Fox’s Greg Gutfeld: Women Should Have No Right to Donate Fetal Tissue for Research

“I hope you live long on the backs of dead fetuses”
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Media Matters

You knew this was coming, and Fox News angry manbaby Greg Gutfeld is now going there. Gutfeld says women should have no right to donate fetal tissue for medical research.

He compares this to the second amendment, saying you have a right to own a gun but you don’t have a right to shoot your gun “wherever you want.” I know. It makes no sense at all. This is where the right wing has ended up on this issue — in total hateful incoherence.

Amazingly, Geraldo Rivera actually sounds like a reasonable person in this clip. For once. Rivera points out that medical research helps scientists find cures for diseases, and saves lives, and Gutfeld responds with, “I hope you live long on the backs of dead fetuses, Geraldo.”

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675 comments
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:34:19pm

Women Should Have No Right

im so glad we live in a time and place where there are people to decide for us what is right and wrong

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:34:40pm

What about the parents of children who have been born, but die before reaching majority? Would Gutfield prohibit THEM from donating organs?

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WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:35:19pm

re: #1 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Women Should Have No Right

im so glad we live in a time and place where there are people to decide for us what is right and wrong

You never expect the Inquisition.

4
HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:35:32pm

Doesn’t this dipshit claim to be a libertarian or at the least an opponent of big government?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:35:56pm

re: #2 Blind Frog Belly White

What about the parents of children who have been born, but die before reaching majority? Would Gutfield prohibit THEM from donating organs?

He’s a right wing asshole so magic 8 ball says yes.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:36:38pm

Angry manbaby is a pretty good description of every man employed by FNC that spouts out shit there.

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Csarneson  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:37:07pm

No woman should have that right to donate something that came out of their bodies. Only old white men should be able to make that decision.

- Fox News

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Charles Johnson  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:39:22pm

This is a great example of why it’s pointless to try to “debate” with these people. They have no concept of honest argument, and they don’t even listen to the other side. They’re just doing the Gutfeld Gallop, spewing as much craziness as they can come up with off the top of their heads, just to club their opponents into submission.

Horrible, horrible people with no decency or ethics.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:39:23pm

Enjoy your lack of Polio, Gutfield.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:39:50pm

Hey BWS or BeachDem, if you’re here, I’m applying for that SCOTUSblog position. Just so happens I have an excellent writing sample for a quickie extra credit paper I wrote on Loving. Hopefully that gets me an extra gander.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:40:13pm

Greg Gutfeld’s face is permanently contorted into an angry scowl.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:40:16pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

But, you know, BABBY PARTS!!

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Amory Blaine  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:40:45pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

They have so much fucking money…

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:40:56pm

re: #9 Blind Frog Belly White

Enjoy your lack of Polio, Gutfield.

He like any good conservative is a beneficiary of liberalism, he just hates being reminded about why we have progress in things we take for granted. If we had did things his way, this country never would have become as great as it has.

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Csarneson  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:44:13pm

It’s easy to write this off as some clown liking to hear himself talk and creating “rage entertainment”. It does real damage though because it actually resonates with some bizarre section of the population and convinces them that they are right. These same people then go out and parade their Gasden flag.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:44:55pm
Gutfeld says women should have no right

That’s all.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:45:09pm

I think Kevin Williamson and Greg Gutfeld ned to have a “Woman shouldn’t” off in which they list the things that women shouldn’t have the right to do.

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Amory Blaine  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:47:41pm

I would like to see the owners that profited off that leaking mine sued into the poorhouse. Why the fuck is the EPA and taxpayers responsible? Fuck that shit.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:49:08pm

No need for research, we’ll just blow up any mean old disease that rears its head. It’s certain that Gutfeld won’t mind having to go to the nations that aren’t prevented by people like him from doing fundamental research for cures and remediation in the future.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:50:45pm

re: #18 Amory Blaine

I would like to see the owners that profited off that leaking mine sued into the poorhouse. Why the fuck is the EPA and taxpayers responsible? Fuck that shit.

Mineral rights laws in this nation pretty much enable the holder of those rights to completely fuck up whatever is on the surface to get to their minerals.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:51:34pm

re: #18 Amory Blaine

I would like to see the owners that profited off that leaking mine sued into the poorhouse. Why the fuck is the EPA and taxpayers responsible? Fuck that shit.

Apparently it was a Superfund site and the mine was from way back in the 20s or earlier.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:51:35pm

re: #18 Amory Blaine

I would like to see the owners that profited off that leaking mine sued into the poorhouse. Why the fuck is the EPA and taxpayers responsible? Fuck that shit.

I make that point when I can. The EPA fucked up, but they didn’t make the mess in the first place, then take the money and run.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:51:38pm

Gutfeld is a incompetent insane douchecanoe. And now since he’s made his ridiculous statement, if it comes to the point that in order to save his life it takes a monoclonal antibody derived by fetal tissue, I hope he’s man enough to decline to take that treatment.

Gutfeld is a flaming asshole-how he managed to get a position on Fox is a mystery.

Anthony Cumia noted that the late night Fox News crews are notorious boozehounds. That could explain Gutfeld and the Red Eye bunch.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:51:50pm
Gutfeld responds with, “I hope you live long on the backs of dead fetuses, Geraldo.”

I guarantee this idiot is regularly vaccinated.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:52:09pm

New video of the Tianjin explosion. This one is just insane.

…

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:53:48pm

Elsewhere in Wingnuttia:

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lawhawk  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:54:08pm

Carly Fiorina comes out as a half-assed anti-vaxxer, thinking that ppl have religious right to not get kids vaccinated.

Bullshit.

If MS and WV can get full vaccinations and don’t even allow religious exemption (only medically allowed exemptions), then the rest of the country can and should follow suit.

Oh, and how about a cost/benefit analysis? Something that a supposed business wiz would understand?

Why the hell would you knowingly take a position that will expose people to entirely preventable diseases that cost the health care system money and time that can be devoted to other diseases. You burden the health care system with preventable costs - hospitalizations, contact tracing, etc., to say nothing of lost wages and time for those caring for the sickened.

And you knowingly put others at risk who might not be able to get vaccinated.

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:54:38pm

re: #23 Eric The Fruit Bat

Gutfeld is a incompetent insane douchecanoe. And now since he’s made his ridiculous statement, if it comes to the point that in order to save his life it takes a monoclonal antibody derived by fetal tissue, I hope he’s man enough to decline to take that treatment.

You can bet any amount of money you want that he wouldn’t decline sh*t - he’s no different than RWNJs who scream and rage on against birth control and abortion 24/7, but don’t have a care in the world when it comes to find inga way to get Mrs. RWNJ a nice and quite, far-from-cameras abortion when she needs it…

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Skip Intro  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:54:39pm

re: #23 Eric The Fruit Bat

Gutfeld is a flaming asshole-how he managed to get a position on Fox is a mystery.

Come on now. That’s the first box they check before you get hired at Fox.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:59:08pm

Happening now in Houston:

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 13, 2015 • 5:59:57pm

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

New video of the Tianjin explosion. This one is just insane.

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Video

Damn! It appeared to me that some of the fireworks-looking stuff was starting fires wherever it landed. Keeping those affected in my thoughts. The whole city will be insomniac for days.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:00:48pm

re: #29 Skip Intro

Come on now. That’s the first box they check before you get hired at Fox.

“Would you sell your own grandmother down the river for right wing policies?”
“Yes”
“We’re honored to welcome you to Fox.”

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:01:27pm

re: #30 jaunte

Happening now in Houston:

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Wish I could be surprised.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:02:15pm

If you want proof that the Republican party is full of theocratic assholes, look no further than “The Hammer.”

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:02:20pm

re: #30 jaunte

Happening now in Houston:

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Hell, by 2020 that will be a plank in the Republican platform.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:02:59pm
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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:03:05pm

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

New video of the Tianjin explosion. This one is just insane.

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Video

Got that working once but errors afterwards… so for those who can’t quite see that video:

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:03:47pm

re: #36 jaunte

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Thanks. Was wondering who he was. I am not surprised at all unfortunately.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:04:12pm

re: #37 Archangelus

Bada-boom.

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lawhawk  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:04:13pm

re: #37 Archangelus

+1 for the B5 Ivanova gif.

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lawhawk  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:04:33pm

re: #39 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Big Bada Boom.

Where’s my multipass.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:04:44pm

What’s sad is a pro-gay rights Republican would get more boos at a Republican debate than this guy would.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:06:06pm

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

New video of the Tianjin explosion. This one is just insane.

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Video

All the Tianjin videos should be required to run on a loop, whenever some wingnut goes off about cumbersome government regulations

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:09:32pm

re: #37 Archangelus

Got that working once but errors afterwards… so for those who can’t quite see that video:

Embedded Image

Something is seriously wrong with me.
I have watched maybe half a dozens episodes, max, probably close to two decades ago.
Yet, I know that gif is from Babylon 5

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BlueGrl21  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:10:24pm

Mr. Gutfeld, you seem to be uneducated about the reality of women terminating their pregnancies…you cannot stop it. Seriously. Rant and moan and try the courts and legislatures all you want. Even if for some reason you win, you still will NEVER win.

The first prohibition against abortion was in Hammurabi’s code. ~1700 BCE. Didn’t work.

First record of a medical abortion, ~1500 BCE. Still here.

It’s not really about abortion. It’s about the fact that women can choose to abort a child and there is nothing you can do about it. That’s reality. We may die in the process but so will the fetus. You cannot ever force us to maintain a pregnancy. Because we’re the ones that have them. The hand that rocks the cradle rocks the world, you know.

So, I’m really sorry you can’t grow a baby. I’m sure if you could you would happily carry 15 pregnancies! Good on you, sir!

I suggest you make a good thing from something that is going to happen anyway and save those lives you care so very much about. Then we can talk about PAP smears and mammograms, right? As educated as you are about women’s health concerns, I am confident you know that uterine, ovarian, and breast cancers comprise 46% of the new cancer diagnosis in women each year?

No? Huh.

On behalf of women everywhere, thank you for your concerns, Mr. Gutfeld. Go fuck yourself.

Have a blessed day!

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Varek Raith  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:12:22pm

re: #40 lawhawk

+1 for the B5 Ivanova gif.

“Ivanova is God.”

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:14:56pm

re: #44 FormerDirtDart

Something is seriously wrong with me.
I have watched maybe half a dozens episodes, max, probably close to two decades ago.
Yet, I know that gif is from Babylon 5

Naw, makes perfect sense to me. Two reasons from my perspective: One, the show was brilliant, so even half a dozen episodes left their mark; Two, the visual scenery/backdrop design was consistent, so seeing it over and over in those episodes would make it stand out when seen again, as in this gif…

But for me, its primarily the first point - the show was brilliant, pure and simple.
And Ivanova is god.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:15:57pm

re: #46 Varek Raith

“Ivanova is God.”

i miss B5 - i remember how it made star trek look much too well lit and clean cut

are there any good space station dramas around these days?

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:18:53pm

Oddly enough.

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ObserverArt  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:19:46pm

So, this is what FOX News considers editorial debate, or news entertainment, maybe newsie reality, FOX drama…what?

And I feel lesser just having watched it. TV drugged with depressants.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:19:54pm

re: #48 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

i miss B5 - i remember how it made star trek look much too well lit and clean cut

are there any good space station dramas around these days?

I’ve heard we can look forward to a remake of Space: 1999, as Space: 2099

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The Great Eye  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:20:54pm

re: #46 Varek Raith

“Ivanova is God.”

Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander. Daughter of Andre and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me.

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Varek Raith  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:22:32pm

…

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:24:27pm

re: #52 The Great Eye

Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander. Daughter of Andre and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me.

…

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No Depression  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:26:24pm

re: #23 Eric The Fruit Bat

Gutfeld is a flaming asshole-how he managed to get a position on Fox is a mystery.

It’s because they needed a “funny” “comedian” to take the edge off from all the other angry assholes they employ.

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No Country For Old Haters  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:26:31pm

re: #44 FormerDirtDart

Something is seriously wrong with me.
I have watched maybe half a dozens episodes, max
Yet, I know that gif is from Babylon 5

You only have to get through about 6 more before it gets really good and hooks you in.

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:26:39pm

Turn on CNN to see the 70’s music.

Marvin Gaye now.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:27:47pm

re: #38 HappyWarrior

Thanks. Was wondering who he was. I am not surprised at all unfortunately.

Worth a listen for the weirdness.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:27:57pm

re: #55 No Depression

Gutfeld is a flaming asshole-how he managed to get a position on Fox is a mystery.

It’s because they needed a “funny” “comedian” to take the edge off from all the other angry assholes they employ.

Where did he get his start anyhow? I find most of the conservative “comedians” I’ve seen not funny at all. Just being an arrogant prick isn’t funny or satirical despite what Rush says about himself.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:28:55pm

re: #58 jaunte

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Worth a listen for the weirdness.

What a wanker.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:29:32pm

re: #60 HappyWarrior

I never thought I would hear an autotuned lyric like “What would Davy Crockett do?”

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:29:52pm
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sagehen  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:33:23pm

re: #49 jaunte

Oddly enough.

Any chance AnnTBush is one of “those” Bushes?

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danarchy  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:33:39pm

re: #59 HappyWarrior

Where did he get his start anyhow? I find most of the conservative “comedians” I’ve seen not funny at all. Just being an arrogant prick isn’t funny or satirical despite what Rush says about himself.

I think he was an editor for some men’s magazine. Maxim or something.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:33:55pm

re: #64 danarchy

I think he was an editor for some men’s magazine. Maxim or something.

Yeah I’ve heard of Maxim.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:34:38pm

re: #63 sagehen

I think she’s punning on “Anti”

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No Depression  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:35:27pm

re: #59 HappyWarrior

Just read a Wikipedia article about him. Apparently he used to be a Maxim writer and a contributor on Huffington Post before he got his gig on Red Eye. His career also involved a bizarre publicity stunt involving dwarfs that got him fired from an editor-in-chief position at Stuff magazine.

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TedStriker  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:35:59pm

re: #23 Eric The Fruit Bat

Gutfeld is a incompetent insane douchecanoe. And now since he’s made his ridiculous statement, if it comes to the point that in order to save his life it takes a monoclonal antibody derived by fetal tissue, I hope he’s man enough to decline to take that treatment.

Gutfeld is a flaming asshole-how he managed to get a position on Fox is a mystery.

Anthony Cumia noted that the late night Fox News crews are notorious boozehounds. That could explain Gutfeld and the Red Eye bunch.

Cumia’s got his own issues, including the fact that he’s a racist sonofabitch that did much to get his own radio show canned.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:36:15pm

Economists have expressed skepticism at Mr. Bush’s promise of 4 percent growth, so Mr. Huckabee’s 6 percent plan may cause even more raised eyebrows.

Mr. Huckabee said his Fair Tax would encourage businesses to repatriate $11 trillion that they had parked overseas and ignite a national manufacturing boom. “Folks, it’s not enough for us to have an idea and design and create something,” he said. “We have to make the things that we create.”

yet again untaxing millionaires will cure the common cold, lumbago, and female troubles

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:38:21pm

re: #54 Archangelus

I prefer to see her in Hexed. Great bad movie.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:38:38pm

re: #67 No Depression

Just read a Wikipedia article about him. Apparently he used to be a Maxim writer and a contributor on Huffington Post before he got his gig on Red Eye. His career also involved a bizarre publicity stunt involving dwarfs that got him fired from an editor-in-chief position at Stuff magazine.

Fox sure knows how to pick winners don’t they? I’ve seen some of Red Eye before. Always struck me as Fox trying way too hard to be “hip” and clever.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:39:23pm

re: #69 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Economists have expressed skepticism at Mr. Bush’s promise of 4 percent growth, so Mr. Huckabee’s 6 percent plan may cause even more raised eyebrows.

Mr. Huckabee said his Fair Tax would encourage businesses to repatriate $11 trillion that they had parked overseas and ignite a national manufacturing boom. “Folks, it’s not enough for us to have an idea and design and create something,” he said. “We have to make the things that we create.”

yet again untaxing millionaires will cure the common cold, lumbago, and female troubles

If Huckabee actually thinks his tax plan will bring businesses back, I got some gay pornography to sell him.

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Lancelot Link  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:41:01pm

re: #23 Eric The Fruit Bat

Anthony Cumia noted that the late night Fox News crews are notorious boozehounds. That could explain Gutfeld and the Red Eye bunch.

That’s no excuse.

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No Depression  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:41:26pm

re: #71 HappyWarrior

Yeah the only time I’ve ever found Red Eye funny was when Andrew W.K. and Oderus Urungus came on.

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Amory Blaine  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:41:49pm

Gutfield also has one of those degrees RWNJ consider worthless (english).

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The War TARDIS  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:42:29pm

Oh, I found something out from Tumblr!

Watch the Disney Movies of Mulan, The Princess and the Frog, and Frozen.

Look at the how the main characters use their hands.

They are all left-handed.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:42:41pm

re: #74 No Depression

Yeah the only time I’ve ever found Red Eye funny was when Andrew W.K. and Oderus Urungus came on.

I do hear Andrew W.K is one of the nicest guys in the music industry. Never was huge on his music but he seems like a decent guy form what I know.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:42:46pm

Yes, it is now obvious to me.
The nation would definitely be sitting on vastly superior footings if Michele Bachmann had claimed the Presidential mantle on Jan. 20, 2013

At times I marvel at the sheer lunacy found on twitter

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TedStriker  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:43:09pm

re: #68 TedStriker

And, lest anyone forgets, Cumia is one of the hills that KT decided to take a stand on and get his account whacked by Stinky, IIRC.

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Belafon  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:43:44pm

re: #76 The War TARDIS

Oh, I found something out from Tumblr!

Watch the Disney Movies of Mulan, The Princess and the Frog, and Frozen.

Look at the how the main characters use their hands.

They are all left-handed.

Watch a lot of stuff. A whole lot of characters are left handed. Bart Simpson for one.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:44:00pm

re: #79 TedStriker

And, lest anyone forgets, Cumia is one of the hills that KT decided to take a stand on and get his account whacked by Stinky, IIRC.

Yeah I remember that. That was after Cumia said something really fucked up even by shock jock standards.

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Belafon  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:44:57pm

re: #78 FormerDirtDart

Maybe he means defunked. He thought Obama would bring more blues to the White House.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:45:37pm

Nuts

My dream of a porn email defense for Kathleen Kane (PA Attorney General) is over:

philly.com

“The emails, Judge William R. Carpenter said, have nothing to do with the criminal case against Kane, the first woman and Democrat to be elected attorney general.
“Carpenter, a Republican who launched the grand jury investigation that led to the charges against Kane, defended his supervision of the panel and the work of the grand jurors.”

…

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:45:58pm

re: #80 Belafon

Watch a lot of stuff. A whole lot of characters are left handed. Bart Simpson for one.

Well a lot of Simpsons characters are lefties on purpose because Matt Groening is. We rule Springfield and we have been ruling the presidency since Ford. Only two natural righties since Ford.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:47:22pm

re: #84 HappyWarrior

That’s the problem with this country.

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The War TARDIS  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:47:25pm

re: #84 HappyWarrior

I’ve heard that.

Left-Handed people rule? Literally in this case?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:48:09pm

re: #85 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

That’s the problem with this country.

Like hell it is.

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Lancelot Link  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:48:11pm

re: #84 HappyWarrior

How sinister!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:49:12pm

re: #86 The War TARDIS

I’ve heard that.

Left-Handed people rule? Literally in this case?

Yep. Only two non natural lefties since Ford are Carter and W Bush. Ford, Reagan, H.W Bush, Clinton, and Obama are all lefties. Haven’t read anything about the handiness of any of the candidates running in both parties this time though. I’m always interested being obviously a lefty.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:49:26pm

re: #88 Lancelot Link

How sinister!

Well played.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:54:18pm

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
A woman is reduced to an incubating torso

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:54:43pm

re: #89 HappyWarrior

Yep. Only two non natural lefties since Ford are Carter and W Bush. Ford, Reagan, H.W Bush, Clinton, and Obama are all lefties. Haven’t read anything about the handiness of any of the candidates running in both parties this time though. I’m always interested being obviously a lefty.

Lefty POWAH!! The earth is OURS!! ;)

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:55:05pm

re: #91 The Vicious Babushka

Baby looks nervous

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:55:41pm

re: #91 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
A woman is reduced to an incubating torso

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You ever notice that it’s always guys posting these. That can’t be a coincidence can it. //

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:56:03pm

Lefty here too :)

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:56:05pm

re: #93 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Baby looks nervous

I would be if the guy who posted that was going to be my Dad. He seems like a real prick pretzel.

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:56:06pm

re: #91 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
A woman is reduced to an incubating torso

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Ugh this is just so stupid! WTFH is wrong with these ‘people’….

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Charles Johnson  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:56:32pm

re: #79 TedStriker

And, lest anyone forgets, Cumia is one of the hills that KT decided to take a stand on and get his account whacked by Stinky, IIRC.

Cumia appeared on the white supremacist radio show Political Cesspool. That’s the end of the line. As far as I’m concerned, defend anyone who chooses to go on that show and your LGF account will be history.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:58:00pm

re: #98 Charles Johnson

Cumia appeared on the white supremacist radio show Political Cesspool. That’s the end of the line. As far as I’m concerned, defend anyone who chooses to go on that show and your LGF account will be history.

That was it. Thanks Charles.

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:58:44pm

re: #94 HappyWarrior

You ever notice that it’s always guys posting these. That can’t be a coincidence can it. //

Not always, but seemingly 90% of the time - and in the 10% cases when it IS from women, they seem either totally subservient or 1000% hospital-certified cray-cray…

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 13, 2015 • 6:59:54pm

EVEN MOAR STUPIDER MEME OF THE DAY==>
“Taking choices away from another human being” is referring to HIMSELF making decisions about HIS GIRLFRIEND like he owns her

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aagcobb  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:00:00pm

Funny, my local sheriff got a story on Vox about how on his facebook page he invited local drug dealers to turn their competition in; and it worked!

vox.com

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:00:19pm

re: #100 Archangelus

Not always, but seemingly 90% of the time - and in the 10% cases when it IS from women, they seem either totally subservient or 1000% hospital-certified cray-cray…

Yeah should have qualified with overwhelmingly but we’re both in agreement on this.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:00:33pm
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Belafon  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:00:44pm

re: #91 The Vicious Babushka

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:00:57pm

re: #101 The Vicious Babushka

EVEN MOAR STUPIDER MEME OF THE DAY==>
“Taking choices away from another human being” is referring to HIMSELF making decisions about HIS GIRLFRIEND like he owns her

[Embedded content]

Yeah saw that yesterday. That guy looks like the kind of bro douche that would take advantage of a girl and leave her pregnant and then demand custody.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:02:22pm

re: #101 The Vicious Babushka

This Guy Just Destroyed The Pro-Choice Argument With

also Trump Will Definitely Be Toast After This Last Remark

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:02:36pm

re: #106 HappyWarrior

Yeah saw that yesterday. That guy looks like the kind of bro douche that would take advantage of a girl and leave her pregnant and then demand custody refuse to pay child support.

ftfy

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:02:59pm

Does the toast come with blueberry, blackberry, or strawberry preserves?

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ComradeDread  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:03:14pm
“I hope you live long on the backs of dead fetuses,”

I will, thank you very much.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:03:16pm

re: #108 The Vicious Babushka

ftfy

True.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:04:31pm

re: #109 HappyWarrior

Does the toast come with blueberry, blackberry, or strawberry preserves?

something very vague but definitely fabulous

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:04:49pm

re: #91 The Vicious Babushka

re: #108 The Vicious Babushka

ftfy

Bro douches first refuse to pay children support, then demand full custody.

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:05:03pm

If I were any good with graphic design, i’d make a graphic showing a Zygote accompanied by the following text: “Attention Pro-“Life”Enslavement blowhards! This has: Zero heads, Zero legs, Zero arms, Zero beating hearts! So on behalf of sane people everywhere, F*CK OFF!!”

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:06:04pm

re: #113 The Ghost of a Flea

Bro douches first refuse to pay children support, then demand full custody.

They treat women like shit and then they call any woman who doesn’t find them charming a “dyke c word”.

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:06:41pm

re: #101 The Vicious Babushka

EVEN MOAR STUPIDER MEME OF THE DAY==>
“Taking choices away from another human being” is referring to HIMSELF making decisions about HIS GIRLFRIEND like he owns her

[Embedded content]

This seems highly appropriate:
…

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TedStriker  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:06:48pm

re: #115 HappyWarrior

They treat women like shit and then they call any woman who doesn’t find them charming a “dyke c word”.

In other words, MRAs.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:07:04pm

re: #114 Archangelus

If I were any good with graphic design, i’d make a graphic showing a Zygote accompanied by the following text: “Attention Pro-“Life”Enslavement blowhards! This has: Zero heads, Zero legs, Zero arms, Zero beating hearts! So on behalf of sane people everywhere, F*CK OFF!!”

But once a child is born, they become “wild animals” who must not be fed because it “creates dependency”

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No Depression  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:07:10pm

I’m watching The Seventies on CNN and they keep playing all these wingnut ads—Ron Paul warning about another financial crisis, Liberty Council complaining about the Supreme Court “forcing” gay marriage on our country. I know people complain about CNN being conservative, but seriously WTF CNN?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:07:29pm

re: #117 TedStriker

In other words, MRAs.

Yep.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:07:55pm

re: #118 The Vicious Babushka

But once a child is born, they become “wild animals” who must not be fed because it “creates dependency”

[Embedded content]

That’s the case, yes.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:09:33pm

re: #113 The Ghost of a Flea

Bro douches first refuse to pay children support, then demand full custody.

Gun rights activist, previously in the news for walking his AR15 buddy through a shopping mall:

According to the charging document, Poe’s live-in girlfriend told police that she was trying to leave their Lumberton home with their 1-year-old child when she and Poe began arguing on July 21.

The woman, not identified, told police that Poe tried to stop her from leaving and “grabbed her throat with both hands and strangled her to the point where she could not breathe or speak,” according to a sworn affidavit filed by the responding officer.

After the woman “made him release his grip,” Poe head-butted her, she told police.beaumontenterprise.com

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aagcobb  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:11:15pm

re: #119 No Depression

I’m watching The Seventies on CNN and they keep playing all these wingnut ads—Ron Paul warning about another financial crisis, Liberty Council complaining about the Supreme Court “forcing” gay marriage on our country. I know people complain about CNN being conservative, but seriously WTF CNN?

Who would be watching a show about the seventies? really old people. CNN is playing those commercials because their audience is the kind of people grifters get their money from. Heck, even LGF has wingnut ads.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:12:04pm

re: #119 No Depression

I’m watching The Seventies on CNN and they keep playing all these wingnut ads—Ron Paul warning about another financial crisis, Liberty Council complaining about the Supreme Court “forcing” gay marriage on our country. I know people complain about CNN being conservative, but seriously WTF CNN?

They’re ads. If you want to see some other kind of ad, raise some money and buy the airtime.

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prairiefire  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:12:17pm

re: #122 jaunte

I’m so glad all these Americans with anger issues can have all the guns they want./

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A Cranky One  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:12:29pm

re: #118 The Vicious Babushka

But once a child is born, they become “wild animals” who must not be fed because it “creates dependency”

[Embedded content]

The scary part? I’m sure a lot of the folks who circulate those memes fantasize about using their hoard of weapons to hunt and kill the “wild animals”.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:14:14pm

re: #125 prairiefire

The deadbeat dipshit birthfather of one of my grandsons won’t pay child support, but of course has a couple of AR15s.

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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:14:32pm

OT: Fast food pizzaria at minimum wage is a really crappy way to make a nowhere near enough money to survive on. Bleah.

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Belafon  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:14:33pm

re: #122 jaunte

No one’s required to be scared of them because they are white males, so they have to take it up a notch.

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A Cranky One  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:14:37pm

re: #123 aagcobb

Who would be watching a show about the seventies? really old people. CNN is playing those commercials because their audience is the kind of people grifters get their money from. Heck, even LGF has wingnut ads.

Not watching CNN and thought most of the 70’s music sucked, but…

Get off my lawn.

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:15:10pm

re: #119 No Depression

I’m watching The Seventies on CNN and they keep playing all these wingnut ads—Ron Paul warning about another financial crisis, Liberty Council complaining about the Supreme Court “forcing” gay marriage on our country. I know people complain about CNN being conservative, but seriously WTF CNN?

CNN is my background noise during the work day, because I can handle it.

In addition to the ads you mention there are some about how the Government is taking away the rights to monitor our 401K’s…..

Anyone know this horrible law about to go in effect?

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:15:43pm

re: #130 A Cranky One

Not watching CNN and thought most of the 70’s music sucked, but…

Get off my lawn.

The 1970’s: WORST. FASHION. DECADE. OF. ALL. TIME.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:16:34pm

re: #132 The Vicious Babushka

NEW PETRO-MIRACLE FABRICS!!

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aagcobb  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:16:55pm

re: #132 The Vicious Babushka

The 1970’s: WORST. FASHION. DECADE. OF. ALL. TIME.

pulptastic.com

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:17:31pm

re: #132 The Vicious Babushka

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prairiefire  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:19:01pm

re: #132 The Vicious Babushka

The 1970’s: WORST. FASHION. DECADE. OF. ALL. TIME.

Oh, I don’t know, I think the 80’s were worse. I think a drapery white satin jumpsuit is pretty cool!

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prairiefire  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:20:44pm

re: #127 jaunte

Too much stupid around.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:20:51pm

re: #136 prairiefire

Oh, I don’t know, I think the 80’s were worse. I think a drapery white satin jumpsuit is pretty cool!

At least the 70’s had great movies. Not fond of 80’s pop culture at all.

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:21:19pm

re: #136 prairiefire

my 80s fashion would have been jeans, a t-shirt, flannel shirt, and sneakers

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:21:28pm

re: #135 Kragar

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TedStriker  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:21:36pm

re: #138 HappyWarrior

At least the 70’s had great movies. Not fond of 80’s pop culture at all.

*gasp* You take that back!

///

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:22:41pm

re: #101 The Vicious Babushka

EVEN MOAR STUPIDER MEME OF THE DAY==>
“Taking choices away from another human being” is referring to HIMSELF making decisions about HIS GIRLFRIEND like he owns her

[Embedded content]

Dude has the intense stare of someone who rapes turtles while high on meth. I’m not saying he actually does rape turtles while high on meth, just that I wouldn’t exactly be surprised were that to be the case.

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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:22:43pm

80’s fashion? Jeans & t-shirt or BDUs depending if was the weekend or not… ;)

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:22:57pm

re: #141 TedStriker

*gasp* You take that back!

///

80s child here, that motion is hereby seconded!! //

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:23:08pm

re: #138 HappyWarrior

At least the 70’s had great movies. Not fond of 80’s pop culture at all.

Remo Williams is highly disappointed.

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:23:21pm

re: #123 aagcobb

Who would be watching a show about the seventies? really old people. CNN is playing those commercials because their audience is the kind of people grifters get their money from. Heck, even LGF has wingnut ads.

Eh, not that old, careful there whippersnapper.

I calmed my original language.

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prairiefire  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:24:00pm

re: #139 Kragar

my 80s fashion would have been jeans, a t-shirt, flannel shirt, and sneakers

Pre grunge, ahead of your time.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:24:45pm

re: #145 Kragar

Remo Williams is highly disappointed.

Who? Scampers off the lawn.

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Belafon  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:25:16pm

I recently found out about 91.7FM KKXT playing here in the Dallas area. It’s a music stationed owned and run by NPR. Member supported, it plays a lot of local bands, music from about the last 50ish years, and songs I definitely wouldn’t hear about on other stations. If you’re not in Dallas, you can stream it at kxt.org. Their last few song’s have been:

Walken - Wilco
Steady as She Goes - The Raconteurs
Breaking Glass - Nick Lowe
Ship to Wreck - Florence + the Machine
Audience - Cold War Kids
The Way - Fastball
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
Orange Crush - REM
Things Happen - Dawes
Campdown - The Clash
Taylor - Jack Johnson
Sedona - Houndmouth
Right in Time - Lucinda Williams

I’ve also heard Iggy Pop, Johnny Cash, and Willie Nelson. I’ve gone from mostly keeping the radio off to listening to this all the time.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:25:33pm

Best 70s movies off the top of my head:
Jaws, Star Wars, Rocky, Sting, the Herbie series, Animal House, Godfather Godfather II, Vacation (79 or 80, i forget)

80s: Stripes, Caddyshack, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Airplane, Porky’s, Beverly Hills Cop, Once Upon a Time in America, Hoosiers,

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A Cranky One  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:26:14pm

re: #146 #FergusonFireside

Eh, not that old, careful there whippersnapper.

I calmed my original language.

Made me decide not to discuss some of the great music of the 60’s. ;)

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:26:20pm

re: #130 A Cranky One

Not watching CNN and thought most of the 70’s music sucked, but…

Get off my lawn.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:26:35pm

re: #139 Kragar

my 80s fashion would have been jeans, a t-shirt, flannel shirt, and sneakers

my 80s fashion would be jeans, dark blue or grey shirt, and boots

that would also be my 70s, 90s, 00s, and 10s fashion

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:26:50pm

re: #148 HappyWarrior

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:28:11pm

Oh no, we’re not going to hear Roxette again:(

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:28:22pm

re: #154 Kragar

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I’m still waiting for Remo Williams II

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:28:25pm

re: #150 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Also from the 80s:

Aliens, Terminator, Excalibur

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:28:36pm

Woot. Last of my direct great aunts/uncles found. Still a long ways to go but that’s one piece of the puzzle that I am glad to have completed.

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:29:28pm

re: #156 FormerDirtDart

I’m still waiting for Remo Williams II

Along with Buckaroo Banzai 2

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Belafon  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:30:04pm

re: #157 Kragar

Also from the 80s:

Aliens, Terminator, Excalibur

And one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time: Die Hard.

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TedStriker  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:30:06pm

re: #150 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Best 70s movies off the top of my head:
Jaws, Star Wars, Rocky, Sting, the Herbie series, Animal House, Godfather, Godfather II

80s: Stripes, Caddyshack, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Airplane, Porky’s, Beverly Hills Cop, Once Upon a Time in America, Hoosiers, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, WarGames, Aliens, Terminator, Real Genius, National Lampoon’s Vacation (the original was ‘83)…

Added a few…

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:30:16pm

re: #157 Kragar

How could I forget Terminator? That’s a great movie. I barely remember Excalibur except for Merlin and his hot sister.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:30:36pm

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure for the 80’s.

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Belafon  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:31:15pm

re: #162 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

How could I forget Terminator? That’s a great movie. I barely remember Excalibur except for Merlin and his hot sister.

His hot sister Helen Mirren.

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:31:26pm

re: #162 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

…

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:32:53pm

re: #161 TedStriker

Recently my cable network aired the movie that was the basis for “Airplane!” THe name escapes me, Glory Flight or something like that. I missed it but I think that one’s a serious movie.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:34:37pm

Movie greatness:

…

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TedStriker  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:34:46pm

re: #166 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Recently my cable network aired the movie that was the basis for “Airplane!” THe name escapes me, Glory Flight or something like that. I missed it but I think that one’s a serious movie.

Zero Hour!

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:35:58pm

re: #166 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Recently my cable network aired the movie that was the basis for “Airplane!” THe name escapes me, Glory Flight or something like that. I missed it but I think that one’s a serious movie.

The movie was “Zero Hour.” The Zucker brothers mention it in their commentary on the DVD.

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:36:49pm

re: #161 TedStriker

Also from the 80s:
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, The Princess Bride, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Goonies, Gremlins, Aliens, Die Hard, The Shining, Beetlejuice, Indiana Jones and Blade Runner.

Edited to add (and how the hell could i forget): Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Robocop, and Stand by Me.

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Amory Blaine  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:36:56pm

re: #122 jaunte

Fuckface loves life so much he tried to squeeze the life out of his babbies mother.

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:37:14pm

re: #161 TedStriker

They are great cult classics, but films? nah.

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:37:27pm

re: #166 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

The original movie, “Zero Hour” was completely serious and a lot of its lines were lifted word for word for Airplane

“Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn’t have fish for dinner.”

“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.”

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:38:47pm

re: #166 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Recently my cable network aired the movie that was the basis for “Airplane!” THe name escapes me, Glory Flight or something like that. I missed it but I think that one’s a serious movie.

Hell, I always assumed ‘Airport’ was the basis for ‘Airplane’

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:40:01pm

re: #173 Kragar

Sometimes I wonder if somebody making a silly movie has any idea that they’re making a classic.

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Fuzzy Bunny 06  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:40:12pm

Evening…. I had dinner with one of the shop owners and his wife at the beautiful and upscale Waffle House tonight. Nothing like pigging out on eggs, toast, hashbrowns, sausage and coffee (oh yea, and a big ass waffle too) at 8:30 PM. I’m going to sleep like a freaking log tonight I think.

Been a while since I did the WH thing. Plenty of food with a nice even shine of butter-flavored grill shorting over it all. Sometimes it just hits the spot.

RBS

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:41:02pm

Gate #4, gate 5, gate 33,

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Fuzzy Bunny 06  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:41:36pm

re: #177 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Gate #4, gate 5, gate 33,

Surely you jest can’t be serious?

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:42:02pm

re: #177 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

“The fog is getting thicker.”

“AND LEON IS GETTING LARGER!”

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:43:17pm

…

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ObserverArt  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:43:23pm

80s had some great comedy movies, both dark and light. Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, Brazil, Raising Arizona, Beetlejuice.

Some good music from The Pixies, The Smiths, etc. However MTV was doing a good job of messing the whole industry up causing the situation we have now…great bands lost in total obscurity and corporate crap everywhere else.

Strange time in the country. Conservative politics took a nasty turn. Yuppie days of consumption and cocaine. Crack rocks in the cities. Everyone shooting each other and the real ramp up in guns and God thinking. Bland takeover by big box stores, strip malls and vinyl-clad houses. Ugh.

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Archangelus  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:43:32pm

re: #178 RealityBasedSteve

Surely you jest!

Obligatory:
…

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:44:10pm

Prairie, I put safety pins in my earring holes in the late 70’s. Saw the B-52’s when they played Dance This Mess Around on the hand held kid piano. Was front row for the Ramones, crushed against the stage in fear of death.

Then I put on the Madonna gear. Then came the 80’s hair bands.

We rocked.

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:46:02pm

re: #182 Archangelus

Obligatory:
[Embedded content]

“We just got a message from Headquarters!”

“Headquarter! What is it?”

“Its a big building with Generals in it, but thats not important right now.”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:47:51pm

re: #183 #FergusonFireside

Prairie, I put safety pins in my earring holes in the late 70’s. Saw the B-52’s when they played Dance This Mess Around on the hand held kid piano. Was front row for the Ramones, crushed against the stage in fear of death.

Then I put on the Madonna gear. Then came the 80’s hair bands.

We rocked.

I listened to what music you could get on AM, plus the 8-tracks and cassettes my friends had. Plus local bar bands that played a lot of Foghat, ZZ Topp, and Aerosmith.

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A Cranky One  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:49:50pm

Lady: Nervous?
Ted Striker: Yes.
Lady: First time?
Ted Striker: No, I’ve been nervous lots of times.

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TedStriker  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:54:48pm

re: #186 A Cranky One

Lady: Nervous?
Ted Striker: Yes.
Lady: First time?
Ted Striker: No, I’ve been nervous lots of times.

Indeed…

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Fuzzy Bunny 06  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:55:08pm

…

You’re Kareem Abdul Jabbar….

RBS

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:55:51pm

1983

…

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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:57:20pm

re: #185 Blind Frog Belly White

I listened to what music you could get on AM, plus the 8-tracks and cassettes my friends had. Plus local bar bands that played a lot of Foghat, ZZ Top, and Aerosmith.

Thankfully for me, the local head shop & record store imported a whole lot of stuff better than what was usually on the radio. The Clash, Madness, XTC, The Specials, U2 before they were big, Peter Gabriel’s three self titled albums, The Boomtown Rats, Ian Druy, Nick Lowe, Patty Smith Group, Television, The Replacements, Husker Du, Urban Guerrillas and so much other good stuff. I could put up with the radio because I knew when it got too bad, I had mix tapes better than anything they’d play.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Aug 13, 2015 • 7:57:43pm

re: #136 prairiefire

Oh, I don’t know, I think the 80’s were worse. I think a drapery white satin jumpsuit is pretty cool!

I was wearing something like that, only blue, with sequins and more skin, on an early Howdy Doody show :)

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:00:01pm

re: #190 William Lewis

Thankfully for me, the local head shop & record store imported a whole lot of stuff better than what was usually on the radio. The Clash, Madness, XTC, The Specials, U2 before they were big, Peter Gabriel’s three self titled albums, The Boomtown Rats, Ian Druy, Nick Lowe, Patty Smith Group, Television, The Replacements, Husker Du, Urban Guerrillas and so much other good stuff. I could put up with the radio because I knew when it got too bad, I had mix tapes better than anything they’d play.

I think we’d have had to go all the way to Hanover to find a Head Shop. Maybe York.

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bmoak  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:00:02pm

The 80’s were pretty much the Golden Age of Japanese animation, both theatrical and television.

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RadicalModerate  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:02:51pm

re: #150 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Best 70s movies off the top of my head:
Jaws, Star Wars, Rocky, Sting, the Herbie series, Animal House, Godfather Godfather II, Vacation (79 or 80, i forget)

80s: Stripes, Caddyshack, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Airplane, Porky’s, Beverly Hills Cop, Once Upon a Time in America, Hoosiers,

How could you miss all of the Mel Brooks movies from the 70s?

Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Silent Movie
High Anxiety

Additionally, some of my favorites from the 70s: Patton, A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection, M*A*S*H, Dog Day Afternoon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now

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RadicalModerate  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:06:03pm

re: #190 William Lewis

Thankfully for me, the local head shop & record store imported a whole lot of stuff better than what was usually on the radio. The Clash, Madness, XTC, The Specials, U2 before they were big, Peter Gabriel’s three self titled albums, The Boomtown Rats, Ian Druy, Nick Lowe, Patty Smith Group, Television, The Replacements, Husker Du, Urban Guerrillas and so much other good stuff. I could put up with the radio because I knew when it got too bad, I had mix tapes better than anything they’d play.

Most of what you liked weren’t found on commercial radio stations, but were pretty big on college radio. They also found a good deal of airtime on MTV before the major label acts monopolized (and eventually killed) the music video genre.

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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:07:11pm

re: #192 Blind Frog Belly White

I think we’d have had to go all the way to Hanover to find a Head Shop. Maybe York.

I grew up in a small enough place (~40k) but it was a university town so there was a head shop down on the street with all the bars.

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Fuzzy Bunny 06  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:08:09pm

Well I’m outta here. Appx 1500 calories of carbs and grease are having the expected result. (and the 2 cups of coffee I had aren’t an effective countermeasure)

I’ll see you all later.

RBS

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Nyet  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:09:25pm

Special place in hell for people making vertical videos.

/

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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:10:16pm

re: #196 RadicalModerate

Most of what you liked weren’t found on commercial radio stations, but were pretty big on college radio. They also found a good deal of airtime on MTV before the major label acts monopolized (and eventually killed) the music video genre.

Some of it was, but only some. The somewhat older kids running the local college radio had their own tastes and prejudices too. The really hated it when on our shows we’d go from REM to Rush to XTC to The Clash to Led Zeppelin or Triumph. LOL

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:10:25pm

re: #197 William Lewis

I grew up in a small enough place (~40k) but it was a university town so there was a head shop down on the street with all the bars.

500 people in my town. So small we had to pool kids with two other towns to have a high school with more than one section per grade. At that, my graduating class was like 104.

The nearby Metropolis of Gettysburg had about 7000 people.

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Belafon  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:11:31pm

re: #199 Nyet

I wonder if phones have an “always make videos horizontal” feature.

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Chan Kobun  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:12:23pm
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RadicalModerate  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:19:43pm

re: #200 William Lewis

Some of it was, but only some. The somewhat older kids running the local college radio had their own tastes and prejudices too. The really hated it when on our shows we’d go from REM to Rush to XTC to The Clash to Led Zeppelin or Triumph. LOL

The station that I listened to in college pretty much stayed away from heavy metal and prog rock- those got plenty of airtime on the conventional stations.

However, a typical Sunday evening went from New Wave in early evening to Doctor Demento during primetime hours to New Age Jazz & Electronic music after 10PM. A REALLY eclectic mixture.

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Nyet  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:20:42pm
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Nyet  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:22:09pm

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:23:11pm

re: #205 Nyet

“My world is fire…and blood…and delicately carved produce.”

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:28:40pm

re: #202 Belafon

I wonder if phones have an “always make videos horizontal” feature.

They’d need a square sensor to do that, which raises other issues. It’s not a bad idea but then both designers and end users would be forced to make choices they /we are not accustomed to making. Do we just leave everything square, or crop the tops and bottoms to make a more friendly aspect ratio? Do we make the square sensor larger than the circle of light, consign the corners to darkness and process the falloff, or do we make it smaller like we do now and accept a constrained long dimension?

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Teukka  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:34:45pm

re: #208 goddamnedfrank
I wonder, has this excellent PSA film been posted in response to the issue of Vertical Video Syndrome?
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prairiefire  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:35:33pm

re: #183 #FergusonFireside

Awesome. I had to wear a lot of layered jewelry at the limited for work, quasi Madonna. I really dug the “out of Africa” look and Laura Ashley. Also, fish net stockings in cream, white, and black. The lead singer of “Concrete Blonde” said “and thank you, dancers” like Lawrence Welch after my first husband and I glided off the floor after a slow one. People got dressed up to go out, damit!

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BeachDem  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:36:18pm

re: #114 Archangelus

If I were any good with graphic design, i’d make a graphic showing a Zygote accompanied by the following text: “Attention Pro-“Life”Enslavement blowhards! This has: Zero heads, Zero legs, Zero arms, Zero beating hearts! So on behalf of sane people everywhere, F*CK OFF!!”

I am kind of partial to this graphic (not applicable to all rightwing bullshit, but simple and effective):

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Nyet  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:38:31pm

re: #209 Teukka

lololololll

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jc717  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:40:12pm

re: #194 FormerDirtDart

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This is pretty standard. Lots of wealthy public figures register hundreds of XYZsucks. com type names.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:41:14pm

re: #20 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Mineral rights laws in this nation pretty much enable the holder of those rights to completely fuck up whatever is on the surface to get to their minerals.

I learned one really nasty thing back when I worked as an intern at Leighton & Assoc in Orange County, California.

If you produce toxic waste chemicals…you are on the hook for them forever under federal law.

Yes, forever.

The case I was read into by one of the staff geologists was an incident of waste producers dumping their chemicals with a licensed disposal vendor who did not dispose of the chemicals in a class III (I think) landfill. He stored them on his private property, pocketed the money and fled the country.

Everybody who had left their waste products with him in good faith got smacked upside the head and had to pay for the cleanup. It was up to them to try and track the guy down overseas and try to sue him. (yeah, that’s gonna work)

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 13, 2015 • 8:42:51pm

re: #149 Belafon

I recently found out about 91.7FM KKXT playing here in the Dallas area. It’s a music stationed owned and run by NPR. Member supported, it plays a lot of local bands, music from about the last 50ish years, and songs I definitely wouldn’t hear about on other stations. If you’re not in Dallas, you can stream it at kxt.org. Their last few song’s have been:

Walken - Wilco
Steady as She Goes - The Raconteurs
Breaking Glass - Nick Lowe
Ship to Wreck - Florence + the Machine
Audience - Cold War Kids
The Way - Fastball
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
Orange Crush - REM
Things Happen - Dawes
Campdown - The Clash
Taylor - Jack Johnson
Sedona - Houndmouth
Right in Time - Lucinda Williams

I’ve also heard Iggy Pop, Johnny Cash, and Willie Nelson. I’ve gone from mostly keeping the radio off to listening to this all the time.

WGLT Blues 24/7
wglt.org

Blues Playlist
wglt.org

They also have 24/7 Jazz streaming.

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 13, 2015 • 9:01:23pm

Nighty all.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 13, 2015 • 9:04:46pm

re: #68 TedStriker

Actually, Cumia got terminated from Sirius XM when he went apeshit on a racist tirade on Twitter. He’s also been dealing with the Rage Furby.

Now that he’s been dealing with the Political Cesspool, he should be properly and thoroughly #shunned. He’s also a First class ammosexual to boot.

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 9:05:06pm
“I hope you live long on the backs of dead fetuses, Geraldo.”

Classy.

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 9:06:25pm

re: #216 #FergusonFireside

…

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EmmaAnne  Aug 13, 2015 • 9:12:35pm

re: #213 jc717

This is pretty standard. Lots of wealthy public figures register hundreds of xyzsucks.com type names.

I bet Hillary took “hillarysucks.com” out of play, for example.

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 9:16:22pm
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ipsos  Aug 13, 2015 • 9:20:05pm

re: #215 BeenHereAwhile

From the nitpick dept:

KKXT is not “owned and operated by NPR.” NPR is a program producer in Washington. It doesn’t own or operate any of its local member stations. KKXT is owned and operated by North Texas Public Broadcasting (KERA-TV/FM). It is indeed a great station.

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 9:37:29pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2015 • 10:26:28pm

re: #221 Kragar

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Yes, Planned Parenthood is the devil but waterboarding is frat pranks. Fuck off Fox if you can’t handle FOD telling what Planned Parenthood actually does.

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 10:29:08pm

Was reading through threads downstairs. I stand by all the nasty names I called Csarneson when it first registered.

That’s all I have to say about that.

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Csarneson  Aug 13, 2015 • 10:30:20pm

re: #225 teleskiguy

At least you’re consistent.

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 10:31:52pm

re: #226 Csarneson

At least you’re consistent.

You’ve come here to denigrate #BlackLivesMatter. That’s all I’m seeing from you. You’re a troll.

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 10:35:24pm

I need

Aaaahhh… That’s the stuff.

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Csarneson  Aug 13, 2015 • 10:36:57pm

re: #227 teleskiguy

See whatever you like.

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 10:57:57pm

One of my U.S. Senators tweeted at me with his personal account this morning. It’d been dormant for over a month. I guess I was the only one he saw in Vail who recognized him and proceeded to tweet about it.

I had to relay what I shared here about my brief encounter with him last night.

This guy signed his name while he was a Congressman to a proposed federal “personhood” bill which basically stipulates that a fertilized egg is a person. Crazy stuff, right? He still got elected Senator in 2014 in Colorado.

I’ll still be nice to him on Twitter, this time.

*EDITED*

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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:03:57pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

Never burn bridges unless they’re already on fire.

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Nyet  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:07:41pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

This guy signed his name while he was a Congressman to a proposed federal “personhood” bill which basically stipulates that a fertilized egg is a person.

This makes him a fucking disgusting creature not worthy of any respect.

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Kragar  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:09:53pm

re: #231 William Lewis

No one in my office has never noticed my usual response to problems is “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.”

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:10:53pm

re: #232 Nyet

This makes him a fucking disgusting creature not worthy of any respect.

Yup.

The people who voted for Senator in Colorado on 4 November 2014 say otherwise.

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:12:26pm

re: #233 Kragar

No one in my office has never noticed my usual response to problems is “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.”

I’ve said this to co-workers that I don’t work well with, numerous times. Especially in the restaurant business.

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Nyet  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:12:41pm

re: #234 teleskiguy

And I’m reading now that he then changed his position for political gain. Which means he had never even believed in that monstrous bill in the first place.

*spit*

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darthstar  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:13:37pm
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darthstar  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:14:27pm

re: #233 Kragar

No one in my office has never noticed my usual response to problems is “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.”

I love that phrase…use it all the time.

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:15:33pm

re: #236 Nyet

And I’m reading now that he then changed his position for political gain. Which means he had never even believed in that monstrous bill in the first place.

*spit*

I wrote a page when he was running for the Senate about how he was a smarmy lying freak who’d sell his own kids down the river if it meant he could stay in Congress. Yeah, Cory Gardner fucking sucks. And he’s one of my Senators for the next five years.

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darthstar  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:16:20pm

re: #228 teleskiguy

I need

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Aaaahhh… That’s the stuff.

He earned those turns…note the boot-pack track up the right side.

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:16:36pm

Hey darthstar!

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darthstar  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:18:31pm

re: #241 teleskiguy

Hey darthstar!

Shit. I wish I was there. I hope he appreciates what he”s getting. Fuckin’ instructors.

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darthstar  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:20:44pm

re: #241 teleskiguy

Hey darthstar!

My little sister did that superstars camp a few years back (she’s got more money than I do…she and her ex-husband had a dot com that did well). It’s a ton of fun.

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:23:42pm

re: #242 darthstar

Fuckin’ instructors.

I feel you on that score. I was an instructor for two winters. The most fun I had was with kids. Kids that were into it, that is, which happened probably about 37% of the time.

I’ve done totally private lessons - unsanctioned by the ski resorts, clandestine-like - with adults and…I never want to be a professional ski instructor, ever!

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teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:30:22pm

re: #243 darthstar

Both my older sisters have more money than me, my youngest sister, my parents, *combined*. Oldest sister and her husband live in the most exclusive neighborhood in Colorado Springs, the fourth house they’ve bought since moving there in 1994. I still haven’t been to oldest sister’s new house, though I’m told ‘it’s definitely a multi-million dollar job.’

I work in a ski shop in the winter and various other shit that comes my way in the summer (which, this summer, has been pretty good, I’m working *a lot* more than I did last summer, the economy is picking up!). It’s cool. I ski way way way more than my wealthy sisters, and they are always sending me messages of how jealous they are. So there’s that.

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Nyet  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:32:40pm

An Israeli band covered a cult Soviet rock song in Hebrew and it became a hit in Israel:

…

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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:35:24pm

I’ll need to listen in the morning. Sounds like fun.

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Amory Blaine  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:37:07pm

The 2015 Official UW-System Faculty Exodus Update Part 2: The “Everyone’s Leaving” Edition

A few weeks ago I found out one of my closest colleagues will be leaving the UW Colleges for another job. It’s a better fit for my colleague, she and her partner will be closer to family, but I will miss her dearly. And if not for years of budget cuts and this last year from hell, I can’t help but think she’d have stayed. We both got tenure last year and often talked about loving the student population we worked with. But she’s not the only one. The emails keep rolling in. More colleagues leaving-not for better pay, not because they didn’t love their jobs, but because of uncertainty. With the new regionalization model and now discussion of a merger of the Wisconsin Technical College System and the University of Wisconsin Colleges and Extension, we are living in a realm of uncertainty. As Representative Katrina Shankland said, “Now that Republican legislators have decimated our public universities, we should get a freshman legislator with no experience in higher education to conduct a study on how we can ‘realign’ them,’ said no one ever.’”

My fellow colleagues who teach in the UW College system do so because they believe in the Wisconsin Idea. They believe in being great teachers above all else, and are some of the finest colleagues I’ve ever had the opportunity of working with.

And now many of them are leaving. Because they simply don’t know if the UW Colleges will even exist in one year or two. And that is enough to put anyone on the job market. As I stated in my letter to the Joint Finance Committee, “I simply can’t imagine what my campus and others will look like next year. Our mission is central to the Wisconsin Idea. The UW Colleges are the UW System’s open door, offering an affordable and accessible option for thousands of students. We offer the first two years of a liberal arts education with an Associate of Arts and Science degree, and six campuses currently offer a Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences degree-completion program. We have the lowest tuition in the UW System and offer students the opportunity to pursue a degree while living in their home community at our campuses, online, or through the UW Flexible Option program. We serve more part-time students, more adult undergraduates, and more first-generation college students than any other UW institution. In fact, 60% of our students are the first in their families to go to college. Students from the UW Colleges graduate from 4-year campuses at a 20% higher rate than any other transfer group, including those from technical schools, private schools, and 4-year campuses. And our students—the Wisconsinites staying within their communities, seeking a college degree to improve their lives and others’ in these communities—are the ones who will be most hurt by these cuts.”

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Nyet  Aug 13, 2015 • 11:37:25pm

And for two thousand years - war
War without any particular reasons
War - the business of the young
A cure against wrinkles

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 12:01:00am

Something to look forward to:

acla.org

Sacred Troubling Topics in Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an

Abrahamic sacred texts continue to inspire a diversity of scholarship that seeks to transform the ancient into the contemporary, the remote into the immediate, and the distant into the visceral experience. This panel takes that process into the examination of troubling topics, often overlooked, yet found in the Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an. Building from foundational texts, other sacred works such as Talmud, Apocrypha, Patristics, and Hadith as well as philosophy and contemporary scholarship can be brought into play. Views from global perspectives are enthusiastically invited so as to better contribute to diversity and freshness of the dialogue. Some presenters may focus on one sacred text and the ancillary works; others may contextualize all three sacred texts. Although the goal is to present a spectrum of insights, the strategy is text-based and ruminations spring from textual pericope. Suggested troubling topics include but are not limited to the following: racism, domestic violence, suicide, sexuality, unbeliever, LGBTQ, misogyny, trickster, humor, fallible prophet, good vs./and evil, self-denial, spying, deception, change. This panel continues an exploratory tradition begun with Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an as Literature and Culture (Brill 2009). Proposals are 250 words submitted via the acla.org website. Contact Roberta Sabbath at sabbath@unlv.nevada.edu

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teleskiguy  Aug 14, 2015 • 12:14:19am

Saw this downstairs somewhere and, uh, what are you trying to say Ms. Fiorina? Reduce revenues and…what?

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teleskiguy  Aug 14, 2015 • 12:40:44am

Picture taken by a friend from my second stint in college.

Beautiful complexity on a small scale.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2015 • 1:03:27am

“Speed of Light” - the just-released single from Iron Maiden’s forthcoming album The Book of Souls.

…

Up the Irons!!

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teleskiguy  Aug 14, 2015 • 1:19:22am
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freetoken  Aug 14, 2015 • 1:45:43am

MP3 Audio

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2015 • 1:49:09am

So, I’m seeing Straight Outta Compton has been released in theaters in the US - I’m hoping it’ll come to the Czech Republic, because if it does, I’ll certainly go see it.

The eponymous album by N.W.A. absolutely blew my mind when I first heard back in the fall of 1988. I was totally blown away. For me, one of those albums you never forget, like The Number of the Beast or Never Mind The Bollocks….Here’s The Sex Pistols.

Here’s the red-band trailer, and it is indeed NSFW, so I’m putting it in a spoiler tag.

Click to Reveal

…

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 2:02:07am
Cube laughs off N.W.A’s lyrical treatment of women (which, to be fair, got way worse after he left the group).
“If you’re a bitch, you’re probably not going to like us,” he says. “If you’re a ho, you probably don’t like us. If you’re not a ho or a bitch, don’t be jumping to the defense of these despicable females. Just like I shouldn’t be jumping to the defense of no punks or no cowards or no slimy son of a bitches that’s men. I never understood why an upstanding lady would even think we’re talking about her.”

rollingstone.com

They seem nice.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:50:44am

Speaking of Babylon 5, somehow I missed that Melissa Gilbert, who was married to B5 star Bruce Boxleitner and also guest starred as Boxleitner’s (ex)wife in B5, is running for Congress in Michigan as a Democrat.

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Teukka  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:53:57am

Just stumbled across this in a newsfeed of mine. Really? I mean, REALLY?
Couple ‘used Old Testament to justify keeping teenage girl as sex slave for five years’ - Mirror Online

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:56:38am

re: #259 Teukka

Religious texts can be used to justify anything.

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Teukka  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:59:44am

re: #260 Nyet

Religious texts can be used to justify anything.

Yeah, but in this day and age? O.O

*smh*

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:02:44am

re: #261 Teukka

Yeah, but in this day and age? O.O

*smh*

Happens all around the world.

This case is just a bit more exotic for the modern West, is all.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:08:00am
2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

5 But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’ 6 then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

7 If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. 8 If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. 9 If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. 10 If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. 11 If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.

Hundreds of millions still think this is God’s word.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:42:26am

re: #150 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Best 70s movies off the top of my head:
Jaws, Star Wars, Rocky, Sting, the Herbie series, Animal House, Godfather Godfather II, Vacation (79 or 80, i forget)

80s: Stripes, Caddyshack, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Airplane, Porky’s, Beverly Hills Cop, Once Upon a Time in America, Hoosiers,

BLAZING SADDLES.

That is all.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:09:58am

re: #150 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Best 70s movies off the top of my head:
Jaws, Star Wars, Rocky, Sting, the Herbie series, Animal House, Godfather Godfather II, Vacation (79 or 80, i forget)

80s: Stripes, Caddyshack, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Airplane, Porky’s, Beverly Hills Cop, Once Upon a Time in America, Hoosiers,

I’d add Alien and The Jerk to the 1970s and The Terminator and 48 Hrs to the 80s

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aagcobb  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:11:41am

re: #262 Nyet

Happens all around the world.

This case is just a bit more exotic for the modern West, is all.

And one of the big stories this week is how ISIS has used the Koran to justify instituting sex slavery. They captured women and girls from the Yazidi community and sell them to their fighters for use as sex slaves. The story is stomach churning.
nytimes.com

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aagcobb  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:13:28am

re: #265 Dr. Matt

I’d add Alien and The Jerk to the 1970s and The Terminator and 48 Hrs to the 80s

The Second and Third Star Wars movies were great as well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:13:32am

On my third cup of coffee…I might survive.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:13:33am

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:19:51am

re: #222 ipsos

From the nitpick dept:

KKXT is not “owned and operated by NPR.” NPR is a program producer in Washington. It doesn’t own or operate any of its local member stations. KKXT is owned and operated by North Texas Public Broadcasting (KERA-TV/FM). It is indeed a great station.

Not a nitpick. NPR is on the RW hitlist, and it’s important to keep the fields of fire clear.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:20:55am
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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:26:34am

re: #252 teleskiguy

Picture taken by a friend from my second stint in college.

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Beautiful complexity on a small scale.

That’s hard-core porn if you’re a daffodil.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:28:06am

re: #266 aagcobb

Exactly my point. They also allow sex with 9 y.o. girls based on certain hadiths.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:38:28am

re: #260 Nyet

Religious texts can be used to justify anything.

The flightpath of a crow can be used to justify anything.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:40:40am

re: #274 Decatur Deb

The flightpath of a crow can be used to justify anything.

If you claim that the crow was sent by God, which brings us back to religion.

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freetoken  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:43:12am

re: #274 Decatur Deb

The flightpath of a crow can be used to justify anything.

ahem …

After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:43:18am

re: #263 Nyet

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:44:54am

No matter how adherents of ancient religions (not only the Abrahamic ones) explain away the problematic statements contained in the ancient religious literature, no matter how they reinterpret them or sometimes outright deny them, there will always be a minority striving for “authenticity”, “true roots” and so on, who will take them seriously.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:45:23am

re: #276 freetoken

ahem …

“If the crow flies north, we kill them. If it goes west, we let them go.”
“Went west, boss.”
“Gimme another crow.”

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:47:33am
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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:48:29am

re: #277 lawhawk

You’ll be quickly explained that you aren’t following the One True Interpretation, so you’re the one doing it wrong ;)

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:49:25am
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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:49:45am

Shot:

Chaser:

Or is it the other way around. Never can tell.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:49:58am

We should face the fact that that literature was written with a mindset that was at least partially very alien to ours.

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:50:24am
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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:50:43am

re: #281 Nyet

Ayep. No True ______________™

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:51:45am

Historic fuckin’ day today. Reopening the US embassy in Cuba.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:53:36am

re: #284 Nyet

We should face the fact that that literature was written with a mindset that was at least partially very alien to ours.

Premised a sci-fi novel on the accidental reincarnation of Dante’s mind. After a quick look around via electronic media, he kills himself in his vat.

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:58:02am
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:00:39am

Uh Steve, what did a fetus do to earn your respect & self esteem?

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:03:05am

Oh my, the Breakfast of Champion’s get’s it’s own beer…

npr.org

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:05:46am

re: #291 William Lewis

Oh my, the Breakfast of Champion’s get’s it’s own beer…

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npr.org

Heh. We had a thread exchange on beer-breakfast yesterday.

littlegreenfootballs.com

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:08:00am

re: #291 William Lewis

Oh my, the Breakfast of Champion’s get’s it’s own beer…

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William, there are enough superfluous apostrophes there to bury me alive!

PS: Sorry :P

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:10:15am

re: #292 Decatur Deb

Heh. I remember that now. I’ve got a Guinness in hand but this is after 12 hours of work at two different jobs so I’m just a typical third shifter. (We had about 4 bars in walking distance from the old tire factory and the labor temple lounge was from the meat packing plant in my hometown to service the third shift guys. )

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:10:51am

re: #291 William Lewis

Oh my, the Breakfast of Champion’s get’s it’s own beer…

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Finally…Wheaties as god intended them to be consumed. I’ll be pounding one of those as I stand on the treadmill (belt turned off) at the gym.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:12:07am

re: #294 William Lewis

Heh. I remember that now. I’ve got a Guinness in hand but this is after 12 hours of work at two different jobs so I’m just a typical third shifter. (We had about 4 bars in walking distance from the old tire factory and the labor temple lounge was from the meat packing plant in my hometown to service the third shift guys. )

Yeah. The clock is pretty arbitrary for lizards. That layout really sounds like Steel City Pittsburgh.

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:12:32am
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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:14:39am

This all started with US Marshals executing a warrant on a guy, who then proceeded to start a fire. FDNY was called and the guy started shooting. He shot and injured a fireman, who was taken to the hospital with a gunshot to the leg. The fire was apparently put out, but the guy is now barricaded in the basement.

Huge police presence.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:15:20am

There was a time when RedEye with Greg Gutfeld was actually a quite obscenely funny little chat show. The banter was always great and the hedonistic and quite often homo-erotic back and forth between the three regulars and their guests was fantastic.

Of course there always was a tendency to punch down, which is always the case with conservative politics, but could ignore it.

Then of course Greg had to get on his soap box at the beginning of the show and deliver yet another staple of the conservative variety, which was the daily airing of grievances and resentments with “the left”.

Even with that Greg never came off as a fascist like he does now, more of a right wing libertine really. For some reason once you start drinking that sweet right wing Kool-aid you lose what ever progressive social views you might of held previous.

I suppose once you get to the point of attaining your news from only one or two completely partisan sources, the more views you are bombarded with that openly contradict your previous perspective, the more those new and ridiculously reactionary views start to make more sense.

Thus is life in the bubble.

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:16:36am

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:16:51am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:18:36am
Fox News angry manbaby Greg Gutfeld

I’ll be stealing that term a lot.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:20:43am

re: #290 The Vicious Babushka

Uh Steve, what did a fetus do to earn your respect & self esteem?

You want the Grace of Jesus Christ, earn….oh wait.
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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:20:50am
GREG GUTFELD: What can they do? I mean, they’re in bed with the devil. It’s called Funny Or Die, but fetuses don’t have that choice because they’re already dead. It’s a shame that Funny Or Die didn’t exist generations ago because they would have been great propagandists for Stalin.

Um. Greg. Stalin outlawed abortion. If anyone is like Stalin on this issue, it’s you.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:21:19am

re: #285 darthstar

Appeazement terrorists!!!1

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:22:14am

re: #283 lawhawk

Shot:

Chaser:

Or is it the other way around. Never can tell.

[Trump]DUMmmy!!!![/Trump]

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:23:01am
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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:25:02am
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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:25:32am

re: #306 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

[Trump]DUMmmy!!!![/Trump]

My guardian (aunt) didn’t have that dilemma. She drank a version of the boilermaker called a ‘depth charge’. You drop the shot, glass and all, into a tall beer.

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:25:54am

re: #233 Kragar

No one in my office has never noticed my usual response to problems is “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.”

Never heard that before. I like it! It’s worthy of being a Yogi Bearism.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:27:41am

re: #310 sizzzzlerz

Never heard that before. I like it! It’s worthy of being a Yogi Bearism.

I believe you mean Yogi Berra-ism.

Yogi Bear’s only concerns in this world are with pickanick baskets.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:27:47am

re: #304 Nyet

Um. Greg. Stalin outlawed abortion. If anyone is like Stalin on this issue, it’s you.

As I keep pointing out, the motivation for banning abortion—for the first time ever—in the early 20th century was the fear that it would rob the State of cannon fodder. That was true in the US, The Soviet Union, as you said, Germany, etc., etc.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:28:04am

re: #221 Kragar

The creators of the PP videos and the videos themselves cannot be criticized at all they are above reproach, they can only be worshiped as holy scripture and HOW COME WE CAN’T DO COMICS ABOUT MUHAMMED?!?! PC!!!!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:30:38am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

Today is Social Security’s 80th birthday. Congrats on reaching what some Republicans think should be the retirement age. -H

Hillary’s so divisive and hateful, not like candidates who love America like Ted Cruz and Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee.

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:31:42am

re: #311 subterraneanhomesickalien

I believe you mean Yogi Berra-ism.

Yogi Bear’s only concerns in this world are with pickanick baskets.

I’m blushing with embarrassment. I knew that! I knew it! It’s “engage mind, then fingers”, not the other way round.

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:31:45am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:32:05am

So there’s a stray cat in the neighborhood I’ve been feeding. She showed up this morning for some milk and food. Still very shy.

But I think we can all see where this is going.

The feline overlords in residence are not pleased.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:33:08am

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Dark_Falcon  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:34:06am

re: #239 teleskiguy

I wrote a page when he was running for the Senate about how he was a smarmy lying freak who’d sell his own kids down the river if it meant he could stay in Congress. Yeah, Cory Gardner fucking sucks. And he’s one of my Senators for the next five years.

He ran the better campaign last year. He adapted to counter the charge that his policies were anti-woman, and then gave a policy vision across a range of issues. Democrat Mark Udall, by contrast, stuck with a campaign that relied greatly on emphasizing women’s issues.

This is not to denigrate the concerns of women, but Udall focused on them to extent of seriously reducing the time spent addressing the concerns of Latinos (Latino men especially). Udall’s campaign seemed to think that Latinos would just vote for because Ken Buck was on the GOP ticket, but that did not happen. Udall lost the male vote by such a large margin that the drop-off in Latino support sealed his fate.

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Great White Snark  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:36:39am

Pretty sure a number of us can use this image.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:38:17am

re: #318 The Vicious Babushka

What in the utter fuck==>

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1. Someone screwing around or

2. Tiny weird belief system or

3. Social media experiment or

4. Nutcase.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:40:04am

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LastYearsMan  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:41:14am

So, is Trump still anti-vaccine?

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:42:09am

re: #318 The Vicious Babushka

That account is now deleted.

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:42:25am
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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:43:13am

re: #325 darthstar

lolol

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:43:23am

re: #323 LastYearsMan

So, is Trump still anti-vaccine?

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That’s only a year ago, but you can’t tell. Some of his statements are only intended to have a shelf life of hours.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:44:20am

re: #324 Nyet

That account is now deleted.

Comment edited accordingly.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:47:16am

re: #322 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Meant to embed this one:

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:52:07am

re: #329 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Really should visit Austin sometime.

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danarchy  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:52:40am

re: #329 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Meant to embed this one:

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Video

The first one was better. The audio on this one is clipping like a son of a bitch.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:56:39am

Here are Some of the Worst Van Names Ever (From Jalopnik):


Short, funny article. It seemed to go with the comments about the Seventies and Eighties.
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:58:30am
You knew this was coming, and Fox News angry manbaby Greg Gutfeld is now going there. Gutfeld says women should have no right to donate fetal tissue for medical research.

Freedom. Liberty. Less Government. Get the government off our backs. Individual Rights.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:59:38am

re: #331 danarchy

Yeah, the music in the second one’s a little distorted. But the second one rocks a bit more.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:14:32am
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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:20:02am

LOL, I found this by chance, through a search completely unrelated to Trump:

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:21:13am

re: #335 The Vicious Babushka
From ABC News 7-8-2015:

Former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a charity fundraiser for U.S. military veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and former First Lady Laura Bush collected $50,000 to appear a year earlier, officials of the Texas-based Helping a Hero charity confirmed to ABC News.

The former President was also provided with a private jet to travel to Houston at a cost of $20,000, the officials said.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:26:00am

Wow already heard back about the SCOTUS blog position. Said they probably won’t get back to me until September but they were very impressed with the paralegal certificate.

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allegro  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:26:50am

re: #337 Higgs Boson’s Mate

From ABC News 7-8-2015:

That one I’ll never understand. Since Bush is the one responsible for those people becoming severely disabled he should be paying them for the priviledge of standing before them pleading for forgiveness.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:29:51am

re: #338 HappyWarrior

Wow already heard back about the SCOTUS blog position. Said they probably won’t get back to me until September but they were very impressed with the paralegal certificate.

I wish you the very best! I will be crossing all things crossable for you.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:33:18am

re: #339 allegro

That one I’ll never understand. Since Bush is the one responsible for those people becoming severely disabled he should be paying them for the priviledge of standing before them pleading for forgiveness.

It’s galling because after 9/11 his partisans found it nearly impossible to get through a sentence without using the words “Commander-in-Chief.” The way I learned it, command entails responsibility as well as authority. A responsible commander would have given money to the vets, not taken it from them.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:33:36am

re: #340 WhatEVs

I wish you the very best! I will be crossing all things crossable for you.

Thanks. I am really glad that BWS found that and was nice enough to think of me. Could be a really really good fit.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:35:05am

re: #338 HappyWarrior

Wow already heard back about the SCOTUS blog position. Said they probably won’t get back to me until September but they were very impressed with the paralegal certificate.

Congratulations! Holding you in my thoughts for a good outcome.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:35:19am

I don’t begrudge anyone famous who does private jet travel especially someone like Clinton who has received threats before. The big speaking fees are a little less defensible but I don’t hold that against Hillary because I would be holding that against everyone who does that.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:35:56am

re: #343 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Congratulations! Holding you in my thoughts for a good outcome.

Let’s hope. I think the paralegal certificate was a great idea. I’ve gotten a lot more interest since I completed it in the spring.

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allegro  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:36:10am

re: #341 Higgs Boson’s Mate

It’s galling because after 9/11 his partisans found it nearly impossible to get through a sentence without using the words “Commander-in-Chief.” The way I learned it, command entails responsibility as well as authority. A responsible commander would have given money to the vets, not taken it from them.

There’s also the fact that they need a fund raiser in the first place to get their needs met. They can thank him and his party for that as well.

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ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:37:19am

re: #312 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

As I keep pointing out, the motivation for banning abortion—for the first time ever—in the early 20th century was the fear that it would rob the State of cannon fodder. That was true in the US, The Soviet Union, as you said, Germany, etc., etc.

Has it really changed. If you listen to most of the GOP clown car passengers, it sounds like war, war, war is still in the plans.

And with the way the GOP plans to work taxing, it sounds like they are gonna need a lot of lower end taxpayers for all that flat tax BS. Gonna need the money to keep all those roads, airports and other infrastructure so the rich cats can travel around on style.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:37:58am

What I hated about the Bush years is being even remotely critical of his FP meant you were sympathetic to the terrorists. It amuses me seeing Obama’s right wing detractors complain about how they are treated. Yeah well you never got called a Saddam Hussein supporter since you thought Iraq was a bad idea numbnuts.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:38:38am

re: #344 HappyWarrior

I don’t begrudge anyone famous who does private jet travel especially someone like Clinton who has received threats before. The big speaking fees are a little less defensible but I don’t hold that against Hillary because I would be holding that against everyone who does that.

Where are the fees going? If to her family foundation, there is room for argument among accountants. If it’s going to her campaign, it’s protection money well spent for the country’s future.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:39:16am

re: #344 HappyWarrior

I don’t begrudge anyone famous who does private jet travel especially someone like Clinton who has received threats before. The big speaking fees are a little less defensible but I don’t hold that against Hillary because I would be holding that against everyone who does that.

All the people complaining about Hillary’s speaking fees wouldn’t go to hear her if she was speaking for free.

This is the “Free Market” that they love so much.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:39:44am

re: #338 HappyWarrior

Wow already heard back about the SCOTUS blog position. Said they probably won’t get back to me until September but they were very impressed with the paralegal certificate.

YAY YOU!!!!!!!!!

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:41:10am

re: #344 HappyWarrior

I don’t begrudge anyone famous who does private jet travel especially someone like Clinton who has received threats before. The big speaking fees are a little less defensible but I don’t hold that against Hillary because I would be holding that against everyone who does that.

I actually hold it against every last one of them. $100k? $50k (for Laura Bush??)? A private jet and $10k is waaaaaay more than sufficient. Unless it’s a for profit, an association, a think tank, et al, for them, go for whatever you can get. But charities? Schools? Nope. Nope. And for good measure…Nope.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:41:15am

re: #351 Backwoods_Sleuth

YAY YOU!!!!!!!!!

I can’t thank you enough for finding that position. Of all the positions, I’ve applied to, this was probably the one I was interested in most. I was very surprised to see how quickly they got back to me.

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:41:23am

re: #342 HappyWarrior

Thanks. I am really glad that BWS found that and was nice enough to think of me. Could be a really really good fit.

I’ll light a candle thinking of you and that position. May it work out for the best.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:41:32am

re: #342 HappyWarrior

Thanks. I am really glad that BWS found that and was nice enough to think of me. Could be a really really good fit.

I thought the job description was written with exactly you in mind as the perfect candidate when I saw it last week.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:41:43am

re: #346 allegro

There’s also the fact that they need a fund raiser in the first place to get their needs met. They can thank him and his party for that as well.

I purposely avoid thinking about that aspect of it lest I ride my hobbyhorse to a very angry place.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:42:18am

Please cue the RWNJ angst

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:42:35am

re: #352 WhatEVs

I actually hold it against every last one of them. $100k? $50k (for Laura Bush??)? A private jet and $10k is waaaaaay more than sufficient. Unless it’s a for profit, an association, a think tank, et al, for them, go for whatever you can get. But charities? Schools? Nope. Nope. And for good measure…Nope.

Yeah I hear ya.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:43:15am

re: #221 Kragar

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He says from the devils den.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:43:43am

re: #298 lawhawk

Must arm all firefighters!!!!!!!!*($^&%&*(^$%&^&*$^#%@#$@@!!!

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:43:53am

Kudos to Backwoods_Sleuth for looking out for us lizards. More kudos for all of the research. Well done!

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Franklin  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:43:57am
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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:44:04am

re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth

I thought the job description was written with exactly you in mind as the perfect candidate when I saw it last week.

Let’s hope they think so too. He said they won’t get back to me until September probably but I think the paralegal certificate class really stood out to them and that I had a law journal article summary I wrote on Loving handy that I only had did for extra credit in the course but I wanted to get an as good grade as possible.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:44:17am

re: #353 HappyWarrior

I can’t thank you enough for finding that position. Of all the positions, I’ve applied to, this was probably the one I was interested in most. I was very surprised to see how quickly they got back to me.

Do they have a comment section? If so, you might want to consider participating. I don’t know if it will help, but a bit of dazzling them with brilliance might do…who knows.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:44:56am

Wingnut butthurt==>

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:45:38am

re: #357 FormerDirtDart

Please cue the RWNJ angst

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Undoing a generation of stupidity. Now if Obama turns the Guantanamo prison into a petting zoo, he goes on my private Rushmore. (Would have been nice to do something for American laborers, but whatever…)

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:45:45am
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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:45:46am
He compares this to the second amendment, saying you have a right to own a gun but you don’t have a right to shoot your gun “wherever you want.” I

Trump: I HAVE A YOOOOGE THINGY, WHY CAN’T I WHIP IT OUT WHENEVER I WANT, YOU PC POLICE?!!?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:45:48am

re: #364 WhatEVs

Do they have a comment section? If so, you might want to consider participating. I don’t know if it will help, but a bit of dazzling them with brilliance might do…who knows.

Probably do but I got a good writing sample. Need to start brushing up on current cases.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:45:50am

re: #357 FormerDirtDart

Please cue the RWNJ angst

I think it’s self-cueing. My question is…how do you un-que it? :-)

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:47:05am

re: #365 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnut butthurt==>

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Do the people who complain about us re-establishing relations with Cuba have a problem with all the American businesses that have sent literally millions of American jobs to China simply so they wouldn’t have to pay the employees as much? Oh? They’re the biggest cheerleader of said policy. Okay fuck off then.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:47:31am

re: #353 HappyWarrior

I can’t thank you enough for finding that position. Of all the positions, I’ve applied to, this was probably the one I was interested in most. I was very surprised to see how quickly they got back to me.

I saw the position because I follow SCOTUSblog on twitter.
To prep for your interview (and I’m thinking really positive thoughts that there WILL be an interview), may I suggest you review SCOTUSblog’s website on how they covered SCOTUS action, so you can be familiar with that sort of thing should that come up.

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allegro  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:47:31am

re: #366 Decatur Deb

Undoing a generation of stupidity. Now if Obama turns the Guantanamo prison into a petting zoo, he goes on my private Rushmore. (Would have been nice to do something for American laborers, but whatever…)

Pet the prisoners?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:48:10am

re: #372 Backwoods_Sleuth

I saw the position because I follow SCOTUSblog on twitter.
To prep for your interview (and I’m thinking really positive thoughts that there WILL be an interview), may I suggest you review SCOTUSblog’s website on how they covered SCOTUS action, so you can be familiar with that sort of thing should that come up.

Great idea.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:48:13am

re: #357 FormerDirtDart

Please cue the RWNJ angst

Some wingnut idiot claimed Obama surrendered to Cuba….you know, by raising an American Flag….on foreign soil….a sure sign of “surrender”.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:48:30am

re: #357 FormerDirtDart

Please cue the RWNJ angst

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I love the fact that the three Marines raising the flag there today, are the ones who lowered it when the embassy closed.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:48:50am

re: #375 Dr. Matt

Some wingnut idiot claimed Obama surrendered to Cuba….you know, by raising an American Flag….on foreign soil….a sure sign of “surrender”.

CHAMBERLAIN MUNICH!

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No Country For Old Haters  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:48:57am

re: #365 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnut butthurt==>

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:49:11am

re: #373 allegro

Pet the prisoners?

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Empty it, turn the building over to the Navy Child Development Services. A long time ago Guantanamo used to be ‘good duty’.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:49:47am

re: #375 Dr. Matt

Some wingnut idiot claimed Obama surrendered to Cuba….you know, by raising an American Flag….on foreign soil….a sure sign of “surrender”.

HURR HURR TEH IRAN DEAL WHICH SEZ IRAN IS NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE A NUKE IS TEH SAME AS GIVIN IRAN ALL TEH NUKEZ!!!!!!!1!

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:50:40am

re: #357 FormerDirtDart

Please cue the RWNJ angst

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Raised by three who lowered it the last time, at that. I _love_ that touch.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:51:18am

re: #366 Decatur Deb

Undoing a generation of stupidity. Now if Obama turns the Guantanamo prison into a petting zoo, he goes on my private Rushmore. (Would have been nice to do something for American laborers, but whatever…)

Shut down Gitmo and then implore W. Craig Jelinek to put the world’s largest Costco on the property. That will piss off the rwnjs AND the communist Castros in one swift motion.

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aagcobb  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:51:22am

re: #381 William Lewis

Raised by three who lowered it the last time, at that. I _love_ that touch.

I’m glad for them that they are all still alive 54 years later!

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:51:42am

re: #379 Decatur Deb

Empty it, turn the building over to the Navy Child Development Services. A long time ago Guantanamo used to be ‘good duty’.

It was considered some of the very best for us squids when I was in.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:51:56am

re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth

I love the fact that the three Marines raising the flag there today, are the ones who lowered it when the embassy closed.

I thought that was an interesting touch. Anyhow, with all respect to Americans of Cuban descent who did come here to escape the Castro regime, I am sorry that happened but I am tired of the Cuban exile community acting like Cuba is an unique tyrannical regime and that we shouldn’t deal with them. We deal with other far worse regimes than Cuba. As an American of Czechoslovak and Yugoslavian descent, I will add that we still had embassies in Prague and Belgrade during the Cold War. I mean FFS we do tons with the PRC. We even have a sort of buddy relationship with the Saudis. So my message to the Cuban exiles pissed off about this with all respect, stop acting like you’re the only people who have fled an oppressive regime in this country.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:52:44am

Mostly posting for the gif
I can imagine Dick Cheney, watching an endless loop, making Burgess Meredith Penguin squawks of displeasure

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:53:17am

Canada has an embassy in Havana, the UK does too, and so does Israel. Frankly that it’s taken until 2015 to change this backward policy is an embarrassment.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:54:33am
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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:54:46am

re: #384 Higgs Boson’s Mate

It was considered some of the very best for us squids when I was in.

When I was in SETAF, we had the ultimate ‘good duty’ guy. At his farewell they described how he came to us, outside of Venice, from Hawaii. His next duty station was US Virgin Islands. Everybody wanted to know who his rabbi was.

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aagcobb  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:54:52am

re: #387 HappyWarrior

Canada has an embassy in Havana, the UK does too, and so does Israel. Frankly that it’s taken until 2015 to change this backward policy is an embarrassment.

So has Rubio promised to close it again on Day one of his Presidency?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:55:52am
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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:56:24am

re: #387 HappyWarrior

Canada has an embassy in Havana, the UK does too, and so does Israel. Frankly that it’s taken until 2015 to change this backward policy is an embarrassment.

The Alabama state agriculture commission has been sending delegations to Cuba for about 10 years. When there’s a buck to be made…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:56:58am
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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:57:12am

re: #390 aagcobb

So has Rubio promised to close it again on Day one of his Presidency?

I expect so but the good news is if Marco is there tonight to whine about it, he’ll do that lie about his parents fleeing Castro all the way back in 1957 before Castro even got into power.

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makeitstop  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:57:17am

‘Morning!

I’m happy to see the US flag raised again in Cuba. Visiting Cuba has been on our bucket list for a long time, and I’m hoping that travel restrictions are lifted soon.

Also too, Happy Friday!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:58:26am

re: #392 Decatur Deb

The Alabama state agriculture commission has been sending delegations to Cuba for about 10 years. When there’s a buck to be made…

You’d think that conservatives who claim to be pro-trade and capitalist who are crapping on this would see that. I think many of them would be calling ti a Nixon goes to China moment if a Republican president had did this. Now to be fair to Cruz or Rubio, I think they’d be bitching no matter what.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:58:35am

Time to play that song again. Sorry, CL.

…

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:59:42am

re: #396 makeitstop

‘Morning!

I’m happy to see the US flag raised again in Cuba. Visiting Cuba has been on our bucket list for a long time, and I’m hoping that travel restrictions are lifted soon.

Also too, Happy Friday!

I would like to go one day too. My SiL’s cousins who are Peruvian nationals have already been plenty of times and her father has been jealous.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:02:30am

re: #294 William Lewis

Heh. I remember that now. I’ve got a Guinness in hand but this is after 12 hours of work at two different jobs so I’m just a typical third shifter. (We had about 4 bars in walking distance from the old tire factory and the labor temple lounge was from the meat packing plant in my hometown to service the third shift guys. )

We still have 1 bar in town that opens at 7 am for the night shifters getting off work (or the early birds also I guess).

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:02:40am

re: #396 makeitstop

‘Morning!

I’m happy to see the US flag raised again in Cuba. Visiting Cuba has been on our bucket list for a long time, and I’m hoping that travel restrictions are lifted soon.

Also too, Happy Friday!

I am pretty sure they have been. I saw in the news that several airline carriers were scheduling flights already.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:04:12am

wow. They found a 19-year-old firefighter alive in the Tianjin rubble.
I’m linking the tweet instead of posting it because it has video, in case it may be too graphic for some people (the firefighter isn’t mangled or anything, but just in case).

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:06:55am

re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth

One of my grandfathers had a pit stop in Cuba before coming to the US from Europe. I was hoping to be able to do some research in Cuba about his stay there at some point.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:07:32am

re: #401 WhatEVs

I am pretty sure they have been. I saw in the news that several airline carriers were scheduling flights already.

Think you might still have to sign on as an ‘educational’ group, on the spot.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:09:31am

re: #402 Backwoods_Sleuth

wow. They found a 19-year-old firefighter alive in the Tianjin rubble.
I’m linking the tweet instead of posting it because it has video, in case it may be too graphic for some people (the firefighter isn’t mangled or anything, but just in case).

Interesting. I have to wonder though about whether he was indeed a firefighter. We see firefighters in their turnout coats and pants. The person they’ve carried off is wearing no identifiable gear whatsoever. It looks like he’s in shorts and a tank top.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:11:27am

re: #405 lawhawk

Interesting. I have to wonder though about whether he was indeed a firefighter. We see firefighters in their turnout coats and pants. The person they’ve carried off is wearing no identifiable gear whatsoever. It looks like he’s in shorts and a tank top.

They probably removed his outer gear to check for injuries.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:11:44am

re: #402 Backwoods_Sleuth

wow. They found a 19-year-old firefighter alive in the Tianjin rubble.
I’m linking the tweet instead of posting it because it has video, in case it may be too graphic for some people (the firefighter isn’t mangled or anything, but just in case).

Holy cow! How is that even possible?

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makeitstop  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:12:14am

re: #403 lawhawk

One of my grandfathers had a pit stop in Cuba before coming to the US from Europe. I was hoping to be able to do some research in Cuba about his stay there at some point.

My wife had family move there from The Netherlands back in the day. Her father used to talk about going to visit them before Cuba became a branch office of the Evil Empire.

I want to see that architecture and take a thousand photos.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:12:24am

re: #406 The Vicious Babushka

They probably removed his outer gear to check for injuries.

That’s what I was thinking.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:13:48am

BBL

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:14:30am

There’s lot i would want to see in Cuba. A baseball game, the beach, hear some of the music, and I’ve liked what I have had of Cuban food too.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:14:32am

re: #404 Decatur Deb

Think you might still have to sign on as an ‘educational’ group, on the spot.

You’re right.

First, you need to understand what kinds of trips to Cuba are allowed. In January, Obama expanded the list of categories — to 12 — for approved travel to Cuba. These now comprise humanitarian projects; religious activities; educational activities; professional research; and participating in an athletic event or making a public performance, like playing an instrument in a concert. What’s more, if you fall within one of the 12 categories (read the guidelines for each category), you no longer need to submit a written request to the Office of Foreign Assets Control to be permitted to go to Cuba.

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Lidane  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:16:08am

SELF-AWARENESS IS FOR LIBRULS.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:16:23am

PIE IS LOVE

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:17:34am

re: #413 Lidane

SELF-AWARENESS IS FOR LIBRULS.

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Yeah look in the mirror Erick.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:18:02am

re: #414 The Vicious Babushka

PIE IS LOVE

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Awesome gesture.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:18:48am

re: #414 The Vicious Babushka

PIE IS LOVE

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Of course. That’s how you show how much you love the Lizards every week when you show us your amazing pictures. Drooling is a natural side effect of love! :-)

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:20:42am

re: #413 Lidane

Erick Erickson: Conservatives Must ‘Not Descend into a Hell of Rage’

Too late

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:21:50am

re: #396 makeitstop

‘Morning!

I’m happy to see the US flag raised again in Cuba. Visiting Cuba has been on our bucket list for a long time, and I’m hoping that travel restrictions are lifted soon.

Also too, Happy Friday!

Travel Restrictions=Freedom, Liberty.

/

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:22:57am

Honestly when is conservatism ever not about rage? I mean we’re seeing how they treat each other in the primaries. Seems to me that rage is a huge part of the whole ideology.

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makeitstop  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:23:30am

re: #411 HappyWarrior

There’s lot i would want to see in Cuba. A baseball game, the beach, hear some of the music, and I’ve liked what I have had of Cuban food too.

We ate at a Cuban cafe when we were in Montreal couple of weeks ago. They made a vegetable soup that was absolutely delicious, and my picky vegetarian wife loved the veggie sammich they made for her.

What was kinda cool was walking around town and seeing travel posters for Cuba - made me want to travel there even more.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:24:26am

re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth

I love the fact that the three Marines raising the flag there today, are the ones who lowered it when the embassy closed.

Obama=Always Be Trolling

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:25:11am

re: #396 makeitstop

‘Morning!

I’m happy to see the US flag raised again in Cuba. Visiting Cuba has been on our bucket list for a long time, and I’m hoping that travel restrictions are lifted soon.

Also too, Happy Friday!

LGF Charter…. We want to go as well.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:26:07am

re: #421 makeitstop

We ate at a Cuban cafe when we were in Montreal couple of weeks ago. They made a vegetable soup that was absolutely delicious, and my picky vegetarian wife loved the veggie sammich they made for her.

What was kinda cool was walking around town and seeing travel posters for Cuba - made me want to travel there even more.

My in-laws go to Cuba all the time (they’re Canadians). Cuba, apparently, doesn’t stamp passports, it uses Post-It Notes. I would never chance it (being American) but all my in-laws love it there. They always take extra clothes to leave at the hotels for the staff. Staff are treated like shit there. I find it kinda sad, myself.

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Franklin  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:27:55am

I wasn’t too happy with Stephanie Miller, Bob Cesca and Chez Pazienza’s takes on the BLM - Bernie Sanders topic on their respective shows. This article sums up (somewhat) my thoughts:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:28:29am

Sinking bridge closes 50 miles of I-65 in Indiana

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — An I-65 bridge that dropped 9 inches last week while construction crews worked to widen it has closed 50 miles of a major artery between Indianapolis and Chicago.

And northbound traffic on Interstate 65 will have to take a 60-mile detour around the bridge over Wildcat Creek for the foreseeable future, Indiana Department of Transportation officials said. Traffic is being diverted from I-65 just north of Lebanon, Ind., to U.S. 52, then to Indiana 28 at Clarks Hill and to U.S. 231 at Romney.

“We would hesitate to give any kind of timeline at this time,” state highway Commissioner Brandye Hendrickson said. “It will probably be later in the week before we really get our arms around some of the more viable solutions.”

It’s still closed, but who needs infrastructure?

sigh

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:28:29am

re: #365 The Vicious Babushka

If it’s so great, why did you ban Cuban dissidents from attending?

From attending what? A ceremony at the Cuban embassy here? A WH event?

Yes because those are public places where anyone can go whenever they want.

/////

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Franklin  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:29:03am

re: #426 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sinking bridge closes 50 miles of I-65 in Indiana

It’s still closed, but who needs infrastructure?

sigh

FreeMarket™ will take care of it.

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BeachDem  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:29:07am

re: #338 HappyWarrior

Wow already heard back about the SCOTUS blog position. Said they probably won’t get back to me until September but they were very impressed with the paralegal certificate.

That would be such a cool job. Fingers crossed (September is just two weeks away!)

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:32:32am

re: #426 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sinking bridge closes 50 miles of I-65 in Indiana

It’s still closed, but who needs infrastructure?

sigh

I-65 isn’t just a major road from Indy to Chicago. It’s a major road from the southern US to Chicago. I guess I-75 and I-57 will now get a workout.

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blueraven  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:32:35am

re: #335 The Vicious Babushka

And George W Bush charged charity for wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan 100K for speech + expenses.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:33:08am

re: #427 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

From attending what? A ceremony at the Cuban embassy here? A WH event?

Yes because those are public places where anyone can go whenever they want.

/////

HURR HURR WHY U NOT ALLOW PEOPLE WHO THINK CUBA SUCKS TO BE AT CUBAN EMBASSY EVENT!!!!!!!111!!

Why it’s just like not inviting Pamela Geller to the White House Iftar dinner!

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:33:46am

re: #431 blueraven

And George W Bush charged charity for wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan 100K for speech + expenses.

I oppose fees of this nature in general, but that W charges that for wounded vets is Cheneysque despicable.

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Franklin  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:33:51am

This is great, and I can totally see Dukakis doing this:

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:34:36am

re: #429 BeachDem

That would be such a cool job. Fingers crossed (September is just two weeks away!)

It really sounded that way. I am glad that I did that extra credit law journal summary extra credit paper on Loving. It was extra credit and didn’t make a big difference in my grade but the firm that I’d be working for does a lot of litigating before the Supreme Court.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:35:16am

WTFITS
They surveyed Twitter followers? GMAFB

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A Cranky One  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:36:03am

re: #426 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sinking bridge closes 50 miles of I-65 in Indiana

It’s still closed, but who needs infrastructure?

sigh

Drove past there on the way to Tennessee to visit my mom (and celebrate her 85th birthday!). Unreal to see such a long stretch of interstate closed. Came back through Illinois to avoid the detours and inevitable traffic jams.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:36:37am

re: #436 The Vicious Babushka

Well, this is worth repeating.

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:36:54am

re: #436 The Vicious Babushka

I can only wonder how they got those numbers out of their asses.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:37:51am

re: #432 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR WHY U NOT ALLOW PEOPLE WHO THINK CUBA SUCKS TO BE AT CUBAN EMBASSY EVENT!!!!!!!111!!

Why it’s just like not inviting Pamela Geller to the White House Iftar dinner!

“So we can expect the Jeb! Bush campaign to invite activists from BLM up on stage with him at his next event?”

No libtard campaign event is for campaign and supporters private event shut up!!1

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makeitstop  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:38:05am

re: #434 Franklin

This is great, and I can totally see Dukakis doing this:

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I always liked Duke, and think he got a bad rap over his presidential campaign.

He was probably the victim of the very first ‘gotcha’ question from the media.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:38:19am

re: #439 William Lewis

Noah Rothman is a lying asshat (he’s a con, so I repeat myself). He used to write for Mediaite and his articles were always eye-rollers.

It’s good to know that con’s want to see Fiorina do to the US what she did to HP.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:38:30am

re: #438 WhatEVs

Well, this is worth repeating.

Also paying off the national debt immediately is the most important thing ever.

/

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Franklin  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:38:36am

re: #436 The Vicious Babushka

Percentages how the fuck do they work?

Fiorina: 452,000 followers :: 95% is 429,400 eligible voters
Trump: 3,072,000 followers :: 39% is 1,198,080 eligible voters

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:38:47am

re: #430 WhatEVs

I-65 isn’t just a major road from Indy to Chicago. It’s a major road from the southern US to Chicago. I guess I-75 and I-57 will now get a workout.

I suspect a lot of traffic will alter in Nashville, trucks picking up I-24 to get to I-57, and the I-57/I-74 interchange in Champaign is probably going to be a mess for a long time

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:39:13am

re: #443 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Also paying off the national debt immediately is the most important thing ever.

/

And government should be run like my household! Run the country from a kitchen table!!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:39:15am

re: #434 Franklin

This is great, and I can totally see Dukakis doing this:

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I always thought he was a good guy who got smeared by the Bush-Atwater machine. As if being a lifelong ACLU member who opposes the death penalty is a bad thing. I get it the was the 80’s but Dukakis is a good guy.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:39:16am

Pig…. Honest to God Pig.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:40:23am

re: #442 WhatEVs

Noah Rothman is a lying asshat (he’s a con, so I repeat myself). He used to write for Mediaite and his articles were always eye-rollers.

It’s good to know that con’s want to see Fiorina do to the US what she did to HP.

She is always bragging about her “accomplishments”

What “accomplishments” does she have other than ruining HP and destroying 30,000 American jobs, being the cheerleader of outsourcing, and backstabbing her way into the boardroom from being a lowly secretary, just like the window washer in “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying”

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Franklin  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:40:32am

re: #441 makeitstop

re: #447 HappyWarrior

Yep, I was a youngin back then but living in the city I bump into him from time to time and say hello.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:40:46am

re: #445 FormerDirtDart

I suspect a lot of traffic will alter in Nashville, trucks picking up I-24 to get to I-57, and the I-57/I-74 interchange in Champaign is probably going to be a mess for a long time

Unless you’re specifically going to Indy, maybe Louisville, no one who’s doing any distance travel will reroute 60 miles of backroads.

Imagine the lost revenue from those two cities and the businesses who rely on that traffic.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:41:02am

re: #446 WhatEVs

And government should be run like my household! Run the country from a kitchen table!!

I thought that was Rand Paul’s shtick.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:41:16am

re: #438 WhatEVs

Well, this is worth repeating.

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Revenue reducing reform? Carly would know about that with her stint at HP.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:41:55am

re: #441 makeitstop

I always liked Duke, and think he got a bad rap over his presidential campaign.

He was probably the victim of the very first ‘gotcha’ question from the media.

That Shaw question was such a pathetic one to ask. And maybe it’s my personality but I am fine with how he answered it, perhaps he could have shown a little more emotional but he was firm in his belief that even if a loved one of his was raped and murdered that he would still oppose the DP out of principle, I respect that, I respect that far more than someone who does a tough on crime talk and doesn’t understand the realities of the justice system. I also think even though he looked silly in that tank, I will point out that Michael Dukakis was a vet too. More than you can say about another Massachusetts governor who ran 24 years later.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:42:05am

re: #448 Dave In Austin

Pig…. Honest to God Pig.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:43:01am

re: #450 Franklin

Yep, I was a youngin back then but living in the city I bump into him from time to time and say hello.

I was only one that year lol so no memories of him the guy but he always seemed like a genuinely good person to me and a regular guy. He just had the misfortunate to run following a very popular GOP president.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:43:29am

re: #452 The Vicious Babushka

I thought that was Rand Paul’s shtick.

They are virtually indistinguishable, aren’t they? Ryan said it in 2012. They all say the same shit just in different syllables.

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BeachDem  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:43:31am

re: #387 HappyWarrior

Canada has an embassy in Havana, the UK does too, and so does Israel. Frankly that it’s taken until 2015 to change this backward policy is an embarrassment.

My nephew has been to Cuba twice in the past few years for conferences.

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Lidane  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:44:03am

The highlight of my morning and it’s not even lunchtime yet:

RWNJ: “Universities are librul far-left indoctrination camps!”

Me: “Show me on the doll where the university of your choice rejected you.”

RWNJ: “You’re one of the indoctrinated! I have an IT management degree!”

Me: “I’ve got a bachelor’s in International Business with a focus on Latin America and an MBA and I use both of them in my job.”

RWNJ: “You’re just full of useless deflections and liberal double-speak! Eleventy!”

Heh.

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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:44:12am

re: #453 lawhawk

Revenue reducing reform? Carly would know about that with her stint at HP.

Except for her own revenue. She seemed to do pretty damned well (walked away with, what was it, $20+ million bucks) for totally fucking up a major company.

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Franklin  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:45:16am
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WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:45:28am

Ah, meeting time. See ya!

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:46:15am

Scott Walker’s Obamacare replacement plan is a bunch of spam==>

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:46:16am

re: #457 WhatEVs

They are virtually indistinguishable, aren’t they? Ryan said it in 2012. They all say the same shit just in different syllables.

I keep on saying it. The GOP may have a bigger bench but your bench is useless if they all do the same things. To use baseball again, it’s like having a bench only with power hitters. The Dem bench has power hitters, guys that can steal a base, and good contact hitters. The GOP base just has guys that are pretty much saying the same things that every Republican candidate since Reagan has said. The Dem bench has someone as lefty as Sanders and righty as Webb. There’s no where near that range of philosophies on the R bench even though nearly four times as much Republicans are running.

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Franklin  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:47:29am

re: #463 The Vicious Babushka

Scott Walker’s Obamacare replacement plan is a bunch of spam==>

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:49:11am

re: #459 Lidane

The highlight of my morning and it’s not even lunchtime yet:

Heh.

The funny thing is I’ve actually seen how conservatives definitely do indoctrinate at their universities and their departments. My alma mater is famous for having a right wing economics department. I heard from one of the few people there who doesn’t buy that crap that during the early years of Obama’s presidency, there actually was a test question “Why is the Obama stimulus bad?” not “Why or why not” mind you but definitely phrased into why is it bad. Meanwhile most of my liberal history professors were constantly challenging my conceptions. Hell the guy who taught my American history course was as a liberal as they come but he was willing to give Andrew Carnegie a lot of credit for the Carnegie libraries and point out the philanthropy that many guys like him took part in while also talking about how they treated workers.

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:49:16am

re: #460 WhatEVs

Except for her own revenue. She seemed to do pretty damned well (walked away with, what was it, $20+ million bucks) for totally fucking up a major company.

Which was #4.

Before that she almost destroyed Lucent.
Destroyed DEC.
Destroyed Compaq.

I will never forgive that [multiple extreme expletives deleted.] for DEC. They were the best computer company that ever existed.

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Teukka  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:52:43am

re: #467 William Lewis

Which was #4.

Before that she almost destroyed Lucent.
Destroyed DEC.
Destroyed Compaq.

I will never forgive that [multiple extreme expletives deleted.] for DEC. They were the best computer company that ever existed.

I cannot give enough updings :(

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ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:53:40am

re: #392 Decatur Deb

The Alabama state agriculture commission has been sending delegations to Cuba for about 10 years. When there’s a buck to be made…

And those bucks being made from today on will cause idiots like Rubio and Cruz to shut up about Cuba once Obama is out of office. They will get the cease and desist emails from the Kochs and other big money men who have new markets again.

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plansbandc  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:55:03am

re: #304 Nyet

Angry man baby has about as much historical acumen as Bluto in “Animal House”.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:55:40am

re: #413 Lidane

SELF-AWARENESS IS FOR LIBRULS.

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Maybe he thinks it could be worse?

“Worse? How could it be any worse? You’re gonna stone me to death! Jehovah! Jehovah!”

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:56:53am

Carsonites are not happy.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:56:58am

re: #467 William Lewis

I wont forgive her for sending Lucent on its way to a death spiral.

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aagcobb  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:57:15am

re: #471 Blind Frog Belly White

Maybe he thinks it could be worse?

“Worse? How could it be any worse? You’re gonna stone me to death! Jehovah! Jehovah!”

OK, Life of Brian has to go on the list of greatest movies of the 70s.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:57:18am

re: #453 lawhawk

Revenue reducing reform? Carly would know about that with her stint at HP.

They don’t realize that if Fiorina “lays off” the money losing states the GOP Congressional majorities are gone.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:57:49am
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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:58:59am

re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Why won’t MLK and the SNCC be nice? // Sorry I couldn’t resist that.

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aagcobb  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:59:35am

Great news: For the first time ever, Africa has been polio free for one year! Bad News: the Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops has called for a boycott of polio vaccines because they think its a sterilization plot.

scienceblogs.com

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No Depression  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:59:50am

re: #413 Lidane

That’s the only funny joke I’ve heard Erick make.

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A Cranky One  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:00:09am

re: #473 lawhawk

I wont forgive her for sending Lucent on its way to a death spiral.

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blueraven  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:00:12am

Last night I passed by Fox channel and caught a fascinating spot on Hannity. The guests were Ann Coulter and Charles W Cooke. Hannity and Coulter shouted down Cooke because he was trashing Trump. They barely let him finish a single sentence.

So many excuses for Trump. It was hilarious.

…

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:00:24am

re: #475 Higgs Boson’s Mate

They don’t realize that if Fiorina “lays off” the money losing states the GOP Congressional majorities are gone.

Carly’s “accomplishments” consist entirely of her clawing her way to the top not by skills but by “playing the game” and then bailing out in a golden parachute while leaving everything in smoldering ruins.

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FormerDirtDart  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:03:20am

“We keep making the same mistakes over and over and over,” said Goliath Davis, a former police chief and deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. “What happens to all these kids? What do they do? Every time we fail one, the criminal justice system is a winner.
And you’d rather pay to keep them incarcerated than try to straighten out the system?”

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:04:13am

LOL Bryan Fischer cites Dim Jim
The Circle Of Derp is unbroken

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:04:13am

Carly’s attitude is a lot like of a lot of business people I’ve seen run for office. They think because they’ve been in charge of a business, they should be in charge of your state or in this case our country. It’s an arrogance. I mean obviously there are some skills being an executive that help as president but so does being a bartender and as cool as it would be to get a barkeep in the White House, nope. I’d be more impressed if Fiorina hadn’t fucked the pooch at HP. More impressed if Trump hadn’t had to declare bankruptcy not once, not twice, and I think not even thrice but several times. I really do value prior elected experience because you get a perspective on to how government works. My ideal candidate would possess both executive and legislative experience.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:05:03am

re: #484 The Vicious Babushka

LOL Bryan Fischer cites Dim Jim
The Circle Of Derp is unbroken

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And you believe him Bryan lol. You’re even more sad than he is.

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aagcobb  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:05:16am

re: #483 FormerDirtDart

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local control!
This is why we need national standards and accountability

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:06:00am

re: #482 The Vicious Babushka

Carly’s “accomplishments” consist entirely of her clawing her way to the top not by skills but by “playing the game” and then bailing out in a golden parachute while leaving everything in smoldering ruins.

Carly’s accomplishments resemble those of the neutron bomb: after Carly happens all of the people are gone, but all of the stuff is still there.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:06:50am

Carson is nothing but a fraud politically. He was supporting the same parts of ACA that he now denounces for years and all of sudden thinks because he opposed ACA that makes him qualified for president. He frankly outside the age requirement is no more qualified to be president than I and many of you are. In fact, in some ways he’s less qualified because of his astounding ignorance on the issues.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:06:51am

re: #421 makeitstop

We ate at a Cuban cafe when we were in Montreal couple of weeks ago. They made a vegetable soup that was absolutely delicious, and my picky vegetarian wife loved the veggie sammich they made for her.

What was kinda cool was walking around town and seeing travel posters for Cuba - made me want to travel there even more.

First thing a friend of mine would do when we went to Canada on our fishing trips was buy Cuban cigars as soon as he could after we cleared the border.

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aagcobb  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:08:50am

re: #489 HappyWarrior

Carson is nothing but a fraud politically. He was supporting the same parts of ACA that he now denounces for years and all of sudden thinks because he opposed ACA that makes him qualified for president. He frankly outside the age requirement is no more qualified to be president than I and many of you are. In fact, in some ways he’s less qualified because of his astounding ignorance on the issues.

That holds true for the entire field of GOP candidates.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:08:53am

re: #484 The Vicious Babushka

LOL Bryan Fischer cites Dim Jim
The Circle Of Derp is unbroken

Oh, it’s OK then.

But fetal tissue donation is still The Evil. //

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:09:09am

re: #484 The Vicious Babushka

LOL Bryan Fischer cites Dim Jim
The Circle Of Derp is unbroken

If Baby Part Buying Ben Carson is so opposed to using fetal tissue for research, he could have easily taken his name off the paper before it was submitted for peer-review. But, he didn’t.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:10:04am

re: #488 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Carly’s accomplishments resemble those of the neutron bomb: after Carly happens all of the people are gone, but all of the stuff is still there.

Stole that & Tweeted it.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:10:43am

re: #298 lawhawk

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This all started with US Marshals executing a warrant on a guy, who then proceeded to start a fire. FDNY was called and the guy started shooting. He shot and injured a fireman, who was taken to the hospital with a gunshot to the leg. The fire was apparently put out, but the guy is now barricaded in the basement.

Huge police presence.

Good guy with a gun alert.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:11:19am

re: #493 Dr. Matt

If Baby Part Buying Ben Carson is so opposed to using fetal tissue for research, he could have easily taken his name off the paper before it was submitted for peer-review. But, he didn’t.

For that matter, he could have taken his name off the revised paper was sent back following the initial peer-review.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:11:31am

re: #466 HappyWarrior

The funny thing is I’ve actually seen how conservatives definitely do indoctrinate at their universities and their departments. My alma mater is famous for having a right wing economics department. I heard from one of the few people there who doesn’t buy that crap that during the early years of Obama’s presidency, there actually was a test question “Why is the Obama stimulus bad?” not “Why or why not” mind you but definitely phrased into why is it bad. Meanwhile most of my liberal history professors were constantly challenging my conceptions. Hell the guy who taught my American history course was as a liberal as they come but he was willing to give Andrew Carnegie a lot of credit for the Carnegie libraries and point out the philanthropy that many guys like him took part in while also talking about how they treated workers.

Only liberals are doctrinaire and do group think. Also any Republican candidates not conservative enough we will call cuckservatives.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:12:28am

Success in business, the military, or neurosurgery, happens in part because the person in charge in those arenas can tell people to do things and they will do them. The president rarely has such easy going.

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ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:12:42am

re: #447 HappyWarrior

I always thought he was a good guy who got smeared by the Bush-Atwater machine. As if being a lifelong ACLU member who opposes the death penalty is a bad thing. I get it the was the 80’s but Dukakis is a good guy.

That whole election was a pure indicator that America was going to have deep issues with the GOP for a long time.

Willie Horton was your neighbor you know. Willie was in every town in America.

In fact Willie is no different than the San Francisco Illegal, Francisco Sanchez, who killed Kathryn Steinle.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:12:58am

re: #463 The Vicious Babushka

Scott Walker’s Obamacare replacement plan is a bunch of spam==>

Those receiving care for the first time under Obamacare are anxiously awaiting.

///

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:15:03am

re: #494 The Vicious Babushka

Stole that & Tweeted it.

I endorse this message.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:17:41am

re: #436 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS
They surveyed Twitter followers? GMAFB

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So 95 of Carly’s 100 followers are eligible voters and only 4000 of Trump’s 10,000 followers are eligible voters, so Carly wins? Am I reading this correctly?

I don’t know the actual number of followers (just using easy numbers for example) but I would bet Trump has way more followers than Carly.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:18:10am

So these douchebros just blocked Michael Twitty for making fun of their “inclusive” meme featuring thin white dudes

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:19:16am

re: #444 Franklin

Percentages how the fuck do they work?

Fiorina: 452,000 followers :: 95% is 429,400 eligible voters
Trump: 3,072,000 followers :: 39% is 1,198,080 eligible voters

Ah, the real numbers. Exactly.

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Csarneson  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:21:06am

re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth

That video is awesome.

I think there’s a false equivalence being made though. I don’t believe that the Seattle BLM leaders (it wasn’t published initially that they were only chapter leaders) shoving to the microphone and then insulting the crowd of liberals as “white supremacists” is the same as a peaceful sit-in. Dr King specifically says he is trying to make friends with the whites of the south. The people ruining liberal rallies are in my opinion doing the opposite. The key is to marginalize that type of behavior. Deray and his tactics make him a far better national representative for their group. I understand that it’s probably tough to control all the the activists in all areas of the country.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:21:24am

Bryan thinks Ben Carson is a “Baby Killer”

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:21:43am

re: #502 Eventual Carrion

According to the Intertrons, Trump has 3.45 million followers on Twitter. That’s more than any other Republican candidate.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:22:24am

re: #507 Higgs Boson’s Mate

According to the Intertrons, Trump has 3.45 million followers on Twitter. That’s more than any other Republican candidate.

How many are bought bots?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:23:19am

re: #506 The Vicious Babushka

Bryan thinks Ben Carson is a “Baby Killer”

RU486 kills a fully grown fetus right after rape.

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Csarneson  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:23:31am

re: #508 The Vicious Babushka

They could all be real. It’s the Howard Stern phenomenon that somebody mentioned here a couple days ago. Everybody wants to see what he will say next.

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:23:46am

re: #503 The Vicious Babushka

“We’re one, but we’re not the same.”

U-2

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:23:49am

re: #505 Csarneson

That video is awesome.

I think there’s a false equivalence being made though. I don’t believe that the Seattle BLM leaders (it wasn’t published initially that they were only chapter leaders) shoving to the microphone and then insulting the crowd of liberals as “white supremacists” is the same as a peaceful sit-in. Dr King specifically says he is trying to make friends with the whites of the south. The people ruining liberal rallies are in my opinion doing the opposite. The key is to marginalize that type of behavior. Deray and his tactics make him a far better national representative for their group. I understand that it’s probably tough to control all the the activists in all areas of the country.

You are really stretching with “false equivalence”.
They are not talking about Seattle.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:24:12am

re: #508 The Vicious Babushka

How many are bought bots?

I don’t use Twitter. Does the service formally identify bots?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:26:34am

re: #503 The Vicious Babushka

Tie-dye dressalike? The magnitude of that Fashion Don’t just shrieks false flag.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:26:42am

re: #513 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I don’t use Twitter. Does the service formally identify bots?

There is some app that can analyze a Twitter feed and tell you how many followers are fake.

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:28:51am

re: #506 The Vicious Babushka

Sweet Lord, Bryan is really is what some people think satanists would be - the utter antithesis of the God of all that is good. Would that he were really, actually, born again. Then we would have seen a true miracle.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:29:28am

re: #503 The Vicious Babushka

Well, Twitty didn’t handle it too well himself:

“Gay racism”?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:29:46am

re: #515 The Vicious Babushka

There is some app that can analyze a Twitter feed and tell you how many followers are fake.

Thank you. That suggests to me that Trump’s followers may be mostly the real thing. One of his opponents would already be making hay if it could be proved that they were bots.

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Lidane  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:29:51am

LOLWUT:

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Csarneson  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:30:04am

re: #512 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yes and no. The national discussion the past week has been about all the tactics. The peaceful demonstrations have been overshadowed by the kid who was recently shot in ferguson and the rally disruptions of Bernie, Hillary, and Jeb. I suppose one group seeks to ignore the outliers while the other side seeks to focus on them. My preference is to get rid of the outliers so there isn’t that built-in distraction.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:30:49am
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:32:51am

Good morning Lizards and happy friday. I know it’s a bit of short notice but I joined my Company’s team to do a “Plane Pull” next week. The proceeds from donations are going to the Special Olympics. That being said, if anyone wants to donate, here’s the link to our page:

Donation Page

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BeachDem  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:33:24am

Aw, isn’t anybody paying attention to you, bro?

Saying he “has f*cking had it,” the organizer of an anti-Muslim protest in Phoenix — that failed spectacularly — has posted another video to Facebook ranting and screaming in the middle of the Arizona desert about an upcoming battle with Islam.

rawstory.com

What. A. Loser.

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:33:25am

re: #505 Csarneson

I see the troll is back.

Go home. Or we’ll have Dark Falcon fire up the grill where your bones will most appropriately lie.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:33:32am

re: #467 William Lewis

Which was #4.

I will never forgive that [multiple extreme expletives deleted.] for DEC. They were the best computer company that ever existed.

They were. I had friends who worked at DEC, and they loved it. Wouldn’t even consider working someplace else, and this was in the day where company hoping was considered a smart career move.

I guess it was once the hideous Carly came on the scene.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:34:04am

re: #517 Nyet

Well, Twitty didn’t handle it too well himself:

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“Gay racism”?

Yeah wtf.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:34:12am

re: #518 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Thank you. That suggests to me that Trump’s followers may be mostly the real thing. One of his opponents would already be making hay if it could be proved that they were bots.

Every once in a while someone does that analysis on the big names on Twitter. There are always bot followers.
I have no idea why bots would follow people, but they do.

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wrenchwench  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:34:30am

re: #517 Nyet

Well, Twitty didn’t handle it too well himself:

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“Gay racism”?

He usually knows what he’s talking about. I didn’t see the Guardian piece referenced.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:34:32am

re: #523 BeachDem

Aw, isn’t anybody paying attention to you, bro?

Saying he “has f*cking had it,” the organizer of an anti-Muslim protest in Phoenix — that failed spectacularly — has posted another video to Facebook ranting and screaming in the middle of the Arizona desert about an upcoming battle with Islam.

rawstory.com

What. A. Loser.

He needs to find a hobby. I suggest masturbation.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:35:38am

The ignorance is very bliss in this one:

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:36:15am

re: #528 wrenchwench

He usually knows what he’s talking about. I didn’t see the Guardian piece referenced.

I am not familiar with him but I don’t understand what he’s objecting to. Yeah they’re both skinny white dudes but I think he’s nic-picking. The message matters more than the photo being used.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:36:41am

re: #530 Dr. Matt

The ignorance is very bliss in this one:

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Busted.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:36:53am

re: #528 wrenchwench

“Gay racism” is up there with “black homophobia”, etc. Silly overgeneralizations. (And yes, I know Twitty is gay too.)

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:37:19am

re: #527 Backwoods_Sleuth

Every once in a while someone does that analysis on the big names on Twitter. There are always bot followers.
I have no idea why bots would follow people, but they do.

Fancy that. My first thought was that they could Turing Test to get rid of the bots. Then I realized that the RWNJs would fail it too.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:37:45am

re: #531 HappyWarrior

I am not familiar with him but I don’t understand what he’s objecting to. Yeah they’re both skinny white dudes but I think he’s nic-picking. The message matters more than the photo being used.

His objections are valid, and the dudes running that twitter, who called him a “body fascist”, are douches. That doesn’t excuse this particular turn of phrase.

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wrenchwench  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:38:27am

re: #531 HappyWarrior

I am not familiar with him but I don’t understand what he’s objecting to. Yeah they’re both skinny white dudes but I think he’s nic-picking. The message matters more than the photo being used.

As an illustration of an article about diversity, to have two guys who look like twins is funny.

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ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:38:28am

So, Hannity and Coulter are cool with The Donald™ changing political thinking from previous progressive stances to today’s bad ass conservative.

That must mean should TRUMP® do the political maneuver from hard-ass conservative to get the nomination to a more progressive moderate in the general election they’d have no problems with him.

I’m not saying Trump would do that, but I wouldn’t rule it out either. I don’t think you can trust a damn thing that comes out of his mouth and for sure no one has any idea what he would really do about anything except that it would be the greatest whatever ever.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:38:44am

re: #532 HappyWarrior

Busted.

Then she went on to claim they were collected from “spontaneous abortions” (i.e., miscarriages). I had a enough. Meet Mr. Block.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:38:59am

re: #536 wrenchwench

As an illustration of an article about diversity, to have two guys who look like twins is funny.

True.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:40:17am

re: #510 Csarneson

They could all be real. It’s the Howard Stern phenomenon that somebody mentioned here a couple days ago. Everybody wants to see what he will say next.

Did anyone notice that it was Stern who tipped off Trump about his Megyn Kelly interview.

And Sirius thinks having this total ass on it’s satellite is a reason I’d want to subscribe.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:40:27am

re: #535 Nyet

His objections are valid, and the dudes running that twitter, who called him a “body fascist”, are douches. That doesn’t excuse this particular turn of phrase.

Yeah I agree now that you guys explained it. Sorry had some other stuff on my mind. And yeah the body fascist comment is douchey.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:42:45am

re: #538 Dr. Matt

Then she went on to claim they were collected from “spontaneous abortions” (i.e., miscarriages). I had a enough. Meet Mr. Block.

It shouldn’t be long before Carson declares that his research was all a dream a la “Dallas.”

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:42:46am

This is freaking hilarious==>

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:44:02am

Yes Huck add me to your FairTaxers list

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:44:21am

LOL, way to get the working person’s vote:

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:44:56am

re: #460 WhatEVs

Except for her own revenue. She seemed to do pretty damned well (walked away with, what was it, $20+ million bucks) for totally fucking up a major company.

She was worth it ‘cause she worked harder than all the others at HP.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:45:41am

re: #543 The Vicious Babushka

re: #544 The Vicious Babushka

“Some animals will be taxed more fairly than others.”

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:46:05am

re: #544 The Vicious Babushka

Yes Huck add me to your FairTaxers list

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It’s ridiculously not fair and stupid in a strongly based consumer economy of ours. All it is and I know you already know this is a way of fucking the poor and middle class while the rich are uneffected. A poor family having to spend that much more on an automobile is going be much more negatively impacted by this tax than a rich family one. And Huckabee calls himself a “compassionate Christian conservative.” Yeah right.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:46:56am

re: #545 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL, way to get the working person’s vote:

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I don’t think anyone especially an autoworker wants to hear from a billionaire that they make too much money. If I had been that in that audience, you’d hear every curse word known to man.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:46:56am

re: #463 The Vicious Babushka

Scott Walker’s Obamacare replacement plan is a bunch of spam==>

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His health care plan is run by a Nigerian prince?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:47:15am

heh.
We were talking about accents downstairs:

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No Country For Old Haters  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:47:42am

re: #484 The Vicious Babushka

LOL Bryan Fischer cites Dim Jim
The Circle Of Derp is unbroken

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Lidane  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:48:11am
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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:48:21am

Now what Trump is doing there is real class warfare. Not the fake kind the GOP accuses Obama of doing when he suggests reasonable tax brackets or when liberals expect the rich to pay more in taxes than the rest of us but real genuine class warfare when a fucking billionaire is telling autoworkers they make too much.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:48:47am

re: #553 Lidane

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What will my Dad do? He’s allergic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:49:24am

re: #554 HappyWarrior

Now what Trump is doing there is real class warfare. Not the fake kind the GOP accuses Obama of doing when he suggests reasonable tax brackets or when liberals expect the rich to pay more in taxes than the rest of us but real genuine class warfare when a fucking billionaire is telling autoworkers they make too much.

He said U.S. automakers could shift production away from Michigan to communities where autoworkers would make less. “You can go to different parts of the United States and then ultimately you’d do full-circle — you’ll come back to Michigan because those guys are going to want their jobs back even if it is less,” Trump said. “We can do the rotation in the United States — it doesn’t have to be in Mexico.”

He said that after Michigan “loses a couple of plants — all of sudden you’ll make good deals in your own area.”

spit

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ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:50:05am

re: #531 HappyWarrior

I am not familiar with him but I don’t understand what he’s objecting to. Yeah they’re both skinny white dudes but I think he’s nic-picking. The message matters more than the photo being used.

Ha! Love that Happy…nic-picking.

But for your education that would be “nit” picking. Once you see the definition of nit you’ll understand the phrase.

nit
nit/Submit
noun
the egg or young form of a louse or other parasitic insect, especially the egg of a head louse attached to a human hair.

Carry on!

: )

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:51:02am

re: #553 Lidane

Anyone else remember these?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:51:02am

re: #556 Backwoods_Sleuth

spit

The sad part is BWS is that this kind of crap is actually endearing to the GOP base. They love hearing from a wealthy guy that other people make too much money. One day it’s teachers, today’s punching bag are the people who make the vehicles that we depend on to get from place to place.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:51:31am

An Ockham church is an empty building. Just sayin’ :)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:51:41am

re: #519 Lidane

Oh good fucking grief.

Everyone here knows I’m Christian. If I have a son, do I care if he plays with dolls sometimes? No. If I have a daughter do I care if she wants a remote control car or Avengers action figures? No, because I believe in letting kids be kids. Now there are limits of course, I wouldn’t want a 7 year old son of mine wearing a dress everywhere but as far as toys go? I could not care less.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:51:47am

re: #557 ObserverArt

Ha! Love that Happy…nic-picking.

But for your education that would be “nit” picking. Once you see the definition of nit you’ll understand the phrase.

nit
nit/Submit
noun
the egg or young form of a louse or other parasitic insect, especially the egg of a head louse attached to a human hair.

Carry on!

: )

Oops it is nitpicking. As I said, I was distracted by another thought. Damn you ADHD.

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:52:00am

re: #548 HappyWarrior

Huckabee is an evil little sh*t.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:53:09am

re: #562 HappyWarrior

Good to have thoughts to be distracted by them.

Something Sarah Palin will never experience.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:54:29am

re: #559 HappyWarrior

spit

The sad part is BWS is that this kind of crap is actually endearing to the GOP base. They love hearing from a wealthy guy that other people make too much money. One day it’s teachers, today’s punching bag are the people who make the vehicles that we depend on to get from place to place.

The thing is, when you’re dealing with a bunch of people who are primarily concerned with their corporate and personal profit margins, they’re going to be wildly in favor of any idea or concept that nets them bigger paydays.

It’s the American corporate model: Fuck the environment, fuck the government, fuck the workers, fuck the law, fuck anything that gets in the way of us making money.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:54:52am

re: #563 William Lewis

Huckabee is an evil little sh*t.

He is I think one of the worst people running for the job. Combine his genuine homophobia, his support for Josh Duggar even after the abuse allegations came out, and presto you got a perfect Christofascist in old Huck.

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No Country For Old Haters  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:55:23am

re: #561 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh good fucking grief.

Everyone here knows I’m Christian. If I have a son, do I care if he plays with dolls sometimes? No. If I have a daughter do I care if she wants a remote control car or Avengers action figures? No, because I believe in letting kids be kids. Now there are limits of course, I wouldn’t want a 7 year old son of mine wearing a dress everywhere but as far as toys go? I could not care less.

You’re clearly not the right kind of far-right-wing Christianist. You’ll be lucky if they don’t burn you for heresy right after they finish with the atheists.

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Mike Lamb  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:56:10am

re: #484 The Vicious Babushka

LOL Bryan Fischer cites Dim Jim
The Circle Of Derp is unbroken

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And Clinton didn’t inhale.

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b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:56:55am

I wonder which one of Dr. Ben’s honorable opponents dished out the fetal tissue little factoid to the media?

Of course the wingnuts are blaming the librul media but c’mon. Really now.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:57:19am

re: #567 No Country For Old Haters

You’re clearly not the right kind of far-right-wing Christianist. You’ll be lucky if they don’t burn you for heresy right after they finish with the atheists.

I think they may even hate liberal Christians even more than they do skeptics.

571
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:57:53am

re: #569 b.d.

I wonder which one of Dr. Ben’s honorable opponents dished out the fetal tissue little factoid to the media?

Of course the wingnuts are blaming the librul media but c’mon. Really now.

Hmmmm I’d bet one of the holy roller types like Huckabee, Cruz, or Paul.

572
Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:59:43am

I hope none of you have anything planned for Sept 23 (and beyond).

ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SATAN WILL RECEIVE FULL REIGN OVER THE WORLD!

I received confirmation that on September 23rd, 2015 Satan is going to get his full, unrestrained reign over the whole world that’s spoken of in the Book of Revelation!

THINGS HAVE BEEN ACCELLERATING, BUT YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET, PEOPLE! TIME IS SHORT! GET RIGHT WITH GOD. Jesus is the only way anyone is going to get through what’s coming on the whole earth.

For decades, movies, television, music, and even some politicians, have cryptically been hinting at the dates on or around September 23, 2015.

anonymousmags.com

Skeptical? Well just go check out his list of movies and tv shows that will spell it out for you.

573
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 9:59:45am

Apologies to Michael Twitty. Understand the point he was trying to make now about that infographic. Got distracted with another task.

574
Kragar  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:00:09am

re: #570 HappyWarrior

I think they may even hate liberal Christians even more than they do skeptics.

575
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:00:13am

re: #553 Lidane

His son, Jay Bakker, is actually pretty progressive. Has a ministry of some kind.

576
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:00:19am

re: #572 Skip Intro

I hope none of you have anything planned for Sept 23 (and beyond).

ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SATAN WILL RECEIVE FULL REIGN OVER THE WORLD!

anonymousmags.com

Skeptical? Well just go check out his list of movies and tv shows that will spell it out for you.

Well now I know when I’m starting work.

577
b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:00:22am

re: #571 HappyWarrior

Hmmmm I’d bet one of the holy roller types like Huckabee, Cruz, or Paul.

Huck really is the sleaziest of the bunch and he does have the most religious zealots in his hip pocket. That’d be my guess too.

578
Franklin  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:00:22am

Oooops. Jeb!

579
ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:00:51am

re: #565 Eclectic Cyborg

The thing is, when you’re dealing with a bunch of people who are primarily concerned with their corporate and personal profit margins, they’re going to be wildly in favor of any idea or concept that nets them bigger paydays.

It’s the American corporate model: Fuck the environment, fuck the government, fuck the workers, fuck the law, fuck anything that gets in the way of us making money. I get mine…fuck you!

You could have saved some key strokes.

580
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:00:53am

re: #572 Skip Intro

I hope none of you have anything planned for Sept 23 (and beyond).

ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SATAN WILL RECEIVE FULL REIGN OVER THE WORLD!

anonymousmags.com

Skeptical? Well just go check out his list of movies and tv shows that will spell it out for you.

Glenn Beck, is that you?

581
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:01:08am

re: #575 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

His son, Jay Bakker, is actually pretty progressive. Has a ministry of some kind.

It is always interesting to me to see how many prominent right winger’s children are totally different from their parents.

582
Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:01:12am

It gives me an inordinate amount of pleasure in these troubled times to see that the GOPs Eleventh Commandment has been blown to smithereens.

583
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:01:31am

re: #577 b.d.

Huck really is the sleaziest of the bunch and he does have the most religious zealots in his hip pocket. That’d be my guess too.

Yeah I don’t see it being Bush, Walker, or Trump.

584
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:01:55am

re: #569 b.d.

I wonder which one of Dr. Ben’s honorable opponents dished out the fetal tissue little factoid to the media?

Of course the wingnuts are blaming the librul media but c’mon. Really now.

It was released by that slutty prochoicer woman doctor who kills babies!!!!

585
The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:02:06am

re: #569 b.d.

I wonder which one of Dr. Ben’s honorable opponents dished out the fetal tissue little factoid to the media?

Of course the wingnuts are blaming the librul media but c’mon. Really now.

It might have been actual LIBRUL journalisming. Come on, no wingnut could translate that SCIENCY lingo.

586
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:02:32am

re: #578 Franklin

Oooops. Jeb!

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His whole campaign to me tells me that Jeb is confused about a lot of things. This isn’t his grandfather or father or even his brother’s GOP anymore where if you can present yourself as somewhat sane, you get by.

587
Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:02:56am

re: #580 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

It’s multiple sourced, too.

beforeitsnews.com

truthlamp.com

588
The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:03:42am

re: #572 Skip Intro

I hope none of you have anything planned for Sept 23 (and beyond).

ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SATAN WILL RECEIVE FULL REIGN OVER THE WORLD!

anonymousmags.com

Skeptical? Well just go check out his list of movies and tv shows that will spell it out for you.

It’s my sister’s birthday. Last year I sent her an Amazon giftcard which she never acknowledged although she cashed it. So this year I’ll send her an emoji.

589
Snarknado!  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:04:09am

re: #572 Skip Intro

I hope none of you have anything planned for Sept 23 (and beyond).

ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SATAN WILL RECEIVE FULL REIGN OVER THE WORLD!

anonymousmags.com

Skeptical? Well just go check out his list of movies and tv shows that will spell it out for you.

That’s the day I return from my vacation. Looks like I won’t have to unpack.

590
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:04:32am

re: #588 The Vicious Babushka

It’s my sister’s birthday. Last year I sent her an Amazon giftcard which she never acknowledged although she cashed it. So this year I’ll send her an emoji.

It’s my stepfather’s birthday.
He died four years ago.
Maybe he’s coming back!

591
Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:04:41am

re: #585 The Vicious Babushka

It might have been actual LIBRUL journalisming. Come on, no wingnut could translate that SCIENCY lingo.

“This one smells of Science! And, what else smells of Science?”
“A duck! A duck!”
etc.

592
bratwurst  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:04:43am

Somebody is getting desperate. Who could have guessed 9 days ago that attacking Fiorina would be a way to get attention?

593
The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:05:09am

re: #590 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s my stepfather’s birthday.
He died four years ago.
Maybe he’s coming back!

Satan is your stepfather?

I don’t want to meet your mom.

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b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:05:18am

re: #585 The Vicious Babushka

It might have been actual LIBRUL journalisming. Come on, no wingnut could translate that SCIENCY lingo.

It could have been one of those supposedly educated wingnuts from The National Review or something!? They’re always bragging about being able to read and stuff.

595
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:05:33am

re: #593 The Vicious Babushka

Satan is your stepfather?

I don’t want to meet your mom.

:D

596
b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:05:59am

re: #593 The Vicious Babushka

Satan is your stepfather?

I don’t want to meet your mom.

Rosemary

597
makeitstop  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:06:19am

re: #490 Eventual Carrion

First thing a friend of mine would do when we went to Canada on our fishing trips was buy Cuban cigars as soon as he could after we cleared the border.

I went to a guitar shop while I was there (because of course I went to a guitar shop!) and was talking to the owner, and I asked him about how getting guitars out of Canada goes.

He said there was no problem, and the only thing I could buy and not take back into the US was Cuban cigars.

That’s got to be one of the most stupid and petty laws ever.

598
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:07:14am

re: #594 b.d.

It could have been one of those supposedly educated wingnuts from The National Review or something!? They’re always bragging about being able to read and stuff.

That actually wouldn’t surprise me. NRO’s in the bank for whoever the establishment is so a guy like Carson who they probably feel “sullies the good name of conservatism” with his whacky shit being kneecapped to Jeb, Walker, or Rubio’s benefit would be fine with them.

599
Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:07:45am

re: #593 The Vicious Babushka

Satan is your stepfather?

I don’t want to meet your mom.

I’m pretty certain that I dated a couple of Satan’s daughters. On purpose.

600
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:08:25am

re: #599 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m pretty certain that I dated a couple of Satan’s daughters. On purpose.

Little hellions huh.

601
The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:08:33am

re: #599 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m pretty certain that I dated a couple of Satan’s daughters. On purpose.

What happened when you broke up with them?

602
makeitstop  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:09:11am

re: #506 The Vicious Babushka

Bryan thinks Ben Carson is a “Baby Killer”

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Wasn’t he just defending Carson earlier in this thread?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:09:34am

re: #592 bratwurst

Somebody is getting desperate. Who could have guessed 9 days ago that attacking Fiorina would be a way to get attention?

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Pataki’s been playing the Huntsman role. He attacked Huckabee for the anti-trans comments he made. Of course, Pataki doesn’t have a chance in hell.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:09:44am

re: #592 bratwurst

Somebody is getting desperate. Who could have guessed 9 days ago that attacking Fiorina would be a way to get attention?

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She didn’t actually run it. She ran it into the ground, a totally different thing.

605
Bass Reeves  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:10:40am

re: #520 Csarneson

The kid who was shot, I assume you are referring to Tyrone Harris, was not effing part of the BLM, and I can’t believe you actually tried to include him, as if it’s part of the BLM tactics.

Next, holy crap will you stop calling disrupting a rally ‘violent’? Yelling at a rally is not more violent than sitting at a lunch counter, it’s just louder.

And, if you actually watch the Dr. King on MTP video and all you came away with was that it was ‘awesome’, you need to go back, and actually listen to the questions they asked him and his response.

606
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:10:41am

re: #602 makeitstop

Wasn’t he just defending Carson earlier in this thread?

Yeah he called the bit about Carson’s medical research being released “liberal smears.” I think Bryan’s legit crazy.

607
Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:11:01am

re: #601 The Vicious Babushka

What happened when you broke up with them?

They were wonderful women. I saw one of them a few years ago and it was hugs. I met them during a time when I wasn’t interested in any woman who couldn’t frighten me with her intensity.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:12:46am

re: #530 Dr. Matt

The ignorance is very bliss in this one:

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“They” are lying to Megs.

609
ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:15:37am

We are gonna be in deep shit if the Black Lives Matter movement starts interrupting campaign rallies with drum lines!!!

(flashbacks…???)

610
retired cynic  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:15:38am

re: #559 HappyWarrior

spit

The sad part is BWS is that this kind of crap is actually endearing to the GOP base. They love hearing from a wealthy guy that other people make too much money. One day it’s teachers, today’s punching bag are the people who make the vehicles that we depend on to get from place to place.

NEVER PUNCH DOWN! (pardon the yelling! - grumble, growl!)

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:16:56am

I’ll start being “upset” at BLM doing what they do when other people get more upset at the lack of prosecutions in the killing of unarmed people because the latter bothers me far more than some candidate getting butthurt.

612
Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:17:00am

re: #572 Skip Intro

Finally.

613
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:18:40am

re: #612 Nyet

Finally.

I’m sorry but there was a mistranslation, it wasn’t Satan, it was Stan. Hail Stan.

614
Romantic Heretic  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:19:42am

re: #565 Eclectic Cyborg

The thing is, when you’re dealing with a bunch of people who are primarily concerned with their corporate and personal profit margins, they’re going to be wildly in favor of any idea or concept that nets them bigger paydays.

It’s the American corporate model: Fuck the environment, fuck the government, fuck the workers, fuck the law, fuck anything that gets in the way of us making money.

Once again I will note how odd it is that the people who most oppose the Marxist analysis of capitalism work hardest to prove it true.

615
Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:20:14am

re: #572 Skip Intro

I hope none of you have anything planned for Sept 23 (and beyond).

ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SATAN WILL RECEIVE FULL REIGN OVER THE WORLD!

anonymousmags.com

Skeptical? Well just go check out his list of movies and tv shows that will spell it out for you.

Finally, seems like I have been waiting forever.

616
Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:28:48am

Time for new thread. This one’s getting old and threadbare.

617
b_sharp  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:28:49am

re: #572 Skip Intro

I hope none of you have anything planned for Sept 23 (and beyond).

ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SATAN WILL RECEIVE FULL REIGN OVER THE WORLD!

anonymousmags.com

Skeptical? Well just go check out his list of movies and tv shows that will spell it out for you.

That’s a bad day for me, I have a doctor’s appointment. Can we make it the 25th instead?

618
b_sharp  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:29:14am

re: #616 Blind Frog Belly White

Time for new thread. This one’s getting old and threadbare.

I hadn’t noticed.

619
Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:29:54am

re: #614 Romantic Heretic

Once again I will note how odd it is that the people who most oppose the Marxist analysis of capitalism work hardest to prove it true.

The ‘fuck everything but profit’ is an inherent part of Capitalism. That’s why it’s best used as a tool, not a belief system.

620
ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:31:31am

Satan! Coming in September?

I wonder if he’ll be using the Louis Cyphre name?

Anyone remember that name from this movie? A movie that I thought was pretty damn good, got great reviews but didn’t do well at the theaters. Not sure why. Heck of a cast, great photography, etc.

…

621
Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:31:34am

re: #599 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m pretty certain that I dated a couple of Satan’s daughters. On purpose.

One Sunday at the Baptist church, everyone was in their pews praying. The door bursts open and Satan walks in spitting fire and commanding thunder. The congregation is in terror and running everywhere trying to get away from the mayhem, except for one old man in the front pew. Satan stalks up to the man and demands, “Do you not know who I am? Do you not shudder in my presence?”. The old man looks up at him and says, “Why should I? I’ve been married to your sister for 55 years.”

622
Franklin  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:32:05am

re: #605 Bass Reeves

Yelling at a rally is not more violent than sitting at a lunch counter, it’s just louder.

Needs to be a bumper sticker.

623
darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:33:10am

re: #578 Franklin

Oooops. Jeb!

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I really don’t think he wanted to be in this race from the beginning.

624
makeitstop  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:33:16am

re: #606 HappyWarrior

Yeah he called the bit about Carson’s medical research being released “liberal smears.” I think Bryan’s legit crazy.

Covering all the bases, I’m guessing.

625
Lidane  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:33:21am
626
The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:33:55am

LOL Dana Muhgunz I don’t remember that ever happening.

627
Romantic Heretic  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:34:15am

re: #625 Lidane

That’s going to turn out well.

628
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:34:56am

re: #620 ObserverArt

Satan! Coming in September?

I wonder if he’ll be using the Louis Cyphre name?

Anyone remember that name from this movie? A movie that I thought was pretty damn good, got great reviews but didn’t do well at the theaters. Not sure why. Heck of a cast, great photography, etc.

Angel Heart (1/10) Movie CLIP - Remember the Name Johnny Favourite? (1987) HD

One of my favorites, no pun intended.

Recently read the book, which followed the movie, or visa versa, pretty well, except all the action takes place in NYC, or thereabouts.

629
The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:35:01am

Do not taunt Happy Fun Bear!

630
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:36:12am

re: #626 The Vicious Babushka

LOL Dana Muhgunz I don’t remember that ever happening.

We has all the respectful dialogue and questions and here is PP video showing they chop babies in bits and sell parts for big moneys!!!1

631
Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:37:25am

re: #625 Lidane

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This will all end in tears.

632
ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:37:53am

re: #623 darthstar

I really don’t think he wanted to be in this race from the beginning.

He sure gives that impression doesn’t he? He can’t seem to say any of his big zinger lines without totally muddling them up and killing any of the zing (as lame as they often are). And he always looks uncomfortable as if going through the motions.

I really wonder what his motivation is, if he has anything beyond this is what the Bush boys do.

633
Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:38:30am

Meanwhile Russian Orthodox Christian activists have just made a pogrom at an art exhibition in the center of Moscow.

634
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:39:04am

re: #631 Blind Frog Belly White

This will all end in tears.

Apparently, no matter what people with real life experience say…
635
jaunte  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:39:11am

re: #625 Lidane

“It wasn’t immediately known what the man was trying to accomplish.”

Later on, it remained mysterious.

636
Kragar  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:40:16am

re: #635 jaunte

…

637
The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:40:51am

BEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

638
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:40:56am

re: #632 ObserverArt

He sure gives that impression doesn’t he? He can’t seem to say any of his big zinger lines without totally muddling them up and killing any of the zing (as lame as they often are). And he always looks uncomfortable as if going through the motions.

I really wonder what his motivation is, if he has anything beyond this is what the Bush boys do.

Future speaking fees and maybe books.

639
lawhawk  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:41:14am

re: #634 Backwoods_Sleuth

Go grab a towel.

640
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:42:31am

re: #639 lawhawk

Go grab a towel.

never leave home without it

641
makeitstop  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:44:33am

re: #638 Backwoods_Sleuth

Future speaking fees and maybe books.

His wife told him to get out of the house and do something, so…

642
Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:45:25am

re: #553 Lidane
“Televangelist Jim Bakker: Buy horses before God sends EMP attack as a punishment for gay marriage”

Funny as hell it he smites with hoof-and-mouth.

643
Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:45:42am

re: #637 The Vicious Babushka

BEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

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There’s actually a sign like that? Wow. Just, wow.

Smallpox - eradicated.

Polio, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Whooping Cough - before the Anti-vaxxers arose, how many people in America were getting those diseases?

644
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:45:50am

Marco Ricky Rubio says Obama don’t stand on side of Freedom!

news.yahoo.com

Also, Rubio would outlaw abortion and SSM.

645
#FergusonFireside  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:46:06am

Trump’s giving helicopter rides in Iowa.

646
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:46:10am

re: #637 The Vicious Babushka

BEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

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Brilliant.

647
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:46:53am
648
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:47:43am

re: #647 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He really wants to do that black genocide crap doesn’t he?

649
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:48:26am

re: #644 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Marco Ricky Rubio says Obama don’t stand on side of Freedom!

news.yahoo.com

Also, Rubio would outlaw abortion and SSM.

Yeah the Waterboy is one to fucking talk about freedom. Marco’s pretty dead set against civil unions too IIRC.

650
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:49:09am

re: #648 HappyWarrior

He really wants to do that black genocide crap doesn’t he?

Obama is genociding al the blacks except for all the blacks he’s making vote illegally.
///

651
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:49:36am

re: #645 #FergusonFireside

Trump’s giving helicopter rides in Iowa.

What could go wrong?

652
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:50:01am

ah, jeez….

653
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:53:35am

Got a letter……………..from myself ten years ago. Makes me feel a little happy and sad. I’ve succeeded in some and disappointed in others. I’ve mostly succeeded though so I guess I can’t be too disappointed. Best part though was me saying I’d still have shitty handwriting but I didn’t foresee that not mattering as much.

654
stpaulbear  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:53:52am

re: #644 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Marco Ricky Rubio says Obama don’t stand on side of Freedom!

news.yahoo.com

Also, Rubio would outlaw abortion and SSM.

But he’s the candidate for a new century!

655
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:55:59am

re: #654 stpaulbear

But he’s the candidate for a new century!

He likes rap so the kids know Marco is hip and with it.

656
The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:56:23am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

657
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:57:16am

re: #656 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

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She looks like she was just handed a gun by her son and told “Here ma pose with this gun for a second, I need it for something.”

658
The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:57:34am

So granny gotta shoot squirrels to stay alive? Who pays for her ammo?

659
Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:57:35am

re: #656 The Vicious Babushka

Do they mean that she will be able to commit suicide if things get bad and that’s her social security?

half-/

660
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:58:06am

re: #656 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

Hurr hurr Social Security welfare aint nothing all you need is gunz!!!!

661
jaunte  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:58:09am

re: #656 The Vicious Babushka

Can’t tell if they’re trying to get rid of Social Security or promote shotgun injuries for grannies.

662
HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:58:43am

re: #661 jaunte

Can’t tell if they’re trying to get rid of Social Security or promote shotgun injuries for grannies.

Seriously Grandma looks plain old confused.

663
ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:58:54am

re: #659 Nyet

Do they mean that she will be able to commit suicide if things get bad and that’s her social security?

half-/

DEATH PANELS!!!

664
lawhawk  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:58:56am

re: #656 The Vicious Babushka

She’s fallen and can’t get up? She’s sitting on the stairs? Can’t afford a chair? Seriously?

That gun will totally help when she needs diabetes meds, or pay for her housing/living costs, or other medical costs.

665
jaunte  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:59:19am

BOOOM

“I dislocated my shoulder and have no health insurance, but at least my kitchen has better ventilation now.”

666
Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:59:30am

Hail Stan!

667
#FergusonFireside  Aug 14, 2015 • 10:59:54am

re: #652 Backwoods_Sleuth

ah, jeez….

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That was a lovely read.

668
Kragar  Aug 14, 2015 • 11:00:01am

re: #656 The Vicious Babushka

669
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 11:01:31am

re: #667 #FergusonFireside

That was a lovely read.

Then you’ll really like this, a piece Tom wrote about The Bear a few years ago:
theguardian.com

670
m0nkeyb0y  Aug 14, 2015 • 11:07:55am

re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth

Americans conservatives sputter because Obama causes our former enemies to display the American flag with smiles and gratitude, while the Bush-Cheney regime caused current allies to burn and stomp it in the street.

671
Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 11:17:45am

re: #640 Backwoods_Sleuth

never leave home without it

Wanna burn one?

672
Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2015 • 11:19:38am

re: #656 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

[Embedded content]

She is going to rob grocery stores for food?

673
Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2015 • 11:28:33am

re: #666 Nyet

Hail Stan!

Did someone say Stan?

674
CuriousLurker  Aug 14, 2015 • 12:04:50pm

re: #261 Teukka

Yeah, but in this day and age? O.O

*smh*

That’s the second one I’m aware of—this week.

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danarchy  Aug 14, 2015 • 1:31:06pm

re: #467 William Lewis

Which was #4.

Before that she almost destroyed Lucent.
Destroyed DEC.
Destroyed Compaq.

I will never forgive that [multiple extreme expletives deleted.] for DEC. They were the best computer company that ever existed.

Wasn’t DEC done and gone before Carly got near it?


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