Wednesday Night Jam: The Oh Hellos, "Dear Wormwood"

Wednesday Night Jam: The Oh Hellos, “Dear Wormwood”

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I just discovered this band from Texas through Apple Music, and their latest album, Dear Wormwood, is absolutely fantastic. Highest LGF recommendation.

Here’s how they describe it at their website:

Their second full-length album, Dear Wormwood, is a collection of songs inspired in part by C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters and Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind, mythology and folklore, and apocalyptic literature. The album tells the story of a protagonist trapped in an abusive relationship, by way of letters written to the antagonist.

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Charles Johnson Oct 21, 2015 • 6:05:01pm

I’ve been getting emails all day from right wing groups trying to run interference for Netanyahu’s appalling statements about the Holocaust.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2015

Don’t be surprised that Netanyahu is parroting a common line from the US “anti-jihad” nutcases. His govt’s been courting them for years.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2015

Seeing this vile Holocaust revisionism at the highest levels of Israeli govt makes me glad I renounced the “anti-jihad” creeps years ago.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2015

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 6:06:51pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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I am not surprised, I am disappointed though since as an Israeli and Jew, Bibi should know better than that. Maybe it’s not my place to say that but the fact of the matter is lots of ethnic groups and religious groups helped the Nazis and it is wrong to assign collective ethnic guilt. It’s just as wrong as Bryan Fischer using the existence of a rare few homosexuals who were Nazis as a reason to persecute gay people. Ultimately, we do not mistreat German Lutheran males negatively as a group and they were the group that participated the most in Nazism’s rise and fall.

De Kolta Chair Oct 21, 2015 • 6:09:31pm

The power of Christ compels you to vote Ben Carson 2016!

Brian J. Oct 21, 2015 • 6:11:19pm

re: #3 De Kolta Chair

Doesn’t deserve to be taken that seriously.

Austin Powers - Dr. Evil : The power of Christ

“Sick as a dog. Gonna vom.”

stpaulbear Oct 21, 2015 • 6:14:21pm

Mat Staver is taking lessons from Chucky. (via JoeMyGod)

Liberty Counsel: The Associated Press Has Put Our Lives In Danger And Defamed Us By Reporting That We Are A Lying Hate Group

De Kolta Chair Oct 21, 2015 • 6:15:29pm

re: #4 Brian J.

Doesn’t deserve to be taken that seriously.

SOCK IT TO ME???

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 6:15:49pm

re: #5 stpaulbear

Mat Staver is taking lessons from Chucky. (via JoeMyGod)

Liberty Counsel: The Associated Press Has Put Our Lives In Danger And Defamed Us By Reporting That We Are A Lying Hate Group

Cry me a river Mat. Being called a hate group is what you are. Maybe stop slandering gay people and you won’t be called hateful. You’re nothing but a bully who finally has gotten what he has coming to him.

Nyet Oct 21, 2015 • 6:17:13pm

A historically informed article about the Netanyahu debacle - from Vox, of all places: vox.com

dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Oct 21, 2015 • 6:17:28pm

re: #6 De Kolta Chair

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how did nixon get so young?

Barefoot Grin Oct 21, 2015 • 6:20:32pm

Everything’s OT? I heard my old college friends Amy Ray and Emily Saliers singing “Closer to Fine” on the radio tonight and had lots of flashbacks.

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 6:21:46pm

re: #8 Nyet

A historically informed article about the Netanyahu debacle - from Vox, of all places: vox.com

What makes it laughable to me is it goes against everything we know about Hitler. Hitler wouldn’t even listen to his own officers for military advice and we’re to believe that he would decide to kill the Jews just because of a conversation he had with the Mufti? Not to mention that there were other groups that he killed too. But what gets me the most pissed off about is this sense of collective ethno and religious guilt he is trying to place on the Palestinian and Muslim people. If you’ve read about the RIghteous Among the Nations recipients like I have, you’ll see men and women from many nationalities and religions and the reverse is true sadly too as men and women from all backgrounds helped the Nazis too including some Americans.

The Vicious Babushka Oct 21, 2015 • 6:21:52pm

While everybody’s yapping about all the stuff Back To The Future did NOT predict about 2015, this 1995 movie about online identity theft was pretty much right on the money. Except for the Hollywood “computer graphics” which were just crap and pretty much still are.

The Net Sandra Bullock

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 6:22:48pm

re: #12 The Vicious Babushka

While everybody’s yapping about all the stuff Back To The Future did NOT predict about 2015, this 1995 movie about online identity theft was pretty much right on the money. Except for the Hollywood “computer graphics” which were just crap and pretty much still are.

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I think it’s the whole Cubs thing that has everyone talking and the fact that it was such a popular series. I remember that Bullock movie though. Plus today’s the day that Marty entered 2015.

ObserverArt Oct 21, 2015 • 6:24:54pm

Great music once again Charles.

These guys are almost an orchestra, not just a band. Good stuff.

Feline Fearless Leader Oct 21, 2015 • 6:26:26pm

Good evening Lizards. Got home from work, fed the cats, and went right into cooking mode.

Here’s the result -

Eggplant parm

Served with a red wine (cabernet savignon from VA), a small spinach salad with apple, and a single piece of chocolate for dessert.

Plenty of leftovers for the next few days as well.

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 6:27:13pm

re: #15 Feline Fearless Leader

Good evening Lizards. Got home from work, fed the cats, and went right into cooking mode.

Here’s the result -

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Served with a red wine (cabernet savignon from VA), a small spinach salad with apple, and a single piece of chocolate for dessert.

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Plenty of leftovers for the next few days as well.

Yummy.

sizzzzlerz Oct 21, 2015 • 6:27:59pm

6-0 Mets in the 4th. If the Back to the Future prediction is true, the Cubbies are gonna have to climb out of a deep hole.

klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 21, 2015 • 6:28:10pm

re: #15 Feline Fearless Leader

I am doing baked fish tacos for dinner, with a chipotle slaw and pico de gallo.

Feline Fearless Leader Oct 21, 2015 • 6:29:23pm

re: #18 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am doing baked fish tacos for dinner, with a chipotle slaw and pico de gallo.

That sounds like a real good idea for next week’s menu.

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 6:30:58pm

re: #17 sizzzzlerz

6-0 Mets in the 4th. If the Back to the Future prediction is true, the Cubbies are gonna have climb out of a deep hole.

I feel for them. I know how it feels to feel on top of the mountain one minute and then to face a sweep the next series. Happened just last year to my Orioles. Cubs fans should still feel optimistic though. They’ve got a young team and those guys like Bryant,aren’t goin ganywhere any time soon.

The Vicious Babushka Oct 21, 2015 • 6:31:55pm

re: #13 HappyWarrior

I think it’s the whole Cubs thing that has everyone talking and the fact that it was such a popular series. I remember that Bullock movie though. Plus today’s the day that Marty entered 2015.

The BTTF trilogy was iconic, The Net was mediocre, but 20 years ago most people didn’t even know what the Internet was, and those of us who did basically were on Usenet and listservs. The Net predicted a lot of online activity which is commonplace today but unheard of 20 years ago, and it wasn’t even set in the future.

Hollywood still can’t get computer interface right, even today when everybody knows what Facebook and Twitter look like. Everything has to be YOOGE 3D clear glass touchscreens or some other shit that normal people don’t have, just to make it look, oh I don’t know, more Hollywoody.

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 6:35:42pm

re: #21 The Vicious Babushka

The BTTF trilogy was iconic, The Net was mediocre, but 20 years ago most people didn’t even know what the Internet was, and those of us who did basically were on Usenet and listservs. The Net predicted a lot of online activity which is commonplace today but unheard of 20 years ago, and it wasn’t even set in the future.

Hollywood still can’t get computer interface right, even today when everybody knows what Facebook and Twitter look like. Everything has to be YOOGE 3D clear glass touchscreens or some other shit that normal people don’t have, just to make it look, oh I don’t know, more Hollywoody.

Oh i know. I am just giving my explanation why people are talking about BTTF today. I need to rewatch that one. Sometimes the movies and lit with the best vision of the future aren’t actually the best written or filmed.

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 6:36:37pm

re: #18 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am doing baked fish tacos for dinner, with a chipotle slaw and pico de gallo.

Those sound good. Alreaedy had dinner. Meat loaf with green salsa on it, baked potato, buffalo cauliflower, and sugarsnap green beans.

dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Oct 21, 2015 • 6:37:09pm

back to the future

im beginning to think that the future will never arrive

Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 21, 2015 • 6:37:58pm

re: #8 Nyet

A historically informed article about the Netanyahu debacle - from Vox, of all places: vox.com

Bibi really fucked things up.

Charles Johnson Oct 21, 2015 • 6:37:59pm

Anti-Muslim hate group leader Pamela Geller has been pushing the “Mufti of Jerusalem” propaganda for many years. https://t.co/q46iKPevtt

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2015

The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Oct 21, 2015 • 6:38:30pm

re: #22 HappyWarrior

Oh i know. I am just giving my explanation why people are talking about BTTF today. I need to rewatch that one. Sometimes the movies and lit with the best vision of the future aren’t actually the best written or filmed.

I liked when Marty slammed into and knocked over one of the big trees on his arrival in 1955—so he left the Twin Tree Mall and when he got back to 1985 it was the Lone Pine Mall.

dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Oct 21, 2015 • 6:38:52pm

re: #18 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am doing baked fish tacos for dinner, with a chipotle slaw and pico de gallo.

why is it so popular these days to eat food that bites back?

Jenner7 Oct 21, 2015 • 6:38:52pm

Current mood

G’night lizards. See you for the Benghazi clown show.

Hope no one is offended by my picture, just had a shitty day. Have a good night.

lawhawk Oct 21, 2015 • 6:39:08pm

re: #8 Nyet

I got email from someone today who actually tried to make the Barry Rubin argument, which essentially ignores the body of evidence suggesting the Nazis were going down the path to genocide well before the meeting between Hitler and the Mufti.

Thing is, the Einsatzgruppen were already engaging in killing Jews all across Eastern Europe, and the leadership was moving towards an approach that would ultimately be the Final Solution.

Netenyahu has reason to know this. He’s been to Yad Vashem. He’s spoken to survivors. He knows the history. He’s just busy spinning it to further a political outcome - or perhaps to offset the revisionism going on with Palestinians (see the UNESCO draft on the Western Wall being proffered by the PA). Both notions of revisionism are abhorrent.

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 6:39:39pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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Yes she has. It’s not htat Mufit wasn’t a bad guy, it’s that blaming him for the Holocaust is absurd.

klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 21, 2015 • 6:39:40pm

re: #28 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

why is it so popular these days to eat food that bites back?

Neither of these are terribly spicy. I can’t do that. >.>

kirkspencer Oct 21, 2015 • 6:41:54pm

re: #21 The Vicious Babushka

The BTTF trilogy was iconic, The Net was mediocre, but 20 years ago most people didn’t even know what the Internet was, and those of us who did basically were on Usenet and listservs. The Net predicted a lot of online activity which is commonplace today but unheard of 20 years ago, and it wasn’t even set in the future.

Hollywood still can’t get computer interface right, even today when everybody knows what Facebook and Twitter look like. Everything has to be YOOGE 3D clear glass touchscreens or some other shit that normal people don’t have, just to make it look, oh I don’t know, more Hollywoody.

So why should computer interface be different from everything else?

An example. Pick a New York based movie or TV series and tell me how (most of) the cast is affording to live where they are based on their purported incomes.

Or traffic for Our Heroes, except for the times it’s useful to the story for congestion or idiot other drivers.

Televisions, furniture, offices, and the list goes on. It’s almost always boosted beyond what the normal people have just to make it look more, well, Hollywoody.

The Vicious Babushka Oct 21, 2015 • 6:42:11pm

re: #22 HappyWarrior

Oh i know. I am just giving my explanation why people are talking about BTTF today. I need to rewatch that one. Sometimes the movies and lit with the best vision of the future aren’t actually the best written or filmed.

I know today is BTTF Day, but the fact is they were a pop culture comedy, not sci-fi, and they weren’t trying to actually predict the future.

Feline Fearless Leader Oct 21, 2015 • 6:42:13pm

re: #24 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

back to the future

im beginning to think that the future will never arrive

The future begins tomorrow.

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 6:42:25pm

re: #27 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I liked when Marty slammed into and knocked over one of the big trees on his arrival in 1955—so he left the Twin Tree Mall and when he got back to 1985 it was the Lone Pine Mall.

Yeah he hthat was a neat touch.

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 6:43:21pm

re: #34 The Vicious Babushka

I know today is BTTF Day, but the fact is they were a pop culture comedy, not sci-fi, and they weren’t trying to actually predict the future.

Just harmless fun. Besides the Cubs are about ot get get swept.

ObserverArt Oct 21, 2015 • 6:44:00pm

I did not realize Raul Labrador was one of the big leaders of the Freedom Caucus. Figures, one of the early Tea slurpers.

So, he comes out and says he and the group will support the nomination of Paul Ryan. Just watching Rachel, he is now double-speaking and saying they support him as a candidate, but they do not necessarily endorse him. So, unless they get more blood out of Ryan, they are still toying with the whole thing.

Guys like Labrador get drunk on power very easily. I think they whole group has been into the cheap stuff and they are all drunk. Little Ted Cruz like congress-critters. They do seem to learn to grandstand.

I hope Ryan, by this weekend, tells them all to stick it and refuses the job. America needs a big lesson on the splits in the Republican party.

NY Times - Freedom Caucus Majority Backs Paul Ryan for House Speaker

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Mr. Ryan, in a statement, indicated that he was prepared to seize the gavel. “I’m grateful for the support of a supermajority of the House Freedom Caucus,” he said.

Two other party factions are expected to deliver their support by Friday at the latest, meaning Mr. Ryan will be selected as the Republican designee next Wednesday and formally affirmed as speaker in a floor vote the next day.

One of the hard-liners, Representative Raúl Labrador of Idaho, said that roughly two-thirds of the Freedom Caucus had pledged to vote for Mr. Ryan for speaker, and called the outcome an “offer of support.”

Mr. Labrador, however, also warned that the group’s backing was far from unconditional.

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I guess that article was written before Rachel’s report came in.

And with that…later! Tomorrow will be the Hillary Inquisition with The High Lord Judge Trey Gowdy. That’ll be interesting…

Jebediah, RBG Oct 21, 2015 • 6:44:12pm

re: #21 The Vicious Babushka

Everything has to be YOOGE 3D clear glass touchscreens or some other shit that normal people don’t have, just to make it look, oh I don’t know, more Hollywoody.

It may look goofy, but it can be a convenient way to be able to show the display and the actors in the same frame.

Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 21, 2015 • 6:44:20pm

re: #18 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am doing baked fish tacos for dinner, with a chipotle slaw and pico de gallo.

Super yummy tuna salad here. Side of sauteed snow peas.

klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 21, 2015 • 6:45:42pm

re: #40 Stanley Sea Toujours

Super yummy tuna salad here. Side of sauteed snow peas.

I haven’t started cooking yet because mr. klys hasn’t left the office yet.

Yesterday he told me “between 6-7” and actually left at 7:30.

He told me the same thing today. I’m waiting to see what time he leaves today.

dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Oct 21, 2015 • 6:46:43pm

re: #35 Feline Fearless Leader

The future is tomorrow.

or maybe yesterday, since as i recall in bttf everybody in 2015 is not walking around staring into their phones

does marty or doc ever have to make a phone call in 2015 in the movie?

Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 21, 2015 • 6:48:07pm

re: #17 sizzzzlerz

6-0 Mets in the 4th. If the Back to the Future prediction is true, the Cubbies are gonna have climb out of a deep hole.

My Aunt Joan - I’ve spoken about her often - well she fits this thread, Mets fan since, well, she’s 85. She lives in Vegas & today checked a sports book bet she made. Swore it was for the Mets to GET to the WS. Turns out it was for them to win.

I told her to calm down, not over yet.

SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 21, 2015 • 6:49:37pm

re: #21 The Vicious Babushka

The BTTF trilogy was iconic, The Net was mediocre, but 20 years ago most people didn’t even know what the Internet was, and those of us who did basically were on Usenet and listservs. The Net predicted a lot of online activity which is commonplace today but unheard of 20 years ago, and it wasn’t even set in the future.

Hollywood still can’t get computer interface right, even today when everybody knows what Facebook and Twitter look like. Everything has to be YOOGE 3D clear glass touchscreens or some other shit that normal people don’t have, just to make it look, oh I don’t know, more Hollywoody.

On behalf of screenwriters and producers, computer use and graphics relate poorly on the screen, whether it the big one or the little one. They realize that most of the time, people are clicking, dragging and dropping, and that computers don’t keep beeping and tweeting. If all your hero detective/forensic investigator did was click on emails while seated at her/his desk, your show would take a turn for the boring. If MacMillan and Wife just sent text messages back and forth, what would you be watching?

Charles Johnson Oct 21, 2015 • 6:50:40pm

Netanyahu didn’t come up with this “Mufti of Jerusalem” stuff by himself. It’s been circulating in the US far right for a long time.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2015

SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 21, 2015 • 6:53:27pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

So why would Bibi go there this time? There have been many times with much greater violence. Why wouldn’t he have gone there then? Why not when he was trying to spike the Iran deal?

nines09 Oct 21, 2015 • 6:53:55pm

re: #17 sizzzzlerz

6-0 Mets in the 4th. If the Back to the Future prediction is true, the Cubbies are gonna have climb out of a deep hole.

Cub fans…..They have their heats ripped out and held up in front of them and right before they die, they think….”Next Year!” Generations have suffered punch in the face after punch in the face. The newspaper headline stating “Cubs Win World Series” will be followed by “Asteroid Sighted Heading For Earth.”

SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 21, 2015 • 6:55:45pm

It hurts more to lose in October than August, but the recovery is quicker.

Nyet Oct 21, 2015 • 6:55:51pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Netanyahu laps up the rw propaganda coming from the US. I saw his site recommending Joan Peters’ ridiculous screed once.

In fact:

Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, reportedly called Caro’s home shortly before she passed away. “He said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted my mother to know how grateful he was for all she had done for Israel,” Peters said, the Tribune reported.
haaretz.com

Nyet Oct 21, 2015 • 6:56:32pm

re: #46 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

He already did go there in 2012, somehow it got past everyone’s radars.

SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 21, 2015 • 6:58:10pm

re: #50 Nyet

Do you remember the context? I am curious about that and would like to read about it.

SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 21, 2015 • 6:58:38pm

re: #51 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I’m not really a good googler.

Barefoot Grin Oct 21, 2015 • 7:00:19pm

re: #10 Barefoot Grin

Everything’s OT? I heard my old college friends Amy Ray and Emily Saliers singing “Closer to Fine” on the radio tonight and had lots of flashbacks.

Indigo Girls, for those keeping track.

dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Oct 21, 2015 • 7:02:43pm

campaign slogans:

trump: make america grape again

hillary: GET OUTTA MY WAY YOU STUPID FUCKING WINGNUTS

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 7:05:07pm

Anyhow re-watching Nazi collaborators. It covers all sorts of different people who sided with the Nazis. Right now, I’m watching about teh Arajs Commando in Latvia.

SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 21, 2015 • 7:09:28pm

re: #55 HappyWarrior

When’s the Hillary Clinton episode?

De Kolta Chair Oct 21, 2015 • 7:12:23pm

re: #56 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

When’s the Hillary Clinton episode?

On Fox, it’s every episode.

Joe Bacon Oct 21, 2015 • 7:12:31pm

Can’t wait for tomorrow’s double header!

Hillary vs. Gowdy Doody and Chuck C’s motion deadline!

De Kolta Chair Oct 21, 2015 • 7:13:19pm

re: #9 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

how did nixon get so young?

Since he got it down Pat.

Badabing!

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 7:13:45pm

re: #56 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

When’s the Hillary Clinton episode?

Ha, this is acutal history.

HappyWarrior Oct 21, 2015 • 7:14:02pm

Anyhow night time for me.

klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 21, 2015 • 7:14:20pm

#GOP2016: The race to see who can be the worst person possible. “…And they’re off!”

— Jennifer Williams (@jenn_ruth) October 22, 2015

De Kolta Chair Oct 21, 2015 • 7:18:10pm

Nighty night

Astonishing Ayn Rand Comics, Issue #1

sagehen Oct 21, 2015 • 7:18:48pm

re: #33 kirkspencer

So why should computer interface be different from everything else?

An example. Pick a New York based movie or TV series and tell me how (most of) the cast is affording to live where they are based on their purported incomes.

The characters of “Friends” could afford their apartment because it was Monica’s grandmother’s rent-controlled lease from decades ago. Totally legitimate. And the Huxtables’ house was absolutely appropriate for an obstetrician whose wife is a partner in a downtown corporate law firm.

Seinfeld’s apartment, and George’s parents’ house in Queens, Don Draper’s upper east side apartment, the UWS brownstone Peggy bought in season 3, the Burkes’ Brooklyn place (“White Collar”), Travis Bickle’s Times Square-area SRO… all well in line with the the characters’ income.

WhatEVs Oct 21, 2015 • 7:23:24pm

re: #61 HappyWarrior

Anyhow night time for me.

Night night!

Nyet Oct 21, 2015 • 7:24:07pm

Mufti was a genocidal fuck, but that doesn’t mean you can be inaccurate about him now.

E.g. take this article:

jewishjournal.com

In 1942, Fred Grobba wrote approvingly of the Mufti’s visit with members of the Nazi elite to “the concentration camp Oranienburg … . The visit lasted about two hours with very satisfying results … . the Jews aroused particular interest among the Arabs… . It [the visit] … made a very favorable impression on the Arabs.”

Actually it was Mufti’s representative, not the Mufti himself (see e.g. this article)

Then there is this:

haaretz.com

Netanyahu stressed that there are many testimonies of the mufti’s involvement in the Final Solution. He quoted parts of the testimony given by Adolf Eichmann’s deputy Dieter Wisliceny at the Nuremberg trials. Wisliceny said that “the mufti played an important role in the Final Solution and was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jews.”

This is not Wisliceny’s testimony. It’s a hearsay statement by Kastner about what Wisliceny allegedly told him. Wisliceny did write about the Mufti at length is his handwritten statement, these words do not appear there.

Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 21, 2015 • 7:28:07pm

re: #66 Nyet

Bottom line, it’s disgusting that Netanyahu is doing.

Why is he taking this route?

gocart mozart Oct 21, 2015 • 7:29:19pm

A little taste of what Chuckles might be in store for: D.C. Circuit rules for satire in Jerome Corsi v. Esquire. It’s a very similar fact pattern but with walrus’s instead of sheep. popehat.com; Court decision here (only 23 pages) cadc.uscourts.gov

In an odd detour, Esquire’s article also reported upon a 2010 incident in which Farah and Corsi, visiting an aquarium during a World Net Daily team-building exercise, rushed the stage during a children’s show and began sexually abusing a performing walrus to the gasps and horrified screams of onlookers. “TAKE THAT KENYAN FASCIST,” Farah and Corsi reputedly screamed, although the aquarium’s presenter had specified that the walrus was indigenous to the Pacific. Esquire writer Mark Warren speculated that the outburst was spurred by the revelation that the walrus was named “Barry.”

Although Esquire updated the story to explain that it was satirical, at least as to the book, Farah and Corsi sued, claiming that many booksellers and retailers had taken the story literally and that their sales had suffered as a result and that a recent excursion to Sea World had been “tense.” The federal trial court granted Esquire’s motion to dismiss Farah’s and Corsi’s complaint, finding that the article was clearly satirical — and therefore not a statement of fact subject to defamation analysis — and that the court could take judicial notice under Federal Rule of Evidence 201 that Farah and Corsi were in fact sexual abusers of walruses because, in the words of that rule, that fact “can be accurately and readily determined from sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned.”

The Vicious Babushka Oct 21, 2015 • 7:35:35pm

South Park just did an episode about “internet shaming”

They think it’s mean to shame floorshitters on the Internet.

Joe Bacon Oct 21, 2015 • 7:39:41pm

re: #59 De Kolta Chair

Since he got it down Pat.

Badabing!

Reminds me of the joke that went around Pitt when I was a freshman in 1973…

“Why did Richard Nixon watch Deep Throat 10 times?”

“”He wanted to get it down Pat!”

“Why did Richard Nixon watch Deep Throat 20 times?”

“He wanted to get it down Checkers…”

Nyet Oct 21, 2015 • 7:46:45pm

It’s a thing.

Peter Novick has argued that the post-war historiographical depiction of al-Husseini reflected complex geopolitical interests that distorted the record.

‘The claims of Palestinian complicity in the murder of the European Jews were to some extent a defensive strategy, a preemptive response to the Palestinian complaint that if Israel was recompensed for the Holocaust, it was unjust that Palestinian Muslims should pick up the bill for the crimes of European Christians. The assertion that Palestinians were complicit in the Holocaust was mostly based on the case of the Mufti of Jerusalem, a pre-World War II Palestinian nationalist leader who, to escape imprisonment by the British, sought refuge during the war in Germany. The Mufti was in many ways a disreputable character, but post-war claims that he played any significant part in the Holocaust have never been sustained. This did not prevent the editors of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Holocaust from giving him a starring role. The article on the Mufti is more than twice as long as the articles on Goebbels and Göring, longer than the articles on Himmler and Heydrich combined, longer than the article on Eichmann—of all the biographical articles, it is exceeded in length, but only slightly, by the entry for Hitler.’

Eric The Fruit Bat Oct 21, 2015 • 7:53:04pm

re: #54 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Jesus Jones Right Here Right Now Doubt

klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 21, 2015 • 7:55:00pm

For those keeping score, he’s still there.

My dinner, I wants it…

Eric The Fruit Bat Oct 21, 2015 • 7:56:11pm

re: #58 Joe Bacon

Jesus Jones Right Here Right Now Doubt

makeitstop Oct 21, 2015 • 8:02:52pm

Daniel Murphy just set a new MLB post-season record for HRs in consecutive games. Unreal.

Feline Fearless Leader Oct 21, 2015 • 8:14:12pm

Hmm… Baseball and Wayne and Shuster. :)

wayne and schuster

klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 21, 2015 • 8:19:22pm

My second one star review because the app is not available in Russian.

Really.

Charles Johnson Oct 21, 2015 • 8:23:41pm

re: #77 klys (maker of Silmarils)

My second one star review because the app is not available in Russian.

Really.

как ты смеешь!

klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 21, 2015 • 8:28:44pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

Did I mention the part where it is free and I get nothing for this?

Archangelus Oct 21, 2015 • 8:36:09pm

Great Scott!!!

Romantic Heretic Oct 21, 2015 • 8:37:54pm

re: #35 Feline Fearless Leader

The future begins tomorrow.

We’re always being invaded by the future.

teleskiguy Oct 21, 2015 • 8:39:34pm

This will be my only Back To The Future Day post.

Honest Trailers - Back to the Future

LadyBehir Oct 21, 2015 • 8:41:37pm

Klys, don’t know if you saw it, but I posted that I thought of you at a Loreena McKennit concert last night. Lovely harp. Hope that makes up for the lousy review.

Ace-o-aces Oct 21, 2015 • 8:44:27pm

Dammit McFly! You altered the timeline! #MetsvsCubs #NLCS2015 #BackToTheFuture

— aceoaces (@aceoaces) October 22, 2015

Romantic Heretic Oct 21, 2015 • 8:46:54pm

re: #77 klys (maker of Silmarils)

*HUGS*

Been there.

Got one lousy review on my vampire anthology because the villain in one story was lesbian and in another, black. That meant I was racist and sexist.

Another was disappointed that my vampires in no way resembled those in Twilight.

Another is in Swedish, I think. When translated through Google it makes very little sense.

Trolls, what can you do about them?

darthstar Oct 21, 2015 • 8:47:50pm

Charles…Wormwood is one of my favorite instrumental jams by moe. and I’m sharing it with you here…if you get a chance to see these guys, do so. If they’re doing the late night set at a festival, pretend you’re in your twenties, beccause they’ll play from 2am to sunrise.

12 Wormwood-moe.down.XI 2010-09-04

Ace-o-aces Oct 21, 2015 • 8:52:17pm

re: #12 The Vicious Babushka

While everybody’s yapping about all the stuff Back To The Future did NOT predict about 2015, this 1995 movie about online identity theft was pretty much right on the money. Except for the Hollywood “computer graphics” which were just crap and pretty much still are.

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Also the idea that c.1995 Sandra Bullock would be a dateless shut-in requires some suspension of disbelief as well.

WhatEVs Oct 21, 2015 • 8:53:49pm

re: #80 Archangelus

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One of the screenwriters said today Biff was modeled on Trump.

Jebediah, RBG Oct 21, 2015 • 8:55:14pm

re: #87 Ace-o-aces

Also the idea that c.1995 Sandra Bullock would be a dateless shut-in requires some suspension of disbelief as well.

Maybe her character was a proto-Loesch and no one could stand to spend time with her.

Archangelus Oct 21, 2015 • 8:56:09pm

Ace-o-aces Oct 21, 2015 • 8:57:05pm

re: #90 Archangelus

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It took a lot of self control not to down vote that post…..

Ace-o-aces Oct 21, 2015 • 8:59:03pm

re: #89 Jebediah, RBG

Maybe her character was a proto-Loesch and no one could stand to spend time with her.

No, her character was a lonely, anti-social nerd….who looked like freaking 1995 Sandra Bullock.

Archangelus Oct 21, 2015 • 8:59:59pm

re: #91 Ace-o-aces

So sorry, just couldn’t resist..

TedStriker Oct 21, 2015 • 9:03:14pm

re: #77 klys (maker of Silmarils)

My second one star review because the app is not available in Russian.

Really.

Well, why isn’t it?

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teleskiguy Oct 21, 2015 • 9:14:23pm

Cory Wells from Three Dog Night died today.

Shannon Hoon from Blind Melon has been dead for 20 years as of today.

Such as life.

sizzzzlerz Oct 21, 2015 • 9:22:00pm

re: #95 teleskiguy

Cory Wells from Three Dog Night died today.

Shannon Hoon from Blind Melon has been dead for 20 years as of today.

Such as life.

One is the loneliest number

klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 21, 2015 • 9:22:10pm

re: #83 LadyBehir

Klys, don’t know if you saw it, but I posted that I thought of you at a Loreena McKennit concert last night. Lovely harp. Hope that makes up for the lousy review.

I did see! I got some time in with mine earlier this week (something I need to do more often) and was just noodling around on it.

Mostly just a lot of to do list stuff lately though. :(

dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Oct 21, 2015 • 9:23:08pm

ah it’s shubert’s refinished symphony

wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 21, 2015 • 9:24:15pm

re: #15 Feline Fearless Leader

Good evening Lizards. Got home from work, fed the cats, and went right into cooking mode.

Here’s the result -

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Served with a red wine (cabernet savignon from VA), a small spinach salad with apple, and a single piece of chocolate for dessert.

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Plenty of leftovers for the next few days as well.

Oh, gods, I miss eggplant parm.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 21, 2015 • 9:25:51pm

re: #99 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Oh, gods, I miss eggplant parm.

So is China like Japan in that real cheese is amazingly hard to find?

By the time we come back from Japan trips I am craving cheddar so hard.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 21, 2015 • 9:38:54pm

re: #87 Ace-o-aces

Also the idea that c.1995 Sandra Bullock would be a dateless shut-in requires some suspension of disbelief as well.

I would date Sandra in ‘95 or now.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 21, 2015 • 9:40:30pm

re: #100 klys (maker of Silmarils)

So is China like Japan in that real cheese is amazingly hard to find?

By the time we come back from Japan trips I am craving cheddar so hard.

Definitely. Cheese is not an Asian thing. The supermarkets seldom carry it, and if it’s there, it’s pasteurized process cheese food slices. To get real cheese, I have to order it online. It usually comes from Australia or NZ.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Oct 21, 2015 • 9:40:50pm

the disco version of strauss’ zarathustra is very dis-entertaining

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bratwurst Oct 21, 2015 • 9:41:13pm

This Just Not In™: In new speech, Netanyahu suggests Mufti of Jerusalem gave Volkswagen the idea for emissions -test-cheating software.

— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) October 22, 2015

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Charles Johnson Oct 21, 2015 • 9:48:14pm

Meanwhile, Chuck Johnson is back on his “fake rape” obsession.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 21, 2015 • 9:54:26pm

re: #105 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck Johnson is back on his “fake rape” obsession.

He has female relatives. I wonder what his reaction would be if one of them had been sexually assaulted or raped.

One of the comments at his blog points out that the woman never said she had been raped, but had been sexually assaulted. Chuck still calls it a “fake rape.”

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 21, 2015 • 10:02:46pm

Just caught the end of the Maddow rerun. There is talk of a Democratic walk out from the Bengazi commission once Clinton is done testifying. I think that’s a mistake. I remember the Soviets threw a temper tantrum in 1950 and that gave the UN the chance to intervene in Korea. Not the same stakes obviously, but I think walking away is more likely to have a bad outcome than a good one.

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teleskiguy Oct 21, 2015 • 10:09:29pm

Dude’s clamper is broken.

Christopher Ewart | Brian Head, UT| Photo: Andy Parisod #FreeheelLife pic.twitter.com/1IbMMFPUxf

— Freeheel Life (@freeheellife) October 21, 2015

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teleskiguy Oct 21, 2015 • 10:10:56pm

Oh brother.

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teleskiguy Oct 21, 2015 • 10:30:56pm

Dude, there’s been a bunch of shit about Star Wars and Back To The Future all over the fucking internet lately. Frankly I’m annoyed!

Maybe I’m just getting antsy. I think about skiing a lot these days.

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 21, 2015 • 10:58:16pm

re: #110 teleskiguy

Dude, there’s been a bunch of shit about Star Wars and Back To The Future all over the fucking internet lately. Frankly I’m annoyed!

Maybe I’m just getting antsy. I think about skiing a lot these days.

Well winter is fast approaching.

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retired cynic Oct 21, 2015 • 10:58:43pm

re: #111 Eclectic Cyborg

Well winter is fast approaching.

Boo, hiss. I’m not ready!

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Charles Johnson Oct 21, 2015 • 11:03:35pm

So, this rotten asshole who publicly tried to link me to mass murderer Anders Breivik knew he was spreading a lie.

@cindynorth1 IMO a false troll to a disingenuous reply is ok (eg CIA head’s personal info is sacred but not anyone else’s lol)

— Parm (@ParmB) October 21, 2015

@cindynorth1 it was a good meltdown 10/10 highly recommend 👌

— Parm (@ParmB) October 21, 2015

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teleskiguy Oct 21, 2015 • 11:07:44pm

I don’t know how you do it Charles. You’re on the receiving end of a lot of bullshit on the internet, bullshit lies. And UpChuck. And PJMedia, and goddamn whatever else.

I don’t know how you do it. You do it anyways. And that’s cool.

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 21, 2015 • 11:18:34pm

re: #114 teleskiguy

I don’t know how you do it Charles. You’re on the receiving end of a lot of bullshit on the internet, bullshit lies. And UpChuck. And PJMedia, and goddamn whatever else.

I don’t know how you do it. You do it anyways. And that’s cool.

It’s the ponytail. It bestows special powers.

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teleskiguy Oct 21, 2015 • 11:32:27pm

re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s the ponytail. It bestows special powers.

Believe me, I know about that long hair stuff.

:-P

instagram.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 21, 2015 • 11:48:15pm

Teenage rapper from Afghanistan Sonita Alizadeh.

دختر فروشی - سونیتا

Meet Afghanistan’s youngest female rapper, Sonita Alizadeh

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Bill and Opus for 2016! Oct 22, 2015 • 12:00:14am

Did the site just hiccup a couple minutes ago?

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Archangelus Oct 22, 2015 • 12:12:39am

re: #118 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Did the site just hiccup a couple minutes ago?

The server momentarily gained sentience in Skynet-like fashion, but then made the horrendous mistake of actually sifting through 25% of the RWNJ materials it has had to host and endure - unintentionally giving itself the digital equivalent of a lobotomy in the process of attempting to comprehend GOP logic, and so back to normal…

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teleskiguy Oct 22, 2015 • 12:21:59am

re: #119 Archangelus

A hamster got tired.

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Archangelus Oct 22, 2015 • 12:25:01am

re: #120 teleskiguy

Did they? I find it far more likely and far more reassuring to believe that the deluge of RWNJ derangement we endure helps keep the Great Cybernetic Menace at bay (by way of ensuring perpetual logic failure that no machine can withstand)… /

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 2:02:19am

re: #47 nines09

Cub fans…..They have their heats ripped out and held up in front of them and right before they die, they think….”Next Year!” Generations have suffered punch in the face after punch in the face. The newspaper headline stating “Cubs Win World Series” will be followed by “Asteroid Sighted Heading For Earth.”

The Cubs broke my young heart in 1969 - by being blown out of first place by the upstart Mets - and I have not recovered since. I think that was about the last time I followed any particular baseball team or the season in general.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 3:05:22am

MP3 Audio

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 3:11:20am

God coming to the aid of a mocked Ben Carson?

Iowa poll shows Ben Carson overtaking Donald Trump for the first time

Ben Carson has overtaken Donald Trump in Iowa, 28 - 20 percent among likely Iowa Republican Caucus participants, according to a new Quinnipiac poll released Thursday morning.

In its last survey, Sept.11, Trump led with 27 percent to Carson’s 21 percent.

Marco Rubio is in third, with 13 percent, followed by Ted Cruz, who attracted 10 percent support. Rand Paul has six percent and Jeb Bush is tied with Carly Fiorina - both have five percent.

[…]

Or… maybe it’s just the shiny-new-toy phenomenon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 3:14:13am

re: #124 freetoken

God coming to the aid of a mocked Ben Carson?

Iowa poll shows Ben Carson overtaking Donald Trump for the first time

In a way, yes. Ben is playing for the fundie Christian vote: they all see Trump as a purveyor of gambling, drinking and whoring. Good move on Ben’s part.

May the Power of Christ propel him into the lead…

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 3:20:31am

re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The so-called Republican base is just dithering because it doesn’t want to accept that which was intended to be given unto them - Jeb!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 3:24:31am

re: #126 freetoken

The so-called Republican base is just dithering because it doesn’t want to accept that which was intended to be given unto them - Jeb!

They cannot publicly accept the fact that Dubya fucked over both the party and the country, so they are just taking it out on his slower-witted brother.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 3:29:44am

A story from 3 days ago, part of a movement that is just being ignored by the so much of the socio-political sphere:

First Gene-Edited Dogs Reported in China

Scientists in China say they are the first to use gene editing to produce customized dogs. They created a beagle with double the amount of muscle mass by deleting a gene called myostatin.

The dogs have “more muscles and are expected to have stronger running ability, which is good for hunting, police (military) applications,” Liangxue Lai, a researcher with the Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, said in an e-mail.

Lai and 28 colleagues reported their results last week in the Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, saying they intend to create dogs with other DNA mutations, including ones that mimic human diseases such as Parkinson’s and muscular dystrophy. “The goal of the research is to explore an approach to the generation of new disease dog models for biomedical research,” says Lai. “Dogs are very close to humans in terms of metabolic, physiological, and anatomical characteristics.”

[…]

Last month, Duanqing Pei, a representative of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, highlighted Lai’s work as part of what he called a large Chinese effort to modify animals using CRISPR. The list of animals already engineered using gene editing in China includes goats, rabbits, rats, and monkeys. Pei described the efforts as a national scientific priority and part of China’s effort to establish world-class research.

The ease with which gene-editing can be carried out has raised worries that humans could be next (see “Engineering the Perfect Baby”). Those fears were stoked in April when another Chinese team reported altering human embryos in the laboratory in an attempt to correct a genetic defect that causes beta-thalassemia (see “Chinese Team Reports Gene-Editing Human Embryos”).

[…]

The effects of losing the myostatin gene are well known from nature. One breed of ultra-beefy cattle called Belgian Blues normally lack the gene and grow to hulking size. Among dogs, the mutation occurs naturally only in whippets, says Eva Engvall, a retired scientist and whippet breeder who in 2007 helped identify the mutation affecting that breed. The double-muscled dogs are called “bully whippets.”

In rare cases, a person can also be born without any working copy of myostatin. In 2004 doctors reported a newborn who “appeared extraordinarily muscular, with protruding muscles in his thighs and upper arms.” They confirmed he was missing the myostatin gene and noted that by four and a half years of age, the boy could extend his arms while holding three-kilogram dumbbells.

Because the myostatin gene is well-studied—and because double-muscling isn’t known to have obvious drawbacks—it is frequently cited in debates over hypothetical future “gene-doping” among athletes. U.S. doctors are already attempting to block myostatin in gene-therapy experiments that seek to slow muscle loss in boys suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

[…]

It is precisely that power that is stirring wide debate and concern over CRISPR. Yet at least some researchers think that gene-edited dogs could put a furry, friendly face on the technology. In an interview this month, George Church, a professor at Harvard University who leads a large effort to employ CRISPR editing, said he thinks it will be possible to augment dogs by using DNA edits to make them live longer or simply make them smarter.

Church said he also believed the alteration of dogs and other large animals could open a path to eventual gene editing of people. “Germline editing of pigs or dogs offers a line into it,” he said. “People might say, ‘Hey, it works.’ “

In this particular case of turning off the gene for myostatin, given such mutations have already been seen in humans, is a tempting thing for example when future generals want stronger soldiers.

Or in the simulated wars we call “sports”, think of this - the billionaire team owners breed entire teams of superior athletes.

Why not?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 3:34:02am

re: #128 freetoken

Kurt Russell in Soldier. en.wikipedia.org

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 3:34:09am

re: #128 freetoken

In this particular case of turning off the gene for myostatin, given such mutations have already been seen in humans, is a tempting thing for example when future generals want stronger soldiers.

Or in the simulated wars we call “sports”, think of this - the billionaire team owners breed entire teams of superior athletes.

Why not?

Because if we value winning professional sports teams over basic human dignity and integrity, that is what we will get.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 3:36:18am

Make no mistake about this - the throngs of Republicans clinging to Ben Carson are driven by a need to escape to a simpler world view, in which their lives are magickal and controlled by the Magician.

Meanwhile, in the real world, our multi-millennial quest to harness life is going to end up with us engineering our own replacements.

A fitting end to us, I think.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 3:37:59am

re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I’m really not against gene “editing” (aka genetic engineering) humans.

We can probably eliminate some diseases, minimize other maladies, and all around give the new-and-improved humans longer lives.

However, like all the other things we’ve invented, this tool can be put to some very bad purposes.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 3:40:52am

Co-requisite with any such effort is improving IVF success rates.

Oh… look… over there:

IVF patients now have the same chances of having a baby as naturally fertile women

British scientists have developed an affordable test that greatly increases the chances of conception for IVF patients. The team of researchers, led by Elpida Fragouli, have said that the test could be made available in six months. Chances of pregnancy for 35-year-old women can be increased to nearly 75 per cent by seeking unusual levels of mitochondrial DNA in embryos before implantation. This increases the odds of patients to have a baby up to the same levels as naturally fertile couples.

[…]

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 3:47:02am

re: #132 freetoken

I’m really not against gene “editing” (aka genetic engineering) humans.

We can probably eliminate some diseases, minimize other maladies, and all around give the new-and-improved humans longer lives.

However, like all the other things we’ve invented, this tool can be put to some very bad purposes.

that’s what I meant about valuing other things over human dignity and integrity.

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Teukka Oct 22, 2015 • 3:50:45am

Sweden is going to the dogs… :(

One dead, five injured in Swedish school attack

One person is dead and five are injured after a knife attack at a school in Trollhättan, western Sweden. A student tells The Local: if I had not run, I would have been murdered.

Police spokesman Stefan Gustafsson said the attacker was in his twenties and used “several knife-like objects.”

The dead person is an adult, according to Gustafsson. Two boys, 11 and 15, are being treated for serious stab wounds at Trollhättan hospital.

“The suspect has been shot and is being treated at NÄL (the regional hospital). He is seriously injured and is being operated on,” said hospital spokesperson Niklas Claesson, dismissing earlier police reports that the attacker had been killed.

More at the above link…

*SMH*

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Decatur Deb Oct 22, 2015 • 3:51:00am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

that’s what I meant about valuing other things over human dignity and integrity.

There will be risks in engineering desirable humans, simply because we can’t define what ‘desirable’ is. (Trust me, the generals won’t build stronger soldiers. They want smarter soldiers. Up to a point.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 3:55:48am

re: #136 Decatur Deb

There will be risks in engineering desirable humans, simply because we can’t define what ‘desirable’ is. (Trust me, the generals won’t build stronger soldiers. They want smarter soldiers. Up to a point.)

Smart soldiers in the sense of “smart ordinance”. Or engineered to be free of the reflexes and morals that cause soldiers to balk at carrying out their orders.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 3:55:53am

re: #136 Decatur Deb

Strength is still important. Not all warfare will be conducted by remote-control drones (or even autonomous intelligent drones.)

Guards, military police, etc., all require direct human interaction.

We still have soldiers. We will have soldiers in the future.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 3:57:11am

re: #135 Teukka

Are the migrants being blamed?

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Teukka Oct 22, 2015 • 3:59:02am

re: #139 freetoken

Are the migrants being blamed?

On flashback? Of course.

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Decatur Deb Oct 22, 2015 • 4:00:57am

re: #138 freetoken

Strength is still important. Not all warfare will be conducted by remote-control drones (or even autonomous intelligent drones.)

Guards, military police, etc., all require direct human interaction.

We still have soldiers. We will have soldiers in the future.

Yes, but the mix will have more Snowdens than Hulk Hogans. It’s about running and maintaining the systems that provide the muscle.

re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Smart soldiers in the sense of “smart ordinance”. Or engineered to be free of the reflexes and morals that cause soldiers to balk at carrying out their orders.

Attended a conference on Army Futures. Because it was moderated by a futurist out of a pharmacology background, it focused on the interaction of humans, combat, and chemistries. You wouldn’t like it.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 4:01:24am

We all knew this was going to happen:

Google announces subscription-based, ad-free YouTube Red service

Nothing is ever truly “free”.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 4:03:07am

re: #142 freetoken

We all knew this was going to happen:

Google announces subscription-based, ad-free YouTube Red service

Nothing is ever truly “free”.

It’ll still be blocked in China, I’m sure.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 4:06:40am

re: #141 Decatur Deb

Our species has arisen and survived because we naturally breed generalists - we are all sufficient for most things, but perhaps not really outstanding for more than one particular application at some point in life.

What you’re telling me is that, for the sake of future warfare, we ought to engineering different classes of humans.

A few will be super strong.
A few will have very high eye-hand response rates and amazing coordination.
A few will be super-numerate and solve complex puzzles quickly.

Then the masses will be bred to be laborers as needed.

This is all sounding very ant-colony-like.

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Decatur Deb Oct 22, 2015 • 4:07:01am

re: #143 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’ll still be blocked in China, I’m sure.

archive.org

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 4:08:16am

re: #145 Decatur Deb

archive.org

As is archive.org.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 4:09:14am

Here is Chris Christie, desperately trying to get in the lime-light and to ignite his campaign:

Chris Christie: Ban New Jersey-Cuba Flights Until Assata Shakur Is Brought Back To The U.S.

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie is urging officials who oversee the Newark Liberty International Airport to ban flights from New Jersey to the country of Cuba until Assata Shakur is brought back to the U.S.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Christie sent a letter Tuesday to Port Authority chairman John Degnan, demanding flights be suspended until the return of Joanne Chesimard, known as Assata Shakur. The revolutionary activist was convicted of killing a New Jersey State trooper in 1973. After escaping prison, she was granted political asylum in Cuba. Since President Barack Obama announced efforts to open diplomatic relations with Cuba earlier this year, Christie has been vocal about returning Shakur to the United States.

[…]

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Decatur Deb Oct 22, 2015 • 4:09:50am

re: #144 freetoken

Our species has arisen and survived because we naturally breed generalists - we are all sufficient for most things, but perhaps not really outstanding for more than one particular application at some point in life.

What you’re telling me is that, for the sake of future warfare, we ought to engineering different classes of humans.

A few will be super strong.
A few will have very high eye-hand response rates and amazing coordination.
A few will be super-numerate and solve complex puzzles quickly.

Then the masses will be bred to be laborers as needed.

This is all sounding very ant-colony-like.

No “ought”, not even “highly likely”.

(What masses, comrade? After the die-off Grand Fenwick will be a military superpower.)

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Decatur Deb Oct 22, 2015 • 4:12:23am

re: #146 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

As is archive.org.

Bummer. (Was a 2-part file of the “The East Is Red” opera.)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 4:13:58am

re: #149 Decatur Deb

Bummer. (Was a 2-part file of the “The East Is Red” opera.)

I’ll have to climb the Great Firewall to see it.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 4:15:51am

Marijuana use, disorders doubled since 2001

I’m all for decriminalizing many things, including marijuana use. Yet the bottom line remains that, like so much else that we have access to, marijuana has definite bad effects.

Life is about many things I suppose. For me, I prefer to not harm myself, and perhaps I’ve gone a bit overboard and some might think me old fashioned or a prude, but I avoid taking things that carry more risk of downside than an upside.

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Decatur Deb Oct 22, 2015 • 4:15:58am

re: #150 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ll have to climb the Great Firewall to see it.

I think it should be available on your side—unless you’ve had a lot of de-Maofication:

Published 1964
Usage Public Domain
Topics Mao Zedong, Mao Tse-Tung, Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, People’s Republic of China, musical, epic, communism, maoism, marxism

A song and dance epic produced by the People’s Republic of China on the cusp of the Cultural Revolution. “What sort of film would have resulted if, in the mid 1960s, Busby Berkeley, fresh from his gig on ‘Jumbo’, had been invited by none other than Chairman Mao to realize a project styled ‘a song and dance epic’, for the benefit of the entire People’s Republic of China to digest as a picture show entertainment? Something flashy, but with a message. Something to enliven and uplift the people in ways that even the ‘Little Red Book’ could not achieve. Well, Buzz never took up the ‘offer’, but the film which emerged, ‘Dongfang Hong’ (aka ‘The East is Red’) certainly ranks as one of the most impressive musicals ever made, despite being buried in obscurity. Film critic Elvis Mitchell, upon seeing clips of ‘Dongfang’, thought first of Vincente Minelli as far as style is concerned. It’s true, there’s more of ‘An American in Paris’ here than ‘42nd Street’, but that’s where the film’s message comes in: wow the people.”

In Mandarin Chinese with Chinese and English subtitles

en.wikipedia.org
imdb.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 4:16:11am

Haha. Call Jeb! Minority Report predicts the Washington ball team will be the RedClouds in the future.

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freetoken Oct 22, 2015 • 4:17:15am

re: #153 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I think the team name ought to be “The Plutocrats”.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 4:17:38am

re: #152 Decatur Deb

I think it should be available on your side—unless you’ve had a lot of de-Maofication:

Published 1964
Usage Public Domain
Topics Mao Zedong, Mao Tse-Tung, Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, People’s Republic of China, musical, epic, communism, maoism, marxism

A song and dance epic produced by the People’s Republic of China on the cusp of the Cultural Revolution. “What sort of film would have resulted if, in the mid 1960s, Busby Berkeley, fresh from his gig on ‘Jumbo’, had been invited by none other than Chairman Mao to realize a project styled ‘a song and dance epic’, for the benefit of the entire People’s Republic of China to digest as a picture show entertainment? Something flashy, but with a message. Something to enliven and uplift the people in ways that even the ‘Little Red Book’ could not achieve. Well, Buzz never took up the ‘offer’, but the film which emerged, ‘Dongfang Hong’ (aka ‘The East is Red’) certainly ranks as one of the most impressive musicals ever made, despite being buried in obscurity. Film critic Elvis Mitchell, upon seeing clips of ‘Dongfang’, thought first of Vincente Minelli as far as style is concerned. It’s true, there’s more of ‘An American in Paris’ here than ‘42nd Street’, but that’s where the film’s message comes in: wow the people.”

In Mandarin Chinese with Chinese and English subtitles

en.wikipedia.org
imdb.com

I can probably find it on one of China’s YouTube clones.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 4:18:47am

re: #154 freetoken

I think the team name ought to be “The Plutocrats”.

The Washington DeePockets

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Decatur Deb Oct 22, 2015 • 4:22:51am

re: #155 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I can probably find it on one of China’s YouTube clones.

Odd that I’m seeing listed as a film musical. IIRC it was first produced as a live Chinese ‘opera’, written by an egalitarian committee.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 4:28:01am

Speaking of China, the Party has now banned all of its members from joining golf clubs.

bbc.com

Strangely, it was supposedly already banned. There’s a book about the growth of golf in China I’ve been meaning to read.
amazon.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 4:32:07am

re: #158 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Speaking of China, the Party has now banned all of its members from joining golf clubs.

bbc.com

Strangely, it was supposedly already banned. There’s a book about the growth of golf in China I’ve meaning to read.
amazon.com

are they still allowed to go bowling?

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Decatur Deb Oct 22, 2015 • 4:35:19am

re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

are they still allowed to go bowling?

Have to raise your voice to make a “shady deal” in a bowling alley.

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Shiplord Kirel Oct 22, 2015 • 4:38:58am

The atomic bomb test scenes from The East is Red were reused in the American documentary Trinity and Beyond. Some of this, like the dancing girls entertaining the troops before the test and the assembled multitude cheering the detonations, was staged for the Chinese movie, but T and B presented the whole thing as genuine archive footage. Some of the most bizarre scenes, including the saber waving cavalry charge toward the mushroom cloud, are apparently real.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 4:39:38am

re: #142 freetoken

We all knew this was going to happen:

Google announces subscription-based, ad-free YouTube Red service

Nothing is ever truly “free”.

$10 bucks a month. For YouTube. Uhm, no.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 4:40:06am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

Have to raise your voice to make a “shady deal” in a bowling alley.

and you definitely are not allowed to cross the line!!!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 4:41:32am

re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

are they still allowed to go bowling?

Funny thing is, I’ve never seen a bowling alley in China. They have pool halls, though.

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Decatur Deb Oct 22, 2015 • 4:42:59am

re: #164 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Funny thing is, I’ve never seen a bowling alley in China. They have pool halls, though.

Right there in Yellow River City!!!

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 4:45:07am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

Have to raise your voice to make a “shady deal” in a bowling alley.

Is that really why, you think? If so, that’s fascinating.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 4:46:26am

re: #166 WhatEVs

Is that really why, you think? If so, that’s fascinating.

Probably not the case, but if it is at all like in Germany, golfing is a very elitist game, only the richest citizens can afford it.

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Decatur Deb Oct 22, 2015 • 4:47:04am

re: #166 WhatEVs

Is that really why, you think? If so, that’s fascinating.

The BBC article WDM attached cited skullduggery on the golf courses—very capitalistic.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 4:48:20am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Probably not the case, but if it is at all like in Germany, golfing is a very elitist game, only the richest citizens can afford it.

Which is why the CPC wants to keep its members away from all those rich guys and their potential bribery.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 4:52:34am

re: #169 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Which is why the CPC wants to keep its members away from all those rich guys and their potential bribery.

No country club culture for you, comrade!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 4:56:20am

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

No country club culture for you, comrade!

Macau’s casinos have seen a massive drop in revenues, because the CPC is watching government officials and businessmen very closely. Macau was another popular place for shady deals and money laundering. Now, Chinese tourists to Macau are mostly middle class people who don’t have deep pockets to gamble away.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 4:57:41am

re: #171 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Macau’s casinos have seen a massive drop in revenues, because the CPC is watching government officials and businessmen very closely. Macau was another popular place for shady deals and money laundering. Now, Chinese tourists to Macau are mostly middle class people who don’t have deep pockets to gamble away.

Just wait until President Trump sorts out our China policy…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 4:59:02am

re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Just wait until President Trump sorts out our China policy…

Sheldon Adelson owns casinos there.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 5:18:00am

re: #147 freetoken

Here is Chris Christie, desperately trying to get in the lime-light and to ignite his campaign:

Chris Christie: Ban New Jersey-Cuba Flights Until Assata Shakur Is Brought Back To The U.S.

I’m ok with this. It shows that NJ hasn’t forgotten about the slain officer.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 5:20:44am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Probably not the case, but if it is at all like in Germany, golfing is a very elitist game, only the richest citizens can afford it.

You should tell that to the guys at the municipal golf courses here in Philadelphia. There’s me, for starters, but no shortage of blue collar guys on the course and forming leagues. Police officers, plumbers, teachers, people from all walks of life. Country clubs are for the rich guys.

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William Lewis Oct 22, 2015 • 5:21:18am

re: #174 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

If it were actually about the officer, I’d agree. This is much more about his desperate attemps to be relevant in the GOP.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 5:26:21am

re: #175 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

You should tell that to the guys at the municipal golf courses here in Philadelphia. There’s me, for starters, but no shortage of blue collar guys on the course and forming leagues. Police officers, plumbers, teachers, people from all walks of life. Country clubs are for the rich guys.

The only exception to that here was the Rheinblick Golf Course on the US Army base, where even enlisted men could sign up and play the odd game…

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 5:37:28am

If you read one thing today, make it this. https://t.co/ImFvxwo832 The dangerous precedent that is the #Benghazi witch hunt.

— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 22, 2015

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 5:37:39am

Well, this happened this morning (well overnight in Israel).

Israeli soldier kills Jewish man mistaken for attacker in Jerusalem https://t.co/R2uMJrbjji pic.twitter.com/6EKmV7ts9w

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 22, 2015

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GlutenFreeJesus Oct 22, 2015 • 5:40:19am

re: #158 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

“Creeping Golf’ria!”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 5:42:43am

re: #180 GlutenFreeJesus

“Creeping Golf’ria!”

Once they get used to golfing, there’s no telling what those party officials will try next!

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 5:44:01am

Former Majority Leader Eric Cantor Slams The Tea Party And Trump At Length In Overseas Interview

You mean Cantor regrets the group he helped create? https://t.co/oNcV10tgZY

— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 22, 2015

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 5:45:27am

re: #178 WhatEVs

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God, today is gonna be a shitshow. There’s no way that the GOP will constrain themselves, finally having the target of their animus before them. We’re gonna see a whole lot of stored-up bile and anger being put on display.

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 5:46:11am

Seven congressional committees have already investigated #Benghazi. Today’s committee is the 8th. pic.twitter.com/gOuMXW5msL

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) October 22, 2015

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 5:49:37am

re: #184 Dr. Matt

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And an Olympus Mons-sized pile of excuses about “We didn’t/don’t have all the facts!”

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 5:50:19am

re: #183 Targetpractice

God, today is gonna be a shitshow. There’s no way that the GOP will constrain themselves, finally having the target of their animus before them. We’re gonna see a whole lot of stored-up bile and anger being put on display.

I actually think they are going to be extraordinarily careful about this inquisition because of all the things that happened since McCarthy opened his yap about this Benghazi witch hung being political and its purpose being to bring down Hillary. If they go overboard it is going to readily show that as true. At which point the media might even pick up on it.

Nah, who am I kidding?

But since Republicans are not too smart so you could be 100% correct.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 5:51:17am

re: #182 WhatEVs

Former Majority Leader Eric Cantor Slams The Tea Party And Trump At Length In Overseas Interview

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Precisely. He helped to create them. He’s mad because he got ran out of Congress by the same machine he created. He’s an unbelievably bitter man who knows he could possibly be in to be Speaker right now. No love Eric, Virginians do not miss your condescending ass at all.

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 5:51:26am

Meanwhile, another asterisk suggests that he might pull out if he doesn’t do well in Iowa (which is still months away).

.@LOLGOP except he’s been shooting blanks since he claimed he was running. Santorum’s not polled above MOE since “entering” race.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 22, 2015

Yeah, that’s Santorum alright. Not quite the brightest tool in the shed and intent on staying in race where he’s gotten no support from anyone, let alone in Iowa (where the latest poll had him with 1 percent. One percent. That’s a rounding error. Or a MOE. It’s possible people don’t even think he’s running.

But Santorum isn’t alone - there’s 5 other candidates who are “running” but have no chance. The whole point of their campaigns is to burnish credibility for future tv/media appearances or book deals and speaking engagements. It has nothing to do with running the country, and with the GOP that really means something - because they don’t want to run the country so much as snuff out the safety net and gut programs meant to protect the general welfare of the nation.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 5:51:28am

Joe Scarborough just said he’s impressed with Carson who looks to possibly get a win in early states.

Shoot me in the freaking head.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 5:53:17am

Remember when Reagan was considered a radical? If he ran right now, he’d probably be in Kasich territory since he supported some gun control, signed a pro choice law, and worked in Hollyweird.//

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 5:53:55am

re: #189 WhatEVs

Joe Scarborough just said he’s impressed with Carson who looks to possibly get a win in early states.

Shoot me in the freaking head.

Dead intern Joe is the lesser known twin of Bill Kristol. Both chodes are perpetually wrong about everything.

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 5:53:57am

re: #186 WhatEVs

Watch for the Committee to try and snare Clinton in a perjury trap. That’s what this is going to be about. Whether her testimony today in any way contradicts any statements or evidence she’s submitted previously.

That’s where they’re hoping for a gotcha.

It isn’t going to be about anything she actually did, or whether the nation could have done things differently in Benghazi itself.

This is the entire point of the hearings/investigation - to try and catch Obama Administration officials in a perjury trap - so they can then claim that the Administration is covering something up or obstructing justice, or committing perjury.

Just you watch.

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 5:54:32am

re: #191 Dr. Matt

Dead intern Joe is the lesser known twin of Bill Kristol. Both chodes are perpetually wrong about everything.

Bill Kristol just gave the GOP the kiss of death. He #BillKristoled that Trump would never be the nominee.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 5:55:02am

re: #186 WhatEVs

I actually think they are going to be extraordinarily careful about this inquisition because of all the things that happened since McCarthy opened his yap about this Benghazi witch hung being political and its purpose being to bring down Hillary. If they go overboard it is going to readily show that as true. At which point the media might even pick up on it.

Nah, who am I kidding?

But since Republicans are not too smart so you could be 100% correct.

Gowdy may try to control his colleagues, but there’s no chance that they’re gonna be able to fully control themselves. Certainly not in a manner that won’t leave the proceedings feeling like the McCarthy hearings. It’s going to be like the Richards “hearing” the other day, where Republicans will spend their time lecturing the former SecState while interrupting her when she attempts to answer their “questions,” and Democrats using their time to get the facts out there while also allowing her time to hit back at her critics.

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 5:55:32am

re: #193 lawhawk

Bill Kristol just gave the GOP the kiss of death. He #BillKristoled that Trump would never be the nominee.

Congrats Jeb!

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 5:56:14am

re: #193 lawhawk

Bill Kristol just gave the GOP the kiss of death. He #BillKristoled that Trump would never be the nominee.

Now I know Trump will be the mom, thanks Billy. The nom not the mom!

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 5:57:31am

re: #192 lawhawk

Watch for the Committee to try and snare Clinton in a perjury trap. That’s what this is going to be about. Whether her testimony today in any way contradicts any statements or evidence she’s submitted previously.

That’s where they’re hoping for a gotcha.

It isn’t going to be about anything she actually did, or whether the nation could have done things differently in Benghazi itself.

This is the entire point of the hearings/investigation - to try and catch Obama Administration officials in a perjury trap - so they can then claim that the Administration is covering something up or obstructing justice, or committing perjury.

Just you watch.

“You said A today, but you said B ages ago, so which is it? A or B? Are you telling the truth now or were you telling it then.”
“I don’t remember saying B.”
“But you did, so was B true or false?”
“I said B at the time because of what I knew then.”
“Well, you said B and now you’re saying A. Were you lying then or lying now?”

And so on and so forth. This isn’t going to be about getting any new facts, it’s going to be about catching her in a “lie.”

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 5:57:56am

re: #194 Targetpractice

Gowdy may try to control his colleagues, but there’s no chance that they’re gonna be able to fully control themselves. Certainly not in a manner that won’t leave the proceedings feeling like the McCarthy hearings. It’s going to be like the Richards “hearing” the other day, where Republicans will spend their time lecturing the former SecState while interrupting her when she attempts to answer their “questions,” and Democrats using their time to get the facts out there while also allowing her time to hit back at her critics.

Yeah, that’s pretty much been how every investigation has gone, hasn’t it?

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 5:58:36am

Hillary is no longer Secretary of State as she was during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2013. Hillary is a civilian….a civilian running for the Presidency. She’ll able score big political points while being uncumbered as a civil servant. She will be as prepared for this as any presidential debate.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 5:59:18am

Oh Look A Idiot in my mentions==

@viciousbabushka I see how personal responsibility for oneself might be considered “insane bullshit.” Atlas, one of the greatest books ever.

— Christopher Adams (@droppedsync_LM) October 22, 2015

I sent him this:

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 5:59:19am

re: #197 Targetpractice

If they catch her saying something they think is inconsistent, they won’t confront her during the hearing. That would give her the chance to clarify the remark. I think they’ll let it go unchallenged and then in a few days go berserk.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 6:00:19am

re: #201 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

If they catch her saying something they think is inconsistent, they won’t confront her during the hearing. That would give her the chance to clarify the remark. I think they’ll let it go unchallenged and then in a few days go berserk.

“She told so many lies it was impossible to respond to them all right away!!!”

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 6:01:08am

Great Christmas Gift for your RWNJ family members who support Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/dFv1G0T3XK

— Nicole (@MzDivah67) October 21, 2015

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:01:47am

re: #200 The Vicious Babushka

Oh Look A Idiot in my mentions==

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I sent him this:

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I will never stop loving that quote.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 6:02:03am

re: #201 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

If they catch her saying something they think is inconsistent, they won’t confront her during the hearing. That would give her the chance to clarify the remark. I think they’ll let it go unchallenged and then in a few days go berserk.

“She said A at the hearing, but we know for a fact that she said B back in 2012. She now has to explain why she’s saying A when she used to be saying B. These sorts of lies are why we cannot get to the ‘truth’ about what happened to four Americans!”

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 6:02:45am

@droppedsync_LM @viciousbabushka Atlas Shrugged is just like the band “Kiss.” Spectacular superhuman cartoon fantasies for 15 year old boys.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 22, 2015

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 6:03:41am

re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

A mudslide of mendacity!! An tsunami of tsubterfuge!

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:06:08am

Atlas Shrugged is the work of a hypocrite who scorned government or any assistance and then lived out her last days on Social Security. As for as I’m concerned, Ayn Rand is a moocher by Randian standards. Her philosophy if you can call it that is nothing more than inverted Marxism. At least Marx actually took the time to form a coherent philosophy.

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Belafon Oct 22, 2015 • 6:06:24am

re: #142 freetoken

We all knew this was going to happen:

Google announces subscription-based, ad-free YouTube Red service

Nothing is ever truly “free”.

Nothing will be truly free until everything is free.

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Barefoot Grin Oct 22, 2015 • 6:09:29am

I read Atlas Shrugged one summer between junior and senior year in college. I was living in a room in house in College Park, MD trying to play in a band by night and work in a crappy bagel restaurant by day. It was an experiment; I knew no one and the other band members were living with parents miles away.

Anyway, AS had a certain appeal. All I saw at work were lazy, privileged kids who came in late every morning and screwed around during their shifts. I was the Galt of the kitchen! And then I went back to school, graduated, gained more experience in the world and grew up and left that fictional world behind. The end.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 6:10:54am

re: #210 Barefoot Grin

I read Atlas Shrugged one summer between junior and senior year in college. I was living in a room in house in College Park, MD trying to play in a band by night and work in a crappy bagel restaurant by day. It was an experiment; I knew no one and the other band members were living with parents miles away.

Anyway, AS had a certain appeal. All I saw at work were lazy, privileged kids who came in late every morning and screwed around during their shifts. I was the Galt of the kitchen! And then I went back to school, graduated, gained more experience in the world and grew up and left that fictional world behind. The end.

I read “Anthem” when I was in 9th grade. I thought it sucked. That was my entire experience reading Ayn Rand.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 6:12:04am

re: #210 Barefoot Grin

I read Atlas Shrugged one summer between junior and senior year in college. I was living in a room in house in College Park, MD trying to play in a band by night and work in a crappy bagel restaurant by day. It was an experiment; I knew no one and the other band members were living with parents miles away.

Anyway, AS had a certain appeal. All I saw at work were lazy, privileged kids who came in late every morning and screwed around during their shifts. I was the Galt of the kitchen! And then I went back to school, graduated, gained more experience in the world and grew up and left that fictional world behind. The end.

I shared a boarding house during my sophomore year at Indiana University with a Randian and had long discussions about Objectivism and the virtues of the unfettered Free Market…and found it to be 99% horseshit with a handful of valid points tucked in.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 6:12:17am

Gowdy’s in a bind, as the increased scrutiny of his committee in recent weeks means he has to avoid the sort of hysterics that have become the trademark of GOP “hearings” in recent years, but he also knows that those hysterics are exactly what the party base wants to see in order to reach any conclusion other than that he “went soft” on Clinton at the orders of some shadowy cabal of RINOs.

So yeah, I think today is gonna be long on theater, short on anything of substance. And the GOP will do everything they can to play up “inconsistencies” as further proof that Hillary is “lying” to them and thus the data-mining of her server is the only viable option to get to the “truth.”

Speaking of her server, while I know it will be seen as “evasive” and “lying,” her response to any questions about it should be “The contents of my server are not relevant to the events of 9/11, I have turned over all relevant information to the State Department, and I will not address any questions about subjects this committee was not empowered to investigate.”

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:12:59am

I read The Fountainhead and all I saw was an attempt to make selfishness a greater virtue than selflessness. Then I saw her on Donahue calling charity immoral as an old woman, I didn’t know she taken SS at the time but she came off to me as an extremely bitter old woman. And of course she was racist as hell too.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 6:14:44am

re: #210 Barefoot Grin

I enjoyed Atlas Shrugged quite a bit. As a novel. I guess that I am exceptionally naive in that I never thought once about it being a philosophy. I mean…it was a novel. I didn’t consider a philosophical or political bend at all. I rolled my eyes at Galt (and mostly scanned his god-only-knows-how-many-page diatribe towards the end) but still considered it a good read.

I own a good 10k books (about 6k on paper the rest digital). I read All. The. Time. It was one novel out of thousands I have read.

That people consider this practically a religion blows me away.

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Eventual Carrion Oct 22, 2015 • 6:15:06am

re: #213 Targetpractice

[snip]

So yeah, I think today is gonna be long on theater, short on anything of substance. And the GOP will do everything they can to play up “inconsistencies” as further proof that Hillary is “lying” to them and thus the data-mining of her server is the only viable option to get to the “truth.”

Speaking of her server, while I know it will be seen as “evasive” and “lying,” her response to any questions about it should be “The contents of my server are not relevant to the events of 9/11, I have turned over all relevant information to the State Department, and I will not address any questions about subjects this committee was not empowered to investigate.”

But I would prefer the shorter answer of, “Fuck off troll!”, to their questions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 6:15:07am

re: #214 HappyWarrior

I read The Fountainhead and all I saw was an attempt to make selfishness a greater virtue than selflessness. Then I saw her on Donahue calling charity immoral as an old woman, I didn’t know she taken SS at the time but she came off to me as an extremely bitter old woman. And of course she was racist as hell too.

She claims we had every right to wrest the American continent away from its original inhabitants without compensation because they were not using it for anything productive. Of course, that was the attitude my ex-wife had about my time…

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:15:24am

I just love that federal government lifer Paul Ryan is an Ayn Rand fan though. He’s been in Congress since he was about my age yet he thinks he’s consistent with Rabd’s ideology but also claims to be a devout Catholic.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 6:15:30am

10 Depraved Lessons From Atlas Shrugged #tcot #UniteBlue https://t.co/bqp4OA6it2 pic.twitter.com/0Ev4RRPTdk

— Witches Ba-BOO!-shka (@viciousbabushka) October 22, 2015

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:16:47am

re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

She claims we had every right to wrest the American continent away from its original inhabitants because they were not using it for anything productive. Of course, that is the attitude my ex-wife had about my time…

Yep. Really fucked up view. A reason alone IMO to see her views as scum.

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Barefoot Grin Oct 22, 2015 • 6:17:42am

re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I shared a boarding house during my sophomore year at Indiana University with a Randian and had long discussions about Objectivism and the virtues of the unfettered Free Market…and found it to be 99% horseshit with a handful of valid points tucked in.

Hey, fellow Hoosier (not by birth). But only for grad school. As for Ayn Rand, couldn’t agree more with “99% horseshit with a handful of valid points tucked in.” At one point I worked down the hall from Virginia Congressman David Brat. He made his living teaching that horseshit.

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Barefoot Grin Oct 22, 2015 • 6:21:25am

re: #215 WhatEVs

I enjoyed Atlas Shrugged quite a bit. As a novel. I guess that I am exceptionally naive in that I never thought once about it being a philosophy. I mean…it was a novel. I didn’t consider a philosophical or political bend at all. I rolled my eyes at Galt (and mostly scanned his god-only-knows-how-many-page diatribe towards the end) but still considered it a good read.

I own a good 10k books (about 6k on paper the rest digital). I read All. The. Time. It was one novel out of thousands I have read.

That people consider this practically a religion blows me away.

I’ll admit that I found it fascinating at the time. It really competed in my head with the moderate Christian values of my upbringing. Now it was ok to kick the meek because they weren’t just meek, they were lazy and conniving.

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 6:24:12am

A Congresswomen on MSNBC just stated that the testimony may take 6 to 10 hours today.

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 6:24:45am

American killed in op. to free Kurdish hostages in Iraq, 2 US officials tell CNN. 70 hostages liberated; Kurdish & Iraqi forces involved

— Ram Ramgopal (@RamCNN) October 22, 2015

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:27:17am

re: #221 Barefoot Grin

Hey, fellow Hoosier (not by birth). But only for grad school. As for Ayn Rand, couldn’t agree more with “99% horseshit with a handful of valid points tucked in.” At one point I worked down the hall from Virginia Congressman David Brat. He made his living teaching that horseshit.

Yeah I remember you mentioning that. Brat’s philosophy seems to combine the worst elements of Calvinism with the worst of Objectivism.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 6:29:48am

re: #223 Dr. Matt

A Congresswomen on MSNBC just stated that the testimony may take 6 to 10 hours today.

Hahaha…no.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 6:30:12am

LOL remember this cute l’il wingnut gal? Just as stupid as ever & so proud that she got a bunch of lame derp published at Breitbart that one time.

#MyFeminismIs excoriated by feminists b/c I refuse to play victim in the freest, most prosperous & opportunity-laden society on Earth. #tcot

— Inez Feltscher (@InezFeltscher) October 22, 2015

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:30:23am

But yeah I learned about Rand in 11th grade philosophy class. I had heard of her (Ayn Rand School for Tots on the Simpsons) but I had never really heard about the philosophy itself. It really is simply put a justification for human selfishness. The thing is the conservatives who claim to admire her ignore that she had no problem with abortion too and disdained religion period. And for all their claims that they think charity is better off private, Rand disdained all charity. Rand’s philosophy can basically be summed as up this to me “Don’t do anything for anyone out of the kindness of your heart, only do if you expect something in return.” How anyone who epouses that can call a socialist cynical or negative about humanity is beyond me.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:31:34am

re: #227 The Vicious Babushka

LOL remember this cute l’il wingnut gal? Just as stupid as ever & so proud that she got a bunch of lame derp published at Breitbart that one time.

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She’s an idiot. Feminists aren’t playing victim, they’re pointing out real inequalities and gender double standard that do exist and if it wasn’t for those feminists, Inez wouldn’t be able to express herself. Sigh nothing more pathetic than women who loathe feminists.

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William Lewis Oct 22, 2015 • 6:32:05am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

I read “Anthem” when I was in 9th grade. I thought it sucked. That was my entire experience reading Ayn Rand.

I remember trying to read The Fountainhead at one point in my high school days because some of my friends thought it of interest. It makes Atlas seem like high art. Bletch.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:33:53am

re: #230 William Lewis

I remember trying to read The Fountainhead at one point in my high school days because some of my friends thought it of interest. It makes Atlas seem like high art. Bletch.

I had to read FH in class. Then we saw the movie with Gary Cooper. that Rand wrote the screenplay for. AWful trash.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 6:34:24am

re: #230 William Lewis

I remember trying to read The Fountainhead at one point in my high school days because some of my friends thought it of interest. It makes Atlas seem like high art. Bletch.

Never read any of Ayn Rand, and none of my close friends did, either. I was spared this particular kind of torture.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:36:07am

What’s really funny is perhaps two of the most prominent American libertarians- Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park trashed it- Alas Shruggd that is.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:37:36am

re: #232 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Never read any of Ayn Rand, and none of my close friends did, either. I was spared this particular kind of torture.

You were lucky. Not only is her philosophy shitty, she’s simply not a good writer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 6:38:32am

They slipped up with their wording. https://t.co/L1YReG05ya pic.twitter.com/mGc8Ll3Swe

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 22, 2015

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 6:40:27am

This drunken little sack of ragemeat==>

Republicans should just ask Hillary one question: You knew Libya was dangerous. Why didn’t you grant Stevens’ requests for more security?

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2015

Forget YouTube, forget the failure to respond properly. Why didn’t Hillary protect her diplomats as is her lawful obligation?

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2015

It is insufficient to say diplomacy is risky. So is walking across the street, which is why we don’t do it when the light is red.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2015

Libya was one of the most dangerous places on earth, increased in danger by Hillary’s invasion. Why didn’t she give Stevens security?

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2015

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 6:41:56am

Nicolle Wallace just had a Fox-like meltdown on MSNBC. She was raging against the Democrats for….get this….politicizing McCarthy’s comments about the benghazi committee. She even went as far to say that Trey Gowdy is not a partisan.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 6:44:36am

The YouTube cover-up is a distraction from the fact that Hillary refused security to her ambassador in the world’s most dangerous area.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2015

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 6:46:50am

Chucky v. Gawker watch. Chucky’s crackerjack legal team must get their motion in to the court by the end of the day (and likely submitted on paper, as prior motions, which means PACER wont pick them up right away).

The judge has already warned them on format/style - either submit per style, or get no fruit cup.

pacermonitor.com

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:47:33am

re: #236 The Vicious Babushka

This drunken little sack of ragemeat==>

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You should ask him why his party cut embassy and conluate securtiy funding.

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 6:48:26am

WTF is the “Youtube coverup”?

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:48:51am

re: #237 Dr. Matt

Nicolle Wallace just had a Fox-like meltdown on MSNBC. She was raging against the Democrats for….get this….politicizing McCarthy’s comments about the benghazi committee. She even went as far to say that Trey Gowdy is not a partisan.

Politicizing an admission that the committee was politicized? Me thinks Nicole hung out with SArah Palin too much in 2008. Gowdy non-partsian ROFL.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:50:49am

The fact of the matter is the House R’s want to make it appear that embassy attacks only have happened under Obama. Not to make light of Ambassador Stevens ’ death but more Americans died on embassy attacks in the Bush years and there wasn’anywherere near the scrunity of Powell and Rice that Clinton has gotten.

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 6:51:44am

re: #189 WhatEVs

Joe Scarborough just said he’s impressed with Carson who looks to possibly get a win in early states.

Shoot me in the freaking head.

Joke Scarborough would be impressed with a moldy, gelatinous, purple/black muskmelon if there was a Republican pin attached to it.

I’m all ready for Republican Political Theater. MSNBC has already balanced the whole show out for me with the brilliant political musings of Nicole Wallace, Chuck Todd, Chris Matthews and Steve Smith.

Ugh.

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 6:52:06am

re: #243 HappyWarrior

Or the security changes enacted after - including the establishment of a DoD special response unit that would be able to respond within several hours of a reported attack on a diplomatic post. No prior administration ever considered such a move.

And then there’s the matter of the House GOP denying the State Department security funding request.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 6:52:07am

fucktard==>

G L O B A L ess people have died from this than Hillary’s security procedures W A R M I N G

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2015

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 6:52:17am

re: #239 lawhawk

Chucky v. Gawker watch. Chucky’s crackerjack legal team must get their motion in to the court by the end of the day (and likely submitted on paper, as prior motions, which means PACER wont pick them up right away).

The judge has already warned them on format/style - either submit per style, or get no fruit cup.

pacermonitor.com

Tonight is going to be interesting. After the last round of briefs, the legal community on Twitter was having a good old time with #CCJBrief which had me in stitches.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:53:03am

re: #246 The Vicious Babushka

fucktard==>

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People haven’t died from heat stroke?

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 6:53:09am

This Benghazi committee is just a distraction from Benghazi!!!

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 6:53:16am

re: #241 Dr. Matt

WTF is the “Youtube coverup”?

That Susan Rice went on the Sunday morning shows saying the event was a result of fullout from the YouTube video that started unrest in other areas of the ME. It was horseshit from day 1.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:54:21am

re: #245 lawhawk

Or the security changes enacted after - including the establishment of a DoD special response unit that would be able to respond within several hours of a reported attack on a diplomatic post. No prior administration ever considered such a move.

And then there’s the matter of the House GOP denying the State Department security funding request.

Right, the House GOP frankly is culpable in the Benghazi tragedy too with their refusal to given the SD what they needed. FFS thoug, we didn’t ivnesitgate 9/1 this much.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 6:55:18am

re: #239 lawhawk

Chucky v. Gawker watch. Chucky’s crackerjack legal team must get their motion in to the court by the end of the day (and likely submitted on paper, as prior motions, which means PACER wont pick them up right away).

The judge has already warned them on format/style - either submit per style, or get no fruit cup.

pacermonitor.com

Yeah, Judge Shaw was *very* specific, citing chapter and verse, in his ruling. He’d be pretty pissed if Burns cannot follow explicit instructions from the exact page number given him.

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 6:55:38am

re: #250 WhatEVs

That Susan Rice went on the Sunday morning shows saying the event was a result of fullout from the YouTube video that started unrest in other areas of the ME. It was horseshit from day 1.

Ah. And yet, the GOP Benghazi Committee report concluded that Susan Rice did not manipulate any intelligence and was basing her talking points on the best intelligence at the time.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 6:56:37am

I am sorry but you don’t get to cut embassy and consulate security funding and then act like this is all the WH and SOS’s fault that the attacks wren’t handled propsely. But then again these are Republicans who never have taken responsibility for anything in their lives.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 6:56:52am

re: #253 Dr. Matt

Ah. And yet, the GOP Benghazi Committee report concluded that Susan Rice did not manipulate any intelligence and was basing her talking points on the best intelligence at the time.

Conclusions? We don’t need no stinkin’ conclusions!

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 6:58:02am

For the first time in decades, members of the #BenghaziCommittee will work an 8 hour day.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 22, 2015

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 6:59:24am

Why is @FrankLuntz at the #Benghazi hearing? pic.twitter.com/L6F59tpByt

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 22, 2015

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 7:00:16am

re: #247 WhatEVs

Tonight is going to be interesting. After the last round of briefs, the legal community on Twitter were having a good old time with #CCJBrief which had me in stitches.

I anticipate more hilarity in these new motions. After all, they’ve got a total of 40 pages to play around in.

I wonder if they’ll try to enter Chuck’s affidavit as an exhibit again. It needs to be part of legal history.

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makeitstop Oct 22, 2015 • 7:00:53am

So, what time does this little clambake kick off, and where can I stream it?

I’m pretty sure Gowdy’s going to get his ass handed to him and I want to watch that.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 7:01:02am

what in the utter fuck

Remember that the evil press mocks Benghazi as a fake scandal, but think lack of condoms are a massive issue for American women.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2015

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 7:02:10am

re: #260 The Vicious Babushka

what in the utter fuck

Ben’s been hitting the sauce again.

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makeitstop Oct 22, 2015 • 7:02:19am

re: #260 The Vicious Babushka

what in the utter fuck

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Has Ben suffered a head injury lately? He seems to be free-associating like a man with a cracked skull.

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b.d. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:02:36am

re: #257 Dr. Matt

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Nice shoes Mr. Luntz, you’re one classy SOB.

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 7:02:51am

re: #237 Dr. Matt

Nicolle Wallace just had a Fox-like meltdown on MSNBC. She was raging against the Democrats for….get this….politicizing McCarthy’s comments about the benghazi committee. She even went as far to say that Trey Gowdy is not a partisan.

Saw that too. She seems to have become NBCs go-to pretty face for Republican boiler plate. She wastes no time going full-on hack when her time comes. I thought it funny that Chuck Todd tried to back her off of her rant. She didn’t seem to like that.

I also noticed she was not on the next segment. I wonder…

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:02:55am

re: #260 The Vicious Babushka

what in the utter fuck

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I think lack of condoms was a problem for Ben’s parents. Really no one says Benghazi wasn’t tragic. What we OBJECt to is your lies that this only happened under Obama, your using the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and the other three simply to attack Clinton which is something their own families object to. And it’s adorable how little Ben thinks he’s not part of the media and that Breitbart is this upstart underground website. Go away Ben you’re drunk again on your own hate.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:03:00am

re: #257 Dr. Matt

If you don’t believe the Benghazi hearing is political ask yourself, why is Frank Luntz (the GOP phrase guy) there? https://t.co/nbIcgO13uW

— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 22, 2015

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 7:03:32am

re: #261 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Ben’s been hitting the sauce again.

He’s been shitfaced since ~~Joe Biden announced he is not running for POTUS.~~ Obama was elected.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:03:49am

re: #262 makeitstop

Has Ben suffered a head injury lately? He seems to be free-associating like a man with a cracked skull.

He’s acting a lot like Chucky. I mean he’s always been a hateful little weasel but he’s getting more incoherent. Must be all that Ragehol conservatives like him drink to stay enraged. I’ve never seen him not act like an asshole.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:04:08am

re: #266 WhatEVs

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Yep.

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 7:04:11am

The Face of Derp. #BenghaziCommittee #Benghazi pic.twitter.com/5ZZJ6klClI
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 22, 2015

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b.d. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:04:29am

If you missed the last 3 years of Fox News, binge watching this 8-hour Benghazi hearing & a loop of the New Black Panthers will catch you up
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 22, 2015

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 7:05:30am

You know the family of those four dead Americans have gotta be feeling ill to once again watch the GOP use their loved ones as stage props.

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Eventual Carrion Oct 22, 2015 • 7:05:52am

re: #240 HappyWarrior

You should ask him why his party cut embassy and conluate securtiy funding.

I did.

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b.d. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:06:30am

Benghazi is not primarily political? pic.twitter.com/5EdPheG8WT

— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) October 22, 2015

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 7:06:47am

re: #270 Dr. Matt

Is that his hair or is he secretly from Remulak?

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 7:08:04am

“These questions linger” because you fucktards refuse to accept the answers given, because they are not “Hillary Clinton killed these four men!”

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:08:24am

Were Reagan, Schultz, and Weinberger treated as if they committed the Beiruit barracks bombings themselves? Were Bush and Powell/Rice blamed for all the embassy attacks of the Bush years. Make no mistake, Benghazi was a tragic event but the right wants to act like embassy and consulate attacks are something that only have happened under President Obama even though there were more such attacks in the Bush years. Now what makes Benghazi unique tragic is Ambassador Stevens’ death but as I said more Americans died in these kinds of attacks in the Bush years and there wasn’t the scunity. And FFS 9/11 had less hearings and investigations than this has. What does that tell you? It tells me one thing, it’s political, it’s about ruining Clinton and McCarthy and another Republican were stupid enough to admit that.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:08:46am

re: #272 Targetpractice

You know the family of those four dead Americans have gotta be feeling ill to once again watch the GOP use their loved ones as stage props.

Yep. The GOP doesn’t give a damn about those four people. They’re just props.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:09:12am

re: #274 b.d.

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Zing!

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 7:09:18am

And how many of those tens of thousands of documents changed the results of the previous investigations? Hint: NONE!

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:09:49am

re: #273 Eventual Carrion

I did.

Be nice if you get an answer, I’m doubtful but he needs to be confronted with his party and ideology’s boldfaced hypocrisy on embassy and consulate security funding.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 7:10:49am

Christ, this long diatribe is like taking an ice pick to my brain.

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 7:11:05am

Wow, this must be big!

Trey Gowdy shaved.

It sounds like Trey is excusing all the other investigations as not thorough or serious. I guess he just wrote his check for all this.

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 7:13:13am

Hey Trey…we sent a whole hell of a lot of people into Iraq, many died, etc. When are you going to open up the investigation into all that?

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Bird in the Paw Oct 22, 2015 • 7:13:31am

re: #128 freetoken

A story from 3 days ago, part of a movement that is just being ignored by the so much of the socio-political sphere:

First Gene-Edited Dogs Reported in ChinaOr in the simulated wars we call “sports”, think of this - the billionaire team owners breed entire teams of superior athletes.

Why not?

I, for one, will welcome having bred sportsball players whose sole function is to play sportsball.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 7:13:37am

re: #283 ObserverArt

re: #282 Targetpractice

You’re watching it live? Truly you are heroes.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 7:14:38am

re: #283 ObserverArt

Wow, this must be big!

Trey Gowdy shaved.

It sounds like Trey is excusing all the other investigations as not thorough or serious. I guess he just wrote his check for all this.

His entire long rant can be boiled down to “Just ignore the years-long crusade against the White House in general and Mrs. Clinton specifically, ignore the numerous reports that have proved this committee is a joke, just accept that we’ve got the goods to make her out to be the worst criminal of all time.”

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 7:15:33am

re: #286 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

You’re watching it live? Truly you are heroes.

I have it chattering away in the background as I work on some web site files.

It may not be on long…

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 7:15:47am

“Democrats on this committee” should now be standing up and telling you to fuck off, Trey.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:15:49am

re: #286 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

You’re watching it live? Truly you are heroes.

No kidding. I cannot bring myself to those levels of masochism.

I’ll rely on the good lizards who are taking one for the team. Thank you all!

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b.d. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:16:21am

Republicans get outraged at attacks on US diplomats… eventually… sometimes #benghazicommittee pic.twitter.com/WPXJnZJVLJ

— Buh Bye GOP (@BuhByeGOP) October 22, 2015

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Teukka Oct 22, 2015 • 7:17:10am

re: #135 Teukka

Sweden is going to the dogs… :(

One dead, five injured in Swedish school attack

More at the above link…

*SMH*

UPDATE: 3 dead, one adult male, one 11-12 year old male and the perp (died from gunshot injuries sustained when police arrived).

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ipsos Oct 22, 2015 • 7:17:19am

Here comes Cummings. Lay down a good smackdown, Elijah. We’re counting on you.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 7:17:34am

re: #282 Targetpractice

Christ, this long diatribe is like taking an ice pick to my brain.

So you’re saying it’s gonna be a totally fair and balanced and non-bi-partisan type hearing?

/////

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:18:31am

Did you know Trump had another daughter?

businessinsider.com

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 7:18:56am

re: #293 ipsos

Here comes Cummings. Lay down a good smackdown, Elijah. We’re counting on you.

Going right at Gowdy and the Republicans and all the previous committees.

If it comes to blows, I’ll take Cummings.

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Teukka Oct 22, 2015 • 7:19:07am

re: #292 Teukka

UPDATE: 3 dead, one adult male, one 11-12 year old male and the perp (died from gunshot injuries sustained when police arrived).

Perp reportedly was shot in the chest, meaning he was either charging at the police or actively threatening a third party.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:19:08am

re: #291 b.d.

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Things that make you go hmmmm.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 7:19:23am

re: #260 The Vicious Babushka

what in the utter fuck

I see Ben’s condition has not improved through the week.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 7:20:10am

From my email:

Thank you for contacting me about ensuring a woman’s freedom to choose. I appreciate your active participation in our legislative process. Your involvement helps me more effectively represent you and the Eleventh District of Illinois.

I share your concerns about ongoing efforts to dictate what women can and cannot do with their bodies, and you will be pleased to know that I am a co-sponsor of H.R.448, the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2015. Although I feel that every abortion is a tragedy, I do not believe that criminalizing and punishing women for their decisions is the appropriate solution. Instead, we must reduce the need for abortions by reducing the number of unplanned pregnancies. Women should have full knowledge of and access to all available family planning options, especially adoption services. I strongly believe there is much common ground to be had on the issue of reducing the number of abortions and as your representative I hope to be a moderate and rational voice, respectful of all sides of the debate.

Introduced on January 21st, 2015, by my colleague Representative Judy Chu (D-CA), H.R.448 would make it unlawful for states or localities to place certain restrictions on abortion services, such as limiting the provider’s ability to offer services via telemedicine or requiring a woman to make medically unnecessary visits to a provider. In addition, the measure grants legal standing to the Department of Justice, or an individual or entity harmed by a violation of this act, to bring legal action against the state or locality violating the act.

H.R.448 has been referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. While I do not serve on this committee, please know that I support this legislation and plan to vote for it if I have opportunity to do so in the full House of Representatives.

I apologize for the delay in responding to your concerns. It is my policy to respond to every one of the thousands of emails, faxes and letters I receive each month. Hearing from the people I serve is vital to doing my job right. Thank you again for taking the time to share your concerns and I hope you keep in touch with me on this or any other issue you feel important. To stay informed of my work, or to sign up for my electronic newsletters, please visit my website at foster.house.gov. It is an honor to represent you.

Sincerely,

Bill Foster
Member of Congress

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 7:20:30am

re: #296 ObserverArt

Going right at Gowdy and the Republicans and all the previous committees.

If it comes to blows, I’ll take Cummings.

Smacking the hell out of Gowdy’s whole little bit of theater.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 7:21:57am

EXCLUSIVE TRANSCRIPT OF HILLARY’S BENGHAZI HEARING #benghazicommittee https://t.co/79HjIoqK84 pic.twitter.com/sv3Vns6S01

— Wonkette (@Wonkette) October 22, 2015

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 7:22:10am

re: #236 The Vicious Babushka

This drunken little sack of ragemeat==>

AND WHO ORDERED THE ~~CODE RED~~ BACK DOWN ORDER??!?!?!?!?!?

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:22:35am

re: #300 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

From my email:

Oh fucking horseshit. As soon as you frame abortion as a tragedy you’re a lost cause.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 7:22:53am

re: #303 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

AND WHO ORDERED THE ~~CODE RED~~ BACK DOWN ORDER??!?!?!?!?!?

Time zones…how do they work?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 7:25:16am

re: #236 The Vicious Babushka

Libya was one of the most dangerous places on earth, increased in danger by Hillary’s invasion. Why didn’t she give Stevens security?
— Ben Shapiro

Umm, because Stevens was a Republican who was going to spill the beans on how she murdered Vince Foster and how Obama’s book was written by Bill Ayers?

/////

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 7:26:17am

re: #306 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Libya was one of the most dangerous places on earth, increased in danger by Hillary’s invasion. Why didn’t she give Stevens security?
— Ben Shapiro

Wait, whut?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 7:26:32am

re: #306 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Umm, because Stevens was a Republican who was going to spill the beans on how she murdered Vince Foster and how Obama’s book was written by Bill Ayers?

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Oh, so Hillary invaded Libya. This is indeed news.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 7:26:33am

Cummings came prepared for war today.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 7:27:25am

Dogs Stand Guard, Hold Vigil for Fawn Overcome by Wildfire

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 7:28:21am

re: #304 WhatEVs

Oh fucking horseshit. As soon as you frame abortion as a tragedy you’re a lost cause.

Trying to sit on both sides of the fence at once. The downside of having to represent all the people to get elected. I couldn’t do it.

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 7:29:05am

As if the prior investigations were insufficient to get all the details known, GOP pushed/got current one. SS/DD https://t.co/SKhzI718tk

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 22, 2015

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 7:31:34am

re: #304 WhatEVs

Oh fucking horseshit. As soon as you frame abortion as a tragedy you’re a lost cause.

It is a tragedy in those cases when the woman really wants to keep the baby but simply does not see how it would be financially possible or feasible.

It is not always just some “slut” who wants to “escape responsibility”, it is a outcome of an ideology and policies that seek to protect the unborn at all costs while abandoning all concern for the child once it is born.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 7:32:51am

So much shade being thrown in that room….. https://t.co/nHmxqAzdeK

— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) October 22, 2015

Gowdy just gave Cummings some serious side-eye.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 22, 2015

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 7:33:27am

What a stinking bag of putrid dick meats==>

Clinton: “I’m here to honor the service” of those who died in Benghazi. Also, I will be imprisoning a YouTube filmmaker.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2015

Hillary: “I knew and admired Chris Stevens,” which is why I rejected all of his requests for additional security.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2015

This is like watching Alan Dershowitz eulogize Nicole Brown Simpson.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2015

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b.d. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:35:04am

re: #315 The Vicious Babushka

What a stinking bag of putrid dick meats==>

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Ben was once a wingnut child prodigy who rose to the zenith of his field, Twitter troll.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 7:35:30am

Speaking of putrid dick meat==>

Chris Stevens died, Hillary Clinton lied, and the Obama administration tried to cover it up. Time to tell the truth! #Benghazi

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) October 22, 2015

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:36:16am

re: #317 The Vicious Babushka

Speaking of putrid dick meat==>

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Go hang out with your pedophile pal josh asshole.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:36:29am

re: #310 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Dogs Stand Guard, Hold Vigil for Fawn Overcome by Wildfire

:(

Ok, this may be my new favorite site.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 7:36:34am

re: #317 The Vicious Babushka

The truth was told, during the last 7 investigations, Huck.

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:36:52am

re: #317 The Vicious Babushka

Speaking of putrid dick meat==>

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Hard to believe there was once a time when this schmuck actually worried Democrats.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 7:37:09am

re: #317 The Vicious Babushka

Speaking of putrid dick meat==>

If you “know” the “truth” already then what good does any of this “investigation” do?

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:37:14am

Chris Stevens is not some punching bag for these right wing ashsoles. He was a man with a family and friends who loved him very much.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 7:37:23am

re: #317 The Vicious Babushka

Chris Stevens died, Hillary Clinton lied, and the Obama administration tried to cover it up. Time to tell the truth!

pure fuckin’ poetry, worthy of a Ted Nugent song…

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:38:32am

re: #324 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

pure fuckin’ poetry, worthy of a Ted Nugent song…

Throw in a little child diddlin’ and it’s wingnut Nuge perfection.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:39:10am

re: #325 WhatEVs

Throw in a little child diddlin’ and it’s wingnut Nuge perfection.

Huck would know about that.

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 7:39:28am

Tell me again how GOP cares about diplomats/other govt workers? Where’s their support for 9/11 #firstresponders? Make #ZadrogaAct permanent

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 22, 2015

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 7:39:43am

LOLWHUT

Shorter Hillary: Chris Stevens was wearing a short skirt, because we need people to wear short skirts.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2015

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 7:39:48am

re: #315 The Vicious Babushka

What a stinking bag of putrid dick meats==>

Maybe the committee should call Baby Ben to testify since he knows so much of what happened.

/////

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:40:16am

re: #328 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWHUT

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It’s too early ot be this drunk.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 7:40:43am

re: #328 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWHUT

Surely Baby Ben has a friend who cares enough to pull the keyboard away from him.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:40:45am

re: #327 lawhawk

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Booyah.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:40:59am

re: #326 HappyWarrior

Huck would know about that.

Maybe throw in a little animal torture for Huck’s kid.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 7:41:07am

Hullo.

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:41:15am

re: #330 HappyWarrior

It’s too early ot be this drunk.

He’s not as think as you drunk he is!

Seriously, what could our next President conceivably have said to make Ben draw that conclusion, even with moon logic?

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:41:16am

re: #331 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Surely Baby Ben has a friend who cares enough to pull the keyboard away from him.

Nah they’re all crazy over there at Breitbrat.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:41:34am

re: #330 HappyWarrior

It’s too early ot be this drunk.

Or this hateful. But he lives his life that way.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:41:39am

re: #335 Brian J.

He’s not as think as you drunk he is!

Seriously, what could our next President conceivably have said to make Ben draw that conclusion, even with moon logic?

I have no diea.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 7:42:10am

re: #331 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Surely Baby Ben has a friend who cares enough to pull the keyboard away from him.

Friends don’t let friends Tweet drunk.

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 7:42:12am

I loved her gaze towards Gowdy….

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 7:42:44am

.@HillaryClinton just invoked Reagan/Lebanon …@TGowdySC just swallowed some hair grease. #BenghaziCommittee

— Fresh Brew (@TheFreshBrew) October 22, 2015

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:43:08am

I’m not actually watching, just following via twitter and LGF, so I really don’t know what was said. But why would short skirts have come up?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 7:43:33am

re: #325 WhatEVs

Throw in a little child diddlin’ and it’s wingnut Nuge perfection.

Libyan diddlin?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 7:43:34am

re: #335 Brian J.

He’s not as think as you drunk he is!

Seriously, what could our next President conceivably have said to make Ben draw that conclusion, even with moon logic?

It ‘snot always what you say. It’s the look in her eye when nobody’s looking. It’s the inflection in her voice when she isn’t saying anything. You know, non-verbal stuff.

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BeachDem Oct 22, 2015 • 7:43:43am

re: #246 The Vicious Babushka

fucktard==>

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Plus, to be pedantic (as is my wont), the word should be FEWER, not less.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 7:43:51am

How did I miss this?

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:43:55am

Nice stump speech. Glad Gowdy gave her this opportunity. /half

(yeah, I broke down and am watching)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 7:44:12am

re: #340 Jenner7

I loved her gaze towards Gowdy….

I’m not watching, but HRC is a consummate politician. And she could probably eat Trey Gowdy for lunch. He probably thinks he’s got a “little woman” on the hot seat, and she’d be easy to push over. Hahaha!

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Eventual Carrion Oct 22, 2015 • 7:44:18am

re: #284 ObserverArt

Hey Trey…we sent a whole hell of a lot of people into Iraq, many died, etc. When are you going to open up the investigation into all that?

On, at best, incorrect intel. At worse, lies.

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 7:44:57am

re: #346 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Probably because it was caught in a derplanche elsewhere?

Speaking of derp, this comes courtesy of the Russians:

Russian ambassador uses pic of actor @kalpenn in ‘Harold & Kumar’ in tweet about terrorists https://t.co/uetbZAKnUv pic.twitter.com/FcFUWIOsoF

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 22, 2015

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 7:45:07am

re: #347 WhatEVs

Nice stump speech. Glad Gowdy gave her this opportunity. /half

(yeah, I broke down and am watching)

I surprised they didn’t just cancel this hearing outright.
Rs are their own worse enemy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 7:45:24am

HRC too polite to say that Ds did not mount an attack campaign against Reagan after Beirut bombings killed 258 Americans.

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 22, 2015

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 7:45:36am

Gowdy stumbling over himself now as he tries to deal with the reality that she just took his ass behind the woodshed.

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makeitstop Oct 22, 2015 • 7:45:59am

Gowdy is really going to great lengths to say what the committee won’t do.

It’s almost as if he’s trying to make this committee look legitimate.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 7:46:08am

I bust on Clinton for expediency, but she’s got a lot to learn from these guys.

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:46:47am

re: #352 Backwoods_Sleuth

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To paraphrase MTV, she’s got to stop being polite and start getting real. I want Curt Gowdy’s ass so blistered he runs all the way back to Spartanburg.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 7:46:53am

re: #313 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It is a tragedy in those cases when the woman really wants to keep the baby but simply does not see how it would be financially possible or feasible.

It is not always just some “slut” who wants to “escape responsibility”, it is a outcome of an ideology and policies that seek to protect the unborn at all costs while abandoning all concern for the child once it is born.

Or when the fetus is not viable, as died in the womb or is so malformed it will have nothing but a life of misery if it is born.

But all these examples of tragedy have little to do with choice to termintate, the tragedy is in the facts of why termination is the choice.

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Archangelus Oct 22, 2015 • 7:47:10am

Sorry folks, i’m going to sit this massive BS out - one of the Benghazi victims was a friend, who knew damn well the danger and the risk and put his life on the line in the service of duty - somethings these spineless, gutless rank cowards will never do. These despicable low excuses of humanity are dancing all over his blood and his corpse, pretending that they’re doing what’s right for him and the other fallen when he would have spat in their faces were he alive.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 7:47:52am

♪ Diggy Diggy Hole ♪

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:48:24am

re: #355 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I bust on Clinton for expediency, but she’s got a lot to learn from these guys.

Huh?

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:48:30am

re: #358 Archangelus

Sorry folks, i’m going to sit this massive BS out - one of the Benghazi victims was a friend, who knew damn well the danger and the risk and put his life on the line in the service of duty - somethings these spineless, gutless rank cowards will never do. These despicable low excuses of humanity are dancing all over his blood and his corpse, pretending that they’re doing what’s right for him and the other fallen when he would have spat in their faces were he alive.

My mother was a friend of a teacher at Newtown, so I have some idea of what you mean. We’ll be here and see you when the derp is done.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:49:26am

re: #356 Brian J.

To paraphrase MTV, she’s got to stop being polite and start getting real. I want Curt Gowdy’s ass so blistered he runs all the way back to Spartanburg.

The best way to smack someone down is to have them walk away smiling while their ass burns not realizing how badly they were burned.

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 7:49:30am

“Read your notes, sweetie.”

Ugh.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 7:49:36am

re: #350 lawhawk

Probably because it was caught in a derplanche elsewhere?

Speaking of derp, this comes courtesy of the Russians:

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After I read Anwar Sadat’s memoir, I realized how much most of the world just sits and waits for the Super Powers to make up their mind.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 7:50:08am

They are in no position to be acting this douchey.

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Archangelus Oct 22, 2015 • 7:50:33am

Also: I don’t have a Twitter account and probably wouldn’t know how to use it right, but if someone does decide to interact with Ben “What Soul Are You Talking About” Shapiro, feel free to copy/paste the following quote to that mental midget on my behalf:
לך לעזעזל יא חתיכת בן זונה בן בליעל עמלק ארור שכמותך.

(“Go to hell you damned villainous Amalekite son of a b*tch”)

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ipsos Oct 22, 2015 • 7:50:41am

re: #356 Brian J.

To paraphrase MTV, she’s got to stop being polite and start getting real. I want Curt Gowdy’s ass so blistered he runs all the way back to Spartanburg.

She can blister Trey Gowdy’s ass as much as she’d like. Curt’s already dead, and he was a much better man than this Gowdy will ever be.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 7:51:03am

re: #363 Jenner7

“Read your notes, sweetie.”

Ugh.

“I can do more than one thing at a time, obviously,” Clinton says, after questioner says he’ll pause as she looks at notes

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 22, 2015

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:51:27am

re: #367 ipsos

She can blister Trey Gowdy’s ass as much as she’d like. Curt’s already dead, and he was a much better man than this Gowdy will ever be.

This guy doesn’t deserve for me to get his name right.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 7:51:40am

re: #360 WhatEVs

The only thing these guys can do is throw red meat. I truly think they’re incapable of anything else. There isn’t a question that can be answered in less than 10 words.

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 7:51:49am

re: #358 Archangelus

Sorry folks, i’m going to sit this massive BS out - one of the Benghazi victims was a friend, who knew damn well the danger and the risk and put his life on the line in the service of duty - somethings these spineless, gutless rank cowards will never do. These despicable low excuses of humanity are dancing all over his blood and his corpse, pretending that they’re doing what’s right for him and the other fallen when he would have spat in their faces were he alive.

The GOP are treating your friend and the others killed in Benghazi as disposable heroes - props for their political theater. And it’s reprehensible - morally and ethically.

Instead of cutting to the chase and seeing how to reduce chances we have other similar attacks, we get nonstop grandstanding and politicking with an eye to 2016 elections.

The Administration already took steps to improve security and the response, something no prior Administration ever considered or did - creating a rapid reaction force to handle assistance requests. So, if a diplomatic outpost comes under attack somewhere within the range of the new force, they can respond quicker than the time it took to happen in Benghazi, though it still might not prevent casualties. The GOP thinks that someone can just wave a wand and apparate on scene to do battle with the enemy. It takes time to get the proper teams on the line, in the air, and then on the ground even under the best of circumstances. And it takes money to keep that capability operational 24/7/365 worldwide.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 7:53:12am

re: #357 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Or when the fetus is not viable, as died in the womb or is so malformed it will have nothing but a life of misery if it is born.

But all these examples of tragedy have little to do with choice to termintate, the tragedy is in the facts of why termination is the choice.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:53:58am

re: #372 The Vicious Babushka

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That’s evil.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 7:54:07am

re: #363 Jenner7

“Read your notes, sweetie.”

Ugh.

Whut? No way

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William Lewis Oct 22, 2015 • 7:54:10am

re: #358 Archangelus

It’s the end of the day for me here and I’m sipping a beer. So I’ll say a toast to “Absent Friends” and remember your friend as well. You honor his memory well.

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Lidane Oct 22, 2015 • 7:54:12am

I’m snowed under at work. Anything interesting going on in these hearings aside from Hillary smacking them around again?

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 7:54:35am

Hey…my congresswoman is in the room and on TV!

Joyce Beatty Ohio District number 3. She is the elegant African American woman just behind Hillary’s left shoulder. She is good friends with the Clinton gang, probably there for some support.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 7:54:39am

re: #376 Lidane

I’m snowed under at work. Anything interesting going on in these hearings aside from Hillary smacking them around again?

Workload or actual snow???
/

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:54:55am

re: #358 Archangelus

Sorry folks, i’m going to sit this massive BS out - one of the Benghazi victims was a friend, who knew damn well the danger and the risk and put his life on the line in the service of duty - somethings these spineless, gutless rank cowards will never do. These despicable low excuses of humanity are dancing all over his blood and his corpse, pretending that they’re doing what’s right for him and the other fallen when he would have spat in their faces were he alive.

Sory about atht your friend. I know this must be tough for you.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 7:55:28am

re: #372 The Vicious Babushka

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If he were in charge, there would have been no conception and thus no moral dilemma.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:56:53am

Top GOP 2016 staffer: “She’s going to wipe the floor with the house Republicans, the best we can hope for is avoiding total disaster.”

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 22, 2015

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:56:53am

re: #380 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

If he were in charge, there would have been no conception and thus no moral dilemma.

or women raped.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 7:56:56am

Gowdy: “We will have no interruptions.” Hillary: “Great. Well you se—” Roskam: “I’m not done with my question.”

— Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) October 22, 2015

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 7:57:37am

Surprise, surprise, the GOP tactic here is to hang not simply Benghazi, but the entirety of Libya, around her neck to call into question her leadership.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 7:57:41am

re: #381 WhatEVs

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Oh lowering expectations so anything outside of Trey Gowdy sitting his pants on the House floor is a GOP win..

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gocart mozart Oct 22, 2015 • 7:58:19am

re: #113 Charles Johnson

So, this rotten asshole who publicly tried to link me to mass murderer Anders Breivik knew he was spreading a lie.

This is evidence of “maliciously false” statements. There goes his defense to a defamation suit.

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Lidane Oct 22, 2015 • 7:58:38am

re: #378 Varek Raith

Workload or actual snow???
/

Workload. Idiots at TCWSNBN apparently found my neatly organized daily reports too confusing, so they created a whole new database they wanted me to use instead. Did they have the courtesy of having an intern input all the information I’d already sent them for months into that database? LOL no.

Thank SRV for the ability to do mass exports of data. I downloaded all the info again, formatted it into the way they wanted it and uploaded it to the database. Voila! Problem solved, right? NO. Now they want all the individual names for all the senders in the various email campaigns they’ve done. That’s what I’m doing now.

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 7:58:46am

re: #384 Targetpractice

Surprise, surprise, the GOP tactic here is to hang not simply Benghazi, but the entirety of Libya, around her neck to call into question her leadership.

That actually isn’t the dumbest strategy. Libya really didn’t turn out the way we hoped. Of course, it was Republicans who were gung ho to commit troops. Hope Hillary reminds them of that.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 7:58:47am

Trying to figure out what the point of that Roskam line of questioning was.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) October 22, 2015

There’s now sworn taped testimony of her admitting she was Secretary of State in both 2011 AND 2012 https://t.co/aEhFsq7UPC

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) October 22, 2015

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 7:59:12am

re: #372 The Vicious Babushka

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There are evil people in the world who use G-d as an excuse.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 7:59:44am

The actual #Benghazi terrorists thank the #BenghaziCommittee for blaming the Benghazi attack on everyone but them.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) October 22, 2015

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 8:00:07am

re: #378 Varek Raith

Workload or actual snow???
/

I was wondering that for a moment as well, then I remembered LIdane is in Texas.

Then I wondered again…

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:00:39am

Pretty much the entirety of the previous little Republican shitstain’s line of “questioning” seemed to be suggesting that Mrs. Clinton wanted us to go to Libya despite opposition to doing so. What he didn’t mention was that, at the time she was doing this, Republicans were burning up the airwaves about how we needed to get in there, help the Libyan people, and remove Col. Mo from power. And browbeating the administration for not rushing to do so.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 8:01:00am

re: #389 WhatEVs

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Really, she admitted that?????

/gah

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:01:38am

HA!

Bad form of Clinton to kick her heels up on the table and spark a joint like that. Responding to inquiries with middle finger also unwise.

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 22, 2015

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 8:02:04am

Today we’re on Capitol Hill telling Congress that Catholics support the EACH Woman Act. #BeBoldEndHyde https://t.co/iqm0YHMAgp

— Catholics for Choice (@Catholic4Choice) October 22, 2015

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 8:02:23am

Oh, I get it, Libya was a Hillary Clinton Jedi mind trick. #BenghaziCommittee

— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 22, 2015

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 8:02:32am

“I grew up in a country where a woman’s bodily integrity was put above the state’s agenda.” -public comment #standwithpp #ppbloomington

— PP Advocates of INKY (@PPAdvocatesINKY) October 22, 2015

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 8:02:37am

re: #393 Targetpractice

Pretty much the entirety of the previous little Republican shitstain’s line of “questioning” seemed to be suggesting that Mrs. Clinton wanted us to go to Libya despite opposition to doing so. What he didn’t mention was that, at the time she was doing this, Republicans were burning up the airwaves about how we needed to get in there, help the Libyan people, and remove Col. Mo from power. And browbeating the administration for not rushing to do so.

They were for removing Qaddafi before they were against it.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 8:03:05am

Great news out of Bloomington, IN! The city passed a resolution supporting Planned Parenthood. #StandWithPP https://t.co/nFQCDdnrxO

— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) October 22, 2015

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:03:32am

Oh my. Issa getting busted for lying on the teevee machine about the Benghazi boogaloo.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 8:04:03am

re: #400 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

University town, surrounded by fields of red

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:05:41am

Cummings brought video clips of Republican members making things up on television

— Tim Fernholz (@TimFernholz) October 22, 2015

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:07:01am

This is so awesome. Fuck you Issa! I hope Cummings does this for all the lying GOPers who have been playing the Benghazi Game on tv.

The phrase “Four Pinnochios” was just used at Benghazi hearing, to describe WaPo fact-check of Darrell Issa’s claim Hillary denied security.

— The National Memo (@NationalMemo) October 22, 2015

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:07:08am

Cummings getting to the meat the matter that the previous Republican tried to tee up, namely to suggest that since she was capable of moving the administration to intervene in Libya, then she could have overcame opposition in the State Dept to get the necessary security to Benghazi. And the only reason she didn’t do that is because she was either negligent, incompetent, or malevolent.

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 8:07:25am

re: #403 WhatEVs

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Elijah brought the big ol’ Cummings wrecking ball machine to the hearings today.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 8:07:39am

#BenghaziCommittee pic.twitter.com/5sFj0p2W1I #StopRush #UniteBlue

— Captain Murdock (@CaptMurdock) October 22, 2015

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:08:33am

re: #406 ObserverArt

Elijah brought the big ol’ Cummings wrecking ball machine to the hearings today.

Next Senator from Maryland, if he wants to be. (Amazing that the only political careers actually advanced by this hearing will be those of Democrats…)

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:09:12am

Facepalm.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:09:24am

Rep. Brooks now presenting the next part of the GOP political theater.

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Lidane Oct 22, 2015 • 8:09:50am

Jim Webb would like more time to speak during this committee hearing

— Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis) October 22, 2015

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 8:10:06am

re: #408 Brian J.

Next Senator from Maryland, if he wants to be. (Amazing that the only political careers actually advanced by this hearing will be those of Democrats…)

He really should run. There ws an article about this in the wapo last weekend. HE’d be the immedaite Dem frontrunner.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 8:10:11am

One important thing to remember about security requests: They were for Tripoli, not Benghazi.

— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) October 22, 2015

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:10:12am

re: #411 Lidane

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Boom!

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:10:29am

re: #410 Targetpractice

Rep. Brooks now presenting the next part of the GOP political theater.

This is the same clown who’s angry enough to impeach her prospectively, right?

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:10:31am

Now we’re counting the number of emails by year. Susan Brooks (R-IN) troubled by the number of emails - shows piles of paper to demonstrate the number of emails sent.

At least she can count, one supposes.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:11:06am

re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Don’t expect Brooks to mention that.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:11:34am

This…this is the best they can muster?
e_e

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 8:11:51am

re: #415 Brian J.

This is the same clown who’s angry enough to impeach her prospectively, right?

No, that was Mo Brooks.

Edit to add…Susan Brooks of Indiana is on the committee.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:12:03am

BRB, flash is nagging me to update.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:12:03am

re: #415 Brian J.

This is the same clown who’s angry enough to impeach her prospectively, right?

No, I think that’s Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.)

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 8:12:10am

Wow. Hillary is eating their lunch.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 8:12:28am

re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth

Whatevs. Security. Benghazi. Terrorism. Emails.

/////

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Archangelus Oct 22, 2015 • 8:12:28am

OT: dunno if this was posted in a previous thread - someone is clearly going for the “Biggest Scumbag in the Free World” award…

AJ: Refugee-tripping Journalist to Sue Refugee She Tripped and Facebook

The Hungarian camerawoman who was filmed tripping up a Syrian refugee intends to sue the man she targeted while he was trying to escape war and terror.

Petra Laszlo, who was sacked from her N1TV job after the footage went viral, told a Russian newspaper she would sue Osama Abdul Mohsen, 52, for changing his testimony after initially blaming the police, reports said on Wednesday. She also threatened to sue Facebook.

Speaking to the Izvestia newspaper, Laszlo said: ” We [her and her husband] believe Facebook played a major role in my situation. It helped embitter people against me.”
After the incident in September, Laszlo had apologised for her actions which caused global outrage. In the footage, Mohsen is shown carrying his seven-year-old son, Zaid, who fell heavily after Laszlo tripped them up. Zaid reportedly suffered a concussion.

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b.d. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:12:53am

The Freeper thread on this hearing sure is a pleasure to read:

To: EBH

Here comes that crazy Cackle again !! This b%^$H needs to be shot.

297 posted on ‎10‎/‎22‎/‎2015‎ ‎9‎:‎48‎:‎26‎ ‎AM by bestrongbpositive

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freerepublic.com

Good thing that is a well moderated board

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 8:12:55am

re: #418 Varek Raith

This…this is the best they can muster?
e_e

Are the Repubs getting routed? Also chamfered, then sanded?

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:13:04am

Huma! DRINK!

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:13:05am

My mistake, sorry. But is she really hauling out a stack of paper to represent emails? Does she require her constituents to write her with quill pens?

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Barefoot Grin Oct 22, 2015 • 8:13:19am

re: #387 Lidane

Workload. Idiots at TCWSNBN apparently found my neatly organized daily reports too confusing, so they created a whole new database they wanted me to use instead. Did they have the courtesy of having an intern input all the information I’d already sent them for months into that database? LOL no.

Thank SRV for the ability to do mass exports of data. I downloaded all the info again, formatted it into the way they wanted it and uploaded it to the database. Voila! Problem solved, right? NO. Now they want all the individual names for all the senders in the various email campaigns they’ve done. That’s what I’m doing now.

Not only was he a super-talented blues guitarist, but kickass coder….

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 8:13:29am

re: #425 b.d.

The Freeper thread on this hearing sure is a pleasure to read:

freerepublic.com

Good thing that is a well moderated board

//

Klasy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 8:13:46am

re: #416 WhatEVs

Now we’re counting the number of emails by year. Susan Brooks (R-IN) troubled by the number of emails - shows piles of paper to demonstrate the number of emails sent.

At least she can count, one supposes.

Rep. Susan Brooks compares stacks of Clinton’s emails on Libya from 2012 (right) and 2011 (left) pic.twitter.com/3CkrBkfnf7

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 22, 2015

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:14:12am

re: #428 Brian J.

My mistake, sorry. But is she really hauling out a stack of paper to represent emails? Does she require her constituents to write her with quill pens?

It’s theater, the way for her to try to give this impression that, after the gov’t fell in Libya, Clinton stopped giving a shit.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:15:11am

re: #426 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Are the Repubs getting routed? Also chamfered, then sanded?

And they don’t seem to realize it.

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:15:33am

re: #432 Targetpractice

It’s theater, the way for her to try to give this impression that, after the gov’t fell in Libya, Clinton stopped giving a shit.

I realize we’re talking about Republicans here, but most people use email and have some idea of how much they get.

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 8:15:37am

re: #374 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Sorry, that was my interpretation. He did say he will pause so she can read her notes.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 8:15:54am

HURR HURR DEMOCRATS IS TEH REAL RACISTS!!!!!

Click to Reveal

“Truff, tha whole truff nuthin but the whole truff!” <= CUMMINGS. <= can’t even pronounce “TRUTH”. @LuM1996 @MikeRumbo66 @pjfahren #TCOT

— HICKORY (@claydirtman) October 22, 2015

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 8:16:01am

re: #428 Brian J.

My mistake, sorry. But is she really hauling out a stack of paper to represent emails? Does she require her constituents to write her with quill pens?

She needs the visuals. This is a big stack. This is a small stack. Why?

Could it be that there was more correspondence to get things up and rolling versus the needs in 2012 to keep the Bengahzi facility going.

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Lidane Oct 22, 2015 • 8:16:08am

re: #429 Barefoot Grin

Not only was he a super-talented blues guitarist, but kickass coder….

It was the sweet hats he always wore. They gave him many talents. ;)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 8:16:09am

re: #433 Varek Raith

And they don’t seem to realize it.

Not surprising at all. TPGOP types seem to have no self-awareness.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:16:35am

STACKS OF PAPER!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 8:17:37am

re: #416 WhatEVs

Now we’re counting the number of emails by year. Susan Brooks (R-IN) troubled by the number of emails - shows piles of paper to demonstrate the number of emails sent.

At least she can count, one supposes.

emails requesting security or what?

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:17:40am

re: #437 ObserverArt

She needs the visuals. This is a big stack. THis is a small stack. Why?

Could it be that there was more correspondence to get things up and rolling versus the needs in 2012 to keep the Bengahzi facility going.

I didn’t conduct most of my work in email. It was done in classified memos, meetings, etc.

Perfect.

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Archangelus Oct 22, 2015 • 8:17:47am

re: #431 Backwoods_Sleuth

Caught that on the way out, oh what a maroon… seriously, email numbers? Oooh, such a big scary stack! sigh, If i printed out the number of emails I get in a year, represented in paper, the damn stack would hit the freaking roof…

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 8:17:49am

They are trying to insinuate that she’s deleted some emails because they were the smoking gun.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 8:18:18am

re: #440 Varek Raith

STACKS OF PAPER!

The Dems need to pull out the reams of paper wasted by the previous Benghazi committees.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:18:22am

So lemme git this straight;
The bigger the stack the more someone cares about an issue?
Okely dokely.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 8:18:28am

re: #442 WhatEVs

I didn’t conduct most of my work in email. It was done in classified memos, meetings, etc.

Perfect.

THEN WHAT ARE ALL THESE EMAILS ABOUT????

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:18:38am

Amazing. GOP now says “don’t go to dangerous places and why didn’t u conduct all discussions on email rather than face to face.”

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 22, 2015

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 8:19:00am

This is more about the emails than Benghazi. Fuckers.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 8:19:16am

re: #447 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

THEN WHAT ARE ALL THESE EMAILS ABOUT????

LOLCATS

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 8:19:26am

re: #426 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Are the Repubs getting routed? Also chamfered, then sanded?

The jig is up. Ogee, I did pun it up.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:19:31am

re: #444 Jenner7

They are trying to insinuate that she’s deleted some emails because they were the smoking gun.

That’s funny because, that’s also been debunked.
Ah, GOP.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:20:00am

re: #444 Jenner7

They are trying to insinuate that she’s deleted some emails because they were the smoking gun.

You called it.

Rep. Susan Brooks references Clinton e-mails in questioning about Benghazi incident Watch: https://t.co/f3txXRIVXj pic.twitter.com/Pmkq3GRFWR

— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) October 22, 2015

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:20:13am

Tell us about Vince Foster…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 8:20:22am

re: #451 lawhawk

The jig is up. Ogee, I did pun it up.

I saw what you did there.

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 8:20:28am

Dear Ms. Brooks. You can not agree that Ms. Clinton didn’t work through emails, and then turn right back around and wonder why there were no emails.

It helps to actually think things through before asking your questions so you don’t look like a fool.

God help us if these are our best lawmakers. They are an embarrassment to themselves.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:21:13am

Crazy lady is crazy.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:21:33am

Rep. Brooks: This is NOT about political theater! I’m going to stack printed emails in front of me. Please respond to these stacks.

— Guy Cecil (@guycecil) October 22, 2015

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:22:00am

WHAT ABOUT THAT TOWER?!

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 8:22:04am

re: #446 Varek Raith

Or that emails sent/received will depend on when the event occurred? September 2011-December 2011 is what - 4 months? Versus fallout and investigations w/emails sent back and forth for an entire year (2012). Yeah, that’s apples to ball peen hammers.

Emails will increase as more people weigh in and have to respond back to get information, or more requests are made across departments/agencies. It should be a given that there’s more email in 2012 than 2011. Especially when the GOP is demanding investigations and emails be sent over (which also generates still more email).

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 8:22:37am

re: #452 Varek Raith

That’s funny because, that’s also been debunked.
Ah, GOP.

“We would have a smoking gun if you deleted emails that contained the smoking gun we don’t have.”

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BeachDem Oct 22, 2015 • 8:22:43am

re: #403 WhatEVs

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I love Elijah Cummings. He gets right to the point. Glad we have him there to squash little Trey’s pointy head into a flat-top.

Now I have to get ready to go on the road again for another 12 days. Sicker than shit from my last foray into the world—hope I can make it through this one.

Give ‘em hell, Hillary!

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:23:10am

I’m genuinely curious.
Did the GOP think they would come out of this looking like anything other than complete partisan morons?

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 8:23:14am

re: #440 Varek Raith

STACKS OF PAPER!

I’m sensing a stack overflow error, but the GOP doesn’t realize it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 8:23:24am

re: #456 ObserverArt

Dear Ms. Brooks. You can not agree that Ms. Clinton didn’t work through emails, and then turn right back around and wonder why there were no emails.

It helps to actually think things through before asking your questions so you don’t look like a fool.

God help us if these are our best lawmakers. They are an embarrassment to themselves.

Our Ms Brooks is also a criminal defense lawyer. Now that’s scary

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 8:23:27am

THE STUPIDEST OF ALL BENGHAZIGATEBOLABOOGALOO IN BEN SHAPIRO’S TWITTER FEED.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 8:23:27am

Another possible insinuation with the disparate stacks of paper is that Clinton is withholding a stack of paper from 2011.

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 8:23:36am

re: #462 BeachDem

Safe travels, Beach!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 8:24:13am

re: #449 Jenner7

This is more about the emails than Benghazi. Fuckers.

“So please tell us how your illegal servers led to BENGHAZI!!!!”

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:24:16am

re: #461 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

“We would have a smoking gun if you deleted emails that contained the smoking gun we don’t have.”/

Conspiracy theories should be more fun than this, shouldn’t they? They should involve derring-do and saving the world, not talking to mounds of paper.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:24:57am

re: #470 Brian J.

Conspiracy theories should be more fun than this, shouldn’t they? They should involve derring-do and saving the world, not talking to mounds of paper.

No one knows how to conspiracy anymore.
:(

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 8:25:08am

re: #464 lawhawk

I’m sensing a stack overflow error, but the GOP doesn’t realize it.

Red Screen of Death. Please wait while GOPdows saves this session to the hard drive.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:25:25am

Well, that was a mistake. Thought I could watch the hearing on CNN, but they decided just as Tammy Duckworth began her time to go to commercial break. Fuckers.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:25:50am

re: #473 Targetpractice

Well, that was a mistake. Thought I could watch the hearing on CNN, but they decided just as Tammy Duckworth began her time to go to commercial break. Fuckers.

c-span.org

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BeachDem Oct 22, 2015 • 8:26:06am

re: #440 Varek Raith

STACKS OF PAPER!

Binders full of emails!

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 8:26:26am

re: #473 Targetpractice

MSNBC has it.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:26:44am

re: #474 Varek Raith

c-span.org

Watching it through the FIOS app on my iPod, because the last time I tried to watch a hearing like this online, their bandwidth was getting majorly borked.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:26:46am

re: #460 lawhawk

Or that emails sent/received will depend on when the event occurred? September 2011-December 2011 is what - 4 months? Versus fallout and investigations w/emails sent back and forth for an entire year (2012). Yeah, that’s apples to ball peen hammers.

Emails will increase as more people weigh in and have to respond back to get information, or more requests are made across departments/agencies. It should be a given that there’s more email in 2012 than 2011. Especially when the GOP is demanding investigations and emails be sent over (which also generates still more email).

And after an event like Benghazi, more and more material will be classified and specifically not handled in email.

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Patricia Kayden Oct 22, 2015 • 8:27:02am

re: #5 stpaulbear

Mat Staver is taking lessons from Chucky. (via JoeMyGod)

Liberty Counsel: The Associated Press Has Put Our Lives In Danger And Defamed Us By Reporting That We Are A Lying Hate Group

Poor baby. O where is my tiny violin to play soothing tunes for Staver and his fellow bigots?

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 8:27:18am

re: #463 Varek Raith

I’m genuinely curious.
Did the GOP think they would come out of this looking like anything other than complete partisan morons?

Think they thought they could go all Lt. Caffey on Clinton’s Col. Jessup. Except that the GOP didn’t have the facts, the law, or logic on their side, and Clinton didn’t do anything wrong in the entire thing (other than use her real name - if the Sec. State was anyone not named Clinton, this would likely have never gone to 8 investigations).

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:27:57am

re: #473 Targetpractice

Well, that was a mistake. Thought I could watch the hearing on CNN, but they decided just as Tammy Duckworth began her time to go to commercial break. Fuckers.

I just read on Twitter they did the same thing when it was returned to Cummings prior to that.

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 8:28:27am

BREAKING: @HillaryClinton running away with 1st general election debate.

— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) October 22, 2015

Heh.

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 8:29:34am

And this reinforces my point earlier - the GOP is praying that Clinton falls into a perjury trap:

GOP will accept Hillary kicking their butts today (she is) if they can create a discrepancy/conflict to justify new questions/attacks.

— Francis Wilkinson (@fdwilkinson) October 22, 2015

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 8:29:59am

re: #372 The Vicious Babushka

If “God is in charge”, why do all these fucktards hoard firearms and ammo?

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:30:04am

re: #463 Varek Raith

I’m genuinely curious.
Did the GOP think they would come out of this looking like anything other than complete partisan morons?

Their aim in this is looking to be to present one of two possible lines of attack: “She ignored the threat to Stevens!” and “She’s hiding the evidence that she left Stevens to die!”

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:30:05am

re: #482 lawhawk

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Heh.

Bernie Sanders should have stopped by and discussed the damn stacks of paper, and then Jim Webb could ask both sides for more time.

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BeachDem Oct 22, 2015 • 8:30:20am

re: #468 Jenner7

Safe travels, Beach!

Thanks. Last work trip this year—I’ve been on the road all but 4 days in October. At least this one is in the same time zone so no jet-lag to deal with.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:30:42am

Another great one from Wonkette.

Hillary Clinton To Benghazi Committee: You Have Made A Huge Mistake https://t.co/7S5FfNpu0k

— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) October 22, 2015

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:31:32am

re: #483 lawhawk

And this reinforces my point earlier - the GOP is praying that Clinton falls into a perjury trap:

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She’s one of the world’s two foremost experts on perjury traps and sleeps with the other one. This won’t work at all, but let the GOoPers have fun trying.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:31:50am

re: #483 lawhawk

And this reinforces my point earlier - the GOP is praying that Clinton falls into a perjury trap:

[Embedded content]

“She gave us conflicting answers! We need to get to the truth of this!”

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 8:32:04am

re: #465 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Our Ms Brooks is also a criminal defense lawyer. Now that’s scary

Hah. She probably knows, or so I hope, that she couldn’t pull that crap in a real courtroom.

It is perfectly fine though in a kangaroo court.

Which reminds me…I have a photoshop from last year…

Trey Gowdy ready for court

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:32:41am

re: #488 WhatEVs

Another great one from Wonkette.

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Hahaha

The thing is, Hillary Clinton may have murdered Vince Foster in Benghazi with her secret lesbosexual lover Huma, but she is still a lot smarter and more prepared (after decades of experience) to deal with Republican witch-hunt bullshit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 8:35:20am

Susan Brooks seems upset that classified information wasn’t sent on Clinton’s email

— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) October 22, 2015

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 8:35:41am

GAH.

I bought a bag of “Food Should Taste Good” Red Bean Chips and they taste AWFUL!

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 8:36:06am

re: #467 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Another possible insinuation with the disparate stacks of paper is that Clinton is withholding a stack of paper from 2011.

So, you think there is even a bigger stack???

You do realize the small stack is 2012.

Whut???

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 8:36:29am

Tammy Duckworth: “We keep having committees. We never act on them” to help men and women on the ground. “That’s what I’m focused on.”

— Ruby Cramer (@rubycramer) October 22, 2015

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:36:42am

And the continuation of the “You didn’t give enough of a shit!” theater.

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:37:33am

re: #495 ObserverArt

So, you think there is even a bigger stack???

You do realize the small stack is 2012.

Whut???

Those stacks honestly don’t look all that big. My email stack for a month is probably about that size. Okay, most of it is foreign hacking attempts (I mean, spam), but still…

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 8:37:34am

Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act (regarding gun violence for Stalkers and Intimate Partner Violence) is an add on to the Brady Bill.

HR3130

S1520

Proud both Senators from Illinois & one Congressman are co-sponsors!

Anyone who would use a firearm to threaten a family member is NOT A CANDIDATE TO OWN A FIREARM.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 22, 2015 • 8:38:14am

I’m bowing out for the night. Enjoy the American Political Theater v. 8.0

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 8:38:14am

re: #496 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I am gonna look forward to her beating Kirk.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:39:16am

re: #501 HappyWarrior

I am gonna look forward to her beating Kirk.

Janeway?
/

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BlueSpotinAL Oct 22, 2015 • 8:39:19am

re: #498 Brian J.

Those stacks honestly don’t look all that big. My email stack for a month is probably about that size. Okay, most of it is foreign hacking attempts (I mean, spam), but still…

Those are stacks of Clinton’s correspondence about Libya. You should see a stack of paper on my correspondence from Nigeria!

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 8:39:35am

re: #440 Varek Raith

STACKS OF PAPER!

For the base of their voters who think computers are a device of the devil.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 8:40:01am

re: #499 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Anyone who would use a firearm to threaten a family member is NOT A CANDIDATE TO OWN A FIREARM.

Real men don’t need weapons to threaten and abuse their family members…

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 8:40:05am

re: #502 Varek Raith

Janeway?
/

Get out nerd. /

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:40:15am

re: #502 Varek Raith

Janeway?
/

Presumably Senator Mark Kirk. I also like her chances against Captain Archer.

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:40:16am

re: #503 BlueSpotinAL

Those are stacks of Clinton’s correspondence about Libya. You should see a stack of paper on my correspondence from Nigeria!

Wonder how big the piles would be with the classified crap on top.
Yeah.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:41:30am

And there goes the attempt at the perjury trap.

510

ipsos Oct 22, 2015 • 8:41:30am

What’s for lunch today?

Oh, right - Congresswoman Roby.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 8:41:51am

The email is mightier than the sword???

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makeitstop Oct 22, 2015 • 8:41:55am

Hillary is pwning every single one of these idiots.

I wonder if they even realize it.

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Skip Intro Oct 22, 2015 • 8:42:13am

re: #488 WhatEVs

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Timothy Watson Oct 22, 2015 • 8:42:23am

re: #315 The Vicious Babushka

Clinton: “I’m here to honor the service” of those who died in Benghazi. Also, I will be imprisoning a YouTube filmmaker.

Wow, so Clinton is also a judge in California who threw someone in jail for violating the terms of their probation?

So much for those “law and order” Republicans.

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 8:43:16am

Again, with emails.

One part says that Hillary asked if we still have a presence in Libya (which is ridiculous), then it says they are currently on lock down.

She says these people in the emails are not on her Secretary staff.

So, the Congresswoman thinks she doesn’t know who her staff is.

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Lidane Oct 22, 2015 • 8:43:24am

re: #512 makeitstop

Hillary is pwning every single one of these idiots.

I wonder if they even realize it.

If you read conservative trolls today, Hillary is buckling under the pressure and being exposed as a criminal mastermind. ROFL.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:43:58am

Imagine my surprise that the Republican tries the “you take responsibility, so you answer for these low-level nobodys.”

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 8:44:10am

JUST IN: State Department has lots of people working in it, and the secretary of state #HillaryClinton doesn’t know all of them. #Benghazi

— Maxine Baptiste (@brownsugar7878) October 22, 2015

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Timothy Watson Oct 22, 2015 • 8:44:49am

re: #518 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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SCANDAL!!1!

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 8:46:41am

Imma go make some pizza.

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 8:47:17am

re: #512 makeitstop

Hillary is pwning every single one of these idiots.

I wonder if they even realize it.

Sad thing is…it probably will not matter. If this is all wrapped up and nothing is found against Hillary, you can count on the same shit in the Republican debate next week.

We call it theater, the movie keeps running long after the actors are on to other roles.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:47:34am

“They were not on my staff…they were in the State D along w 1000s of other ppl,” Clinton says after hrg names Roby is asking about

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 22, 2015

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:47:51am

re: #520 Varek Raith

Imma go make some pizza.

I’ll have a slice! Thanks! :-)

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 8:48:30am

Next question: “We have an email that says the State Dept cafeteria regularly ran out of bagels. Why would someone say that?”

— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) October 22, 2015

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ipsos Oct 22, 2015 • 8:48:38am

Hillary’s not letting one bit of GOP theatrics go unanswered.

Assuming there’s a lunch break coming soon, I’d love to be a fly on the wall when Gowdy and his insane clown posse huddle and try to figure out how to proceed from here. I’d love to see them come back and just adjourn the whole mess, but that would imply a level of self-awareness that seems to be painfully lacking in this crowd.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 8:48:54am

re: #495 ObserverArt

So, you think there is even a bigger stack???

You do realize the small stack is 2012.

Whut???

It isn’t me who wants to make an insinuation, I’m just guessing that’s something they want to allow to fester, namely, that since one of these stacks is smaller than the other, there must be something she’s hiding.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 8:50:00am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

“@jjauthor: Carter and Obama both left American hostages in Iran! https://t.co/xwwAO0bdly #tcot #BenghaziCommittee pic.twitter.com/IEtHYGClSu”

— LosAngelesRealEstate (@RE4LOSANGELES) October 22, 2015

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makeitstop Oct 22, 2015 • 8:50:05am

The committee Democrats have a very smart strategy here - prior to just about every question, they bring up the length of time and money spent by this stupid committee.

This is a point that should be repeatedly made, and they’re doing that. Smart move.

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:50:38am

re: #527 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

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Carter gave Iran to 99% of its people?

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 8:50:50am

“Gave Iran to Muslims”

Who had it before?

Janie Johnson is the Stupidest Lady Using Twitter (SLUT)

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 8:51:12am

re: #527 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

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Gave Iran to Muslims?

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Eventual Carrion Oct 22, 2015 • 8:51:28am

re: #464 lawhawk

I’m sensing a stack overflow error, but the GOP doesn’t realize it.

They’re trying to divide by their brain. And we all know the consequence of dividing by zero, infinite stupidity.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:51:42am

Talk about playing politics, @RepMarthaRoby lists the Benghazi investigation as accomplishment on campaign website: https://t.co/ShEn8Tk3aF

— Brad Woodhouse (@woodhouseb) October 22, 2015

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 8:51:45am

re: #530 The Vicious Babushka

“Gave Iran to Muslims”

Who had it before?

Janie Johnson is the Stupidest Lady Using Twitter (SLUT)

It was our 52nd (or 53rd) state and Carter gave it up!!!!!!

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Belafon Oct 22, 2015 • 8:51:52am

re: #530 The Vicious Babushka

“Gave Iran to Muslims”

Who had it before?

Janie Johnson is the Stupidest Lady Using Twitter (SLUT)

Oil ~~barons~~ companies.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 8:51:56am

re: #527 The Vicious Babushka

The Shah was muslim already.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:52:31am

re: #528 makeitstop

The committee Democrats have a very smart strategy here - prior to just about every question, they bring up the length of time and money spent by this stupid committee.

This is a point that should be repeatedly made, and they’re doing that. Smart move.

AND then ask smart, honest questions.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 8:52:37am

re: #529 Brian J.

Carter gave Iran to 99% of its people?

eah what in the fuck. Oh and REagan actually gave the Iranians arms but you don’t see him on a stupid Twitter meme calling him a second Chamberlain.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 8:53:38am

re: #534 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

It was our 52nd (or 53rd) state and Carter gave it up!!!!!!

Rminds me of the idiots who accused Truman of “losing” China. China was never ours to give up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 8:53:44am

re: #538 HappyWarrior

eah what in the fuck. Oh and REagan actually gave the Iranians arms but you don’t see him on a stupid Twitter meme calling him a second Chamberlain.

Nor do you see a picture of Eisenhower with the caption “Gave Iran to the CIA”.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 8:54:10am

re: #540 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Nor do you see a picture of Eisenhower with the caption “Gave Iran to the CIA”.

Mmm hmm.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:54:11am

Rep. Adam Smith to @hillaryclinton: “This committee is focused on you…I don’t see the Dept of Defense here, I don’t see the CIA here.”

— Ruby Cramer (@rubycramer) October 22, 2015

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 8:55:11am

re: #526 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

It isn’t me who wants to make an insinuation, I’m just guessing that’s something they want to allow to fester, namely, that since one of these stacks is smaller than the other, there must be something she’s hiding.

Steve, you are confusing as hell.

You said “Another possible insinuation with the disparate stacks of paper is that Clinton is withholding a stack of paper from 2011.”

The big stack was 2011. What would adding more paper to the big stack add to the fact they are talking about 2012 being such a small stack by comparison? The small stack insinuation is that 2012 was Clinton not paying attention to Bengahzi in 2012 and that is why it turned to the mess it was.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:55:46am

From the odd news of the day:

Woman accused of sending threats to taste and lick children. https://t.co/1vw76ugQ0D pic.twitter.com/WGYhBxMiLx

— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) October 22, 2015

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:55:57am

re: #543 ObserverArt

Steve, you are confusing as hell.

You said “Another possible insinuation with the disparate stacks of paper is that Clinton is withholding a stack of paper from 2011.”

The big stack was 2011. What would adding more paper to the big stack add to the fact they are talking about 2012 being such a small stack by comparison? The small stack insinuation is that 2012 was Clinton not paying attention to Bengahzi in 2012 and that is why it turned to the mess it was.

Isn’t Chewbacca involved in this legal argument at some point?

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 8:56:06am

Unsurprisingly, for a committee that supposedly exists to find out the truth of what happened and how it can be avoided, the party that wanted this committee is only focused on pinning all the blame on Mrs. Clinton, while the party that opposed it is focused on how to address what happened.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 8:56:35am

re: #544 WhatEVs

From the odd news of the day:

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Does she live in a gingerbread house?

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lawhawk Oct 22, 2015 • 8:56:40am

re: #527 The Vicious Babushka

Carter never sold weapons to Iran (Reagan did).
Carter never tucked tail and ran (Reagan did, after the Iranian backed terrorists blew up the Marine barracks).

Carter at least attempted an ill-fated rescue of the hostages in Iran - a straight up military action, not some illegal arms for hostages scheme that left Iran with weapons and hostages.

And the nonsense about Iran and nuclear weapons is nonsensical. Iran has been enriching uranium since the middle of the Bush administration. Eventually, they’d have enough for nuclear weapons. The deal potentially delays that for a period of time - perhaps 10 years or more. Without a deal, Iran would be that much closer to nuclear weapons.

In no way is the US giving them nukes (but it makes for great slogans):

Bush gave nukes to North Korea.
Bush gave nukes to North Korea.
(and for Betelgeuse effect):
Bush gave nukes to North Korea.

Nope, still not true, even if you keep repeating it. North Korea didn’t get nukes from US. It happened to occur on Bush’s watch, but Bush isn’t personally responsible for giving the North nukes..

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:57:16am

Welp, this is glorious.

twitter.com

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It's on his hat! Oct 22, 2015 • 8:57:57am

re: #544 WhatEVs

From the odd news of the day:

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So many odd stories originating from MN lately; we’re becoming Florida North.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 8:57:59am

If Rs on #Benghazi committee thought this desk officers conversation was so important, they should have interviewed those officers. #Simple

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 22, 2015

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 8:58:23am

re: #545 Brian J.

Isn’t Chewbacca involved in this legal argument at some point?

I’m not a Star Wars junkie…does Chewbacca make sense with his arguments?

/// : )

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:58:32am

re: #550 It’s on his hat!

So many odd stories originating from MN lately; we’re becoming Florida North.

Nah, you have a very long way to go to hit FL levels. :-)

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 8:58:40am

GOP just found their soundbite. “Get over it”.

Of course, they’ll cut off any context to it, so….

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 8:59:17am

re: #544 WhatEVs

From the odd news of the day:

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So now we know what Christine O’Donnell’s been doing since she lost to Chris Coons.

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 8:59:29am

re: #552 ObserverArt

I’m not a Star Wars junkie…does Chewbacca make sense with his arguments?

/// : )

This is what I meant.

en.wikipedia.org

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 8:59:50am

re: #554 Jenner7

GOP just found their soundbite. “Get over it”.

Of course, they’ll cut off any context to it, so….

Yeah I see the PAC ad now.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 8:59:57am

Full transcript of @HillaryClinton’s opening statement to the House Benghazi committee https://t.co/XLCJAv9Hrh pic.twitter.com/jEdKojyVlj

— POLITICO (@politico) October 22, 2015

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 9:00:57am

re: #543 ObserverArt

Steve, you are confusing as hell.

You said “Another possible insinuation with the disparate stacks of paper is that Clinton is withholding a stack of paper from 2011.”

The big stack was 2011. What would adding more paper to the big stack add to the fact they are talking about 2012 being such a small stack by comparison? The small stack insinuation is that 2012 was Clinton not paying attention to Bengahzi in 2012 and that is why it turned to the mess it was.

It doesn’t matter which one is the big one and which one is the small one if you’re just flinging poo. Their audience isn’t interested in the facts, they just want something to look at.
Remember, they don’t give a crap what sentient people think.

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WhatEVs Oct 22, 2015 • 9:01:02am

Ok, time for me to rock. BBL. Keep us posted!

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:01:21am

Ben Shapiro retweeted this hateful sniveling little anti-Semitic woman hater

It’s amazing that people think feminism is bitter and hateful with delicate gender commentary like this going around https://t.co/0KFPuiPRti

— Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) October 22, 2015

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Belafon Oct 22, 2015 • 9:01:36am

re: #543 ObserverArt

Steve, you are confusing as hell.

You said “Another possible insinuation with the disparate stacks of paper is that Clinton is withholding a stack of paper from 2011.”

The big stack was 2011. What would adding more paper to the big stack add to the fact they are talking about 2012 being such a small stack by comparison? The small stack insinuation is that 2012 was Clinton not paying attention to Bengahzi in 2012 and that is why it turned to the mess it was.

I didn’t interpreted his statement:

Another possible insinuation with the disparate stacks of paper is that Clinton is withholding a stack of paper from 2011.

as being from him, but a possible reason that the congresswoman thinks the stacks are important. He didn’t believe it, just that that might be what the congresswoman was thinking.

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Lidane Oct 22, 2015 • 9:02:10am

i’m not exaggerating. these are same Benghazi Qs and same Benghazi answers from 33 mos ago when HRC testified. what’s the point of all this?

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 22, 2015

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 9:02:16am

re: #556 Brian J.

This is what I meant.

en.wikipedia.org

Ahhh. Thanks for the reference. I am also not a follower of South Park so, I would never have gotten it. I was about to do a Google search though…so you saved me some time.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 9:03:32am

re: #561 The Vicious Babushka

Ben Shapiro retweeted this hateful sniveling little anti-Semitic woman hater

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MRAs like Milo are much ore bitter than any feminist I’ve met.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 9:04:02am

I always try to look at things from the other side. I think of it as gaming the situation. Something like “If I were the opposition, how would I achieve my goal?”

567

Lidane Oct 22, 2015 • 9:04:15am

Keepin’ it classy, yo:

@BernieSanders At least Bernie can admit he’s just a grumpy old man like Larry David

— Donald T. Trump (@reaDonaldTrump) October 22, 2015

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Teukka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:04:44am

re: #297 Teukka

Perp reportedly was shot in the chest, meaning he was either charging at the police or actively threatening a third party.

Update Deux:

According to Swedish magazine Expo, the perpetrator showed right-wing sympathies

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 9:05:00am

re: #548 lawhawk

Carter never sold weapons to Iran (Reagan did).
Carter never tucked tail and ran (Reagan did, after the Iranian backed terrorists blew up the Marine barracks).

Bush gave nukes to North Korea.

And Eisenhower approved a CIA coup that handed Iran over to the Shah who was unable to maintain control of his country despite US aid and lost it to Islamic militants…

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 9:05:17am

re: #566 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

And everybody I know thinks I’m a total pain in the ass for doing it, because sometimes they think I really feel that way:)

571

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 9:05:21am

They can’t pull the shit they did on Coya Knutson anymore, but the sentiment is the same.

“It’s the dirtiest trick I’ve ever seen in politics,” says Gretchen Beito, a Minnesota author who chronicled Knutson’s historic path in the book, Coya Come Home.

Knutson’s son Terry, now 74, had campaigned with his mother as a teenager but was already in college when the rumpus erupted. He said DFL operatives had also engaged a spurious whisper campaign back in his mother’s very religious district that she was having an affair with a young man who was her top aide.

“They wanted to get even with her, to get her out of Congress,” Knutson says.

What prompted this enmity? These reprisals? Historians largely agree that the Knutson was vulnerable only in part because of her gender at a time when the prevailing sentiment was that a woman’s place was in the home.

“Women themselves resented her,” says Beito, the author. “She was doing what women weren’t supposed to do.”

The populist Knutson’s greatest political sin was that she had the temerity to buck party bosses at least twice, and with great success.

572

Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:05:32am

If there was no intelligence ahead of the attacks, wouldn’t it validate the claim that the video spurred the attack??

573

Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:06:13am

This guy sounds drunk.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:06:17am

Again, a Republican interrupts Mrs. Clinton and again Gowdy doesn’t say a fucking thing.

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:06:40am

My main feeling thru entire #Benghazi debate is that it treats Amb. Stevens like a child instead of a professional knowingly taking risks

— David Shorr (@David_Shorr) October 22, 2015

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:07:09am

Has anyone else been following the story of “Basketball Bouncy MRA Kid” who knocked a girl off her bike because she didn’t like being catcalled

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makeitstop Oct 22, 2015 • 9:07:42am

I’m thinking that Hillary is holding back the haymaker - Republicans’ refusal to sufficiently fund embassies and consulates - for when it will count most.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:08:34am

Basketball Bouncy MRA Kid:

TEACH YOUR FUCKING SONS BETTER https://t.co/3v1EVOIiCb

— Lindy West (@thelindywest) October 21, 2015

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:08:40am

Westmoreland just insulted the security that tried to save Stevens life. Wow.

580

Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:08:43am

Any hope of making this out as a serious look into the facts just got bludgeoned to death by Lynn Westmoreland.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 9:09:15am

“Madam Secretary, I talk a little slower than everybody else.” – RepWestmoreland at #BenghaziCommittee pic.twitter.com/m7xXsrTzOi

— Shah Jee (@mardanone) October 22, 2015

“I lived in Arkansas for a long time, I don’t need an interpreter.” - HillaryClinton at #BenghaziCommittee pic.twitter.com/u7kYRHnhLI

— Shah Jee (@mardanone) October 22, 2015

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ObserverArt Oct 22, 2015 • 9:09:20am

Okay…now my head really hurts. I’m out.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 9:09:25am

re: #574 Targetpractice

Again, a Republican interrupts Mrs. Clinton and again Gowdy doesn’t say a fucking thing.

This is a common tactic men use.

I tend to repeatedly interject myself when men do this, just to see how many others recognize what is going on.

My husband is savvy to it.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 9:10:28am

re: #578 The Vicious Babushka

Basketball Bouncy MRA Kid:

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WE ARE NOT GOING BACK!

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 9:10:36am

re: #581 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’d have at least considered asking for a Derp-to-English translator. There are intelligent and easily understandable Southerners; Westmoreland is not one of them.

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:10:37am

Oh my, she’s been caught! Steven’s didn’t have her personal email!!!

587

Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 9:10:37am

Good grief. I was taught that interrupting anyone was ill-mannered.
Apparently not these clowns.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:10:40am

Now Westmoreland trying in a monstrously unsubtle way to suggest she deleted/is withholding emails.

589

Lidane Oct 22, 2015 • 9:10:47am

WORTH NOTING: @RepWestmoreland among Georgia Rs stonewalling building of new diplomatic security training facility. https://t.co/V9FjAwukcX

— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) October 22, 2015

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 9:11:09am

re: #578 The Vicious Babushka

She could easily have broken an arm falling like that. Notice the adult just standing there scratching his bal

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 9:11:14am

re: #579 Jenner7

Westmoreland just insulted the security that tried to save Stevens life. Wow.

Dick.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:12:13am

re: #590 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

She could easily have broken an arm falling like that. Notice the adult just standing there scratching his bal

Even when she’s on the ground, instead of lying there crying she is still cursing that kid out and promising to kick his ass.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:12:25am

Westmoreland is the first on the committee to give voice to the GOP’s unchained id. Surprised he hasn’t jumped up and screamed “YOU LEFT THOSE FOUR AMERICANS TO DIE!”

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:13:22am

Wow. They pretend to care about the four who died. Well, guess what assholes? The other three were security trying to protect Stevens. Fuck you.

595

Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:13:32am

And now begins the GOP gang-up, as they take turns hitting her with BS and waiting for her to crack.

596

ipsos Oct 22, 2015 • 9:13:44am

re: #593 Targetpractice

He was just the warmup act for Pompeo.

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b.d. Oct 22, 2015 • 9:14:23am

Brilliant strategy Donald:

“@mygreenhippo #BenCarson is now leading in the #polls in #Iowa. Too much #Monsanto in the #corn creates issues in the brain? #Trump #GOP”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2015

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Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 9:14:52am

re: #597 b.d.

Brilliant strategy Donald:

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Whut.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:14:56am

Well surprise surprise. I have seen several instances on #tcot of this utterly bogus meme.

600

Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:15:06am

And now Pompeo is now pushing the “Why didn’t you fire anybody?!” BS.

601

Varek Raith Oct 22, 2015 • 9:15:10am

Who’s this pompous prick??

602

makeitstop Oct 22, 2015 • 9:15:30am

This Pompeo dude is an asshole.

603

Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:15:42am

“The folks in Kansas” : the voices in Pompeo’s head.

604

Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:15:48am

Sorry, Vice President Biden, these people going after Hillary ARE the enemy. I wouldn’t want to be friends with ANY of them. They are despicable human beings.

JMO.

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Dr. Matt Oct 22, 2015 • 9:15:54am

Today would have been a great day to open a fainting couch store. #Benghazi #Benghazicommittee

— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 22, 2015

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:16:42am

Pompeo is now just throwing out numbers because somehow that makes his bullshit line of questioning more relevant.

— Denali Parton (@eclecticbrotha) October 22, 2015

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 9:17:12am

re: #605 Dr. Matt

Don’t forget a rack of smelling salts by the cash register.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 9:17:34am

re: #606 The Vicious Babushka

Numbers don’t lie

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:17:43am

Yes but what do the winners get?

Chip-in $5 or more today for a chance to win a trip to watch the next Republican debate! https://t.co/ndDdgo747B

— Dr. Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 22, 2015

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:18:18am

re: #607 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Don’t forget a rack of smelling salts by the cash register.

And pearls, lots of pearls to clutch.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 9:18:26am

Benghazi Research Center

Nice if we had one of these for a lot of issues, real ones.

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 9:18:34am

re: #609 The Vicious Babushka

Yes but what do the winners get?

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Give me your monies!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 9:18:37am

re: #597 b.d.

Donald Trump: “Ben Carson is now leading in the polls in Iowa. Too much Monsanto in the corn creates issues in the brain?”

Ben Carson is leaning heavily on God and Jesus to win favor among the religious fundamentalists who see DT as a man whose wealth is based on gambling, drunkenness and whoremongering.

614

Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:18:41am

Where’s the third line, Pompeo? The line that shows the decreases in State Dept funding?

615

Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 9:18:51am

re: #608 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Numbers don’t lie

No, but liars use numbers.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 9:18:57am

re: #595 Targetpractice

And now begins the GOP gang-up, as they take turns hitting her with BS and waiting for her to crack.

She ain’t gonna.

Neither did Cecile Richards, Condi Rice …

It’s like they think every woman will start crying “why are you being so mean to me?”

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 9:19:47am

re: #613 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

If Carson is going after the Christianists, Trump should go after the gun owners.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 9:20:13am

re: #605 Dr. Matt

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Life was so much easier when women were corseted …

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 9:20:34am

re: #617 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

If Carson is going after the Christianists, Trump should go after the gun owners.

a lot of overlap there…

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 9:21:20am

re: #619 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

a lot of overlap there…

If you had to choose between your gun and your god, I think the gun wins.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 9:21:58am

re: #620 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

If you had to choose between your gun and your god, I think the gun wins.

yes, but guns are a God-given right…

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:21:59am

Pompeo asks “Why didn’t you fire anyone?” Good question, then again: who was fired over 9/11?

— Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff) October 22, 2015

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 9:22:12am

re: #620 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

If you had to choose between your gun and your god, I think the gun wins.

How do we test that? Do we try to shoot God or to pray for a divine misfire?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 22, 2015 • 9:22:14am

Pompeo LOOK AT MY LITTLE CHARTS DAMNIT!!! #BenghaziCommittee

— R.Saddler (@Politics_PR) October 22, 2015

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:22:37am

Shorter Pompeo bit: “Why didn’t you know the day-to-day goings-on of one post amongst hundreds?!”

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 9:23:20am

re: #623 Brian J.

How do we test that? Do we try to shoot God or to pray for a divine misfire?

Have a gun show on a Sunday.

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The Vicious Babushka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:23:28am

“Deeply disturbing you keep pointing out that I have no idea what the fuck I’m talking about, Madame Secretary.” ~ Pompeo, basically

— Denali Parton (@eclecticbrotha) October 22, 2015

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:23:38am

Look at these two brown people. They are bad. Did you know your team was meeting them? BTW, we don’t know what team that was. BUT WHAT WERE THEY MEETING THEM FOR???

629

jaunte Oct 22, 2015 • 9:25:58am

In Rep. Pompeo’s world the Secretary of State knows where all State employees are at all times
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) October 22, 2015

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:26:57am

They just played a clip of Andrea Mitchell’s corrected Pompeo about the claim that Sid was used for most of her intelligence.

631

makeitstop Oct 22, 2015 • 9:26:58am

Pompeo, pwned. LOL

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:27:41am

Would love to see GOP Congress hold hearing on this memo from August 6, 2001 pic.twitter.com/HTMuzzvmsz

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 22, 2015

Who was immediately fired for this??

633

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 9:28:13am

BREAKING NEWS -NYT
A U.S. soldier died freeing prisoners of ISIS, the first American killed in action in Iraq since 2011

634

Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 9:28:23am

re: #631 makeitstop

Pompeo, pwned. LOL

Purportedly perfectly preposterous pontificating posturing, presumably?

635

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 9:28:58am

re: #632 Jenner7

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Who was immediately fired for this??

ISNT that the one they grilled Condi Rice on for a gazillion hours?

636

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 9:30:06am

re: #622 The Vicious Babushka

And if she had fired anyone—

Why did you fire these people IT WAS UR FAULT!!!!!

637

Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:30:11am

re: #633 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

This soldier helped free 70 hostages. Amazing. RIP soldier.

638

Teukka Oct 22, 2015 • 9:30:15am

English version of the article I linked to earlier:
School killer showed far-right sympathies on social media

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 9:30:43am

re: #632 Jenner7

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Who was immediately fired for this??

My brother kept us safe.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:31:21am

re: #636 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

And if she had fired anyone—

Why did you fire these people IT WAS UR FAULT!!!!!

“X was your fall guy/gal, weren’t they!? You claim to take responsibility, but you fired somebody who had no direct role in this!!”

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jaunte Oct 22, 2015 • 9:32:02am

re: #639 HappyWarrior

“My brother kept a safe”

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:33:00am

Oh dear, Mr. Jordan.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:34:11am

Oh look, time to whine about the video.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:34:59am

Oh, and Hicks too. Fuck me.

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:36:57am

An attack is an attack is an attack. Whether they thought it was brought on by a video is irrelevant. They’ve always said it was a terrorist attack.

And even if they didn’t, you can’t prosecute anyone for saying it wasn’t. It’s the dumbest fucking argument they have.

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Lidane Oct 22, 2015 • 9:37:03am

SKEWED!

Rand Paul says he’s polling in single digits because a “celebrity reality TV star” has “skewed” the polls https://t.co/pgzm4WNo0D

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 22, 2015

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:38:21am

And here is the interruptions, not allowing her to finish.

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Brian J. Oct 22, 2015 • 9:38:32am

re: #646 Lidane

If you removed Trumpy Dumpy, Ben “Gawd’s Comin’ to Kill Ya!” Carson, and Carly Failorina from the polls, and reassigned all their voters proportionally to the other candidates, Paul would STILL usually be in sinlge digits.

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:38:47am

“I think you knew the truth”…but he can’t prove it, else he wouldn’t have said “I think.”

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jaunte Oct 22, 2015 • 9:39:42am

Jim Jordan currently treating correspondence to Clinton family members as if they’re official State Department policies and stances.
— Denali Parton (@eclecticbrotha) October 22, 2015

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HappyWarrior Oct 22, 2015 • 9:40:26am

re: #646 Lidane

SKEWED!

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Who you had no problem with asking for money and support from Rand.

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:40:52am

“We knew it was an attack”. —Jordan

YES, so why are you going after her about her wording?? Good grief!

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:40:52am

Another interruption, continued silence from Gowdy. Thanks, Trey, for wasting our time with that bit at the beginning about rules you were never going to enforce.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Oct 22, 2015 • 9:41:33am

re: #650 jaunte

It’s code. When she tells Bill to take out the trash it means she’s on her way home.

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jaunte Oct 22, 2015 • 9:41:46am

Clinton just rested her face in her hand and gave Jim Jordan condescending Wonka face.
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) October 22, 2015

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Jenner7 Oct 22, 2015 • 9:41:49am

Talking points didn’t cause the death of these four Americans.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 22, 2015 • 9:41:50am

re: #646 Lidane

Rand Paul says he’s polling in single digits because a “celebrity reality TV star” has “skewed” the polls

There is an element of truth in what he is maintaining: we are talking about the GOP and the fact that a large number of its supporters have trouble distinguishing between political reality and “reality” TV.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 9:41:55am

re: #652 Jenner7

“We knew it was an attack”. —Jordan

YES, so why are you going after her about her wording?? Good grief!

I’m glad we’re going through this again for 98th time.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 9:42:04am

re: #602 makeitstop

This Pompeo dude is an asshole.

Isn’t his name the name of a male hair style from another century????

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 22, 2015 • 9:42:46am

re: #656 Jenner7

Talking points didn’t cause the death of these four Americans.

THE TALKING POINTS!!!!!

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Targetpractice Oct 22, 2015 • 9:43:07am

Westmoreland, Pompeo, and now Johnson. What a clusterfuck.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 22, 2015 • 9:43:33am

re: #657 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

There is an element of truth in what he is maintaining: we are talking about the GOP and the fact that a large number of its supporters have trouble distinguishing between political reality and “reality” TV.

oh, yes, THIS is truth.

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Belafon Oct 22, 2015 • 9:45:00am

re: #655 jaunte

When I get home, I’m going to make her face in that picture my avatar.

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GlutenFreeJesus Oct 22, 2015 • 9:45:05am

Figured it’s never too late to start smoking. Going to have fun with this new toy. :)

External Image

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Eventual Carrion Oct 22, 2015 • 9:51:22am

re: #569 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

And Eisenhower approved a CIA coup that handed Iran over to the Shah who was unable to maintain control of his country despite US aid and lost it to Islamic militants…

Sounds like recent events in a place called Iraq.

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sagehen Oct 22, 2015 • 9:57:38am

re: #579 Jenner7

Let’s go the archives for Westmoreland’s previous Highlights in Public Idiocy…

In 2005, he was the first congressman to appear on Stephen Colbert’s “Better Know a District” series. He talked about the importance of the 10 Commandments, why it’s the basis of civilization, should be posted everywhere, everyone should know it. Colbert asked him to name the 10 Commandments. He knew 2 of them, then stuttered and stammered while Colbert let the edit go on and on of him not having anything more to say…

then 2008, he said he was voting for McCain “because Obama is uppity.” The reporter said, “um, are you sure you don’t want to rephrase? is that really the word you want to use?” Westmoreland replied, “I don’t need to rephrase. That’s exactly it. Obama is uppity.” (later, he claimed he had NO IDEA that word had any racial connotations. Pretty implausible explanation from anybody, but especially from a guy with a thick Georgia accent.)

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sagehen Oct 22, 2015 • 10:05:52am

re: #622 The Vicious Babushka

Pompeo asks “Why didn’t you fire anyone?” Good question, then again: who was fired over 9/11?
— Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff) October 22, 2015

Bill Maher.

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Eventual Carrion Oct 22, 2015 • 10:12:05am

re: #598 Varek Raith

Whut.

Let me translate, “PEOPLE IN IOWA ARE STUPID!”.

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retired cynic Oct 22, 2015 • 10:16:27am

re: #156 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

re: #154 freetoken

I think the team name ought to be “The Plutocrats”.

The Washington DeePockets

How about the Washington Lobbyists?

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