Tech Note: A Cool New Feature for LGF Pages Authors!

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We have a new feature to announce for registered LGF Pages contributors! You’ll have to install the bookmarklet to take advantage of it, so if you haven’t done that yet, hover over the “Create A Page” button at the top of the right sidebar for a popup dialog with instructions on how to install it. (It’s very quick and easy.)

The bookmarklet has always been designed to let you easily insert text from a website into the posting window; you just click and drag to select the text you want to use as a quote, then click the bookmarklet and the selected text appears in the editing area of the LGF Pages window.

That’s a nice feature, but previously the plain text was all that would be copied into the Pages window. If it contained links or HTML formatting like bold or italics, those would be ignored.

But now, our new feature actually copies the underlying HTML code for your selected text, so if it contains links, formatting, lists, etc., that code will also be inserted into the Pages window, automagically! So now your quoted sections can be much richer in content, with links to other sites and visual cues for emphasis as the original author intended — with no effort on your part.

Some HTML tags are still stripped out, for security reasons; images, Javascript, and other types of code that might potentially cause problems won’t be copied. And some HTML attributes are also removed — class, style, and ID — because those are either meaningless without the original site’s CSS or might cause problems with formatting.

So please enjoy, and let me know if you encounter any strangeness. I’ve tested it extensively with dozens of websites, but you never know.

(Caveat: some sites have security code in place that prevents this feature from working, but not too many; at this point, the main site that doesn’t allow this kind of feature to work is the New York Times. You can still select text and use the bookmarklet to easily grab a quote from the Times site, but it won’t contain the HTML formatting.)

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289 comments
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PhillyPretzel  Oct 31, 2015 • 5:49:47pm

Thank you Charles for another great feature.

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Great White Snark  Oct 31, 2015 • 5:52:55pm

Dude better and better. Dunno how you do all that you do but thanks. A toast to your skills and this nice oasis on the net.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:00:44pm

I will celebrate this with my discovery that I passed 100K in updings.

It matters, it really matters!

LGF LGF LGF

Maybe I’ll post some pages again. Get to WORK Sea!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:01:24pm
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:01:49pm

Mini Pope & POTUS won the day!!!

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:03:06pm

Putting stinky roasted cauliflower in the oven. Carry on.

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BeachDem  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:05:08pm

Best comment about the clown car demands for the next debate (from Raw Story’s article about Cruz wanting “real journalists” Hannity, Limbaugh and Levin)]

In other words, they wanna have a slumber party and braid each other’s hair…

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:06:09pm

re: #7 BeachDem

Best comment about the clown car demands for the next debate (from Raw Story’s article about Cruz wanting “real journalists” Hannity, Limbaugh and Levin)]

In other words, they wanna have a slumber party and braid each other’s hair…

Well yeah, we think its ridiculous, but from a political standpoint it’s genius.

////

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Nyet  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:06:51pm
the main site that doesn’t allow this kind of feature to work is the New York Times

Their loss.

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jaunte  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:10:10pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:10:22pm
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ObserverArt  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:11:39pm

Later lizard people. Gonna go grab a late snack and play my drums to top the evening.

Happy Halloween. Boo!

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teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:18:52pm

The things some fools do for shits and grins.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:19:28pm

Now watching “Ash vs. Evil Dead.”

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KGxvi  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:19:56pm

I’m seeing a lot of Halloween costumes on my feeds, mostly kids of friends. Quite a few Star Wars costumes, including kids as stormtroopers. Every time I see one, I want to comment “aren’t you a little short to be a stormtrooper?” But I don’t think anyone will get it. Also, stormtrooper seems a strange choice for the kids - I get dad going as a stormtrooper with kid as Vader or some such, but not for the kid. Lastly, these Star Wars costumes need more Boba Fett

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:21:43pm

Just got back from a Halloween party at which two lovely zombie tykes gave me the candies they didn’t like, mostly Smarties. Little did they know I love Smarties.

Myuuuuaaaahhhhh!!!!

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b_sharp  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:22:46pm

re: #3 Stanley Sea Toujours

I will celebrate this with my discovery that I passed 100K in updings.

It matters, it really matters!

LGF LGF LGF

Maybe I’ll post some pages again. Get to WORK Sea!

Damn, almost a 3:1 ratio. That’s impressive.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:30:10pm

Fave costume espied this evening: an eight year old dressed as The Man With No Name from the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, complete with bubble gum cigar. Wish I’d had my camera.

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TedStriker  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:32:51pm

re: #18 De Kolta Chair

Fave costume espied this evening: an eight year old dressed as The Man With No Name from the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, complete with bubble gum cigar. Wish I’d had my camera.

Did they have someone walking with them, playing the The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly theme?

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WhatEVs  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:34:24pm

Good article.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:34:49pm

re: #19 TedStriker

Did they have someone walking with them, playing the The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly theme?

No, but I whistled it as we passed each other on the sidewalk. Got a good laugh, and a convincing Clint squint from the kid. ;-)

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teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:38:32pm
Popcorn Time!
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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:40:41pm

When Tors collide!

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:41:35pm

This this utter WTF just showed up in my mentions==>

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retired cynic  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:44:06pm

re: #24 The Vicious Babushka

WHAT report???

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Kragar  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:44:46pm
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b_sharp  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:45:33pm

re: #25 retired cynic

WHAT report???

state.gov / documents/organization/245365.pdf

remove the spaces.

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:45:37pm

re: #20 WhatEVs

Good article.

[Embedded content]

As one comment notes, Hillary spent 11 hours handling “gotcha” questions without batting an eye and left without any complaints about how mean the committee was. These fools couldn’t make it through 2 hours before they began attacking the mods and whining about the questions they were being asked.

It’s pretty clear by this point who the more presidential candidate is.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:45:59pm

re: #24 The Vicious Babushka

This this utter WTF just showed up in my mentions

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jaunte  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:46:03pm

re: #24 The Vicious Babushka

Just look slightly below the surface of that stat:

Sally Montier, who has worked with trafficked women for a decade as a senior support worker at the Poppy Project says: “I have also supported victims who have been told that the only way they can get free is to recruit another woman to ‘replace’ themselves.”
theguardian.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:48:14pm

Blocked his ass.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:48:18pm

TV’s Frank is so nice I’ll quote him twice

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:48:36pm

And in reference to last thread’s bit about how the optics of attacking the mods, the only people that’s going to impress are the party base who are already conditioned to believe the media is a liberal propaganda apparatus dedicated to the destruction of all things good and American. To the rest of us, going after the people asking the questions comes off as dickish as well as evasive.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:50:13pm

Maybe women wouldn’t be trafficked if men weren’t doing all the buying, ya think?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:50:40pm

re: #33 Targetpractice

And in reference to last thread’s bit about how the optics of attacking the mods, the only people that’s going to impress are the party base who are already conditioned to believe the media is a liberal propaganda apparatus dedicated to the destruction of all things good and American. To the rest of us, going after the people asking the questions comes off as dickish as well as evasive.

That snippet of the autopsy report about how the GOP has lost its ability to communicate outside of the base comes to mind.

And again, the moderates seem okay with going along with this. Because it’s good politics or somesuch.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:51:19pm

Trick or treater count: 0.

Weather is good too.

Seriously kids, what is wrong with you? I would have been out at 3pm, rules be damned.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:54:34pm

re: #36 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Trick or treater count: 0.

Weather is good too.

Seriously kids, what is wrong with you? I would have been out at 3pm, rules be damned.

Zero here as well.

what ev. At least I know I don’t have to pay to escape (dinner out etc) next year. This was my first year braving it. pfaw

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It's on his hat!  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:54:48pm

I like this adult trick or treating thing. Jello shots are involved

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:54:55pm

re: #35 klys (maker of Silmarils)

That snippet of the autopsy report about how the GOP has lost its ability to communicate outside of the base comes to mind.

And again, the moderates seem okay with going along with this. Because it’s good politics or somesuch.

It’s only “good politics” if one thinks that the majority of Americans live in the same fact-free cocoon that the GOP has weaved around itself and so is looking less for a guy with some good ideas and more for a blowhard asshole who gets off on belittling his enemies (real or perceived). Seriously, if you think people get hot and bothered watching Cruz give his best Tailgunner Joe impression on live TV, then you’re what’s wrong with the GOP.

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b_sharp  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:55:00pm

re: #36 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Trick or treater count: 0.

Weather is good too.

Seriously kids, what is wrong with you? I would have been out at 3pm, rules be damned.

I’ll be right there.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:55:35pm

Reese’s cups are going to kill me.

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:55:47pm

I don’t think my family gave out any candy this year either. And I got volunteered to man the front desk on Halloween, so I couldn’t even sit back and watch horror movies all night. Bah!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:56:13pm

re: #41 Stanley Sea Toujours

Reese’s cups are going to kill me.

The extra will go to the office and my sister.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:56:51pm

re: #39 Targetpractice

It’s only “good politics” if one thinks that the majority of Americans live in the same fact-free cocoon that the GOP has weaved around itself and so is looking less for a guy with some good ideas and more for a blowhard asshole who gets off on belittling his enemies (real or perceived). Seriously, if you think people get hot and bothered watching Cruz give his best Tailgunner Joe impression on live TV, then you’re what’s wrong with the GOP.

Or if you don’t care for that but will vote Republican anyway because GO TEAM.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:58:06pm
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gwangung  Oct 31, 2015 • 6:58:25pm

re: #39 Targetpractice

It’s only “good politics” if one thinks that the majority of Americans live in the same fact-free cocoon that the GOP has weaved around itself and so is looking less for a guy with some good ideas and more for a blowhard asshole who gets off on belittling his enemies (real or perceived). Seriously, if you think people get hot and bothered watching Cruz give his best Tailgunner Joe impression on live TV, then you’re what’s wrong with the GOP.

What’s left for the Republicans is vote suppression, gerrymandering and outright election fraud.

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:00:34pm

re: #46 gwangung

What’s left for the Republicans is vote suppression, gerrymandering and outright election fraud.

That’s a might more accurate. They’re engaged in any sort of fraud, such as handcuffing the CBO to a system of interpreting their budgets as assuming tax cuts lead to economic booms rather than just more lost tax revenue. Or hamstringing the CDC by preventing it from using funding to investigate gun fatalities using federal funding.

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b_sharp  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:00:37pm

re: #46 gwangung

What’s left for the Republicans is vote suppression, gerrymandering and outright election fraud.

Aren’t they already doing that in some places?

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Jay C  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:00:47pm

re: #45 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Judicial activism!!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:03:16pm

Fox News on Halloween

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:03:34pm

I was going to dress up tonight as the 5.5 ton Golden Buddha of Wat Traimit, but ran out of papier-mache and gold paint about halfway through.

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WhatEVs  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:04:18pm

re: #28 Targetpractice

As one comment notes, Hillary spent 11 hours handling “gotcha” questions without batting an eye and left without any complaints about how mean the committee was. These fools couldn’t make it through 2 hours before they began attacking the mods and whining about the questions they were being asked.

It’s pretty clear by this point who the more presidential candidate is.

Great general election ads by Hillary.

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calochortus  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:09:55pm

No trick or treaters here yet either. We live on a steep hill, no sidewalks or streetlights. And oh yeah, the community has Halloween activities down in the flatter part of the neighborhood. Still, we occasionally get a group or two of the middle schoolers later in the evening, so we have some Reese’s on hand. Mr. C will eat any leftovers.

We will enjoy a nice glass of wine in the meanwhile.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:10:39pm

FIRST BATCH. Pirates, steampunk, stone angel (Doctor Who related?), cat, witch, wizard - a group of about 12, in that middle school age bracket.

The bowl is much emptier now.

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calochortus  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:11:55pm

re: #54 klys (maker of Silmarils)

FIRST BATCH. Pirates, steampunk, stone angel (Doctor Who related?), cat, witch, wizard - a group of about 12, in that middle school age bracket.

The bowl is much emptier now.

They do tend to roam in herds at that age.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:12:01pm

I did not give out candy this year, but yesterday everyone at work had fun, decorating their cubicles and getting candy from all the different teams.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:12:55pm

re: #51 De Kolta Chair

I was going to dress up tonight as the 5.5 ton Golden Buddha of Wat Traimit, but ran out of papier-mache and gold paint about halfway through.

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Do I dare ask which half?

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Timothy Watson  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:14:01pm

re: #34 The Vicious Babushka

Maybe women wouldn’t be trafficked if men weren’t doing all the buying, ya think?

Same way that RWNJs blame Africans for the whites buying millions of slaves.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:14:28pm

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

I did not give out candy this year, but yesterday everyone at work had fun, decorating their cubicles and getting candy from all the different teams.

We did that too. The winning cube had a giant smoking skull.

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calochortus  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:15:19pm

re: #58 Timothy Watson

Same way that RWNJs blame Africans for the whites buying millions of slaves.

Not to mention the “your group has to be completely pure and perfect before you can put any blame at all on my group” thing.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:17:57pm

No one showed up to my door. Tomorrow when I see the kids Ima going to call them out about “rich neighborhoods” then give them Reese’s.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:19:26pm

re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg

Do I dare ask which half?

You cheeky bugger you!

Well alright, if you have to know, the arse end. AS ALWAYS. ;_(

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:19:30pm

Hey u Canadians are ripping off OUR SHIRTS!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:19:50pm

re: #61 Stanley Sea Toujours

No one showed up to my door. Tomorrow when I see the kids Ima going to call them out about “rich neighborhoods” then give them Reese’s.

I am now up to 2 groups.

Another pirate and a panda.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:26:23pm
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jaunte  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:27:11pm

re: #66 klys (maker of Silmarils)

*Actual size*

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:30:00pm

Best costume of the night so far: three friends, in boxes, painted to look like a 3 Musketeers bar if they lined up together.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:30:03pm

Evening Lizardim. Happy Halloween from the cool, cloudy wild north country. Fishspawn hauled in two rather overflowing buckets of candy, and we had approximately 70 trick-or-treaters ringing our doorbell overall. How go things out there among the gentle lizardfolk?

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CleverToad  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:31:00pm

Pretty good night for trick or treaters, probably about forty total. We’ve had heavier years in past. My kid is sitting a few feet from the front door, in dim light, in a black robe, skull mask & skeleton hand gloves, holding the candy bucket. Waits till someone gets close and then moves. So far two little kids have refused to go get any candy till I went and got it for them. One middle-school girl actually screeched when he spoke. He considers this to have been a Successful Night.

It’s about 8:30. so getting ready to close down soon. Saying goodnight and good wishes to all of the Lizards for about a month — I’ll be on in short bursts, but won’t be able to stay on for the 300+ threads, and will probably miss a few. NaNoWriMo starts at midnight, and I am going to attempt this year to FINISH two half-written novels in the allotted month. The 50,000 word goal should just about do it.

We who are about to die, salute you.
With my shield Airbook, or on it!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:32:54pm

re: #71 CleverToad

Pretty good night for trick or treaters, probably about forty total. We’ve had heavier years in past. My kid is sitting a few feet from the front door, in dim light, in a black robe, skull mask & skeleton hand gloves, holding the candy bucket. Waits till someone gets close and then moves. So far two little kids have refused to go get any candy till I went and got it for them. One middle-school girl actually screeched when he spoke. He considers this to have been a Successful Night.

It’s about 8:30. so getting ready to close down. Saying goodnight and good wishes to all of the Lizards for about a month — I’ll be on in short bursts, but won’t be able to stay on for the 300+ threads, and will probably miss a few. NaNoWriMo starts at midnight, and I am going to attempt this year to FINISH two half-written novels in the allotted month. The 50,000 word goal should just about do it.

We who are about to die, salute you.
With my shield Airbook, or on it!

Haha, I have my outline prepped to start at midnight.

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jaunte  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:33:00pm

re: #69 thedopefishlives

No joy on the trick-or-treaters this year, I guess it was too rainy. Lots of snickers and m&ms left untaken.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:34:24pm

re: #73 jaunte

No joy on the trick-or-treaters this year, I guess it was too rainy. Lots of snickers and m&ms left untaken.

We handed out cans of pop and juice boxes for the smaller kids. We instantly became one of the “cool houses” on the block.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:37:10pm

re: #69 thedopefishlives

Evening Lizardim. Happy Halloween from the cool, cloudy wild north country. Fishspawn hauled in two rather overflowing buckets of candy, and we had approximately 70 trick-or-treaters ringing our doorbell overall. How go things out there among the gentle lizardfolk?

I live in a bad neighborhood.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:37:30pm

re: #69 thedopefishlives

Evening Lizardim. Happy Halloween from the cool, cloudy wild north country. Fishspawn hauled in two rather overflowing buckets of candy, and we had approximately 70 trick-or-treaters ringing our doorbell overall. How go things out there among the gentle lizardfolk?

Fine thanks, though my Sean Connery in retirement costume, complete with golf bag, went over everyone’s head. Morons. ;-)

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:38:04pm

re: #74 thedopefishlives

We handed out cans of pop and juice boxes for the smaller kids. We instantly became one of the “cool houses” on the block.

I give out in quantity.

Mostly because at the current rate I may make it through the first bag, and that’s with everyone getting 2-3 pieces.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:38:24pm

re: #76 De Kolta Chair

Fine thanks, though my Sean Connery in retirement costume, complete with golf bag, went over everyone’s head. Morons. ;-)

My brother in law showed up for the little house party we were having wearing a hat that read, “404: Error: Costume not found”. I laughed. Nobody else in the house got it.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:39:11pm

re: #78 thedopefishlives

My brother in law showed up for the little house party we were having wearing a hat that read, “404: Error: Costume not found”. I laughed. Nobody else in the house got it.

I like it!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:40:23pm

re: #78 thedopefishlives

My brother in law showed up for the little house party we were having wearing a hat that read, “404: Error: Costume not found”. I laughed. Nobody else in the house got it.

I am a lumberjack. Flannel shirt and jeans.

We will ignore the fact that this is not that unusual from what I normally wear at home…

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:41:03pm

re: #80 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am a lumberjack. Flannel shirt and jeans.

We will ignore the fact that this is not that unusual from what I normally wear at home…

Tell me you don’t carry around an axe too…

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:41:11pm

re: #71 CleverToad

Pretty good night for trick or treaters, probably about forty total. We’ve had heavier years in past. My kid is sitting a few feet from the front door, in dim light, in a black robe, skull mask & skeleton hand gloves, holding the candy bucket. Waits till someone gets close and then moves. So far two little kids have refused to go get any candy till I went and got it for them. One middle-school girl actually screeched when he spoke. He considers this to have been a Successful Night.

It’s about 8:30. so getting ready to close down soon. Saying goodnight and good wishes to all of the Lizards for about a month — I’ll be on in short bursts, but won’t be able to stay on for the 300+ threads, and will probably miss a few. NaNoWriMo starts at midnight, and I am going to attempt this year to FINISH two half-written novels in the allotted month. The 50,000 word goal should just about do it.

We who are about to die, salute you.
With my shield Airbook, or on it!

DO IT

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:41:50pm

re: #81 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Tell me you don’t carry around an axe too…

That part not so much.

But I’m not doing so now either.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:41:53pm

re: #80 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am a lumberjack. Flannel shirt and jeans.

We will ignore the fact that this is not that unusual from what I normally wear at home…

My wife put on the ‘50’s-vintage-style dress I bought her for our anniversary, put an apron over the top of it, and said she was an old-fashioned housewife. I had her apply makeup for a massive frontal head wound, and told people she’d bashed my brains out with a frying pan.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:44:14pm

re: #80 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am a lumberjack. Flannel shirt and jeans.

We will ignore the fact that this is not that unusual from what I normally wear at home…

I’ve always thought you were okay, but I never took you for the type to sleep all night and work all day. //

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CleverToad  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:44:36pm

re: #72 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Haha, I have my outline prepped to start at midnight.

Cool! You’ll have to post results on Dec 1.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:44:49pm

re: #85 De Kolta Chair

I’ve always thought you were okay, but I never took you for the type to sleep all night and work all day. //

I’m still trying to work on that bit. I have it backwards a lot.

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jaunte  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:47:09pm
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calochortus  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:47:31pm

Time for a movie and some spinning here (I’m sure we all remember that 3 pounds of wool that needs to become yarn…)
Enjoy the rest of your evening-and that extra hour of sleep, or whatever.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 7:50:36pm

Listen up parents!

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:05:14pm

I’m amazed they even allowed that ship, or any ship, to sail with that hurricane nearby.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:05:51pm

‘Night night and don’t let the ninja bedbugs bite!

The Tick #3 — Night of a Million-Zillion Ninja, December 1988
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Jenner7  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:08:32pm

We got about 10 kids, two bowls full of candy, and 10 pounds that we’ll gain. Good times.

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teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:16:11pm
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teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:22:07pm

FormerDirtDart, if you’re around, check out @jessirklein’s Twitter.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:26:52pm

re: #93 De Kolta Chair

‘Night night and don’t let the ninja bedbugs bite!

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Spoon!

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Mattand  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:28:27pm

re: #80 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am a lumberjack.

Do you sleep all night and work all day?

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BeachDem  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:29:12pm

I. Hate. People.
‘YOU ARE A LYING B*TCH!’: Truthers attack grieving mom’s book about her Sandy Hook victim son

rawstory.com

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:32:52pm

On the one hand, my 11yo is a pain in the ass with his Halloween costume ideas. Last year: “I wanna be black hole” (don’t ask what thoughts went through my mind); this year: “I’m going to be string theory” (smdh). On the other hand, absurd costumes are easy to make. You can do the first one with cardboard and duct tape to make the accretion disk that will be so heavy like a yoke that he’ll buckle under its weight in two blocks of trick or treating and I won’t know how to get out of this run-on sentence….Oh, and string theory? Pipe cleaners and tinsel.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:33:50pm

re: #100 Barefoot Grin

On the one hand, my 11yo is a pain in the ass with his Halloween costume ideas. Last year: “I wanna be black hole” (don’t ask what thoughts went through my mind); this year: “I’m going to be string theory” (smdh). On the other hand, absurd costumes are easy to make. You can do the first one with cardboard and duct tape to make the accretion disk that will be so heavy like a yoke that he’ll buckle under its weight in two blocks of trick or treating and I won’t know how to get out of this run-on sentence….Oh, and string theory? Pipe cleaners and tinsel.

Does he want to be a physicist?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:35:00pm

Also. My door is open. The light is on. WE HAVE CANDY. WHY WALK BY THE HOUSE?

I’m down to like 1/4 of the first bag left.

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Mattand  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:36:58pm

re: #100 Barefoot Grin

Those are some great costume ideas. That a 11 year old kid came up with them only makes them more hilarious.

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Mattand  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:40:37pm

re: #102 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Also. My door is open. The light is on. WE HAVE CANDY. WHY WALK BY THE HOUSE?

I’m down to like 1/4 of the first bag left.

No exaggeration, every year we’re actually home for Halloween, no one stops by. We’re in the middle of a typical NJ suburban development, and right off of the main drag. For whatever reason, no one stops by.

More Reese’s for us, I guess.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:41:10pm

re: #101 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Does he want to be a physicist?

I think so. He’s been into astronomy for a long time, but when I show him some of the intense images NASA is putting out now he says that it gives him the heebie-geebies. We saw “The Martian” together. That made the infinite loneliness of space less lonely to him. It’s going to be fun to see what he comes up with.

He’s smart, but not genius smart. He memorized the basics of the periodic table, but most kids could if they did it the way he did—listening over and over to They Might Be Giants.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:43:19pm

Quantum entanglement costume.
Make it so.

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teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:44:21pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

This video is just wingsuit acrobats leaving the plane. The video is being played in reverse.

I got taken in by another internet hoax! Oh well, so did the extreme sports enthusiasts at Unofficial Networks.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:45:39pm

re: #107 teleskiguy

This video is just wingsuit acrobats leaving the plane. The video is being played in reverse.

I got taken in by another internet hoax! Oh well, so did the extreme sports enthusiasts at Unofficial Networks.

Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane is still NOPE.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:45:58pm

re: #105 Barefoot Grin

I think so. He’s been into astronomy for a long time, but when I show him some of the intense images NASA is putting out now he says that it gives him the heebie-geebies. We saw “The Martian” together. That made the infinite loneliness of space less lonely to him. It’s going to be fun to see what he comes up with.

He’s smart, but not genius smart. He memorized the basics of the periodic table, but most kids could if they did it the way he did—listening over and over to They Might Be Giants.

Astrophysics is definitely an interesting field, but the math required is intense. I have a friend from high school who has her Ph.D. in it.

On the other hand, at least 75% of a Ph.D. is not knowing when to stop and working to teach yourself what you need to know. Actual percentage probably varies depending on the program.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:56:39pm

re: #100 Barefoot Grin

On the one hand, my 11yo is a pain in the ass with his Halloween costume ideas. Last year: “I wanna be black hole” (don’t ask what thoughts went through my mind); this year: “I’m going to be string theory” (smdh). On the other hand, absurd costumes are easy to make. You can do the first one with cardboard and duct tape to make the accretion disk that will be so heavy like a yoke that he’ll buckle under its weight in two blocks of trick or treating and I won’t know how to get out of this run-on sentence….Oh, and string theory? Pipe cleaners and tinsel.

If he wants to be a black hole, tell him to dress up life Jim Hoft. The inside of that man’s head is a black hole from which no reason escapes.

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bratwurst  Oct 31, 2015 • 8:56:40pm
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Dark_Falcon  Oct 31, 2015 • 9:01:07pm

re: #4 klys (maker of Silmarils)

So while Neil ghostly voice gives advice to his son, his husband flies down to clear Death Vader off the kid’s tail so the son can knock out the Pumpkin Death Star.

/Stay on Target!

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teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2015 • 9:05:24pm

I don’t know who this guy is, but this is a pretty funny bit.

Ben Carson Tried to Stab His Friend

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 31, 2015 • 9:07:39pm

re: #109 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Astrophysics is definitely an interesting field, but the math required is intense. I have a friend from high school who has her Ph.D. in it.

On the other hand, at least 75% of a Ph.D. is not knowing when to stop and working to teach yourself what you need to know. Actual percentage probably varies depending on the program.

That’s cool. I have two friends who quit Math Ph.D.s ABD, but were in pretty good shape to take on jobs in the private sector anyway. My advanced degree was the result of working to learn what I needed to know (and still is) because I didn’t have the imagination to think of another career.

Right now the boy is telecommuting?/videoconferencing? to a nearby high school to take Algebra. His school has made a little conference room with appropriate tech available. But the main thing is that he is into lots of stuff and I don’t want him to get too narrowly focused if that isn’t his natural inclination.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 9:11:11pm

re: #114 Barefoot Grin

That’s cool. I have two friends who quit Math Ph.D.s ABD, but were in pretty good shape to take on jobs in the private sector anyway. My advanced degree was the result of working to learn what I needed to know (and still is) because I didn’t have the imagination to think of another career.

Right now the boy is telecommuting?/videoconferencing? to a nearby high school to take Algebra. His school has made a little conference room with appropriate tech available. But the main thing is that he is into lots of stuff and I don’t want him to get too narrowly focused if that isn’t his natural inclination.

I completely agree with that. Still, those are awesome costumes.

I found Kip Thorne’s book to be relatively accessible working just with algebra (really no math required, because it is more concept based) so that might be a good one for him to look at if it continues to be an interest. (I was 13-14 when I did a correspondence college course based on it.)

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 31, 2015 • 9:20:37pm

re: #115 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I completely agree with that. Still, those are awesome costumes.

I found Kip Thorne’s book to be relatively accessible working just with algebra (really no math required, because it is more concept based) so that might be a good one for him to look at if it continues to be an interest. (I was 13-14 when I did a correspondence college course based on it.)

Thank you! By the way, Hokusai’s “Great Wave” is one of my favorite images. Your work is amazing. There used to be an interesting BBC documentary about the image, life of Hokusai, and the hydrodynamics of the wave on youtube, but I can’t find it now.

Edited: I just looked at the link. I’m ordering Kip Thorne’s book tonight. The boy has read “the elegant universe” so this seems like a good step.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 9:22:50pm

re: #116 Barefoot Grin

Thank you! By the way, Hokusai’s “Great Wave” is one of my favorite images. Your work is amazing. There used to be an interesting BBC documentary about the image, life of Hokusai, and the hydrodynamics of the wave on youtube, but I can’t find it now.

Huh, I’ll have to watch for that one.

I love the image, which is one reason why I was so keen to do it as an embroidery piece. The kit has been good, if frustrating at times. (They did not include nearly enough white floss.) It’s strange, I’m in general not a big fan of his other work - I prefer Hasui by far, and have three of his prints hanging in the office. But this piece just speaks to me, like it does to so many people, I think.

Hopefully I’ll get it finished this week.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 31, 2015 • 9:34:35pm

re: #117 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Huh, I’ll have to watch for that one.

I love the image, which is one reason why I was so keen to do it as an embroidery piece. The kit has been good, if frustrating at times. (They did not include nearly enough white floss.) It’s strange, I’m in general not a big fan of his other work - I prefer Hasui by far, and have three of his prints hanging in the office. But this piece just speaks to me, like it does to so many people, I think.

Hopefully I’ll get it finished this week.

But you gotta give Hokusai props for doing this at that advanced age!

Thanks for the Hasui reference. My so-called specialty is education/education communities/communications during the Tokugawa period and into the Meiji period. Always happy to learn new things.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 9:39:45pm

re: #118 Barefoot Grin

But you gotta give Hokusai props for doing this at that advanced age!

Thanks for the Hasui reference. My so-called specialty is education/education communities/communications during the Tokugawa period and into the Meiji period. Always happy to learn new things.

Hasui is a much later time period, relatively speaking - he passed away in the 50s.

This was the first piece by him that I bought. You can get modern runs from the original woodblocks which don’t break the bank the way originals do, thankfully.

There’s another version not in the blues, but I’m a sucker for a good blue.
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Joe Bacon  Oct 31, 2015 • 9:51:29pm

re: #99 BeachDem

I. Hate. People.
‘YOU ARE A LYING B*TCH!’: Truthers attack grieving mom’s book about her Sandy Hook victim son

rawstory.com

The bottom layer of hell is waiting for those Sandy Hook Truthers.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 31, 2015 • 9:51:29pm

re: #119 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Hasui is a much later time period, relatively speaking - he passed away in the 50s.

This was the first piece by him that I bought. You can get modern runs from the original woodblocks which don’t break the bank the way originals do, thankfully.

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That’s gorgeous. It is definitely in accord with several shifts that happened with the opening of Japan. Access to new paints and colors made woodblock-style prints move vivid and deep. Access to Western literature probably changed the focus of some artists (can’t speak for Hasui). I’m rambling, but there was definitely a battle among artists of all stripes of how much to embrace the new influences that were rushing into Japan from the 1850s until…well, now.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 9:57:13pm

re: #121 Barefoot Grin

That’s gorgeous. It is definitely in accord with several shifts that happened with the opening of Japan. Access to new paints and colors made woodblock-style prints move vivid and deep. Access to Western literature probably changed the focus of some artists (can’t speak for Hasui). I’m rambling, but there was definitely a battle among artists of all stripes of how much to embrace the new influences that were rushing into Japan from the 1850s until…well, now.

Definitely something I hadn’t considered, but I can see the reflections of some of that in a lot of his prints. Hasui was landscape-oriented, in general, but also temples and castles and the more “traditional” Japan - there’s very little in his work that indicates this was in the era leading up to WWII and in fact through WWII. Much more pre-opening Japan as the themes go, in a lot of ways.

I confess I just like them because I am a sucker for good landscapes, and the clean lines and the colors and just gah. I have two others by him, like I said, and probably lust after a good 5-6 more but my 4th piece is a print by Koitsu which also plays a lot with the same concepts of pre-opening Japan (in that one, two geisha stepping out of a tea house - gorgeous play of light).

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 31, 2015 • 10:06:04pm

re: #122 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Definitely something I hadn’t considered, but I can see the reflections of some of that in a lot of his prints. Hasui was landscape-oriented, in general, but also temples and castles and the more “traditional” Japan - there’s very little in his work that indicates this was in the era leading up to WWII and in fact through WWII. Much more pre-opening Japan as the themes go, in a lot of ways.

I confess I just like them because I am a sucker for good landscapes, and the clean lines and the colors and just gah. I have two others by him, like I said, and probably lust after a good 5-6 more but my 4th piece is a print by Koitsu which also plays a lot with the same concepts of pre-opening Japan (in that one, two geisha stepping out of a tea house - gorgeous play of light).

You are giving me a tutorial in Japanese art. Thank you so much! I had never heard of Koitsu either.

I’m overseeing a history senior capstone project on 1960s Japanese art. But in truth I’m checking the historical facts and turning over the interpretation to a colleague more in the know about the art world in the 1960s globally.

And going to bed. BBL

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 31, 2015 • 10:20:42pm

re: #120 Joe Bacon

The bottom layer of hell is waiting for those Sandy Hook Truthers.

Their actions aren’t treacherous, so it’ll be the 8th and not the 9th Circle of Hell for them. But the 8th Circle is plenty bad, Dante assured us. And assholes that full of hate belong there.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2015 • 10:31:16pm

Do Sandy Hook Truthers not realize their theory makes no fucking sense whatsoever??

There have been absolutely ZERO reasonable gun laws enacted since Sandy Hook. ZERO.

If it was some kind of government op to bring in Gun Control, it failed spectacularly.

Seriously, just fuck these people.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 31, 2015 • 10:36:54pm

re: #125 Eclectic Cyborg

Do Sandy Hook Truthers not realize their theory makes no fucking sense whatsoever??

There have been absolutely ZERO reasonable gun laws enacted since Sandy Hook. ZERO.

If it was some kind of government op to bring in Gun Control, it failed spectacularly.

Seriously, just fuck these people.

What you say about laws not passing only applies on the federal level. There have been a number of gun-restricting laws passed at the state and local levels. And even a number of states that didn’t enact general restrictions have enacted measures designed to improve the reporting of those found to be seriously mentally ill in order to keep them from buying guns.

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gwangung  Oct 31, 2015 • 10:43:00pm

re: #126 Dark_Falcon

What you say about laws not passing only applies on the federal level. There have been a number of gun-restricting laws passed at the state and local levels. And even a number of states that didn’t enact general restrictions have enacted measures designed to improve the reporting of those found to be seriously mentally ill in order to keep them from buying guns.

Oh, so it’s personally applicable then?

(ETA for the deniers).

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 10:45:23pm

re: #127 gwangung

I don’t agree with Dark on much but this is over the line for me.

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TedStriker  Oct 31, 2015 • 10:49:53pm

re: #127 gwangung

I might have my issues with Dark’s unbridled GOP homerism, among other things, but that was not cool.

Not. At. All.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 31, 2015 • 10:50:00pm

re: #127 gwangung

That was wholly uncalled for. I said nothing offensive or hostile and you attacked me. Have a downding for doing so.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 31, 2015 • 10:51:08pm

re: #128 klys (maker of Silmarils)

re: #129 TedStriker

Thank you both for that.

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gwangung  Oct 31, 2015 • 10:54:59pm

re: #130 Dark_Falcon

That was wholly uncalled for. I said nothing offensive or hostile and you attacked me. Have a downding for doing so.

I was certainly unclear, as that was NOT meant for you, but for the deniers. (But I’ll accept the down ding for being unclear).

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 31, 2015 • 10:57:58pm

re: #132 gwangung

I was certainly unclear, as that was NOT meant for you, but for the deniers. (But I’ll accept the down ding for being unclear).

If you were saying that Sandy Hook Deniers are mentally ill, I’d agree that at the very least their minds are in flight from reality.

Thank you for the clarification. Upding.

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gwangung  Oct 31, 2015 • 11:00:21pm

re: #133 Dark_Falcon

Sorry, I’m a little tired and I was sloppy in writing.

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teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2015 • 11:09:02pm

Heh.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 31, 2015 • 11:29:40pm
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TedStriker  Oct 31, 2015 • 11:39:43pm

re: #134 gwangung

Sorry, I’m a little tired and I was sloppy in writing.

A bit punchy, are we? We’ve all been there sometime.

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Kragar  Nov 1, 2015 • 1:21:05am

So tonight we had the kids who went trick or treating with our kids stop by and…

that was it.

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Nyet  Nov 1, 2015 • 1:07:39am

‘Steven Universe’ fandom is melting down after bullied fanartist attempts suicide

It all started last week when a fanartist going by the name Zamii caused a scare on Tumblr when she posted an apparent final note to her Tumblr, then disappeared for three days. When she re-emerged, it was to post a tearful video she claimed was being filmed at a hospital where she said she was getting the help she needed.

Prior to Zamii’s alarming initial farewell, members of the Steven Universe and Homestuck fandoms had reportedly created more than 40 critical blogs and other social media accounts directed at her because they believed she was purveying problematic depictions of many of the characters she drew. During her time in fandom, Zamii had been accused of a litany of flawed portrayals of characters, including perpetuating “racism/stereotyping, transmisogyny/transphobia, apologism, incest, pedophilia, fatphobia, and ableism” in her art. For example, when Zamii drew a Japanese character from the popular anime Yowamushi Pedal, she came under fire for giving the character yellow skin and slanted eyes; when she drew a black character, she came under fire for removing her Afro and giving her blonde hair; when she drew a “Native American Fluttershy” from My Little Pony, the response was mixed and often critical, pointing out that she had further stereotyped the character.

I’m afraid after all the vitriol I have seen, I can’t get rid of the impression that lots of self-described “social justice” folks are there only for bullying, the kind that is superficially “acceptable” (or so they seem to think).

Also, there’s a point after it’s no longer a legitimate criticism but rather stalking.

South Park - Stunning and Brave - “Check Someone’s Privilege”

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teleskiguy  Nov 1, 2015 • 1:37:16am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 1, 2015 • 2:04:43am

re: #139 Nyet

‘Steven Universe’ fandom is melting down after bullied fanartist attempts suicide

I’m afraid after all the vitriol I have seen, I can’t get rid of the impression that lots of self-described “social justice” folks are there only for bullying, the kind that is superficially “acceptable” (or so they seem to think).

Also, there’s a point after it’s no longer a legitimate criticism but rather stalking.

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Children (and other immature beings) are adept at highly refined forms of bullying, and if they can hide behind a veneer of “righteousness” they are even more merciless about it.

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Bubblehead II  Nov 1, 2015 • 2:07:07am

Like we needed a research paper to tell us this.

Your cat may want to kill you, study says

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 1, 2015 • 2:07:45am

re: #142 Bubblehead II

Like we needed a research paper to tell us this.

Your cat may want to kill you, study says

cute little kittens think of nothing but murder all day…

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Nyet  Nov 1, 2015 • 2:11:44am

re: #142 Bubblehead II

I’m pretty sure many fluffy cute pets wouldn’t think twice about killing us if they were about our size.

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Nyet  Nov 1, 2015 • 2:19:46am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Children (and other immature beings) are adept at highly refined forms of bullying, and if they can hide behind a veneer of “righteousness” they are even more merciless about it.

That’s a reason why the neo-Nazi Maxim “The Hatchet” Martsinkevitch’s “Occupy Pedophilia” videos were such a smash hit among young people in RuNet:

After getting out of prison Martsinkevich has started the Occupy Pedophilia (Russian: Оккупай-педофиляй) movement focused on beating up and humiliating males regarded as pedophiles. Members of the movement find victims—usually young gay men[citation needed]—through the Internet, pose as minors and go on a date. A group of people then meet the victim and humiliate him, sometimes pouring urine over his head, while filming it for releasing online. Most of these incidents have been ignored by the authorities, letting members of the movement walk free.[1]

Child molesters are “safe targets”. It may as well be that most of the targets deserved to be legally prosecuted. But mob “justice” under pretense of righteousness is something else.

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Bubblehead II  Nov 1, 2015 • 2:20:25am

re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

re: #144 Nyet

Beware the Demon cat.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 1, 2015 • 2:52:24am

re: #146 Bubblehead II

Beware the Demon cat.

Especially the ones with glowing eyes.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 1, 2015 • 2:53:52am

NPR busted a music writer for plagiarizing some parts of his music reviews.

npr.org

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Nyet  Nov 1, 2015 • 2:56:31am

A positive article about (mostly LaVeyan) Satanism at the top of Breitbrat’s FP. Written by a Satanist. Some major headsplosions in the comment section.

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Bubblehead II  Nov 1, 2015 • 3:09:18am

AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Just now realized that we fell back a hour this morning. Which means I have another hour to hang out here. So it isn’t all that bad. That and I get to drink more coffee.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2015 • 3:12:35am

re: #142 Bubblehead II

Like we needed a research paper to tell us this.

Your cat may want to kill you, study says

At the very least they are quite capable of breaking your arm…

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Bubblehead II  Nov 1, 2015 • 3:14:16am

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

At the very least they are quite capable of breaking your arm…

Hows it healing?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2015 • 3:23:58am

re: #152 Bubblehead II

Hows it healing?

Doing pretty good.
I’d guess that I’m probably at about 80%. Still can’t lift anything or drive, but otherwise not too bad.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 1, 2015 • 3:24:59am

re: #145 Nyet

That’s a reason why the neo-Nazi Maxim “The Hatchet” Martsinkevitch’s “Occupy Pedophilia” videos were such a smash hit among young people in RuNet:

Child molesters are “safe targets”. It may as well be that most of the targets deserved to be legally prosecuted. But mob “justice” under pretense of righteousness is something else.

Kristallnacht was presented as “mob justice”

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Bubblehead II  Nov 1, 2015 • 3:31:32am

re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth

Doing pretty good.
I’d guess that I’m probably at about 80%. Still can’t lift anything or drive, but otherwise not too bad.

Good to hear.

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Amory Blaine  Nov 1, 2015 • 3:56:15am

I got a rock.

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Nyet  Nov 1, 2015 • 3:59:52am

Watching the three South Park episodes that I missed. Seems like the best season in a while.

One scene in the “Safe Space” episode reminded me of a scene in Bulgakov’s “The Heart of a Dog”:

The woman’s eyes sparkled.
“I understand your irony, Professor, we will go now… Only I, as the chairman
of cultural department of our house…”
“Chairwoman,” Philip Philipovich corrected her.
“Would like to ask you,” at this point the woman pulled out of her coat-front a
few brightly coloured journals, still damp from the snow, “to take a few journals sold for the benefit of German children. 50 kopecks each.”
“No, thank you,” replied Philip Philipovich briefly, glancing at the journals.
The four indicated total amazement and the woman went the colour of cranberry juice.
“Why do you refuse?”
“I don’t want them.”
“You have no sympathy for the children of Germany?”
“On the contrary.”
“You grudge fifty copecks?”
“No.”
“Why then?”
“I don’t want them.”
There was a short silence.
“Do you know what, Professor?” said the girl, heaving a deep sigh. “If you were not a luminary known to all Europe and if you had not been interceded for in the most disgraceful manner by… (the fair man tugged at the end of her jacket but she shook him off) by people who, I am quite sure, we will eventually get to the bottom of, you should be arrested.”
“And what for?” inquired Philip Philipovich with some curiosity.
“You are a proletariat-hater!” said the woman proudly.
“Yes, I do dislike the proletariat,” Philip Philipovich agreed sadly and pressed a knob. A bell sounded. A door opened somewhere in the corridor.
“Zina,” called Philip Philipovich, “you may serve dinner. You will permit me, gentlemen?”

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 1, 2015 • 4:03:35am

re: #156 Amory Blaine

I got a rock.

to wind a piece of string around?

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 1, 2015 • 4:28:09am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

to wind a piece of string around?

Keep tigers away, silly.

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Dark_Falcon  Nov 1, 2015 • 5:11:48am

re: #156 Amory Blaine

I got a rock.

Then how can you call yourself a modern liberal? I thought military interventions were strictly for “neo-cons”.

Click to Reveal

‘A rock’ is misread above as ‘Iraq’. No harm meant, I’m just being funny.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 1, 2015 • 5:46:28am

re: #156 Amory Blaine

I got a rock.

And I ran.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 5:49:54am

re: #116 Barefoot Grin

Thank you! By the way, Hokusai’s “Great Wave” is one of my favorite images. Your work is amazing. There used to be an interesting BBC documentary about the image, life of Hokusai, and the hydrodynamics of the wave on youtube, but I can’t find it now.

Edited: I just looked at the link. I’m ordering Kip Thorne’s book tonight. The boy has read “the elegant universe” so this seems like a good step.

It’s a favorite of mine as well. Have a poster of it hanging on the wall for the last 20+ years. Need to look for more of that stuff to finish the decor of my “Oriental Room”*.

* - I call it that since the wall decorations are:
An embroidery dragon (red on white) in a round design
Museum print of “The Great Wave”
Two gold dragons embroidered on red silk
Japanese tea set
Two prints on rice paper of samurai
Ink image on scroll of a dragon

Mixed acquisitions from Japan, Malaysia and China going back to 1957.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 6:02:24am

My Halloween itself was pretty mundane. The apartment building doesn’t do trick-or-treat so I can pretty freely go attend parties or other events.

This year the game store I frequent in West Chester was hosting a boardgame marathon for the Extra Life charity like they have the past few years. Gaming for 11 hours plus games being raffled off. Free snacks, but I kicked in for that a little bit, plus baked a pie and a couple dozen cookies for the owner. (The cookies were put out for the attendees to eat.) Since the event was on Halloween there also was a costume contest as well.

Crazy Cat Lady - winner!

I won a game called “Rampage” in one of the raffles, but none of the games I was really interested in getting. (oh well) Also saw this “new” game, which I thought was a rather clever spoof name.

My diet was also given a pass yesterday. Which my digestive system did not appreciate.

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William Lewis  Nov 1, 2015 • 6:06:17am

re: #124 Dark_Falcon

Their actions aren’t treacherous, so it’ll be the 8th and not the 9th Circle of Hell for them. But the 8th Circle is plenty bad, Dante assured us. And assholes that full of hate belong there.

One of the things I love about this place is that someone could make a reference like that and expect people to understand it.

Ever read “La Vita Nuova” as well, DF? That was the real beginning of modern poetry in the vernacular languages…

“Donne ch’avete intelletto d’amore,
i’ vo’ con voi de la mia donna dire,
non perch’io creda sua laude finire,
ma ragionar per isfogar la mente.”

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 1, 2015 • 6:16:13am

re: #162 Feline Fearless Leader

It’s a favorite of mine as well. Have a poster of it hanging on the wall for the last 20+ years. Need to look for more of that stuff to finish the decor of my “Oriental Room”*.

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* - I call it that since the wall decorations are:
An embroidery dragon (red on white) in a round design
Museum print of “The Great Wave”
Two gold dragons embroidered on red silk
Japanese tea set
Two prints on rice paper of samurai
Ink image on scroll of a dragon

Mixed acquisitions from Japan, Malaysia and China going back to 1957.

Nice. My things are mostly Japanese. My favorite is calligraphy done for me of a Matsuo Basho haiku (something like “In the lingering spring rain, the Golden Temple remains”). I have a couple of modern Chinese prints of farmers on the collective doing the harvest, but that’s about it. I wish I had some Korean ceramics—all I have are a few books on Korean culture and art given to me by Korean friends over the years.

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Dark_Falcon  Nov 1, 2015 • 6:33:05am

re: #164 William Lewis

One of the things I love about this place is that someone could make a reference like that and expect people to understand it.

Ever read “La Vita Nuova” as well, DF? That was the real beginning of modern poetry in the vernacular languages…

“Donne ch’avete intelletto d’amore,
i’ vo’ con voi de la mia donna dire,
non perch’io creda sua laude finire,
ma ragionar per isfogar la mente.”

I’m afraid not, but I’ll try to do that someday.

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Dark_Falcon  Nov 1, 2015 • 6:34:43am

re: #163 Feline Fearless Leader

My Halloween itself was pretty mundane. The apartment building doesn’t do trick-or-treat so I can pretty freely go attend parties or other events.

This year the game store I frequent in West Chester was hosting a boardgame marathon for the Extra Life charity like they have the past few years. Gaming for 11 hours plus games being raffled off. Free snacks, but I kicked in for that a little bit, plus baked a pie and a couple dozen cookies for the owner. (The cookies were put out for the attendees to eat.) Since the event was on Halloween there also was a costume contest as well.

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My diet was also given a pass yesterday. Which my digestive system did not appreciate.

I knew you had a military history interest but I didn’t know you were a fellow gamer. What games do you favor?

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Decatur Deb  Nov 1, 2015 • 6:39:07am

Woke at 0230/0330 (take your pick). The weather radio was blasting about the rain and flash flooding (2.37 inches in 40 minutes). Just woke up again.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 6:41:49am

re: #167 Dark_Falcon

I knew you had a military history interest but I didn’t know you were a fellow gamer. What games do you favor?

Don’t wargame as much as I used to due to time constraints and getting opponents. (Never got into using Vassal that much.) At this point I am mainly playing Eurogames, and favor cooperatives and solitaire capable games in terms of purchase. Collection itself is pretty broad, with a lot of wargames in the older purchases.

Partial game pile after closet shelf collapse
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Dark_Falcon  Nov 1, 2015 • 6:47:25am

re: #169 Feline Fearless Leader

Don’t wargame as much as I used to due to time constraints and getting opponents. (Never got into using Vassal that much.) At this point I am mainly playing Eurogames, and favor cooperatives and solitaire capable games in terms of purchase. Collection itself is pretty broad, with a lot of wargames in the older purchases.

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I see a good deal of WWII games, as well as the chance for one game box to be stepped on by the head-of-household that is lying on the window ledge.

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Bubblehead II  Nov 1, 2015 • 6:57:29am

re: #156 Amory Blaine

I got a rock.

+1 for the Charlie Brown reference.

Now I need to get back to work. Later.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:07:08am

re: #170 Dark_Falcon

I see a good deal of WWII games, as well as the chance for one game box to be stepped on by the head-of-household that is lying on the window ledge.

Given that the Caverna box is *full* of boards and wooden pieces it was put there to prevent it from collapsing other boxes. And it can bear the weight of a cat.

Caverna is my chosen Uwe Rosenberg “develop a farm” game. (Agricola being the most famous one I believe.) However, who can resist the theme of being a family of *dwarves* where besides outside farming half your property is digging in the hillside to make rooms for workshops and mines. Plus you can go on “expeditions” to get more resources once you forge a weapon.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:13:31am

And since I’m doing Oriental art decor I took a few quick Iphone pictures.

One of the Samurai prints my father brought back from Japan. The matching print is another mounted Samurai who just fired the in-flight arrow.

The dragon scroll was something I bought for a few hundred ringits in a market in Kuala Lumpur a few years ago. I have a dragon theme going in collected items due to being born in a Year of the Dragon. My mother’s running vacation collection theme was bird artwork. I have most of that collection on a shelf in my curio cabinet.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:15:13am

re: #173 Feline Fearless Leader

*raises hand*
Year of the Dragon here, too.

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Dark_Falcon  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:15:19am

re: #172 Feline Fearless Leader

Given that the Caverna box is *full* of boards and wooden pieces it was put there to prevent it from collapsing other boxes. And it can bear the weight of a cat.

Caverna is my chosen Uwe Rosenberg “develop a farm” game. (Agricola being the most famous one I believe.) However, who can resist the theme of being a family of *dwarves* where besides outside farming half your property is digging in the hillside to make rooms for workshops and mines. Plus you can go on “expeditions” to get more resources once you forge a weapon.

Cool, quite cool.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:22:48am

My favorite art piece in the apartment was found in a catalog a ways back. There’s a small 8’ tall divider wall in the apartment that is part of the separation from the kitchen to one of the bedrooms (which I use as the den/TV room.) So what would be the ideal item to put on this high shelf that overlooks the entrance to the apartment?

Woe unto those who do not obey the Feline Overlords
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Dr. Matt  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:23:39am

Saw a report on the news this morning that the RNC is demanding that future debate moderators have a proven track record of voting for conservatives. Two thoughts: i) They had Megyn Kelly and they still bitched and whined. ii) More proof that conservatives live in a bubble and want to stay living in a bubble.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:24:11am

re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth

*raises hand*
Year of the Dragon here, too.

Me three.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:27:32am

re: #177 Dr. Matt

Saw a report on the news this morning that the RNC is demanding that future debate moderators have a proven track record of voting for conservatives. Two thoughts: i) They had Megyn Kelly and they still bitched and whined. ii) More proof that conservatives live in a bubble and want to stay living in a bubble.

Win-win for the GOP. They throw a tantrum and then either the media companies fold and only toss softball questions, or they lay the groundwork to cancel debates amidst a claim of media bias. Fewer debates to expose their lameness to the moderates/undecided.

And none of the media companies will be brave enough to say “Fine. We won’t give you any coverage at all - about anything.” Where does the Benghazi-bugaloo stuff (soon to be the same pattern regarding Planned Parenthood) go if one or more media companies refuse to broadcast your leaks and talking points?

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:28:02am

re: #177 Dr. Matt

Saw a report on the news this morning that the RNC is demanding that future debate moderators have a proven track record of voting for conservatives. Two thoughts: i) They had Megyn Kelly and they still bitched and whined. ii) More proof that conservatives live in a bubble and want to stay living in a bubble.

Excellent; let them be totally unprepared to answer questions for a general audience about the real world when they have to debate Hillary. Let their freak flags fly!

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darthstar  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:30:41am

Happy November 1st! I woke up this morning with health insurance from my new employer. Happy to say that I managed to make it to Nov 1 without getting sick or injured after screwing up on re-enrollment last winter. Though I did come close yesterday as a woman in her SUV almost hit my cart head on as I was crossing the lot at Costco…but she missed me by a good foot so we’re all cool…but it was close enough to make me look at my wife and say, “Wow, we almost didn’t make it.” to which she calmly replied, “That’s okay…her insurance would have covered you.”

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BeachDem  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:33:25am

re: #177 Dr. Matt

Saw a report on the news this morning that the RNC is demanding that future debate moderators have a proven track record of voting for conservatives. Two thoughts: i) They had Megyn Kelly and they still bitched and whined. ii) More proof that conservatives live in a bubble and want to stay living in a bubble.

That is mind-blowing: a PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF VOTING FOR CONSERVATIVES. So I guess moderate Republicans are now totally out of the loop. And so much for that whole concept of “objective journalists.” Why don’t they call these “debates” what they are—free airtime for campaign speeches. Wish we could go back to when the League of Women Voters did the debates.

Also, didn’t Keith Olbermann and somebody else at MSNBC get in trouble for supporting a Dem candidate? (And they weren’t even “debate” moderators.)

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:35:24am

re: #181 darthstar

Happy November 1st! I woke up this morning with health insurance from my new employer. Happy to say that I managed to make it to Nov 1 without getting sick or injured after screwing up on re-enrollment last winter. Though I did come close yesterday as a woman in her SUV almost hit my cart head on as I was crossing the lot at Costco…but she missed me by a good foot so we’re all cool…but it was close enough to make me look at my wife and say, “Wow, we almost didn’t make it.” to which she calmly replied, “That’s okay…her insurance would have covered you.”

My brother has a theory that there is a relationship between driver IQ and the quantity of asphalt around them. His explanation for people driving even more idiotically in parking lots as compared to roads.

My pet peeve and competing theory is that grabbing the handles of shopping carts lowers IQ since there are lots of people who seem to not think about spatial relationships when using them; e.g. blocking aisles, crossing aisle intersections without looking, and insisting on crossing parking lots slowly and at a diagonal angle across the lanes going back to their car. Often with HID complicating things and attention span.

HID - “Head In Device”

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ObserverArt  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:35:34am

Watching Jeb on Meet The Chuck.

He has a new campaign slogan. “Jeb can fix it.”

I guess it comes down to what it means.

This man is wholly unconvincing about anything. If he says his own name I don’t want to believe it.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:37:21am

re: #184 ObserverArt

Watching Jeb on Meet The Chuck.

He has a new campaign slogan. “Jeb can fix it.”

I guess it comes down to what it means.

This man is wholly unconvincing about anything. If he says his own name I don’t want to believe it.

Does be mean fix as in “repair”, or as in “cut the balls off”?

The former also implies things are broken. And I suspect that many of the things Jeb$ thinks are broken others do not think are broken, and vice-versa.

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stpaulbear  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:37:52am

re: #177 Dr. Matt

Saw a report on the news this morning that the RNC is demanding that future debate moderators have a proven track record of voting for conservatives. Two thoughts: i) They had Megyn Kelly and they still bitched and whined. ii) More proof that conservatives live in a bubble and want to stay living in a bubble.

No town hall meetings in cities that aren’t verifiably conservative!

Are they going to be like Bush/Cheney and require attendees to sign a loyalty oath before they’re allowed in to campaign events?

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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:38:07am

re: #177 Dr. Matt

Saw a report on the news this morning that the RNC is demanding that future debate moderators have a proven track record of voting for conservatives. Two thoughts: i) They had Megyn Kelly and they still bitched and whined. ii) More proof that conservatives live in a bubble and want to stay living in a bubble.

Ah, so when they get their asses tanned again, they can whine that they were tricked, that the moderators were really Obama supporters and that’s why they were so “mean.”

Just how is it they expect a network to satisfy this demand without violating the secrecy of one’s votes?

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:39:48am

GOP Approved Moderator Debate Questions:

1. What is your favorite Ronald Reagan flag picture?
2. How many guns do you think citizens should keep in their homes?
3. What will you, as President, do to protect our most helpless and vulnerable citizens, the richest 1%?
4. How many ways can you show that Democrats are the realest racists of ever?
5. How will you put the lazy moocher welfare class back to work?

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ObserverArt  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:39:57am

re: #182 BeachDem

That is mind-blowing: a PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF VOTING FOR CONSERVATIVES. So I guess moderate Republicans are now totally out of the loop. And so much for that whole concept of “objective journalists.” Why don’t they call these “debates” what they are—free airtime for campaign speeches. Wish we could go back to when the League of Women Voters did the debates.

Also, didn’t Keith Olbermann and somebody else at MSNBC get in trouble for supporting a Dem candidate? (And they weren’t even “debate” moderators.)

Olbermann gave donation to political candidates without mentioning it and clearing it with his bosses.

There are rumors he may end back up at MSNBC. I don’t see it, but media is a strange world now.

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:41:56am

re: #182 BeachDem

That is mind-blowing: a PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF VOTING FOR CONSERVATIVES. So I guess moderate Republicans are now totally out of the loop. And so much for that whole concept of “objective journalists.” Why don’t they call these “debates” what they are—free airtime for campaign speeches. Wish we could go back to when the League of Women Voters did the debates.

Also, didn’t Keith Olbermann and somebody else at MSNBC get in trouble for supporting a Dem candidate? (And they weren’t even “debate” moderators.)

Here’s an idea, just have the candidates pick a topic they want to talk about, give them two minutes, them let them challenge one of the others to address the same issue for two minutes, let the first guy respond, then give each of the others a minute or so to put their two cents in. Then they can quit whining about the media and talk to the people about the issues they think are important. Give random audience members and the viewing audience a chance to ask questions as well.

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:44:39am

re: #184 ObserverArt

Watching Jeb on Meet The Chuck.

He has a new campaign slogan. “Jeb can fix it.”

I guess it comes down to what it means.

This man is wholly unconvincing about anything. If he says his own name I don’t want to believe it.

The problem Jeb! has is no-one, Republicans, Democrats and Independents, other than billionaires, wants another Bush in the White House. And money still can’t vote yet.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:45:38am

So what happens when the eventual nominee refuses to participate in the General Election debates on the same conditions? I know that would go over gangbusters with the wingnut base, but surely the general public would get a clue at that point? am I dreaming? Are clues a liberal plot now?

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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:45:50am

Remember after 2012, when one of the announcements in the “autopsy” was that there had been too many debates and that, going forward, the RNC would cut the number of them down? That it was generally agreed that the gaggle of morons who’d been running that year, taking turns seeing who could be the most retrograde caveman on stage, had ended up hurting the eventual nominee because he had to deal with the fallout of all that?

It’s good to know that the GOP took one long look at that autopsy…then decided it was a liberal conspiracy and chucked it.

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:47:55am

re: #192 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

So what happens when the eventual nominee refuses to participate in the General Election debates on the same conditions? I know that would go over gangbusters with the wingnut base, but surely the general public would get a clue at that point? am I dreaming? Are clues a liberal plot now?

Then let Hillary debate an empty chair. That should give the public a clue as to how empty the GOP campaign is, and that’s why the GOP candidate can’t simply refuse to debate.

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dholmes32  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:48:01am

re: #184 ObserverArt

Watching Jeb on Meet The Chuck.

He has a new campaign slogan. “Jeb can fix it.”

I guess it comes down to what it means.

This man is wholly unconvincing about anything. If he says his own name I don’t want to believe it.

I recall that the notorious, now-dead pedophile Jimmy Savile had a show on British television called, “Jim’ll Fix It.” Seriously, Jeb!, don’t your people do some Googling before you come up with this stuff?

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BeachDem  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:49:08am

re: #190 Big Beautiful Door

Here’s an idea, just have the candidates pick a topic they want to talk about, give them two minutes, them let them challenge one of the others to address the same issue for two minutes, let the first guy respond, then give each of the others a minute or so to put their two cents in. Then they can quit whining about the media and talk to the people about the issues they think are important. Give random audience members and the viewing audience a chance to ask questions as well.

They’ve tried having audience members and online tweeters and youtubers ask questions. Didn’t seem to really move the ball down the court. The whole concept of “debates” has gone south—particularly on the GOP side—nobody really debates; nobody answers the actual question asked; there is no fact-checking or challenging the bogus bullshit they say (think of the OUTRAGE when Candy Crowley corrected Mitt) and, sadly, it doesn’t seem that anyone really give a flying fuck as long as their favorite moron gets screen time to spout ridiculous crap.

Wonder what kind of demands the eventual GOP clown candidate will make about the debates in the general? Or will they be like Kasich and others during their last campaigns, and flat out refuse to debate the Dem.

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:49:31am

re: #195 dholmes32

I recall that the notorious, now-dead pedophile Jimmy Savile had a show on British television called, “Jim’ll Fix It.” Seriously, Jeb!, don’t your people do some Googling before you come up with this stuff?

No-one in America knows who Jimmy Savile is.

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dholmes32  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:52:49am

re: #197 Big Beautiful Door

No-one in America knows who Jimmy Savile is.

I am American, and I’ve never been overseas, and I know who Jimmy Savile is. But that’s because I read the Guardian and that was a huge big deal a couple of years back. Still, kinda dumb, on Jeb!’s part.

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stpaulbear  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:54:38am

re: #184 ObserverArt

Watching Jeb on Meet The Chuck.

He has a new campaign slogan. “Jeb can fix it.”

I guess it comes down to what it means.

This man is wholly unconvincing about anything. If he says his own name I don’t want to believe it.

“Jeb can fix it” also kind of highlights that Jeb has had staff to replace light bulbs for his entire life.

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:56:27am

re: #196 BeachDem

They’ve tried having audience members and online tweeters and youtubers ask questions. Didn’t seem to really move the ball down the court. The whole concept of “debates” has gone south—particularly on the GOP side—nobody really debates; nobody answers the actual question asked; there is no fact-checking or challenging the bogus bullshit they say (think of the OUTRAGE when Candy Crowley corrected Mitt) and, sadly, it doesn’t seem that anyone really give a flying fuck as long as their favorite moron gets screen time to spout ridiculous crap.

Wonder what kind of demands the eventual GOP clown candidate will make about the debates in the general? Or will they be like Kasich and others during their last campaigns, and flat out refuse to debate the Dem.

I would love them to refuse to debate Hillary. Imagine the hay she will be able to make out of that in attack ads. “My opponent is so arrogant, he refuses to to answer the questions about his plans to enrich special interests at the expense of Middle Class voters.”

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:58:42am

re: #198 dholmes32

I am American, and I’ve never been overseas, and I know who Jimmy Savile is. But that’s because I read the Guardian and that was a huge big deal a couple of years back. Still, kinda dumb, on Jeb!’s part.

Exactly, you read the Guardian. The percentage of Americans who read the Guardian is a rounding error. The slogan is lame, but being compared to Jimmy Savile isn’t a real problem.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 1, 2015 • 7:59:31am

Fuck.
I know this guy IRL. I did not know he was such a batshit wingnut.

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:01:11am

re: #202 The Vicious Babushka

Fuck.
I know this guy IRL. I did not know he was such a batshit wingnut.

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Thank God we have Republicans to protect the most oppressed Americans, the richest 20%!/

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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:02:07am

re: #202 The Vicious Babushka

Fuck.
I know this guy IRL. I did not know he was such a batshit wingnut.

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I’ll take “Out of Context Statistics” for $200, Alex.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:07:56am

re: #202 The Vicious Babushka

Fuck.
I know this guy IRL. I did not know he was such a batshit wingnut.

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Point out that the top 20% pay half the percentage of their income in taxes of all kinds that the bottom 20% do, and that that should be at least reversed.

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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:08:51am

“The rich pay all the taxes!”

“THAT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALL THE MONEY!”

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:09:24am

re: #205 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Point out that the top 20% pay half the percentage of their income in taxes of all kinds that the bottom 20% do, and that that should be at least reversed.

Which is why the Feds should take on more of the responsibility of funding things like education and Medicaid, because state taxes tend to be regressive.

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WhatEVs  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:10:43am

re: #177 Dr. Matt

Saw a report on the news this morning that the RNC is demanding that future debate moderators have a proven track record of voting for conservatives. Two thoughts: i) They had Megyn Kelly and they still bitched and whined. ii) More proof that conservatives live in a bubble and want to stay living in a bubble.

This is beyond just staying in their bubble. They want that bubble to become so small they can drown it in a bathtub drain.

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WhatEVs  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:12:58am

So this happened.

Would anyone like to chime in to @TheTrev83 using the #LiesFoxTells hashtag? I thought of a few but, good lord.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:15:22am

re: #202 The Vicious Babushka

Fuck.
I know this guy IRL. I did not know he was such a batshit wingnut.

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If they don’t understand (and accept) the idea of the marginal utility of a dollar then you’re not going to get anywhere with them.

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WhatEVs  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:16:32am

re: #202 The Vicious Babushka

Fuck.
I know this guy IRL. I did not know he was such a batshit wingnut.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:19:27am

re: #211 WhatEVs

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WhatEVs  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:30:04am

re: #212 The Vicious Babushka

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ObserverArt  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:35:48am

Well, what an enlightening Meet The Chuck.

Interviews with Jeb? Bush one of the top candidates for president. And, he had an interview with the new Speaker of the House. Great political stuff there, a goldmine of political knowledge.

I’ll share what I learned.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:40:28am

re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Obvious shout-out to The Oatmeal.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:46:49am

re: #198 dholmes32

Those of us who listen to BBC World Service damn well know who Jimmy Saville is, and probably know more about what’s going o around the world than all of the foreign advisers to all the current GOP candidates combined.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:51:05am

re: #216 Eric The Fruit Bat

Those of us who listen to BBC World Service damn well know who Jimmy Saville is, and probably more than all of the foreign advisers to all the current GOP candidates combined.

Not just that, but read British media, serious and tabloid - the Saville case was major news across the spectrum of the UK press.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:52:01am

sigh…

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:52:25am

re: #215 Eric The Fruit Bat

Obvious shout-out to The Oatmeal.

Good statistic for the next wingnut who complains HURR HURR WIND TURBINES KILLS BIRDIES!!!!!!

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A Cranky One  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:54:17am

Since there is some discussion of Japanese art, I’ll share what Mrs Cranky gave me as a wedding present. I already had a collection of work from this artist so she knew I liked his stuff. It was wrapped in black paper when given on our wedding day:

Samson and Delilah

A woman emasculating a powerful man. Mrs Cranky has an interesting sense of humor. ;) It’s fairly large at 23”x27”.

Watanabe was famous for his biblical prints rendered in the mingei (folk art) tradition of Japan. During President Lyndon Johnson’s administration, Watanabe’s prints were hung in the White House. Watanabe uses kozo paper (from mulberry tree) and momigami (kneaded paper). The momigami paper was crumpled by hand, squeezed and wrinkled to give a rough quality to the prints. The katazome method uses traditional organic and mineral pigments in a medium of soybean milk. The protein in the milk bound the colors to the paper’s surface. The use of natural materials is one of the characteristics of mingei (folk art).
Wikipedia

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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:55:15am

re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh…

[Embedded content]

I’m beginning to suspect the GOP is not listening to God, but instead listening to Q.

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WhatEVs  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:58:02am

re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh…

[Embedded content]

I wonder how many GOPers really believe this stuff. I am starting to think more than I think do.

And that completely terrifies me.

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Teukka  Nov 1, 2015 • 8:58:32am

re: #221 Targetpractice

I’m beginning to suspect the GOP is not listening to God, but instead listening to Q.

Nah, this is too bathshit insane even to be Q. Maybe the have someone on the line from the insane asylum in the Q Continuum?

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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:00:09am

re: #223 Teukka

Nah, this is too bathshit insane even to be Q. Maybe the have someone on the line from the insane asylum in the Q Continuum?

You don’t understand the beauty of Q’s genius. He’s putting the GOP in a situation where their hubris is gonna be their downfall, after which he’s gonna laugh his ass off as they crash & burn.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:00:35am

re: #223 Teukka

Nah, this is too bathshit insane even to be Q. Maybe the have someone on the line from the insane asylum in the Q Continuum?

Or a direct line to the Phantom Zone.

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Tigger2  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:07:26am

re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh…

[Embedded content]

So now Boehner has voices in his head, people get thrown into mental hospitals for that.

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lizardofid  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:10:39am

re: #226 WhatEVs

Paul Ryan: ‘Ridiculous’ To Work with Obama on Immigration When We Can’t Trust Him

sigh

I saw him make that statement this morning, and as his lips moved, what I actually heard was “there’s absolutely nothing we could propose that won’t out us as assholes, so we’ll just not”.

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:11:19am

Aww, they can’t trust Exec Order P-P-P-Pwezident. And big meanie Liebural Media asks meanie questions.

I haz sadz.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:12:56am

re: #226 WhatEVs

Paul Ryan: ‘Ridiculous’ To Work with Obama on Immigration When We Can’t Trust Him

sigh

That’s missing the rest of the line “…to roll over and accept without question anything we want to do.”

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WhatEVs  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:14:25am

Curling final starting. Go get em’ Mike!

Ciao all! BBL.

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Tigger2  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:18:50am

re: #226 WhatEVs

Paul Ryan: ‘Ridiculous’ To Work with Obama on Immigration When We Can’t Trust Him

sigh

Like you can trust the Republicans, It has been proven over and over again you can’t trust them, Ryan is a joke.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:19:08am

re: #231 WhatEVs

Curling final starting. Go get em’ Mike!

Ciao all! BBL.

Embedded Image

Guy on left has a Manitoba flag?

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danarchy  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:19:10am

re: #181 darthstar

Happy November 1st! I woke up this morning with health insurance from my new employer. Happy to say that I managed to make it to Nov 1 without getting sick or injured after screwing up on re-enrollment last winter. Though I did come close yesterday as a woman in her SUV almost hit my cart head on as I was crossing the lot at Costco…but she missed me by a good foot so we’re all cool…but it was close enough to make me look at my wife and say, “Wow, we almost didn’t make it.” to which she calmly replied, “That’s okay…her insurance would have covered you.”

yeah injuries caused in a car accident are generally covered by auto insurance not health insurance.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:19:52am

4ebvEBwVFhGWXXYZA+DpyJHsKjLN/PJfAE44j9aHZZrCKi161ylIjWNllx/+GD9hMNng4yMMuNCAP2W9PM6Z88JJItuR9ggsPjTmYZOV5TUxpg9oRAvKSB/O5NCcOeBb

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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:19:58am

re: #226 WhatEVs

Paul Ryan: ‘Ridiculous’ To Work with Obama on Immigration When We Can’t Trust Him

sigh

From the party that has repeatedly made deals that it later went on to break the moment they became inconvenient.

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WhatEVs  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:20:52am

re: #233 Feline Fearless Leader

Guy on left has a Manitoba flag?

Yup. Vs Cotter out if* BC.

*of BC. Not if. iPhone. Sigh.

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:23:36am

So GOP says they won’t work on immigration bill with Prez (IIRC), he goes with EO’s, they say they can’t trust him because he used EO’s on them.

Are they really being that stupid?

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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:24:35am

re: #238 Camacho DeezNuts 2016

So GOP says they won’t work on immigration bill with Prez (IIRC), he goes with EO’s, they say they can’t trust him because he used EO’s on them.

Are they really being that stupid?

Yes. Not only are they being that stupid, they think everybody outside their own base is stupid enough to buy that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:25:17am

Moving the goalposts from “The top 1%” to “The top 20%” is a wingnut technique. The top 20% includes the professional middle class who do not benefit from the tax breaks that go to the 1% and their income gains since 1980 have been minimal compared to the top 1%.

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Whack-A-Mole  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:29:54am

re: #219 The Vicious Babushka

Heh, even Canadian cats are polite.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:39:31am

re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh…

[Embedded content]

Boehner is Catholic. God stopped talking shop with Catholic politicians after that unfortunate episode with Joan of Arc.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:43:29am

re: #226 WhatEVs

Paul Ryan: ‘Ridiculous’ To Work with Obama on Immigration When We Can’t Trust Him

sigh

God sure has quite a sense of humor.

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bratwurst  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:46:26am
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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:47:10am

Like a criminal saying ‘I can’t trust them, they called the cops on me and put me in jail.’

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:49:50am
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bratwurst  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:50:27am

At least Ryan didn’t say he was trying to get rid of the “old man smell”!

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 9:50:57am

The GOP side seems to be very confident that the electorate has forgotten that the whole sequestor thing was the “big threat” that was going to make the budget negotiations to be actually carried out in a serious manner. After which the GOP appointed a bunch of hard-liners to their negotiation team and we ended up with a stupid across the board spending cut. And since then the GOP has been consistently trying to restore spending for their favored stuff, mainly defense and corporate welfare, while letting the social programs remain gutted.

I for one *DO* remember this.

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Nyet  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:00:02am

I mentioned Bulgakov’s short story above, and here’s a film based on the story that I consider a masterpiece (despite its director turning into a POS later - he’s become a Stalinist commie, which is somewhat paradoxical considering the anti-Bolshevik direction of the film). With Eng. subs.

A DOG’S HEART part 1 / Собачье сердце 1 серия
A DOG’S HEART part 2 / Собачье сердце 2 серия

(And yes, you’ll have to watch it directly on youtube.)

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:05:11am

MY EYES.

Steelers have their pseudo-throwback bumblebee uniforms on.

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bratwurst  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:05:22am
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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:07:51am

The White House should respond that Speaker Ryan’s feelings are mutual, that the President cannot trust the Republican majority to abide by any agreement for immigration reform. That he fully expects the GOP leadership to begin promising defunding/repeal of any portions of the agreement their base finds objectionable (which would be everything short of “Build the wall!” and “Deport them all!”) before the ink had even dried on his signature.

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lizardofid  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:08:52am

re: #250 Feline Fearless Leader

MY EYES.

Steelers have their pseudo-throwback bumblebee uniforms on.

Every time they break those out I think SNL skit. ; )

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:09:59am

re: #250 Feline Fearless Leader

MY EYES.

Steelers have their pseudo-throwback bumblebee uniforms on.

Thanks Obama.

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KGxvi  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:11:08am

re: #247 bratwurst

I thought it was illegal to smoke inside federal buildings? Or did Congress exempt themselves?

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:12:17am

re: #255 KGxvi

I thought it was illegal to smoke inside federal buildings? Or did Congress exempt themselves?

Congressional privilege is my guess.

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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:16:18am

And then, as the cherry on top, the White House might remind folks that the Republicans insisted upon and passed the Secure Fence Act in 2006, mandating 700 miles of new fencing be built on the border…and then appropriated 1/4 of what it would actually cost to build and have not made any efforts since taking the majority to see the other 3/4 appropriated. So any talk about more fencing or even a wall that does not include a promise to fund it, even if doing so requires deficit spending, will not be entertained as a serious proposal.

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KGxvi  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:18:51am

re: #257 Targetpractice

PREZNIT TRUMP SEZ TEH MESSICANS WILL PAY FOR THE GREAT WALL OF MURKA!!

259
Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:19:35am

re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh…

[Embedded content]

Worst divine plan ever.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:21:22am

re: #255 KGxvi

I thought it was illegal to smoke inside federal buildings? Or did Congress exempt themselves?

Would not apply to living quarters. Sergeants are allowed to smoke in their on-post housing (last time I was on post).

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:22:56am

re: #250 Feline Fearless Leader

MY EYES.

Steelers have their pseudo-throwback bumblebee uniforms on.

If they help them move the ball like that first possession it is all good.

But you’re right, I never have liked those unis.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:23:05am

re: #241 Whack-A-Mole

Heh, even Canadian cats are polite.

Also, few birds to hunt in winter.

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ObserverArt  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:24:32am

re: #257 Targetpractice

And then, as the cherry on top, the White House might remind folks that the Republicans insisted upon and passed the Secure Fence Act in 2006, mandating 700 miles of new fencing be built on the border…and then appropriated 1/4 of what it would actually cost to build and have not made any efforts since taking the majority to see the other 3/4 appropriated. So any talk about more fencing or even a wall that does not include a promise to fund it, even if doing so requires deficit spending, will not be entertained as a serious proposal.

Mexico will pay for it!!!

They knew The Donald™ was in the GOP future and held back instead of spending needless money.

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Jenner7  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:25:42am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:27:15am

re: #250 Feline Fearless Leader

MY EYES.

Steelers have their pseudo-throwback bumblebee uniforms on.

266
Joe Bacon  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:38:54am

re: #222 WhatEVs

I wonder how many GOPers really believe this stuff. I am starting to think more than I think do.

And that completely terrifies me.

My whole family has been brainwashed by Religious Right pulpit pimps to believe anything Republicans say without question!

267
Skip Intro  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:40:12am

re: #184 ObserverArt

Never mind. Someone else already mentioned this.

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De Kolta Chair  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:40:38am

Heh, I saw what his intern did there.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:41:56am
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KGxvi  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:42:26am

re: #260 Decatur Deb

Right but they said congressional office. Or is this like a vampire defense thing, I throw a bed in the back room and now it’s a home rather than an office?

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Whack-A-Mole  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:43:29am

I don’t think I’ve seen a throwback uniform I’ve liked yet, certainly not any of the Packers.

I’ve often wondered though, does wearing them have an effect on the quarterback? I mean, as a quarterback in the face of a pass rush, you’ve got to be somewhat trained to be scanning for open targets by friendly uniform color (things are probably happening too fast to process much more information than that). Does going to a uniform you only wear once a year slow that down?

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Kragar  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:44:05am
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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:44:20am

re: #262 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, few birds to hunt in winter.

Switch over to mice and voles I bet.

My brother’s “shed” cats that live outdoors year-round in northwestern New York state go into eskimo-mode during the winter. Put on an extra layer of fat and full under- and over- coats of fur, including fur between the toes.

On the really cold days they just stay in the shed and cuddle together in box stuffed with hay.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:44:22am

I guess that house full of GOP fundies is out of rooms to let.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:46:15am

re: #270 KGxvi

Right but they said congressional office. Or is this like a vampire defense thing, I throw a bed in the back room and now it’s a home rather than an office?

From the article I’m getting the impression it’s a living suite—a Speaker perk as opposed to the nasty office-crashing Ryan is noted for.

Note the structure of a lot of laws excludes government facilities and its personnel—OSHA, EPA provisions, etc. They are then applied as practical by the dread Executive Orders.

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b_sharp  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:46:53am

re: #273 Feline Fearless Leader

Switch over to mice and voles I bet.

My brother’s “shed” cats that live outdoors year-round in northwestern New York state go into eskimo-mode during the winter. Put on an extra layer of fat and full under- and over- coats of fur, including fur between the toes.

On the really cold days they just stay in the shed and cuddle together in box stuffed with hay.

Yes, the cats start killing mice in the winter.

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KGxvi  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:47:11am

re: #271 Whack-A-Mole

The Chargers old powder blue jerseys are probably the best of the throwbacks in football. The NBA has a few that are good. They are mostly ABA jerseys - the Memphis Grizzlies are going to wear the Memphis Sounds jerseys this year - those are pretty good

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Decatur Deb  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:48:10am

re: #274 Barefoot Grin

I guess that house full of GOP fundies is out of rooms to let.

Time someone took another look at how that nest is doing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:48:13am

re: #270 KGxvi

Right but they said congressional office. Or is this like a vampire defense thing, I throw a bed in the back room and now it’s a home rather than an office?

Quite a few members of congress live in their offices rather than pay rent elsewhere.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:48:15am

re: #276 b_sharp

Yes, the cats start killing mice in the winter.

Essentially kill mice and chipmunks year-round. And they get subsistence rations from my brother so their hunting is a definite addition to their diet since they eat catch. The one cat also likes hunting birds near the bird feeder, but isn’t very successful at it.

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KGxvi  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:50:25am

re: #272 Kragar

She apparently wasn’t paying much attention in the 90s. When Hillary and Chelsea (in her awkward teenage years) were the target of such attacks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:52:37am

re: #281 KGxvi

She apparently wasn’t paying much attention in the 90s. When Hillary and Chelsea (in her awkward teenage years) were the target of such attacks.

For god’s sake, if it comes out of the mouth of a GOP candidate, then it is the uncontested truth.

If it comes out of the mouths of a CNBC moderator, it is hateful slander.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:52:42am

re: #281 KGxvi

She apparently wasn’t paying much attention in the 90s. When Hillary and Chelsea (in her awkward teenage years) were the target of such attacks.

And still are. “Cankles McCellulite” is Freep’s favorite code for HRC.

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b_sharp  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:52:58am

re: #280 Feline Fearless Leader

Essentially kill mice and chipmunks year-round. And they get subsistence rations from my brother so their hunting is a definite addition to their diet since they eat catch. The one cat also likes hunting birds hear the bird feeder, but isn’t very successful at it.

Although it’s illegal to let your cats out without leashes around here, there are 4 cats who use our yard as a path to their homes. We watch them trundle by carrying their prey and it definitely changes from a mix during the summer to pretty much just mice in the winter.

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Great White Snark  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:53:35am

re: #273 Feline Fearless Leader

Are they cold evolved breeds, like the Maine Coon or just well adapted mixes?

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De Kolta Chair  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:57:52am
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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 1, 2015 • 10:59:21am

re: #285 Great White Snark

Are they cold evolved breeds, like the Maine Coon or just well adapted mixes?

Two domestic short hairs. One was the runt of a litter and is actually a fairly small cat. And a better hunter than the larger one. There was a third cat that disappeared* that was a very good mouser.

* - Probable road casualty since the county road he lives on is sort of busy. Plus the cats mouse hunt in the ditches, or cross it to visit the neighbors who have barns and their own cat populations.

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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2015 • 11:02:06am

re: #281 KGxvi

She apparently wasn’t paying much attention in the 90s. When Hillary and Chelsea (in her awkward teenage years) were the target of such attacks.

I believe it was noted “journalist” Limbaugh who joked that Janet Reno was Chelsea’s father.

Now I actually find myself warming to the idea of Rush as a debate moderator, if only to watch him give Carly shit for being a woman who’s looking to do anything but make him a sandwich.

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lizardofid  Nov 1, 2015 • 11:02:21am

Going to join the family outside, I hope everyone enjoys the remainder of the day.

~Steven


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