Overnight Podcast: The Bubble Genius Bob and Chez Show, 9/3/15

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Tonight’s program, for your enjoyment:

American Reporter in America: Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Becomes an Anti-Gay Martyr; Huckabee, Cruz and Eric Erickerick Rush to Davis’ Defense; Rand Paul’s App is Spying on You; Trump Attacks Jeb Bush for Speaking Spanish; Fox News Channel’s Brian Kilmeade is Totally Confused by Spanish; Bernie Sanders’ Surprising Opinion on Drones; The New Biblical Assault Rifle; Trump Signs Irrelevant Loyalty Pledge; Chris Christie Bullies Little Girl; and much more.

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469 comments
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Lidane  Sep 3, 2015 • 8:52:55pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 8:55:29pm

Such nice, articulate people.

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allegro  Sep 3, 2015 • 9:09:23pm

I’m thinking that we don’t have long before something real bad blows here. Between the religious zealots being engorged by GOP presidential candidates, the RWNJ media with a couple of decades of demonizing “them”, and our fetish level gun culture, there’s a real ugly toxic mix brewing. I’m feeling some bad bloody darkness approaching. The scariest thing about the way I’m feeling is that I’m pretty sure it isn’t just paranoia.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 3, 2015 • 9:09:29pm

re: #2 teleskiguy

P’raps the wily press plied Mr. Davis with Everclear in order to loosen his tongue.

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Kragar  Sep 3, 2015 • 9:27:21pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 9:28:42pm

re: #4 Higgs Boson’s Mate

P’raps the wily press plied Mr. Davis with Everclear in order to loosen his tongue.

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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 9:38:05pm
Hugh Hewitt: You know that stuff. You know every developer in Manhattan. You know everything about building buildings. You could build the wall. I have no doubt about that.

Donald Trump: Right. By the way, and nobody knows how easy that would be. And I mean, it would be, it would be tall, it would be powerful, we would make it very good looking. It would be as good as a wall’s got to be, and people will not be climbing over that wall, believe me.

hughhewitt.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 3, 2015 • 9:45:55pm

re: #7 teleskiguy

hughhewitt.com, it would be tall, it would be powerful, we would make it very good looking.

Sounds like a superhero, not a wall.

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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 9:52:10pm

re: #7 teleskiguy

The fact that a serious presidential candidate said this makes my head

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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 9:56:22pm

The whole damn Hugh Hewitt/Donald Trump interview is a mind fuck. Weapons-grade batshittery, non sequiturs galore, Donald Trump-level arrogance (Wait. Nevermind). My jaw stayed on the floor throughout the read.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 3, 2015 • 9:57:08pm

re: #1 Lidane

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Love that picture!

The first time we saw Grand Nagus Zek, I remember thinking: “Man, that looks like Wallace Shawn!” Then I thought: “Well, show me a Ferengi who doesn’t look like Wallace Shawn—then we’ll talk.” Turns out was him, though.

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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:01:37pm
Hugh Hewitt: Okay, looking to Asia, if China were to either accidentally or intentionally sink a Filipino or Japanese ship, what would Commander-In-Chief Donald Trump do in response?

Donald Trump: I wouldn’t want to tell you, because frankly, they have to, you know, somebody wrote a very good story about me recently, and they said there’s a certain unpredictable, and it was actually another businessman, said there’s a certain unpredictability about Trump that’s great, and it’s what made him a lot of money and a lot of success. You don’t want to put, and you don’t want to let people know what you’re going to do with respect to certain things that happen. You don’t want the other side to know. I don’t want to give you an answer to that. If I win, and I’m leading in every single poll, if I win, I don’t want people to know exactly what I’m going to be doing.

HH: Fair response. Good response.

30% in the polls of likely Republican primary voters.

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KGxvi  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:05:20pm

re: #12 teleskiguy

Half of that question is crazy… China wouldn’t intentionally sink a Japanese or Filipino ship because that would be an act of war and likely the start of WWIII.

As for Trump’s response, he might as well have said “fuck if I know”

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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:07:11pm
Donald Trump: I’m very, very pro-2nd Amendment. And if you want to ask that [definition of an assault rifle], I would go to the experts. All I can tell you is that I am totally a 2nd Amendment person, and totally in favor of not doing anything.
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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:13:04pm
Hugh Hewitt: All right, now President Obama is President Obama today, because when he ran for the United States Senate, his principle opponent, Jack Ryan, had divorce and custody records that had been sealed unsealed. Is there any smoking gun sealed away in records that could come out about Donald Trump down the road to destroy the Republican nominee after you’re the nominee, if you’re the nominee?

Donald Trump: No, I don’t think so, and I think one of the things you know about me, I’ve been a very public person. While I’m private, I’ve also been a very public person over many years. I mean, people know me. I’m very well known, and whether it’s the great success on The Apprentice, where it was one of the top shows on television for a long time, and by the way, NBC renewed it, and is not in love with the fact that I didn’t do it, but they renewed me for The Apprentice for many, many shows on The Apprentice, and you see the kind of money I made on The Apprentice, and I turned it down. I said I’m going to run for president, I’m going to make America great again. They were not happy that I did that, so they’re stuck in limbo. But they renewed The Apprentice. I didn’t do it. No, I think nothing. I’m a very public person, even though I’m private. I think you have seen me, and long before we met and spoke, you’ve seen me, and you know exactly what I’m talking about. So I would say nothing.

I read it so you don’t have to!

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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:27:12pm

OK, I won’t bore the board with more asinine Donald Trump™ quotes from that depressingly amazing Hugh Hewitt interview.

Here’s an owl doing…something.

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Jenner7  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:30:49pm

Trump is pretty much saying he doesn’t know jack, but he’ll find the very best people to do his thinking for him.

That’s not the kind of President I want. Yikes.

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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:34:39pm

Anchorman - After Credits Scene

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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:36:25pm

Good question.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:38:15pm

re: #7 teleskiguy

hughhewitt.com

“You are smart. YOU MAKE STRONG!”

“HURRR! STRONG! STRONG SMASH!”

God almighty, what the fuck is happening to this country?

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Charles Johnson  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:39:35pm

Jim Hoft just lets his hypocrisy hang out all over the place.

thegatewaypundit.com

Trump did not know the terror leaders with their repective Islamist organization.
So what.

Yeah! So what!

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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:39:50pm

re: #20 Pawn of the Oppressor

“You are smart. YOU MAKE STRONG!”

“HURRR! STRONG! STRONG SMASH!”

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Charles Johnson  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:41:18pm

So what if Trump not know repective terror leaders? Who is care?

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Charles Johnson  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:44:14pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 3, 2015 • 10:46:37pm

re: #1 Lidane

[Trump for Grand Nagus]

Needs more hair in the ears.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 3, 2015 • 11:00:45pm

Google’s algorithm is so fucking broken.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 3, 2015 • 11:05:48pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

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*Fewer.

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teleskiguy  Sep 3, 2015 • 11:29:23pm

Roy Buchanan - Mrs. Pressure.wmv

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teleskiguy  Sep 4, 2015 • 12:05:07am
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piratedan  Sep 4, 2015 • 12:07:41am

re: #29 teleskiguy

man, it’s amazing to watch these guys rewrite American history right before our very eyes. It’s as if every dumbass that ever failed junior high civics is running for office for the GOP.

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teleskiguy  Sep 4, 2015 • 12:12:41am

re: #30 piratedan

man, it’s amazing to watch these guys rewrite American history right before our very eyes. It’s as if every dumbass that ever failed junior high civics is running for office for the GOP.

Mind blowing. I have a feeling we’re witnessing a complete and utter collapse of a major political party in the United States. They’re very quickly relegating themselves to a regional and racial (white) political party. That won’t work in big general elections. I’m hoping for enthusiastic and blatant marginalization of the Republican Party as we know it today. Democratic Party electoral sweep, anyone?

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teleskiguy  Sep 4, 2015 • 12:26:08am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 4, 2015 • 12:30:18am

re: #32 teleskiguy

I find it very amusing that most of the judges who have handed down rulings contrary to conservative desires have all been appointed by Republican presidents. The judge who shot down Intelligent Design in Dover, DE, was also a Republican appointee.

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teleskiguy  Sep 4, 2015 • 12:44:24am

Not sure where I read this, but I like it.

The fact that there is a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic load.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 4, 2015 • 12:57:27am

re: #11 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Love that picture!

The first time we saw Grand Nagus Zek, I remember thinking: “Man, that looks like Wallace Shawn!” Then I thought: “Well, show me a Ferengi who doesn’t look like Wallace Shawn—then we’ll talk.” Turns out was him, though.

Years ago, when I saw Star Trek III, I kept having this feeling that the Klingon antagonist, Kruge, was somehow eerily familiar. It was his voice.

Then after I left the theater, I was all like, “Holy Crap! That was Reverend Jim from Taxi!!”

LOL

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 4, 2015 • 1:00:43am

re: #35 Dr Lizardo

Years ago, when I saw Star Trek III, I kept having this feeling that the Klingon antagonist, Kruge, was somehow eerily familiar. It was his voice.

Then after I left the theater, I was all like, “Holy Crap! That was Reverend Jim from Taxi!!”

LOL

And his second-in-command was John Larroquette. Dan Fielding from Night Court.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 4, 2015 • 1:06:30am

re: #36 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

And his second-in-command was John Larroquette. Dan Fielding from Night Court.

Yep. Two actors, better known for their comedic skills, playing sci-fi antagonists and doing pretty damn well at it.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 4, 2015 • 1:35:36am

re: #34 teleskiguy

Not sure where I read this, but I like it.

The fact that there is a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic load.

Reminds me of this charming video:
Hazmat Highway to [HAZMAT] Hell

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 4, 2015 • 2:10:47am

re: #37 Dr Lizardo

Yep. Two actors, better known for their comedic skills, playing sci-fi antagonists and doing pretty damn well at it.

Being covered in heavy duty facial prostheses is a good way to conceal your identity, if you’re an actor trying to break away from comedic roles.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 2:57:09am

re: #31 teleskiguy

Mind blowing. I have a feeling we’re witnessing a complete and utter collapse of a major political party in the United States. They’re very quickly relegating themselves to a regional and racial (white) political party. That won’t work in big general elections. I’m hoping for enthusiastic and blatant marginalization of the Republican Party as we know it today. Democratic Party electoral sweep, anyone?

Only if we bust our humps to make it happen. In 2016 we are going to experience every crooked strategem that damn-near-infinite money can buy. The TPGOP is going to make the Brooks Brothers rioters look like a highschool civics class.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 4, 2015 • 3:09:11am

re: #40 Decatur Deb

Only if we bust our humps to make it happen. In 2016 we are going to experience every crooked strategem that damn-near-infinite money can buy. The TPGOP is going to make the Brooks Brothers rioters look like a highschool civics class.

Busting our humps might not be good enough. I fully expect, even with all the voter suppression and intimidation, for Hillary (presumably) to win a decisive, maybe even YOOGE Popular Vote victory. There are so many plans afoot to pull some kind of Electoral Vote jiggery-pokery that I’m not sure we can count on her taking office.

Absent trickery like that, no Democrat is going to lose the Kerry map, and add any one of Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, or Florida and that’s it. But now suppose the Wisconsin or Illinois or Michigan Legislatures decide to give all their Electoral Votes to the GOP? Or hand them out by (gerrymandered) Legislative Districts?

The Hell of it is, it’s probably legal. Would people rise up after seeing their candidate win by 10 points and having the other guy take office? Why didn’t they in 2000? What’s the numerical cutoff? I don’t know.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 3:17:46am

re: #41 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Busting our humps might not be good enough. I fully expect, even with all the voter suppression and intimidation, for Hillary (presumably) to win a decisive, maybe even YOOGE Popular Vote victory. There are so many plans afoot to pull some kind of Electoral Vote jiggery-pokery that I’m not sure we can count on her taking office.

Absent trickery like that, no Democrat is going to lose the Kerry map, and add any one of Oho, Virginia, North Carolina, or Florida and that’s it. But now suppose the Wisconsin or Illinois or Michigan Legislatures decide to give all their Electoral Votes to the GOP? Or hand them out by (gerrymandered) Legislative Districts?

The Hell of it is, it’s probably legal. Would people rise up after seeing their candidate win by 10 points and having the other guy take office? Why didn’t they in 2000? What’s the numerical cutoff? I don’t know.

The only hope is to place the election out of stealable range. The Kardashian Generation isn’t rising for shit. Technology is slamming the door on the romantic revolutions, at least in the first world.

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 3:34:42am

re: #31 teleskiguy

Wishful thinking that can get decent folks into a world of hurt. GOTV and lots of other hard unglamorous work might make it happen in a decade or so.

Just look at how deeply the barbarians are entrenched into the Wisconsin state government for the reality.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 3:39:47am

re: #43 William Lewis

Wishful thinking that can get decent folks into a world of hurt. GOTV and lots of other hard unglamorous work might make it happen in a decade or so.

Just look at how deeply the barbarians are entrenched into the Wisconsin state government for the reality.

A year ago the Alabama Democratic party headquarters couldn’t pay its phone bill.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 4:34:38am

The Al Gore Macarena

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 4:39:47am

Here is my granddaughter showing how to make cream puffs.
How to make cream puffs

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 4:52:29am

re: #15 teleskiguy

I read it so you don’t have to!

Basically, no matter what question Donald Trump is asked, he will give the same canned answer to everything which is “I’m so great, I’m so rich, I know all these people, blah blah blah” repeated over and over and over.

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A Mom Anon  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:11:01am

re: #47 The Vicious Babushka

That and he seriously believes that he can just order his hand picked employees to do stuff and they’ll just magically get it done. Like the US is a company and he’s the CEO. He’s so used to people never telling him no, never standing up to him and giving orders that he really believes his say so can override anything he doesn’t like. Throw in his thin skinned bullying at any perceived insult and well, I shudder to think what would come of this blustering buffoon in the White House. God help us.

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Doofus  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:18:23am

It is a beautiful day in upstate New York today, I think I will go sit on an Indian.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:21:36am

re: #48 A Mom Anon

That and he seriously believes that he can just order his hand picked employees to do stuff and they’ll just magically get it done. Like the US is a company and he’s the CEO.

And when Congress overrides his vetoes, he will just fire them…

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:26:28am

So there’s English booty and there’s German Beute.

The always helpful wiktionary tells us:

From Middle English buty, botye, from Middle Dutch buet or Middle Low German būte, buite ‎(“exchange, booty”); akin to Old French butin ‎(“booty”), from the same Germanic source. Cognate with German Beute ‎(“booty”), Swedish byte ‎(“booty”), Icelandic býti ‎(“exchange, barter”).

I wonder though if it’s also related to Russian dobycha (which means more or less the same thing), dobyt’, where do is a prefix.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:26:38am

Butthurt

BOOM!

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:28:04am

re: #52 Dr. Matt

Did they iron out that problem the judge hinted at? That without her sig it could be legally void or something.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:28:45am

re: #53 Nyet

Did they iron out that problem the judge hinted at? That without her sig it could be legally void or something.

Haven’t heard anything yet.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:29:36am

Here is Kim Davis’ fourth husband…

Klassy as expected.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:30:19am

re: #55 Dr. Matt

Is he also her second?

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Timothy Watson  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:30:43am

re: #52 Dr. Matt

Butthurt

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Her son, the deputy clerk, looks a little pissed.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:32:19am

re: #55 Dr. Matt

What happened in Sodom and Gomorrah is that when the only good person left it, he ignored his wife being turned into a pillar of salt and later got raped by his daughters for babies. They should think twice before applying such analogies.

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:33:00am

re: #56 Nyet

Is he also her second?

Yes, and he adopted the kids she had by her third while she was still married to her first.

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Tigger2  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:33:31am

re: #55 Dr. Matt

Here is Kim Davis’ fourth husband…

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Klassy as expected.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:33:31am

re: #56 Nyet

Is he also her second?

Yeah, I think so. Her marriage timeline is more complicated than a 25-sided rubik’s cube

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:35:40am

re: #59 darthstar

Yes, and he adopted the kids she had by her third while she was still married to her first.

Seems more and more like Lot’s family :)

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:36:28am

re: #58 Nyet

I prefer to sick Ezekiel 16:49 on twits like that.

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Tigger2  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:37:45am

re: #60 Tigger2

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Had to add this.

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:38:26am

re: #55 Dr. Matt

Here is Kim Davis’ fourth husband…
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Klassy as expected.

His buddy looks like he’s thinking about beer.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:39:08am

re: #63 William Lewis

Idiots who interpret S&G being about homosexuality (which is stated nowhere in the Bible) are implying that heterosexual gang rape would have been OK.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:40:43am

I don’t mean to shame her looks, buuuuuttttt:

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:41:01am

re: #64 Tigger2

Had to add this.

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Is that your twitter? Look who they paired you with.

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b.d.  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:41:22am

re: #65 darthstar

His buddy looks like he’s thinking about beer.

& nice to see that they got all dressed up for the cameras.

His buddy does look like he got snookered with a promise of beer and maybe some fishing.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:43:19am

re: #58 Nyet

What happened in Sodom and Gomorrah is that when the only good person left it, he ignored his wife being turned into a pillar of salt and later got raped by his daughters for babies. They should think twice before applying such analogies.

The sin of Sodom & Gomorrah was cruelty to the poor and homeless (which included raping wayfarers), not Teh Ghey Sexytimes.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:44:07am

re: #70 The Vicious Babushka

Basically.

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:45:00am

re: #69 b.d.

& nice to see that they got all dressed up for the cameras.

His buddy does look like he got snookered with a promise of beer and maybe some fishing.

Exactly. And he needs that paper back so his kid can use the other side for her science project at school (Kinds of bugs you can find in the kitchen).

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Tigger2  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:45:39am

re: #68 darthstar

Is that your twitter? Look who they paired you with.

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I consistently have to block random sites that follow me. But Mr T is a guy I know in London.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:45:42am

There’s also an early Christian interpretation that it was for lusting after the “strange flesh” - apparently for wanting to copulate with angels, which was a big no-no (last time angels had sex with earthlings resulted in giants roaming the earth).

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:46:18am

I make fun of rednecks because I grew up with them. And yes, we really did go to the truck pulls to watch Ford & Chevy guys fight in the parking lot.

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:51:21am
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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:51:22am

Of course the biblical definition of “good” may differ from ours. Those same daughters that raped their father were earlier offered by him for rape to a violent mob of perverts.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:52:51am

But the Bible is a book of timeless morality, or something.

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:53:17am
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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:55:47am

re: #79 darthstar

Have you, Ben Carson, ever been in a Turkish prison?

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 5:59:13am
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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:00:34am

oh, fuck it…go ahead

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:06:27am
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Belafon  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:09:17am

#83 darthstar:

So, he’s arguing that we are essentially a country that forces everyone to follow the state religion by not allowing somone to force everyone to follow her religion.

Got it.

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Belafon  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:11:14am

#84 Belafon:

Before anyone else chimes in, yes, I know I have simplified Iran a bit. They don’t force everyone to be Muslim. But they do have a state religion.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:11:19am

re: #83 darthstar

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Furthers my belief that right wingers just project anything they don’t like and think it must be the same. Kind of how they come to the conclusion that white supremacist Nazis and KKK members are liberals. No, Mr. Davis, your wife’s views and I assume yours on gay people would be accepted perfectly in Iran.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:13:23am

Speaking of Islam. I had to report a cousin today on facebook. Man I love the dude but he’s one of the worst Islamaphobes I know, he puts Pam Geller to shame and what’s even more frustrating is I can see in other cases that he’s a caring person. He’s also far from right wing too but he has a strong hatred of Muslims. Just frustrates me. It’s frustrating than reading people on Breitbart and those sites because this is someone you know and love.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:13:43am

re: #57 Timothy Watson

Her son, the deputy clerk, looks a little pissed.

Good, fuck him.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:14:18am

re: #76 darthstar

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I expect it to be under 5 by the time President Obama leaves office. Will he get any credit? Of course not.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:15:19am

re: #85 Belafon

#84 Belafon:

Before anyone else chimes in, yes, I know I have simplified Iran a bit. They don’t force everyone to be Muslim. But they do have a state religion.

To desimplify even more, there are democratic states that have state religions as an unfortunate vestige of the past, but which are still mostly secular in practice.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:16:20am

re: #90 Nyet

To desimplify even more, there are democratic states that have state religions as an unfortunate vestige of the past, but which are still mostly secular in practice.

The Scandinavian states and the UK right? Hard pressed to think of other examples at the moment.

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:17:43am
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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:18:47am

re: #91 HappyWarrior

The Scandinavian states and the UK right? Hard pressed to think of other examples at the moment.

Also Israel, sort of, but there the influence is more significant (look at the marriage issue).

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:18:57am

re: #92 darthstar

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Furies. Rolls eyes.

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Belafon  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:19:51am

90 Nyet:

True, but they are the ultimate leaders in Iran.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:20:57am

re: #95 Belafon

The word is theocracy.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:21:25am

re: #93 Nyet

Also Israel, sort of, but there the influence is more significant (look at the marriage issue).

Ah yes. Anyhow, I remember attending a guest lecture from a professor from Baylor University who talked about how in the West anyhow, not having an official state religion may actually increase church attendance since the citizenry isn’t required to pay taxes to any one church but he may have been ignoring certain factors that make the U.S a more religious society than Western European society. Forget the exact details since this was gosh close to eight years ago already.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:22:52am
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Romantic Heretic  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:23:05am

re: #20 Pawn of the Oppressor

“You are smart. YOU MAKE STRONG!”

“HURRR! STRONG! STRONG SMASH!”

God almighty, what the fuck is happening to this country?

It’s starting to realize that it is just a country and not the Anointed of God sent here to save the planet, or destroy it if it doesn’t wise up.

A lot of people don’t like that.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:23:19am

re: #98 The Vicious Babushka

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Waaant.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:25:10am

Def making a blueberry pie for Rosh Hashanah, along with the sour cream apple pound cake and the honey challah.

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Great White Snark  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:27:03am

Happy Friday at least to you all on my side of the dateline. Huffpo hit it out of the park again of the refugee crisis. So following on from yesterday,

They Call You a Refugee. I Call You Grandpa. Khazar Fatemi
Paged at littlegreenfootballs.com

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:32:08am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:32:10am

re: #102 Great White Snark

Happy Friday at least to you all on my side of the dateline. Huffpo hit it out of the park again of the refugee crisis. So following on from yesterday,

Goes to this page. Sounds like a great read though and a Happy Friday back at ya. I think the people dehumanizing these refugees don’t realize exactly that. They’re someone’s loved ones. My heart broke seeing that photo of that little boy yesterday.

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:33:33am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:34:35am

re: #103 Dr. Matt

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And of course Rand right on schedule again shows what a fake supporter of liberty he is. He ignores that Kim Davis is using her religious beliefs to get out of what is a secular position. If she were a pastor, he would have a case but she is an agent of the state of Kentucky. She can believe but what she wants to believe but she has to follow the laws of Kentucky and same sex marriage is LEGAL in Kentucky. By the way, Rand enjoy losing much?

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:35:37am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:37:09am

re: #107 Dr. Matt

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“Good at the military.” Gee Donald will you be “good with the money” too? Can’t believe how many people think this fraud would actually b a good president.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:37:37am

re: #105 darthstar

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Let us always remember this: The GOP demanded, demanded, that Mr. Donald Trump sign a pledge promising to not run an independent campaign for president, should he not gain the party’s nomination. The huuuuge candidate who will be very good at the military and the other stuff.

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Great White Snark  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:39:11am

re: #104 HappyWarrior

Whoops thanks. Link fixed. The nations that have profited and or meddled over there owe this debt. What with ISIS and the state of Syria and Iraq, it’s up to the rest of the world. Saw the post that shows Saudi has taken in zero refugees. Big +1 on that post.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:39:36am

re: #88 Eventual Carrion

Good, fuck him.

So the deputy son decided to follow the law anyway.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:40:18am

re: #111 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So the deputy son decided to follow the law anyway.

Reckon he didn’t want to go to jail, too.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:41:30am

re: #52 Dr. Matt

Butthurt

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Don’t these people have jobs?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:42:57am

re: #110 Great White Snark

Whoops thanks. Link fixed. The nations that have profited and or meddled over there owe this debt. What with ISIS and the state of Syria and Iraq, it’s up to the rest of the world. Saw the post that shows Saudi has taken in zero refugees. Big +1 on that post.

Agree, beautiful piece by Khazar. We definitely do and even if we didn’t, I still want to take them in since as a powerful nation, we do have an obligation I feel. The little kids by the way are adorable. I can’t help but to think of my little niece when I see a little kid anymore.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:43:03am

re: #55 Dr. Matt

Here is Kim Davis’ fourth husband…

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Klassy as expected.

“But I have no ill will…..”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:43:40am

re: #113 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Don’t these people have jobs?

Professionally Butthurt.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:44:45am

re: #32 teleskiguy

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Yes but Dana Gunz tell us this is good, or something because Kim Davis
Democrat Party but Huck thinks this is terrible. Conservalogic.

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Belafon  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:47:43am

#112 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate:

I believe he told the judge he wouldn’t issue licenses, but the judge decided not to put him in jail. I guess because the son is not the ultimate boss, and there are other clerks there.

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darthstar  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:51:50am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:53:40am

re: #118 Belafon

#112 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate:

I believe he told the judge he wouldn’t issue licenses, but the judge decided not to put him in jail. I guess because the son is not the ultimate boss, and there are other clerks there.

Nothing like consistency in a family.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:53:51am

re: #119 darthstar

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I am becoming convinced that Jeb isn’t going to last long. He doesn’t have his brother’s aw shucks charisma or the fortune his father had being the direct successor to Reagan.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:56:22am

re: #108 HappyWarrior

“Good at the military.” Gee Donald will you be “good with the money” too? Can’t believe how many people think this fraud would actually b a good president.

Donald Trump just had a Herman Cain “Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan” moment, but the media continues to bow to Trump. This whole election cycle is a fucking farce.

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b.d.  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:56:23am

re: #119 darthstar

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Somewhere Mitt Romney is hanging his head in shame remembering how Jeb! scared him out of the race.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:57:09am

re: #122 Dr. Matt

Donald Trump just had a Herman Cain “Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan” moment, but the media continues to bow to Trump. This whole election cycle is a fucking farce.

That was exactly what I was thinking of when I read the quote.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:57:30am

re: #123 b.d.

Somewhere Mitt Romney is hanging his head in shame remembering how Jeb! scared him out of the race.

Jeb the Paper Tiger.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:58:47am

Trump is not an idiot, he’s playing one for the idiots, which is why all the rules are out the window.

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aagcobb  Sep 4, 2015 • 6:59:45am

re: #121 HappyWarrior

I am becoming convinced that Jeb isn’t going to last long. He doesn’t have his brother’s aw shucks charisma or the fortune his father had being the direct successor to Reagan.

He’s got a ton of money so even bad performances in Iowa and NH won’t drive him out of the race.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:00:39am

re: #127 aagcobb

He’s got a ton of money so even bad performances in Iowa and NH won’t drive him out of the race.

True. Just not seeing him as “the one to beat.”

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lawhawk  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:02:28am

Worst president / worst economic recovery ever.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:03:58am

re: #129 lawhawk

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Worst president / worst economic recovery ever.

They’re just giving up. // Said by people who have no idea about how even basic economics work.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:05:04am

good morning Fellow Lizards. Spent yesterday on a 3/4 day fishing trip off of Newport Beach and it was epic. Caught 4 yellowfin tuna and 2 skipjack tuna. My one yellowfin was the biggest and took the boat’s jackpot coming in at 45-50lbs!

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aagcobb  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:05:50am

re: #130 HappyWarrior

They’re just giving up. // Said by people who have no idea about how even basic economics work.

Yea, the baby boomers are retiring, and more people are going to college, but Trump says we have 42% unemployment and 93 million out of work!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:07:28am

re: #132 aagcobb

Yea, the baby boomers are retiring, and more people are going to college, but Trump says we have 42% unemployment and 93 million out of work!

Right. And I have to say I am so happy not to be among the unemployed anymore.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:22:05am

re: #132 aagcobb

Yea, the baby boomers are retiring, and more people are going to college, but Trump says we have 42% unemployment and 93 million out of work!

The REAL UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS!!!1!!!! that the wingnuts like to throw around include the 16-18 year old cohort, and THOSE LITTLE MOOCHERS SHOULD BE DOWN IN TEH COAL MINES INSTEAD OF GOING TO SCHOOL!!!!1!!

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:23:07am

Obama is an evil atheistic Muslim Christian-liberation-theologist, I tells ya!

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:24:10am

re: #131 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

good morning Fellow Lizards. Spent yesterday on a 3/4 day fishing trip off of Newport Beach and it was epic. Caught 4 yellowfin tuna and 2 skipjack tuna. My one yellowfin was the biggest and took the boat’s jackpot coming in at 45-50lbs!

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Cedar planks, lump charcoal, olive oil, sea salt. NOTHING ELSE.

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:29:57am

re: #136 Decatur Deb

Sashimi. Beer. Sashimi. Beer. Beer. Beer.

Nothing else.

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CleverToad  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:31:00am

re: #136 Decatur Deb

Are we in for a fervent chefly debate among the fish aficionados…?

re: #137 Camacho DeezNuts 2016

Never mind, of course we are

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:32:26am

re: #138 CleverToad

Are we in for a fervent chefly debate among the fish aficionados…?

The first person who suggests pineapple on fish WILL BE DESTROYED.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:32:43am

re: #138 CleverToad

Are we in for a fervent chefly debate among the fish aficionados…?

Just regionalism raising its ugly head.

Nuns cry when they have dinner here in Lent.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:33:29am

re: #26 goddamnedfrank

Google’s algorithm is so fucking broken.

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Apparently, that particular “direct answer” was removed some time this morning:

Google ran into similar trouble in June when a search for “what happened to the dinosaurs” prompted a response from a Creationist website. That response is still there, followed by stories about its presence. […]

recode.net

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:36:00am

Sashimi isn’t bad if you give it a few minutes in the Weber.

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danarchy  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:36:25am

re: #131 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

good morning Fellow Lizards. Spent yesterday on a 3/4 day fishing trip off of Newport Beach and it was epic. Caught 4 yellowfin tuna and 2 skipjack tuna. My one yellowfin was the biggest and took the boat’s jackpot coming in at 45-50lbs!

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Not to disparage your catch, but I thought yellowfin tuna were supposed to be huge, like 400lbs huge? Of course, I have never even been fishing, so what do I know.

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:36:39am

re: #139 Camacho DeezNuts 2016

The first person who suggests pineapple on fish WILL BE DESTROYED.

OOOH! Pineapple on top of Maguro Sushi!!! Excellent idea! I must try this!

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Belafon  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:39:24am

#147 CuriousLurker:

That, in a sense, reminds me of this xkcd: xkcd.com.

We should not have to run this world to take into account the idiots and the extremists, because it makes the world a much less enjoyable place.

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Lidane  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:40:35am

Please proceed:

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:42:23am

re: #146 Lidane

Please proceed:

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I thought talk radio hosts were his base. //

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:43:47am

re: #147 HappyWarrior

I thought talk radio hosts were his base. //

When all the shit blows away, Trump has the soul of a NYC taxi driver with piles.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:46:09am

re: #53 Nyet

Did they iron out that problem the judge hinted at? That without her sig it could be legally void or something.

According to Backwoods_Sleuth, yesterday:

Kentucky law says that in the absence of the County Clerk (and she is now absent) the County Judge Executive can sign the licenses.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:48:25am
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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:48:43am

re: #144 William Lewis

OOOH! Pineapple on top of Maguro Sushi!!! Excellent idea! I must try this!

Pineapple and on the Weber! Win. Win!

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Lidane  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:51:38am

re: #150 The Vicious Babushka

THE HORROR! THE HORROR!

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:51:47am

re: #151 The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin

Pineapple and on the Weber! Win. Win!

How to modify a Weber into a 700 degree pizza oven. (Suitable for all kinds of succulent toppings.)

mooseonfire.com

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:53:49am

re: #152 Lidane

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THE HORROR! THE HORROR!

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“Here’s your marriage license. Sorry that my boss is an idiot”

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:56:32am

re: #149 CuriousLurker

According to Backwoods_Sleuth, yesterday:

Now that I think about it in hindsight, it makes sense and seems rather obvious. Any position that provides an important function/service needs to have a back-up in case something happens (jail, sudden sickness/injury/death, etc.) that incapacitates the primary provider; hence vice presidents, deputy mayors, etc.

It would be nuts if things had to screech to a halt indefinitely simply because one person couldn’t (or wouldn’t) do their job.

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:57:18am

re: #153 Decatur Deb

Pineapple pizza on the FrankenWeber sounds delicious. Bookmarked!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:57:48am

re: #150 The Vicious Babushka

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Well of course. // Sigh shit gets old.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:59:39am

re: #156 Dr. Matt

Donald Trump refuses to support Kentucky clerk Kim Davis: ‘We are a nation of laws’

RINO!!!111!!!

I am honestly surprised to see him going this route. But uh good for Donald not pulling a Huckabee, Rubio, Cruz, or Jindal. But I guess that’s the thing. Donald really isn’t any more ideologically extreme than the others. In fact Donald’s assholery covers up that those guys are just as if not more extreme. Donald after all gave a fairly decent defense of PP instead of pledging to ban all abortion like Rubio, Walker, and Huckabee did.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 7:59:58am

re: #156 Dr. Matt

Donald Trump refuses to support Kentucky clerk Kim Davis: ‘We are a nation of laws’

RINO!!!111!!!

FFS, he might be the sane one.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:00:37am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

FFS, he might be the sane one.

Terrifying thought, that one.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:01:23am

re: #161 CuriousLurker

Terrifying thought, that one.

Probably just had his blurb randomizer set to “Auto”.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:02:05am

re: #133 HappyWarrior

Right. And I have to say I am so happy not to be among the unemployed anymore.

BTW, congrats! I hope it’s a job you like.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:02:42am

So far I think I’ve seen Jeb, Trump, and I think I read Graham say that Davis needs to do her job. Huckabee, Rubio, Cruz, and Jindal have come out in support of her. No idea about the other eleven.

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Belafon  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:02:58am

Trump’s only saying this because he’s scared of Lindsey Graham.

/

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:03:34am

re: #163 CuriousLurker

BTW, congrats! I hope it’s a job you like.

It’s not glamorous but the pay is good, I can listen to my tunes while I work/easy to multitask, and we have a gym on site. Supervisor is a nice guy too. Oh and thanks.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:04:45am

according to this app from Cambridge I’m 35 years old. It analyzes your facebook and returns information about your digital footprint. Kinda interesting —got my education spot on.

Link in the article “Apply Magic Sauce”.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:04:54am

Thank you Amazon Prime. Listening to Iron Maiden: The Book of Souls. Great so far!

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:06:02am

Pan-Fried Fish Fillets with Pineapple

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:06:38am

re: #142 Decatur Deb

Sashimi isn’t bad if you give it a few minutes in the Weber.

You murdered my sashimi.

(throws can of Dole pineapple sidearm style)

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lawhawk  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:07:01am

Wait. Wut?

Joe Davis, Kim’s son, thinks that this is about making sure that he (and his mom) have the same rights? Errrr. What right is that? To be a bigot? Nothing about this situation changes all that. She is a bigot.

She just doesn’t get to use her position in government to spread her bigoted position, which she claims is based on closely held religious beliefs.

Her religious beliefs aren’t being trampled since she’s not being forced into being gay married - someone else is willingly asking to get a gay marriage. Her marriages are completely unaffected by all this.

As a few others have pointed out, the same people carping about how Davis should have the right to not issue SSM licenses because of her religious beliefs would demand prison time for a Muslim who refuses to issue licenses to women at the DMV or to a Muslim or Jew who refuses to allow a seafood restaurant or BBQ joint to open because they offer up shellfish or pork products because those violate their religious beliefs. Or a Hindu who refuses to allow a steakhouse to open because it violates their religious beliefs.

Those wouldn’t be allowed to stand, and this shouldn’t be allowed either.

Davis is wrong.
Her supporters are wrong.
Her political supporters, who include Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are not only wrong, but they’re pandering with baffling BS that is unsupported by the law.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:08:47am

re: #169 Nyet

Pan-Fried Fish Fillets with Pineapple

I’m sure Hawaiian Islanders are all over that combination.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:10:04am

re: #171 lawhawk

Wait. Wut?

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Joe Davis, Kim’s son, thinks that this is about making sure that he (and his mom) have the same rights? Errrr. What right is that? To be a bigot? Nothing about this situation changes all that. She is a bigot.

She just doesn’t get to use her position in government to spread her bigoted position, which she claims is based on closely held religious beliefs.

Her religious beliefs aren’t being trampled since she’s not being forced into being gay married - someone else is willingly asking to get a gay marriage. Her marriages are completely unaffected by all this.

As a few others have pointed out, the same people carping about how Davis should have the right to not issue SSM licenses because of her religious beliefs would demand prison time for a Muslim who refuses to issue licenses to women at the DMV or to a Muslim or Jew who refuses to allow a seafood restaurant or BBQ joint to open because they offer up shellfish or pork products because those violate their religious beliefs. Or a Hindu who refuses to allow a steakhouse to open because it violates their religious beliefs.

Those wouldn’t be allowed to stand, and this shouldn’t be allowed either.

Davis is wrong.
Her supporters are wrong.
Her political supporters, who include Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are not only wrong, but they’re pandering with baffling BS that is unsupported by the law.

Last I saw Joe, gays weren’t denying your mother the right to get married. Stop hiding behind your religion as an excuse to discriminate against people.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:10:07am
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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:10:37am

re: #168 GlutenFreeJesus

Thank you Amazon Prime. Listening to Iron Maiden: The Book of Souls. Great so far!

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New one I presume? I’ve still got to wait till the 18th for the one I’m chomping at the bit for…

Excellent instrumental only progressive/metal rock music.

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lawhawk  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:11:16am

11 year old shoots 16 year old. Some are claiming this was a home invasion, but others are saying hold the phone.

Police believe two suspects had tried to break into the modest ranch-style home two times earlier in the day. On the third try, they were able to enter through the front door, Schellman said. There were no signs of forced entry.

Soon after the 16-year-old entered, the 11-year-old fired a single shot that struck him in the head, Schellman said. The teenager’s body was found in the front foyer, and Schellman said the shot may have scared away the second suspect, who was taken into custody a short time later. Schellman said that suspect, 22, was still in custody Friday, but has not been charged.

Some neighbors told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that they witnessed the shooting and there was no break-in.

Donna Jackson told the newspaper that she saw the 11-year-old shoot the 16-year-old at point-blank range as they talked near front door.

“It was not a break-in,” Jackson, 45, said. “He shot him in the head.”

Jazmyne Clark, 18, who lives two doors down from the shooting, said the 11-year-old was on the front porch when he told the 16-year-old to approach him. When the 16-year-old reached the front door, the younger boy shot him, Clark said.

“He was never in the house,” Clark told the newspaper. “He wasn’t breaking in at all. He was just trying to sell him his phone.”

Nuts. Just nuts.

And the right wing / NRA gun fetishists continue to deny that there’s a problem with firearms in the nation.

Every single hour more than 3 people use firearms to commit suicide or a homicide (2.5 for suicide, .75 homicide). Every hour. Every day. 24/7/365. Mental health is a huge issue, and yet nothing is being done.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:11:20am

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

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“Gotcha Question”: Any question for a Republican candidate that actually requires to give a thoughtful answer rather than just an empty slogan.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:11:37am

re: #168 GlutenFreeJesus

Thank you Amazon Prime. Listening to Iron Maiden: The Book of Souls. Great so far!

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Sirius XM has a 24 hour Iron Maiden channel right now.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:11:54am

re: #176 lawhawk

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11 year old shoots 16 year old. Some are claiming this was a home invasion, but others are saying hold the phone.

Nuts. Just nuts.

And the right wing / NRA gun fetishists continue to deny that there’s a problem with firearms in the nation.

Every single hour more than 3 people use firearms to commit suicide or a homicide (2.5 for suicide, .75 homicide). Every hour. Every day. 24/7/365. Mental health is a huge issue, and yet nothing is being done.

Goddamn it.

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bubba zanetti  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:12:17am
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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:12:21am

re: #169 Nyet

Pan-Fried Fish Fillets with Pineapple

Printed & put in my cooking binder. That will get tried the next time I have some fresh walleye or bluegill.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:15:11am

re: #180 bubba zanetti

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Absolutely. It amuses me how people want to liken someone discriminating to Civil Rights heroes. The Civil Rights movement wanted African-Americans to have the same rights as everyone else. Kim Davis wants to keep an outdated system. She most definitely more like George Wallace or the Montegomery bus driver than she is MLK or Rosa Parks. And anyone who deludes themselves otherwise shows how little they understand civil rights. Kim can believe whatever the hell she wants as a private citizen but as her county’s clerk in a state and nation that allows same sex marriage, she has to provide the certificate. If she’s that uncomfortable with it, that’s fine but she needs to resign so someone else can.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:15:39am

re: #166 HappyWarrior

It’s not glamorous but the pay is good, I can listen to my tunes while I work/easy to multitask, and we have a gym on site. Supervisor is a nice guy too. Oh and thanks.

Sounds good. ;-)

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:16:20am

It’s FRIDAY!!!!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:16:34am

re: #183 CuriousLurker

Sounds good. ;-)
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Yeah. Should also mention that it’s fairly close to home too so I don’t have to get up incredibly early like I did for my internship.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:16:54am

re: #171 lawhawk

Someone remind him that straight people can still marry. His mom has done it 3 times.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:16:54am

re: #184 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

It’s FRIDAY!!!!

THREE DAY WEEKEND!!!!!1

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:17:59am

We’re prepping our weekend campout/kayak trip to Lake Eufaula. Remember, that’s where we have mean-assed alligators. Gotta mow the lawn first, for my heirs. BBL

al.com

“In fact, Evans’ gator is believed to be the second heaviest alligator ever killed during a regulated hunt in Alabama, just behind last year’s world record 15-foot 9 inch gator, which weighed in at 1,011.5 pounds. About 115 pounds of that, though, was a deer in the gator’s belly.”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:18:32am

re: #175 William Lewis

Yup. Released today. :)

I’ll have to check that out!

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b_sharp  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:18:43am

I wanted to say something amusing, but my mind is too confused by the world right now.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:19:36am
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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:19:40am

Is that what they’re calling Syrian refugees now?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:19:56am
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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:20:24am

re: #189 GlutenFreeJesus

Yup. Released today. :)

I’ll have to check that out!

Lots of Scale The Summit on Youtube to see if you like them. Great fun to me :D

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:20:48am

re: #186 GlutenFreeJesus

Someone remind him that straight people can still marry. His mom has done it 3 times.

Yep. That’s what I don’t get about those who claim that “Gays want special rights.” Uh no, they want the same rights that you and your spouse do and that you take for granted because you’re straight. They claim SSM is “unnatural” and “against God’s laws”, well they claimed that about interracial marriage in many states pre-Loving and indeed for the longest time marrying outside your particular religion, socioeconomic, or ethnic group was frowned upon. It’s how me a descendant of a German Lutheran immigrant am Irish, German, Eastern European, Catholic, and how many people leading up to me married also married outside their class.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:20:51am

You will probably be seeing this one more often. It makes me laugh every time I see it.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:21:25am

re: #192 The Vicious Babushka

Is that what they’re calling Syrian refugees now?

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A shipful of Derp.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:22:16am

re: #175 William Lewis

I ran across this guy’s story last week after encountering a reference to him in my book about white supremacists. I’d never heard of him, so I found it interesting.

Not sure why, but for some reason it made me think of you:

Prester John (Latin: Presbyter Johannes) is a legendary Christian patriarch and king popular in European chronicles and tradition from the 12th through the 17th century. He was said to rule over a “Nestorian” (Church of the East) Christian nation lost amid the Muslims and pagans of the Orient, in which the Patriarch of the Saint Thomas Christians resided. The accounts are varied collections of medieval popular fantasy, depicting Prester John as a descendant of the Three Magi, ruling a kingdom full of riches, marvels, and strange creatures.

At first, Prester John was imagined to reside in India; tales of the Nestorian Christians’ evangelistic success there and of Thomas the Apostle’s subcontinental travels as documented in works like the Acts of Thomas probably provided the first seeds of the legend. After the coming of the Mongols to the Western world, accounts placed the king in Central Asia, and eventually Portuguese explorers convinced themselves that they had found him in Ethiopia, which had been officially Christian since the 4th century. Prester John’s kingdom was thus the object of a quest, firing the imaginations of generations of adventurers, but remaining out of reach. He was a symbol to European Christians of the Church’s universality, transcending culture and geography to encompass all humanity, in a time when ethnic and inter-religious tension made such a vision seem distant.

en.wikipedia.org

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sagehen  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:22:21am

re: #131 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

good morning Fellow Lizards. Spent yesterday on a 3/4 day fishing trip off of Newport Beach and it was epic. Caught 4 yellowfin tuna and 2 skipjack tuna. My one yellowfin was the biggest and took the boat’s jackpot coming in at 45-50lbs!

Image: 11986339_10153067842321560_6267701253430095612_n.jpg

I did not receive my invitation to the BBQ. Surely that’s just an oversight?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:23:27am

re: #194 William Lewis

Animals As Leaders is another fave of mine. Those guys are great.

Youtube Video

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:24:40am

Here is a Whacko article about Sen. Kirk and Planned Parenthood.

Deceiving Map — illinoisreview.typepad.com

This map included in the article makes me want to puke. Planned Parenthood clinics vs. other clinics that are not women only oriented?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:25:28am

re: #198 CuriousLurker

I ran across this guy’s story last week after encountering a reference to him in my book about white supremacists. I’d never heard of him, so I found it interesting.

Not sure why, but for some reason it made me think of you:

Yeah, lots of quest myths about finding Presber John …

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:25:54am

Gah, cat is insistently demanding… something, not sure what. Guess I’d better head for the kitchen and check her food & water bowls (and make a cuppa joe while I’m there).

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:25:55am

re: #201 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Here is a Whacko article about Sen. Kirk and Planned Parenthood.

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This map included in the article makes me want to puke. Planned Parenthood clinics vs. other clinics that are not women only oriented?

He needs to be defeated. I think Representative Duckworth is an excellent opponent.

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iossarian  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:26:46am

re: #201 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

What a dumb argument, even if it wasn’t dishonest. “There are lots of health clinics so it’s OK to close some.”

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:26:57am

re: #198 CuriousLurker

Shows how easily “persons” could be created in the context of religion.

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Jenner7  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:26:58am

ICYMI

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:27:53am

re: #205 iossarian

What a dumb argument, even if it wasn’t dishonest. “There are lots of health clinics so it’s OK to close some.”

The idea that a regular health clinic isn’t the same as a women’s health clinic that accepts poor women for what they can pay is lost on the Whackos.

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:28:06am

re: #198 CuriousLurker

One of the most important myths of that era - trying to find that kingdom drove merchants all over Asia with enormous consequences - like helping to light the fires of curiosity that would eventually lead to the Renaissance… ;)

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:28:36am

The map should say “regular health clinics vs. Reproductive Health Clinics”

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:29:03am

re: #92 darthstar

That is assault.

Dipshit should have been arrested immediately.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:30:36am

What was the furry’s deal?

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:30:49am

re: #200 GlutenFreeJesus

Animals As Leaders is another fave of mine. Those guys are great.

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Oh, yeah, great stuff - Tosin Abasi is awesome on his 8 string.

Just checked out the video for “Speed of Light”. The video game motif is cute but the songs quite good. One of the better ones I’ve heard of theirs since the heyday of the 3 classically great LPs.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:31:22am

re: #168 GlutenFreeJesus

Meh.

Maiden has pretty much made the same album over and over again for the last twenty five years.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:31:53am

re: #214 subterraneanhomesickalien

This is better than X-Factor. ;)

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iossarian  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:32:15am

re: #211 subterraneanhomesickalien

Dipshit should have been arrested immediately.

Is that the mascot’s name?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:32:39am

re: #198 CuriousLurker

I ran across this guy’s story last week after encountering a reference to him in my book about white supremacists. I’d never heard of him, so I found it interesting.

Not sure why, but for some reason it made me think of you:

Robert Silverberg (yes, that Robert Silverberg) wrote one of the best books on the subject.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:33:33am

Here is another article about Planned Parenthood. Apparently the same people who can’t figure out that an organization can keep monies separated for some services (i.e government money not spent for abortions) think that government money is being used for political contributions.

Do these Conservatives know nothing about basic bookkeeping?

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:34:20am

re: #207 Jenner7

I think you would have to completely deny the history of the United States when it comes to those we have kept into a perpetual underclass since its inception in order to say that BLM is racist or extremist.

Or you would have never left the suburbs or whatever small backwater town you’ve come from, which only had a few black residents, with a few being the “good ones”.

We don’t like to talk about class in this country no matter how rigid the class system becomes.

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:34:24am

re: #217 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Robert Silverberg (yes, that Robert Silverberg) wrote one of the best books on the subject.

OH NEAT! I hadn’t seen that one before. Thank you! Ok, Amazon, how much for a used copy…

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:38:39am

re: #33 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I find it very amusing that most of the judges who have handed down rulings contrary to conservative desires have all been appointed by Republican presidents. The judge who shot down Intelligent Design in Dover, DE, was also a Republican appointee.

In this matter the judge has little choice. The Supreme Court told him what rules he must enforce and he is doing just that. What he thinks personally isn’t at issue; he’s got his orders. That’s one of the things this case is about: Proper orders. Sometimes you are given instructions you don’t agree with, and you just have to obey them.

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Lidane  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:38:48am

These people are deranged:

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BeachDem  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:39:33am

re: #126 Nyet

Trump is not an idiot, he’s playing one for the idiots, which is why all the rules are out the window.

He may not be an idiot when it comes to business (my jury is still out) but he is totally in over his head about many issues involved in presidentin’—much in the way Ben Carson is not an idiot when it comes to brain surgery, but does not have a single clue about much of anything else.

I don’t think Trump has any concept of foreign policy or even domestic “policy” and thinks if you’re the BOSS, you can just order people to do whatever you want.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:40:19am

re: #222 Lidane

These people are deranged:

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I don’t think it’s possible to be a member of the religious right and not be a hysterical drama queen like Rick here.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:42:10am

re: #223 BeachDem

He may not be an idiot when it comes to business (my jury is still out) but he is totally in over his head about many issues involved in presidentin’—much in the way Ben Carson is not an idiot when it comes to brain surgery, but does not have a single clue about much of anything else.

I agree 100%. Trump developed cunning chops as an “actor” and salesman, and he’s using those same chops to dupe society’s lowest common denominator.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:42:33am

I also think the religious right has grown more regressive the past 6-7 years if that’s possible.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:42:48am

Underwater horse sculptures revealed at low tide in the Thames

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:43:18am

re: #223 BeachDem

He may not be an idiot when it comes to business (my jury is still out) but he is totally in over his head about many issues involved in presidentin’—much in the way Ben Carson is not an idiot when it comes to brain surgery, but does not have a single clue about much of anything else.

I don’t think Trump has any concept of foreign policy or even domestic “policy” and thinks if you’re the BOSS, you can just order people to do whatever you want.

I have to agree. He seems to think he can just order people around and that’s how a president gets crap done. Trump is the face of the failure of the idea “Run government like a business.”

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:43:51am

re: #228 HappyWarrior

I have to agree. He seems to think he can just order people around and that’s how a president gets crap done. Trump is the face of the failure of the idea “Run government like a business.”

It’s difficult to fire an elected official.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:45:15am

re: #229 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

It’s difficult to fire an elected official.

Sure is.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:45:19am

re: #226 HappyWarrior

I also think the religious right has grown more regressive the past 6-7 years if that’s possible.

In part I think they have always been this regressed, they are just more vocal than ever. I spent 4 years in Memphis in the early 90s, and was astonished as how backward the Fundie Christians were then.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:45:22am

re: #192 The Vicious Babushka

Is that what they’re calling Syrian refugees now?

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Considering that the ship had 5,000 shotguns but no people in the cargo hold, there is no dog whistle in Dim Jim’s headline this time.

But Dim Jim still FAILs, because the AP article says the shipment was headed for Misrata. While the Misrata militia is Islamist and an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, it is not associated with the so-called ‘Islamic State’ and is in fact fighting ISIS in the Libyan city of Sirte.

Even when he’s not being a bigot, the Dumbest Man On The Internet still can’t get the story right.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:46:04am

Bronx Zoo Announces Birth of Porcupette

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

porcupette
Function: noun
Definition: a baby porcupine: a porcupine as a pet
Example Sentence: We saw the cutest little porcupette with it’s mother yesterday.
Submitted by: Jane from CA., USA on 09/05/2013 12:52
Function: noun
Definition: a baby porcupine
Example Sentence: That porcupette does not look that spiky to me!
Submitted by: Aria from Indiana, USA on 04/09/2012 05:30

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:46:23am

Remember how we all made fun of Romney for acting like a robot?

Have you noticed that Donald Trump always repeats the same sound bites for every “question” he’s asked.
I HAVE A YOOGE PILE OF MONEY!!!!!
I CAN DO TERRIFIC DEALS!!!!!
EVERYBODY LOVES ME!!!!1!
I GET THINGS DONE!!!11
HE’S A LOSER!!11
HE’S A DUMMY!!!11
SHE’S OVERRATED!!!!

It’s like the Romneybot but with malware.

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bratwurst  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:46:34am

SUNDAY MORNING JOURNALISM ALERT!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:46:46am

Kim Davis: “I would like to call God to the Stand.”

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:46:56am

re: #206 Nyet

Shows how easily “persons” could be created in the context of religion.

Humans are good at creating persons & things in the context of pretty much everything, hence sea monsters, fairies, dragons, Sasquatch, Nessi, El Dorado, etc.

We’re a creative lot.

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lawhawk  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:49:19am

Buffalo TV station WVIB reported that the image was spotted outside a mosque on Fuller Road in Waterport, New York. An Orleans County Sheriff’s deputy told the news station that the agency has investigated several other incidents at the mosque as possible hate crimes in the past.

The New York Times reported on disturbances at the mosque, which is the only Islamic house of worship in Orleans County, back in 2010 while a debate raged over the construction of an Islamic center in downtown Manhattan.

This isn’t the only recent event there - a car was set ablaze in the parking lot back in June under suspicious circumstances.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:49:26am

re: #235 bratwurst

SUNDAY MORNING JOURNALISM ALERT!

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OMG, are they serious? I can’t even…

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:50:10am
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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:50:26am

re: #235 bratwurst

SUNDAY MORNING JOURNALISM ALERT!

Librul media at its finest.

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Jenner7  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:50:33am

Lake Arthur police officer fired after photo of him at KKK rally circulates

Raymond Mott doesn’t deny that the photo is him, but says it was taken out of context.

The photo was taken last summer at a Ku Klux Klan meeting in North Carolina, according to a report from KATC. Mott said it was an anti-immigration rally.

kplctv.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:50:40am

re: #234 The Vicious Babushka

I’ve had similar thoughts. The main difference between Romney and Trump is that Trump was well known outside politics before running and he’s got about a billion times more charisma than Romney.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:52:06am

re: #242 Jenner7

I wonder if the union will try to get him reinstated?

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:53:00am

re: #242 Jenner7

Raymond Mott doesn’t deny that the photo is him, but says it was taken out of context.

The photo was taken last summer at a Ku Klux Klan meeting in North Carolina, according to a report from KATC. Mott said it was an anti-immigration rally.

Yes, clearly the photo of him dressed as a white supremacist, standing next to the Klansman, was taking out of context.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:53:09am

re: #234 The Vicious Babushka

Remember how we all made fun of Romney for acting like a robot?

Have you noticed that Donald Trump always repeats the same sound bites for every “question” he’s asked.
I HAVE A YOOGE PILE OF MONEY!!!!!
I CAN DO TERRIFIC DEALS!!!!!
EVERYBODY LOVES ME!!!!1!
I GET THINGS DONE!!!11
HE’S A LOSER!!11
HE’S A DUMMY!!!11
SHE’S OVERRATED!!!!

It’s like the Romneybot but with malware.

He’s Romney if Romney were a loudmouthed dickhead rather than the subtle dickhead.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:53:48am

re: #242 Jenner7

Lake Arthur police officer fired after photo of him at KKK rally circulates

kplctv.com

Taken out of context? What context? As he himself said, “The picture speaks for itself.”

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:53:53am

Egg Precursor Cells May Offer a Chance to Improve Egg Quality

WHO KNEW?

Think of the research possibilities …

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:54:07am

re: #243 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve had similar thoughts. The main difference between Romney and Trump is that Trump was well known outside politics before running and he’s got about a billion times more charisma than Romney.

Well Romney had some name recon since he was credited with how he managed the 2002 Winter Olympics. Agree with you on personality. I think it comes from Donald having a ton of television exposure over the years.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:54:07am

re: #239 CuriousLurker

OMG, are they serious? I can’t even…

Yes, CNN is serious. The whole Mt. Denali thing was in the news this week and now you have Davis the Doofus getting many wingnuts all atwitter (heh). So with Fox having cut her loose, it would seem a good ratings move for CNN to bring on Caribou Barbie.

That’s not to say its a good thing for journalism, but cable news networks are fundamentally about money, not reporting.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:55:06am

About Those Rising Murder Rates: Not So Fast

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:56:03am

re: #235 bratwurst

SUNDAY MORNING JOURNALISM ALERT!

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So much attention at someone who shows that she’d rather be a celebrity than actual leader. I await with baited breath her thoughts on the mountain name change and Kim Davis. //

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No Country For Old Haters  Sep 4, 2015 • 8:58:21am

re: #250 Dark_Falcon

Yes, CNN is serious. The whole Mt. Denali thing was in the news this week and now you have Davis the Doofus getting many wingnuts all atwitter (heh). So with Fox having cut her loose, it would seem a good ratings move for CNN to bring on Caribou Barbie.

That’s not to say its a good thing for journalism, but cable news networks are fundamentally about money, not reporting.

I had to watch some CNN while at my father’s place recently. It featured hysterical nincompoops, just like we see on Fox. CNN peaked during the first Iraq war.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:00:05am

Off topic.

It continues to amaze me that the ongoing historical revision of what side of the political axis that Fascism was on during its heyday and up until now.

Its almost like its just a denial that there was and is still to this day an anti-Capitalist right.

Its almost as if the only true right wingery is American style neo-liberalism which exists in a bubble, with European right wing Protestant and Catholic anti-consumerist, and very anti-immigrant being the exception to the rule, though in fact has been the rule itself for the majority of Conservative thought until the 1970’s and 80’s.

They’ve never been to read or heard your standard right wing claptrap coming out of Scandanavia and Central Europe.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:00:35am

This week in review (i.e., the GOP got their asses handed to themselves again):

Denali, Iran deal, Kim Davis, and low unemployment rate.

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Jenner7  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:01:11am

The black man threatening whites on twitter was front page on my local ksl.com.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:01:46am

A Canadian shelter sells older cats like used cars, and it’s pretty effective … and hilarious.

I’m sharing this because it might save a pre-owned cat.


Youtube Video

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BeachDem  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:03:23am

re: #235 bratwurst

SUNDAY MORNING JOURNALISM ALERT!

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Wow—quite the get//

(Wonder if they’ll have their new additions, Amanda Carpenter and Dylan Byers to provide cogent commentary afterward—sadly thank dog US Open tennis will be on, so I’ll have to miss this Jake Tapper tonguebath EXCLUSIVE!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:03:23am

re: #255 Dr. Matt

This week in review (i.e., the GOP got their asses handed to themselves again):

Week is young.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:03:50am

re: #253 No Country For Old Haters

I had to watch some CNN while at my father’s place recently. It featured hysterical nincompoops, just like we see on Fox. CNN peaked during the first Iraq war.

Personally, I watched most of CNN’s 9/11 coverage which I thought was pretty well done.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:05:07am

$10 says Kim Davis starts showing up at events for GOP Presidential nominees the moment she gets out of jail.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:05:45am

re: #261 Eclectic Cyborg

$10 says Kim Davis starts showing up at events for GOP Presidential nominees the moment she gets out of jail.

Huckabee and Cruz will probably be on that.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:06:13am

People who hate cats meet kittens:
People Who Hate Cats Meet Kittens

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:06:42am

re: #247 CuriousLurker

Taken out of context? What context? As he himself said, The picture speaks for itself.”

Meanwhile, District Attorney Michael Cassidy says he is going to review all cases Raymond Mott was part of and if Mott’s testimony was the critical factor the case is going to be dismissed or vacated.

Apparently Mott’s going to sue. I envision DA Cassidy answering the suit in court:

Judge: And Mr. Cassidy, I see you as having two motions?

DA Cassidy: Yes, Your Honor. On behalf of Jefferson Davis Parish*, my office moves for summary judgement in our favor. In addition, we move that your honor take judicial notice of the fact that Mr. Mott is a bigoted fucktard.

*: Most the “in court” exchange is in jest, but Lake Arthur really is in Jefferson Davis Parish. Some of this stuff you just can’t make up.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:07:05am

re: #254 subterraneanhomesickalien

They also think that environmentalism is somehow a left-wing issue, although the traditional European right-wingers were always big on being “back to nature”.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:07:13am
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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:08:41am

re: #256 Jenner7

The black man threatening whites on twitter was front page on my local ksl.com.

After Kim Davis was arrested, Erick son of Erick called for a Civil War and Bryan J. Fischer declared there will be blood. Response: *crickets*

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:10:00am

re: #265 Nyet

That little fat child of a nepotistic dynastic right wing welfare system Jonah Goldberg wrote a novella saying that the Nazi’s were actually apart of left wing movement, and all of a sudden “we are at war with East Asia, and we have always been at war with East Asia” with rubes and cynical hacks that eat it up like crumb cake.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:10:02am

re: #261 Eclectic Cyborg

$10 says Kim Davis starts showing up at events for GOP Presidential nominees the moment she gets out of jail.

In addition, she’ll make her rounds on am hate radio and Fox “news”. She’s the latest “Joe the Plumber” shiny object.

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Teukka  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:12:07am

re: #265 Nyet

They also think that environmentalism is somehow a left-wing issue, although the traditional European right-wingers were always big on being “back to nature”.

And they think National Socialism (Nazism) is a type of Socialism, while it is basically hard right ideology with a “Socialist” veneer.

And that their ideology is somehow immune to fascism. I might be special because I come from a country which paid dearly for siding with Germany during part of WWII, and that many of my generation got taught to recognize the fascist beast a mile away, but any, let me say that again, ANY ideology is susceptible to fascism or at least fascistoid tendencies.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:14:54am

re: #270 Teukka

They included the word socialist in their title to lure away labor from the leftist block.

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#CampaignZero  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:14:55am

re: #221 Dark_Falcon

In this matter the judge has little choice. The Supreme Court told him what rules he must enforce and he is doing just that. What he thinks personally isn’t at issue; he’s got his orders. That’s one of the things this case is about: Proper orders. Sometimes you are given instructions you don’t agree with, and you just have to obey them.

They are called laws.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:15:18am

re: #266 The Vicious Babushka

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I do hope Mr. Hamdia doesn’t face repercussions for his good deed. Actually, the Palestinian population of Hebron should thank him profusely, as had that mob killed those yeshiva students, then Netanyahu would have put their city on lockdown and and then had the IDF go aggressively house-to-house. But thanks to one man’s smart thinking, that is not going to happen.

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Jenner7  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:15:46am
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Teukka  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:17:56am

re: #271 subterraneanhomesickalien

They included the word socialist in their title to lure away labor from the leftist block.

Not only the title, little dabs of veneer on the ideological equivalent a moisture-laden moldy MDF board to fool the unsuspecting.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:18:30am

re: #273 Dark_Falcon

I do hope Mr. Hamdia doesn’t face repercussions for his good deed. Actually, the Palestinian population of Hebron should thank him profusely, as had that mob killed those yeshiva students, then Netanyahu would have put their city on lockdown and and then had the IDF go aggressively house-to-house. But thanks to one man’s smart thinking, that is not going to happen.

The tourists were also dumb to think that they could go by all by themselves using a GPS app instead of taking the IDF-guarded armored bus that takes tourists to Machpelah and back.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:19:06am

re: #274 Jenner7

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Obama’s veto will stand up, but there will be no fillibuster. And this is good because it will require him to formally reject the advice of the Congress. Which means that when Iran cheats on the agreement it will be known who should be blamed.

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Kid A  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:20:06am

Limbaugh: SO WHAT IF THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS 5.1%??!! HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT 93 MILLION PEOPLE ARE NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE???!!!”

Me: Because more and more people are retiring or turning sixteen?

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:20:40am

re: #276 The Vicious Babushka

The tourists were also dumb to think that they could go by all by themselves using a GPS app instead of taking the IDF-guarded armored bus that takes tourists to Machpelah and back.

True.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:21:21am

re: #168 GlutenFreeJesus

Yes. Yes it is.

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Jenner7  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:22:30am

re: #278 Kid A

But they’re not working because of Obama!!!! Don’t you see? If we had a Republican, 80 year old’s and under age children will be working full time! The economy will skyrocket!

//

Idiots.

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Nyet  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:22:49am

re: #277 Dark_Falcon

Obama’s veto will stand up, but there will be no fillibuster. And this is good because it will require him to formally reject the advice of the Congress. Which means that when Iran cheats on the agreement it will be known who should be blamed.

Iran?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:23:12am

I’m going to spend time watching cute animal videos and start the weekend with a smile.

bbl

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:24:36am

re: #278 Kid A

Limbaugh: SO WHAT IF THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS 5.1%??!! HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT 93 MILLION PEOPLE ATE NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE???!!!”

Me: Because more and more people are retiring or turning sixteen?

HURR HURR IT TEH YOONYUNZ!!!!! IF IT WASN’T FOR TEH YOONYUNZ ALL THOSE KIDS WUD BE WORKIN IN TEH COAL MINES FOR ANYTHING TEH MINE OWNERS FELT LIKE GIVING THEM!!!1!!!!

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BeachDem  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:24:43am

re: #269 Dr. Matt

In addition, she’ll make her rounds on am hate radio and Fox “news”. She’s the latest “Joe the Plumber” shiny object.

Or, in the words of Charles P. Pierce (I particularly love the bolded description):

Kim Davis now becomes the latest ornament on the Hang Yourself Cross of Bible-banging victimhood. There will be marches and vigils. There will be a six-figure book deal; my money’s on John Fund as Davis’s ghost. There may even be one of those movies produced by gullibility trawlers like the one helmed by Rick Santorum. Anybody want to bet me that she doesn’t speak at next year’s Republican National Convention? You have made a star, Judge Bunning, and the rest of us have to live with her.

And then there’s this:

I do wonder about one thing, though. Suppose Davis announced that it was against her conscience and God’s authority for her to submit to Judge’s Bunning’s authority and go to jail. Could she go home, then?

MIND BLOWN!

esquire.com

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:25:06am

I would bet that breitbart.com will omit Mr. Hamdia’s name from there initial writeup of this Hebron incident and play up the violence of the Palestinian street mob. They won’t go as far as calling the Palestinians “savages”, they’ll leave that to their comments section.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:25:50am

A minute ago, during a commercial break during The Rockford Files, an ad from the Alaska Tourist Bureau was aired in which Mount McKinley was called Denali.

I demand that the United States succeed from Alaska forthwith!!!11!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:26:12am

re: #286 Dark_Falcon

I would bet that breitbart.com will omit Mr. Hamdia’s name from there initial writeup of this Hebron incident and play up the violence of the Palestinian street mob. They won’t go as far as calling the Palestinians “savages”, they’ll leave that to their comments section.

Pamela Geller won’t omit using the word “savages”

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:27:07am

If you ever happen to be in China don’t get hit by a car

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:28:40am

re: #270 Teukka

Fin?

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:31:38am

re: #288 The Vicious Babushka

Pamela Geller won’t omit using the word “savages”

Quite Concur.

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Jenner7  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:32:51am

And Morning Joe gets two more hours. Ugh. Chuck Todd is ruining MSNBC.

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Teukka  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:34:52am

re: #290 William Lewis

Fin?

Yep. Lost a sizeable chunk of territory (had to move 500k people). Lost the right to have offensive subs in the navy. Have some restrictions on our border forces. Lost the right to ever seek justice for Soviet war crimes, and to keep said war crimes secret for at least 50 years. Took us 40 years to pay of the reparations.
And those were just a handful of the non-negotiable terms of the peace of ‘44…
So yeah, Finns of my generation are a wee bit touchy about fascism…

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:35:09am

re: #270 Teukka

And they think National Socialism (Nazism) is a type of Socialism, while it is basically hard right ideology with a “Socialist” veneer.

And that their ideology is somehow immune to fascism. I might be special because I come from a country which paid dearly for siding with Germany during part of WWII, and that many of my generation got taught to recognize the fascist beast a mile away, but any, let me say that again, ANY ideology is susceptible to fascism or at least fascistoid tendencies.

Once I worked with a couple of guys who had emigrated from then-Czechoslovakia. That nation sided with Germany in WWII and the Soviets just beat the crap out of the people for years. The family of one of them was seriously and continually harassed for years because the father had been an officer in the Czech army.

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wrenchwench  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:35:55am

re: #289 FormerDirtDart

If you ever happen to be in China don’t get hit by a car

The U.S. isn’t the only country needing video cameras everywhere.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:38:00am

re: #287 De Kolta Chair

A minute ago, during a commercial break during The Rockford Files, an ad from the Alaska Tourist Bureau was aired in which Mount McKinley was called Denali.

I demand that the United States succeed from Alaska forthwith!!!11!!

Upding for the Rockford Files. (wanted to send $200 but I don’t have that much).

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:39:13am

re: #293 Teukka

Yep. Lost a sizeable chunk of territory (had to move 500k people). Lost the right to have offensive subs in the navy. Have some restrictions on our border forces. Lost the right to ever seek justice for Soviet war crimes, and to keep said war crimes secret for at least 50 years. Took us 40 years to pay of the reparations.
And those were just a handful of the non-negotiable terms of the peace of ‘44…
So yeah, Finns of my generation are a wee bit touchy about fascism…

Stuck on the northern edge of the bloodlands between modern histories two worst nightmares. In your homeland’s case I’m not sure there was any way you could, really, win…

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bratwurst  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:39:21am

re: #277 Dark_Falcon

Obama’s veto will stand up, but there will be no fillibuster. And this is good because it will require him to formally reject the advice of the Congress. Which means that when Iran cheats on the agreement it will be known who should be blamed.

Once again reducing this situation to partisan hackery, like you did here.

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wrenchwench  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:40:07am
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Teukka  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:42:50am

re: #297 William Lewis

Stuck on the northern edge of the bloodlands between modern histories two worst nightmares. In your homeland’s case I’m not sure there was any way you could, really, win…

*nods*

But my generation (at least in the social group I originate from) is determined to never make the WWII herp derp again.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:42:53am

re: #298 bratwurst

I’d buy the blame part if the credit, should both sides adhere to the treaty, is apportioned as widely and quickly. If the treaty is deemed a success then it will be GOP canon that they had to fight tooth and nail to get it past Obama.

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lawhawk  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:43:23am

re: #299 wrenchwench

Mustache song scene (A million ways to die in the west)

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:43:27am

re: #238 lawhawk

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This isn’t the only recent event there - a car was set ablaze in the parking lot back in June under suspicious circumstances.

Poor, persecuted christians.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:44:42am
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Eventual Carrion  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:44:57am

re: #245 Dr. Matt

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Yes, clearly the photo of him dressed as a white supremacist, standing next to the Klansman, was taking out of context.

Are they flashing gang signs? Or just saying Hi to Hitler?

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wrenchwench  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:45:02am

re: #302 lawhawk

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:45:37am

A reminder of what sane Americans have to deal with freaking day in and freaking day out:

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:46:08am

re: #300 Teukka

*nods*

But my generation (at least in the social group I originate from) is determined to never make the WWII herp derp again.

That’s sad. I don’t see much to be done about having history and geography put your whole nation between a rock and a hard place fifty years ago.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:47:37am

re: #307 De Kolta Chair

A reminder of what sane Americans have to deal with freaking day in and freaking day out:

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And fuck me raw if she doesn’t look proud of that sign.

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lawhawk  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:47:42am

re: #307 De Kolta Chair

Well, it starts at the top:

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:48:39am

I have still not heard a well reasoned argument from anyone who is against the Iran deal, where I can say: “Based on the information we have, and your objections, I can understand your objections.” I have heard nothing that tells me that having no deal in place is better, or even as good as this deal.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:48:54am

You Fins make the deadliest and most prolific snipers in the history of warfare, and you have a language that has baffled linguists taxonomic charts for years.

Those two things in themselves are plenty to be proud of.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:50:24am

re: #312 subterraneanhomesickalien

You Fins make the deadliest and most prolific snipers in the history of warfare, and you have a language that has baffled linguists taxonomic charts for years.

Those two things in themselves are plenty to be proud of.

All the Fins I’ve encountered can drink and drink and drink and not seem to get drunk.

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Teukka  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:50:43am

re: #308 Higgs Boson’s Mate

That’s sad. I don’t see much to be done about having history and geography put your whole nation between a rock and a hard place fifty years ago.

And still people don’t take those of us finns who speak out and say as it is seriously, that flirting with fascism never ends well for anyone. It is a recipe for failure. It is a recipe for tears and gnashing of teeth. And in a nuclear age, it may very will be the recipe for the doom of us all.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:50:58am

re: #312 subterraneanhomesickalien

You Fins make the deadliest and most prolific snipers in the history of warfare, and you have a language that has baffled linguists taxonomic charts for years.

Those two things in themselves are plenty to be proud of.

The whining-cursing of Finnish fisherman is legendary. There’s also that.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:51:55am

re: #313 Iwouldprefernotto

All the Fins I’ve encountered can drink and drink and drink and not seem to get drunk.

Czechs too. Hell, even my ex-wife could drink me under the table.

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:52:10am

re: #284 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR IT TEH YOONYUNZ!!!!! IF IT WASN’T FOR TEH YOONYUNZ ALL THOSE KIDS WUD BE WORKIN IN TEH COAL MINES FOR ANYTHING TEH MINE OWNERS FELT LIKE GIVING THEM!!!1!!!!

Which requires me to ask the wing nut in question, “Why is this a good thing?”

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wrenchwench  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:52:38am
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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:54:00am

re: #304 The Vicious Babushka

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Yesterday, via bratwurst in the comments on this page:

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#CampaignZero  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:54:36am

re: #242 Jenner7

Lake Arthur police officer fired after photo of him at KKK rally circulates

kplctv.com

They need to review all of his dealings with the public. Top to bottom.

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:55:49am

re: #289 FormerDirtDart

I know China has a population problem but that crosses from a stupid solution to an evil one.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:56:43am

re: #320 #CampaignZero

They need to review all of his dealings with the public. Top to bottom.

That’s probably time and cost prohibitive so they’ll just review cases resulting in arrests, tickets or criminal charges. This should include cases where he interviewed witnesses alone.

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bubba zanetti  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:56:48am

re: #307 De Kolta Chair

A reminder of what sane Americans have to deal with freaking day in and freaking day out:

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That’s funny, now that I have insurance it’s a lot cheaper when I max the out-of-pocket than to have to pay the full bill.

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Jenner7  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:59:14am

For GoT fans…

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 9:59:44am

Watch #tcot erupt in frenzied, gibbering rage==>

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:00:29am

re: #325 The Vicious Babushka

Watch #tcot erupt in frenzied, gibbering rage==>

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FLOTUS also has no more fucks to give.

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Jenner7  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:01:29am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:01:44am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:02:04am

re: #325 The Vicious Babushka

Watch #tcot erupt in frenzied, gibbering rage==>

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Yeah they’re gonna flip. My niece loves dancing to her music. Well she loves dancing to everything but All the Single Ladies was one of her first.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:02:18am

re: #325 The Vicious Babushka

Watch #tcot erupt in frenzied, gibbering rage==>

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Not rage-filled so much as just spastic and racist. There will be much calling calling Michelle Obama a “wookie”, combined with comments on the “vulgarity and depravity” of black people.

Makes me sick just thinking about it.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:02:20am

re: #327 Jenner7

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Good man.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:02:49am

re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He was a liberal.//

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Teukka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:03:00am

re: #312 subterraneanhomesickalien

You Fins make the deadliest and most prolific snipers in the history of warfare, and you have a language that has baffled linguists taxonomic charts for years.

Those two things in themselves are plenty to be proud of.

As to snipers, us Finns have always been big on economy of force in our armed forces in our barely 1-century existence.

And don’t get me started on the language, man, like you know that adage about exploding wingnut heads? Our language can make wingnuts heads go supercritical *muhahaha*

Another thing I think all Finns are proud of is maintaining our national cohesion despite diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds. Like, there’s Finnish Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Protestant, Catholic religion (not to mention the various pentecostal groups). There is Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Sapmí and Karelian as to language. There is Tatars, Swedish, Sapmi, Russian, Karelians and Finns in terms of ethnic minorities.
And we’re all Finns first and foremost. That’s one of our important lessons from WWII, how much being divided among ourselves cost us.

re: #313 Iwouldprefernotto

All the Fins I’ve encountered can drink and drink and drink and not seem to get drunk.

Well, there is this joke about how people in the region drink their vodka…

Click to Reveal

Norwegians drink their vodka with water.
Swedes drink their vodka without water.
Finns drink their vodka like water.
Russians drink their vodka instead of water.

Seriously tho, I think many Finns may seem to drink a lot, but are really drinking in moderation over time instead of a lot over time. There are exceptions tho.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:04:49am

re: #333 Teukka

As to snipers, us Finns have always been big on economy of force in our armed forces in our barely 1-century existence.

And don’t get me started on the language, man, like you know that adage about exploding wingnut heads? Our language can make wingnuts heads go supercritical *muhahaha*

Another thing I think all Finns are proud of is maintaining our national cohesion despite diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds. Like, there’s Finnish Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Protestant, Catholic religion (not to mention the various pentecostal groups). There is Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Sapmí and Karelian as to language. There is Tatars, Swedish, Sapmi, Russian, Karelians and Finns in terms of ethnic minorities.
And we’re all Finns first and foremost. That’s one of our important lessons from WWII, how much being divided among ourselves cost us.

Well, there is this joke about how people in the region drink their vodka…

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Seriously tho, I think many Finns may seem to drink a lot, but are really drinking in moderation over time instead of a lot over time. There are exceptions tho.

Voda, vodka…….meh, same thing, right?

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:05:09am

re: #310 lawhawk

Well, it starts at the top:

Speaker John Boehner ✔ @SpeakerBoehner

it’s encouraging that more Americans found work, but we must do more to help families get ahead

Every American deserves to get a head.

Spokesmodel for the GOP’s A Head In Every Head Act of 2015.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:05:13am

re: #325 The Vicious Babushka

Happy birthday to the one and only, Queen ��! Thank you for being a role model for young girls around the world, @Beyonce. -mo
— The First Lady (@FLOTUS) September 4, 2015

Me thinks she might be trolling Huckabee just a wee bit too.

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Jenner7  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:05:43am

re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sad how things change, but still remain the same….

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:05:49am

re: #336 Dr. Matt

Me thinks she might be trolling Huckabee just a wee bit too.

To be fair, it’s easy to troll Huckabee since he’s such a delicate flower.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:06:16am

nbcwashington.com
Way to close to home sigh. I’m literally in the town of Sterling now.

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Teukka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:06:54am

re: #334 Dr Lizardo

Voda, vodka…….meh, same thing, right?

No. There is a difference between them. Among the brands I’ve tried so far, I like Smirnoff the best, tho I have to try more brands…

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:07:40am

re: #338 HappyWarrior

To be fair, it’s easy to troll ______________ [insert name of any RWNJ] since he’s/she’s such a delicate flower.

FIFY.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:07:51am

re: #340 Teukka

No. There is a difference between them. Among the brands I’ve tried so far, I like Smirnoff the best, tho I have to try more brands…

The things we do For Science!!!!!!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:07:54am

You know, I can’t get into vodka. I’m a terrible Slav.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:08:32am

re: #341 Dr. Matt

FIFY.

Ah true but Huckabee especially. The WaPo had a list of things he’s slammed over the years. The guy should apply when Iran needs a new Supreme Leader when Khameini dies.

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Teukka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:09:29am

re: #343 HappyWarrior

You know, I can’t get into vodka. I’m a terrible Slav.

Me neither. My quality assurance research of the vodka brands of the world has been put on hold for the time being…

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:10:10am

re: #345 Teukka

Me neither. My quality assurance research of the vodka brands of the world has been put on hold for the time being…

It’s not for lack of effort. I appreciate it but I’m much more of an IPA/Whiskey(I include bourbon in that) guy.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:11:28am

FYI. Nothing yet: gofundme.com/search&term=Kim Davis

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Mattand  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:12:26am

re: #277 Dark_Falcon

Obama’s veto will stand up, but there will be no fillibuster. And this is good because it will require him to formally reject the advice of the Congress. Which means that when Iran cheats on the agreement it will be known who should be blamed.

So the batshit insane, war-mongering, fanatical collection of psychos you support as a political party will get the chance to bomb Persians they so desperately want.

Because the only option I hear out of the Republicans is “Kill ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out.”

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:12:33am

re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth

Pushed Ike over the edge too. He really didn’t want to have to fight that battle but Little Rock was just too much and he rose to the occasion as a real American.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:12:56am

re: #347 Dr. Matt

FYI. Nothing yet: gofundme.com/search&term=Kim Davis

I am sure the AFA and FRC and like minded groups are already calling on the grandmothers they bilk out of their retirement funds and money for their children and grandchildren into helping to pay for Kim’s legal fees.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:13:25am

re: #348 Mattand

I don’t think the god thing comes into play here, because I don’t think wingnuts think Iranians or Muslims in general are human.

It would be harder to drop a bomb on a sleeping child if you think of them as your equivalent in terms of their basic human right not to die in a midnight bombing raid.

Well some sociopaths wouldn’t care anyways probs. See Kristoll, William.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:13:40am

re: #347 Dr. Matt

FYI. Nothing yet: gofundme.com/search&term=Kim Davis

There’s the Family Foundation of Kentucky scam fundraiser for her on FB.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:13:42am

re: #349 William Lewis

Pushed Ike over the edge too. He really didn’t want to have to fight that battle but Little Rock was just too much and he rose to the occasion as a real American.

Honestly, it was his best hour as President IMO.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:14:03am

re: #352 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s the Family Foundation of Kentucky scam fundraiser for her on FB.

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Yep, saw that coming from across the Cumberland Gap ;).

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:14:48am

re: #351 subterraneanhomesickalien

I don’t think the god thing comes into play here, because I don’t think wingnuts think Iranians are human.

I can tell you having an Islamaphobe in my family that they definitely do not.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:15:38am

Can’t believe I am seeing an almost gleeful wish for the Iran deal to fail so a certain someone’s party will look “good” and they can use it to blame the President. Sorry but enough of war and warmongreling.

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:16:57am

re: #333 Teukka

My college girlfriend (well, more than that for 7 years) was of Finnish extraction. Her grandfather was caught in the woods one day felling the Czar’s timber. He was chased for hundreds of miles to the port in Helsinki where, as the ship pulled away from the docks the Russian police stood helpless on the docks. He was alleged to have made a, umh, Physical display of his contempt for the Russians but they were never willing to say exactly what he did.

He ended up in Minnesota where I met a very good young woman many years later.

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allegro  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:17:05am

re: #352 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s the Family Foundation of Kentucky scam fundraiser for her on FB.

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The same fundraiser that tells donors to not put her name anywhere on their donations cuz IRS?

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:17:36am

re: #217 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Robert Silverberg (yes, that Robert Silverberg) wrote one of the best books on the subject.

Missed your reply earlier—thanks.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:17:42am

re: #352 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s the Family Foundation of Kentucky scam fundraiser for her on FB.

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What financial struggle? She’s making $80K/year for not doing her job. The grift marches on…..

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danarchy  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:18:21am

re: #340 Teukka

No. There is a difference between them. Among the brands I’ve tried so far, I like Smirnoff the best, tho I have to try more brands…

Having tried most of the major brands, mt final conclusion is there is little difference between any of the triple distilled(or more) vodkas. My goto is Svedka, it is much better bargain than most of the others and right up there in quality. I actually prefer Finlandia straight up, but most of the time my vodka gets mixed with something else. Grey Goose and Belvedere are good but over priced. The rest like your Smirnoff, Absolut, Stoli, Skyy etc. are all pretty interchangeable for me.

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:18:44am

re: #340 Teukka

No. There is a difference between them. Among the brands I’ve tried so far, I like Smirnoff the best, tho I have to try more brands…

Grey Goose is decent as is Belvedere. But honestly? Push comes to shove, I’ll always get Stoli first.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:18:53am

My uncle’s wife is of Finnish background. She’s not but I don’t hold that against all Finns hehe. I actually met a woman from Finland who was the girlfriend of a guy I did some campus activism stuff with. Fascinating people. I always have been amazed about how they handled the Soviet invasion in the Winter War.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:20:23am

re: #360 Dr. Matt

What financial struggle? She’s making $80K/year for not doing her job. The grift marches on…..

I’d bet right now that she makes three times the median income of her county. Easily twice since national median income is around 40K and add to it I think she’s in a rural area that I think has fallen on hard times.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:20:47am

She’s entitled to a defense of course but the idea that she’s this poor helpless woman is laughable.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:20:54am

I like the Polish vodka brand Sobieski.

Its well priced and still good for drinking straight. Clean or on ice.

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lawhawk  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:21:15am

OFFS

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:22:05am

Sorta like how everyone can do it already?

Besides, does Rand have any idea how much a Catholic wedding with a full mass costs these days?

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allegro  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:22:12am

I’m looking forward to my first taste of Cuban rum. :)

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:23:38am

re: #367 lawhawk

Any sane flag bearing American would have their national dander up over that type of maliciousness and slander of a former president by a foreign publication.

But not for wingnut America.

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Jenner7  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:23:41am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:23:42am

re: #367 lawhawk

OFFS

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Oh fuck off. And I was saying that to people who claimed Sharon’s stroke was divine punishment too. Obvs not directed at you LH but th writer of that ridiculous crap.

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Teukka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:23:42am

re: #363 HappyWarrior

My uncle’s wife is of Finnish background. She’s not but I don’t hold that against all Finns hehe. I actually met a woman from Finland who was the girlfriend of a guy I did some campus activism stuff with. Fascinating people. I always have been amazed about how they handled the Soviet invasion in the Winter War.

To be fair, it was not all Finnish “sisu”, economy of force and us getting provoked into fierce warrior mode, Stalin made some serious mistakes leading up to the Winter War. Hence the mind-boggling kill ratio.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:23:56am

re: #358 allegro

The same fundraiser that tells donors to not put her name anywhere on their donations cuz IRS?

yes

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:25:01am

re: #373 Teukka

To be fair, it was not all Finnish “sisu”, economy of force and us getting provoked into fierce warrior mode, Stalin made some serious mistakes leading up to the Winter War. Hence the mind-boggling kill ratio.

Still taking on a country like that. Yeah I know that the purges crippled Red Army leadership but you guys were still tough in what’s a forgotten if not known at all chapter to many Americans.

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Kragar  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:25:19am

Ben has awoken

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:25:23am

re: #367 lawhawk

OFFS

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Seconded.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:25:44am

re: #367 lawhawk

OFFS

According to Google Translate, “click bait” in Hebrew is לחץ פיתיון.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:26:15am

Those SYG laws are working just swimmingly.

Florida security guard admits killing unarmed black man: ‘I was arrested because of George Zimmerman’

“The reason the evidence was fabricated is because I’m white,” Kendle told jurors.

“The subjects I shot were African-American, I can prove that,” he continued. “What they’re not allowing me to tell you is that I was arrested because of the George Zimmerman shooting.”

[…]

Kendle told jurors he would not testify on his own behalf, but in opening statements he described Byrd and Smathers as “forward aggressors.”

“They forced me to survive,” Kendle said. “I’m paid to protect. Having no duty to retreat, I stood my ground.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:26:38am

re: #376 Kragar

Ben has awoken

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So, Ben you okay when a clerk denies you any application because you’re Jewish. Stop being a bigoted asshole and realize that when Kim Davis discriminates against gay people, she discriminates against everyone.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:26:55am

re: #364 HappyWarrior

I’d bet right now that she makes three times the median income of her county. Easily twice since national median income is around 40K and add to it I think she’s in a rural area that I think has fallen on hard times.

median income in Rowan County is mid-$30,000s.

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:27:01am

re: #373 Teukka

To be fair, it was not all Finnish “sisu”, economy of force and us getting provoked into fierce warrior mode, Stalin made some serious mistakes leading up to the Winter War. Hence the mind-boggling kill ratio.

Yeah, they walked in with the results of the purges and got smacked. Later, they had a war tested army and surrender was the only sane option for Finland.

OT aside, I wonder if I own a copy of Finlandia…

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:27:15am

re: #379 Dr. Matt

Those SGY laws are working just swimmingly.

Agh!!!

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:27:24am

re: #376 Kragar

I would wonder what would be the actual reaction by fools like this if they were actually under the boot of real authoritarian state.

Of course how could they ever actually experience that when for the most of history people like him have been wearing the boot.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:27:45am

re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth

median income in Rowan County is mid-$30,000s.

Quick math, around 2.5X the County median. Thanks.

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Teukka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:28:22am

re: #375 HappyWarrior

Still taking on a country like that. Yeah I know that the purges crippled Red Army leadership but you guys were still tough in what’s a forgotten if not known at all chapter to many Americans.

Well, it’s also that us Finns don’t want to brag… Pardon my French, but the element of surprise when you walk into a fight of whose *cough* organ *cough* is the longest in an unassuming manner and whip out the biggest in the county is not to be underestimated… :P

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:29:30am

re: #386 Teukka

Well, it’s also that us Finns don’t want to brag… Pardon my French, but the element of surprise when you walk into a fight of whose *cough* organ *cough* is the longest in an unassuming manner and whip out the biggest in the county is not to be underestimated… :P

Heh. Yeah those are always tough. I remember reading about the ski guerrilla attacks.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:30:26am

re: #384 subterraneanhomesickalien

I would wonder what would be the actual reaction by fools like this if they were actually under the boot of real authoritarian state.

Of course how could they ever actually experience that when for the most of history people like him have been wearing the boot.

Frankly if we were a real authoritarian state, a lot of them would embrace it. Think I’m wrong? Look at how many of them openly admire Pinochet simply because Pinochet was a free market capitalist. That he was an authoritarian asshole is trivial.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:30:35am

re: #367 lawhawk

OFFS

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Classic example of bad headlining. The article sets the headline up as a “Some Say”, then spends all the text debunking it.

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No Country For Old Haters  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:31:46am

re: #376 Kragar

Ben has awoken

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:32:00am

re: #368 De Kolta Chair

Sorta like how everyone can do it already?

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Besides, does Rand have any idea how much a Catholic wedding with a full mass costs these days?

Lots of people don’t get married in churches or other places of worship.
So, Rand is saying “no marriages for them!”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:32:54am

Ben and the other homophobes can’t give an actual legal reason to find fault with SSM being legal. Kennedy and the majority actually used the Constitution and precedent to come to their conclusions. That’s more than you can say about Ben and his friends who are grossed out by gays so they don’t think they should have rights.

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Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:33:24am

I’d ask if Ben ever considers that he’s making the same arguments that people were making in the wake of Loving, but I’m sure he’d have no problem with that association.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:33:52am

re: #391 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lots of people don’t get married in churches or other places of worship.
So, Rand is saying “no marriages for them!”

I really wish the naive and honestly stupid young people who think Rand Paul is a “different kind of Republican” would look at what he actually does and says. He’s a theocrat through and through. He’s just a theocrat of a different bent.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:34:07am

re: #389 Decatur Deb

Classic example of bad headlining clickbait. The article sets the headline up as a “Some Say”, then spends all the text debunking it.

FTFY

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:34:30am

re: #393 Targetpractice

I’d ask if Ben ever considers that he’s making the same arguments that people were making in the wake of Loving, but I’m sure he’d have no problem with that association.

They’re the exact same arguments.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:34:44am

Is Ben Shapiro an actual dyed in the wool ultra-ultra Orthodox Jew, or is he just the standard issue College Republican molded talking head and grievance machine?

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:36:45am

re: #397 subterraneanhomesickalien

Is Ben Shapiro an actual dyed in the wool ultra-ultra Orthodox Jew, or is he just the standard issue College Republican molded talking head and grievance machine?

Ben’s religion is Being An Asshole.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:36:45am

re: #397 subterraneanhomesickalien

Is Ben Shapiro an actual dyed in the wool ultra-ultra Orthodox Jew, or is he just the standard issue College Republican molded talking head and grievance machine?

I would bet the latter. I can’t claim to know his faith but like CCJ, Erick Erickson, it all rings and comes off very hollow and shallow.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:37:13am

Ben is like the Energizer Bunny of Derp

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:37:34am

(4) Profit!!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:38:08am

I don’t understand how this stupid little shit got into Harvard.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:38:37am

re: #401 The Vicious Babushka

(4) Profit!!!

(5) Everyone is a constitutional scholar.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:39:36am

re: #403 Dr. Matt

(5) Everyone is a constitutional scholar.

EXCEPT TEH SCOTUS THEY ARE TEH COMMUNISTS!!!1!1!!111

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:39:39am

re: #402 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t understand how this stupid little shit got into Harvard.

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I think he’s purposefully this intellectually dishonest. Besides, he’s eager for all the Christian fundamentalists to love him and tell him they don’t think he’s going to hell. He really is sad.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:40:39am

Ben lives in LA doesn’t he? Well I almost want to see the LA County clerk deny Ben something on the ground that Ben is a pathetic asshole and enabling pathetic assholes the ability to do anything is against their religion.

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wrenchwench  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:42:32am

Fascinating.

Serena and Tiger are both native Southern Californians, but currently make their home in gated Florida estates. Of course, that’s like conflating Watts with West Covina.

She is literally straight outta Compton. He is … straight outta Orange County.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:42:44am

re: #391 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lots of people don’t get married in churches or other places of worship.
So, Rand is saying “no marriages for them!”

Yep. Does he mean we civilly married atheist couples will have to re-marry in a church/temple/new age yurt or be sent straight to religious indoctrination/prison/FEMA death camp?

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:42:57am

re: #388 HappyWarrior

Pinochet is one of the reasons that I regard capitalism and democracy as not being friends, or even natural allies. Given the opportunity capitalism will always work to undermine democratic principles.

As the generation after WWII demonstrates capitalism and democracy can have a good working relationship but capitalism will stick the knife in the first chance it gets.

ETA: Thought of a better word than ‘ability’.

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:44:00am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:44:08am

What does it tell all the right wing “legal scholars” that even Thomas and Scalia don’t think Davis has a case.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:44:49am

re: #402 The Vicious Babushka

re: #403 Dr. Matt

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:45:11am

re: #409 Romantic Heretic

Pinochet is one of the reasons that I regard capitalism and democracy as not being friends, or even natural allies. Given the ability capitalism will always work to undermine democratic principles.

As the generation after WWII demonstrates capitalism and democracy can have a good working relationship but capitalism will stick the knife in the first chance it gets.

Me too. We’re well Americans are anyhow(I know you’re Canadian) are pushed with this myth that free markets = democracy and vice versa. The Pinochet example proves that’s not the case.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:46:31am

re: #409 Romantic Heretic

It makes you come to the realization that Capitalism is just a continuation of Feudalism as Marx so famously wrote.

The landed aristocracy, rentier class, and the other majority holders of capital will always attempt game the system in their favor if given the chance.

Of course Marx didn’t see the election of people like FDR in the US or Clement Atley in the UK, who helped Capitalism from eating itself into oblivion.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:47:04am

re: #407 wrenchwench

Fascinating.

It goes without saying that Serena is one of the all-time tennis greats, but her style of play puts me to sleep.

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aagcobb  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:47:27am

re: #409 Romantic Heretic

Pinochet is one of the reasons that I regard capitalism and democracy as not being friends, or even natural allies. Given the ability capitalism will always work to undermine democratic principles.

As the generation after WWII demonstrates capitalism and democracy can have a good working relationship but capitalism will stick the knife in the first chance it gets.

You are blaming capitalism for something which is inherent in the human condition. Not matter how you structure society, some people will seek to accumulate wealth and power at the expense of others.

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:48:02am

re: #409 Romantic Heretic

I have argued, and believe, that 9/11/73 was a worse date for America than 9/11/01. I don’t get too much agreement.

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aagcobb  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:49:16am

re: #417 William Lewis

I have argued, and believe, that 9/11/73 was a worse date for America than 9/11/01. I don’t get too much agreement.

OK, I’ll bite. What happened on 9/11/73?

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wrenchwench  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:49:34am

re: #415 De Kolta Chair

It goes without saying that Serena is one of the all-time tennis greats, but her style of play puts me to sleep.

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I played some tennis in high school, but haven’t followed it since. I did live for a year right next to West Covina, however, so I feel all connected to the story.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:50:10am

re: #418 aagcobb

CIA and State Department backed Chilean coup.

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:50:18am

re: #413 HappyWarrior

Me too. We’re well Americans are anyhow(I know you’re Canadian) are pushed with this myth that free markets = democracy and vice versa. The Pinochet example proves that’s not the case.

As my favourite author puts it, “Capitalism was content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:50:31am

re: #418 aagcobb

OK, I’ll bite. What happened on 9/11/73?

The Pinochet Coup courtesy of Dr. Henry Kissinger, Nobel Laureate.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:51:12am

re: #421 Romantic Heretic

As my favourite author puts it, “Capitalism was content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.”

Yep and a lot of free market absolutists who insist that only capitalism can provide democracy ignore that reality.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:52:12am
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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:53:55am

Ben is claiming to know more about Constitutional Law than SCOTUS justices who have been ruling on Constitutional issues since before that little shit was even alive.

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allegro  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:53:55am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

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Kragar  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:54:01am
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CuriousLurker  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:55:00am

re: #396 HappyWarrior

They’re the exact same arguments.

Speaking of arguments, this passage in my current book could’ve come straight from the mouth of Pamela Geller if you changed Jew(ish) to Muslim and goy to dhimmi.

“A political party, even though called ‘Populist,’ will never remove our bondage, nor prevent our race’s slaughter to gratify the blood lust of the eternal, destroying Jew,” Butler wrote. “Politics as we know it today is nothing more than Jewish duplicity and deception, bemusing the befuddled goy ‘sheep’ while they are being sheared.” —Richard Butler, founder of the Aryan Nations

Zeskind, Leonard (2010-04-01). Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream (p. 113). Macmillan. Kindle Edition.

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Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:55:12am

re: #427 Kragar

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William Lewis  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:55:29am

re: #418 aagcobb

OK, I’ll bite. What happened on 9/11/73?

The coup that put Pinochet in power over the legally elected Chilean Government. It lead to a series of far right wing governments in South America and the deaths of thousands of people whose only crime was to want their rights.

Had my family been Chilean in 1973, my parents would have been executed for union membership and my younger sisters adopted to good fascist parents. I would have been a toss up: at 10 years old I might have been seen as too old to save and executed with my parents.

Just one of Nixon and Kissenger’s many evil deeds.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:55:52am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

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How the hell can he say Obergefell was decided unlawfully. He can take fault with how Kennedy and the majority came to their conclusion but it’s not an unlawful decision at all simply because he has a problem with it. As the county clerk, Kim Davis’s job is to give marriage certificates for her county. Same sex marriage after the Obergefell decision is legal in her county, state, and country so yes she does Ben. Why don’t you stop being a pathetic hack and deal with it. I swear this guy is either the stupidest Harvard grad ever or he loves to play a big moron for the morons that read his stupid website.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:55:52am

re: #427 Kragar

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:55:54am

re: #423 HappyWarrior

There is a country of 1.5 billion in Asia that directly contradicts the dictum that Democracy and Capitalism are morally equivalent.

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aagcobb  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:56:51am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

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That is the derp I’ve been hearing around the wingnutosphere today. Why isn’t Obama/Hillary/Holder/Lerner et al in jail for breaking the law?

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:57:04am

re: #433 subterraneanhomesickalien

There is a country of 1.5 billion in Asia that directly contradicts the dictum that Democracy and Capitalism are morally equivalent.

Don’t make me guess.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:57:05am

re: #431 HappyWarrior

How the hell can he say Obergefell was decided unlawfully. He can take fault with how Kennedy and the majority came to their conclusion but it’s not an unlawful decision at all simply because he has a problem with it. As the county clerk, Kim Davis’s job is to give marriage certificates for her county. Same sex marriage after the Obergefell decision is legal in her county, state, and country so yes she does Ben. Why don’t you stop being a pathetic hack and deal with it. I swear this guy is either the stupidest Harvard grad ever or he loves to play a big moron for the morons that read his stupid website.

Ben is not stupid but he is playing to the rubes. He is their “Pet Jew” like Michael Medved 10 years ago.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:57:10am

re: #428 CuriousLurker

Speaking of arguments, this passage in my current book could’ve come straight from the mouth of Pamela Geller if you changed Jew(ish) to Muslim and goy to dhimmi.

I’ve told you about my research regarding Russian antisemitism at the turn of the 19th and early 20th century, it’s the exact same crap which is why it’s maddening from the outside looking in to see a Jewish person such as Geller engage in it.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:57:46am

re: #436 The Vicious Babushka

Ben is not stupid but he is playing to the rubes. He is their “Pet Jew” like Michael Medved 10 years ago.

Yeah I think he’s playing the rubes for sure too. It just must hurt to type that much stupid drivel into one tweet.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:59:04am

re: #437 HappyWarrior

I’ve told you about my research regarding Russian antisemitism at the turn of the 19th and early 20th century, it’s the exact same crap which is why it’s maddening from the outside looking in to see a Jewish person such as Geller engage in it.

Pamela calls any Jew who disagrees with her a “Kapo” and Ben says that any Jews who disagree with him are not really Jews.

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aagcobb  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:59:16am

re: #431 HappyWarrior

How the hell can he say Obergefell was decided unlawfully. He can take fault with how Kennedy and the majority came to their conclusion but it’s not an unlawful decision at all simply because he has a problem with it. As the county clerk, Kim Davis’s job is to give marriage certificates for her county. Same sex marriage after the Obergefell decision is legal in her county, state, and country so yes she does Ben. Why don’t you stop being a pathetic hack and deal with it. I swear this guy is either the stupidest Harvard grad ever or he loves to play a big moron for the morons that read his stupid website.

The lawless judicial Nazis have been a rightwing bugaboo for decades, ever since Brown v. The Board of Education.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:59:21am

For all their fears about Shariah law, these people who want to use religion as a reason to deny having to follow secular law. If Shariah ever comes, it will be due to idiots like Kim Davis and her right wing friends who want to blend secular law and their interpretation of religious law into one.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:59:23am

re: #367 lawhawk

OFFS

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:59:44am

re: #439 The Vicious Babushka

Pamela calls any Jew who disagrees with her a “Kapo” and Ben says that any Jews who disagree with him are not really Jews.

Yep and it’s disgusting.

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nicdanger  Sep 4, 2015 • 10:59:51am

re: #410 FormerDirtDart
Yes,that’s big news here in Hemet.And everybody thinks the town is full of retired conservative assholes… Hah! Well actually,it is. But obviously someone around here is leading a more interesting life than folks are used to.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:00:06am

re: #440 aagcobb

The lawless judicial Nazis have been a rightwing bugaboo for decades, ever since Brown v. The Board of Education.

Yep.

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aagcobb  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:01:12am

re: #442 Blind Frog Belly White

So, let me see if I understand this - God is punishing Carter by allowing him to live years beyond average lifespan for a man born in 1924, then killing him off with the second most prevalent cause of death in his age group?

God’s a sneaky bugger, ain’t he?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:01:15am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

You know, Ben, if you aren’t willing to accept the system of self-governance that the rest of us all came up with, you’re free to leave.

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Kragar  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:01:41am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:02:22am

In regard to Iron Maiden’s upcoming tour for The Book of Souls, looks like Bruce Dickinson - the Iron Maiden Bruce Dickinson, not the Bruce Dickinson - will be handling pilot duties this time.

Iron Maiden have confirmed that they’ll be hitting the road next year for a huge The Book Of Souls world tour.

The band have revealed that pilot and frontman Bruce Dickinson will be jetting the group around in a Boeing 747-400, travelling over 55,000 miles to six of the seven continents. Now that is how you do a tour.

“When the opportunity arose from my friends at Air Atlanta Icelandic to lease a 747 for The Book of Souls World Tour, of course we jumped at the chance, who wouldn’t?” Bruce admits. “The greatest benefit of travelling in a 747 is that because of its colossal size and freight capacity we can carry our stage production and all our stage equipment and desks in the cargo hold without having to make any of the immense structural modifications needed to do this on the previous 757, the extent of which fans will have noted on the Flight 666 DVD. Although in reality we cannot carry much more gear the savings in complexity, time and cost make using the 747 even more practical. All we will need to do is “paint” it and move a few seats around, with the added advantage that there is much more room for band and crew - our Krew can almost get a row of seats each to catch up on sleep on the flights! Furthermore, it is marginally faster o.85 MACH and the range of around 7000NM (13,000 km) is much greater which means we will not have to make the refuelling stops we needed to with the 757.
“However, even though we have worked out the logistics of taking a plane of that immense size out on tour, I still have to learn to fly it before we can go anywhere! So, I’m currently doing my training to qualify as a pilot and Captain on a Boeing 747. I’m doing this at Cardiff Aviation, my aircraft maintenance facility in Wales, where we recently took possession of a rather splendid 747 simulator which I can’t wait to get practising on!”

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:02:37am

LOL as if all Jews have to agree with each other over everything. My son is so ornery that sometimes he will disagree with HIMSELF just to shake things up. (My late father-in-law was like that)

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:03:04am

re: #442 Blind Frog Belly White

So, let me see if I understand this - God is punishing Carter by allowing him to live years beyond average lifespan for a man born in 1924, then killing him off with the second most prevalent cause of death in his age group?

God is clever.

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#CampaignZero  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:03:53am

re: #410 FormerDirtDart

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:03:55am

re: #448 Kragar

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Todd Starnes would have cheered on Bull Connor and called MLK a communist race agitator. I honestly love that Jim Bunning’s son, a Bush appointee no less made the decision on this. Starnes has an obvious problem with our society. He can go wait behind Mike Huckabee for the Supreme Leader interview wait list.

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Mattand  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:04:04am

re: #351 subterraneanhomesickalien

I don’t think the god thing comes into play here, because I don’t think wingnuts think Iranians or Muslims in general are human.

It would be harder to drop a bomb on a sleeping child if you think of them as your equivalent in terms of their basic human right not to die in a midnight bombing raid.

Well some sociopaths wouldn’t care anyways probs. See Kristoll, William.

That kind of mindset that was my big wake up call about how fucked up conservatives were becoming, at least when it came to people of Arab and Persian ethnicity.

I’m pretty sure I mentioned this before, but I had to stop hanging out with a good friend from high school (I was the best man at his wedding) when Iraq War 2 broke out. I was with him and some of his acquaintances on the first night of the US bombing Baghdad.

We had to stop what we were doing so they could all turn Fox News, crack some beers, and watch it live like it was a fucking NFL game. I was stunned. People were literally dying live on a TV screen and these guys were having the times of their lives. USA #1 kind of bullshit.

What made it even more surreal is that the activity that we stopped was, believe it or not, Dungeons and Dragons. We were getting back into it as a nostalgic lark. I also find it a bit ironic that these guys were willing to play a game in which radicallly different races have to work together, yet were more than happy to watch those people get slaughtered on live TV.

The final kicker was when I brought up a mutual good buddy of ours from high school, who in the intervening 19 years had come out as gay. “Eh, that faggot is probably dead from AIDS, by now” was the response. I knew then it was time to bail.

The kicker is this guy runs a flower shop. At some point in the near future, you will see him in the news for refusing to supply flowers to a gay wedding.

So, yeah: that’s when I discovered what a shit show conservatism was becoming, and the vile influence Fox News has on these people.

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subterraneanhomesickalien  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:05:11am

You are a coward if you continuously allow these cretins to use these inverted analogies in which the oppressor becomes the victim and the victim become the oppressor.

And this is just what the media in this country does in order to make themselves feel like they are above a frey in which “both sides do it”.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:07:06am

re: #455 subterraneanhomesickalien

You are a coward if you continuously allow these cretins to use these inverted analogies in which the oppressor becomes the victim and the victim become the oppressor.

And this is just what the media in this country does in order to make themselves feel like they are above a frey in which “both sides do it”.

Those people are the worst IMO. “Oh, I’m above it, both sides suck.” I won’t call the Dems our nation’s saviors or say they have all the solutions to our nation’s problems but no the Dems are not as bad or worse than the Republicans. The Republicans and right are a party and ideology that wants to do away with every bit of progress we’ve made in some shape or form.

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lawhawk  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:12:27am

re: #431 HappyWarrior

Yes.

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nicdanger  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:12:27am

re: #452 #CampaignZero

Well whoever had it is probably in pretty deep shit,legally.I really doubt that they will just step forward to claim it.

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:16:31am

re: #452 #CampaignZero

Hemet! Holy crap, who the hell had that cat? Also declawed. :(

I think any time a 3-month old bengal-siberian tiger is found wandering around on it’s own is a “Holy Crap” moment, anywhere in North America, not just in Hemet, CA.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:17:05am

re: #453 HappyWarrior

Todd Starnes would have cheered on Bull Connor and called MLK a communist race agitator. I honestly love that Jim Bunning’s son, a Bush appointee no less made the decision on this. Starnes has an obvious problem with our society. He can go wait behind Mike Huckabee for the Supreme Leader interview wait list.

“If Martin Luther King Jr. REALLY cared about black people’s civil rights, he’d be protesting against black-on-black discrimination. Statistics show that more black people are individually disliked by other black people than are individually disliked by white people!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:32:54am

re: #446 aagcobb

God’s a sneaky bugger, ain’t he?

yeppers.
God: “hahahahaaa! No 100 year birthday card for YOU!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:34:20am

re: #448 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Dana MahGunz wants to remind Todd that Kim Davis is a Democrat…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:37:52am

re: #453 HappyWarrior

Todd Starnes would have cheered on Bull Connor and called MLK a communist race agitator. I honestly love that Jim Bunning’s son, a Bush appointee no less made the decision on this. Starnes has an obvious problem with our society. He can go wait behind Mike Huckabee for the Supreme Leader interview wait list.

Judge Bunning quite clearly laid it out for her and her supporters:

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:41:31am

re: #419 wrenchwench

I played some tennis in high school, but haven’t followed it since. I did live for a year right next to West Covina, however, so I feel all connected to the story.

/

I’ll have to check out the article.

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BeachDem  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:44:42am

re: #456 HappyWarrior

Those people are the worst IMO. “Oh, I’m above it, both sides suck.” I won’t call the Dems our nation’s saviors or say they have all the solutions to our nation’s problems but no the Dems are not as bad or worse than the Republicans. The Republicans and right are a party and ideology that wants to do away with every bit of progress we’ve made in some shape or form.

I like to phrase it, “The Democrats don’t have all the answers, but at least they know what the questions are.”

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2015 • 11:47:49am

re: #143 danarchy

They range in size, Blue fin are the ones that get really, really big, I believe yellowfin get to maybe 100lbs. This one was 50.

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E'Ville Mike  Sep 4, 2015 • 12:16:13pm

Chez - you’re gettin’ your chops back. The bit about Kilmeade having no problem with German was excellent. Keep doin’ good.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 4, 2015 • 12:17:01pm

re: #449 Dr Lizardo

“However, even though we have worked out the logistics of taking a plane of that immense size out on tour, I still have to learn to fly it before we can go anywhere! So, I’m currently doing my training to qualify as a pilot and Captain on a Boeing 747.”

“What could possibly go wrong?” asked Ricky Nelson, the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Richie Valens. Glenn Miller…

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2015 • 1:57:27pm

Oops, totally wrong thread.


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