The Bob Cesca Podcast: Public Testimony

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show, powered by The McCraw Law Group:

Public Testimony, Day One — NSFW! Jody Hamilton and TRex David Ferguson are here; Junior’s book was bulk purchased; We review day one the public impeachment testimony; George Kent and Bill Taylor; The Conspiracy Theory Party; Taylor’s staffer heard Trump discussing investigations with Sondland; AP reports a second witness to the Sondland call; Peter Welch owns Jim Jordan; Nancy Pelosi explains ‘exculpatory’ to Trump; Eff you, Jonathan Allen; Laura Ingraham is outraged by water; With music by Gilt Lily and Kyle Richards And The Theme Music Collective; and more!

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:05:39pm
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Targetpractice  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:10:23pm
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Targetpractice  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:11:20pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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“YOU CAN’T TRUST FIRST HAND TESTIMONY!!”

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:12:01pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:14:19pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Yep, that sounds perfectly on brand for Trump.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:15:02pm
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Targetpractice  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:15:17pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

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Sondland has gotta be shitting bricks right about now. Wonder what new “recollection” will be coming in the hopes of avoiding a perjury indictment?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:16:11pm

re: #7 Targetpractice

Sondland has gotta be shitting bricks right about now. Wonder what new “recollection” will be coming in the hopes of avoiding a perjury indictment?

He’s having a recollection to get his ass out of the country right now!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:17:20pm

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep, that sounds perfectly on brand for Trump.

Totally. Trump has never actually been interested in cleaning up corruption. He clearly wanted to weaken a likely rival and he was willing to put the sovereignty of an ally in danger to do so. I really hope we find out what the fuck it is with him and Putin. I’ve been reading a Putin biography and the more I read, the more disgusted I get with the Republican Party for completely selling out the few principles they held to stand by Putin over Obama.

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:22:26pm
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makeitstop  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:22:50pm

re: #8 Joe Bacon 🌹

He’s having a recollection to get his ass out of the country right now!

Yeah, I sure hope law enforcement is keeping an eye on that dude’s whereabouts.

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steve_davis  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:23:47pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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poor lindsey…..always the bridesmaid….

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Targetpractice  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:23:53pm
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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:23:56pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

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Effing amateurs

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:25:53pm

re: #12 steve_davis

poor lindsey…..always the bridesmaid….

Then he became The Bride Of Putinstein!

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Jay C  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:30:03pm

re: #9 HappyWarrior

I’ve been reading a Putin biography and the more I read, the more disgusted I get with the Republican Party for completely selling out the few principles they held to stand by Putin over Obama.

Not really surprising: Putin and Russia were disposed to be *friendly*, possibly financially generous, and were conveniently far away. Obama, OTOH, was a clear and present threat to their political sway in this country: given that political power (with money a close second) is all today’s GOP cares about, choosing “sides” was easy.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:35:51pm

re: #16 Jay C

Not really surprising: Putin and Russia were disposed to be *friendly*, possibly financially generous, and were conveniently far away. Obama, OTOH, was a clear and present threat to their political sway in this country: given that political power (with money a close second) is all today’s GOP cares about, choosing “sides” was easy.

Totally. This bio was published before Trump was nominated so he doesn’t have a role nor the shenanigans of the 2016 election but Putin is a fucking jerk who is no friend of the US or our interests. W rightfully was mocked for the soul comment but at least he learned. Trump meanwhile would take Putin’s side tomorrow if Russia invaded Ukraine or one of the former SRs.

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Stanley Sea  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:36:00pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:38:23pm
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Targetpractice  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:39:40pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:39:54pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

Oh, he is gonna go apeshit when he reads that someone reads that to him.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:40:25pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

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Nancy is on her sixth President since entering Congress. She’s seen a lot of crap. Trump stands out even comparing him to Reagan and W.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:40:59pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:41:01pm

As an aside, is there ANYONE who’s surprised that Trump shouts into the phone on a non-secure line?

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:42:58pm

David Brooks is routinely criticized here and justly so, but his column today in praise of the foreign service career officials shows that he is capable of understanding how the government should work and how these civil servants (demeaned as “unelected bureaucrats” by the GOP base) epitomize the best of our State Department.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:44:49pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

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XXOO

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:49:31pm

Tropical storm Raymond has formed:

star.nesdis.noaa.gov

I noticed there is another circulation just to its southwest. I wonder if that will pull Raymond westward; for now Raymond is expected to head north to Baja. It won’t get here, but will likely bring lots of rain to Texas if the storm survives the next few days.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:50:50pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:53:49pm

thanks for all the well wishes yesterday. Heading off to CA for the memorial service on Sunday.

Below is a pic of grandma with two of her grandkids

peace

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Jay C  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:54:10pm

re: #22 HappyWarrior

Nancy is on her sixth President since entering Congress. She’s seen a lot of crap. Trump stands out even comparing him to Reagan and W.

And she’s known eleven of them (being from a political family helps): I still can’t forget that picture of a young Nancy D’Alessandro being leered at by John Kennedy: yeah, she’s seen a lot….

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:56:09pm

re: #24 Blind Frog Belly White

As an aside, is there ANYONE who’s surprised that Trump shouts into the phone on a non-secure line?

Nope and I imagine he does to it whether there’s anyone on the line or not.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 3:57:12pm

Trump pardons war criminals because someone else’s captured son or daughter will wind up paying the price.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:03:24pm
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Targetpractice  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:04:28pm

Mother is not going to be happy about this:

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:04:53pm

re: #32 jaunte

With that decision, Trump has so upended the DOD and what it means to be a commander-in-chief.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:08:57pm
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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:09:28pm

At the White House, it’s imposters all the way down.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:15:55pm
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Ace Rothstein  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:18:12pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

There’s a wholllllllllle lotta ass on Trump to love.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:22:22pm

re: #38 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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That’s what pissed me off the most about the stone conviction. There’s a possibility that he gets a pardon before serving a day in jail. Fuck trump.

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:24:30pm

Fred Wesley - Funk for your Ass

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:25:44pm

re: #41 gocart mozart

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Brothers Johnson - Get The Funk Out Ma Face

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sagehen  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:29:00pm

re: #36 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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So some highly trained hunters now feel they owe him a favor?

That whistleblower (and god knows who else) is in serious danger.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:38:09pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:43:30pm

Uhm. I…well… This is…

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:45:01pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:46:31pm

re: #45 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Uhm. I…well… This is…

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Less than 15 inches, eh? They should call it “The AR-15”

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:49:54pm
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Interesting Times  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:58:16pm

So here’s my PSA for the day:

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Weaselone  Nov 15, 2019 • 4:58:23pm

re: #48 DodgerFan1988

That’s how expertise works—something your political ideology valued, before Trump

Was Abramson in a coma from the end of the Eisenhower’s term through the 2016 election?

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Teukka  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:05:36pm

re: #20 Targetpractice

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Dread Pirate  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:08:48pm
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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:16:43pm

Inheriting money has a way of making you dumb.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:18:40pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:18:55pm

then…

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Interesting Times  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:21:22pm

Is there a transcript of Yovanovitch’s testimony from today? My Google-fu is failing and all I’m getting are results for her earlier closed-door deposition (specifically, I want to find her exact words mentioning Benghazi etc. because of the “durr hurr, she compared herself to them” argument being regurgitated by the trumpchumps).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:21:26pm
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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:22:59pm
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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:24:09pm

Pre-pardoning future crimes.

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Teukka  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:25:31pm

Sobering video.

We’re melting the Arctic and reviving deadly germs

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:29:43pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:31:05pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:33:06pm

re: #59 jaunte

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Pre-pardoning future crimes.

That was my exact take.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:36:35pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:36:40pm

This is a great thread (from one of the makers of “Bring Get me Roger Stone”:

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:41:32pm

To paraphrase Morgan Pehme, ‘Whether Stone gets pardoned or not depends less on Trump’s loyalty to Stone and more on how much information Stone has on the bones in Trump’s closet.’

Stone might do well to remember Roy Cohn’s observation after Trump abandoned him: “Donald Trump pisses ice.”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:42:37pm

re: #51 Teukka

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HappyWarrior  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:42:57pm

re: #54 jaunte

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Yeah who needs allies right Fox? Just let Russia control the sovereignty of its neighbors and ignore it. God thanks for making me miss the neoconservatives. At least neoconservatives want the US to be a leader for positive good. Preferable to the let’s act like we aren’t in the most global connected period in human civilization.

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nowherenorth2  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:43:08pm

re: #49 Interesting Times

Are you from the area? Thatthe lady running from my area against stefanik (r-dumbass) and is from Canton ny, the county seat for my area. She is smart and does well. The problem is this area is very much trump country because they feel forgotten on a federal level. It is also due to he fact that Democrat for local elections really means moderate conservative, and act like typical conservatives and give Democrats a really bad name.local democratic council basically made the local hospital choose to merge with one certain hospital in the area or close. No other choices. Alot of back dealing.

May I ask if you are from the area

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:43:17pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:44:58pm
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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:45:21pm

Amoral, servile throne-sniffers. Perfect description.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:45:22pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I wasn’t aware he had a daughter. Yikes. And I’m old enough to remember when the Marc Rich pardon got outrage but yep just the daughter of one of the worst people in politics begging for a pardon.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:45:22pm
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Interesting Times  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:50:23pm

re: #69 nowherenorth2

Are you from the area? Thatthe lady running from my area against stefanik (r-dumbass) and is from Canton ny, the county seat for my area. She is smart and does well. The problem is this area is very much trump country because they feel forgotten on a federal level. It is also due to he fact that Democrat for local elections really means moderate conservative, and act like typical conservatives and give Democrats a really bad name.local democratic council basically made the local hospital choose to merge with one certain hospital in the area or close. No other choices. Alot of back dealing.

May I ask if you are from the area

No, I’m Canadian, so retweeting/reposting is pretty much all I can do to help downballot candidates :/ I hear you re the area being “trump country”, but then again, other seats like that have flipped, so you never know:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:51:35pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:52:22pm

re: #75 Interesting Times

No, I’m Canadian, so retweeting/reposting is pretty much all I can do to help downballot candidates :/ I hear you re the area being “trump country”, but then again, other seats like that have flipped, so you never know:

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Is that the area where there’s that remote Federal prison that had the insider-aided break a few years ago?

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:53:21pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:55:21pm
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nowherenorth2  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:55:57pm

re: #77 Barefoot Grin

Dannemora. Yes. We also have the akwasasne mohawk reservation so the Canadian border crossing have 3 nation’s instead of 2 when theres issues.

I am in St Lawrence County. Fort drum is 1.5 hours south. Dannemora is about 1.5 hours east.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:58:36pm

Thread:
Maybe some lurking Trump supporters will read it and learn something.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 5:58:37pm
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Dread Pirate  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:00:28pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:02:05pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Pro family my ass.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:02:45pm

re: #80 nowherenorth2

Dannemora. Yes. We also have the akwasasne mohawk reservation so the Canadian border crossing have 3 nation’s instead of 2 when theres issues.

I am in St Lawrence County. Fort drum is 1.5 hours south. Dannemora is about 1.5 hours east.

I’m almost completely ignorant of that area. A few years ago my brother arranged to celebrate my parents’ 60th anniversary by renting a house near Essex, NY (because my sister-in-law had heard of some sustainable farming operations and wanted to volunteer for the week, I think). Anyway, the farthest north I got was Plattsburgh. Lots of Canadian cars in the parking lots, though.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:03:09pm

re: #83 Dread Pirate

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Ron, your Putin tramp stamp is showing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:04:17pm

meanwhile across the pond tonight:

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nowherenorth2  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:08:06pm

re: #85 Barefoot Grin

Border crossing about 45 miles north to Montreal. Yes Plattsburgh. Ferry goes to Burlington.
And a interstate hospital system as well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:09:24pm

moron

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:10:03pm

A taste of his own medicine.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:10:56pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:11:35pm

might be NSFW for some folks

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EPR-radar  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:12:14pm

re: #90 DodgerFan1988

Lie down with rabid dogs, wake up with rabies etc.

The only people these alt-right shitbirds are fooling are themselves and professionally credulous media both-siderist fuckwits.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:12:49pm
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wrenchwench  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:14:14pm

re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth

might be NSFW for some folks

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Didn’t leave. Turned, and thought, ‘WTF?’

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nowherenorth2  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:14:51pm

The area is interesting. Like has no identity to a point. No sports team of their own. Sport that is played is hockey lacrosse and football. The akwasasne mohawk reservation have helped to elevate lacrosse to a new level. The area was shipping and factories. It is now orisons and law enforcement, with border patrol and cops everywhere. Most of the people gobble up Trump’s shit with Glee. there are four colleges in my area, two state universities via suny and two private. My friends and I are liberals. There have been plenty of arguments, and the typical trump supporter is like the internet made whole, arguing with everyone and the hiding after being ridiculous.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:15:39pm

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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Yes, moron.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:15:45pm

re: #95 wrenchwench

Didn’t leave. Turned, and thought, ‘WTF?’

I’m still giggling

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:17:37pm
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Ace-o-aces  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:26:20pm
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stpaulbear  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:26:30pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

Larry Gelbart on killing off “Henry Blake” on “M.A.S.H” - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:27:57pm
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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:28:19pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:30:46pm
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BeachDem  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:36:29pm

re: #49 Interesting Times

So here’s my PSA for the day:

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Responded and donated to her campaign. Thanks for the inspiration!

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:41:28pm

re: #81 jaunte

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:42:52pm

Sure, Jan.

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:43:20pm

Meyer Lansky would be so disappointed.

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:43:47pm

re: #104 Charles Johnson

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:46:50pm

re: #107 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:54:34pm

re: #103 gocart mozart

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Did anyone expect that shrew to say anything else?

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:56:43pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 15, 2019 • 6:58:25pm

Had to turn Maddow off. I will not listen to such an asskissing GOP stenographer as Brokaw!

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:01:12pm
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retired cynic  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:03:11pm

re: #114 gocart mozart

This thing just gets crazier and crazier!

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:06:27pm

re: #113 Joe Bacon 🌹

Had to turn Maddow off. I will not listen to such an asskissing GOP stenographer as Brokaw!

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:06:44pm

re: #115 retired cynic

This thing just gets crazier and crazier!

It’s never just one scandal.

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Teukka  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:07:52pm

re: #114 gocart mozart

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retired cynic  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:07:53pm

re: #116 jaunte

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How she can stand that pompous ass, I have no idea!

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Decatur Deb  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:14:08pm

re: #45 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Uhm. I…well… This is…

Body Positivity FTW: Trojan Has Released A New Line Of Extra-Small Condoms For Men Whose Penises Are Shorter Than 15 Inches

Catching up.

That’s a twist on a cold-war era joke: In a play of one-upsmanship a Soviet GUM store placed an order with an American company for 100 gross of 15-inch condoms. The marketing chief of the latex plant asked the old manager what to do with the order. He said: “Run ‘em, box ‘em, and label them ‘Small’.”

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stpaulbear  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:17:22pm

re: #112 gocart mozart

I can see Miller saying at some point (after Trump crashes and burns) that he’s abandoned Trump because Trump is too imperfect a vessel to implement Miller’s grand vision for America. He’ll never learn and he’ll never be wrong about anything.

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:23:00pm

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:26:12pm
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fern01  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:33:43pm

re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter

David Brooks is routinely criticized here and justly so, but his column today in praise of the foreign service career officials shows that he is capable of understanding how the government should work and how these civil servants (demeaned as “unelected bureaucrats” by the GOP base) epitomize the best of our State Department.

Too little, too late - suddenly realising he needs to swap sides.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:37:27pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:44:53pm

Kellyanne’s hubby.

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Teukka  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:46:02pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

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Kellyanne’s hubby.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:50:06pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:53:54pm
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goddamnedfrank  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:55:15pm

Classic blunder

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Charles Johnson  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:56:19pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 15, 2019 • 7:57:14pm
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Belafon  Nov 15, 2019 • 8:01:23pm

re: #128 Teukka

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 8:02:36pm

Royalists.

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 8:24:31pm
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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 8:25:36pm
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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2019 • 8:29:09pm

Funny joke time

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jaunte  Nov 15, 2019 • 8:30:15pm

Oh, it’s a science fiction convention.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 15, 2019 • 8:54:58pm

re: #133 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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BeachDem  Nov 15, 2019 • 8:57:51pm

The best description I’ve seen of Elise Stefanik’s performance today:

She pulled the pin on the grenade, looked at the pin, looked at the grenade and threw the pin.

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2019 • 9:04:06pm
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Belafon  Nov 15, 2019 • 9:06:45pm

There was a shooting at a football game in New Jersey, two injured: google.com

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 15, 2019 • 9:27:19pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

That’s what bullies do.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 15, 2019 • 9:35:47pm

re: #142 gocart mozart

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Trump has given our enemies a blank check to torture any American living abroad.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 15, 2019 • 9:36:57pm

There was a shooting tonight two blocks from my old house in Lubbock. Facebook comments say the victim is 6 years old.
KCBD

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BeachDem  Nov 15, 2019 • 9:37:26pm

So Maher showed tonight that he can be a big asshole even without right wing guests.

Will hide my “review” in case it might ruin it for anybody.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 15, 2019 • 9:40:04pm

Remember that first and foremost, Bill Maher is a Libertarian so quite naturally he’s going to whizz on Democrats more than he whizzes on Republicans.

I gave up on him when he was kissing Milo’s ass.

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BeachDem  Nov 15, 2019 • 9:42:29pm

re: #148 Joe Bacon 🌹

Remember that first and foremost, Bill Maher is a Libertarian so quite naturally he’s going to whizz on Democrats more than he whizzes on Republicans.

I gave up on him when he was kissing Milo’s ass.

Oh, I gave up on him long ago, but wanted to see Sherrod and Jaime. Maher actually likes Sherrod, but he’s such an ass, he can’t contain himself.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 15, 2019 • 9:46:17pm

re: #69 nowherenorth2

Are you from the area? Thatthe lady running from my area against stefanik (r-dumbass) and is from Canton ny, the county seat for my area. She is smart and does well. The problem is this area is very much trump country because they feel forgotten on a federal level. It is also due to he fact that Democrat for local elections really means moderate conservative, and act like typical conservatives and give Democrats a really bad name.local democratic council basically made the local hospital choose to merge with one certain hospital in the area or close. No other choices. Alot of back dealing.

May I ask if you are from the area

That area has been hurting for a while. I went to high school in Massena and was last in the area about five years ago. A lot of the local businesses were shuttered and the last recession pretty much killed a lot of small businesses in that entire region and it looks like it never recovered. Plus a lot of the heavier industry is gone, though I think Alcoa is still running some operations there.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 15, 2019 • 9:50:36pm

Giphy

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Amory Blaine  Nov 15, 2019 • 10:02:37pm

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Dread Pirate  Nov 15, 2019 • 10:07:21pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2019 • 10:24:53pm

re: #59 jaunte

Pre-pardoning future crimes.

The President’s pardon power is absolute for federal crimes. He is undermining our rule of law, with the acquiescence of the entire GOP. Now, if the Democrats win in 2020 — and regain the Presidency and both Houses, it is possible that recovery from this aberration may be faster than we expect. It may not take years to restore sanity— but it does require the election of Democrats.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2019 • 10:28:12pm

re: #152 Amory Blaine

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 15, 2019 • 11:15:10pm

re: #152 Amory Blaine

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Dread Pirate  Nov 15, 2019 • 11:29:07pm

The US military for hire is shaking down all of our allies.

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plansbandc  Nov 15, 2019 • 11:33:35pm

re: #148 Joe Bacon 🌹

His misogyny and hatred of Muslims did it for me. I absolutely loathe him.

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ckkatz  Nov 15, 2019 • 11:52:29pm

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ericblair  Nov 16, 2019 • 12:03:19am

re: #137 jaunte

The Justice Department has posted AG Bill Barr’s prepared remarks to the Federalist Society. He apparently thinks Mitch McConnell’s Senate is part of the resistance. justice.gov

I initially thought Barr was a hyper-cynical fixer, but he’s as big a fucking kook as the rest of them or bigger. This is utterly insane projection, and doesn’t help him or his shithead boss one bit. Sure, piss on McConnell and his minions and call them traitors; it’s not like they’re going to have a trial for your boss anytime soon.

I suppose it’s better for him to be a fucking kook than a clear-eyed criminal operator, because fucking kooks self-destruct. I’d rather have neither.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 16, 2019 • 12:03:55am

ever had a dream and the thing in the dream gets into your mind and then later when you’re awake you’re surprised when you see it didn’t really happen and remember it was only a dream?

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 16, 2019 • 12:17:28am
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Dread Pirate  Nov 16, 2019 • 12:18:00am
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Dread Pirate  Nov 16, 2019 • 1:48:33am

Rankings: Total Energy Consumed per Capita, 2017 (million Btu)

WTF Louisiana?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 2:20:17am

re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter

David Brooks is routinely criticized here and justly so, but his column today in praise of the foreign service career officials shows that he is capable of understanding how the government should work and how these civil servants (demeaned as “unelected bureaucrats” by the GOP base) epitomize the best of our State Department.

They are written off as “deep state”.

By people who fail to understand that a modern government needs professionals. And those people are career professionals whose view of their task goes beyond any one administration or party.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 2:22:53am

re: #42 Eventual Carrion

Brothers Johnson were all the rage when I was in High School in Gary, Indiana, this being my favorite

The Brothers Johnson-I’ll Be Good To You

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 2:27:11am

re: #45 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Body Positivity FTW: Trojan Has Released A New Line Of Extra-Small Condoms For Men Whose Penises Are Shorter Than 15 Inches

A good joke (especially for a woman to tell) is to says that EU regulations require that all condoms carry instructions for use printed in all the languages of the EU.

Ask a fellow if he has seen that, when he replies in the negative, then ask “You mean you’ve never had to unroll one all the way?”

I had a girlfriend from Northern NJ who once got an obscene phone call: “I wanna give you all my ten inches!”
To which she relied “You can get it up three times?”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 2:31:43am

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

Other tidbits:
• They didn’t share script final page until day of filming
• Stevenson had been agitating to get off for two years, so Larry Gelbart told the scriptwriters to kill him
• Gelbart directed the episode, and put skeletons in the background of every Stevenson scene

That’s right up there with not warning the other cast members of Alien about the chest-popper

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 2:40:21am

re: #116 jaunte

This makes my skin crawl: Tom Brokaw saying this isn’t impeachable because a lot of Americans think Trump’s extortion and everything linked to it is how business is usually conducted. No it’s not. And it’s the responsibility of the informed to explain reality to the uninformed.

Because there are key differences in how business and diplomacy are conducted.

Those who support Trump do not recognize or understand the key distinctions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 2:44:35am

re: #145 Joe Bacon 🌹

Trump has given our enemies a blank check to torture any American living abroad.

He has pretty much given despots a free hand all over the world, yet his supporters think he is a Tough Guy that you shouldn’t mess with!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 3:24:09am

I have now caught up with commenting on the thread.

You may proceed.

Series 4 of Man in the High Castle finally dropped. That takes care of the rest of my weekend.

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Ming5000  Nov 16, 2019 • 3:24:21am

re: #18 Stanley Sea

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Holmes’s statement should launch a whole new investigation into Perry’s actions related to energy.
Who were these so-called trusted individuals? What did Perry tell Zelinsky? Were energy sector demands also placed on Ukraine in exchange for the security money?

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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 16, 2019 • 3:30:50am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 3:33:25am

re: #173 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

Trump attacks 33-year public servant in effort at witness intimidation.

It needs to be noted that this person was appointed under GW Bush…

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Jay C  Nov 16, 2019 • 4:20:29am

re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He has pretty much given despots a free hand all over the world, yet his supporters think he is a Tough Guy that you shouldn’t mess with!

Sadly, it’s most likely because many/most of said supporters are just fine with despotism: as long as the despot is “their guy”, and perceived as wielding power against their “enemies”, foreign or domestic. With special emphasis on the “domestic”….

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 16, 2019 • 4:28:18am

re: #161 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

ever had a dream and the thing in the dream gets into your mind and then later when you’re awake you’re surprised when you see it didn’t really happen and remember it was only a dream?

Have you ever had a dream like this?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 16, 2019 • 4:33:24am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It needs to be noted that this person was appointed under GW Bush…

Kent and Taylor were appointed by him and he still attacks them as Never Trumpers. The ambassador being a former W appointee means nothing to them. They despise career government people like that. People like them, my mom, & grandfather who served not a party or ideology but country. The exact opposite of what Trump’s people do.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 16, 2019 • 4:36:12am

re: #163 Dread Pirate

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It’s a coordinated effort to create false narratives. Same shit happened three years ago.

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Dave In Austin  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:03:06am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I’m cherry picking seasons 1&2 then into 3&4 which I haven’t seen.

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Dave In Austin  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:04:36am

Oh…. Morning all. Clear and 27 in the Gateway to the Texas Hill County this morning. If only I could move.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:13:20am
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Eventual Carrion  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:19:38am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Brothers Johnson were all the rage when I was in High School in Gary, Indiana, this being my favorite

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Yeah, I had a couple of their 8-Track cassettes in HS also. Ahhh the days of 8-Track, big bulky tapes and the “Ca-chunk” in the middle of the album (sometimes in the middle of a song) to switch.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:21:28am

re: #181 Barefoot Grin

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He’s a partisan hack.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:30:47am

As Lizards have pointed out for a long time, Republican depravity and Russian meddling did not start with Trump, it is simply becoming more obvious and more dangerous as they make their final grab for absolute power.

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BigPapa  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:32:15am

Got this idea that’s getting more interesting: for Xmas, give me books or $ for books. Not Kindle or audiobooks, though they have their roles. Real paper and ink, no electronics glowing or making noise. Just paper-ink-eyeballs-brain. Spend the time between Xmas and NY at a beach in the shade, just reading.

Time for a new Coates and Baldwin, could probably get two more and lose a week in them.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:38:56am

re: #185 BigPapa

Got this idea that’s getting more interesting: for Xmas, give me books or $ for books. Not Kindle or audiobooks, though they have their roles. Real paper and ink, no electronics glowing or making noise. Just paper-ink-eyeballs-brain. Spend the time between Xmas and NY at a beach in the shade, just reading.

Time for a new Coates and Baldwin, could probably get two more and lose a week in them.

I still like a good old paperback.

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BigPapa  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:40:29am

re: #184 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

As Lizards have pointed out for a long time, Republican depravity and Russian meddling did not start with Trump, it is simply becoming more obvious and more dangerous as they make their final grab for absolute power.

I’m still pretty confident Putin nor Trump expected to win, but once they did, they cannot go back. Russia plays a long game and Trump getting elected may have sped things up too fast for them to keep up. Now it’s just a free for all and harder to control.

It’s not hyperbole to consider we’re not going back to where we were and there are only two outcomes: Trump wins and further consolidates power into some Idiocracy fascist state, or he loses and we being a long arduous reconciliation with the 30% of our population in the cult.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:45:21am

re: #185 BigPapa

Got this idea that’s getting more interesting: for Xmas, give me books or $ for books. Not Kindle or audiobooks, though they have their roles. Real paper and ink, no electronics glowing or making noise. Just paper-ink-eyeballs-brain. Spend the time between Xmas and NY at a beach in the shade, just reading.

Time for a new Coates and Baldwin, could probably get two more and lose a week in them.

My holiday gifts from the kids are usually just magazine subscriptions. Daughter gets me Scientific American, middle son gets me National Geographic History, youngest picks up whatever the wife tells him to get (changes year to year). Oldest usually sends a gift for both wife and I, most times a card for some eatery. We don’t go crazy with the gifts, just something small. Grandkids get the good stuff of course.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:46:56am

re: #176 GlutenFreeJesus

ever had a dream and the thing in the dream gets into your mind and then later when you’re awake you’re surprised when you see it didn’t really happen and remember it was only a dream?

I had a dream in which I had gone back to get a postgraduate degree in evening classes, and woke up wondering if I had really done so or not…

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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:53:10am

re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth

might be NSFW for some folks

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Later with the stags:
No really, I literally effed her brains out

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Jay C  Nov 16, 2019 • 5:55:12am

re: #183 HappyWarrior

He’s a partisan hack.

And while I know it’s a common cliché (and, as Mrs. Slocombe would remark, “dead common” as well), the use of “IMAX_level projection” in Barr’s case certainly fits the bill: I swear, if one substituted “Obama” for “Trump” in his asinine Federalist Society screed, it would read exactly as something they would have been bitching about years back.

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ericblair  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:06:36am

re: #187 BigPapa

I’m still pretty confident Putin nor Trump expected to win, but once they did, they cannot go back. Russia plays a long game and Trump getting elected may have sped things up too fast for them to keep up. Now it’s just a free for all and harder to control.

It’s not hyperbole to consider we’re not going back to where we were and there are only two outcomes: Trump wins and further consolidates power into some Idiocracy fascist state, or he loses and we being a long arduous reconciliation with the 30% of our population in the cult.

I don’t think Russia was playing any long game. It’s easier to think of the Russian government as a crime family: there’s The Boss, who gets pitched new rackets by his captains, and a bunch of soldiers and sometimes-allies that execute. Putin has been letting the security services and their associated oligarchs do whatever they want for years. Clinton really pissed Putin off by calling him out as Secretary of State, and he lashed out and let his minions interfere in the election to hurt her. He didn’t think any further than that. It’s been a free for all there for years.

I agree that it is now ride or die for the Republicans. Using the engineering term, there is no graceful failure mode here. They (re)institute minority white Christian rule, or all the criminal activity gets out to those people they have relentlessly abused.

For Russia, it’s hard to say what will happen. For all the trolling and the victorious sneering, Trump hasn’t gotten them much. The one real goal they had for a Trump administration is the removal of sanctions on the oligarchs and their company, and they have mostly not gotten it. Other foreign goals, such as weakening NATO and the EU, haven’t really been achieved: there has been trouble and a bunch of yelling, and they’ve stopped some forward progress, but they are holding together. Ukraine still exists. They have gotten a free hand in Syria, but really don’t know what to do with it besides sell some more weapons and loot the place some more.

Russia’s problem, as usual, is Russia. All the foreign adventurism is getting wearying for the population, who haven’t benefited from it whatsoever. The Russian population is mostly pissed off at the raising of the retirement age, a big trash and pollution problem, high prices, and ongoing corruption. I can’t see a popular uprising against Putin, but a lack of popular support makes a palace coup more likely. If we see a new, Democratic, pissed off US President in 2021, there are going to be pointed questions in the Kremlin about what this insanely risky interference really accomplished.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:09:38am

re: #192 ericblair

Russia gets a free hand to do pretty much whatever it wants in Ukraine and the Middle East. I don’t know where Trump gets this image of being a tough guy who is not to be messed with, he is totally outclassed by the likes of Kim, Erdogan, Xi or Putin.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:13:36am

Schadenfreude overdose may become a major health issue in the coming months. I am willing to take the risk.

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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:15:45am

re: #181 Barefoot Grin

AG Bill Barr: “It is the left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and undermining the rule of law.”

C’mon bill this is just lazy

Who specifically
What norms are they shredding
How exactly is the rule of law being undermined

Explain your broad brush baseless smear

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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:17:44am

re: #19 Charles Johnson

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Wow
It’s almost as if Nancy knew exactly what thread to pull to start the unraveling

And what buttons to push to keep them tugging at it

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jaunte  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:20:23am
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Dave In Austin  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:23:14am

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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:25:30am
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ericblair  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:25:41am

re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Russia gets a free hand to do pretty much whatever it wants in Ukraine and the Middle East. I don’t know where Trump gets this image of being a tough guy who is not to be messed with, he is totally outclassed by the likes of Kim, Erdogan, Xi or Putin.

Ukraine still exists, and a mostly Russian-hostile government runs it. Russia runs the Donbass, and gets to piss away billions of dollars worth of hardware there in an ongoing stalemate. The assumption in 2014 was that the “uprising” in the Donbass and the coup in Crimea would collapse the Ukrainian government and state, and Russia would take most of it. (A few years ago, the Polish government got a letter from the Russians, asking for their historical claims on any land currently under Ukrainian jurisdiction. The Poles thought this was some sort of trick and tossed it.) Putin’s legacy will be as the Russian leader who lost Ukraine.

Russia is certainly trying to be a player in the Middle East. They do free dirty work for Syria, and sometimes for Turkey and Iran. They hold a bunch of diplomatic talks to try to press their will onto the local governments, which go nowhere. They have some new bases in Syria, which allows them to do more free dirty work for Syria and sometimes Turkey and Iran. Then they declare success. The Russian oligarchs do get something out of it personally though, since Syria is a completely corrupt place where the powerful can line their own pockets. This doesn’t help Russia as a whole very much.

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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:26:46am

re: #197 jaunte
Wonder why he stopped at 45

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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:30:54am

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Belafon  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:33:03am

re: #186 HappyWarrior

I still like a good old paperback.

I love reading, but I have my phone just about everywhere, even when it’s low light. The only paperback books I tend to buy these days are software books, because I can’t have any electronic devices in my office.

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Jay C  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:34:22am

re: #192 ericblair

Good analysis, eb: I’d take issue with just one point:

I don’t think Russia was playing any long game

Like in the old joke about the hunters and the bear, they don’t have to play a “long game”: they just have to play a longer game than us.

And even leaving Trump’s incompetence and imbecility aside, the US (IMO) has not been doing long-term thinking in its foreign-policy for years. And when “we’ve” tried, as in the Iraq War, it’s usually worked out badly.

BTW, the masters at the long game are the Chinese: a bunch of analysis pieces I’ve read in the last few years have noted that the Chinese government has been slowly-but-surely building up a global presence: mainly through infrastructure development in places the US and other “First World” countries don’t think profitable enough to bother with. Which of course, is most of the “ROW”…

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Belafon  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:36:58am

re: #199 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

Which is quite funny since the Republicans around here are wondering who is even watching it.

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jeffreyw  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:38:40am

YouTube

Good morning!

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sagehen  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:42:06am

re: #196 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

Wow
It’s almost as if Nancy knew exactly what thread to pull to start the unraveling

And what buttons to push to keep them tugging at it

Grandma strength isn’t measured by lifting heavy things or running fast; but they sure know how to leverage their unparalleled understanding of psychology.

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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:45:12am

like i was saying

they cant help themselves

you cant color within the lines if you dont know where they are

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Dave In Austin  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:46:11am

Blatant Griftese….

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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:47:08am

re: #205 Belafon

Which is quite funny since the Republicans around here are wondering who is even watching it.

nothing to worry about, our base would never fly….

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:51:07am
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jaunte  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:52:47am
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HappyWarrior  Nov 16, 2019 • 6:53:56am

re: #212 jaunte

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Horrifying.

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:16:26am
Attorney General Barr defends Trump, assails ‘Resistance’ in fiery speech to conservative lawyers

Corruption, bribery and witness intimidation from the President.
Death threats against the squad, a whistleblower in fear for his or her life.

That’s the executive and judicial branches actually lost to democracy. They are now opponents of our democracy. Tyranny to be fought.

Edging closer than anytime since the 1860’s to civil war to restore our constitutional democracy. Who believes Trump will leave office voluntarily or his supporters refrain from violence? Not me. They will make war on us.

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makeitstop  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:23:52am

‘Morning, Lizards.

In case you missed it, here’s last night’s righteous rant from Greg Olear.

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jeffreyw  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:28:07am

Should have cut on the line like he was taught in kindergarten.

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makeitstop  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:34:46am
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Eventual Carrion  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:35:29am

re: #217 makeitstop

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Well then

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:36:07am

re: #217 makeitstop

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But he’s not sorry about the underlying policies of the administration. Just the corruption and inadequacy of the hack he helped put in charge of it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:45:59am

President Raging Hemorrhoid is cussing at Schiff again:

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jaunte  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:52:34am

Play “Under Pressure” again for our White House listeners.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:53:54am

re: #220 Eclectic Cyborg

President Raging Hemorrhoid is cussing at Schiff again:

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The impeachment provision says nothing about the economy. And Obama improving the economy meant nothing to him and his cronies.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:54:32am

re: #221 jaunte

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Play “Under Pressure” again for our White House listeners.

Well I’m sure Don Jr will be attacking Mark Sandy shortly.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:56:18am

re: #220 Eclectic Cyborg

President Raging Hemorrhoid is cussing at Schiff again:

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Thanks Obama

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HappyWarrior  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:57:53am

re: #224 Eventual Carrion

Thanks Obama

Maybe I’m naive but the unemployment rate being cut in half by Obama is more meaningful than Trump coasting off of it and claiming it as his own. But besides the economy isn’t relevant to his crimes.

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Disloyal Archangel  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:58:20am

He pretty much nailed it.

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jaunte  Nov 16, 2019 • 7:58:50am

re: #220 Eclectic Cyborg

“Sure I beat you and the kids when you’re asking for it, but you’re well fed and have a roof over your heads; you have no room to complain!”

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Belafon  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:01:15am

re: #219 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

But he’s not sorry about the underlying policies of the administration. Just the corruption and inadequacy of the hack he helped put in charge of it.

Just curious: What’s the point in this statement? Walsh did the exact thing we’ve been we’ve asking for. He didn’t blame someone else. He didn’t say he’s sorry if he offended someone. He took responsibility. I don’t expect people to suddenly become healthcare-for-all types, and I’m not going to ask Walsh to watch my children, but this is what we want out of all of the ones who say they oppose him.

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stpaulbear  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:03:33am

re: #188 Eventual Carrion

My holiday gifts from the kids are usually just magazine subscriptions. Daughter gets me Scientific American, middle son gets me National Geographic History, youngest picks up whatever the wife tells him to get (changes year to year). Oldest usually sends a gift for both wife and I, most times a card for some eatery. We don’t go crazy with the gifts, just something small. Grandkids get the good stuff of course.

A few years back, I suggested that we replace the Christmas tree with a Christmas mailbox because all that my family gave or wanted any more was gift cards.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:05:22am

re: #228 Belafon

Just curious: What’s the point in this statement? Walsh did the exact thing we’ve been we’ve asking for. He didn’t blame someone else. He didn’t say he’s sorry if he offended someone. He took responsibility. I don’t expect people to suddenly become healthcare-for-all types, and I’m not going to ask Walsh to watch my children, but this is what we want out of all of the ones who say they oppose him.

The mea culpa is appreciated, and presumably for the next year he’ll oppose Trump and not vote for him.

Beyond that, enemy of my enemy is *not* my friend. The GOP will find a competent and more tactful Trump-equivalent, and Walsh will fall in line with that person immediately.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:06:59am

re: #226 Disloyal Archangel

He pretty much nailed it.

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Exactly

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stpaulbear  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:17:03am

re: #209 Dave In Austin

Blatant Griftese….

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You can just hear Trump thinking “Now this was a good hire!”

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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:20:54am

re: #226 Disloyal Archangel

He pretty much nailed it.

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the whole R argument is idiotic

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Belafon  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:22:26am

re: #230 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The mea culpa is appreciated, and presumably for the next year he’ll oppose Trump and not vote for him.

Beyond that, enemy of my enemy is *not* my friend. The GOP will find a competent and more tactful Trump-equivalent, and Walsh will fall in line with that person immediately.

And if the left can’t keep Trump 2 out off office, then I’ll be telling my kids it’s time to find new countries to live in.

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Mescalero09  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:24:43am

Good day all. Hope it’s a great one.
Some voices speak to me. Colter Wall has one.

Colter Wall - ‘Codeine Dream’ | UNDER THE APPLE TREE

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HappyWarrior  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:24:43am

re: #233 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

the whole R argument is idiotic

It’s incredibly cynical. It’s also setting up a dangerous precedent too. But it’s too hard for them to stand up to Trump because they’re a bunch of cowardly enablers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:31:22am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:32:29am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:33:36am
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Belafon  Nov 16, 2019 • 8:50:36am

If I remember my time in the Navy correctly, the next Congress can remove these people from service. The current one could, but we know the GOP are cowards.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:13:15am

Question for the guitar buffs.

How hard is it to convert a RH electric guitar to LH?

I can afford to buy a used RH guitar, but I’ll need to convert it to LH. I can’t afford to buy a LH guitar new (I can afford $75 for a guitar).

Serious question.

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BigPapa  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:15:54am

I’ve been studying up the Biden/Burisma receipts. There is nothing there I’ve seen. The more one looks, there isn’t even the appearance of impropriety. The canard that is ‘HB gets paid $50k a month and he knows nothing about gas’ is utter BS: he wasn’t hired because he knew anything about gas at all, he was hired because Burisma was trying to get right with the newer govt.

Hunter and Joe were helping to drain the Ukraine swamp. Trump want’s it to come back to being a deeper swamp.

What utterly contemptuous and loathsome people.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:17:45am

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:19:28am

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sagehen  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:23:54am

re: #244 Joe Bacon 🌹

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they’re not all in jail; 2 of them have completed their sentences already, and two of them are out on bail until sentencing.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:26:53am

re: #241 Dr Lizardo

Question for the guitar buffs.

How hard is it to convert a RH electric guitar to LH?

I can afford to buy a used RH guitar, but I’ll need to convert it to LH. I can’t afford to buy a LH guitar new (I can afford $75 for a guitar).

Serious question.

Don’t know. I thought you just turn it upside down and string it the same way: bass strings on top to highest on bottom. I don’t think you need to flip the PUPs. You could remove pick guard if it’s in the way.

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makeitstop  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:29:31am

re: #241 Dr Lizardo

Question for the guitar buffs.

How hard is it to convert a RH electric guitar to LH?

I can afford to buy a used RH guitar, but I’ll need to convert it to LH. I can’t afford to buy a LH guitar new (I can afford $75 for a guitar).

Serious question.

A couple of questions…

Is it a Les Paul type or a Fender (Strat or Tele) type? This matters, because unless you’re playing the guitar left handed while strung for a righty (it’s been done), you’ll need to reverse both the bridge and the nut (which the strings pass through to get to the tuning keys).

A LP-type bridge (tune-o-matic) would be easier to reverse, since you’d just take it off, turn it backwards and put it back on. On a Strat or Tele type guitar, you’ll need to remove each string saddle and move them to their opposite spot. Gotta do this so the string slots are still the right fit for the strings.

You’ll also need to pull the nut and replace it with one that’s been filed for lefty playing. You can get them for not too much money at places like Stewart McDonald.

It’s not an insignificant amount of work, but not crazy difficult, either.

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:30:44am
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Belafon  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:31:07am

re: #241 Dr Lizardo

Question for the guitar buffs.

How hard is it to convert a RH electric guitar to LH?

I can afford to buy a used RH guitar, but I’ll need to convert it to LH. I can’t afford to buy a LH guitar new (I can afford $75 for a guitar).

Serious question.

It’s going to be harder to play unless the body is symmetric, and most electrics aren’t.

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BigPapa  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:31:57am

Conspiracy Theory: the AM radio economy isn’t profitable and is propped up as a propaganda pipeline. Rush Limabaugh famously signed a ginormous $400m deal for years several years ago, and I don’t know how much others get paid. But I wonder if all the products they hawk and subsidiary fees, they are actually making $.

I have no proof of this and it will take some work to run through and see.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:32:27am

re: #244 Joe Bacon 🌹

The Mar-a-Logo Squares!

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:32:48am

Well, guess that answers some questions about guitars.

Guess I’ll just have to wait and see if someone out here in Czech Republic is willing to part with their lefty for $50 to $75 bucks.

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:34:33am
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Belafon  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:35:04am

re: #252 Dr Lizardo

Well, guess that answers some questions about guitars.

Guess I’ll just have to wait and see if someone out here in Czech Republic is willing to part with their lefty for $50 to $75 bucks.

Any particular reason you want a left-handed one? I’m left handed, and I chose to play a right handed bass. The guy I’m learning from online did the same thing. I always kind of figured having your good hand doing the fingering would be an advantage.

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stpaulbear  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:35:08am

re: #252 Dr Lizardo

Well, guess that answers some questions about guitars.

Guess I’ll just have to wait and see if someone out here in Czech Republic is willing to part with their lefty for $50 to $75 bucks.

Your best bet is if someone acquires a lefty that they can’t play from a friend or family member. A left handed guitar is pretty worthless to anyone but a lefty. Good luck.

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jaunte  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:35:27am

“I like people who weren’t captured.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:36:19am

re: #255 stpaulbear

Your best bet is if someone acquires a lefty that they can’t play from a friend or family member. A left handed guitar is pretty worthless to anyone but a lefty. Good luck.

Get an SG or EB-style with a double cutaway.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:36:22am

re: #254 Belafon

Any particular reason you want a left-handed one? I’m left handed, and I chose to play a right handed bass. The guy I’m learning from online did the same thing. I always kind of figured having your good hand doing the fingering would be an advantage.

I can’t play right handed because of broken fingers on my right hand….they can’t curve anymore and they’ve got so much metal in ‘em they set off metal detectors.

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Belafon  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:38:22am

re: #258 Dr Lizardo

I can’t play right handed because of broken fingers on my right hand….they can’t curve anymore and they’ve got some much metal in ‘em they set of metal detectors.

Serious question, then: How do you make chords on the neck with your right hand?

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Belafon  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:40:51am

The cheapest used left-handed electric on guitar center is $120. guitarcenter.com

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:40:59am

re: #256 jaunte

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“I like people who weren’t captured.”

Yep, as bad a the torture memos. Can’t say we can do it but you can’t (tho’ those hypocritical pricks will try).

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William Lewis  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:42:05am

re: #241 Dr Lizardo

Question for the guitar buffs.

How hard is it to convert a RH electric guitar to LH?

I can afford to buy a used RH guitar, but I’ll need to convert it to LH. I can’t afford to buy a LH guitar new (I can afford $75 for a guitar).

Serious question.

I have not tried it but looking at Jimi Hendrix, I think all you have to do is swap the strings and then hold it with the other side up. Try this:

wikihow.com

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:42:16am

re: #259 Belafon

Serious question, then: How do you make chords on the neck with your right hand?

Oops. That’s a typo. I meant the fingers on my left hand are messed up.

I guess I could try two finger guitar playing, like Tommy Iommi of Black Sabbath. He’s a southpaw player and that works. The ring finger and pinky finger on my lefthand are basically useless but the thumb, index and middle fingers are all OK.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:43:52am

re: #263 Dr Lizardo

or learn slide guitar!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:44:39am

I am digging the heck out of series 4 of The Man in the High Castle

They have really taken the story to places that Phillip K Dick would only have approved of.

Especially how, in the 1960’s, the Greater German Reich in America is experiencing somewhat of a “Cultural Revolution” with zealous, idealistic students turning on their teachers & parents…

(not really a spoiler as it was already hinted at at the end of series 3)

fucking awesome

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William Lewis  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:49:17am

re: #263 Dr Lizardo

Oops. That’s a typo. I meant the fingers on my left hand are messed up.

I guess I could try two finger guitar playing, like Tommy Iommi of Black Sabbath. He’s a southpaw player and that works. The ring finger and pinky finger on my lefthand are basically useless but the thumb, index and middle fingers are all OK.

Power chords are your friend, especially using your thumb further round to hold the low E string.

But yeah, I can see a left handed guitar working better in your case and using a pick in your left hand instead.

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BigPapa  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:49:24am

Want to get your mind blown by a right hand guitar strung traditional played left handed?
Check out Mono Neon:

MonoNeon + Knower - “HANGING ON”

And if you are in the need of something seriously funky, here he is let out of the cage live. No seriously, this is some very strong funk, be warned.

MonoNeon with Ghost-Note (LIVE IN LOS ANGELES)

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BigPapa  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:51:44am

Double Trouble: Eric Gales and Mono Neon, both RH trad string played/backwards upside down.

NAMM 2016: Eric Gales & Mono Neon Live At The Dunlop Booth

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Jay C  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:52:05am

re: #242 BigPapa

I’ve been studying up the Biden/Burisma receipts. There is nothing there I’ve seen. The more one looks, there isn’t even the appearance of impropriety. The canard that is ‘HB gets paid $50k a month and he knows nothing about gas’ is utter BS: he wasn’t hired because he knew anything about gas at all, he was hired because Burisma was trying to get right with the newer govt.

Hunter and Joe were helping to drain the Ukraine swamp. Trump want’s it to come back to being a deeper swamp.

What utterly contemptuous and loathsome people.

Quite true (especially your summation), but IMO, there never was “anything there”; but that there being “anything there” was (and always has been) irrelevant to the fake “scandal” Trump, the WH, the Admin and the GOP have been trying to gin up. What Hunter Biden did or didn’t do is fundamentally meaningless: the main goal was for the aforesaid loathsomes to start - and get their RW media enablers to start - bleating BIDEN!! UKRAINE!! CORRUPTION!! as loudly and as often as possible. And rely on the chump “MSM” to pick up on it - regardless of its veracity - and repeat the bleat, assuming (unfortunately, probably correctly) that BIDEN!! UKRAINE!! CORRUPTION!! was all anyone was likely to remember. Even after any allegations or accusations had been long debunked.

Recall that Trump’s Ukraine “team” - Giuliani, et. al. - were going to be satisfied with President Zelenskiy merely “announcing” an “investigation” into Burisma: actually investigating (or what they might find) was way secondary: it was the announcement that meant to provide backup for the BIDEN!! UKRAINE!! CORRUPTION!! chorus they were hoping would distract/derail Joe’s campaign.

Yep: “contemptuous and loathsome”: got it in one….

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:52:14am

re: #250 BigPapa

Conspiracy Theory: the AM radio economy isn’t profitable and is propped up as a propaganda pipeline. Rush Limabaugh famously signed a ginormous $400m deal for years several years ago, and I don’t know how much others get paid. But I wonder if all the products they hawk and subsidiary fees, they are actually making $.

I have no proof of this and it will take some work to run through and see.

I worked in AM radio and I have suspected the same thing. Can’t prove it but it may be something that needs investigating when loyal Americans regain control of the Executive branch.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:52:15am

re: #266 William Lewis

Power chords are your friend, especially using your thumb further round to hold the low E string.

But yeah, I can see a left handed guitar working better in your case and using a pick in your left hand instead.

Yeah, a lefty guitar works better for me. Guess I’ll have to keep looking around.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 9:52:18am

and as we already featured earlier today, the Brothers Johnson:

The Brothers Johnson - I’ll Be Good To You 1976

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BigPapa  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:01:05am

re: #270 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I worked in AM radio and I have suspected the same thing. Can’t prove it but it may be something that needs investigating when loyal Americans regain control of the Executive branch.

Yeah, could be a long term project for me. Brings into question FEC and campaign finance as it’s essentially political advertising. I suspect it’s a money losing business with dark money coming in to put it in the black. Sorta like Tony Soprano have a legitimate cash heavy business like a strip club help wash his money. I’m also beginning to think the Fairness Doctrine being trashed may have been more of an impact than Citizen’s United. But that’s going to take some work to flesh out.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:01:24am

re: #271 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, a lefty guitar works better for me. Guess I’ll have to keep looking around.

I can’t believe there’s not some Soviet-era lefty guitar with five pickups and four toggles in a pawn shop somewhere near you.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:04:55am

re: #274 Barefoot Grin

I can’t believe there’s not some Soviet-era lefty guitar with five pickups and four toggles in a pawn shop somewhere near you.

I saw an absolutely beat-to-shit Chinese Stratocaster knockoff at a pawn shop a couple weeks ago.

They wanted the equivalent of $235 for it. Now, if it had been played by David Gilmour or something, I could see that price.

Shit, all the strings but one were missing and it was missing a pickup too.

Sadly, stuff like that sells for a king’s ransom here. Czechs seem to have no sense of how much things are worth….or not worth in this case.

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Mescalero09  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:05:07am

re: #271 Dr Lizardo

Entirely serious here. To save yourself a bunch of headaches save up and try to find something in the 150-200 buck range.
Try ebay Europe.
Here is the list in America.
Good luck.

EBAY

Under 200 US

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Jay C  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:05:57am

re: #270 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

re: #250 BigPapa

Conspiracy Theory: the AM radio economy isn’t profitable and is propped up as a propaganda pipeline. Rush Limabaugh famously signed a ginormous $400m deal for years several years ago, and I don’t know how much others get paid. But I wonder if all the products they hawk and subsidiary fees, they are actually making $.

I have

no proof of this and it will take some work to run through and see.

I worked in AM radio and I have suspected the same thing. Can’t prove it but it may be something that needs investigating when loyal Americans regain control of the Executive branch.

Probably not just a CT: I’ve been hearing for years that Limbaugh took whatever corporate entity he signed with to the cleaners for way more than his gastfests could ever hope to generate in revenue, but that it was an ironclad contract that would have been more expensive to get out of than just keeping Rush on the air. Also, supposedly the radio business is even more opaque than usual for Corporate America: partly because it’s considered something of an anachronism.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:07:30am

re: #275 Dr Lizardo

I saw an absolutely beat-to-shit Chinese Stratocaster knockoff at a pawn shop a couple weeks ago.

They wanted the equivalent of $235 for it. Now, if it had been played by David Gilmour or something, I could see that price.

Shit, all the strings but one were missing and it was missing a pickup too.

Sadly, stuff like that sells for a king’s ransom here. Czechs seem to have no sense of how much things are worth….or not worth in this case.

Silly question… If you’re a natural rightie, can you even play left-handed? I can’t even make a somewhat legible signature with my left hand let alone play an instrument.

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DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:10:23am

re: #269 Jay C

Quite true (especially your summation), but IMO, there never was “anything there”; but that there being “anything there” was (and always has been) irrelevant to the fake “scandal” Trump, the WH, the Admin and the GOP have been trying to gin up. What Hunter Biden did or didn’t do is fundamentally meaningless: the main goal was for the aforesaid loathsomes to start - and get their RW media enablers to start - bleating BIDEN!! UKRAINE!! CORRUPTION!! as loudly and as often as possible. And rely on the chump “MSM” to pick up on it - regardless of its veracity - and repeat the bleat, assuming (unfortunately, probably correctly) that BIDEN!! UKRAINE!! CORRUPTION!! was all anyone was likely to remember. Even after any allegations or accusations had been long debunked.

Recall that Trump’s Ukraine “team” - Giuliani, et. al. - were going to be satisfied with President Zelenskiy merely “announcing” an “investigation” into Burisma: actually investigating (or what they might find) was way secondary: it was the announcement that meant to provide backup for the BIDEN!! UKRAINE!! CORRUPTION!! chorus they were hoping would distract/derail Joe’s campaign.

Yep: “contemptuous and loathsome”: got it in one….

dont anyone forget this - that paragraph right there is the whole thing

they wanted an announcement - that is all

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BigPapa  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:10:59am

So in the YouTube wormhole landed on this George Duke vid with Charles doing the funky sausage making of the music. I finally figured out who the young strapping Charles looks like: Luis Cole.

George Duke / Studio session / 1978

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:12:58am
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Dr Lizardo  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:13:40am

re: #276 Mescalero09

Entirely serious here. To save yourself a bunch of headaches save up and try to find something in the 150-200 buck range.
Try ebay Europe.
Here is the list in America.
Good luck.

EBAY

Under 200 US

Thanks. Might be a plan.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:14:52am

re: #278 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Silly question… If you’re a natural rightie, can you even play left-handed? I can’t even make a somewhat legible signature with my left hand let alone play an instrument.

Actually, yeah, for me at least, it’s not difficult at all. I was doing pretty good until I had to sell the guitar I had because the school I was working for shut down and I ended up in some financial difficulties.

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BigPapa  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:15:15am

The real question: Charles, have you ever and do you still partake of the Pouilly-Fuissé?

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William Lewis  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:15:54am

re: #282 Dr Lizardo

Thanks. Might be a plan.

From that ebay under 200 link, That Ibanez with free shipping (if it applies to you in Europe) is a screaming good deal on a very good guitar. The Squire is a decent deal too.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:16:05am

re: #283 Dr Lizardo

Actually, yeah, for me at least, it’s not difficult at all. I was doing pretty good until I had to sell the guitar I had because the school I was working for shut down and I ended up in some financial difficulties.

Are you generally ambidextrous?

Maybe I’m just a clumsy mess. 😁

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BigPapa  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:22:01am

re: #279 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

dont anyone forget this - that paragraph right there is the whole thing

they wanted an announcement - that is all

That’s what gets me so up in my grumbles. The mere fumes of possible fact is enough to build a campaign that the right wing media ecosystem will run with and by default the mainstream media will have to acknowledge to appear ‘fair and balanced.’

And for it, the RW media still trashes the rest of the media.

The real story is the RW media and conspiracy theories, the outlandish bullshit. That’s it.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:22:37am

re: #281 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Stayin’ alive,stayin’ alive

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:22:46am
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Citizen K  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:28:36am

In where the media rediscovers that Kamala Harris even exists, just to try and sell her as proof positive that only white males are ‘electable’.

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lizardofid  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:31:35am

re: #289 Barefoot Grin

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I thought the trump gang made their position on Ukraine quite clear going in to the convention, no?

“The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.”

washingtonpost.com

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jaunte  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:33:03am
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HappyWarrior  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:33:57am

re: #292 jaunte

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What right wing identity politics?//

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:43:15am

re: #292 jaunte

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It started with Richard Mellon Scaife and the Hunt Brothers putting up the seed money to start up the Religious Right. They got the Eagle Forum going with their stooge Phyllis Schlafly to oppose the ERA, next came drug addicted and alcoholic Anita Bryant as their gay hating spokesperson then they pumped up the case for Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and the Pulpit Pimps to fuse Xtianity into the Republican Party.

Oh I can remember as a kid in my hometown when churches proclaimed “Jesus Loves You”. Of course there was the single Birch Church with the right wing nuts that people goofed on. But after Roe all of a sudden the Catholic Church started passing out the red roses and telling their marks to vote Republican. Then the infection of the Religious Right spread to Protestant churches and their message was now “Jesus Hates Gays and Abortion”. And all of a sudden churches were fissioning like radioactive atoms and the right wingers split off and took most of the mainline members with them into right wing churches reciting Republican propaganda.

I got to congratulate the Religious Right because they are gladly driving people out of churches. And that is a good thing!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:43:36am

re: #292 jaunte

What the religious right will never acknowledge is that this is their own doing. They proclaimed a hateful inversion of faith as the only real Christianity, and millions of us responded by abandoning Christianity.

My Catholic upbringing contributed to my disdain for Christianity, but what really out me off was the 70/80’s Campus Crusade for Christ and the Anti-Abortion movement.

Later in life I did meet some people I really considered Christians, who quietly lived and practiced their faith. Not enough me to bring me over but enough to make me recognize it was not necessarily all pious pomp and hypocrisy.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:47:22am

re: #295 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My Catholic upbringing contributed to my disdain for Christianity, but what really out me off was the 70/80’s Campus Crusade for Christ and the Anti-Abortion movement. .

What really pissed me off when I was at Pitt was seeing the Campus Crusade for Christ reserve every possible meeting room to push the Religious Right shit. We used to have duplicate bridge sessions, the college Go club and the chess club meeting several times a week UNTIL those asshole Xtians seized the rooms to push their shit. And they were really obnoxious SOBs!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:53:38am

these morons

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Dread Pirate  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:53:50am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:55:00am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:55:21am

re: #296 Joe Bacon 🌹

What really pissed me off when I was at Pitt was seeing the Campus Crusade for Christ reserve every possible meeting room to push the Religious Right shit. We used to have duplicate bridge sessions, the college Go club and the chess club meeting several times a week UNTIL those asshole Xtians seized the rooms to push their shit. And they were really obnoxious SOBs!

The bunker-Hunts (the bastards who tried to corner the silver market back in the late 70’s) were heavily bankrolling them.

I also remember back when I was hitchhiking and got picked up by some piggy-eyed white trash fellow who told me within minutes of getting in that he was a “born-again Christian”. I just though “god bless you for giving me a lift”, and then with minutes, he was telling me how he had picked up a woman at a CCC meeting and then got her drunk and fucked her.

That seemed to be his standard MO.

And I recall my wife bring home a Toby Kieth Album (entitled “White Trash With Money), which was “dedicated to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ” and contained a song, “Running Block, about picking up drunk women and fucking them in motel rooms.

Really told me a lot about modern American Christianity.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:56:00am

re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cats Tattooed by Kazuaki Horitomo

Cattoo?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 16, 2019 • 10:57:41am

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CarolJ  Nov 16, 2019 • 11:50:02am

re: #250 BigPapa

You are right about AM Radio. The lucrative side of the radio music went to FM with its better range and sound quality back in the early 80’s. AM radio, more local and limited floundered around for more than a decade looking for a format to replace the music. It settled on talk radio. Talk radio had advantages for a struggling radio station, low cost, no need for a lot of promotions.

Talk radio hired all of the rendundant DJ’s who no longer could fit because of age or whatever on the FM music side of the dial and is now making them into politicians, which is one of the reasons for some of the stunts you saw on Wednesday and Friday. These are stunts redolent of the 1980’s shock jock era-the belief that disruption is good in and of itself.

It’s no accident that the Republicans now have a lot of people coming out of talk radio-its a way to get known on a daily basis for a potential candidate.

As the old jocks who remember music radio retire, more and more slots are being filled by true believers who can use their shows as a bit of wingnut welfare. So the antics will grow worse and worse because the need is to keep whatever listeners are still there. At least 2 generations have moved to FM, even younger ones go to podcast and satellite, so the group of listeners have shrunk-but that’s the listenership that consistently votes, so there.

Profitwise, even with the rise of Rush Limbaugh, it worked until podcasting and internet radio. Now a lot of them are any of the following-ethnic radio, religious radio, and right wing talk.

There are a few liberal radio stations-WCPT from Chicago, a few out west on the coast, but mostly it’s right wing radio out there. So I wouldn’t be surprised at even the terms regarding Rush Limbaugh. He’s the 900 lb element of AM radio, which would struggle now for even a local audience without one syndicated something. And for the rest of the right-wingers, subsidizing a radio show is one of the cheapest thing you can do for wingnut welfare anyway. Keep them in the mix when tv shuts them out.

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CleverToad  Nov 16, 2019 • 4:05:04pm

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