Here’s a simple, unadorned open thread, on what can only be called a rather slow news day, as I continue going through the site and making things mobile-friendly. Next up on the list: LGF Spy mode, our live-streaming view of comment threads. In fact, it’s almost ready to launch…
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makeitstop Apr 7, 2014 6:00:16pm |
It’s currently raining like hell here on LI. It’s 40 degrees, but the damp is making it feel much more raw.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 7, 2014 6:05:49pm |
OK, got my livestream going for the game.
Hoping the buffering settles down before the action starts.
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Political Atheist Apr 7, 2014 6:07:27pm |
re: #2 klys
Love that.
Around here just a smooth Monday evening, home made burgers and some London Phil take on Pink Floyd. Sierra Nevada brew in hand.
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:10:11pm |
re: #4 Political Atheist
Love that.
Around here just a smooth Monday evening, home made burgers and some London Phil take on Pink Floyd. Sierra Nevada brew in hand.
That was one of the first photos I took when I got my K-5. She tends towards being the most photogenic of our three.
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psddluva4evah Apr 7, 2014 6:12:03pm |
Evening everyone.
If you turn tv to PBS, then you should be able to see televised broadcast of last month’s In Performance at the White House: Women of Soul
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 6:16:05pm |
re: #6 bratwurst
Pot? Kettle is on line one…
I saw that segment and almost spewed.
Did Bill ever stop to wonder who is funding the Grievance Industry?
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 6:17:24pm |
Bless #UConn 's heart. #sec #sec #sec #Kentucky
— Michelle (@MichelleVista) April 8, 2014
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RealityBasedSteve Apr 7, 2014 6:18:35pm |
re: #5 klys
That was one of the first photos I took when I got my K-5. She tends towards being the most photogenic of our three.
That’s a look that says “This indignity HAS been noted…”
RBS
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:19:50pm |
re: #10 RealityBasedSteve
That’s a look that says “This indignity HAS been noted…”
RBS
And yet out of all our cats, she is the least likely to cause issues.
Of course, she rather epitomizes fat, happy, and lazy. Not to mention ungraceful.
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Charles Johnson Apr 7, 2014 6:21:32pm |
LGF Spy is starting to look pretty good on my iPhone. This kind of live-streaming page is interesting on a smart phone, though; in some ways the full-size version is better because it lets you see more of the streaming comments at once.
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 6:21:41pm |
Wow! : 100+ scientists & economists call on @BarackObama & @JohnKerry to reject KXL pipeline @nrdc rules! http://t.co/yGAtNZ0G1b #NoKXL
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) April 7, 2014
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:22:13pm |
re: #12 Charles Johnson
LGF Spy is starting to look pretty good on my iPhone. This kind of live-streaming page is interesting on a smart phone, though, because in some ways the full-size version is better because it lets you see more of the streaming comments at once.
I can add more cat pictures if you’d like.
//
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 6:22:16pm |
re: #11 klys
And yet out of all our cats, she is the least likely to cause issues.
Of course, she rather epitomizes fat, happy, and lazy. Not to mention ungraceful.
That’s the image she wishes to convey. Yet if you upset her once too often, you’ll likely find something you cherish shredded or broken. The Feline Overlords are not to be trifled with.
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b.d. Apr 7, 2014 6:24:06pm |
New(ish) Websites:
Vox - New website with lots of new material daily
538 - New website with lots of new material daily
Daily Banter - Adding staff, growing and amount of new daily material increased
Pando Daily - Newish website with always something new.
The Intercept - One tired, one trick pony rehashed screed a week if you’re lucky.
Which one would you want your $250,000,000.00 in?
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:24:18pm |
re: #15 Dark_Falcon
That’s the image she wishes to convey. Yet if you upset her once too often, you’ll likely find something you cherish shredded or broken. The Feline Overlords are not to be trifled with.
All human misdeeds can be smoothed over with a can of wet food.
However, she did manage to shatter a glass bowl that was holding change when she attempted to jump down from the window sill the other week.
And I’m fairly certain she’s knocked the speakers over twice.
Cat-like grace is an attribute she does not have.
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jaunte Apr 7, 2014 6:24:35pm |
re: #11 klys
That pose reminds me of my old orange cat, now deceased. I taught him to let me drive him around on the carpet like a toy car while he lay on his back, occasionally tipping his head back to take an upside-down view of the way forward.
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 7, 2014 6:24:45pm |
HURR HURR IT TEH TROOF!!!!!!
@viciousbabushka @littlebytesnews @PolitiBunny True statement no matter who said it.— Disciple (@disciple96) April 8, 2014
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RealityBasedSteve Apr 7, 2014 6:25:08pm |
re: #15 Dark_Falcon
That’s the image she wishes to convey. Yet if you upset her once too often, you’ll likely find something you cherish shredded or broken. The Feline Overlords are not to be trifled with.
You beat me to it D_F. Just because she likes to give the impression of being fat, dumb and lazy doesn’t mean that she’s not the one that is secretly giving the directions to the rest of the cat cabal. It’s a well know fact that cats often have the leader act like the stooge of the group in order to divert attention.
RBS
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Lidane Apr 7, 2014 6:25:12pm |
A Suit Cat pic.twitter.com/6N8DkbFuuq— Dressed up Animals (@DressedAnimaIs) April 8, 2014
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:26:21pm |
re: #18 jaunte
That pose reminds me of my old orange cat, now deceased. I taught him to let me drive him around on the carpet like a toy car while he lay on his back, occasionally tipping his head back to take an upside-down view of the way forward.
They both do it; it’s really funny. I wonder if it’s something they picked up as kittens together.
She was still pretty royally offended when we adopted her brother a year later.
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EPR-radar Apr 7, 2014 6:27:30pm |
re: #21 Lidane
That cat looks like it is making a list, a little list of people who will absolutely not be missed.
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:27:45pm |
re: #20 RealityBasedSteve
You beat me to it D_F. Just because she likes to give the impression of being fat, dumb and lazy doesn’t mean that she’s not the one that is secretly giving the directions to the rest of the cat cabal. It’s a well know fact that cats often have the leader act like the stooge of the group in order to divert attention.
RBS
Oh, she’s a diva. A DIVA. There is no doubt about who is head cat in this house when feeding time rolls around.
She just can’t be arsed to care about anything outside of it.
…None of our cats are really all that bright. Like, I know there are smart cats out there. But we have managed to land three pretty dumb ones.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 6:27:59pm |
re: #11 klys
And yet out of all our cats, she is the least likely to cause issues.
Of course, she rather epitomizes fat, happy, and lazy. Not to mention ungraceful.
ooooh, furry tummy!!!!!
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:28:32pm |
re: #25 FemNaziBitch
ooooh, furry tummy!!!!!
You are allowed exactly three scratches, and then she will grab your hand with her front paws and start kicking at it with the back paws.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 6:28:33pm |
re: #15 Dark_Falcon
That’s the image she wishes to convey. Yet if you upset her once too often, you’ll likely find something you cherish shredded or broken. The Feline Overlords are not to be trifled with.
worse, it could snow again and you won’t know if it is something you did … .
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b.d. Apr 7, 2014 6:28:40pm |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 6:29:23pm |
re: #18 jaunte
That pose reminds me of my old orange cat, now deceased. I taught him to let me drive him around on the carpet like a toy car while he lay on his back, occasionally tipping his head back to take an upside-down view of the way forward.
I think we need to have a talk …
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:31:14pm |
So I just cleaned off this nice space on my desk so I could deal with scanning a bunch of papers, in my effort to switch over to a digital filing system.
It now holds a cat.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 6:32:09pm |
The Les Misérables Special You Will Only See On Passover!Youtube Video
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dog philosopher Apr 7, 2014 6:33:46pm |
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makeitstop Apr 7, 2014 6:34:10pm |
re: #17 klys
All human misdeeds can be smoothed over with a can of wet food.
However, she did manage to shatter a glass bowl that was holding change when she attempted to jump down from the window sill the other week.
And I’m fairly certain she’s knocked the speakers over twice.
Cat-like grace is an attribute she does not have.
Our three cats are coming around now, but they were extremely miffed that we brought home a puppy. Two stayed in the basement, and the third - the one that is afaraid of any human that isn’t me or my wife - carried on like nothing even happened.
The youngest has been hopping up on my lap all afternoon and evening, making up for lost pettin’ time. But they’re still not real happy about it.
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Kragar Apr 7, 2014 6:34:36pm |
re: #19 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR IT TEH TROOF!!!!!!
[Embedded content]
“#Tcot is full of idiots” - Thomas Jefferson @disciple96 @viciousbabushka @littlebytesnews @PolitiBunny— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 8, 2014
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dog philosopher Apr 7, 2014 6:38:52pm |
re: #19 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR IT TEH TROOF!!!!!!
i have a great quote that is presumably fake, or at least i can’t manage to google it at all, although i’m sure i read it somewhere once
or maybe i dreamed it i don’t know…
“a corporation, in law, is just like a natural person, except that it doesn’t have an ass to kick.
and it should!”
- Abraham Lincoln
oh, how much i wish he had actually said that…
[edited]
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:42:39pm |
re: #30 klys
So I just cleaned off this nice space on my desk so I could deal with scanning a bunch of papers, in my effort to switch over to a digital filing system.
It now holds a cat.
I removed the cat. I got about 5 minutes worth of scanning done.
Now there are two cats.
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EPR-radar Apr 7, 2014 6:43:11pm |
re: #37 klys
I removed the cat. I got about 5 minutes worth of scanning done.
Now there are two cats.
This seems easy enough. Scan the cats. //
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 6:43:29pm |
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 7, 2014 6:43:41pm |
re: #32 dog philosopher
Wingnuts Against Democracy
please proceed
They don’t want a government that is chosen by 51%. They want a government that is chosen by the 1%.
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:43:43pm |
re: #38 EPR-radar
This seems easy enough. Scan the cats. //
If it were a flat-bed scanner, I would scan the cats and post it here for you all to enjoy.
But as it is a document scanner…
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RealityBasedSteve Apr 7, 2014 6:45:09pm |
re: #37 klys
I removed the cat. I got about 5 minutes worth of scanning done.
Now there are two cats.
OMG!!!! YOU SCANNED THE CAT????
RBS
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 7, 2014 6:46:48pm |
sigh…
NASA photo captures strange bright light coming out of Mars
A NASA camera on Mars has captured what appears to be artificial light emanating outward from the planet’s surface.
The photo, beamed millions of miles from Mars to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., was taken last week, apparently by one of two NASA rovers on the red planet.
Although the space agency hasn’t issued any official statement yet about the phenomenon, bloggers and NASA enthusiasts have started chiming in.
Scott C. Waring, who maintains the website UFO Sightings Daily, posted the photo April 6.
Waring noted that the light shines upward, as if from the ground, and is very flat across the bottom.
“This could indicate there there is intelligent life below the ground and uses light as we do,” Waring wrote on his website. “This is not a glare from the sun, nor is it an artifact of the photo process.”
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Apr 7, 2014 6:47:40pm |
Can anyone suggest (preferably from direct personal experience) a good TV in the 40”-46” range that doesn’t cost a kidney, has good calibration controls, and has at least 2 HDMI inputs?
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:48:02pm |
re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
sigh…
I’m gonna wait for the scientists to weigh in on this one.
With a very healthy dose of skepticism in the meantime.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Apr 7, 2014 6:49:39pm |
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b.d. Apr 7, 2014 6:49:55pm |
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:50:40pm |
re: #47 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
WHY have nearly 20 minutes passed and not ONE person could be bothered to make a “CAT-Scan” joke? I’m disappointed.
That requires them to hold still.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 6:50:54pm |
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dog philosopher Apr 7, 2014 6:51:12pm |
re: #40 Pie-onist Overlord
They don’t want a government that is chosen by 51%. They want a government that is chosen by the 1%.
they’re getting awfully close to espousing pre 19th century positions such as as property requirements for voting and theories about how common people are incapable of governing themselves
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 6:51:37pm |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 6:52:25pm |
Contest? Who can be the first to identify the location of this photo?
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dog philosopher Apr 7, 2014 6:52:37pm |
re: #50 Archangelus
“the good lord must love con artists, since he made so many gullible wingnuts just begging to be conned”
- A. Lincoln
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 7, 2014 6:53:45pm |
re: #46 klys
I’m gonna wait for the scientists to weigh in on this one.
With a very healthy dose of skepticism in the meantime.
It’s already being spread breathlessly on FB.
I am rapidly losing confidence in any evidence of intelligent life on earth…
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 6:54:31pm |
We will never reach true income equality until every American can afford to own at least one politician.— CC:Indecision (@indecision) April 4, 2014
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klys Apr 7, 2014 6:55:07pm |
re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s already being spread breathlessly on FB.
I am rapidly losing confidence in any evidence of intelligent life on earth…
I try to remind myself that the main reason we don’t know if our ancestors were this dumb is because it was much more difficult to record their day to day idiocies for all to see forever.
At least, I sort of hope that’s the main reason.
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b.d. Apr 7, 2014 6:55:07pm |
re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s already being spread breathlessly on FB.
I am rapidly losing confidence in any evidence of intelligent life on earth…
Man, people are really fucking stupid.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) April 7, 2014
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 6:58:32pm |
re: #57 FemNaziBitch
[Embedded content]
“True income equality” is a phantasm, and it isn’t desirable anyways.
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Archangelus Apr 7, 2014 6:58:38pm |
re: #55 dog philosopher
Here you go :)
FSM bless the wonders of progress, technology and Microsoft Paint Photoshop
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ninja cat Apr 7, 2014 6:59:39pm |
I don’t post much, but I have an excuse.
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klys Apr 7, 2014 7:00:14pm |
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Political Atheist Apr 7, 2014 7:00:29pm |
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Archangelus Apr 7, 2014 7:00:38pm |
re: #63 ninja cat
I don’t post much, but I have an excuse.
That’s no Keyboard Cat, that’s a Tactical Distraction Cat…
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 7:02:03pm |
This is no longer an open thread, it is now a Photos of Cats Thread. Hail HYDRA The Feline Overlords!
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psddluva4evah Apr 7, 2014 7:03:01pm |
here is the FULL performance of Aretha Franklin singing Amazing Grace at the White House! They don’t call this woman the Queen of Soul for nothing.
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klys Apr 7, 2014 7:05:47pm |
So strangely enough, we still have to write physical checks from time to time. Not often, but occasionally.
The “time to order new checks” thing just showed up, so I am being responsible and looking at things.
Why are all check designs so bloody ugly?
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RealityBasedSteve Apr 7, 2014 7:06:02pm |
My OLD kitties…. Doing what they do best…
Head to Head….
RBS
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Targetpractice Apr 7, 2014 7:07:09pm |
re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
sigh…
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million-to-one, he said…
//
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Lidane Apr 7, 2014 7:08:03pm |
re: #67 Dark_Falcon
This is no longer an open thread, it is now a Photos of Cats Thread. Hail
HYDRAThe Feline Overlords!
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 7:09:58pm |
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 7, 2014 7:10:04pm |
This is an Orchid Mantis. pic.twitter.com/VKMBar91kT
— Globe Pics (@Globe_Pics) April 8, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 7, 2014 7:10:17pm |
re: #45 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Can anyone suggest (preferably from direct personal experience) a good TV in the 40”-46” range that doesn’t cost a kidney, has good calibration controls, and has at least 2 HDMI inputs?
I had a Magnavox 4 years ago. It got stoled.
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dog philosopher Apr 7, 2014 7:11:32pm |
Pictures Of Cats Thread
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Charles Johnson Apr 7, 2014 7:19:08pm |
Cat pictures are the antibodies of the Internet.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 8, 2014
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 7:19:10pm |
re: #77 dog philosopher
Pictures Of Cats Thread
The cat is making sure that the meal being ordered includes enough meat to ensure a generous portion for herself while still being enough for the staff.
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 7:19:39pm |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:22:05pm |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:22:50pm |
The obvious:
“Banks need to be discouraged from gaming the rules. All history tells us they will do this unless incentivized not to” Andrew Tyrie #UK #US— Glass-Steagall (@howtodoit1) April 8, 2014
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:24:25pm |
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 7:25:09pm |
This one sounds straight out of Rescue Me:
NYPD, FDNY Brawl At Charity Hockey Match (VIDEO)
They may be “New York’s Finest” and “New York’s Bravest,” but they won’t be competing for “New York’s Classiest” after what happened on Sunday, when police and firefighters brawled at a charity hockey match.
The fight set Twitter, YouTube and Instagram aflame with photos and videos of the violence.
Be warned, the videos contain some language that’s every bit as harsh as the action, which took place at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, home of the New York Islanders NHL team.
The teams were tied, 3-3, in the second period when the benches-clearing brawl erupted. NYPD eventually won, 8-5, breaking FDNY’s five-year winning streak.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:26:05pm |
re: #68 psddluva4evah
here is the FULL performance of Aretha Franklin singing Amazing Grace at the White House! They don’t call this woman the Queen of Soul for nothing.
WHAT a treat!
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:29:23pm |
re: #69 klys
So strangely enough, we still have to write physical checks from time to time. Not often, but occasionally.
The “time to order new checks” thing just showed up, so I am being responsible and looking at things.
Why are all check designs so bloody ugly?
I had an aunt who refused to eat chicken because they were so ugly.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:29:43pm |
re: #67 Dark_Falcon
This is no longer an open thread, it is now a Photos of Cats Thread. Hail
HYDRAThe Feline Overlords!
Not takin’ any chances are you DF?
;)
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klys Apr 7, 2014 7:30:04pm |
re: #95 FemNaziBitch
I had an aunt who refused to eat chicken because they were so ugly.
I’m not a big fan of chicken, but that’s more a flavor thing.
Problem child goes wild for deli-style turkey.
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RealityBasedSteve Apr 7, 2014 7:30:50pm |
re: #96 FemNaziBitch
Not takin’ any chances are you DF?
;)
I, for one, will be the first to bow before our multi-headed feline overlords.
RBS
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Political Atheist Apr 7, 2014 7:32:19pm |
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RealityBasedSteve Apr 7, 2014 7:32:53pm |
re: #97 klys
I’m not a big fan of chicken, but that’s more a flavor thing.
Problem child goes wild for deli-style turkey.
I have one that will get down right violent if you have beef jerky. I tried getting the “dog jerky*” for them, it was a no-go. They want ubertos or nothing.
*they quickly determined that “dog jerky” wasn’t, in fact, made of real dog.
RBS
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 7:34:25pm |
re: #96 FemNaziBitch
Not takin’ any chances are you DF?
;)
Nope. Especially since I may not get a chance to see the Captain America movie in the theater. It’s looking likely to lose out to other priorities.
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Political Atheist Apr 7, 2014 7:36:24pm |
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wrenchwench Apr 7, 2014 7:37:21pm |
re: #103 Stanley Sea
Coast Salish Grumpy Cat. EWE means no in SENCO?EN. pic.twitter.com/T3KiEIkSMK— Mark Gauti (@tricksterart) March 29, 2014
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 7:37:49pm |
re: #105 FemNaziBitch
F A K E
i hate that shit. I remember when photoshop was brand spanking new, the advert of the person touching the rhino’s nose.
I felt the pit in my stomach that something will now be wrong.
RIP only believe what you see.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 7, 2014 7:38:00pm |
re: #87 FemNaziBitch
um, ah, well see, I was actually hoping someone knew.
Found this:
A quote from Rear Admiral Grace Hopper on the wall of @iconews #DPD2014 pic.twitter.com/3jwxmOH4Ft
— ICO (@ICOnews) January 28, 2014
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 7:38:32pm |
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 7:39:45pm |
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
Found this:
[Embedded content]
you hanging in there? I can barely watch! Stress City.
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Archangelus Apr 7, 2014 7:41:58pm |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:42:08pm |
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 7, 2014 7:42:38pm |
re: #111 Stanley Sea
you hanging in there? I can barely watch! Stress City.
So far, this game is pretty much as I expected it would go.
Last two minutes will be when I might stress.
:D
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Archangelus Apr 7, 2014 7:42:40pm |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:42:46pm |
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
Found this:
[Embedded content]
You are the official LGF Sleuth now!
Thanks.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:43:37pm |
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 7:43:50pm |
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
So far, this game is pretty much as I expected it would go.
Last two minutes will be when I might stress.:D
ya. 12 minutes. Years in real time.
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 7:44:51pm |
So much diversity in that #UConn VIP box: white, very white and super white teeth. pic.twitter.com/snXX2NJSrf
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Archangelus Apr 7, 2014 7:44:56pm |
And of course, it wouldn’t be right to invoke all things feline without honoring one of TV’s greatest pets, Salem Saberhagen, invoking the Standard Feline Rule:
.
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 7:45:38pm |
Why is Jerry Jones there? Is he another fake Texan like W?
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Targetpractice Apr 7, 2014 7:46:13pm |
Nothing quite like watching refs give the game to the underdog. Yegods, the officiating on this game sucks.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 7, 2014 7:46:36pm |
re: #122 Stanley Sea
[Embedded content]
OMG where's the tie??? “@DavidChalian: 42 and 43 enjoying some NCAA Championship Game action. pic.twitter.com/z9VNQGg488”
— Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) April 8, 2014
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bratwurst Apr 7, 2014 7:47:37pm |
re: #124 Stanley Sea
Why is Jerry Jones there? Is he another fake Texan like W?
The party is at his house!
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 7:48:15pm |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:49:29pm |
Think this guy has issues?
“I’ll tell you the honest truth. I worry more about my daughters drinking than my sons, because my daughters are more out, and when they went on a date - their first date - when they were young kids, I worried about the poor guy that were going out with,” he said over the crosstalk. ” Because women are more aggressive than men.”
Also Paged
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 7, 2014 7:51:13pm |
Selfie with my best friend pic.twitter.com/ebC02eh8R7
— Animal Planet (@MeetAnimals) April 8, 2014
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 7:53:15pm |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:53:35pm |
RT @World Map of every known meteorite that has fallen on earth pic.twitter.com/OSUkqyKIUX— SciencePorn (@SciencePorn) April 8, 2014
me thinks the Feline Overlords have some plan for North America.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 7, 2014 7:53:56pm |
Boatright injured.
Hate to see that happen.
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 7:56:33pm |
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
Boatright injured.
Hate to see that happen.
Our game started with a close up of the ice pack on Scottie Wilbekin’s knee. It was a shitshow from there.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 7:56:34pm |
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Political Atheist Apr 7, 2014 7:57:16pm |
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Archangelus Apr 7, 2014 7:57:52pm |
re: #132 FemNaziBitch
[Embedded content]
me thinks the Feline Overlords have some plan for North America.
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Lidane Apr 7, 2014 7:58:47pm |
re: #103 Stanley Sea
.@RealGrumpyCat journeyed to #SXSWesteros and usurped the Iron Throne at the #GOTExhibit. #SXSW #SXSW14 #holyshrimp pic.twitter.com/wNPqIOnm4L— Game Of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) March 10, 2014
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 7:59:47pm |
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Political Atheist Apr 7, 2014 8:01:01pm |
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 8:01:48pm |
#Washington: Protests against “RussiaToday”, #Kremlin backed channel in DC that spreads false info about #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/iWyL4GxQyy
— Euromaidan PR (@EuromaidanPR) April 8, 2014
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 8:05:44pm |
Quite the obvious joke, prob been said already, but it got an out loud from me.
Can you imagine if CNN was on the air when Titanic sank.
— Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) March 26, 2014
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 8:07:01pm |
*the plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane got my parents off of FOX for CNN.
Small favors I’ll take.
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 8:08:54pm |
Kentucky White Knuckler, Part Five. Unbelievable.
— Pat Forde (@YahooForde) April 8, 2014
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The War TARDIS Apr 7, 2014 8:10:45pm |
re: #144 Stanley Sea
Media coverage of the sinking of the Titanic back in 1912 was pretty bad in its own right.
Not to mention the horrific way the 3rd Class Passengers were treated. Though, apparently, people think this was a good thing today.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 8:11:19pm |
Gawd, what else is going to happen in my lifetime?
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 8:12:10pm |
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Targetpractice Apr 7, 2014 8:12:23pm |
Well, I’ve seen enough. Piss-poor refereeing gives away the game yet again.
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 7, 2014 8:12:29pm |
re: #37 klys
I removed the cat. I got about 5 minutes worth of scanning done.
Now there are two cats.
Were you scanning, or copying???
O_O
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 8:13:38pm |
who in the hell is actually from Connecticut?
ahhhhhlaj;sdfpasihdfpoua
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RealityBasedSteve Apr 7, 2014 8:14:50pm |
re: #37 klys
I removed the cat. I got about 5 minutes worth of scanning done.
Now there are two cats.
I think I saw this in “The Prestige”. It doesn’t end well.
RBS
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 7, 2014 8:15:42pm |
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jamesfirecat Apr 7, 2014 8:17:22pm |
Speaking of cats, there was just a great feline themed joke on the Daily Show.
“Of course the Fox News branch in Afghanistan kept reporting on how there was a Black Panther trying to discourage voters outside one poling station…”
(Cue shot of women in burkas lined up to vote with a growling black panther nearby)
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Stanley Sea Apr 7, 2014 8:21:28pm |
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 7, 2014 8:24:05pm |
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 7, 2014 8:25:11pm |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 8:26:20pm |
David Hasselhoff is selling Kitt, the ‘Knight Rider’ car http://t.co/i9IiLAuMuJ @wajahatali @julito77 @jensalan @latoyapeterson @smorinews— Osman Noor (@OzzyForMayor) April 8, 2014
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 7, 2014 8:26:37pm |
baby goats…
Two little goats in coats pic.twitter.com/2hB8cKi9FV
— Baby Animals (@BabyAnimalPics) April 8, 2014
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 7, 2014 8:26:39pm |
One of the Siamese back in the day. Would race into the room ahead of me, jump up on the love seat, and immediately curl into that position in order to get some belly scritches.
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bratwurst Apr 7, 2014 8:27:51pm |
Just add “We lost to the” or “We aren't the” #ProblemSolved pic.twitter.com/LMRx8ovGuL— Eric Stangel (@EricStangel) April 8, 2014
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 8:31:24pm |
Cat Cafes Can Be A Force For Good. Here's How: http://t.co/fllvKyehgV from @dodo pic.twitter.com/hBsjZTDlMp— RebelMouse (@RebelMouse) April 8, 2014
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 7, 2014 8:31:41pm |
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Stinky Beaumont Apr 7, 2014 8:33:27pm |
Posting from the mobile version of LGF Spy. Rockin’.
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Interesting Times Apr 7, 2014 8:35:16pm |
Who knew such a simple, unassuming thing could be a potentially life-saving implement?
Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves within eight hours. This process is known as the oligodynamic effect.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 8:35:36pm |
I WHHHANNNNNNTTTTT a German Shepherd!
A military dog was spotted on the airport, protecting a soldier while he sleeps. Awesome loyalty. pic.twitter.com/v7yeAuQwDQ— Pics with a Story (@Picswithastory) April 5, 2014
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 8:36:19pm |
re: #167 Stinky Beaumont
Posting from the mobile version of LGF Spy. Rockin’.
Stinky, dude, I haven’t seen you in a while. How’s it goin’?
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 7, 2014 8:38:30pm |
The reason I started putting plexiglass on any board games I left out on the table. Otherwise, the fleet often got rearranged.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 8:38:34pm |
re: #168 Interesting Times
Who knew such a simple, unassuming thing could be a potentially life-saving implement?
Vewy, Vewy Kewl!
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FemNaziBitch Apr 7, 2014 8:39:23pm |
re: #171 Feline Fearless Leader
[Embedded image]Tiger of the Pacific!
The reason I started putting plexiglass on any board games I left out on the table. Otherwiuse, the fleet often got rearranged.
We have a “special” piece of cardboard we put over unfinished puzzles for this reason.
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 8:40:24pm |
re: #165 FemNaziBitch
[Embedded content]
White Persian Cat: “Listen dude, you’ve gotten about as much affection as you can get buying me coffee. Rubbing my soft, furry, belly will cost you a double cheezburger.”
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 7, 2014 8:42:09pm |
re: #174 FemNaziBitch
We have a “special” piece of cardboard we put over unfinished puzzles for this reason.
Cardboard would not be a good option here since one of the current cats *likes* scratching up and tearing cardboard. And sleeping/sitting in empty cardboard boxes.
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 7, 2014 8:46:45pm |
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Charles Johnson Apr 7, 2014 8:47:10pm |
Bearded dragon and his cat buddy. pic.twitter.com/xLqgv8J0FK— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) April 8, 2014
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 8:47:42pm |
re: #171 Feline Fearless Leader
[Embedded image]Tiger of the Pacific!
The reason I started putting plexiglass on any board games I left out on the table. Otherwise, the fleet often got rearranged.
Sherman contemplates his upcoming assault on Port Moresby: “After my carriers crush the Allies last fleet in the south Pacific, I’ll invade Port Moresby and cut Australia off. They say that catnip grows wild on New Guinea, so I’m gonna have a good time!”
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 7, 2014 8:50:40pm |
re: #183 Dark_Falcon
Sherman contemplates his upcoming assault on Port Moresby: “After my carriers crush the Allies last fleet in the south Pacific, I’ll invade Port Moresby and cut Australia off. They say that catnip grows wild on New Guinea, so I’m gonna have a good time!”
Given that the game in the picture was on the Allied submarine campaign in the Pacific I referred to him doing that as being a “diligent escort” since it was pretty much impossible to carry out operations against convoys when he was sleeping on most of the western Pacific.
Not to mention I was occasionally finding submarines scattered on the floor.
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 8:57:05pm |
re: #184 Feline Fearless Leader
Given that the game in the picture was on the Allied submarine campaign in the Pacific I referred to him doing that as being a “diligent escort” since it was pretty much impossible to carry out operations against convoys when he was sleeping on most of the western Pacific.
Not to mention I was occasionally finding submarines scattered on the floor.
Sherman was better at Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) than the IJN!
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Aqua Obama Apr 7, 2014 9:05:05pm |
YOU DON’T HAVE NIXON TO KICK AROUND ANYMORE
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Dark_Falcon Apr 7, 2014 9:06:59pm |
re: #186 Aqua Obama
YOU DON’T HAVE NIXON TO KICK AROUND ANYMORE
Richard Nixon: A President who could teach a feline something about being sneaky.
Good Night, all.
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Political Atheist Apr 7, 2014 9:24:14pm |
Wallpaper anyone?
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Sophist, D.D., DDS, DFH Apr 7, 2014 9:26:23pm |
re: #88 Dark_Falcon
This one sounds straight out of Rescue Me:
They’ll probably sell more tickets next year.
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Amory Blaine Apr 7, 2014 9:48:02pm |
re: #189 Political Atheist
Great photo. Do you have a 2560x1600? (I couldn’t find it on your blog.) It would look great on my desktop.
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Political Atheist Apr 7, 2014 9:57:57pm |
re: #191 Amory Blaine
A moment to do that…
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darthstar Apr 7, 2014 9:59:22pm |
Hey everyone…here’s one April Fool’s joke to appreciate.
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Political Atheist Apr 7, 2014 10:05:07pm |
re: #191 Amory Blaine
Great photo. Do you have a 2560x1600? (I couldn’t find it on your blog.) It would look great on my desktop.
Thanks, glad you like it. The dropbox should let you get a high res file.
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darthstar Apr 7, 2014 10:15:26pm |
Proof that not all phobes are created equal.
Most homophobes are secretly gay. However, most arachnophobes are not secretly spiders.— God (@TheTweetOfGod) April 7, 2014
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Amory Blaine Apr 7, 2014 10:19:13pm |
re: #192 Political Atheist
A moment to do that…
Thanks! I love dark backgrounds. This will do quite nicely.
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klys Apr 7, 2014 10:22:39pm |
re: #198 darthstar
Suck it, Kentucky.
[Embedded image]
The real losers: America, for having to once again put up with a sport that people only care about during the month of March.
//
Where’s my hockey?
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darthstar Apr 7, 2014 10:25:08pm |
re: #199 klys
The real losers: America, for having to once again put up with a sport that people only care about during the month of March.
//
Where’s my hockey?
Hockey is over…global warming. A friend of my wife’s just posted a picture of her outside hockey rink (she lives on the east coast) on facebook.
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darthstar Apr 7, 2014 10:25:56pm |
re: #200 darthstar
Obviously, the kids are saddened by the loss of their frozen rectangle.
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Single-handed sailor Apr 7, 2014 10:27:25pm |
If Schrödinger's Cat were alive today, we still wouldn't know.— God (@TheTweetOfGod) April 7, 2014
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darthstar Apr 7, 2014 10:29:00pm |
Twitter - where anyone can be an asshole when they want to be.
@KeithOlbermann “Irreverent?” Think he was trying to say 'irrelevant'? @Tilting43's probably from some shithole like Scranton. #NTTAWWT— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 8, 2014
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darthstar Apr 7, 2014 10:31:52pm |
Fuck Smart-car flipping motherfuckers…sideways…
@7im Cool. Got a 2008 with about 36000 miles on it. Don't drive it much at all(obviously). Happy to sell it for about 8-10k.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 8, 2014
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darthstar Apr 7, 2014 10:43:40pm |
@SarcasticRover - are you fucking with your fellow rovers? http://t.co/VS1Xh7In8x pic.twitter.com/fr5B92np5d— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 8, 2014
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darthstar Apr 7, 2014 10:44:23pm |
@JC_Christian Unless he was a total dick.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 8, 2014
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darthstar Apr 7, 2014 10:48:14pm |
I now have a stock answer to all of these quizzes my friends play via facebook.
My response: “I got margarine.”
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Lidane Apr 7, 2014 11:24:15pm |
Anti-vax idiots ruining it for everyone else:
Measles At A Rock Concert Goes Viral In A Bad Way http://t.co/mfoQoNztNQ— NPR News (@nprnews) April 7, 2014
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Amory Blaine Apr 8, 2014 1:08:26am |
Walk away from excess running, researchers say
You’ve heard of the runner’s high. Researchers now want you to hear about runner’s plaque — coronary artery plaque.
In short: Running super-long distances for many years might backfire on you.
“Years of extreme exercise efforts appear to erase some benefits you get from moderate exercise, so that your risk of heart disease, of dying of coronary disease, is the same as a sedentary person,” said James O’Keefe, preventive cardiologist at St. Luke’s Hospital.
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Single-handed sailor Apr 8, 2014 1:28:38am |
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 3:34:00am |
re: #210 Amory Blaine
So, that old maxim, “Everything in moderation” applies everywhere to everything, no doubt.
Jim Fixx immediately came to mind. Remember, he did run for 17 yrs, after being overweight and a smoker at age 35 when he began, and made a small fortune at it.
I never ran, or even “jogged”, but I “power” walked my way through my 40s and stayed between 105-110 lbs.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 3:48:00am |
Maxim Eristavi @MaximEristavi 1h
Following the public pressure, self-proclaimed the People’s Republic of Donetsk is dissolved by its founders - stmt goo.gl
The end of the People's Republic of Kharkiv this morning pic via @MVS_UA pic.twitter.com/uOrlubqlu0— Maxim Eristavi (@MaximEristavi) April 8, 2014
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Apr 8, 2014 3:49:55am |
re: #213 Justanotherhuman
Every person his own republic!!!
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 3:51:35am |
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Every person his own republic!!!
“Sovereign citizens”, doncha know.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 3:56:52am |
Temper, temper…RW nationalist Svoboda Party members take the bait.
Deputies clash during parliament session in Kiev
Deputies clash during parliament session in Kiev amid violent protests in eastern #Ukraine http://t.co/MTFe4GUioM pic.twitter.com/PIhnV3h1AL— ITV News (@itvnews) April 8, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 4:24:29am |
re: #31 FemNaziBitch
The Les Misérables Special You Will Only See On Passover![Embedded content]
THAT WAS AWESOME!
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 4:31:17am |
I don’t know why I missed that awesome cover of “Les Mis” last night. Maybe I was too busy cleaning out the kitchen for Passover.
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William Barnett-Lewis Apr 8, 2014 4:39:05am |
I see that UConn has the first half won last night. It would be fun to see their women’s team win their championship as well.
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 8, 2014 4:41:52am |
Good morning Lizards. Misty and rainy, but warm. Fire drill in the building at 10am.
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Flounder Apr 8, 2014 4:42:36am |
re: #212 Justanotherhuman
I’m a big fan of “power walking” or just trying to walk as fast as my fat legs can propel me. I usually try to get 4 miles every other day. Helps improve my mood as well.
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Flounder Apr 8, 2014 4:49:03am |
I see this thread has gone
to the cats. My cat Fat Maggy, AKA Stubbs, telling us she wants some water.
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 8, 2014 4:57:13am |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 8, 2014 5:07:34am |
“Section 1-1-712A. The Columbian Mammoth, which was created on the Sixth Day with the other beasts of the field, is designated as the official State Fossil of South Carolina and must be officially referred to as the ‘Columbian Mammoth’, which was created on the Sixth Day with the other beasts of the field.”
I really need this to be a parody.
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 8, 2014 5:12:24am |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 8, 2014 5:16:50am |
Man Arrested For DUI Wears ‘Drunk As Sh*t’ Shirt
Freudian Confession?
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FemNaziBitch Apr 8, 2014 5:17:27am |
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FemNaziBitch Apr 8, 2014 5:22:21am |
Any Questions???? #$COTU$ #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/mCuqFZTc47— Caterina (@nopartyforme) April 3, 2014
This has been floating around a while and it finally hit me—what is wrong with this picture?
(Kagan not looking so good)
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 8, 2014 5:23:06am |
re: #228 FemNaziBitch
week old, -still relevant no?
Relevant as just another example of legislators messing with simple things* just to prove themselves godly to their base. And the kerfluffle has been picked up nationally since I can find NPR and FOX articles on it.
I think the initial attempt to modify the language was shot down as not germane to the motion. But the legislator came back a few days later with an amendment that was approved along with some other amendments. So it now has the usual joint-committee stuff to go through since the houses passed different versions.
* - Simple in that they could have just allowed the designation to take place and moved on to more useful business. Instead, they decided to teach a third grader about politics rather than mammoths.
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 5:23:21am |
re: #229 FemNaziBitch
[Embedded content]
This has been floating around a while and it finally hit me—what is wrong with this picture?
It is not the current SCOTUS. Where is Elena Kagan?
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FemNaziBitch Apr 8, 2014 5:26:17am |
re: #231 Pie-onist Overlord
It is not the current SCOTUS. Where is Elena Kagan?
Yeah, I just updated the post —bad habit, I know.
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 5:28:37am |
@nopartyforme Any questions???? Where is Elena Kagan? #UniteBlue— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) April 8, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 5:29:44am |
re: #233 FemNaziBitch
Yeah, I just updated the post —bad habit, I know.
Who is the old guy? I assume he retired and then Kagan was appointed.
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FemNaziBitch Apr 8, 2014 5:32:07am |
re: #235 Pie-onist Overlord
Who is the old guy? I assume he retired and then Kagan was appointed.
Hey, I just got what is wrong with the picture. I can’t do more on less than one cuppa.
LOL
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FemNaziBitch Apr 8, 2014 5:33:54am |
Well, I’m off.
Going on a trip.
I’ve decided to read an actual book this week, so I may not be on a lot. Will definitely be trying LGF from my iPhone.
Have a great day all!
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 5:37:41am |
re: #236 FemNaziBitch
Hey, I just got what is wrong with the picture. I can’t do more on less than one cuppa.
LOL
BTW I don’t know how I missed the Maccabeats “Les Mis” video you posted last night. THAT WAS FREAKIN AWESOME. Thank you so much!
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 5:38:48am |
Summary of grievances I heard at demo at Donetsk ODA: new #ukraine govt is fascist, and also gay, Jewish and Baptist. pic.twitter.com/2nfsYts79q— Gulliver Cragg (@gullivercragg) April 8, 2014
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 5:40:13am |
This is just not fucking right.
Egypt court sentences four gays to prison https://t.co/AXJtVHTNm8 pic.twitter.com/27swbkHZYY— Maxim Eristavi (@MaximEristavi) April 8, 2014
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S'latch Apr 8, 2014 5:56:03am |
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
- Hunter S. Thompson
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Dark_Falcon Apr 8, 2014 5:56:20am |
re: #239 Justanotherhuman
[Embedded content]
How can a government be both Jewish and Baptist at the same time?
Joking replies only, please.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 5:57:28am |
Medieval much?
One of the pro-Russian protestors defending the administration in Donetsk from attack from the west pic.twitter.com/7ueePQxD6o— Kevin Bishop (@bishopk) April 8, 2014
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Lidane Apr 8, 2014 5:58:26am |
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
How can a government be both Jewish and Baptist at the same time?
Joking replies only, please.
By putting Judeo-Baptist somewhere in the description.
///
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 5:58:28am |
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Timothy Watson Apr 8, 2014 5:59:01am |
re: #243 Justanotherhuman
Medieval much?
[Embedded content]
No chance the photographer accidentally uploaded a picture from his Game of Thrones’ cosplay/premiere party?
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b.d. Apr 8, 2014 5:59:43am |
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
How can a government be both Jewish and Baptist at the same time?
Joking replies only, please.
THE JEWISH BAPTISTS ARE THE WORST KIND OF BAPTISTS!!
//
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 6:00:32am |
re: #246 Timothy Watson
No chance the photographer accidentally uploaded a picture from his Game of Thrones’ cosplay/premiere party?
The background says “Russia”
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Timothy Watson Apr 8, 2014 6:01:09am |
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b.d. Apr 8, 2014 6:01:17am |
re: #247 b.d.
THE JEWISH BAPTISTS ARE THE WORST KIND OF BAPTISTS!!
//
And REALLY make sure that you never go fishing with only one of them.
//
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Dark_Falcon Apr 8, 2014 6:02:41am |
re: #248 Pie-onist Overlord
The background says “Russia”
Pro-Russia thug giving new meaning to the term “getting medieval on the enemy”.
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Lidane Apr 8, 2014 6:07:14am |
So today is the first part of my job interview. I’m meeting with two senior research analysts at 2:00 and the VP I spoke to on the phone at 2:30. I then have a test of some kind from 3-4.
I also have a phone interview Thursday at 3pm for the same job with the GM of an affiliate company. I’m assuming it’s because my role will somehow be tied to that affiliate, so they want to get to know me too, but since that guy is in Seattle, I have to wait a few days to talk to him.
I’m not quite sure what to do about the dress code. This was in my invite email: “Please note that [potential employer] is a very casual environment. Some of your interviewers will probably be wearing jeans. Please dress in what you will feel most comfortable and successful.” I had been considering a skirt and blouse, but reading that I think I’ll go for some jeans, a nice blouse and heels.
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 6:10:21am |
UKRAINE: Svoboda party and Communist party Members of Parliament fight in Ukrainian parliament #AFP pic.twitter.com/GTaGR0Ri71— grasswire (@grasswire) April 8, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 6:12:44am |
re: #252 Lidane
So today is the first part of my job interview. I’m meeting with two senior research analysts at 2:00 and the VP I spoke to on the phone at 2:30. I then have a test of some kind from 3-4.
I also have a phone interview Thursday at 3pm for the same job with the GM of an affiliate company. I’m assuming it’s because my role will somehow be tied to that affiliate, so they want to get to know me too, but since that guy is in Seattle, I have to wait a few days to talk to him.
I’m not quite sure what to do about the dress code. This was in my invite email: “Please note that [potential employer] is a very casual environment. Some of your interviewers will probably be wearing jeans. Please dress in what you will feel most comfortable and successful.” I had been considering a skirt and blouse, but reading that I think I’ll go for some jeans, a nice blouse and heels.
ALWAYS wear business formal to an interview, even if the interviewers are “dressed casual.” DO NOT WEAR JEANS, wear a nice skirt or dress slacks.
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 6:16:00am |
Greetings from the United States of Dumb People That Want To Do Stupid Things.
Apparently, In a poll of some 2,000 or so Americans, the Washington Post finds a statistically significant link between “not having a damned clue where Ukraine is” and “wanting to intervene militarily”.
Meanwhile, from the WIBPDI files, it turns out that the howler monkeys end up being suspiciously quiet in their broadcast pens when the ZOMG EBIL TURRIST OUT TO DESTROY MURKAH!!1!!11!! turns out to be a white guy who’s all about “patriotism”. Funny, that.
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Dark_Falcon Apr 8, 2014 6:16:36am |
re: #254 Pie-onist Overlord
ALWAYS wear business formal to an interview, even if the interviewers are “dressed casual.” DO NOT WEAR JEANS, wear a nice skirt or dress slacks.
Mostly concur. If the prospective employer is ‘very casual’, then it’d say one does not need to be fully formal. But jeans are never appropriate for interview attire. A pair of dressy khakis would do well, IMO.
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 6:18:08am |
Heh. Quick, someone pass this on to CNN!
MK exclusive: MH370 passengers are all alive and well on the Af-Pak border near Kandahar. You heard it here first! http://t.co/01lskUu9oT— max seddon (@maxseddon) April 8, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 6:23:20am |
Wingnuts think they are TEH MOAST PATRIOTIC PATRIOTS EVER!!!!
What does it take to be a “Patriot” you may ask. It seems that it is how many eagles, flags, guns, Ronald Reagan pics, colonial dudes and Fake Quotes you put into your Twitter profile.
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 8, 2014 6:23:20am |
Well, that was moderately surreal.
Co-worker and I just cracked up half the IT section by spontaneously doing the cop-Bugs Bunny exchange from “Bugs and Thugs”, fake Irish accent and all. The other half of the IT section is young and had no clue what we were going on about.
“Would I turn on the gas and throw a lit match in here if my good buddy Rocky was hiding in the stove?”
“You might rabbit. You might.”
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b.d. Apr 8, 2014 6:24:42am |
re: #252 Lidane
So today is the first part of my job interview. I’m meeting with two senior research analysts at 2:00 and the VP I spoke to on the phone at 2:30. I then have a test of some kind from 3-4.
I also have a phone interview Thursday at 3pm for the same job with the GM of an affiliate company. I’m assuming it’s because my role will somehow be tied to that affiliate, so they want to get to know me too, but since that guy is in Seattle, I have to wait a few days to talk to him.
I’m not quite sure what to do about the dress code. This was in my invite email: “Please note that [potential employer] is a very casual environment. Some of your interviewers will probably be wearing jeans. Please dress in what you will feel most comfortable and successful.” I had been considering a skirt and blouse, but reading that I think I’ll go for some jeans, a nice blouse and heels.
Best of luck Lidane.
As with the others I would not wear jeans. Country Club casual.
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William Barnett-Lewis Apr 8, 2014 6:25:04am |
re: #252 Lidane
So today is the first part of my job interview. I’m meeting with two senior research analysts at 2:00 and the VP I spoke to on the phone at 2:30. I then have a test of some kind from 3-4.
I also have a phone interview Thursday at 3pm for the same job with the GM of an affiliate company. I’m assuming it’s because my role will somehow be tied to that affiliate, so they want to get to know me too, but since that guy is in Seattle, I have to wait a few days to talk to him.
I’m not quite sure what to do about the dress code. This was in my invite email: “Please note that [potential employer] is a very casual environment. Some of your interviewers will probably be wearing jeans. Please dress in what you will feel most comfortable and successful.” I had been considering a skirt and blouse, but reading that I think I’ll go for some jeans, a nice blouse and heels.
Good luck! I’ll be leaving in about a half hour for my interview.
I think your idea of clothing is correct. I’m doing the shirt and tie but no jacket for mine but it’s always hard to know how to dress to interview for blue collar work.
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lawhawk Apr 8, 2014 6:26:07am |
re: #229 FemNaziBitch
No Kagan.
And if we want to be technical, every member of the Court has corporate affiliations/sponsorships.
We should be demanding all public officials reveal their affiliations with logos, just like NASCAR.
.@EricBoehlert all public officials & judges should wear corporate/union/entity logos for all the money they take in. Just like in NASCAR.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 8, 2014
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 6:26:50am |
re: #258 Pie-onist Overlord
Wingnuts think they are TEH MOAST PATRIOTIC PATRIOTS EVER!!!!
What does it take to be a “Patriot” you may ask. It seems that it is how many eagles, flags, guns, Ronald Reagan pics, colonial dudes and Fake Quotes you put into your Twitter profile.
On one of the roads I take to work in the morning, there’s a pair of guys that are in a perpetual battle to “out-patriot” each other with the stuff on display on and around their houses and lawns.
They both insist on flying — and I mean full-on industrial-strength flag pole flying — the old flag of Georgiastan. You know, the one that consists of the confederate battle flag with an “oh and also Georgia” emblem off to the side.
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Fineday Apr 8, 2014 6:27:03am |
Hi there, Lizards
Hatchling here. Been lurking for a long time from my nest i Denmark. I finally feel comfortable enough to poke my head out.
I am not a cat owner, since cats are too over-lordy for me, but I do love dogs.
Since there are so many pictures of feline creatures on this thread, allow me to break the pattern by posting this image of my beloved dog:
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 6:27:11am |
re: #254 Pie-onist Overlord
ALWAYS wear business formal to an interview, even if the interviewers are “dressed casual.” DO NOT WEAR JEANS, wear a nice skirt or dress slacks.
It might have been a “test”.
We weren’t even allowed to wear jeans during “casual Fridays” back in the 90s. And I never wore heels more than 2”, even though I’m only 5’ tall. I despised higher heels since they were so uncomfortable. Wore running shoes on the street. Even though I was only considered a “paraprofessional” I wore business suits, also, and liked them (law offices and banks tended to be more formal back then). Even guys who tried to wear jeans on casual days would be sent home, but I suppose when your boss is barely a 20-something, anything goes. : )
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lawhawk Apr 8, 2014 6:28:20am |
re: #252 Lidane
Go with the suit/skirt route and don’t dress down. You want to look professional and first impressions count for a whole lot. You don’t want to send the wrong vibe by wearing jeans, even if the daily attire is much more casual than the business casual that has increasingly become the norm in business.
Best of luck!
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 6:32:18am |
re: #265 Justanotherhuman
Very slowly, as the middle- and upper-management echelons transition into non-boomer generationals, we are coming to terms with the idea that nobody gives a crap how formal you look when everybody is doing it just for its own sake. Customer-facing positions? Okay, yeah, you’ve got something there. But like in an IT shop where it’s all just coworkers, you all see each other every day and you’re just doing your jobs? What a giant waste of time and money.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 6:32:37am |
re: #264 Fineday
Hi there, Lizards
Hatchling here. Been lurking for a long time from my nest i Denmark. I finally feel comfortable enough to poke my head out.
I am not a cat owner, since cats are too over-lordy for me, but I do love dogs.
Since there are so many pictures of feline creatures on this thread, allow me to break the pattern by posting this image of my beloved dog:
Welcome! Dog lover here, too. Cats, not so much, as I’m allergic them.
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Lidane Apr 8, 2014 6:32:43am |
Hm. Looks like business casual it is. I’ll skip the jeans but kick around some ideas. If I had black slacks it would be a no-brainer of wearing those with a nice blouse and low heels/flats, but the right cuff on my best pair of slacks is unraveling and it looks awful. I need to get it fixed.
I’ll figure something out. I have a few hours.
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Eventual Carrion Apr 8, 2014 6:35:29am |
re: #266 lawhawk
Go with the suit/skirt route and don’t dress down. You want to look professional and first impressions count for a whole lot. You don’t want to send the wrong vibe by wearing jeans, even if the daily attire is much more casual than the business casual that has increasingly become the norm in business.
Best of luck!
Our tech manager will walk through the developers batcave cube farm to inform us that we will have visitors the next day (or when ever). Tells us to dress up a little. So my response usually is, “Ok, I won’t wear my ‘Too drunk to fuck’ tee shirt”.
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b.d. Apr 8, 2014 6:35:37am |
re: #264 Fineday
Hi there, Lizards
Hatchling here. Been lurking for a long time from my nest i Denmark. I finally feel comfortable enough to poke my head out.
I am not a cat owner, since cats are too over-lordy for me, but I do love dogs.
Since there are so many pictures of feline creatures on this thread, allow me to break the pattern by posting this image of my beloved dog:
Hector is a beautiful dog Fineday.
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wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window Apr 8, 2014 6:36:53am |
I had the strangest urge to put on a tie today for class. But I fought it off.
I will wear a tie for special occasions, like graduation and award ceremonies, but there appears to be no rule here regarding neck wear. So, my usual teaching attire is business casual.
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 8, 2014 6:38:06am |
re: #264 Fineday
Welcome hatchling.
I like both dogs and cats, but have felines due to somewhat more flexible maintenance requirements and also apartment restrictions. And got used to it over the past 25 years.
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 8, 2014 6:40:09am |
re: #272 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
I had the strangest urge to put on a tie today for class. But I fought it off.
I will wear a tie for special occasions, like graduation and award ceremonies, but there appears to be no rule here regarding neck wear. So, my usual teaching attire is business casual.
I simply hate ties. Don’t mind jackets, collared shirts, and suit pants since the latter are often tailor adjusted and thus the best fitting and most comfortable clothing I own.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 6:40:18am |
re: #267 GunstarGreen
Very slowly, as the middle- and upper-management echelons transition into non-boomer generationals, we are coming to terms with the idea that nobody gives a crap how formal you look when everybody is doing it just for its own sake. Customer-facing positions? Okay, yeah, you’ve got something there. But like in an IT shop where it’s all just coworkers, you all see each other every day and you’re just doing your jobs? What a giant waste of time and money.
Well, I’d feel like a slob in jeans and a t-shirt. I didn’t mind wearing those when I worked in the lumber dept at Lowe’s, cashiering, but that was basically a dirty job.
I wore those “business” clothes because I liked the way I presented myself and I did come into contact with the public every single day. It was a matter of respect and consideration for those I came into contact with more than anything else, though.
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Lidane Apr 8, 2014 6:43:30am |
Court rejects Louisiana's bid To stop anti-Jindal, pro-Obamacare billboard: http://t.co/s54LlfK6Ds pic.twitter.com/FBNm0mLO2s— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 8, 2014
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darthstar Apr 8, 2014 6:43:58am |
re: #252 Lidane
No need to wear black slacks. It’s spring and it’s warm. Wear warm colors. Light colored skirt or slacks if you have them, and a bright blouse. You want to ‘pop’ a little…stand out as warm and confident.
What’s the gig? And best of luck.
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Eventual Carrion Apr 8, 2014 6:46:55am |
re: #276 Lidane
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So facts need a court order to be expounded but lies are acceptable. Interesting. But I guess as Fox states, lying isn’t against the law, but I see telling the truth can get you a trip to court.
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Bulworth Apr 8, 2014 6:48:16am |
Day 2 of my work computer not being able to read LGF in spy mode. I haz a sad.
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 6:48:30am |
@margbrennan Important symbolism yesterday as @BritishMonarchy tweeted in Irish/Gaelic https://t.co/j2whzWTY5A— Feargal O'Connell (@hombrebrillante) April 8, 2014
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darthstar Apr 8, 2014 6:49:10am |
re: #270 Eventual Carrion
Our tech manager will walk through the developers batcave cube farm to inform us that we will have visitors the next day (or when ever). Tells us to dress up a little. So my response usually is, “Ok, I won’t wear my ‘Too drunk to fuck’ tee shirt”.
When we have VIPs in the office there are some people who get told specifically to “wear shoes.” I almost always wear jeans and an ironed collared shirt (occasionally a company branded t-shirt or a Giants t-shirt if I know it’s a mellow day). Hey…I like to iron. On days when I know the other managers/product owners are suiting up and wearing ties, I’ll throw on my good cowboy boots and a brown suede sport coat. (a lot of our VIPs are sheriffs, state police, wardens, and other garden variety red necks)
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Eventual Carrion Apr 8, 2014 6:52:16am |
re: #282 darthstar
When we have VIPs in the office there are some people who get told specifically to “wear shoes.” I almost always wear jeans and an ironed collared shirt (occasionally a company branded t-shirt or a Giants t-shirt if I know it’s a mellow day). Hey…I like to iron. On days when I know the other managers/product owners are suiting up and wearing ties, I’ll throw on my good cowboy boots and a brown suede sport coat. (a lot of our VIPs are sheriffs, state police, wardens, and other garden variety red necks)
Most of our VIP’s are car dealership owners. They pretty much just want to take the tour and get to the three martini lunch. They couldn’t care less what us developers are wearing.
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wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window Apr 8, 2014 6:53:19am |
re: #282 darthstar
When we have VIPs in the office there are some people who get told specifically to “wear shoes.” I almost always wear jeans and an ironed collared shirt (occasionally a company branded t-shirt or a Giants t-shirt if I know it’s a mellow day). Hey…I like to iron. On days when I know the other managers/product owners are suiting up and wearing ties, I’ll throw on my good cowboy boots and a brown suede sport coat. (a lot of our VIPs are sheriffs, state police, wardens, and other garden variety red necks)
Is the sport coat a western cut, to go with the boots? A bolo tie would be a nice touch.
/ I used to live in Wyoming. I had a western cut suit, boots, bolo tie, big belt buckle — the works. I’m sure this city slicker wasn’t fooling anyone.
Still got the big brass WYOMING buckle, though.
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 6:53:27am |
re: #275 Justanotherhuman
Eh, I go for nice jeans and a good polo. T-shirts only on Friday, but it’s a company-branded tee, so. You can be casual without being a slob. One of the many things I like about this gig is the very casual dress code.
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William Barnett-Lewis Apr 8, 2014 6:54:11am |
Alright, folks, I’ll BBL. Hopefully off to a clean sweep… ;)
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 6:55:32am |
Still overpaid.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s pay down 46% from 2012 to $6.48 million - @BloombergNews
read more on bloomberg.com
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wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window Apr 8, 2014 6:57:25am |
re: #287 Justanotherhuman
Still overpaid.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s pay down 46% from 2012 to $6.48 million - @BloombergNews
read more on bloomberg.com
Do people still use AOL? I have an AOL email addy for my iTunes account, but I never use AOL for anything at all.
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Lidane Apr 8, 2014 7:00:26am |
re: #277 darthstar
No need to wear black slacks. It’s spring and it’s warm. Wear warm colors. Light colored skirt or slacks if you have them, and a bright blouse. You want to ‘pop’ a little…stand out as warm and confident.
I’m now leaning towards a floral skirt that goes just past my knees with a an open short sleeved cardigan and wedge shoes. It’s causal and cute for spring, but it’ll show I made an effort to dress up for the interview.
What’s the gig? And best of luck.
It’s an associate research analyst contract gig for a media firm. I’d join one of their subsidiaries and work with a team that specializes in domain names and domain registration. It won’t be glamorous, but it’s for a solid company and it would give me more marketing research experience, which is what I want.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 7:00:54am |
re: #288 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
Do people still use AOL? I have an AOL email addy for my iTunes account, but I never use AOL for anything at all.
I dunno, but I suppose if they still read HuffBlow, they do.
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 7:02:56am |
#Putin's fiercely patriotic Russian biker friend says #Crimea only start; #Kyiv is next. http://t.co/8hPcprhf9d pic.twitter.com/2rixgieu3p— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) April 8, 2014
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Lidane Apr 8, 2014 7:03:14am |
re: #288 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
Do people still use AOL? I have an AOL email addy for my iTunes account, but I never use AOL for anything at all.
AOL is one of those dumper email addresses. I had a professor in grad school who still used one just to fuck with people and confuse them, or he used it to sign up for any mailing lists he thought were interesting, just to keep all that stuff separate from his personal or university emails.
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Decatur Deb Apr 8, 2014 7:03:23am |
re: #285 GunstarGreen
Eh, I go for nice jeans and a good polo. T-shirts only on Friday, but it’s a company-branded tee, so. You can be casual without being a slob. One of the many things I like about this gig is the very casual dress code.
Definitions vary. For my Army shop, workday was suit and tie. Casual Friday was no tie, but you had one in the drawer for unscheduled briefings of a General. We were obviously the rigid end of the scale.
if a newbie has a question, go in heavy and adjust down as needed.
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darthstar Apr 8, 2014 7:03:40am |
Love HuffPo Spoilers. “People sat and watched”
People sat and watched. RT @HuffingtonPost So this happened at last night's NCAA championship game pic.twitter.com/FiMiyMfOVs— HuffPo Spoilers (@HuffPoSpoilers) April 8, 2014
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 7:06:10am |
Boat with a ton of drugs washes ashore: http://t.co/D3kgTBYK9K pic.twitter.com/9t3iF5ZxfS— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) April 8, 2014
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Decatur Deb Apr 8, 2014 7:06:50am |
re: #290 Justanotherhuman
I dunno, but I suppose if they still read HuffBlow, they do.
ACA navigators here were told that AOL was our default to create needed email accounts for older, poorer non-users. AOL practices fouled up several enrollees. (Critical messages going into the AOL spam filter, etc.)
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 7:07:05am |
So international whores called Greystone active in Ukraine just as they were in Iraq?
Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM 1h
Re Greystone mercenary reports: @MFA_Ukraine expected to release a statement soon, says source.
Kirit Radia @KiritRadia 54m
Btw, Greystone site notes it was founded as affil of “what is now Xe Services.” Xe is what Blackwater rebranded itself as post-Iraq scandal
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darthstar Apr 8, 2014 7:08:55am |
@ezraklein @voxdotcom Is there a print version? You're not moving to Brazil too now, are you?— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 8, 2014
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Decatur Deb Apr 8, 2014 7:09:45am |
re: #298 Justanotherhuman
So international whores called Greystone active in Ukraine just as they were in Iraq?
Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM 1h
Re Greystone mercenary reports: @MFA_Ukraine expected to release a statement soon, says source.
Kirit Radia @KiritRadia 54m
Btw, Greystone site notes it was founded as affil of “what is now Xe Services.” Xe is what Blackwater rebranded itself as post-Iraq scandal
That was a scandal or two ago. Last seen rebranded as ‘Academi’. You know, like a restaurant that keeps changing it’s name when it can’t pass a health inspection.
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 7:12:14am |
Starting today, Twitter is rolling out its new Facebook-like profile redesign http://t.co/oKv3SWxWAN pic.twitter.com/Gs0W8qO6vY— Mashable (@mashable) April 8, 2014
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 7:15:06am |
re: #301 Decatur Deb
That was a scandal or two ago. Last seen rebranded as ‘Academi’. You know, like a restaurant that keeps changing it’s name when it can’t pass a health inspection.
But they’re evidently still using the name “Greystone” for their “foreign” affiliate.
In 2010, Greystone was acquired by current management. Greystone now operates as a standalone, management owned provider of protective support services and training.
A private security service, Greystone is registered in Barbados, and employs soldiers for off-shore security work through its affiliate Satelles Solutions, Inc.[74] Their web site advertises their ability to provide “personnel from the best militaries throughout the world” for worldwide deployment. Tasks can be from very small scale up major operations to “facilitate large scale stability operations requiring large numbers of people to assist in securing a region”.[74]
Erik Prince intended Greystone to be used for peacekeeping missions in areas like Darfur where military operations would need to take place to establish peace.[75]
Greystone had planned to open a training facility on the former grounds of the Subic Bay U.S. Naval Base, but those plans were later abandoned.[76]
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Apr 8, 2014 7:16:46am |
re: #304 Flounder
I do like his leather vest.
and the white piping on Putin’s collar is so reminiscent of a certain type of WWII uniform…
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 7:17:13am |
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darthstar Apr 8, 2014 7:18:26am |
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
and the white piping on Putin’s collar is so reminiscent of a certain type of WWII uniform…
Oh, that’s Putin? I thought it was a Sprocket from SNL.
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Flounder Apr 8, 2014 7:18:32am |
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
The vest is very, Mad Max.
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nastybrutishntall Apr 8, 2014 7:18:45am |
re: #5 klys
Your cat and mine are twins! Sky is the smartest, most athletic, most affectionate cat I’ve ever had. I’ve had lots, too. She’s a talker and loves to be handled, even squeezed a bit roughly more like a dog — great with kids. She has never scratched anyone intentionally. But she looooves people, and sometimes won’t take no for an answer when she wants to be petted, so she can be a bit aggravating if I’m trying to relax. 
In repose.
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b.d. Apr 8, 2014 7:22:40am |
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
and the white piping on Putin’s collar is so reminiscent of a certain type of WWII uniform…
It is very 60ish imo. What next? A Nehru jacket?
That guy’s vest does make all of those EU condemnations invalid.
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Flounder Apr 8, 2014 7:22:43am |
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
That jacket is terrible, who the hell dresses him? He kinda reminds me of this:
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lawhawk Apr 8, 2014 7:24:19am |
Mitt Romney corners Matzo market: http://t.co/SOOzB5ZZqX— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 8, 2014
Well, not exactly Romney, but Romney-founded Bain Capital, which is buying Manischewitz and adding it to its corporate stable.
Why?
Well, they must think that the kosher food designation will be a selling point for people who are health food conscious, or think that the kosher designation imparts some safety/health benefit.
Because it’s not necessarily a growth sector as those identifying as Jews and keeping kosher is a very limited market at best.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Apr 8, 2014 7:24:44am |
re: #307 darthstar
Oh, that’s Putin? I thought it was a Sprocket from SNL.
In Russia, monkey touch you!!!
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lawhawk Apr 8, 2014 7:25:17am |
re: #311 Flounder
That jacket is terrible, who the hell dresses him? He kinda reminds me of this:
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Illinois Nazis? I HATE Illinois Nazis.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 7:31:51am |
re: #312 lawhawk
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Well, not exactly Romney, but Romney-founded Bain Capital, which is buying Manischewitz and adding it to its corporate stable.
Why?
Well, they must think that the kosher food designation will be a selling point for people who are health food conscious, or think that the kosher designation imparts some safety/health benefit.
Because it’s not necessarily a growth sector as those identifying as Jews and keeping kosher is a very limited market at best.
Well, as non-Jew, I like matzos, but I also spread them with butter. : )
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 8, 2014 7:33:04am |
re: #315 Justanotherhuman
Well, as non-Jew, I like matzos, but I also spread them with butter. : )
What? Not bacon and melted cheese!?!
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wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window Apr 8, 2014 7:33:41am |
re: #315 Justanotherhuman
I’m rather partial to Mannie’s coconut macaroons. The onion-flavored matzoh are good too
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 7:38:11am |
re: #312 lawhawk
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Well, not exactly Romney, but Romney-founded Bain Capital, which is buying Manischewitz and adding it to its corporate stable.
Why?
Well, they must think that the kosher food designation will be a selling point for people who are health food conscious, or think that the kosher designation imparts some safety/health benefit.
Because it’s not necessarily a growth sector as those identifying as Jews and keeping kosher is a very limited market at best.
For kosher consumers, the Maneschewitz brand is really lame. It’s like the brand you buy because you’re stuck out of town in some place where no Juice live.
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Charles Johnson Apr 8, 2014 7:39:07am |
Remember, these are the egomaniacs who think they know everything about security: http://t.co/jrr0KTGD1t Absolutely pathetic.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 8, 2014
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Apr 8, 2014 7:40:10am |
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Apr 8, 2014 7:41:14am |
re: #319 Charles Johnson
I don’t understand what is being illustrated here.
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 7:43:42am |
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Charles Johnson Apr 8, 2014 7:47:03am |
re: #321 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I don’t understand what is being illustrated here.
They created a fake PGP key and got Radack to use it somehow, and this gave them access to her private emails to Greenwald.
The sheer amateurishness is amazing.
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 7:50:02am |
re: #323 Charles Johnson
They created a fake PGP key and got Radack to use it somehow, and this gave them access to her private emails to Greenwald.
The sheer amateurishness is amazing.
That should be a featured page.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Apr 8, 2014 7:51:18am |
Judge stops investigation into Battleground Texas
The inquiry began after conservative activist James O’Keefe and his group, Project Veritas, made a video that purported to show Battleground Texas workers talking about transcribing telephone numbers from voter registration cards they’d collected. O’Keefe said in the video that taking phone numbers violated Texas law, and Republican leaders, including Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, called for a criminal investigation.
Because Attorney General Greg Abbott and the Bexar County district attorney are running for re-election, the case was given to Economidy and Del Prado to investigate. The 18-page special prosecutor’s report found Battleground Texas’ activities were legal and in keeping with standard electioneering practices used by both political parties for decades.
“The Veritas video was little more than a canard and political disinformation,” the prosecutor’s report said. “The video was particularly unprofessional when it suggested that the actions of Battleground Texas were advocated by a Texas gubernatorial candidate and that the actions of a single volunteer deputy registrar may even involve private health data, which is not involved in the voter registration process.”
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 7:51:33am |
re: #322 Killgore Trout
Iran’s envoy choice was a member of a Muslim student group that held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Yuteful indiscretion, no doubt!!
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 7:55:59am |
Every time I think that I might like to try out a vegan lifestyle, along comes PETA and suddenly I crave a burger.
PETA Would Like To Sell You Delicious Vegan Treats At Jeffrey Dahmer's Childhood Home http://t.co/rFAF00tw9d— Wonkette (@Wonkette) April 8, 2014
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 7:56:38am |
re: #318 Pie-onist Overlord
For kosher consumers, the Maneschewitz brand is really lame. It’s like the brand you buy because you’re stuck out of town in some place where no Juice live.
Well, yeah, but I live in the heathenish state of NC and no longer in Charlotte, where at least there was a Jewish community.
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 8:00:34am |
re: #328 Justanotherhuman
Well, yeah, but I live in the heathenish state of NC and no longer in Charlotte, where at least there was a Jewish community.
The only Maneschewitz product that I regularly use is their Matzo Ball & Soup Mix.
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 8:02:10am |
re: #326 sattv4u2
Iran’s envoy choice was a member of a Muslim student group that held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days in the >1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Yuteful indiscretion, no doubt!!
New Moderate Leadership!
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 8:04:25am |
re: #325 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
So, how many times is this guy going to be allowed to lie and essentially commit fraud for the purpose of attacking political enemies via the legal system before he, you know, actually faces some legal consequences for it?
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Varek Raith Apr 8, 2014 8:04:45am |
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 8:05:05am |
So they call it “cleaning” these days? : )
Report: Rep. Vance McAllister’s campaign seems to have paid the female staffer he was caught on camera kissing $300 as ‘reimbursement for headquarter cleaning’ - @washingtonpost
read more on washingtonpost.com
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Gus Apr 8, 2014 8:05:43am |
These dudebro losers…
@dankmtl
@Bro_Pair
@samknight1
Are cheering on this asshole for organizing the trolling of John Schindler and others including myself yesterday.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 8:07:01am |
More amateurs…
Pro-Russian separatists leave online trail http://t.co/NnvWEh2hnb @KyivPost #Ukraine #Russia pic.twitter.com/t7NKYNwHf1— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) April 8, 2014
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 8:09:09am |
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 8:09:28am |
Oh, well, then…
Jacob Appelbaum @ioerror 2h
The PGP message from @JesselynRadack was likely decrypted because of a common UX failure: encrypted to a hostile key and sent to attacker
Retweeted by Glenn Greenwald
Jacob Appelbaum @ioerror 2h
The latest @Cryptomeorg leak about @ggreenwald and @JesselynRadack is disinfo - the PGP message on the website is not the full message.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 8:12:35am |
Trillions! Is that in bytes or bits?
Watch: US whistleblower Snowden claims intelligence agencies screen trillions of private data
Caution: Autoplay on video.
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 8:12:50am |
re: #334 Gus
These dudebro losers…
@dankmtl
@Bro_Pair
@samknight1Are cheering on this asshole for organizing the trolling of John Schindler and other including myself yesterday.
I have to wonder if people like this are ever embarrassed when 1/21 rolls around and their sticker is now a badge of failure.
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 8:14:01am |
I mean, the dead man's cache thing was a pretty big deal. Did Snowden think Greenwald's description of it would be forgotten?— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 8, 2014
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 8:20:27am |
Looks like we’re arming Syrian Rebels again this week
Check Out the Syrian Rebels’ Insane New Missile Launcher
The video, which was uploaded to the site on Saturday, April 5, shows a man in a black sweater firing a TOW missile at what a narrator claims is a Syrian tank at a checkpoint in the village of Heesh, according to an analyst who translated the video from Arabic.
….
But the TOW missile has never shown up in the hands of rebel fighters in Syria, analysts said. That in and of itself marked a potential shift in the course of Syria’s three-year old civil war. Regardless of who supplied the weapon, it could give the rebels a leg up against Syrian military tanks. A video uploaded on April 1 also appears to show a Free Syrian Army fighter from the same group firing a TOW missile.
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Timothy Watson Apr 8, 2014 8:23:21am |
re: #341 Killgore Trout
Looks like we’re arming Syrian Rebels again this week
Check Out the Syrian Rebels’ Insane New Missile Launcher
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Quite possible they stole some of the Iranian made models from the Syrians.
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William Barnett-Lewis Apr 8, 2014 8:25:10am |
Well, that went well. I think I used the oddities of my life/job experience to good effect. Won’t know more till the rest of the interviews are done and the 2nd interviews with the School Superintendent are called.
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 8:25:48am |
re: #341 Killgore Trout
Looks like we’re arming Syrian Rebels again this week
Check Out the Syrian Rebels’ Insane New Missile Launcher
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“I have GOT to get me one of these!!!!!”
(Will Smith,,, Independence Day !!)
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 8:26:17am |
US mercenary firm calls #Russia a liar for saying it is posing as #Ukrainian special ops to bust up pro-Kremlin mobs http://t.co/Qr7UceNMQx— Lukas I. Alpert (@lalpert1) April 8, 2014
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 8:27:25am |
re: #342 Timothy Watson
Quite possible they stole some of the Iranian made models from the Syrians.
Possible but there were reports a few weeks ago that we promised the Saudis we’d give a handful (under 10 or so) rocket launchers to rebels if they promised to be nice and film the attacks to account for their use. The report was disputed a few days later. It’s hard to tell what we are or aren’t doing, it seems to change weekly.
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wrenchwench Apr 8, 2014 8:32:52am |
re: #343 William Barnett-Lewis
Well, that went well. I think I used the oddities of my life/job experience to good effect. Won’t know more till the rest of the interviews are done and the 2nd interviews with the School Superintendent are called.
I hope you get it. Some kids remember the janitors better than the teachers. At my elementary school, the two who were there the whole time I was were WWII veterans. I had more respect for them than I did for the principal.
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 8:34:18am |
BREAKING: Ukraine's security service says separatists have “placed explosives” in seized building Luhansk - Reuters— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) April 8, 2014
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 8, 2014 8:34:34am |
re: #345 NJDhockeyfan
A little bit of projection by the Russians?
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kirkspencer Apr 8, 2014 8:35:29am |
re: #339 GunstarGreen
I have to wonder if people like this are ever embarrassed when 1/21 rolls around and their sticker is now a badge of failure.
In my experience generally not. Those what are/were got the sticker removed. The rest are among those who talk about how Obama stole the election with illegal voters. How do they know? Because the unskewed polls showed that he should have lost.
(I’d add /// but that’s really what I’ve been told more than once.)
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 8:37:59am |
re: #349 Feline Fearless Leader
A little bit of projection by the Russians?
They are dreaming up all kinds of stories specifically for propaganda reasons. Since the Russians are only getting their news from state sponsored TV news channels Putin gets to score more points from the Russian people.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 8:41:52am |
Kirit Radia @KiritRadia 23m
.@JohnKerry on #Russia’s efforts to meddle in #Ukraine: “These efforts are as ham-handed as they are transparent, frankly”
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 8:43:08am |
Reuters: Around 60 people being held against their will at Luhansk building rigged with explosives, says Ukraine's security service— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) April 8, 2014
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 8:45:41am |
re: #352 Justanotherhuman
Kirit Radia @KiritRadia 23m
.@JohnKerry on #Russia’s efforts to meddle in #Ukraine: “These efforts are as ham-handed as they are transparent, frankly”
I wouldn’t consider them to be ham handed or clumsy. Putin seems to be doing quite well in achieving his goals.
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 8:48:20am |
Russia may be laying ground for military action in E. Ukraine -U.S.
“Russia’s clear and unmistakable involvement in destabilizing and engaging in separatist activities in the east of Ukraine is more than deeply disturbing,” Kerry told lawmakers. “No one should be fooled … by what could potentially be a contrived pretext for military intervention just as we saw in Crimea.”
“It is clear that Russian special forces and agents have been the catalyst behind the chaos of the last 24 hours,” Kerry added, referring to pro-Russian separatists that seized control of public buildings in three cities in eastern Ukraine.
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jamjam Apr 8, 2014 8:50:50am |
re: #354 Killgore Trout
I’m interested to know, what do you think his goals are? By what metric would you measure his success?
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Apr 8, 2014 8:50:52am |
re: #354 Killgore Trout
I wouldn’t consider them to be ham handed or clumsy. Putin seems to be doing quite well in achieving his goals.
What are his goals, and more importantly, why are they his goals?
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Gus Apr 8, 2014 8:51:11am |
Smart Car tipping is the new trend in San Francisco. http://t.co/SfKzZde5sv pic.twitter.com/x7e7ZW2gWu— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) April 7, 2014
“Trend.” Sounds so white.
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 8:51:11am |
What does she know? …GOP 1% MI Sen Candidate: Women More Interested In Job Flexibility Than Equal Pay #UniteBlue http://t.co/f4Gmq7BYVL— Progressive Push (@progressivepush) April 8, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 8:51:50am |
Everybody should have job flexibility AND equal pay! It’s not an EITHER/OR thing.
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 8:53:23am |
Iran uses ‘International Mine Awareness Day’ to announce new missile program
Iran Plans to Build More Powerful Surface-to-Surface Missile Systems
“The year 1393 (March 2014-March 2015) is a year for the production of tools and equipment that enhance the Islamic Iran’s defense prowess and the Defense Ministry has seriously concentrated on the production of these equipment,” Brigadier General Dehqan told reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony held to commemorate the ‘International Mine Awareness Day’ in Tehran.
He underlined that production of powerful surface-to-surface missile systems, effecient and powerful air defense systems and naval equipment are among the plans of the Iranian Defense Ministry for the current year.
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Eventual Carrion Apr 8, 2014 8:53:24am |
re: #333 Justanotherhuman
So they call it “cleaning” these days? : )
Report: Rep. Vance McAllister’s campaign seems to have paid the female staffer he was caught on camera kissing $300 as ‘reimbursement for headquarter cleaning’ - @washingtonpost
read more on washingtonpost.com
[Raises hands to the sky]
“My pipes are clean!”
// Sorry Cabin Boy
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 8:54:44am |
re: #358 Gus
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“Trend.” Sounds so white.
Maybe the city should install bike racks so people can chain their cars down to prevent tipping.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 8:54:45am |
The more things change, the more they stay the same for some people.
The new stay-at-home mom surge: It’s not who you think
“While that’s still true of some moms, researchers also argue that many women who stay at home are doing so at least partly because they can’t afford the child care costs and other expenses associated with going to work, especially if they can’t get a job that pays well.
(snip)
“In general, the Pew report showed, the least-educated mothers are most likely to be at home. About 21 percent of college-educated moms are stay-at-home moms, compared with 35 percent of high school graduates and 51 percent of moms with less than a high school diploma.
(snip)
“Cohn said Pew’s research also found that only a fraction of stay-at-home moms appear to be “opting out” of high pressure careers. The researchers found that women with at least a master’s degree and a family income of more than $75,000 made up just 5 percent of married stay-at-home moms with working husbands.”
I remember paying a full third of my paycheck for a babysitter or daycare (when I finally found one) when my kids were small, and they were in daycare or w/a sitter after school until they were 12 (and even after that age, needed a referee, being male siblings close in age). And if, as some say, you can pay $200/wk for one child at many centers, how can the low paid worker afford to go to work when care and transportation probably eat up the paycheck?
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 8:55:31am |
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Gus Apr 8, 2014 8:55:42am |
BREAKING: GROUP OF ARAB-AMERICAN TEENS FOUND CAR TIPPING IN SAN FRANCISCO. IS THIS THE LATEST TREND IN DOMESTIC TERRORISM!?
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Gus Apr 8, 2014 8:58:48am |
re: #363 Killgore Trout
Maybe the city should install bike racks so people can chain their cars down to prevent tipping.
You’ll be pleased to know that this is being cheered on by crunchy anarchist types as an “anti-gentrification” movement.
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wrenchwench Apr 8, 2014 9:00:46am |
re: #367 Gus
You’ll be pleased to know that this is being cheered on by crunchy anarchist types as an “anti-gentrification” movement.
Class warfare seems to be a thing in SF.
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 9:01:09am |
re: #359 Pie-onist Overlord
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Rich words coming from someone who wants to be in a body that votes to raise its own salary.
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lawhawk Apr 8, 2014 9:01:27am |
re: #358 Gus
4 incidents constitutes a trend?
San Francisco police are investigating an unusual crime spree after four people who live in and around Bernal Heights awakened Monday morning to find their Smart microcars had been rolled over by groups of vandals.
The first vehicle was found on its roof on the 200 block of Anderson Street around 1 a.m. Within minutes, another Smart car was rolled near Andersen and Ogden streets.
The third tipping happened a short time later near Bowdoin and Sweeny streets, while a fourth was discovered near Prospect and Coso avenues, said Officer Gordon Shyy, a police spokesman.
Shyy said the suspects were described as seven people in hooded sweatshirts.
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 9:01:51am |
re: #367 Gus
You’ll be pleased to know that this is being cheered on by crunchy anarchist types as an “anti-gentrification” movement.
Ah, they used to do the same thing with SUV’s here in Portland. Well, they didn’t tip them but they’d slash tires or set them on fire.
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Archangelus Apr 8, 2014 9:03:18am |
re: #325 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I really really REALLY hope Battleground Texas will sue his pants off now…
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 9:03:58am |
I suppose “Bomb, bomb, bomb” McCain thinks he’s being clever here.
en. John McCain, R-Ariz., to Secretary of State John Kerry: What you’re doing with Russia is ‘talking strongly and carrying a very small stick, in fact, a twig’ - @margbrennan
end of alert
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 9:04:04am |
Internationally renowned election expert declares Republicans steal election
President Carter Tells Thom Hartmann: ‘I Don’t Think George W. Bush Won’
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Charles Johnson Apr 8, 2014 9:04:20am |
.@bobcesca_go @20committee @Green_Footballs So much bs here, you're gonna need a bigger shovel when this drops http://t.co/tO6019J431— Shoq (@Shoq) April 8, 2014
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 9:04:28am |
re: #358 Gus
There’s no,, I dunno,,,, challenge!!
Hell, a stiff breeze could cause that!! ///
Ya wanna make a statement,, show your street creds,,,, tip over a Buick
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 8, 2014 9:08:24am |
yep, pretty much for me, I think.
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Archangelus Apr 8, 2014 9:09:14am |
Rawstory: Liz Cheney says “Pelosi’ Spine Doesn’t Reach her Brain” if she’s Not Proud of Torture
Fox News contributor and failed Wyoming Senate candidate Liz Cheney on Tuesday defended her father by saying that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) “spine doesn’t seem to reach her brain” because she wasn’t proud of so-called enhanced interrogation used by the Bush administration.
In a Sunday interview with CNN, Pelosi has accused former Vice President Dick Cheney of encouraging torture by setting “a tone and an attitude for the CIA.”
And when it came to news that the CIA had misled Congress on the effectiveness of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques, Pelosi speculated that the former vice president was “proud” of the misrepresentation.
Speaking to Fox News on Tuesday, Dick Cheney’s daughter fired back at the California Democrat.
Dear Liz, on behalf of every American captured and tortured even worse by terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq as a result of your chicken-hawk uniform-less cowardly war-criminal of a Dad- and you know it had to have happened - go kiss an IED.
No love,
Someone who’s actually endured war and terrorism and hates your rotten guts for essentially bringing us closer to the enemy’s level for nothing whatsoever
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 9:11:30am |
re: #378 Archangelus
Liz Cheney: Pelosi’s ‘Spine Doesn’t Reach Brain’ if she’s Not Proud of Torture
Dear Liz, on behalf of every American captured and tortured even worse by terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq as a result of your chicken-hawk uniform-less cowardly war-criminal of a Dad- and you know it had to have happened - go kiss an IED.
No love,
Someone who’s actually endured war and terrorism and hates your rotten guts for essentially bringing us closer to the enemy’s level for nothing whatsoever
I’m sure Liz would just love it and totally not consider torture at all if you waterboarded her. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with that family? Typical greedy bastards who have never met a war they haven’t liked but can’t be bothered to actually fight it herself.
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Varek Raith Apr 8, 2014 9:12:44am |
re: #379 HappyWarrior
I’m sure Liz would just love it and totally not consider torture at all if you waterboarded her. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with that family? Typical greedy bastards who have never met a war they haven’t liked but can’t be bothered to actually fight it herself.
And when is Hannity going to be water boarded?
He promised…
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 9:12:59am |
re: #369 HappyWarrior
Rich words coming from someone who wants to be in a body that votes to raise its own salary.
My Congressman, Gary Peters, is running against her as the Democratic candidate. I have never donated to a political campaign in my life, but I donated $10 to because of all the shit that Koch/AFP was unloading on him.
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 9:13:18am |
re: #381 Pie-onist Overlord
My Congressman, Gary Peters, is running against her as the Democratic candidate. I have never donated to a political campaign in my life, but I donated $10 to because of all the shit that Koch/AFP was unloading on him.
Good luck to him.
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jamjam Apr 8, 2014 9:14:54am |
re: #374 Killgore Trout
Internationally renowned election expert declares Republicans steal election
President Carter Tells Thom Hartmann: ‘I Don’t Think George W. Bush Won’
Here’s the actual question, and the answer, from the site. I’m having some trouble finding the part where anyone mentioned anything about ‘stealing’. Did you just make that up, to be funny? Or do you really think the following reads as though Carter ‘declares Republicans steal election’?
Thom Hartman: “I’m wondering, have we had a legitimately elected Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower?”
Carter chuckles and says he thinks so, but wouldn’t want to comment on that, and then sort of backs off the question. Carter does make a point to say:
“I don’t think that George W. Bush won the election in 2000, against Al Gore, because I think that he probably lost Florida and also nationwide. But the Supreme Court rules in our country - that’s what we have to accept.”
Emphasis is mine.
Where’s the part where he “declares Republicans steal election?”
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 9:15:22am |
re: #380 Varek Raith
And when is Hannity going to be water boarded?
He promised…
8 ball says chances of never. Seriously, it’s always chickenshits like Liz, her old man, and Hannity that get the most war hungry yet never actually bothered to fight wars themselves. I hate using the chickenhawk word as a non-veteran but damn I’m just sick of these assholes who ride anyone who doesn’t share their war thirst yet who couldn’t even be bothered to fight themselves. Liz could have enlisted while her father was Sec of Defense under the first Bush just as her father could have enlisted in Vietnam but neither did.
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 9:17:08am |
Republicans think mothers should stay home with their kids and do without.
President Obama says Republicans opposing efforts to ‘even the playing field for working families’ - live video
end of alert
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 9:19:10am |
re: #385 Justanotherhuman
Republicans think mothers should stay home with their kids and do without.
President Obama says Republicans opposing efforts to ‘even the playing field for working families’ - live video
end of alert
What’s truly pathetic is support for income equality for women was something that was a mainstream position among Republicans 60 years ago. Ike supported the ERA, Nixon even did, and so did Ford. But it seems that Republicans are eager to be the reactionary party.
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 9:21:03am |
Wingnut freakout coming….
“I'm going to sign an executive order to create more pay transparency.” —President Obama #FairFutureNow— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 8, 2014
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Justanotherhuman Apr 8, 2014 9:22:25am |
Same old shit, different year.
Bravo Developing Morgan Spurlock, Thom Beers Projects; Orders Real-Time Dating Series
In addition to its first scripted offerings, the NBCUniversal-owned cable network’s slate features a slew of unscripted fare, including two new “Real Housewives” spinoffs starring Caroline Manzo and Kandi Burress, and 15 renewed shows.
Giving up cable was probably the best thing I did in this century so far.
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 9:24:22am |
re: #383 jamjam
Here’s the actual question, and the answer, from the site. I’m having some trouble finding the part where anyone mentioned anything about ‘stealing’. Did you just make that up, to be funny? Or do you really think the following reads as though Carter ‘declares Republicans steal election’?
Emphasis is mine.
Where’s the part where he “declares Republicans steal election?”
Graph that sentence. “He” refers to Bush who Carter erroneously believes lost Florida and the Supreme court overruled the voters will. This was debunked ages ago and I assume you’re already aware of that. If you’re not you can look it up, I’m not going to debate conspiracy theories which were debunked 10 years ago.
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 9:24:25am |
re: #383 jamjam
“I’m wondering, have we had a legitimately elected Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower?”
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jamjam Apr 8, 2014 9:27:00am |
re: #390 sattv4u2
“I’m wondering, >have we had a legitimately elected Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower?”
Yeah, I don’t think the interviewer was the ‘internationally renowned election expert’ that KT was sarcastically referring to. He was talking about Jimmy Carter. So again, where did Jimmy Carter “declare Republicans steal election”?
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 9:27:40am |
OMG Haliburton!
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Apr 8, 2014 9:27:52am |
re: #380 Varek Raith
And when is Hannity going to be water boarded?
He promised…
Limbaugh was supposed to leave the country if the ACA passed. Ted Nugent was supposed to be dead or in jail by now. I’m beyond tired of these guys getting my hopes up with false promises.
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allegro Apr 8, 2014 9:28:40am |
re: #388 Justanotherhuman
Same old shit, different year.
Bravo Developing Morgan Spurlock, Thom Beers Projects; Orders Real-Time Dating Series
In addition to its first scripted offerings, the NBCUniversal-owned cable network’s slate features a slew of unscripted fare, including two new “Real Housewives” spinoffs starring Caroline Manzo and Kandi Burress, and 15 renewed shows.
Giving up cable was probably the best thing I did in this century so far.
I’d have to think to give up Justified and The Vikings. Fortunately basic cable is included in my rent so I don’t have to.
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 9:30:02am |
re: #393 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Limbaugh was supposed to leave the country if the ACA passed. Ted Nugent was supposed to be dead or in jail by now. I’m beyond tired of these guys getting my hopes up with false promises.
Yeah well I have to say, I am glad for Costa Rica’s sake that Rush isn’t a resident of their nation.
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Archangelus Apr 8, 2014 9:30:13am |
re: #393 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Limbaugh was supposed to leave the country if the ACA passed. Ted Nugent was supposed to be dead or in jail by now. I’m beyond tired of these guys getting my hopes up with false promises.
Hey, there are elections coming - maybe the Prez will give us a nice shiny present by signing an executive order forcing the two out later in the year… /wishfulthinking
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 9:32:43am |
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 8, 2014 9:33:23am |
Questions, we have many serious questions.
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 9:34:06am |
re: #393 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Limbaugh was supposed to leave the country if the ACA passed.
Maybe he’s just waiting to see where Roseann Barr and Alec Baldwin take up residence as promised after Bush got re-elected so Rush will know where to and not to move too
:)
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 9:36:14am |
Senate Majority PAC’s nonsensical attack ad in Louisiana
“We’ve been battered by hurricanes, lost everything to floods. And for thousands of Louisianans, flood insurance and hurricane relief are our only protection. But the out-of-state billionaire Koch brothers funded the fight to let flood insurance premiums soar, helping the insurance companies and cut off hurricane relief for Louisiana families. Now they’re spending millions to buy a Senate seat for Bill Cassidy so he can fight for them. If the Kochs and Cassidy win, Louisiana loses.”
-voiceover for new Senate Majority PAC ad attacking Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who is challenging Sen. Mary Landrieu (D)
….
Television stations in Louisiana should be ashamed of falling for such an obvious gambit. Individual lines may be true, but the net effect is highly misleading. Surely, the standards for political advertising in Louisiana need to be higher if residents are going to have a civil political debate.This is the third time in a month that the Fact Checker has given Four Pinocchios to an ad sponsored by Senate Majority PAC. That’s a pretty dreadful track record, and does little for the organization’s credibility more than six months before the midterm elections.
Four Pinocchios
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jamjam Apr 8, 2014 9:36:26am |
re: #389 Killgore Trout
Graph that sentence. “He” refers to Bush who Carter erroneously believes lost Florida and the Supreme court overruled the voters will. This was debunked ages ago and I assume you’re already aware of that. If you’re not you can look it up, I’m not going to debate conspiracy theories which were debunked 10 years ago.
Wait a tick. You posted, “Internationally renowned election expert declares Republicans steal election: President Carter Tells Thom Hartmann: ‘I Don’t Think George W. Bush Won’”
The interview, again:
Carter chuckles and says he thinks so, but wouldn’t want to comment on that, and then sort of backs off the question. Carter does make a point to say:
“I don’t think that George W. Bush won the election in 2000, against Al Gore, because I think that he probably lost Florida and also nationwide. But the Supreme Court rules in our country - that’s what we have to accept.”
What I’m having trouble understanding, and maybe its just me, but where did Carter state, infer, imply, hint, or to use your word, declare, that the 2000 election was stolen?
Or does everybody who disagreed with that ruling believe the 2000 election was stolen? I disagreed with that ruling. I thought it was fucking stupid. Does that mean I think the election was stolen?
Of course not. Nor am I privy to some conspiracy theory. There’s no conspiracy involved. I know what happened. The Florida Supreme Court ordered a statewide recount, and during that recount, the US Supreme Court ordered it stopped, then added a clause to that ruling that meant it could not be used as legal precedent - it applied to that case only.
I think, and I imagine Jimmy Carter thinks, that the statewide recount should have gone ahead. I also believe - but don’t know nor do I declare - that Gore would have won had those votes been counted, but I am not sure, that is my opinion, subject to change. But it doesn’t make me a conspiracy theorist, any more than it makes Jimmy Carter.
Be sensible. Why the sarcasm and hyperbole? Is it necessary? The whole debacle is nigh on 15 years old for crying outs.
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The War TARDIS Apr 8, 2014 9:37:54am |
I’m beginning to get real tired of KT’s shtick.
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Archangelus Apr 8, 2014 9:38:03am |
In today’s WTFH category:
Kate Mulgrew Narrates Film About How The Sun Revolves Around The Earth
It’s a sad day for fans of Star Trek Voyager: Captain Kathryn Janeway herself is lending her voice to a “documentary” about how the Sun revolves around the Earth and how NASA is leading a conspiracy to keep the truth away from us. Oh, boy.
The film, entitled The Principle, purports to be challenging the notion that we as humans are “nothing special” in relation to the vastness of the Universe. The trailer also features theoretical physicist Michio Kaku as well as cosmologists Lawrence Krauss and Max Tegmark. We’re going to hope that they maybe didn’t know they were going to be in a movie that’s also about Geocentricism, because it’s not until the 1-minute mark that the movie’s principal, Robert Sungenis suggests, “You can go on some websites of NASA to see that they’ve started to take down stuff that might hint to a geocentric universe.” Uh, what?
Something tells me that if there’s anyone credible attached to this dreck, it’ll be because they’ve probably been edited way out of context..
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 8, 2014 9:41:37am |
re: #403 Archangelus
In today’s WTFH category:
Kate Mulgrew Narrates Film About How The Sun Revolves Around The Earth
For all who asked: Some clips of me apparently were mined for movie on geocentricism. So stupid does disservice to word nonsense. Ignore it.
— Lawrence Krauss (@LKrauss1) April 8, 2014
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Feline Fearless Leader Apr 8, 2014 9:42:33am |
Apparently if you see Cookie Monster in Germany it might be a Neo-Nazi.
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 9:42:46am |
re: #402 The War TARDIS
I’m beginning to get real tired of KT’s shtick.
This, from a poster thats been admonished numerous times for his own “schtick”
{sigh}
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 8, 2014 9:43:10am |
Written on plane back. Re silly geocentric doc. http://t.co/T1gbXCKvO2
— Lawrence Krauss (@LKrauss1) April 8, 2014
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wrenchwench Apr 8, 2014 9:43:24am |
re: #406 sattv4u2
This, from a poster thats been admonished numerous times for his own “schtick”
{sigh}
A new twist on MBF.
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 9:45:43am |
re: #405 Feline Fearless Leader
Apparently if you see Cookie Monster in Germany it might be a Neo-Nazi.
A reich that will last for a thousand years and go good with milk?
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jamjam Apr 8, 2014 9:46:10am |
re: #402 The War TARDIS
I’m beginning to get real tired of KT’s shtick.
And it is a schtick, too.
KT - are you trying to be funny, sarcastic, irritating, with your recent posts? e.g. “OMG Halliburton!” at reports of american mercenaries in the Ukraine. What precisely do you mean by that? I suppose you’re trying to take the mickey out of people who had concerns about the role of independent contractors like Halliburton in the recent conflict in Iraq. Presumably, you think nothing of such concerns yourself, and believe those who hold such concerns are being silly or ignorant of the facts, hence “OMG Halliburton!”
Or perhaps you’re trying to say that fears or concerns related to Halliburton and independent contractors in conflict zones are actually unwarranted and ridiculous.
I can’t tell, but this sort of ‘hit and run’, quick sarcastic post with a reference to some media that seemingly reflects poorly on your political opponents, is just lazy partisanship.
Why not expand upon the articles, so we can discuss them? Better that than a brief and sarcastic comment that does little to further the discussion, improve the thread, or allow genuine and open (and friendly) debate.
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The War TARDIS Apr 8, 2014 9:48:45am |
re: #406 sattv4u2
And I have been spending time away to try and face my demons. I’m trying to get better.
I’m not sure what KT’s doing.
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 9:50:17am |
re: #384 HappyWarrior
8 ball says chances of never. Seriously, it’s always chickenshits like Liz, her old man, and Hannity that get the most war hungry yet never actually bothered to fight wars themselves. I hate using the chickenhawk word as a non-veteran but damn I’m just sick of these assholes who ride anyone who doesn’t share their war thirst yet who couldn’t even be bothered to fight themselves. Liz could have enlisted while her father was Sec of Defense under the first Bush just as her father could have enlisted in Vietnam but neither did.
Mandatory conscription. Every single man, woman, young adult and everything in between. No exceptions. Rich, poor, healthy, sick, young, old. Everyone fights, everyone has skin in the game. Periods of service no less than four years (to cover presidential and congressional terms and give policy decisions a chance to have impact).
If you want to see national opinions on foreign policy take a drastic turn away from this chickenhawk bullshit, you have to make it affect them. Every single one of them. It’s easy to be pro-war when you’re rich and/or influential enough that it doesn’t affect you and yours.
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 9:54:16am |
Good news: No need to hound opponents, close their businesses and force them out of their jobs
Simply talking to people about same-sex marriage makes them more tolerant
It turns out that good old fashioned human-to-human conversation really can change people’s minds. A new experiment from political scientists Donald Green and Michael LaCour finds that a well-designed house-to-house canvass can turn same-sex marriage opponents around — and sometimes bring their friends on board too.
Green and Lacour surveyed 9,507 Los Angeles County voters, all of whom lived in precincts that voted in favor of Proposition 8 (the 2008 ballot measure which banned same-sex marriage in California), six times over the course of about two and a half months.
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The result was dramatic. As you’d expect, households that got the recycling message didn’t change their views on same-sex marriage or gay people at all in response (they didn’t even change their views on recycling!). But those getting the same-sex marriage script very quickly grew considerably more sympathetic toward gay people and gay rights. Before, respondents felt the same about same-sex marriage as Nebraskans; after, they felt the same as folks from Massachusetts. When the canvasser was gay, the results were even bigger. While straight canvassers’s effect wore off over time, gay canvassers’s didn’t.
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wrenchwench Apr 8, 2014 9:54:18am |
re: #412 The War TARDIS
And I have been spending time away to try and face my demons. I’m trying to get better.
I’m not sure what KT’s doing.
I’m beginning to think he is actively trying to do damage to this forum. He’s driving people away.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 8, 2014 9:54:21am |
As the kids would say today, this is a “burn.” pic.twitter.com/Reuhxx0Jtj
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) April 8, 2014
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 9:55:17am |
re: #405 Feline Fearless Leader
Apparently if you see Cookie Monster in Germany it might be a Neo-Nazi.
Taking a lesson from Hamas, perhaps!?!?
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 9:57:34am |
re: #414 Killgore Trout
Most of the anti-gay sentiment (or really, anti- any group of people) stems from ignorance. It’s easy to hate people and think that it’s okay to deny them the same rights you enjoy when you don’t really think of them as people. Being forced to confront and understand the fact that they are people just like you rapidly changes most peoples’ outlook.
A whole lot of people that are anti-equality on marriage are so because they don’t actually know any gay people. It’s a lot harder to look a person in the eye and tell them they don’t deserve the same rights and privileges as you do.
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Internet Tough Guy Apr 8, 2014 9:59:02am |
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 10:00:26am |
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b.d. Apr 8, 2014 10:01:13am |
Take that you non-honey bastards!
FDA says honey with added sugar or other sweeteners can't be called honey: http://t.co/jJfqDichMN
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 8, 2014
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jamjam Apr 8, 2014 10:01:21am |
re: #412 The War TARDIS
And I have been spending time away to try and face my demons. I’m trying to get better.
I’m not sure what KT’s doing.
Sorry to hear you’ve not been well. How are you feeling now? I’m relatively new here, have only been posting since the last month (though was registered for a while before that). I don’t know too many of the posters so I’m unsure what’s being referred to here, with respect to the comments on your own ‘schtick’. I’ll assume it is serious enough.
If you ever feel like you want to talk, and you see me online, I’m absolutely happy to oblige. I won’t pretend to know what your demons are about, but I’ve faced some in my time, and I know alienation can make them worse.
I hope this doesn’t come off as patronising or utterly lunkheaded, but when I’ve had been seriously depressed, I’ve found that mindfulness meditation, sunlight, cardiovascular exercise, and socialising outdoors helped considerably (moreso than the less healthy options I chose for short term pain relief).
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 10:01:37am |
re: #418 GunstarGreen
Most of the anti-gay sentiment (or really, anti- any group of people) stems from ignorance. It’s easy to hate people and think that it’s okay to deny them the same rights you enjoy when you don’t really think of them as people. Being forced to confront and understand the fact that they are people just like you rapidly changes most peoples’ outlook.
A whole lot of people that are anti-equality on marriage are so because they don’t actually know any gay people. It’s a lot harder to look a person in the eye and tell them they don’t deserve the same rights and privileges as you do.
I think that’s very true. I hate to go all “MBF” but the same works in reverse. I think if more gay activists spent time with those who oppose gay rights they’d be more effective by understanding and maybe even (gasp!) being friendly with them. When people isolate themselves in ideological bubbles it’s just too easy to view outsiders as inhuman enemies.
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De Kolta Chair Apr 8, 2014 10:02:14am |
Dammit, just heard that David Brenner died recently. He was a very funny guy.
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 10:03:43am |
re: #424 De Kolta Chair
Dammit, just heard that David Brenner died recently. He was a very funny guy.
Yup. Couple-a- three weeks ago or so
John Pinette also (this week)
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 10:05:45am |
Mayoral Candidate’s Amazing Speech: Legal Marijuana Would ‘Dissolve Radiation’ in a Nuclear War
The pot, that cannabis is made of cotton, corn; it’s made of petroleum, it’s made of all that you can name of,” Chapman said. “And if there was to be a nuclear warfare, this plant would dissolve radiation, and repel it.”
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jamjam Apr 8, 2014 10:07:38am |
re: #415 wrenchwench
Well, I suppose it is quick and easy - and even easier, when questioned about the tone and sincerity of the posts, to just ignore those questions. Who knows? It comes off as slightly ‘passive-aggressive’. But maybe to him it is entertaining. To me it is mildly irritating, and perhaps that is the effect he’s going for - y’know, stir up the ultra-serious, left-leaning types.
It doesn’t make the guy seem levelheaded or reasonable though. By contrast, it makes him seem an ideologue.
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 10:09:02am |
re: #418 GunstarGreen
Most of the anti-gay sentiment (or really, anti- any group of people) stems from ignorance. It’s easy to hate people and think that it’s okay to deny them the same rights you enjoy when you don’t really think of them as people. Being forced to confront and understand the fact that they are people just like you rapidly changes most peoples’ outlook.
A whole lot of people that are anti-equality on marriage are so because they don’t actually know any gay people. It’s a lot harder to look a person in the eye and tell them they don’t deserve the same rights and privileges as you do.
I think it’s more likely that they don’t know anyone that they know to be gay but yeah your point is true nonetheless. I think a lot of people especially in more homogeneous areas have this idea that gay people are from some other world compared to them when in reality gay people are like straight people- people in all shapes and forms and all sorts of different interests and personality types.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 8, 2014 10:12:00am |
re: #428 HappyWarrior
I think it’s more likely that they don’t know anyone that they know to be gay but yeah your point is true nonetheless. I think a lot of people especially in more homogeneous areas have this idea that gay people are from some other world compared to them when in reality gay people are like straight people- people in all shapes and forms and all sorts of different interests and personality types.
Re the bolded part: More likely is that they only think they don’t know any gay people.
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 10:12:28am |
It is hard I concede to really empathize with people who willingly buy shit like all gays are pedophiles or gay marriage is a plot to undermine marriages between men and women but I do realize that not every opponent of SSM is like Pat Robertson, Bryan Fischer, or Fred Phelps for that matter either. I do think support for SSM has grown because people are seeing how hateful many opponents of SSM are though.
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wrenchwench Apr 8, 2014 10:13:21am |
re: #423 Killgore Trout
I think that’s very true. I hate to go all “MBF” but the same works in reverse. I think if more gay activists spent time with those who oppose gay rights they’d be more effective by understanding and maybe even (gasp!) being friendly with them. When people isolate themselves in ideological bubbles it’s just too easy to view outsiders as inhuman enemies.
Some things don’t work in reverse, though. How many gay people don’t know any straight people? I doubt there are many gay people who can isolate themselves from straight people, even if they wanted to. Also, ‘gay’ is not an ideology.
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b.d. Apr 8, 2014 10:13:37am |
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 10:17:18am |
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Internet Tough Guy Apr 8, 2014 10:18:10am |
re: #432 b.d.
I am upset that he wasn’t killed by the Punisher.
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 10:21:34am |
re: #429 Backwoods_Sleuth
Re the bolded part: More likely is that they only think they don’t know any gay people.
Right and to some extent I get that especially with older people who came of age in a time where people who were gay were institutionalized. Now that said, it’s really hard to have patience with some people given the way gay people have and still are treated in some parts of this world. As I said, I’m willing to concede that not every opponent of SSM is a frothing at the mouth bigot but at the same time, I’ve seen too many opponents of SSM(and LGBT rights in general) refuse to even concede that LGBT people are our fellow human beings let alone deserving of the same equality as you and I.
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 10:22:03am |
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b.d. Apr 8, 2014 10:23:10am |
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 10:24:01am |
re: #438 b.d.
First Mickey Rooney and now this?!?!?!………
//
Wonder who’s next. They say these happen in threes.
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b.d. Apr 8, 2014 10:25:38am |
re: #440 HappyWarrior
Wonder who’s next. They say these happen in threes.
My money is on Speedy, the Alka Seltzer guy.
/
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William Barnett-Lewis Apr 8, 2014 10:26:52am |
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 10:27:07am |
Not this stupid shit again:
Obama's America is reminiscent of Stalin”s Russia; the state sees itself as having complete power over the people #tcot— ??In God I Trust?? (@InGodIDoTrust) April 8, 2014
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darthstar Apr 8, 2014 10:27:40am |
RT @TPM: Jilted husband says congressman “most non-religious person I know”: http://t.co/QvAi6EUzsC pic.twitter.com/JLYfnpsGlJ | lol oaths, vows— David Waldman (@KagroX) April 8, 2014
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 10:29:11am |
re: #444 darthstar
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What a Republican cynically using religion to get votes? Pretty pathetic that he hasn’t even bothered apologizing to the husband of the woman he cuckolded.
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 10:29:23am |
re: #441 b.d.
My money is on Speedy, the Alka Seltzer guy.
/
I haven’t heard from this guy for awhile!!
He is kinda long in the tooth ,, so,,,,,
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lawhawk Apr 8, 2014 10:32:02am |
Snowden in Vanity Fair:
On allegations that he has “a doomsday cache” in his possession: In response to whispers in the intelligence community that Snowden has “a doomsday cache” in his possession, Snowden retorts, “Who would set up a system that incentivizes others to kill them?”
Ummm, that’s exactly what Greenwald reported after talking with you.
Who’s obfuscating/lying now?
Via Greenwald in a 7/13 news report:
Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who first published the documents Snowden leaked, said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday that the U.S. government should be careful in its pursuit of the former computer analyst.
“Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had,” Greenwald said in an interview in Rio de Janeiro with the Argentinian daily La Nacion.
“The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.”
Where’d Greenwald get that idea, if not Snowden? Did he invent that detail out of whole cloth, or did Snowden really have something like this set up with the journalists who have access to the cache?
Now, we’re going to get (or expect to get) all manner of denial and obfuscation from the principals, especially Greenwald. Considering how he’s gotten so many other details about these technical subjects wrong, exaggerated threats, and claimed the US engaged in illegal spying on allies and threats alike (neither of which is illegal under US law and that said spying is part of the NSA mission), are we really going to know what is going on here?
Then, there’s the issue with the number of documents taken. Snowden plays games here - claiming that he doesn’t know how many he took. That’s plausible, considering that he probably cut and pasted all documents/directories without counting their contents. But the NSA probably knows how many were involved, and they’re saying 1.7 million. Snowden thinks that’s a high figure, but isn’t willing or able to be any clearer.
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makeitstop Apr 8, 2014 10:36:43am |
Howdy, Lizards,
My day began with attempting to schedule an appointment with a hand surgeon to look at my broken finger. I was told since the break was caused by a vehicle (slammed in the tailgate of a truck), the claim would need to be handled through the vehicle owner’s no-fault.
Upon contacting the driver of the vehicle, I learned that he in fact did not own it - it was a rental. I’m currently waiting to get claim information back from the vehicle renter, because the surgeon won’t even schedule an appointment without a claim number. As a backup, I talked to my auto insurance agent as a contingency to see if, failing everything else, we could handle it ourselves.
I’m sure the hospital visit and subsequent surgical procedure in Rhode Island was easily a couple grand, and these surgeons probably don’t come cheap (I’m assuming that - they wouldn’t even give me an out-of pocket cost for an initial consult. No claim number, no appointment.
Sorry to rant. Oddly, my finger doesn’t even hurt at all today, but the tender mercies of the insurance game are giving me a pain in an entirely different region.
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 10:39:39am |
re: #443 Pie-onist Overlord
Not this stupid shit again:
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Obligatory “Then why are you still in Twitland and not in an actual gulag?” response.
I swear, we have some of the most candy-assed “patriots” in the world. These morons think they know tyranny. Slap them in irons and ship them off to an ACTUAL tyrannical dictatorship for a few years, see if they change their perspective at all.
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 10:41:04am |
OK Cupid CEO issues statement on his contributions to anti-gay rights candidate….
OkCupid Co-Founder Regrets Accidentally Supporting Anti-Gay Candidate
“A decade ago, I made a contribution to Representative Chris Cannon because he was the ranking Republican on the House subcommittee that oversaw the Internet and Intellectual Property, matters important to my business and our industry. I accept responsibility for not knowing where he stood on gay rights in particular; I unequivocally support marriage equality and I would not make that contribution again today. However, a contribution made to a candidate with views on hundreds of issues has no equivalence to a contribution supporting Prop 8, a single issue that has no purpose other than to affirmatively prohibit gay marriage, which I believe is a basic civil right.”
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 10:41:13am |
re: #449 GunstarGreen
Obligatory “Then why are you still in Twitland and not in an actual gulag?” response.
I swear, we have some of the most candy-assed “patriots” in the world. These morons think they know tyranny. Slap them in irons and ship them off to an ACTUAL tyrannical dictatorship for a few years, see if they change their perspective at all.
I’m too busy for another stupid twitfight right now.
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 10:41:46am |
re: #449 GunstarGreen
Obligatory “Then why are you still in Twitland and not in an actual gulag?” response.
I swear, we have some of the most candy-assed “patriots” in the world. These morons think they know tyranny. Slap them in irons and ship them off to an ACTUAL tyrannical dictatorship for a few years, see if they change their perspective at all.
The pathetic thing is they cheer real tyranny- a lot of them love Pinochet for example - but Obama is somehow a tyrant because because!
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wrenchwench Apr 8, 2014 10:42:25am |
re: #448 makeitstop
I hope the injury has no effect on your musicianship.
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 10:43:40am |
re: #452 HappyWarrior
The pathetic thing is they cheer real tyranny- a lot of them love
PinochetPutin for example - but Obama is somehow a tyrant because because!
I’m pretty sure most wingnuts today don’t even know who Pinochet was.
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 10:44:58am |
re: #450 Killgore Trout
OK Cupid CEO issues statement on his contributions to anti-gay rights candidate….
OkCupid Co-Founder Regrets Accidentally Supporting Anti-Gay Candidate
Supporting Prop 8 and support a guy that supports Prop 8 are totally different because reasons.
And this sort of thing is why I took issue with OKC’s way of handling the issue, aside from my objections to the technological problems inherent in it.
And I’m sorry, but CEO man? Nobody is stupid enough to believe that you had no idea where a Republican congressman stood on the issue of gay rights. They make themselves crystal clear, frequently. You fucked up by calling out another CEO on supporting anti-gay stuff and hoping that nobody would call you out on yours; own it and stop making lame-ass excuses.
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 10:45:07am |
re: #455 Pie-onist Overlord
I’m pretty sure most wingnuts today don’t even know who Pinochet was.
Yeah should have said Putin. Point is same though.
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wrenchwench Apr 8, 2014 10:45:46am |
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 10:45:47am |
Rev. Al Sharpton Responds To Smoking Gun Report Calling Him FBI Informant http://t.co/M9a20p0cyh— CBS New York (@CBSNewYork) April 8, 2014
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William Barnett-Lewis Apr 8, 2014 10:48:18am |
re: #443 Pie-onist Overlord
Not this stupid shit again:
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Wish I could parachute these idiots into North Korea for a week or three so they could see what real tyranny is.
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makeitstop Apr 8, 2014 10:48:23am |
re: #453 wrenchwench
I hope the injury has no effect on your musicianship.
Thanks for the kind words, WW. I appreciate it.
I sure hope not. I really don’t know, to be honest. I was hoping the surgeon could shed a little light on that, but I’m completely at the mercy of a crew member who’s not known for being the most reliable person.
In spite of what happened (and the doctor removing my nail, suturing a cut and then replacing my nail), my finger barely hurts at all. I’m trying to take that as a good sign, but I’m kind of anxious and it would help to have an expert opinion.
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gwangung Apr 8, 2014 10:48:28am |
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 10:48:34am |
re: #456 GunstarGreen
Supporting Prop 8 and support a guy that supports Prop 8 are totally different because >reasons.
And this sort of thing is why I took issue with OKC’s way of handling the issue, aside from my objections to the technological problems inherent in it.
And I’m sorry, but CEO man? Nobody is stupid enough to believe that you had no idea where a Republican congressman stood on the issue of gay rights. They make themselves crystal clear, frequently. You fucked up by calling out another CEO on supporting anti-gay stuff and hoping that nobody would call you out on yours; own it and stop making lame-ass excuses.
Agreed but the statement is enough to get the press coverage of the hypocrisy to die down, it seems supporters of ousting Eich didn’t care anyways. OK Cupid guy made his donation for business purposes and I’m warming up to the idea that ousting Eich was just a viral marketing campaign for OK Cupid anyways. Profits and marketshare for the company will increase, mission accomplished.
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Apr 8, 2014 10:50:59am |
re: #456 GunstarGreen
Supporting Prop 8 and support a guy that supports Prop 8 are totally different because >reasons.
Well, they are. And more importantly,
I unequivocally support marriage equality and I would not make that contribution again today.
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Bulworth Apr 8, 2014 10:51:38am |
I’m pretty sure most wingnuts today don’t even know who Pinochet was.
Yes we does! Pinochet was Freedom fighter for Freedom and he brought Liberty and Freedom to the country of South America.
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 10:52:56am |
re: #466 Bulworth
Yes we does! Pinochet was Freedom fighter for Freedom and he brought Liberty and Freedom to the country of South America.
He brought capitalism to South America.//
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 10:53:58am |
re: #465 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
There are two classes of people who’s word means absolutely nothing to me: Politicians and executives.
It’s easy to say things you don’t believe when personal gain is on the line.
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 10:54:52am |
re: #463 gwangung
Um, why is this newsworthy?
Maybe that question should be directed at CBS New York @CBSNewYork
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darthstar Apr 8, 2014 10:54:57am |
re: #456 GunstarGreen
OKCupid co-founder Sam Yagan contributed $500 to Rep. Chris Cannon’s (R-Utah) political campaign in 2004.
Any time you see “R-Utah” after someone’s name it’s safe to assume the guy’s probably got some asshole positions on certain issues.
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NJDhockeyfan Apr 8, 2014 10:55:49am |
re: #463 gwangung
Um, why is this newsworthy?
Hard to say. Perhaps because it involves a top civil rights leader acting as an informant for the FBI in an investigation of the Genovese crime family?
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 10:56:05am |
re: #470 darthstar
Any time you see “R-Utah” after someone’s name it’s safe to assume the guy’s probably got some asshole positions on certain issues.
Call me naive but if I’m giving my money to a candidate, I’m seeing what the guy represents.
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makeitstop Apr 8, 2014 10:57:57am |
re: #471 NJDhockeyfan
Hard to say. Perhaps because it involves a top civil rights leader acting as an informant for the FBI in an investigation of the Genovese crime family?
And the Right just loves any chance to take a swipe at Rev. Al. He’s one of those fall-back bogeymen that whip wingnuts into a rage just by mentioning his name.
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Pie-onist Overlord Apr 8, 2014 10:58:36am |
Li’l Miss Derpshine, huffin’ ‘n’ puffin’ to earn her 77¢ on the dollar from Heritage.
#equalpayday2014 #PaycheckFairnessAct 77c/$1 #wagegap is a MYTH. Please look at the methodology of that study! http://t.co/mPaKhR9Q1s #tcot— Inez Feltscher (@InezFeltscher) April 8, 2014
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HappyWarrior Apr 8, 2014 11:09:51am |
re: #474 Pie-onist Overlord
Li’l Miss Derpshine, huffin’ ‘n’ puffin’ to earn her 77¢ on the dollar from Heritage.
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Such a myth that GOP candidates have to claim that women are happy receiving less than equal wages. What a sad tool she is to regurgitate this crap though.
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 11:10:07am |
re: #471 NJDhockeyfan
Hard to say. Perhaps because it involves a top civil rights leader acting as an informant for the FBI in an investigation of the Genovese crime family?
And it looks like it was part of an agreement to get out of drug charges….
The FBI “came in 1982, ‘83, after Don King tried to entrap me in a drug deal that didn’t work,”
I’d rather he just pay his taxes.
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klys Apr 8, 2014 11:10:35am |
Reasons that skydiving meteorite …probably wasn’t.
Since it appears the cat antibodies have worn off, I am off to grocery shop.
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 11:11:51am |
re: #472 HappyWarrior
Call me naive but if I’m giving my money to a candidate, I’m seeing what the guy represents.
Nah dude, the guy’s good for business, so who cares what his positions are on any other issues?
At least Eich was up-front about it. Who’s the bigger scumbag: The guy that donates to anti-gay causes because he just straight-up doesn’t think gays should get married, or the guy that donates to anti-gay causes because it’s good for his business and he doesn’t care that it hurts gay people in the process?
It’s okay, he was only thinking of the money at the time, so it’s different.
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Iwouldprefernotto Apr 8, 2014 11:12:01am |
re: #473 makeitstop
And the Right just loves any chance to take a swipe at Rev. Al. He’s one of those fall-back bogeymen that whip wingnuts into a rage just by mentioning his name.
As a lefty I have plenty of problems with Rev. Al. Mostly concerning the Twanna Brawley incidents…
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GeneJockey Apr 8, 2014 11:17:43am |
re: #431 wrenchwench
Some things don’t work in reverse, though. How many gay people don’t know any straight people? I doubt there are many gay people who can isolate themselves from straight people, even if they wanted to. Also, ‘gay’ is not an ideology.
I’m trying to understand KT’s point - Spend time with people who think you’re evil and degenerate, and you may come to agree with them? You might like them even if they still think you’re evil and degenerate?
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GeneJockey Apr 8, 2014 11:18:30am |
As a side note, KT appears now to be flogging the fossilized skeleton of an equine precursor species.
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William Barnett-Lewis Apr 8, 2014 11:18:50am |
re: #476 Killgore Trout
Oh, is this going to be the new concern or will you be back to pretending that Mozilla means anything?
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Killgore Trout Apr 8, 2014 11:19:11am |
re: #478 GunstarGreen
Nah dude, the guy’s good for business, so who cares what his positions are on any other issues?
At least Eich was up-front about it. Who’s the bigger scumbag: The guy that donates to anti-gay causes because he just straight-up doesn’t think gays should get married, or the guy that donates to anti-gay causes because it’s good for his business and he doesn’t care that it hurts gay people in the process?
It’s okay, he was only thinking of the money at the time, so it’s >different.
It’s a tough call but at least the Mozilla CEO refused to recant or issue a fake apology to appease the activists. That’s something I can admire. The OK Cupid guy is going to support gay rights or oppose them depending on what’s going to make him the most money at the moment. Maybe that’s good business but not a great moral code.
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GeneJockey Apr 8, 2014 11:20:27am |
re: #466 Bulworth
Yes we does! Pinochet was Freedom fighter for Freedom and he brought Liberty and Freedom to the country of South America.
I think that’s about the level of their understanding. You see, as demonstrated in their response to Arab Spring, other countries are not allowed to choose leadership we don’t like, or it’s tyranny. OTOH, if we like them, a tyrannical government is Freedom.
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wrenchwench Apr 8, 2014 11:23:40am |
re: #481 GeneJockey
As a side note, KT appears now to be flogging the fossilized skeleton of an equine precursor species.
Eohipster flogs eohippus!
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 11:23:54am |
re: #479 Iwouldprefernotto
As I lefty I have plenty of problems with Rev. Al. Mostly concerning the Twanna Brawley incidents…
and Freddies Fashion Mart
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Apr 8, 2014 11:24:09am |
re: #468 GunstarGreen
There are two classes of people who’s word means absolutely nothing to me: Politicians and executives.
It’s easy to say things you don’t believe when personal gain is on the line.
What they say still matters, even if they don’t believe it, though.
Do you understand what I’m saying? That if Eich had just said “That contribution was a mistake, and I wouldn’t do it now” then that would have dealt with much of the furor?
It wouldn’t have dealt with all of it, because prop 8 and donating to a Republican are not, actually, the same thing. Prop 8, and it’s campaign, was only, solely, just about denying civil rights to gay people. There was nothing else to it than that, and it did it through demonization of gay people, scaremongering, and really crappy, horrible, bigoted tactics.
When I contribute to a Democrat, I am also contributing to some shitty positions, but I believe their good positions outweigh them.
A lot of these stories trying to scaremonger up a slippery slope actually disprove that slippery slope, which is nice, but, weirdly, people tend to be ignoring that disproof.
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Apr 8, 2014 11:25:01am |
re: #483 Killgore Trout
It’s a tough call but at least the Mozilla CEO refused to recant or issue a fake apology to appease the activists. That’s something I can admire. The OK Cupid guy is going to support gay rights or oppose them depending on what’s going to make him the most money at the moment. Maybe that’s good business but not a great moral code.
It is, however, better for gay people.
It was really fascinating when you read The Racist Tree and didn’t understand that ambivalence in the message.
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GeneJockey Apr 8, 2014 11:26:25am |
re: #473 makeitstop
And the Right just loves any chance to take a swipe at Rev. Al. He’s one of those fall-back bogeymen that whip wingnuts into a rage just by mentioning his name.
We could probably trigger a bunch of strokes and coronaries on the right by inserting single frames with ‘Sharpton!’, ‘Pelosi!’, or ‘Alinsky!’ into videos of Sean Hannity throwing a tantrum debating a liberal.
But that would be WRONG! It would INFURIATE the ARMADA!
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GeneJockey Apr 8, 2014 11:28:01am |
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wrenchwench Apr 8, 2014 11:29:04am |
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makeitstop Apr 8, 2014 11:29:20am |
re: #479 Iwouldprefernotto
As a lefty I have plenty of problems with Rev. Al. Mostly concerning the Twanna Brawley incidents…
As do I. But Sharpton is up there in the pantheon of liberals whose very name will set conservatives to swearing.
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GeneJockey Apr 8, 2014 11:30:34am |
re: #491 wrenchwench
Upding for updang!
Isn’t that simply the past tense? I upding. Yesterday I updang. I have frequently updung.
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GunstarGreen Apr 8, 2014 11:31:21am |
re: #487 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
I understand what you’re saying, I just don’t agree with it.
Then again, I’m a strange person. I don’t think that having a person say something they obviously don’t believe changes anything. Hearing words does nothing for me when I know, for a fact, that they are meaningless. Empty platitudes do not ‘make things right’ as far as I’m concerned.
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 11:34:58am |
re: #494 GunstarGreen
I understand what you’re saying, I just don’t agree with it.
Then again, I’m a strange person. I don’t think that having a person say something they obviously don’t believe changes anything. Hearing words does nothing for me when I know, for a fact, that they are meaningless. Empty platitudes do not ‘make things right’ as far as I’m concerned.
Problem is, when someone issues a mea culpa, how do we know for sure if it is or isn’t sincere
Me ,, I give that person the benefit of the doubt and accept their apology UNTIL or unless they later prove me wrong
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GeneJockey Apr 8, 2014 11:35:13am |
re: #494 GunstarGreen
I understand what you’re saying, I just don’t agree with it.
Then again, I’m a strange person. I don’t think that having a person say something they obviously don’t believe changes anything. Hearing words does nothing for me when I know, for a fact, that they are meaningless. Empty platitudes do not ‘make things right’ as far as I’m concerned.
He may or may not mean it, but I betcha he won’t give money or vocal support to such a candidate again.
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Apr 8, 2014 11:35:57am |
re: #494 GunstarGreen
I understand what you’re saying, I just don’t agree with it.
Then again, I’m a strange person. I don’t think that having a person say something they obviously don’t believe changes anything. Hearing words does nothing for me when I know, for a fact, that they are meaningless. Empty platitudes do not ‘make things right’ as far as I’m concerned.
But it does change things. If bigots don’t openly express their bigotry, fewer people are influenced by that bigotry, and bigotry recedes.
You have no way of knowing if the majority of things you’ve heard in your life, from anyone other than close friends, are things they sincerely believe. The words themselves are important.
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GeneJockey Apr 8, 2014 11:40:14am |
re: #497 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
But it does change things. If bigots don’t openly express their bigotry, fewer people are influenced by that bigotry, and bigotry recedes.
You have no way of knowing if the majority of things you’ve heard in your life, from anyone other than close friends, are things they sincerely believe. The words themselves are important.
This is a salient point. As it became less acceptable to say blatantly racist things in polite society, those opinions lost validity.
It also works in reverse.
A big part of the function of folks like Limbaugh and Coulter is to make it okay to publicly say things that Conservatives previously were ashamed or afraid to say. When they can say them, they find others who think the same way and they get their crazy, stupid beliefs validated.
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sattv4u2 Apr 8, 2014 11:45:01am |
re: #493 GeneJockey
Isn’t that simply the past tense? I upding. Yesterday I updang. I have frequently updung.
You don’t even wanna know what an upDUNG is !!
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lawhawk Apr 8, 2014 11:47:43am |
re: #463 gwangung
Um, why is this newsworthy?
There was a significant document drop, which corroborates the Smoking Gun’s earlier claimed report that Sharpton was an FBI informant. There’s a whole lot more detail now associated with the report.
And it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Sharpton doesn’t want anyone to know that he was a snitch for the FBI in dealing with the Genovese crime family. They have their ways of dealing with snitches.
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Apr 8, 2014 11:48:17am |
re: #498 GeneJockey
This is a salient point. As it became less acceptable to say blatantly racist things in polite society, those opinions lost validity.
It also works in reverse.
A big part of the function of folks like Limbaugh and Coulter is to make it okay to publicly say things that Conservatives previously were ashamed or afraid to say. When they can say them, they find others who think the same way and they get their crazy, stupid beliefs validated.
Yep. And as another example: Killgore has been on his schtick since Occupy. His most latest and greatest is fanboying Clarence Thomas. Killgore may or may not be sincere; he might be offering his frequently troll-seeming opinions (like saying he doesn’t know if the VP of policy at Komen affects policy at Komen) sincerely, or he may be looking for negative attention, validating his self-identity as a libertarian contrarian, etc. There’s literally no way of knowing, and it doesn’t matter: whether he means it or not, he really types what he really types.
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gwangung Apr 8, 2014 12:02:07pm |
re: #473 makeitstop
And the Right just loves any chance to take a swipe at Rev. Al. He’s one of those fall-back bogeymen that whip wingnuts into a rage just by mentioning his name.
So the Right takes a swipe at someone who informed against organized crime?
Um, so the Right is pro-crime and pro-thug?
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