give up all hope of a better past

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:54:56am

re: #59 Colère Tueur de Lapin

With their worship of the past and “western culture”, you would think that the idea of insurance would be mandatory. If it was good enough for the British ships, it’s good enough for you.

Shipping, then fire insurance were the cornerstones of capitalist economies. Without shipping insurance, only a blithering idiot would sail a wooden boat thousands of miles across treacherous waters with the hope of loading cargo and returning in one piece to sell it. Then, once you had warehouses of merchandise, what’s going to happen if the warehouse catches fire? A wise businessman would want some protection against those potential losses.

Mostly, the anti-ACA turdwaffles don’t want to spend their money to benefit other people, even if it means they themselves would suffer, too. In their mashed-peas-for-brains, they see the ACA as a handout to poor (read: not white) people and a remnant of Teh Evil Obummer.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:55:50am
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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:56:44am

re: #61 Man, DangerMan

Odds, risk, probabilities, I haven’t had a problem so far, and the inevitable, “I never needed it/got away with it” thinking

My mom and I argued with my dad for years about wearing his seatbelt while driving. Then, my aunt (his sister-in-law) died in a car crash. He changed his mind soon after.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:57:51am

re: #66 Sufficient unto the day…

So, Dr DEMento was a Democrat all along? I never knew.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:58:05am

re: #65 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Shipping, then fire insurance were the cornerstones of capitalist economies. Without shipping insurance, only a blithering idiot would sail a wooden boat thousands of miles across treacherous waters with the hope of loading cargo and returning in one piece to sell it. Then, once you had warehouses of merchandise, what’s going to happen if the warehouse catches fire? A wise businessman would want some protection against those potential losses.

Mostly, the anti-ACA turdwaffles don’t want to spend their money to benefit other people, even if it means they themselves would suffer, too. In their mashed-peas-for-brains, they see the ACA as a handout to poor (read: not white) people and a remnant of Teh Evil Obummer.

I wonder if a lot of them see it as they themselves won’t get hurt or sick so they don’t need it

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 26, 2019 • 5:59:20am

Vaccinations are a form of insurance.

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Citizen K  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:01:20am

re: #52 Man, DangerMan

electoral-vote.com addressed this today w/r/t the Barr letter, though he’s the boss of the entire DOJ, so…

It’s notable which examples they use, all things considered. Almost like the trend since Nixon has been particularly one party abusing this shit….

On a different but somewhat related tangent:

The double whammy of framing here. Just….

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:01:36am

re: #69 Man, DangerMan

I wonder if a lot of them see it as they themselves won’t get hurt or sick so they don’t need it

More than likely. Probably also resent having to wear seatbelts or motorcycle helmets.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:02:47am

re: #70 The Vicious Babushka

Vaccinations are a form of insurance.

And a cheap one, because you don’t have to get one every month.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:03:38am

re: #71 Citizen K

It’s notable which examples they use, all things considered. Almost like the trend since Nixon has been particularly one party abusing this shit….

On a different but somewhat related tangent:

The double whammy of framing here. Just….

Amazing how the media is accepting the Barr Letter and not bothering to push for the full report or bringing up the already publicized instances of the collusion out in the open that occurred, the TT meeting that was discovered, etc.

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Citizen K  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:05:43am

re: #74 Sir John Barron

Amazing how the media is accepting the Barr Letter and not bothering to push for the full report or bringing up the already publicized instances of the collusion out in the open that occurred, the TT meeting that was discovered, etc.

Almost like much of them were just waiting on the excuse to jump full bore behind Trump and sing his praises.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:08:13am

re: #75 Citizen K

Almost like much of them were just waiting on the excuse to jump full bore behind Trump and sing his praises.

Or to allow them to not bother reporting on it anymore, so they can go back to their usual frivolous journalism.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:11:58am

First Read: “It’s amazing how it appears Trump and the GOP have already won the narrative of the Mueller report without even reading a full sentence from it.”

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Citizen K  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:12:22am

re: #76 Sir John Barron

Or to allow them to not bother reporting on it anymore, so they can go back to their usual frivolous journalism.

It feels like it definitely goes beyond simple dismissal at this point, considering they’ve gone out of their way to use deific language and framing.

EDIT:

re: #77 Man, DangerMan

First Read: “It’s amazing how it appears Trump and the GOP have already won the narrative of the Mueller report without even reading a full sentence from it.”

Gee, I wonder fucking why, you hacks.

2ND EDIT: I apologize. I really do, I misspoke. What I meant was “GEE, I wonder fucking why, you utterly mindless self-unaware vacuous oligarchic mega-hacks.”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:16:05am

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ObserverArt  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:22:46am

Morning!

So, Mags of The Times thinks it was healthcare that swung the House the Democrata way does she?

I guess it didn’t have anything to do with Trump and his lapdog Republicans.

I think Mags has a blind spot to what is going on. Must be all that time she spends around Trump. It appears she doesn’t see the real Trump. Like the Febreze commercials, Mags has gone nose blind.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:24:30am

re: #80 ObserverArt

Morning!

So, Mags of The Times thinks it was healthcare that swung the House the Democrata way does she?

I guess it didn’t have anything to do with Trump and his lapdog Republicans.

I think Mags has a blind spot to what is going on. Must be all that time she spends around Trump. It appears she doesn’t see the real Trump. Like the Febreze commercials, Mags has gone nose blind.

I thought healthcare killed the Dems?

I’ll confess, it probably had a lot to do with the reverses in 2010.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:25:32am

re: #80 ObserverArt

Morning!

So, Mags of The Times thinks it was healthcare that swung the House the Democrata way does she?

I guess it didn’t have anything to do with Trump and his lapdog Republicans.

I think Mags has a blind spot to what is going on. Must be all that time she spends around Trump. It appears she doesn’t see the real Trump. Like the Febreze commercials, Mags has gone nose blind.

The Screw York Times is a joke.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:27:38am

Thanks to the YouTube algorithm, this popped up in my suggestions. Segovia is one of my favorite guitarists.

In the house of Andres Segovia (1967)

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ObserverArt  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:30:53am

re: #81 Sir John Barron

I thought healthcare killed the Dems?

I’ll confess, it probably had a lot to do with the reverses in 2010.

It did. And then apparently even the people that were told to hate it, and did early on, figured out it was a good thing.

Looking back all of two years ago and I remember all those Republicans a few months before the elections starting to add “we won’t eliminate preexisting conditions” to all their adds and speeches.

I guess they must’a’ been lying. Go figure. Republicans lie.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:32:35am

While no one pays attention:

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Dave In Austin  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:36:43am
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Sir John Barron  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:36:58am

re: #84 ObserverArt

It did. And then apparently even the people that were told to hate it, and did early on, figured out it was a good thing.

Looking back all of two years ago and I remember all those Republicans a few months before the elections starting to add “we won’t eliminate preexisting conditions” to all their adds and speeches.

I guess they must’a’ been lying. Go figure. Republicans lie.

So now the DOJ is still trying, again, to get it completely overturned?

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Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:40:20am

re: #11 De Kolta Chair

Because medical waiting rooms aren’t boring enough already?

This x1000. Just about any waiting room (medical, car repair, etc.) has a TV going and for morning appointments the waiting is so painful since the shows being displayed are so vapid, brainless pop culture, and any political stuff is very context free and talking point based. The View pops up now and then and it’s very clear that Meghan is the hack GOP backer to have on.

Luckily I am the only person there every so often and I manage to mute or even turn the TV off entirely.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:45:16am

re: #43 jeffreyw

First time in a few days the feeder wasn’t grackle central. Not sure what that mourning dove is on however. The cardinal doesn’t seem to approve.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:46:41am

re: #47 Man, DangerMan

living in your ‘glory days’ misses that the present is a gift* every minute of every day

*(see what i did?)

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift—that is why it is called the present.”

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makeitstop  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:50:48am

re: #88 Feline Fearless Leader

This x1000. Just about any waiting room (medical, car repair, etc.) has a TV going and for morning appointments the waiting is so painful since the shows being displayed are so vapid, brainless pop culture, and any political stuff is very context free and talking point based. The View pops up now and then and it’s very clear that Meghan is the hack GOP backer to have on.

Luckily I am the only person there every so often and I manage to mute or even turn the TV off entirely.

My former GP used to run ‘medical network’ programming, which was a thinly-veiled pitch for pharmaceuticals from a certain brand (Astrazeneca). Over time as I’d go for this ailment or that, I’d notice more and more equipment and digital toys like DVD players, all branded with that company’s logo.

The last time I went to his office, I sat in the waiting room with three salespeople - and they all got in to see the doctor before I did. I found another GP in my town and started seeing him instead. His office has local news on, which I’m happy to not have to pay attention to.

There is so much money being spent by corporations for promotional items in medical offices. I told my wife it reminded me of the the music industry in the late 80s, when record companies had so much money they didn’t know what to do with it all, and they ended up spending a lot of it on pretty expensive promo items.

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ObserverArt  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:54:39am

re: #87 Sir John Barron

So now the DOJ is still trying, again, to get it completely overturned?

It looks to me like they are just not going to defend the ACA and let the insurance companies do what they want. If there is no teeth in the law there is no law.

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sagehen  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:55:57am

re: #48 Shropshire Slasher

Ever see a skeleton of a cat in a tree?

/

/

Of course not… cats don’t have bones.

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sagehen  Mar 26, 2019 • 6:59:45am

re: #65 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Shipping, then fire insurance were the cornerstones of capitalist economies. Without shipping insurance, only a blithering idiot would sail a wooden boat thousands of miles across treacherous waters with the hope of loading cargo and returning in one piece to sell it. Then, once you had warehouses of merchandise, what’s going to happen if the warehouse catches fire? A wise businessman would want some protection against those potential losses.

This is also why they invented the Limited Liability Corporation.

After one particularly prolific year for pirates (or maybe it was shipwrecks), and a bunch of Lloyd’s shareholders lost EVERYTHING.

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sagehen  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:02:16am

re: #67 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

My mom and I argued with my dad for years about wearing his seatbelt while driving. Then, my aunt (his sister-in-law) died in a car crash. He changed his mind soon after.

Princess Diana.

She, her boyfriend, most of the bodyguards died. The only one in the car who lived is the one who was wearing a seatbelt.

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jeffreyw  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:03:56am

re: #89 Feline Fearless Leader

First time in a few days the feeder wasn’t grackle central. Not sure what that mourning dove is on however. The cardinal doesn’t seem to approve.

The dove is a bit tipsy. I blame fermented grain in some other feeder.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:14:47am

Good morning.

Yesterday was spent carrying out civic responsibilities (jury duty) that many of our elected and appointed officials seem not to take seriously or only serve in a highly partisan manner. Luckily this kept me from reading media stuff for most of the day and I expect that was a good thing for my sanity.

Today will be spent doing tasks related to gathering a few last tax things for the accountant and then chasing down the HR person of my former employer since I think my healthcare coverage terminates in about a week and I’ve received no notification of that happening. (Which makes all the ACA talk a bit more frightening since I will need to get coverage that way and am solidly in the pre-existing condition camp.)

Insufficient coffee input…
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Mike Lamb  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:16:51am

re: #77 Man, DangerMan

First Read: “It’s amazing how it appears Trump and the GOP have already won the narrative of the Mueller report without even reading a full sentence from it.”

In a sane world, no Trump surrogate would be interviewed re the Mueller Report until it had been released in full. Or, if they are being interviewed, the only discussion point would be why it hasn’t been released.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:18:16am

re: #66 Sufficient unto the day…

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Is this yahoo arguing that you are a socialist because you support the ACA?

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Sufficient unto the day...  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:20:33am

re: #99 Mike Lamb

Yes. He is arguing this because fuck logic and objective reality.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:23:43am

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:24:17am

re: #98 Mike Lamb

In a sane world, no Trump surrogate would be interviewed re the Mueller Report until it had been released in full. Or, if they are being interviewed, the only discussion point would be why it hasn’t been released.

i’d settle for “as you haven’t read the report, everything you said about it is your unsubstantiated opinion, right?”

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Citizen K  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:35:00am

Sigh….

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:43:50am

re: #103 Citizen K

Sigh….

McConnell says “it is deeply disturbing” that the Obama administration wasn’t prepared for Russian threats in election meddling.

bizarre but i’ll play, mitch

what are you doing NOW to make sure it doesnt happen again?

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Citizen K  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:47:36am

Another case of hoping for Roberts to save us showing how dire things are.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:58:54am

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

That’s a piss poor reason.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 26, 2019 • 7:59:10am

“My God is awesome!” exults the home owner. Nothing was said about the two dozen fellow Alabamians who were killed.

Facebook Post

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Citizen K  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:02:22am

re: #107 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

“My God is awesome!” exults the home owner. Nothing was said about the two dozen fellow Alabamians who were killed.

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Clearly their god(s) was/weren’t awesome enough. /////

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:03:17am

re: #105 Citizen K

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Another case of hoping for Roberts to save us showing how dire things are.

Roberts gutted the VRA. Anyone who places hope in Roberts is playing a losing hand. I also would not put it past him to reverse himself on the ACA. He may believe that the GOP can be put in a golden age of permanent control and that as a result, he doesn’t have to worry about his legacy because he will be doing the GOP bidding. It took 60 years to repeal Plessy vs Ferguson. If somehow we can win the Senate and the WH in 2020, there is a hope for the future. That must be our focus for the next 20 months.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:05:10am

“There was a big difference between whether there was evidence of collusion — and I think that evidence is in plain sight — and whether you can establish proof beyond a reasonable doubt of a criminal conspiracy.”

— House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), in an interview with CNN.

also from electoral-vote.com

Would it be logical to assume that Robert Mueller would be unable to determine, one way or another, if Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia without actually talking to him, Don Jr., Eric, Jared Kushner, etc. under oath? As far as I’m aware, none of them were called to testify. Wouldn’t their statements be pivotal to ensuring a thorough and complete investigation? F.A., Minneapolis, MN

That is a very good question, not unlike what happened with the “investigation” of Brett Kavanaugh. Were there interviews that we simply don’t know about? If not, how can Mueller possibly justify his conclusions? One wonders if Mueller did not write something like this: “It was apparent to me that I was not going to be given access to the Trump family, and without information from them, I have no way to prove collusion.” If Mueller did write something like that, it would mean Bill Barr’s summary was technically accurate, but grossly misleading.

and

Given that the policy of the justice department is not to indict sitting presidents, what does a “guilty” finding look like, if not a detailed report of evidence of guilt with no explicit conclusions attached to it? M.M., Santa Cruz, CA

You make a good point. And given how politically fraught it would be to charge any president with obstruction, much less this particular president, “I have reached no conclusions” may be just about as damning Mueller was going to get.

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makeitstop  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:10:03am

Interesting read: About Face: Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men

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Interesting Times  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:11:51am

Ha… :/

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:12:44am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:15:16am

moron ranting:

and retweeting other morons:

also moron jr:

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Dave In Austin  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:18:08am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:20:46am

re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron ranting:

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I hope that Mueller is not so professional that he adheres to all the traditional rules while the house is burning down around him. My deepest wish is that if Barr has truly mischaracterized the report, Mueller will release a statement, sooner rather than later, that repudiates the Barr letter.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:21:14am

re: #93 sagehen

Of course not… cats don’t have bones.

On the rheology of cats

Cats are liquids - won the ig nobel in physics.

In this letter I highlight some of the recent developments around the rheology of Felis catus, with potential applications for other species of the felidae family. In the linear rheology regime many factors can enter the determination of the characteristic time of cats: from surface effects to yield stress. In the nonlinear rheology regime flow instabilities can emerge. Nonetheless, the flow rate, which is the usual dimensional control parameter, can be hard to compute because cats are active rheological materials

Less sciency explanation.

A liquid is traditionally defined as a material that adapts its shape to fit a container. Yet under certain conditions, cats seem to fit this definition.

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:27:47am
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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:28:39am

re: #115 Dave In Austin

Really? Mayo on Pizza?

- dough: flour, salt, yeast, water
- sauce: tomatoes, garlic, oil, basil, salt
- mozzarella
- toppings - there are acceptable ones. there are unacceptable ones

whether the mayo was ‘on’ it or ‘in’ it, either way just no.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:29:30am

re: #116 Hecuba’s daughter

I hope that Mueller is not so professional that he adheres to all the traditional rules while the house is burning down around him. My deepest wish is that if Barr has truly mischaracterized the report, Mueller will release a statement, sooner rather than later, that repudiates the Barr letter.

i’m guessing, totally guessing, that he’d wait to be asked

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:33:08am

I will repeat:

No one has read the entire Mueller report except Mueller and AG Barr. Everyone bulkshitting on TV or online about the contents of the report are doing so without ever seeing a single page of the report.

All we have is what Barr included in his letter. That’s it.

Everything else is supposition and inferences of what could be included.

This is what we know:

37 indictments
Russian foreign nationals indicted
Trump campaign managers Gates and Manafort indicted - Manafort spending nearly 7 years in prison.
Trump NSA Flynn - plea deal
Trump FP adviser Papadopoulos - plea deal and prison.

Trump’s personal lawyer - plea deal and prison

Everyone in Trumpworld remains suspect. There are still unresolved issues out there that can be assessed only after the full report is released, including lying about any number of issues, obstruction, etc. Trump is hardly exonerated here. Context matters.

He picked all these people who turned out to be liars and implicted in multiple federal felonies. He picks all the best people? Best at criming.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:33:23am

re: #117 Colère Tueur de Lapin

On the rheology of cats

Cats are liquids - won the ig nobel in physics.

Less sciency explanation.

if we’re going into this kind of science, then buttered cat paradox/array

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Citizen K  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:34:20am

re: #118 lawhawk

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The behavior of the police dept. and prosecutor’s office suggested a whole lot of vindictiveness from the start. Not like Chicago law enforcement has exactly bathed itself in glory lately.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:35:21am

re: #121 lawhawk

bulkshitting

Don’t know if this was intentional, but I like it.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:37:09am

re: #122 Man, DangerMan

if we’re going into this kind of science, then buttered cat paradox/array

I always enjoyed the energy generating aspects of the cat floating above the ground and spinning at high-speed.

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:37:31am

re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White

Don’t know if this was intentional, but I like it.

Absolutely intentional.

Bulkshit - the amount of bullshit involved is Costco sized.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:37:47am

re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White

Don’t know if this was intentional, but I like it.

He uses this phrase all the time. I find it glorious.

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:40:46am

I went out with friends last night in Pittsburgh. Scoured Google for the right place after way too much catered conference food. Found a place up on Mt Washington with an epic view. Altius is the name of the place. After clouds all day the city gave us a few beautiful sunset minutes. Caught this at the end, liking the lights.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:41:21am

re: #126 lawhawk

Absolutely intentional.

Bulkshit - the amount of bullshit involved is Costco sized.

Appropriate.

Costco, where, when we enter, The Older Boy says, “Should we pick up a 6-pack of TVs?”

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:43:54am

re: #126 lawhawk

Absolutely intentional.

Bulkshit - the amount of bullshit involved is Costco sized.

about time you alerted the OED

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:48:27am

re: #130 Man, DangerMan

I don’t think I should take credit for it… I’ve seen urban dictionary had usage cases made, so it’s been percolating for a while and others have made similar use cases.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:49:08am

re: #128 Unshaken Defiance

I went out with friends last night in Pittsburgh. Scoured Google for the right place after way too much catered conference food. Found a place up on Mt Washington with an epic view. Altius is the name of the place. After clouds all day the city gave us a few beautiful sunset minutes. Caught this at the end, liking the lights.

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Mt. Washington is where my wife and I went on our first ever date together. And you’re right, there are some beautiful views of the city up there.

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:49:32am

re: #128 Unshaken Defiance

I went out with friends last night in Pittsburgh. Scoured Google for the right place after way too much catered conference food. Found a place up on Mt Washington with an epic view. Altius is the name of the place. After clouds all day the city gave us a few beautiful sunset minutes. Caught this at the end, liking the lights.

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Lovely shot, thanks!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:50:06am

So Trump just diverted a billion dollars from the military for his stupid wall?

I can’t believe that damned thing is actually going to be built.

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:52:19am

re: #118 lawhawk

As a reminder, Trump weighed in…. and those words matter too…

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:54:49am

Cool stuff, (Radio story at link):

Ninety-five-year old John Sato caught four buses to join the march against racism in central Auckland at the weekend. Our reporter Chen Liu spoke to him.

95-year-old caught four buses to join rally against racism

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:56:32am

re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg

So Trump just diverted a billion dollars from the military for his stupid wall?

I can’t believe that damned thing is actually going to be built.

The next real president needs to rip down every inch of it and then bill the Trump biz for the cost of construction and deconstruction, seizing assets until the bills are paid.

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Skip Intro  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:59:13am

re: #77 Man, DangerMan

First Read: “It’s amazing how it appears Trump and the GOP have already won the narrative of the Mueller report without even reading a full sentence from it.”

That’s how it works when you have your own national propaganda network conditioning the sheep.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 8:59:50am

heh

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:02:06am

re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth

Schrodinger’s Deep State.

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:02:25am

Thing about the wall is the real cost is not in dollars. I mean that’s already huge, billions. The worse thing is the whole motivation for it and fight to get it darkens the national soul. Like hang my head shame.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:02:53am

re: #141 Unshaken Defiance

Thing about the wall is the real cost is not in dollars. I mean that’s already huge, billions. The worse thing is the whole motivation for it and fight to get it darkens the national soul. Like hang my head shame.

Not to mention the environmental and economic impacts.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:06:12am
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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:10:09am

re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg

United screwed me up this trip, just might talk them into comping me internet access for the flight home later. See if one can lurk or post here from 35000 feet. Continue catching up…

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:18:26am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:20:53am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:25:19am

re: #145 lawhawk

Trump calls the media the enemy of the people yet they continue to kiss his ass way too much. What the fuck?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:26:26am
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DodgerFan1988  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:27:00am

American Genocide

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:29:24am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:31:44am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:33:19am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:33:58am

Where is Daniel Ellsberg now that we need him again?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:43:07am

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

Can Shanahan overrule this decision and allocate the money anyway?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:43:49am

Gabe is live tweeting the abortion hearing in Ohio:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:44:18am

re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg

Can Shanahan overrule this decision and allocate the money anyway?

He can try but I don’t think so

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:44:34am

re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg

So Trump just diverted a billion dollars from the military for his stupid wall?

I can’t believe that damned thing is actually going to be built.

there’s a load of court cases standing in the way of anything happening

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:46:23am

re: #141 Unshaken Defiance

Thing about the wall is the real cost is not in dollars. I mean that’s already huge, billions. The worse thing is the whole motivation for it and fight to get it darkens the national soul. Like hang my head shame.

“A wall is an immorality. It’s not who we are as a nation” - pelosi

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KGxvi  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:53:48am

re: #30 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I think the DOJ new position is red meat for the base. They have to know how ridiculous this legal theory is, and are probably confident that at least Roberts won’t vote to overturn the ACA based on it.

This is one of the problems with the executive branch being able to decide which laws it can and/or should defend. I’ve always been skeptical of the idea that the executive can do this. Seems to run afoul of the requirement to “see the law is faithfully executed”.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:54:29am

re: #128 Unshaken Defiance

I went out with friends last night in Pittsburgh. Scoured Google for the right place after way too much catered conference food. Found a place up on Mt Washington with an epic view. Altius is the name of the place. After clouds all day the city gave us a few beautiful sunset minutes. Caught this at the end, liking the lights.

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Good find. Odd that no one (including me) mentioned that going up onto Mount Washington for meal (and the view) as something to do. Did you take the incline to get up there or drive up?

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 9:58:06am
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Belafon  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:04:22am

From Scott Turow, lawyer and Senate Judicial Nomination Commissioner turned writer,

Attorney General William Barr’s summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s conclusions, in the fancy language of lawyers, impeaches itself. That means that its own words and reasoning call some of Barr’s conclusions into doubt, particularly Barr’s eagerness to say that Donald Trump can’t be proven to have obstructed justice.

It is hard for any of us to know how much credence to give Barr’s précis of the Mueller investigation without knowing more about the evidence. Barr’s letter, however, acknowledges that much and pledges to work to disclose as much as he can without violating Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e), which bars making public grand jury proceedings. But the attorney general’s eagerness to clear Trump of possible obstruction of justice, after having the report in hand for less than 48 hours, is unbecoming of his office and Mueller’s two-year investigation. Furthermore, some of the reasoning in his letter is clearly deeply flawed….

Throughout his election campaign and long after, Trump denied that Russia was responsible for the massive interference in our election that Mueller has now concluded occurred. Trump made these denials “despite,” to quote Barr, “multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.” Aside from any crimes Trump or his campaign committed by being in cahoots with the Russians, there are other clear gains to Trump in hindering the investigation. The most obvious is that the Russian interference, which both Barr and Mueller say the Trump campaign knew about, calls the legitimacy of the 2016 election into question.

…To argue that no underlying crime means no obstruction is therefore nonsense. That is fallacious reasoning and it impugns Barr’s integrity and his reputation as a lawyer. Worse, it represents a troubling effort to paper over the acknowledged evidence that Mr. Trump committed a crime in public view.”

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:05:59am

re: #135 lawhawk

As a reminder, Trump weighed in…. and those words matter too…

By that standard, Trump, you’d be in jail.

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Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:06:42am

What a whiplash. Trump is … exonerated?

Jussie Smollett is … exonerated?

No, of course not. The answer is that the justice system in the U.S. is fundamentally unjust, especially when it comes to high-net-worth individuals who have the resources to hire expensive lawyers?

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:07:25am

I am confused about the Senate Green New Deal bill. Is there actual legitimate proposed legislation in the House, rather than just a wish list of possible programs? I realize until legislation passes the House there is no legitimate bill for the Senate to vote on but still what is in the document they are bringing up for a vote?

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:13:48am

re: #166 Hecuba’s daughter

What Senate Green New Deal bill? Is this McConnell’s attempt to try and box Democrats into a corner, or is it the actual proposal/framework by Democrats who want to address climate change, rising sea levels, and improve efficiencies?

Oh, and Trump is looking to roll back energy efficiency standards for certain kinds of lighting.

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ObserverArt  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:15:21am

re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gabe is live tweeting the abortion hearing in Ohio:

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Grrrrrr. I am not optimistic about anyone stopping this stupid abortion legislation from passing and being signed into law by little Governor prick Mike DeWine.

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wrenchwench  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:18:12am

re: #163 Belafon

From Scott Turow, lawyer and Senate Judicial Nomination Commissioner turned writer,

…and user of that great word; ‘impugns’. imPEWNs.

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:18:25am

*giggles*

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:21:07am
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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:22:37am
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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:22:46am
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ObserverArt  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:24:19am

Heh, I was wondering if Michael Avenatti held his press conference and checking around I see he cancelled to be held later this week but no set time given.

I guess Mike has some new pressing issues to take care of that might be getting in his way to bring down Nike.

Oh, he swears he has the goods…stay tuned.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:25:07am

re: #162 lawhawk

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And how do they presume to work around a ruling that declares the ACA unconstitutional in its entirety? Honestly, if this insane ruling receives SCOTUS blessing, where does he think the gov’t, whether in DNC or GOP control, can go?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:25:39am

What he actually means is:

The Republican Party will become “The Party of Health Insurance Companies!”

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:27:04am

re: #175 Mike Lamb

And how do they presume to work around a ruling that declares the ACA unconstitutional in its entirety? Honestly, if this insane ruling receives SCOTUS blessing, where does he think the gov’t, whether in DNC or GOP control, can go?

You’re reading it wrong. Health care in the US is being held back because of the ACA. It will reach glorious heights if Obamacare is taken away.

///

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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:27:51am
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Belafon  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:27:53am

It’s obvious the GOP still supports eugenics.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:28:57am

re: #178 Charles Johnson

Might need to ask Mike about Korea and Vietnam, and our supporting dictators in South America.

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sagehen  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:31:00am

re: #159 KGxvi

This is one of the problems with the executive branch being able to decide which laws it can and/or should defend. I’ve always been skeptical of the idea that the executive can do this. Seems to run afoul of the requirement to “see the law is faithfully executed”.

yeahbut… yeahbut…

we were okay with it when the Obama admin declined to defend DOMA.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:32:11am

re: #181 sagehen

yeahbut… yeahbut…

we were okay with it when the Obama admin declined to defend DOMA.

I’m OK with state’s rights when they’re legalizing marijuana, and against it when they’re outlawing abortion and gay marriage. I’m for laws when they help people and against them when they’re not.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:32:39am

moron

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Mike Lamb  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:32:42am

re: #180 Belafon

Might need to ask Mike about Korea and Vietnam, and our supporting dictators in South America.

It’s fucking nuts that he’d say it was won without firing a shot.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:33:08am

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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Even the part where it says Trump was not exonerated?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:33:59am

re: #185 Mike Lamb

Even the part where it says Trump was not exonerated?

he hasn’t seen the actual report, nor has he actually read Barr’s summary

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:34:56am

re: #178 Charles Johnson

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:37:13am

Smollett… so now, the Chicago PD will try to find that guys that attacked him, right? I hope he sues them. I bet there really is video of the attack. CPD has a way of making things like that disappear.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:39:34am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:40:31am

no such thang as a trump unexpressed thought

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:41:30am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump actually thinks Barr’s letter could not have been any better, and his reading comprehension sucks because Barr had to admit that Trump wasn’t exonerated when it came to obstruction (which as everyone here knows is an impeachable offense with precedent).

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:41:33am

re: #178 Charles Johnson

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Without a shot? Tell that to Major Arthur D. Nicholson of the United States Military Liaison Mission Senator. You can find him at Arlington…

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jaunte  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:42:31am

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sen. John Kennedy tells reporters: “I would say to the president very gently, when you get what you want, leave it alone. It’s okay to have an unexpressed thought.”

What’s that definition of insanity again?

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jaunte  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:43:21am

Conservatives keep thinking what they say will have meaning to Trump.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:43:27am

re: #191 lawhawk

Trump actually thinks Barr’s letter could not have been any better, and his reading comprehension sucks because Barr had to admit that Trump wasn’t exonerated when it came to obstruction (which as everyone here knows is an impeachable offense with precedent).

Not only did Barr find himself forced to admit that Mueller has not exonerated him, but Barr also had to acknowledge that Russia made an effort to swing the election in Donny’s favor and offered the Trump campaign their assistance in doing so, in direct contrast to the constant refrain from Donny that Russia had nothing to do with the election interference.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:43:44am
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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:44:28am

re: #193 jaunte

What’s that definition of insanity again?

Far Cry 3 - Definition of Insanity Cutscene Gameplay (Xbox 360)

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A hollow voice says, Collusion!  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:46:14am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Good thing I’m not in Rockland County, as I’ve never been vaccinated. (I had measles instead.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:47:39am

re: #198 A hollow voice says, Collusion!

Good thing I’m not in Rockland County, as I’ve never been vaccinated. (I had measles instead.)

I had measles, too.
Several times.
It did not give immunity.

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ObserverArt  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:49:25am

re: #195 Targetpractice

Not only did Barr find himself forced to admit that Mueller has not exonerated him, but Barr also had to acknowledge that Russia made an effort to swing the election in Donny’s favor and offered the Trump campaign their assistance in doing so, in direct contrast to the constant refrain from Donny that Russia had nothing to do with the election interference.

And that is just from reading through the Barr fog. Imagine what can be derived from the full report and the evidence and testimony surrounding it.

If the Mueller Report truly exonerated Trump they would simply release the full report. They couldn’t have gotten it published and released to America fast enough.

What we got is the Barr Letter, which I bet was already composed and ready to go, that is why Barr knew he would get it out before the last weekend was up.

Already you can tell Mitch and The Republican Senate Gang are going to try to do everything they can to make sure that doesn’t happen. They know the report hurts Trump.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:49:47am

re: #171 lawhawk

Where I’m at now:

-Russian interference on Trump’s behalf really happened
-Trump was passive beneficiary; no evidence he actively conspired
-Trump and his inner circle obstructed investigation
-They’re also crooks in general
-GOP is protecting Trump
-So are a few useful idiots

if Barr’s letter is in fact accurate, then trump himself is a useful idiot by definition

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jaunte  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:50:09am
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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:53:19am

re: #178 Charles Johnson

“The cold war was won without firing a shot.”

mike, that’s pretty much the definition of “cold war”

otoh, lots of shots were in fact fired and an awful lot of people were killed in furtherance of the cold war. just not in open battle/armed conflict situations

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:54:38am

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

AG Barr’s summary of the Mueller report “was great — it could not have been better,” President Trump says.

did you read the mueller report? im guessing no based on your reported reading habits.

so how do you know it couldnt have been better?

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:54:59am

re: #192 William Lewis

There’s an entire website dedicated to shots fired during the Cold War with Russia.

Powers was shot down over Russia.

Russians took potshots at U2 flights regularly, which is why the US developed the SR-71/A-12.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:55:00am

re: #200 ObserverArt

And that is just from reading through the Barr fog. Imagine what can be derived from the full report and the evidence and testimony surrounding it.

If the Mueller Report truly exonerated Trump they would simply release the full report. They couldn’t have gotten it published and released to America fast enough.

What we got is the Barr Letter, which I bet was already composed and ready to go, that is why Barr knew he would get it out before the last weekend was up.

Already you can tell Mitch and The Republican Senate Gang are going to try to do everything they can to make sure that doesn’t happen. They know the report hurts Trump.

Barr’s had at least a 3 week lead time, from the time that Mueller gave notice that he couldn’t reach a conclusion on obstruction. And yet this is the best way he could spin the report.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:58:32am
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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:58:56am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

JUST IN: A county in New York declares a state of emergency after more than 100 people were diagnosed with measles.

just like
- trump did this
- his family did that
- today the admin lied about this
- trump has hit 10000 lies
ad nauseum

- just like yet another mass shooting

now there are so many stories of measles outbreaks the numbness to the absolute lunacy of the 99% preventable thing is already setting in

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 10:59:36am

re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth

I had measles, too.
Several times.
It did not give immunity.

maybe the last time did

/ (1/2)

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2019 • 11:00:26am

Our founding fathers lived in a world in which it took them more time to travel between NYC and Albany than it takes us today to travel between California and DC. The full concept of states’ rights were developed in a very different world — our attachments then were, by necessity, to people and places physically near to us. We can talk to and work with and see someone on the opposite side of the world in real time. As a society, we and our governments have not adapted to this sea-change in our world.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 26, 2019 • 11:00:54am

re: #200 ObserverArt

And that is just from reading through the Barr fog. Imagine what can be derived from the full report and the evidence and testimony surrounding it.

If the Mueller Report truly exonerated Trump they would simply release the full report. They couldn’t have gotten it published and released to America fast enough.

What we got is the Barr Letter, which I bet was already composed and ready to go, that is why Barr knew he would get it out before the last weekend was up.

Already you can tell Mitch and The Republican Senate Gang are going to try to do everything they can to make sure that doesn’t happen. They know the report hurts Trump.

- im betting he wrote it 2-3 weeks ago

- when it does come out it’ll be worse

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A hollow voice says, Collusion!  Mar 26, 2019 • 11:02:57am

re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth

I had measles, too.
Several times.
It did not give immunity.

I had myself tested after the Disneyland outbreak, and I still have the proper antibodies. Lucky me.

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retired cynic  Mar 26, 2019 • 11:05:38am

re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth

I had measles, too.
Several times.
It did not give immunity.

You and my mother.

I had them, and probably had the shot, too, at some point. Don’t remember! When I started teaching, I got the mumps vaccine, because I had never had that, and didn’t think it looked like fun.

(It wasn’t available when I was a kid.)

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lawhawk  Mar 26, 2019 • 11:05:49am

re: #208 Man, DangerMan

just like
- trump did this
- his family did that
- today the admin lied about this
- trump has hit 10000 lies
ad nauseum

- just like yet another mass shooting

now there are so many stories of measles outbreaks the numbness to the absolute lunacy of the 99% preventable thing is already setting in

There’s been an outbreak there for the past several weeks, and it’s gotten steadily worse. There are additional outbreaks in Brooklyn too.

This is not the first time in the past several years we’ve seen outbreaks here either.

NYS has to eliminate all the exemptions except for medical necessity. Not just NYS - all the states that allow ideological/religious exemptions.

It’s a public health thing. But we have an antivaxxer in the WH and far too many people think that there’s more harm done by vaccination than not.

Except… polio and smallpox aren’t a thing (they used to kill/maim millions over the existence of those diseases). People died (and still die) from measles every year.

We can prevent some cancers with the HPV vaccine.

But people still buy into the MMR autism bulkshit. Or the latest nonsense du jour about vaccinations somehow overwhelming the immune systems of children/infants (when every breath exposes them to more than any one vaccine could).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2019 • 11:05:54am

re: #209 Man, DangerMan

maybe the last time did

/ (1/2)

At almost age 67, I’m not gonna take those odds

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retired cynic  Mar 26, 2019 • 11:07:40am

re: #206 Targetpractice

Barr’s had at least a 3 week lead time, from the time that Mueller gave notice that he couldn’t reach a conclusion on obstruction. And yet this is the best way he could spin the report.

Couldn’t or wouldn’t? I’m wondering if it might not have been the latter.

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KGxvi  Mar 26, 2019 • 11:10:45am

re: #181 sagehen

yeahbut… yeahbut…

we were okay with it when the Obama admin declined to defend DOMA.

I was skeptical of it then as well. I think DOMA was a terrible, stupid, and facially unconstitutional when it passed. But I also believe that the Obama Administration has a duty to defend it in court.

Plus there are ways to defend a law with really defending it. You can cede certain arguments or lead the court to certain arguments where your rational falls apart

But this opens the door to all kinds of trouble. Let’s say the Dems win in 2020 and manage to pass a gun control/background check law and then a Tepublican wins in 2024 and decides he’s not only not going to defend the law, he’s going to proactively decide not to enforce it because he thinks it’s unconstitutional?

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William Lewis  Mar 26, 2019 • 11:11:49am

re: #205 lawhawk

There’s an entire website dedicated to shots fired during the Cold War with Russia.

Powers was shot down over Russia.

Russians took potshots at U2 flights regularly, which is why the US developed the SR-71/A-12.

Oh, I know. I’m just familiar with his case for a number of reasons.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 26, 2019 • 11:24:26am

re: #205 lawhawk

Russians took potshots at U2 flights regularly, which is why the US developed the SR-71/A-12.

Man, I never knew they hated Bono so much.

//

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 26, 2019 • 11:40:37am

re: #128 Unshaken Defiance

I went out with friends last night in Pittsburgh. Scoured Google for the right place after way too much catered conference food. Found a place up on Mt Washington with an epic view. Altius is the name of the place. After clouds all day the city gave us a few beautiful sunset minutes. Caught this at the end, liking the lights.

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I had a friend I worked with that lived just up the road from there on Sycamore St. Don’t know if it is still there but we would always end the night at a bar called Red Beards, a fun little tavern.


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