Ben Carson Thinks Hamas Is a Delicious Spread Made From Mashed Chickpeas

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Ben Carson accuses President Obama of not understanding the Middle East, then goes in front of the Republican Jewish Coalition and pronounces “Hamas” as “hummus” — over and over. You can’t write comedy like this.

Even Ari Flesicher had to wince at this one.

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1
Testy Toad T  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:42:09pm

Can’t. Stop. Laughing.

2
Great White Snark  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:42:33pm

Brain surgeons must never again practice on themselves.

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Teukka  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:42:49pm

Now, imagine if Hamas had an official recpipe for hummus. *ducks*

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:42:55pm
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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:43:01pm

It sounds like he got it right at the end.

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:43:04pm

Brought to you by chickpea brain surgeon.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:44:49pm

Once I gave a speech in which I kept pronouncing it “aparTHeid”. But it was to the local Rotary, and I was fourteen years old.

Can’t stop laughing. Jesus, do we ever deserve this guy.

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nines09  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:44:59pm

Hamas is particularly good on toasted PLO bread.

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blueraven  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:45:02pm

re: #6 Nyet

Brought to you by chickpea brain surgeon.

Dr. Garbanzo

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:45:16pm

Santorum just called what’s happening in the Middle East “a holy war”.

O_o

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unproven innocence  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:45:35pm

It’s his 57 states moment, so cut him some slack.

Oh, he hasn’t been sleep-deprived for several days? Nevermind.

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:46:17pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

Santorum just called what’s happening in the Middle East “a holy war”.

O_o

Dunno about that, but Sant*rum is literally holy shit.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:46:19pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

Boldly marching us back to the Middle Ages. If that’s when you want to go, accept no half measures. Frothy Mix 2016!

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Targetpractice  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:46:34pm

And to think, without the Paris attack, he’d probably still be leading the pack.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:47:08pm

re: #13 Testy Toad T

Boldly marching us back to the Middle Ages. If that’s when you want to go, accept no half measures. Frothy Mix 2016!

Frothy: 21st century BC values for the 21st century.

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nines09  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:47:38pm

Falafel Fatah is great with baba ganoush.

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ObserverArt  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:48:39pm

Rick Santorum for President in 2020!

Might as well get started now Ricky.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:48:41pm

re: #14 Targetpractice

And to think, without the Paris attack, he’d probably still be leading the pack.

I think Carson was a literal repeat of the 2012 boom-bust candidates, same as Fiorina was. If it wasn’t one thing, it’d have been another. That’s why so many alleged Serious Candidates are still running with that season’s blueprint.

Trump’s the only new ogre of the beastiary.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:48:41pm

re: #2 Great White Snark

Brain surgeons must never again practice on themselves.

Ben Carson would have made a great Warhammer 40K Ork Painboy:

Grotsnik saw the mob of Orks waiting outside his tent as great new opportunity to explore the wonders of the Ork mind — and to ensure his own position within the WAAAGH! Unbeknownst to the recipients of the new skulls, embedded within each cranium was a device that exploded when triggered. Grotsnik kept a wireless remote for each Nob that received the surgery, and if he offended Grotsnik, that Nob would often come down at the end of a long day with an unfortunate case of exploding head. Eventually, the Nobs caught on to Grotsnik’s scheme, and planned a scheme of their own. One night, Grotsnik was called to repair a disabled Deff Dread. When he arrived, the Dread sprang to life, pinning him down whilst the Nobs that had been recent customers of Grotsnik gathered close and laughed. The Deff Dread powered up its buzz saw and cut into Grotsnik’s head. The Nobs left him there, broken and bleeding. Later that night, Grotsnik’s Gretchin “nurses” brought their master back to his operating room. They began to operate on Grotsnik in an attempt to revive him. During the night, one Grot vomited into Grotsnik’s open head and later, a spider crawled into a warm wet place: Grotsnik’s head. Grotsnik died several times that night, but was brought back to life with an inventive use of a Grot-prod by his Gretchin. When Grotsnik awoke, he was utterly, absolutely, and completely mad.He set out into the Ork camp, cackling with glee that was punctuated by the heads of the tribe’s top Nobs exploding. Since then, Grotsnik has been a practitioner of the most hare-brained and dangerous surgeries, the most infamous being the “squig brain transfer” which has spread like wildfire to the other Ork Painboyz because of its popularity. Grotsnik has cut off many of his own limbs “just to keep his hand in”, replacing them with grafts from other patients.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:49:45pm

re: #1 Testy Toad T

Can’t. Stop. Laughing.

OMG, seconded. “…hummus rules the Gaza Strip.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:49:56pm

Santorum says the US has already taken in 70% of the world’s refugees, and Obama caused the Syrian refugee problem to “make us feel bad”.

OK, I’m fixing myself a drink…

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:50:01pm

He certainly won’t be currying any favor with that performance.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:50:02pm

My God, that sounds like a damn report/presentation done by a high school student.

Gotta love how he never looks up from the paper he’s reading from.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:51:28pm
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Kragar  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:51:39pm

re: #7 Testy Toad T

Once I gave a speech in which I kept pronouncing it “aparTHeid”. But it was to the local Rotary, and I was fourteen years old.

Can’t stop laughing. Jesus, do we ever deserve this guy.

The day I got promoted to Sgt, I ended up getting promoted at a Platoon formation. My best friend volunteered to read to the promotion warrant while the SSgt pinned on my new rank. Everything was going smoothly, until my buddy started. He deliberately pronounced the P in Corps every time it was in the warrant. The SSgt was pissed the first time, but by the end, the entire Platoon was snickering and everyone was struggling to keep a straight face. Yeah, he got taken aside afterwards, but it was funny as shit.

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blueraven  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:51:44pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

Santorum says the US has already taken in 70% of the world’s refugees, and Obama caused the Syrian refugee problem to “makes us feel bad”.

OK, I’m fixing myself a drink…

5 o’clock: it’s close enough!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:52:32pm

re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Humus?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:52:41pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

Santorum says the US has already taken in 70% of the world’s refugees, and Obama caused the Syrian refugee problem to “make us feel bad”.

OK, I’m fixing myself a drink…

Just say no, Rick, didn’t Nancy Reagan teach you anything

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nines09  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:53:20pm

re: #23 Timothy Watson

My God, that sounds like a damn report/presentation done by a high school student.

Gotta love how he never looks up from the paper he’s reading from.

He was cramming for this chance….Maybe even an Adderall or 3 late last night? Looks like he’s crashing.

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:53:24pm

re: #22 UrbanAchiever

He certainly won’t be currying any favor with that performance.

I feel pita for him.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:53:34pm

re: #23 Timothy Watson

My God, that sounds like a damn report/presentation done by a high school student.

Gotta love how he never looks up from the paper he’s reading from.

That’s how I viewed it too. That’s fine if you’re in high school not if you’re running for the PResident of the Untied States though.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:53:42pm

re: #25 Kragar

The day I got promoted to Sgt, I ended up getting promoted at a Platoon formation. My best friend volunteered to read to the promotion warrant while the SSgt pinned on my new rank. Everything was going smoothly, until my buddy started. He deliberately pronounced the P in Corps every time it was in the warrant. The SSgt was pissed the first time, but by the end, the entire Platoon was snickering and everyone was struggling to keep a straight face. Yeah, he got taken aside afterwards, but it was funny as shit.

Sounds like an ork. :)

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No Depression  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:54:42pm

Garlic Hamas would be a great name for a band.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:54:52pm

re: #30 Nyet

I feel pita for him.

Na(an). ;)

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CuriousLurker  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:55:08pm

re: #20 CuriousLurker

OMG, seconded. “…hummus rules the Gaza Strip.”

Oh man, to be a fly on the wall when Arabs hear this. I can just picture them looking at each other like, “WTF? Did he say just hummus?” Then ROFL. The jokes are gonna be endless.

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blueraven  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:55:09pm

Oh Lord, this poor guy.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:55:47pm

re: #36 blueraven

Oh Lord, this poor guy.

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Poor guy.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:55:47pm

He really garbanzoed that speech.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:56:13pm
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Testy Toad T  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:56:19pm

re: #36 blueraven

Oh Lord, this poor guy.

Thanks for vulturing, LA Times. Get those clicks.

Jesus.

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:56:20pm

re: #34 HappyWarrior

Na(an). ;)

Right, no pita or you’ll have fattush.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:56:21pm

Apparently, some people are complaining on Twitter about The Wiz being all-black, because there would be outrage if anyone made an all-white version.

Really.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:56:23pm

Santorum blames the Paris attack on Snowden and calls him a traitor.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:56:28pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

He really garbanzoed that speech.

Ha, I see what you did there.

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Teukka  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:58:08pm

re: #39 De Kolta Chair

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He’s so busted…

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:58:38pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

He really garbanzoed that speech.

Hey! Leave Bean Carson alone!

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Teukka  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:59:11pm

In local news, a water main broke in Solna NW of Stockholm today:
svt.se

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blueraven  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:59:19pm

re: #40 Testy Toad T

Thanks for vulturing, LA Times. Get those clicks.

Jesus.

Actually, the victims should be a big part of the focus for now. It is all about lost, or devastated lives. That is the consequence of massive gun violence no matter what the motive.

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TedStriker  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:59:31pm

re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White

Apparently, some people are complaining on Twitter about The Wiz being all-black, because there would be outrage if anyone made an all-white version.

Really.

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 1:59:57pm

re: #46 Blind Frog Belly White

Hey! Leave Bean Carson alone!

Don’t shwarm him!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:00:36pm

re: #49 TedStriker

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Inorite?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:01:04pm

re: #49 TedStriker

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Nd what’s with this Negro League they used to have. They never let any whites in that either.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:01:04pm

re: #39 De Kolta Chair

Dick Cheney bust unveiled at Capitol

When Dick Cheney dies I’m going to spit on his grave. For his stances on the IRAQ war and gun control. I’ve done playing nice.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:01:14pm

re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White

Apparently, some people are complaining on Twitter about The Wiz being all-black, because there would be outrage if anyone made an all-white version.

Really.

I haven’t even opened Tweetdeck today. Prolly not gonna, need to give it a rest.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:01:19pm

re: #50 Nyet

Don’t shwarm him!

It was only a tahini mistake!

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Kragar  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:01:42pm

re: #39 De Kolta Chair

Why is Dick Cheney standing next to a Billy Bob Thornton statue?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:01:43pm

re: #55 Blind Frog Belly White

It was only a tahini mistake!

You win.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:02:29pm

re: #54 CuriousLurker

I haven’t even opened Tweetdeck today. Prolly not gonna, need to give it a rest.

This is why I don’t do Zee Twitterz, because it seems like the comments section of every Yahoo news article ever.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:03:03pm

re: #56 Kragar

Why is Dick Cheney standing next to a Billy Bob Thornton statue?

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Maybe he likes them french fried taters mmmmmm.

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Lidane  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:03:24pm

re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White

Apparently, some people are complaining on Twitter about The Wiz being all-black, because there would be outrage if anyone made an all-white version.

Really.

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Kragar  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:03:26pm

re: #55 Blind Frog Belly White

It was only a tahini mistake!

I think we need to tabouli this discussion for now

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:04:14pm

This also happened in Ben’s speech:

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:04:59pm

re: #61 Kragar

I think we need to tabouli this discussion for now

Yeah. Ganoush is ganoush.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:05:27pm

re: #58 Blind Frog Belly White

This is why I don’t do Zee Twitterz, because it seems like the comments section of every Yahoo news article ever.

I’ve built up a large enough block list to keep out most of the really ugly stuff, but when something like this happens the floodgates open and it’s like:

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CuriousLurker  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:07:15pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

This also happened in Ben’s speech:

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*facepalm*

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:07:19pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

Santorum says the US has already taken in 70% of the world’s refugees, and Obama caused the Syrian refugee problem to “make us feel bad”.

OK, I’m fixing myself a drink…

If it’s this, I’ll gladly join you.

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Great White Snark  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:07:36pm

Next up pita instead of PETA on animal rights. Tahini instead of Tahiti. Mutabal for mutable.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:07:37pm

On the topic of yesterday’s mass shooting, by the way: One of my friendly Facebook wingnuts seriously tried to claim that because a bomb is a simple device to obtain and use, guns aren’t the problem. No, I don’t get it either, but that’s seriously what she said.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:07:40pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

One-dollar-bills are for little people. I bet The Donald doesn’t know what a one looks like either. His wallet is yuuuuuuuuuge! It’s rich, it’s successful, it’s not a little girly wallet like Hillary’s!

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Charles Johnson  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:08:35pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yikes. And if you Google that, you get served a heaping helping of antisemitic websites.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:08:53pm

Carly speaking now:

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:08:55pm

re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White

Apparently, some people are complaining on Twitter about The Wiz being all-black, because there would be outrage if anyone made an all-white version.

Really.

Apparently, some people are intensely stupid.

*sigh*

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:09:13pm

re: #66 Dr Lizardo

If it’s this, I’ll gladly join you.

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I got this on board. Can’t always be a good Irishman.

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Kragar  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:09:28pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:09:32pm

re: #66 Dr Lizardo

If it’s this, I’ll gladly join you.

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I was having a glass of Laphroaig one evening, and the Younger Boy walks into the room, wrinkles his nose, and asks who left the top off a Magic Marker.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:09:33pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

This also happened in Ben’s speech:

I’ll bet real money that all of Carson’s bookmarks are links to conspiracy sites.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:10:08pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

Carly speaking now:

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That’s just sad.

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Testy Toad T  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:10:14pm

re: #74 Kragar

I mean, he didn’t say correctly identify.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:10:34pm

re: #73 HappyWarrior

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I got this on board. Can’t always be a good Irishman.

I’m looking to start keeping a stock of good Scotch on hand. I’ve been enjoying mixing drinks with the cheaper stuff, but sometimes a guy just needs a good sipping whiskey.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:10:46pm

re: #74 Kragar

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Booyah. Really shut the fuck up Huckabee.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:11:02pm

re: #73 HappyWarrior

Image: 1513.jpg
I got this on board. Can’t always be a good Irishman.

Slivovice!! It’ll cure what ails you!

Seriously, Czechs swear by it as some kind of cure-all. If you listen to them sing the praises of it, it’d probably cure ebola.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:11:02pm

re: #67 Great White Snark

Next up pita instead of PETA on animal rights. Tahini instead of Tahiti. Mutabal for mutable.

“And then it’s off to Haiti!”

“Not Haiti. TAHITI!”

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Belafon  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:11:05pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

Carly speaking now:

Number of people dead from pipe bombs yesterday: 0.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:11:25pm

re: #82 Blind Frog Belly White

“And then it’s off to Haiti!”

“Not Haiti. TAHITI!”

It’s a magical place.

/Too subtle?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:11:35pm

re: #79 thedopefishlives

I’m looking to start keeping a stock of good Scotch on hand. I’ve been enjoying mixing drinks with the cheaper stuff, but sometimes a guy just needs a good sipping whiskey.

I do need some good Irish whiskey in time for April 24.

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nines09  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:11:53pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe the Kochs can hire Carly to drive a few of their resources into a bridge abutment?

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Kragar  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:12:15pm

re: #84 thedopefishlives

It’s a magical place.

/Too subtle?

It sucked

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:12:24pm

re: #85 HappyWarrior

I do need some good Irish whiskey in time for April 24.

Some of that would go well with my mixed Scotch-Irish heritage, too.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:12:24pm

A Petition For Stronger Gun Laws

Ed — A Petition For Stronger Gun Laws

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:12:41pm

re: #79 thedopefishlives

I’m looking to start keeping a stock of good Scotch on hand. I’ve been enjoying mixing drinks with the cheaper stuff, but sometimes a guy just needs a good sipping whiskey.

mr. klys is a big fan of the peaty, smoky stuff from the Islay area.

There’s a great Scotch store up in SF. I might go up before Christmas to try and get a present.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:12:43pm

re: #81 Dr Lizardo

Slivovice!! It’ll cure what ails you!

Seriously, Czechs swear by it as some kind of cure-all. If you listen to them sing the praises of it, it’d probably cure ebola.

The people in the former Yugoslavia love it too. Teh particular brand I bought is Croatian. My mom’s dad swears his dad bmade his own during prohibition.

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:13:17pm

re: #66 Dr Lizardo

Do they still give you a square foot of land with every bottle you buy? I gave a friend of mine a bottle for Christmas once and I seem to remember the packaging said every bottle gets you a little piece of land in Scotland.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:13:30pm

re: #88 thedopefishlives

Some of that would go well with my mixed Scotch-Irish heritage, too.

YEah we can only celebrate the Easter Rising centennial once. I’m going ot be wanting to be in Dublin really bad that day.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:13:58pm

re: #75 Blind Frog Belly White

I was having a glass of Laphroaig one evening, and the Younger Boy walks into the room, wrinkles his nose, and asks who left the top off a Magic Marker.

Laphroaig is my favorite.

And I know…..I’m not supposed to drink being a Muslim and all. But honestly, whiskey really does have health benefits, provided you don’t overdo it.

I brought a bottle of Laphroaig to a Christmas party I was invited to last year (and it’s not easy to find here) and one of my students was all like, “It tastes like Scotland! In a bottle!!”

As my personal preference, Laphroaig is my #1. Followed by Glenfiddich 12 year old.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:13:59pm

re: #36 blueraven

He was on one of the newscasts last night, when he thought his boyfriend was alive and they were trying to narrow down which hospital he was at.

Just heartbreaking. :(

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Kragar  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:14:50pm
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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:15:17pm

re: #90 klys (maker of Silmarils)

mr. klys is a big fan of the peaty, smoky stuff from the Islay area.

There’s a great Scotch store up in SF. I might go up before Christmas to try and get a present.

I might have to try some varieties. The only true Scotch I’ve ever had was a glass of The Macallan for my birthday a couple of months ago. Which was the best glass of whiskey I’ve ever had, for sure, but I might need to try some variety before I settle on something I’d keep in stock.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:15:27pm

re: #94 Dr Lizardo

mr. klys’s favorite mixed drink is one part Laphroaig, one part Campari, and one part Chartreuse.

It smells like old tennis shoes.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:15:29pm

re: #92 UrbanAchiever

Do they still give you a square foot of land with every bottle you buy? I gave a friend of mine a bottle for Christmas once and I seem to remember the packaging said every bottle gets you a little piece of land in Scotland.

That I don’t know. But it sounds great!

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:15:46pm

re: #82 Blind Frog Belly White

“And then it’s off to Haiti!”

“Not Haiti. TAHITI!”

“Tahini? Don’t mind if I do!”

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:16:09pm

re: #99 Dr Lizardo

I thought it was neat! We kept joking about when we were gonna go visit his land.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:16:32pm

re: #97 thedopefishlives

I might have to try some varieties. The only true Scotch I’ve ever had was a glass of The Macallan for my birthday a couple of months ago. Which was the best glass of whiskey I’ve ever had, for sure, but I might need to try some variety before I settle on something I’d keep in stock.

I am not responsible for what results from a visit to this website.

(Still drooling over their gin advent calendar from last year.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:16:47pm

re: #90 klys (maker of Silmarils)

mr. klys is a big fan of the peaty, smoky stuff from the Islay area.

There’s a great Scotch store up in SF. I might go up before Christmas to try and get a present.

mr. klys should like Cardhu from Moray Speyside. I love it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:16:53pm

re: #97 thedopefishlives

I might have to try some varieties. The only true Scotch I’ve ever had was a glass of The Macallan for my birthday a couple of months ago. Which was the best glass of whiskey I’ve ever had, for sure, but I might need to try some variety before I settle on something I’d keep in stock.

Years ago I had a Minion who bought me a nice bottle of single malt whisky every year. I only wish I had a job for her here, especially at Christmas….

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:17:01pm

re: #91 HappyWarrior

The people in the former Yugoslavia love it too. Teh particular brand I bought is Croatian. My mom’s dad swears his dad bmade his own during prohibition.

Almost every one of my students brews their own.

One of them was telling me yesterday how when he was born, his father buried five bottles of homebrew in the backyard in a wooden box. When he turned 25, his dad gave him a shovel and a map, and now he’s the proud owner of five 25 year-old bottles of slivovice.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:17:03pm

re: #93 HappyWarrior

YEah we can only celebrate the Easter Rising centennial once. I’m going ot be wanting to be in Dublin really bad that day.

I have been invited to be in a re-enactment of the Easter Uprising. I looked in to getting the necessary clothing…ouch.

Mens blue cotton workshirt with no pockets. Do you know how difficult that is to find? Hats are no problem, but period footware… not so good. I found at least one website that deals in early 20th century period clothing for America, but some of that does not translate well to 1916 Ireland.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:17:20pm

re: #102 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am not responsible for what results from a visit to this website.

(Still drooling over their gin advent calendar from last year.)

Mrs. Fish found a local whiskey store that she demands I attend with her. Last time we were in the area, it was Sunday. Stupid liquor laws.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:17:43pm

re: #97 thedopefishlives

I might have to try some varieties. The only true Scotch I’ve ever had was a glass of The Macallan for my birthday a couple of months ago. Which was the best glass of whiskey I’ve ever had, for sure, but I might need to try some variety before I settle on something I’d keep in stock.

There are plenty of affordable good single malts out there. Explore and enjoy.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:18:50pm

Dammit, I forgot to take out the trash and now it’s dark already. Grr…

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:19:15pm

re: #109 CuriousLurker

Dammit, I forgot to take out the trash and now it’s dark already. Grr…

You on the east coast? Getting dark here in NC.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:19:26pm

re: #109 CuriousLurker

Dammit, I forgot to take out the trash and now it’s dark already. Grr…

mr. klys failed to close the door to the freezer all the way last night. I have to throw it all out.

/sigh

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CuriousLurker  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:19:40pm

re: #110 Aunty Entity Dragon

You on the east coast? Getting dark here in NC.

Yep, Jersey.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:19:43pm

re: #106 Aunty Entity Dragon

I have been invited to be in a re-enactment of the Easter Uprising. I looked i to getting the necessary clothing…ouch.

Mens blue cotton workshirt with no pockets. Do you know how difficult that is to find? Hats are no problem, but period footware… not so good. I found at least one website that deals in early 20th century period clothing for America, but some of that does not translate well to 1916 Ireland.

No idea sorry, I’ev never reenacted before but that sounds fun. You know, it’s funny I’ve connected my Irish roots to all corners of the isle- Mayo, Galway, Down, Cork but no Dubliners that I know of.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:20:27pm

re: #111 klys (maker of Silmarils)

mr. klys failed to close the door to the freezer all the way last night. I have to throw it all out.

/sigh

Oh man, bummer. Hope it wasn’t too much food.

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Kragar  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:20:29pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:20:52pm

re: #81 Dr Lizardo

When I used to drink, I used to use this as a cureall.

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blueraven  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:20:53pm
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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:20:57pm

re: #105 Dr Lizardo

Almost every one of my students brews their own.

One of them was telling me yesterday how when he was born, his father buried five bottles of homebrew in the backyard in a wooden box. When he turned 25, his dad gave him a shovel and a map, and now he’s the proud owner of five 25 year-old bottles of slivovice.

Cool. So yeah then wouldn’t surprise me if my GPa was right about his Dad.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:21:01pm

re: #104 Blind Frog Belly White

Years ago I had a Minion who bought me a nice bottle of single malt whisky every year. I only wish I had a job for here, especially at Christmas….

A former cow-orker of mine had bottles of Scotch delivered from friends of his in Scotland directly to the office, almost like a “Scotch of the month club”. Apparently, he had a habit of collecting the deliveries - sometimes early in the morning - then excitedly calling together the rest of the cow-orkers to sample the product.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:21:39pm

re: #117 blueraven

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I think he’s mad because Michael Scott fired him.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:21:49pm

re: #57 I Would Prefer Not To

You win.

Don’t be such a pita.

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TedStriker  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:22:14pm

re: #53 I Would Prefer Not To

When Dick Cheney dies I’m going to spit on his grave. For his stances on the IRAQ war and gun control. I’ve done playing nice.

Myself, I’d make a pilgrimage just to piss on his grave, but he’ll probably put in his will that a security team from Blackwater/Xi/whatever the fuck they’re named now is to guard his burial site in perpetuity.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:22:29pm

re: #114 CuriousLurker

Oh man, bummer. Hope it wasn’t too much food.

Not as much as it could have been, because we were at the tail end of the cycle for our frozen weight loss stuff (next delivery comes tomorrow) but the top drawer is a total loss.

I’m putting it off and staring at cell phones instead, because the time has come to upgrade mine and there’s two really good candidates but no clear winner.

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blueraven  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:22:55pm

re: #120 HappyWarrior

I think he’s mad because Michael Scott fired him.

there

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:23:29pm

re: #119 thedopefishlives

Thursdays features beer:30 at the office for mr. klys.

HR doesn’t approve terribly but hasn’t cracked down hard yet.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:23:45pm

re: #116 Eric The Fruit Bat

When I used to drink, I used to use this as a cureall.

Looks good.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:24:11pm

re: #124 blueraven

there

Nah, I am making a gag about him looking like Rainn Wilson.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:24:47pm

re: #125 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Thursdays features beer:30 at the office for mr. klys.

HR doesn’t approve terribly but hasn’t cracked down hard yet.

My cow-orkers are all heavy drinkers. Up until recently, I was a teetotaler. I haven’t really gotten into drinking around the cow-orkers, but it is encouraged, even during work hours. We have an open bar at the office and everything.

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Belafon  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:25:18pm

re: #125 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Thursdays features beer:30 at the office for mr. klys.

HR doesn’t approve terribly but hasn’t cracked down hard yet.

The physics department at my first attempt at college had beer Friday for the professors. This was also the physics department that had its own English and Music classes

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:25:30pm

re: #128 thedopefishlives

My cow-orkers are all heavy drinkers. Up until recently, I was a teetotaler. I haven’t really gotten into drinking around the cow-orkers, but it is encouraged, even during work hours. We have an open bar at the office and everything.

You work in tech, I am not surprised.

The HR side-eye is what’s surprising here.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:25:36pm

re: #113 HappyWarrior

No idea sorry, I’ev never reenacted before but that sounds fun. You know, it’s funny I’ve connected my Irish roots to all corners of the isle- Mayo, Galway, Down, Cork but no Dubliners that I know of.

I looked a LOT into trying to document the weapons the IRA had on hand in 1916. (re-eancting gets serious about this sort of thing) Almost no scholarship seems to have been done on this. Some obsolete German rifles and whatever they could buy from Brit soldiers on the black market seems to be norm, along with unnamed shotguns of various sorts that were modified to take improvised bayonets. I imagine they had some American Winchesters or Marlins, but I can’t prove it. The rifles I have on hand I could even think of using are a lever action Marlin or a 1917 Eddystone Enfield (which is, of course, a year later model than the action we are looking at)

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:25:37pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

OK, I’m fixing myself a drink…

I’d join you, but…

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:25:44pm

re: #128 thedopefishlives

I gave up drininking. Made me shoot at tax collectors.

And miss.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:25:59pm

re: #128 thedopefishlives

My cow-orkers are all heavy drinkers. Up until recently, I was a teetotaler. I haven’t really gotten into drinking around the cow-orkers, but it is encouraged, even during work hours. We have an open bar at the office and everything.

There was a small time brewery near where I had my temp assignment today. Gotta come back and do that tour one day. We have a distillery in town too.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:26:11pm

re: #129 Belafon

The physics department at my first attempt at college had beer Friday for the professors. This was also the physics department that had its own English and Music classes

The big geology conference in SF every year has happy hour at 3:30. Beer is dispensed.

The poster hall gets a lot more crowded then.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:26:35pm

re: #118 HappyWarrior

Cool. So yeah then wouldn’t surprise me if my GPa was right about his Dad.

Another one of students had the same experience; it’s something of a tradition here, I guess. She opened one bottle when she was 20, another when she was 30, she’ll open another one she’s 40, etc.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:26:46pm

re: #118 HappyWarrior

I’ve gotta go do some website stuff, but I just remembered a link I saved the other day for you & the other history buffs. Looks very interesting, but I haven’t read my WWI book yet and don’t know all the players, so it’s sorta meaningless to me right now:

A scandal of international proportions comes out of the vaults
The real-life WWI political intricacies of Sir Basil Zaharoff — a man once known as ‘the wickedest man in Europe’ — are the stuff of Hollywood legend

LONDON — The British National Archives file marked as CAB301/116 looks innocuous enough at first glance. But within its ordinary cardboard cover lies a torrid story, the tale of a man once known as “the Merchant of Death,” who was called “the wickedest man in Europe.”

The file, found among the Cabinet papers of 1952 and released this month, relates to a tin box of documents which are so toxic that neither the Cabinet Office nor the Foreign Office wanted to keep them - though they knew they could not risk them becoming public. [….]

timesofisrael.com

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:27:08pm

re: #115 Kragar

Washington Times -> bag of salt

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:27:11pm

re: #39 De Kolta Chair

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Couldn’t they have just borrowed that Darth Vader one from Ukraine?

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:29:24pm

re: #130 klys (maker of Silmarils)

You work in tech, I am not surprised.

The HR side-eye is what’s surprising here.

It helps working at a small company. We have 12 employees. Our HR department consists of whichever of the managing partners decides he wants to chew your ass out that particular day.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:29:55pm

re: #131 Aunty Entity Dragon

I looked a LOT into trying to document the weapons the IRA had on hand in 1916. (re-eancting gets serious about this sort of thing) Almost no scholarship seems to have been done on this. Some obsolete German rifles and whatever they could buy from Brit soldiers on the black market seems to be norm, along with unnamed shotguns of various sorts that were modified to take improvised bayonets. I imagine they had some American Winchesters or Marlins, but I can’t prove it. The rifles I have on hand I could even think of using are a lever action Marlin or a 1917 Eddystone Enfield (which is, of course, a year later model than the action we are looking at)

I wouldn’t be surprised if some had American weapons given the role of the ex-pats helping out. Speaking of this though, I went on a really coool tour of the Rising when I was last in Dublin. there’s still bulletholes in the GPO! The guide was really cool too. We made smal talk afterwards at teh pub where the group had met and I just had to show him my Irish Brigade tatoo. He loved it. But yeah reenacting really does involve a lot of accuracy. One of my friends in elementary school reenacted for years and I think he stlil does.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:30:13pm

re: #136 Dr Lizardo

Another one of students had the same experience; it’s something of a tradition here, I guess. She opened one bottle when she was 20, another when she was 30, she’ll open another one she’s 40, etc.

I like that.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:30:43pm

re: #139 Barefoot Grin

Couldn’t they have just borrowed that Darth Vader one from Ukraine?

The GOP wouldn’t want to offend their hero Vladimir Vladimirovich.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:31:06pm

re: #140 thedopefishlives

It helps working at a small company. We have 12 employees. Our HR department consists of whichever of the managing partners decides he wants to chew your ass out that particular day.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:31:44pm

re: #137 CuriousLurker

I’ve gotta go do some website stuff, but I just remembered a link I saved the other day for you & the other history buffs. Looks very interesting, but I haven’t read my WWI book yet and don’t know all the players, so it’s sorta meaningless to me right now:

I’ll definitely give that read.

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Teukka  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:31:48pm

Just thinking out loud here, but as to the events in San Bernadino, could the M.O. of the perpetrators have been a ploy not to elicit a heavy law enforcement response by making it look like workplace violence rather than a terrorist act outright?

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Targetpractice  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:32:26pm

re: #96 Kragar

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Nah, Huck is really an Institute synth whose programming has gone haywire.

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:32:27pm

re: #143 De Kolta Chair

The GOP wouldn’t want to offend their hero Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Evrising is okei.

ваш “ПРОСТО ТАК”

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A Mom Anon  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:32:43pm

Man, you guys drink all elite and shit, lol. Me? When I do drink, which isn’t often, it’s shots of bourbon with beer chasers. (yes, I used to hang in biker bars in my misspent youth, thanks for asking) Or, when I’m feeling festive, Prosecco mixed with a splash of fruit juice, usually orange or berry of some kind. I make infused bourbon sometimes, vanilla bean with honey is my current favorite.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:33:06pm

re: #146 Teukka

Just thinking out loud here, but as to the events in San Bernadino, could the M.O. of the perpetrators have been a ploy not to elicit a heavy law enforcement response by making it look like workplace violence rather than a terrorist act outright?

Who knows. I think they had something else planned, and the incident at the party changed everything.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:33:41pm

re: #149 A Mom Anon

Man, you guys drink all elite and shit, lol. Me? When I do drink, which isn’t often, it’s shots of bourbon with beer chasers. (yes, I used to hang in biker bars in my misspent youth, thanks for asking) Or, when I’m feeling festive, Prosecco mixed with a splash of fruit juice, usually orange or berry of some kind. I make infused bourbon sometimes, vanilla bean with honey is my current favorite.

Nothing wrong with bourbon.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:34:39pm

LOL==>

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:35:15pm

re: #149 A Mom Anon

Man, you guys drink all elite and shit, lol. Me? When I do drink, which isn’t often, it’s shots of bourbon with beer chasers. (yes, I used to hang in biker bars in my misspent youth, thanks for asking) Or, when I’m feeling festive, Prosecco mixed with a splash of fruit juice, usually orange or berry of some kind. I make infused bourbon sometimes, vanilla bean with honey is my current favorite.

The only thing I do fancy and care about are my gin and tonics, but as they don’t help with losing weight I’m not having them often. Or anything else often, really.

Spiced rum and diet Coke. We are members of a sparkling wine club (look I had 3 mimosas when we signed up and that shit was good) and so occasionally there are mimosas made with grapefruit juice. Sometimes a grapefruit juice and vodka.

mr. klys does Scotch and beer. And mai tais.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:35:18pm

Dennis from It’s Always Sunny sums up my opinion on one distilled drink ehre.
Goddamn I hate gin… Dee you bitch! - The Anti-Social Network

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:35:36pm

re: #131 Aunty Entity Dragon

I looked a LOT into trying to document the weapons the IRA had on hand in 1916. (re-eancting gets serious about this sort of thing) Almost no scholarship seems to have been done on this. Some obsolete German rifles and whatever they could buy from Brit soldiers on the black market seems to be norm, along with unnamed shotguns of various sorts that were modified to take improvised bayonets. I imagine they had some American Winchesters or Marlins, but I can’t prove it. The rifles I have on hand I could even think of using are a lever action Marlin or a 1917 Eddystone Enfield (which is, of course, a year later model than the action we are looking at)

theirishstory.com

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:35:55pm

re: #152 The Vicious Babushka

LOL==>

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That’s some big talk from a guy who can’t scrabble his way out of single digits in his own party.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:36:06pm

re: #148 Nyet

Evrising is okei.

BBL (the check for the exit fee is in the mail)

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:36:12pm

re: #152 The Vicious Babushka

LOL==>

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Hillary’s saying “Bring it on tough guy.”

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:36:13pm

re: #149 A Mom Anon

Man, you guys drink all elite and shit, lol. Me? When I do drink, which isn’t often, it’s shots of bourbon with beer chasers. (yes, I used to hang in biker bars in my misspent youth, thanks for asking) Or, when I’m feeling festive, Prosecco mixed with a splash of fruit juice, usually orange or berry of some kind. I make infused bourbon sometimes, vanilla bean with honey is my current favorite.

Ha, no. The fanciest I drink is a bottle of white wine I might split with my wife for a romantic evening. Other than that, it’s things like Jack and Coke, or throwing some rum and ice in a blender with strawberry margarita/daiquiri mix, or gin and Sprite.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:36:44pm

re: #159 thedopefishlives

Ha, no. The fanciest I drink is a bottle of white wine I might split with my wife for a romantic evening. Other than that, it’s things like Jack and Coke, or throwing some rum and ice in a blender with strawberry margarita/daiquiri mix, or gin and Sprite.

WHAT IS THIS HERESY

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:36:56pm

this is what i get for daring to point out that christians have, in history, been so violent as to massacre us hebrews from time to time…

The Talmud mandates that Christ is “evil” and is burning in eternal hell. The Talmud teaches that Jews must murder Christians, torment them, blot them out, and otherwise have nothing to do with them because they are “unclean”, lower than animals.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:36:58pm

I like to mix up a little honestly. I guess if I have a go to drink, it’s whiskey with ginger ale and lime.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:37:10pm

re: #160 klys (maker of Silmarils)

WHAT IS THIS HERESY

Poor man’s gin and tonic, with some sweetness.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:37:43pm

Also: Vanilla vodka + Coke = win.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:38:26pm

Hamas

‘hamas’ is the second personal singular present tense of the latin verb ‘hamare’:

hamo
hamas
hamat

hamamus
hamatis
hamant

everybody knows that!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:38:54pm

encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com
This is what I ahd last weekend.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:39:40pm

growler-station.com
Better link.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:39:40pm

re: #163 thedopefishlives

Poor man’s gin and tonic, with some sweetness.

Must convert you to the good tonic water. If you’re only having it occasionally, the cost is justified.

The 365 brand stuff from Whole Foods is good and comes in cans so you don’t waste a bunch. The only thing I like about as much is the fancy-schmancy Mediterranean tonic water from Fever-tree. Both of these are good enough that I will drink it by itself.

Or you could go the soda water + tonic syrup route.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:40:52pm

Some higher-end Mezcals have a smoky flavor reminiscent of scotch. Of course, by spending the extra money you lose the experience of the worm.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:41:32pm

re: #169 Barefoot Grin

Some higher-end Mezcals have a smoky flavor reminiscent of scotch. Of course, by spending the extra money you lose the experience of the worm.

And what has the worm experienced?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:41:37pm

I was informed today this was not my Christmas present.

To be honest I’d probably try it once and then keep the bottle on display.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:42:12pm

re: #171 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I was informed today this was not my Christmas present.

To be honest I’d probably try it once and then keep the bottle on display.

That’s a cool litlte bottle.

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De Kolta Chair  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:43:23pm

A few weeks ago, friends brought us a bottle of almond tequila (Crema de Almendrado Orendain) from Mexico for pooch-sitting that’s not distributed here in the States. Might open it tonight when I get home. Cool label and it’s a bit nippy out.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:47:36pm

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I am not a huge vodka guy but I like this. I brought it to a party once and got some eyebrows raised but everyone by the end of the night agreed it was good stuff.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:47:45pm

re: #159 thedopefishlives

Ha, no. The fanciest I drink is a bottle of white wine I might split with my wife for a romantic evening. Other than that, it’s things like Jack and Coke, or throwing some rum and ice in a blender with strawberry margarita/daiquiri mix, or gin and Sprite.

For me, the zenith of masculine decadence is a Cohiba cigar and a small tumbler of Laphroaig (a crystal tumbler, mind you) on a mild summer evening on my balcony, having started my day shaving with a straight-razor and using a genuine boar-bristle shaving brush.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:49:58pm

re: #170 Blind Frog Belly White

And what has the worm experienced?

EVERYTHING.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:50:45pm

re: #170 Blind Frog Belly White

And what has the worm experienced?

The banality of weevil.

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blueraven  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:52:04pm

re: #171 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I was informed today this was not my Christmas present.

To be honest I’d probably try it once and then keep the bottle on display.

I drank Goldschläger once, and when I say once I mean half a bottle (with a friend).
Never again. No more precious metals in my adult beverages. Very pretty and sparkly though!

Which is definitely not how I felt the next day.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:53:24pm

re: #178 blueraven

I drank Goldschläger once, and when I say once I mean half a bottle (with a friend).
Never again. No more precious metals in my adult beverages. Very pretty and sparkly though!

Which is definitely not how I felt the next day.

For some real fun, mix some Goldschläger, Rumpelmintz and Jägermeister.

Drink.

BOOM

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:53:51pm

re: #178 blueraven

I drank Goldschläger once, and when I say once I mean half a bottle (with a friend).
Never again. No more precious metals in my adult beverages. Very pretty and sparkly though!

Which is definitely not how I felt the next day.

Haha.

I had some gold flakes in a very fancy cocktail at a rooftop bar in Japan.

It was very fancy.

Only $35 a night for the hotel though, and it was the biggest room we stayed in that trip by far, up in Hakodate.

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lawhawk  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:55:19pm

You know, the problem isn’t that he can’t pronounce Hamas. It’s that he has absolutely no clue about foreign policy, the Middle East, let alone the Arab-Israeli conflict or the Palestinian/Israeli conflict in particular.

If you think he can’t pronounce Hamas is problematic, consider that he has no clue what to do about Daesh.

Then again, neither does anyone else in the GOP. Oh, they’ll talk about bombing them. Wherever they are (which suggests that they’d be willing to bomb US allies like France, Germany, Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq, as well as any number of other countries where Daesh is known to have factions (or which claims to have factions).

Huckabee claims he could solve the problem in 10 days, not 10 months, or 10 years. That’s some seriously delusional policy.

And that just scratches the surface. The batcrap insanity runs deep.

Heck, let’s take even a softball issue like moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It’s been in Tel Aviv since the US established diplomatic relations. Since Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, every president has demurred in moving it - even if they’ve promised to do so.

As President, they’ve all known that to move it would be more trouble than it’s worth. Clinton didn’t move it. George W. Bush didn’t move it. Obama isn’t moving it. And Jeb Bush’s pandering that he’d move it rings hollow knowing full well his brother didn’t - and for good reason.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:55:55pm

re: #179 Dr Lizardo

For some real fun, mix some Goldschläger, Rumpelmintz and Jägermeister.

Drink.

BOOM

That sounds like a German version of a Car Bomb. I repeat do NOT call it an Irish Car Bomb.

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bratwurst  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:56:35pm

I think Carson should go on with Bill O’Reilly and compare notes on hummus and falafel.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:56:37pm

re: #182 HappyWarrior

That sounds like a German version of a Car Bomb. I repeat do NOT call it an Irish Car Bomb.

I heard it referred to as a Screaming Nazi.

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Teukka  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:57:12pm

The plot thickens…
California massacre victim ranted about Muslims on Facebook
California massacre victim ranted about Muslims on Facebook References to Israel and “Turbanheads” fill his pages. Under “Education,” Thalasinos listed on Facebook, “Studied Conservatism at Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 2:58:29pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:00:14pm
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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:03:41pm

re: #184 Dr Lizardo

I heard it referred to as a Screaming Nazi.

Oh yeah I have heard of that except the version I heard only had Goldy and Jager but no Schnaaps.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:03:53pm

re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth

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OFFS.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:04:41pm

re: #185 Teukka

The plot thickens…
California massacre victim ranted about Muslims on Facebook
California massacre victim ranted about Muslims on Facebook References to Israel and “Turbanheads” fill his pages. Under “Education,” Thalasinos listed on Facebook, “Studied Conservatism at Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies.”

Wow.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:05:06pm

re: #183 bratwurst

I think Carson should go on with Bill O’Reilly and compare notes on hummus and falafel.

I had forgotten about that haha.

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Kent Dorfman  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:06:04pm

re: #133 Eric The Fruit Bat

I gave up drininking. Made me shoot at tax collectors.

And miss.

I gave up drinking too, made me break out in handcuffs.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:06:21pm

re: #181 lawhawk

You know, the problem isn’t that he can’t pronounce Hamas. It’s that he has absolutely no clue about foreign policy, the Middle East, let alone the Arab-Israeli conflict or the Palestinian/Israeli conflict in particular.

If you think he can’t pronounce Hamas is problematic, consider that he has no clue what to do about Daesh.

Then again, neither does anyone else in the GOP. Oh, they’ll talk about bombing them. Wherever they are (which suggests that they’d be willing to bomb US allies like France, Germany, Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq, as well as any number of other countries where Daesh is known to have factions (or which claims to have factions).

Huckabee claims he could solve the problem in 10 days, not 10 months, or 10 years. That’s some seriously delusional policy.

And that just scratches the surface. The batcrap insanity runs deep.

Heck, let’s take even a softball issue like moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It’s been in Tel Aviv since the US established diplomatic relations. Since Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, every president has demurred in moving it - even if they’ve promised to do so.

As President, they’ve all known that to move it would be more trouble than it’s worth. Clinton didn’t move it. George W. Bush didn’t move it. Obama isn’t moving it. And Jeb Bush’s pandering that he’d move it rings hollow knowing full well his brother didn’t - and for good reason.

there’s a distinct possibility that Mr. Original Big Talker trump will have a chance to show how he will destroy daesh by bombing “the shit” out of them and his real estate negotiating skills and stuff

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:06:56pm

re: #183 bratwurst

I think Carson should go on with Bill O’Reilly and compare notes on hummus and falafel.

hep smoke a loofah

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:07:06pm

I’m already hungry. Now I’m DOUBLE hungry. Mmmm delicious terrorist snacks…

By the way, that German term fachidiot is completely correct to describe this man. My (German) mother asked me about Carson, and when I threw out the term she said “Oh!” and understood him immediately.

Good old German, compound words for everything.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:08:58pm

re: #13 Testy Toad T

Boldly marching us back to the Middle Ages. If that’s when you want to go, accept no half measures. Frothy Mix 2016!

Pope Frothus IX declareth KILL THY SOME MUSSULMEN FOR FREEDUMB, VERILY!

…because the last Crusades turned out so fucking well…

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Kent Dorfman  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:10:18pm

Mmmm, steamed mussels in butter and garlic sauce.

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BeachDem  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:11:22pm

re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Even more idiotic:

SC Republicans cry, “Hey, we’re FIRST IN THE SOUTH” and you yahoos in other places are stepping on our toes, so we have to do something stupid to regain the limelight.”

(FYI—Jenny Horne was the only sane Republican during the take down the flag debate drama in the SC House)

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:13:41pm

re: #198 BeachDem

Well this will all be used for good, I’m sure.

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Teukka  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:14:01pm

re: #190 HappyWarrior

Wow.

Yep. Not condoning Syed’s actions, but if this guy had a history of targeting him and his wife… Let’s just say people have been pushed into radicalization for less…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:14:24pm

re: #198 BeachDem

oooh…Confederate purity tests!

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:15:21pm

re: #198 BeachDem

And with that, goodnight, Lizards.

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BeachDem  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:16:38pm

re: #201 Backwoods_Sleuth

oooh…Confederate purity tests!

Bless their hearts. (and their little pointy heads)

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Charles Johnson  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:17:40pm

The always-vile Chuck C. Johnson is still stalking “Jackie,” the woman from that debunked Rolling Stone article. He just posted her wedding pictures at his fucked up blog.

This is just pure malice at this point. There’s no possible defense of this as “journalism.”

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:17:55pm

re: #200 Teukka

Yep. Not condoning Syed’s actions, but if this guy had a history of targeting him and his wife…

It would be irresponsible not to speculate, right?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:18:26pm

US Court of Appeals Ninth District issues order denying CMP motion
PDF here

Enjoy!

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:19:16pm

“Not condoning Syed’s actions, but”

Classic.

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Anymouse  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:21:05pm

Hi, y’all! I’ve been lurking around the edges of LGF for ages, and thought I would sign up and see what’s what.

(That would be lurking in a positive sense, not stalking or something.)

I need the informative information I am informed with here, the biting snark of Wonkette, a rant outlet at Daily Kos, and other such places (considering where I live).

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Jenner7  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:21:47pm

re: #208 Anymouse

Welcome!

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:21:50pm

re: #208 Anymouse

Hi. Got beer?

/

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:22:44pm

re: #198 BeachDem

Even more idiotic:

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SC Republicans cry, “Hey, we’re FIRST IN THE SOUTH” and you yahoos in other places are stepping on our toes, so we have to do something stupid to regain the limelight.”

(FYI—Jenny Horne was the only sane Republican during the take down the flag debate drama in the SC House)

The show your papers theme is spreading.

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Jenner7  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:23:33pm
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UrbanAchiever  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:24:53pm

re: #211 Stanley Sea Toujours

Not sure they thought this through… Do these good ole boys really want to start publicly announcing who their great-great-grandpappy was screwing? They may find out some things they would prefer to keep under wraps.

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Anymouse  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:25:12pm

re: #210 Nyet

No, I don’t have beer. I do have eggnog and 151 rum though… .

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:27:13pm

re: #214 Anymouse

Hardcore. I approve.

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:28:36pm

re: #39 De Kolta Chair

Since when did Cheney look like Eisenhower? Cuz that’s what the bust looks like to me.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:28:46pm

re: #208 Anymouse

Hi, y’all! I’ve been lurking around the edges of LGF for ages, and thought I would sign up and see what’s what.

(That would be lurking in a positive sense, not stalking or something.)

I need the informative information I am informed with here, the biting snark of Wonkette, a rant outlet at Daily Kos, and other such places (considering where I live).

welcome!

we aim to keep our information loaded up with 147 proof informativeness - strong enuf to choke a wingnut

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gocart mozart  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:30:15pm

Related
cc.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:30:17pm

re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth

US Court of Appeals Ninth District issues order denying CMP motion
PDF here

Enjoy!

CMP and Deleiden are in for a world of hurt.

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Anymouse  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:30:42pm

Choke Wingnuts sounds like a good band name.

I figured out how to put some minimal information in my profile here. Reading LGF is a bit different than writing here.

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William Lewis  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:31:43pm

re: #131 Aunty Entity Dragon

A Gewehr 88 or a Lee-Metfield are your best bets for a rifle. Both were smuggled in during that era. Just about any revolver from Europe that predates 1900 is safe as well.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:32:57pm

re: #204 Charles Johnson

The always-vile Chuck C. Johnson is still stalking “Jackie,” the woman from that debunked Rolling Stone article. He just posted her wedding pictures at his fucked up blog.

This is just pure malice at this point. There’s no possible defense of this as “journalism.”

I wonder if she has cause for lawsuit. Probably not, but I would approve-slash-laugh-my-ass-off if Chucksie ended up as part of three lawsuits at the same time.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:33:19pm

re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth

And that means Chucky is too. His fate is tied to this case.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:33:29pm

re: #204 Charles Johnson

The always-vile Chuck C. Johnson is still stalking “Jackie,” the woman from that debunked Rolling Stone article. He just posted her wedding pictures at his fucked up blog.

This is just pure malice at this point. There’s no possible defense of this as “journalism.”

He really is a pathetic little asshole isn’t he?

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:33:59pm

re: #94 Dr Lizardo

My reaction to a good single malt is Klingon.

“It tastes like a kick in the liver. But it’s a wonderful kick in the liver.”

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:34:04pm

re: #222 Pawn of the Oppressor

What’s happening with the lawsuits btw? I’d like to see him (legally) crushed like a bug as soon as possible.

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Tigger2  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:34:08pm

re: #152 The Vicious Babushka

LOL==>

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:34:17pm

re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth

Good news for once!

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:35:05pm

re: #227 Tigger2

…. at Mario Kart.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:36:35pm

re: #212 Jenner7

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Each of the corrections officers also allegedly lied to FBI agents investigating the case.

Always thinking they can get away with it.
Treating lives as disposable.

gah

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:37:31pm

re: #131 Aunty Entity Dragon

I looked a LOT into trying to document the weapons the IRA had on hand in 1916. (re-eancting gets serious about this sort of thing) Almost no scholarship seems to have been done on this. Some obsolete German rifles and whatever they could buy from Brit soldiers on the black market seems to be norm, along with unnamed shotguns of various sorts that were modified to take improvised bayonets. I imagine they had some American Winchesters or Marlins, but I can’t prove it. The rifles I have on hand I could even think of using are a lever action Marlin or a 1917 Eddystone Enfield (which is, of course, a year later model than the action we are looking at)

Would it be far-fetched to see America as a source of arms smuggled into Ireland at that time? Sawed-off shotguns were available through the Sears Roebuck catalog back then. They probably wouldn’t need it because of the war materiel moving around the region - I can imagine a case of Enfields might get “lost” very easily - but there have always been rumors about IRA fundraising and arms trafficking in New England. I wouldn’t be surprised if it went back that far.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:37:38pm

re: #230 Stanley Sea Toujours

Always thinking they can get away with it.
Treating lives as disposable.

gah

All lives matter. // Except when they don’t.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:38:16pm

re: #179 Dr Lizardo

Rumpleminz and Jager 50/50 mix is also known as a Nazi from Hell.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:38:46pm

re: #231 Pawn of the Oppressor

Would it be far-fetched to see America as a source of arms smuggled into Ireland at that time? Sawed-off shotguns were available through the Sears Roebuck catalog back then. They probably wouldn’t need it because of the war materiel moving around the region - I can imagine a case of Enfields might get “lost” very easily - but there have always been rumors about IRA fundraising and arms trafficking in New England. I wouldn’t be surprised if it went back that far.

No, not at all the American expat community played a big role in helping finance paramilitary operations in Ireland. And to be honest I probably would have been happy to help.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:39:30pm

re: #233 Eric The Fruit Bat

Rumpleminz and Jager 50/50 mix is also known as a Nazi from Hell.

It just sounds painful. I don’t mind each of those on their own but man last time I just drank Rumpleminz, I got pretty damn sick.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:39:55pm

re: #233 Eric The Fruit Bat

Rumpleminz and Jager 50/50 mix is also known as a Nazi from Hell.

makes me wonder what real nazis were most likely to drink hard-liquor-wise

schnapps?

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No Depression  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:40:12pm

Kickass Woman:

Missouri State Rep Files Bill to Put Gun Sales Under Exact Same Restrictions as Abortions

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:41:33pm

re: #236 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

makes me wonder what real nazis were most likely to drink hard-liquor-wise

schnapps?

Probably, because vodka would be commie juice. //

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:42:47pm

re: #174 HappyWarrior

Image: FD18BB20.jpg
I am not a huge vodka guy but I like this. I brought it to a party once and got some eyebrows raised but everyone by the end of the night agreed it was good stuff.

I drank that stuff one night and lost an ear (and my car, dude where’s my car?).

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Tigger2  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:43:30pm

Most of the people posting stuff about how great Reagan was are to young to understand just how much of a bad President Reagan was, he was nothing like the fantasy Reagan the Republicans have built up.

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:43:32pm

re: #236 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

makes me wonder what real nazis were most likely to drink hard-liquor-wise

schnapps?

Schwarzbier mit Milch, also known as Shitler.

//

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:44:08pm

re: #234 HappyWarrior

No, not at all the American expat community played a big role in helping finance paramilitary operations in Ireland. And to be honest I probably would have been happy to help.

I’ve only learned recently about the famines of the 1850’s in detail. “Let Them Die” was arguably the unspoken policy and I’ve heard opinions that all those deaths could be called Genocide by Inaction. That’s aside from what was done to those people through land ownership and rental schemes. Then they got here to the U.S., and were demonized by the locals… It’s like the Irish were the Syrians of the late 19th century.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:44:58pm

re: #231 Pawn of the Oppressor

Would it be far-fetched to see America as a source of arms smuggled into Ireland at that time? Sawed-off shotguns were available through the Sears Roebuck catalog back then. They probably wouldn’t need it because of the war materiel moving around the region - I can imagine a case of Enfields might get “lost” very easily - but there have always been rumors about IRA fundraising and arms trafficking in New England. I wouldn’t be surprised if it went back that far.

Even earlier Holland built The Fenian Ram in NY. The Irish have a different appraisal of how far you can fetch.

en.wikipedia.org

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makeitstop  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:45:39pm

re: #159 thedopefishlives

Ha, no. The fanciest I drink is a bottle of white wine I might split with my wife for a romantic evening. Other than that, it’s things like Jack and Coke, or throwing some rum and ice in a blender with strawberry margarita/daiquiri mix, or gin and Sprite.

I’ll have a beer, please. Pilsner, and no domestic fizzy water, please.

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Alephnaught  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:46:57pm

Music Break:

Martyn Bennett - Rant

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Shiplord Kirel  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:46:57pm

America’s most senile sheriff beclowns himself yet again.

Arpaio calls on 250K armed citizens to stop terrorism and mass shootings

Draw your weapons.

That’s what Sheriff Joe Arpaio is urging nearly a quarter-million Arizona gun owners to do to fight terrorism and mass shooters.

On Tuesday, the so-called “Toughest Sheriff in America” said he cannot guarantee the public’s safety and called on them to take matters into their own hands if necessary.

“I’m just talking about the areas where you have large crowds and someone pulls out the gun and starts shooting. Maybe somebody with a concealed weapon takes the guy down,” Arpaio said.

Specifically, Arpaio was looking to the 250,000 Arizonans who carry concealed weapons permits to help keep the peace.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:47:10pm

I thought long and hard about this. The end result always came around to the same result. I don’t ever want to be responsible for a weapon that I own to fall into the wrong hands. I bought this AK after 9/11. Why? Fear. I no longer will be afraid. I don’t need or want this in my house any longer and it will not be used ever again. #BreakYourGun.

Please pass it on

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Anymouse  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:47:46pm

re: #244 makeitstop

I’ll have a beer, please. Pilsner, and no domestic fizzy water, please.

No stale pale ale with the foam on the bottom?

My wife is making chicken with dinner. Does that go with egg nog?

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:47:46pm
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John Vreeland  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:47:53pm

re: #212 Jenner7

Why in hell did she have a bond in the first place? We’ve pretty much eliminated them here in DC. They send you home and give you a reminder call the day before like it was a dentist appointment. $20k? WTF?

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:48:41pm

re: #208 Anymouse

Welcome to LGF.

You get to BBQ the next troll.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:49:16pm

re: #242 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’ve only learned recently about the famines of the 1850’s in detail. “Let Them Die” was arguably the unspoken policy and I’ve heard opinions that all those deaths could be called Genocide by Inaction. That’s aside from what was done to those people through land ownership and rental schemes. Then they got here to the U.S., and were demonized by the locals… It’s like the Irish were the Syrians of the late 19th century.

Yeah it was pretty terrible stuff. They acted like they deserved their fate because their religion was “wrong.” And yeah the cartoons directed at the Irish immigrants here weren’t much better. Tehy were portrayed as violent drunks and animals. It always saddened me that Thomas Nast whose cartoons are why we have the elephant and donkey as our political mascots today could see the horrors and racism of slavery but could not muster sympathy for the Irish fleeing the Famine. Now like wise, I’ve always been saddened that many Irish immigrants could not see the African-Americans as kin in the sense that they were both persecuted by a horrible system. My great great grandfather was born during the Famine. His parents came here when he was pretty young. They were from either Galway or Mayo which were particularly hit hard by the Famine.

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Anymouse  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:50:21pm

re: #251 Romantic Heretic

Welcome to LGF.

You get to BBQ the next troll.

Troll Barbeque sounds like another good band name.

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:50:52pm

re: #245 Alephnaught

Visage - Moon Over Moscow (1980)

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Decatur Deb  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:53:24pm

re: #248 Anymouse

Yunz originally from Da Burgh?

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UrbanAchiever  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:53:49pm

re: #252 HappyWarrior

There was a time when Irish were referred to as “white negroes.” Somehow the powers that were managed combine two racisms to make one giant, horrendous racism!

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Decatur Deb  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:57:54pm

re: #256 UrbanAchiever

There was a time when Irish were referred to as “white negroes.” Somehow the powers that were managed combine two racisms to make one giant, horrendous racism!

We can cope.

The Commitments

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:58:47pm

re: #256 UrbanAchiever

There was a time when Irish were referred to as “white negroes.” Somehow the powers that were managed combine two racisms to make one giant, horrendous racism!

You know… I wasn’t going to say it, but I was thinking it, that America always has to have an N-word. Somebody is always the world’s N* in our eyes. Black people (all the time), indigenous people, Chinese, Irish, women, gays, Syrians… It’s a rotating position.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:58:50pm

re: #256 UrbanAchiever

There was a time when Irish were referred to as “white negroes.” Somehow the powers that were managed combine two racisms to make one giant, horrendous racism!

Yeah I have heard that. I am actually working with an Irish researcher right now. I’m hoping he can find more on my family in the old country but it’s a long shot on count of common surnames and of course time. I always did feel good for my grandmother that she got to visit once in her lifetime as did my grandfather Germany where his father emigrated from.

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Alephnaught  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:58:53pm

re: #254 Nyet

Okay.

John Foxx: ‘Underpass’, Top of the Pops 1980

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 3:59:26pm

re: #177 Barefoot Grin

The banality of weevil.

oh.my.God. That’s HORRIBLE!!!!! I LOVE it!!!!

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Anymouse  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:00:17pm

re: #255 Decatur Deb

Yunz originally from Da Burgh?

Da Burgh? Do you mean Pittsburgh, or some other Burgh?

I am originally from Michigan, a tiny town in the middle of the mitten. I joined the Navy to see the world, got bounced out after seventeen years when I developed epilepsy, bounced around further when my first wife divorced me over that, and landed in Oklahoma where I met my current wife (whew, what a run-on sentence).

I escaped when Mary Fallin was elected governor, and now live amongst the tumbleweeds with my wife on the High Plains.

I was elected in a special election to my village board (surprised even me) in 2012, and was re-elected in 2014 (defeating the gun shop owner in town by four votes).

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:01:25pm

re: #258 Pawn of the Oppressor

You know… I wasn’t going to say it, but I was thinking it, that America always has to have an N-word. Somebody is always the world’s N* in our eyes. Black people (all the time), indigenous people, Chinese, Irish, women, gays, Syrians… It’s a rotating position.

Eastern Europeans (my mom’s side) and Italians had it pretty bad especially the Sicilians. Pretty much every group except White Protestants of a certain type of Protestantism from a certain part of Western Europe have been treated like shit. That’s part of why I empathize. I know that my relatives were damn “krauts”, “hunkies”, “micks”, etc at one my point. Now I am obviously assimilated. Hell last direct ancestor got here about 65 years before my birth so none of my parents or grandparents have accents but i know my grandparents’ parents and grandparents did.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:02:35pm

re: #184 Dr Lizardo

I heard it referred to as a Screaming Nazi.

This guy?

No! Not Zee Face!
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UrbanAchiever  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:02:38pm

re: #259 HappyWarrior

That’s interesting work to be doing! Have you been able to travel to Ireland and Germany yet?

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:04:34pm

re: #250 John Vreeland

Why in hell did she have a bond in the first place? We’ve pretty much eliminated them here in DC. They send you home and give you a reminder call the day before like it was a dentist appointment. $20k? WTF?

Chalmette, LA is a suburb southeast of New Orleans, and is VERY much a conservative white neighborhood. almost 95% of the residents are Caucasian, and has a rather shady history on treatment of minorites.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:04:54pm

re: #262 Anymouse

Da Burgh? Do you mean Pittsburgh, or some other Burgh?

I am originally from Michigan, a tiny town in the middle of the mitten. I joined the Navy to see the world, got bounced out after seventeen years when I developed epilepsy, bounced around further when my first wife divorced me over that, and landed in Oklahoma where I met my current wife (whew, what a run-on sentence).

I escaped when Mary Fallin was elected governor, and now live amongst the tumbleweeds with my wife on the High Plains.

I was elected in a special election to my village board (surprised even me) in 2012, and was re-elected in 2014 (defeating the gun shop owner in town by four votes).

Ah. You must have picked up the Olde Frothingslosh reference here.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:05:21pm

re: #260 Alephnaught

Okay.

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no songs about underpants, please

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:06:10pm

re: #268 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

no songs about underpants, please

why not

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HappyWarrior  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:06:56pm

re: #265 UrbanAchiever

That’s interesting work to be doing! Have you been able to travel to Ireland and Germany yet?

Yeah I have actually. I studied abroad in Galway as an undergrad. AT the time, I thought all my Irish family was from there but when I told the locals my grandmother’s maiden name, I got some blank looks. Turns out her great grandfather was from Down. The name is unheard of in Connemara but prevalent in Ulster. I’ve been ot GErmany too but I had no idea wehre my great grandfather’s family was from. Turns out near Frankfurt and I am planning on a visit in a couple years. I also through otehr reearch found out my last name sakes were all Lutherans and my great grandpa more or less adopted his wife’s Catholicism.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:07:20pm

re: #237 No Depression

Kickass Woman:

Missouri State Rep Files Bill to Put Gun Sales Under Exact Same Restrictions as Abortions

Including an invasive ultrasound?
//

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Nyet  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:09:52pm

re: #260 Alephnaught

Zodiac - Zodiac

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Anymouse  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:11:41pm

re: #271 Blind Frog Belly White

Including an invasive ultrasound?
//

Ow. It would be irresponsible not to speculate where (or what with) that ultrasound wand would invade… .

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:12:59pm

re: #273 Anymouse

Ow. It would be irresponsible not to speculate where (or what with) that ultrasound wand would invade… .

Where? Well on men, there are fewer choices.

What with? How about with no lube?

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Alephnaught  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:18:30pm

re: #66 Dr Lizardo

If it’s this, I’ll gladly join you.

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Oh my goodness, that reminds me of my dad telling me about a time he was in a certain well-known hard man’s pub in Glasgow, and it was the end of the night, and he was just looking for a quick single malt whisky just before going up the road.

So he asked the barman: “Just want a whiskey, can I have a Laphroaig?” He’s pronouncing it the correct way- ‘La Froig’- And the barman goes: “Whit?!” And my dad goes: “No, just a Laphroaig, with a cube of ice.” And the barman goes: “Laphroaig? Sorry, we don’t have that whisky here.”. And my dad says: “Aye you do. Look, it’s that green bottle with the white label up there”. And the barman turns around and looks, says triumphantly: “Ah! You meant La-Fro-Haig!!!!”

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Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:38:20pm

re: #122 TedStriker

Myself, I’d make a pilgrimage just to piss on his grave, but he’ll probably put in his will that a security team from Blackwater/Xi/whatever the fuck they’re named now is to guard his burial site in perpetuity.

Or he will just be buried in “an undisclosed site”.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:40:35pm

re: #135 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The big geology conference in SF every year has happy hour at 3:30. Beer is dispensed.

The poster hall gets a lot more crowded then.

My brother tends to host an alumni get-together at a bar near GSA every year. When it was in Philadelphia a few years back I picked out a new brew pub for him a week in advance and got a back room reserved.

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Anymouse  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:41:57pm

Feline Fearless Leader:

Should an Anymouse fear a Feline Fearless Leader?

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Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:51:05pm

re: #168 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Must convert you to the good tonic water. If you’re only having it occasionally, the cost is justified.

The 365 brand stuff from Whole Foods is good and comes in cans so you don’t waste a bunch. The only thing I like about as much is the fancy-schmancy Mediterranean tonic water from Fever-tree. Both of these are good enough that I will drink it by itself.

Or you could go the soda water + tonic syrup route.

I bought a 4-pack of Fever-tree and allow myself one gin and tonic a week mixing it with Bombay Sapphire. (Not that I don’t want more, but self-limiting due to doctor telling me to cut down on alcohol and other things due to blood pressure and onset Type 2 diabetes symptoms.)

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:52:52pm

re: #279 Feline Fearless Leader

I bought a 4-pack of Fever-tree and allow myself one gin and tonic a week mixing it with Bombay Sapphire. (Not that I don’t want more, but self-limiting due to doctor telling me to cut down on alcohol and other things due to blood pressure and onset Type 2 diabetes symptoms.)

I’m not a fan of the general Fever-tree but the Mediterranean is sweeter and more floral, which is the taste profile I prefer.

There’s a few bars up in SF where you can specify both the gin and the tonic water. Last time I went to one I chatted up the bartender and got to try a bunch of the stuff NOT on the normal menu.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 3, 2015 • 4:59:02pm

re: #278 Anymouse

Feline Fearless Leader:

Should an Anymouse fear a Feline Fearless Leader?

Not if you show proper respect to the Feline Overlords. Remember to upding cat pictures and you should be fine.

:)

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lawhawk  Dec 3, 2015 • 5:20:27pm

re: #235 HappyWarrior

Yum! I’m a fan of Rumplemintz and Jaeger, but never had both at the same time…

Then again, I’ll spike my hot chocolates with Rumplemintz… now that’s a good way to spend an evening, especially with good chocolate (sometimes add a little chili or cayenne pepper for an extra kick.

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Anymouse  Dec 3, 2015 • 5:40:29pm

re: #281 Feline Fearless Leader

Not if you show proper respect to the Feline Overlords. Remember to upding cat pictures and you should be fine.

:)

I fear my own cat (Felix Strangelet Randomkitty), who is one-fifth of my weight.


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