BREAKING: Houston Grand Jury Indicts Center for Medical Progress Head David Daleiden

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Houston Chronicle reporter Brian Rosenthal just tweeted out this amazing news; the Houston grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood in the wake of the Center for Medical Progress’ “sting” videos has declined to indict Planned Parenthood — but they are indicting CMP head David Daleiden and accomplice Sandra Merritt on charges of “tampering with a governmental record” and “purchase and sale of human organs!”

Oh man, that’s gotta hurt. This dishonest anti-choice scam is collapsing in a big way.

UPDATE at 1/25/16 3:34:59 pm by Charles Johnson

And now an arrest warrant has been issued for David Daleiden:

UPDATE at 1/25/16 4:05:01 pm by Charles Johnson

Brian Rosenthal points out that the felony Daleiden and Merritt are charged with carries a possible sentence of 20 years in prison.

Also see
Harris grand jury indicts pair behind Planned Parenthood videos - Houston Chronicle

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466 comments
1
Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:03:48pm

That. Is. Awesome!

2
Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:04:12pm

Karma’s not a bitch, but she has a wicked sense of humor.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:04:33pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:04:44pm

Hope they get jail time, but I’m not counting on it.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:06:15pm

Here we will note that just hours ago, USA Today published an opinion piece by same David Daleiden:

Planned Parenthood videos testify to ugly truth: David Daleiden

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:06:37pm

In other quasi law news…

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Whack-A-Mole  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:06:44pm

This news has vastly improved an otherwise miserable day for me. Quite pleased to see these fools indicted.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:06:45pm
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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:06:58pm

Ted Cruz will denounce the DA as an Obama/Acorn liberal.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:08:30pm

Not usually reading the outlet, I hadn’t realized that USA Today had turned so wingnut.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:09:27pm

This happening in Texas is surprising. I wonder if Abbott will intervene on Daleidens behalf?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:09:42pm

re: #5 freetoken

Here we will note that just hours ago, USA Today published an opinion piece by same David Daleiden:

Planned Parenthood videos testify to ugly truth: David Daleiden

Gotta hit back hard on Twitter for this.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:10:17pm

re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg

He will probably issue a full pardon.

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KGxvi  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:10:19pm

re: #1 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

I think this captures the appropriate mood:

Video

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:10:31pm

re: #10 freetoken

Not usually reading the outlet, I hadn’t realized that USA Today had turned so wingnut.

A lot of major media has drifted to the right it seems, yet the RWNJs still scream about the MSM.

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Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:11:14pm

re: #9 Aunty Entity Dragon

Ted Cruz will denounce the DA as an Obama/Acorn liberal.

Wonder if Carly Fiorina is going to remain silent on this one as well. Then again, given the ugly&deceptive nature of the modern GOP, she’ll probably choose to simply double-down on the lies, knowing that the dipshit electorate, living in their Fox&Friends bubble, will never even hear of these indictments.

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:11:15pm

That is the tweet that has to sting the most for wingnuts.

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:11:49pm

re: #6 FormerDirtDart

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KGxvi  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:12:44pm

re: #6 FormerDirtDart

As a lawyer, I’d just like to ask:

What in the utter fucking fuck is that?

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Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:13:05pm

re: #17 Targetpractice

When it turns out that the accusers are themselves actually guilty of the crimes that they tried to entrap others into doing … where does that leave Rushbo & the mouth-breathers?

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:13:37pm

re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg

A lot of major media has drifted to the right it seems, yet the RWNJs still scream about the MSM.

Well, AM radio drifted towards wingnuts because the majority of the population that still listened to over-the-air broadcasting listen to music on FM.

Online I think the same thing happens. The wingnuts hang out in certain corners on Facebook, but don’t venture out into other areas.

If all a person does is listen to AM talk radio, and read self-referencing websites within certain epistemic bubbles (such as Salem Communications), then said listener/reader won’t realize the rest of the world is different.

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:13:42pm
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Brian J.  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:15:04pm

I may be a little slow, but what exactly is this “Demand” supposed to “Amend”? Sovereign Citizens are amusing when at a great distance, but do their words make sense even to them?

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:15:12pm

re: #6 FormerDirtDart

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:15:23pm

re: #5 freetoken

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:16:36pm

re: #6 FormerDirtDart

In other quasi law news…

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In the process, Doucette seems to have posted his own legible email addr.

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Mike Lamb  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:16:54pm

re: #19 KGxvi

As a lawyer, I’d just like to ask:

What in the utter fucking fuck is that?

Seriously…amend what?

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:16:58pm

re: #18 Kragar

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Sinec they are big into Admiralty Law
Yosemite Sam in Naval garb

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:16:59pm

re: #10 freetoken

Not usually reading the outlet, I hadn’t realized that USA Today had turned so wingnut.

Dreher posted this gem with USA Today a couple years back when the mean libruls were beating up poor Paula Deen.

usatoday.com

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Brian J.  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:17:29pm

re: #26 Decatur Deb

In the process, Doucette seems to have posted his own legible email addr.

Self-doxxing is a beautiful thing.

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:17:37pm

re: #20 Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)

When it turns out that the accusers are themselves actually guilty of the crimes that they tried to entrap others into doing … where does that leave Rushbo & the mouth-breathers?

Where it always has: Roaring about the “injustice” of the system, claiming that the DA is acting in a political motivated manner, and how it’s all a “liberal plot.”

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:18:03pm

re: #19 KGxvi

As a lawyer, I’d just like to ask:

What in the utter fucking fuck is that?

Word salad sprinkled with random Latin.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:18:12pm

It’s a big enough story it tripped the Breaking News app on Android and iOS.

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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:18:20pm

re: #23 Brian J.

I may be a little slow, but what exactly is this “Demand” supposed to “Amend”? Sovereign Citizens are amusing when at a great distance, but do their words make sense even to them?

They think the law is supposed to be unintelligible. Like everything else is to them.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:19:13pm

More fun with Dreher. He’s on a roll today blaming teh librul college students for everything.

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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:19:30pm

re: #32 Aunty Entity Dragon

Word salad sprinkled with random Latin.

For roughage.

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:19:53pm

re: #20 Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)

When it turns out that the accusers are themselves actually guilty of the crimes that they tried to entrap others into doing … where does that leave Rushbo & the mouth-breathers?

Remember, it’s OK to lie to people - such as abortions cause cancer - to uphold the will of Jesus, even if that’s the opposite of what he said.

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:19:59pm

re: #25 Eric The Fruit Bat

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:20:16pm

re: #24 Kragar

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:21:16pm

And again, the dogs win out, walkies time

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:21:54pm

By the way, the charge of “tampering with a governmental record” is a felony. Daleiden is looking at some real time in prison.

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William of Orange  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:22:18pm

Never thought I would say these words!!

There is actually justice in Texas.

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TedStriker  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:23:07pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

By the way, the charge of “tampering with a governmental record” is a felony. Daledien is looking at some real time in prison.

That is, unless Abbott and/or Patrick comes to his rescue.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:23:23pm

Someday, maybe we will view these kind of experiments as unacceptable cruelty?

Scientists Genetically Engineer Autistic Monkeys

This isn’t really off-topic.

The masses who are the marks for Daleiden’s gimmick are not accepting what has been discovered the past century. The idea of “a person” has been transformed by what we have discovered.

The religious want to cling to the idea that we are “knit together” in the womb by the Hand of God.

As quaint as that literary creation is in the Jewish scriptures, it does not reflect reality.

What it means to be “a person” is important, I think.

But almost certainly a small collection of cells will not qualify for being “a person”. Thus complete rejection of all abortions doesn’t have the necessary facts to back up such a position.

And this is what the anti-abortionists can not face. They will not and can not accept that at one time they too were not “a person”.

So they go to great lengths to delude themselves and others.

And that is why Daleiden’s dishonesty is overlooked by them.

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Archangelus  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:23:26pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

By the way, the charge of “tampering with a governmental record” is a felony. Daledien is looking at some real time in prison.

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:24:00pm
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mmmirele  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:24:06pm

re: #19 KGxvi

As a lawyer, I’d just like to ask:

What in the utter fucking fuck is that?

As an ex-lawyer who has read more than her share of sovereign citizen nuttery, I couldn’t even begin to tell you what that means. It is interesting that fake judge Bruce Doucette has latched on to Susan Hammond, though.

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ausador  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:25:18pm

More Justice karma…

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:26:42pm

re: #43 TedStriker

That is, unless Abbott and/or Patrick comes to his rescue.

Given the state government, I would not be surprised if there’s pressure already being exerted to offer a plea deal that will allow both to avoid jail time.

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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:27:15pm

re: #44 freetoken

Someday, maybe we will view these kind of experiments as unacceptable cruelty?

Scientists Genetically Engineer Autistic Monkeys

This isn’t really off-topic.

The masses who are the marks for Daleiden’s gimmick are not accepting what has been discovered the past century. The idea of “a person” has been transformed by what we have discovered.

The religious want to cling to the idea that we are “knit together” in the womb by the Hand of God.

As quaint as that literary creation is in the Jewish scriptures, it does not reflect reality.

What it means to be “a person” is important, I think.

But almost certainly a small collection of cells will not qualify for being “a person”. Thus complete rejection of all abortions doesn’t have the necessary facts to back up such a position.

And this is what the anti-abortionists can not face. They will not and can not accept that at one time they too were not “a person”.

So they go to great lengths to delude themselves and others.

And that is why Daleiden’s dishonesty is overlooked by them.

They also cannot accept that millions of fertilized eggs are destroyed by random chance every month. As with so many other RWNJ political positions, it is based on anti-science.

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:30:30pm

Spotted in a HEB parking lot in Conroe, TX., and I’m still laughing.

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sizzzzlerz  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:30:53pm

re: #16 Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)

Wonder if Carly Fiorina is going to remain silent on this one as well. Then again, given the ugly&deceptive nature of the modern GOP, she’ll probably choose to simply double-down on the lies, knowing that the dipshit electorate, living in their Fox&Friends bubble, will never even hear of these indictments.

Nah. She’ll just go back to handing out fetus dolls to the kids in the local kindegartens.

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Lidane  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:33:52pm

Freepers are reacting to these indictments exactly as you’d expect:

This would be a case that would be worthy of a Bundy Ranch style turnout to protect these people.
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WOW, nothing quite like Prosecutoral abuse. You indite the whistle blowers and leave PP untouched.
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Pathetic collapse of the rule of law in America. Get ready for much, much, worse… ;-(
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Yeah. Let THAT sink in. PP wasn’t indicted for “prohibition of the purchase and sale of human organs.” The undercover journalists were.
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So instead of going after the bastards who murder children and LAUGH about ripping their baby parts apart they go after the group who bravely took the video to expose them..welcome to Obama’s America, where human life doesn’t matter

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:34:12pm
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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:35:02pm
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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:36:56pm

re: #55 jaunte

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Cecile is doing her late mother proud.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:37:15pm
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Jenner7  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:37:50pm

Can’t wait…

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:38:34pm

This happened here in TEXAS!!!!!

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:38:52pm

re: #58 Jenner7

Millions of Americans watch the quackers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:41:19pm
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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:41:37pm
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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:42:05pm

re: #62 Kragar

I see someone there complaining about Harris County. Good.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:42:42pm

DOH!

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:43:29pm

Forge ahead!

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Lidane  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:43:44pm

re: #59 Billy Batts

This happened here in TEXAS!!!!!

The DA in Harris County is a Republican. That’s what makes the irony of these indictments so much sweeter.

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Alephnaught  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:45:38pm

It’s been Burn’s Night tonight in Scotland. Here’s a photo I took from a local Burn’s Night tonight, during a performance of his meisterwerk “Tam O’ Shanter”:

If you’re not aware of Robert Burn’s “Tam O’ Shanter”: it’s regarded as his “epic” work. Well, it’s epic in comparison to his other poems, but it’s like one of those rock artists that are known for concise 3-4 minute songs doing a 7 minute song, just to show how it’s done. “Tam O’ Shanter ” like that: a rollicking story in Scots, a novel length story in verse packed into 12 mins max. Here’s Brian Cox’s recital. This is the version you hear in the Burn’s Museum just outside Ayr in Scotland.

Tam o’Shanter

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:46:45pm

re: #66 Lidane

The DA in Harris County is a Republican. That’s what makes the irony of these indictments so much sweeter.

Yeah, but we know how these things go. Even in reddest of Wingnuttia, there are always closeted liberals working tirelessly to destroy all that is good and right, so even when a Republican’s fingerprints are all over the evidence, it’s a liberal plot.

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:46:45pm
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nines09  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:48:25pm

re: #58 Jenner7

Rather watch bread grow mold. More intelligence involved there also.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:48:55pm

Like clockwork:

Another Year, Another Anti-Evolution Bill in Oklahoma

[…]

But as Brecheen’s anti-evolution bills have repeatedly fizzled before becoming law, he has taken to adopting (slightly) more subtle tactics. In the 2016 version, instead of advancing an outright endorsement of creationism, the more euphemistic purpose of Brecheen’s Senate Bill 1322 is:

to create an environment within public school districts that encourages students to explore scientific questions, learn about scientific evidence, develop critical thinking skills and respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinion about controversial issues. … Teachers shall be permitted to help students understand, analyze, critique and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught.

As with the intelligent-design debate, there is no supremacy of fact; there are only “opinions about controversial issues.” And even if poor, God-fearing teachers are forced to discuss those pesky “existing scientific theories” of how the world was created, they are also allowed to discuss the potential “weaknesses” of said theories (like, say, their making no appearance in Genesis) without repercussions.

[…]

As I noted upstream, the God-fearing folk like Brecheen just don’t want to accept what we have discovered the past century (or two.)

They just don’t want to.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:49:13pm

re: #67 Alephnaught

A comedic favorite from Burns…To a Louse (!)

Robert Burns: To A Louse

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Shimshon  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:51:02pm

Rather he go to a FEMA camp but jail works too.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:51:28pm

re: #25 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:51:55pm

re: #37 Belafon

Remember, it’s OK to lie to people - such as abortions cause cancer - to uphold the will of Jesus, even if that’s the opposite of what he said.

Taqiyya!

Oh wait. Since we’re lying for our religious beliefs it’s okay.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:52:07pm
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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:52:08pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:52:37pm

Can’t wait to see the Rage Furby rant about this. If he has any goddamned sense at all he’s got to be sweating to see Daleiden’s criminal enterprise collapsing, because he’s involved in it too now.

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Shimshon  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:52:50pm

re: #66 Lidane

The DA in Harris County is a Republican. That’s what makes the irony of these indictments so much sweeter.

To the American Taliban that means the DA failed the purity test and is now a liberal. This is how they explain the failures of the W. Bush administration, everyone involved is was liberal. Wish I were joking.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:54:32pm
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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:57:25pm

re: #79 Shimshon

To the American Taliban that means the DA failed the purity test and is now a liberal. This is how they explain the failures of the W. Bush administration, everyone involved is was liberal. Wish I were joking.

That’s how being in a cult works. Everyone who doesn’t share to the cult’s absurd beliefs must be an untrustworthy other. If they accept info from outside the cult, the cult collapses.

I hoped improved communications would be the end of cults, but it turns out that a lot of people really want to believe that they’re special when they’re not.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:57:49pm

Rubbing salt in the wound (which is really a wound quite yet):

How Nate Silver Missed Donald Trump

Of course, all the polls to date could just be anomalies. Or maybe Trump himself is an anomaly, some unique super-postion of societal trends that can only happen once.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:59:43pm

So, I take it that in the coming debate this Thursday that the Fox hosts are not going to raise this indictment as evidence that the whole video thing is a scam?

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:00:00pm
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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:00:55pm

Texas *indicting* a forced-birther group…..WTH. Is this bizarro world?!

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:03:28pm

OT, but #ImSoOld I remember when live music was better than studio.

I happened to turn on a Katy Perry concert just now and, can I just say, this gal cannot sing.

I saw her one year on the Grammy’s and thought it must be an anomaly…she was having an off night. But this is a concert. And she cannot sing. And she’s doing it for 40 or 50k people.

I am confused.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:05:30pm

re: #86 WhatEVs

OT, but #ImSoOld I remember when live music was better than studio.

I happened to turn on a Katy Perry concert just now and, can I just say, this gal cannot sing.

I saw her one year on the Grammy’s and thought it must be an anomaly…she was having an off night. But this is a concert. And she cannot sing. And she’s doing it for 40 or 50k people.

I am confused.

Autotune is the devil.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:07:36pm

re: #87 Aunty Entity Dragon

Autotune is the devil.

Can you not use autotune in concert? She really needs it.

I cannot get over that this is multi-platinum music. It’s not that I don’t get into a couple of tunes but she simply cannot sing. Great show with dancers and shit flying all over the place, but, no matter, she cannot sing. She really needs that autotuner.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:07:55pm

She’s trying to walk back her earlier tweets:

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:08:56pm

re: #86 WhatEVs

OT, but #ImSoOld I remember when live music was better than studio.

Of course, depends on who you follow. I still prefer live music over the studio: Bob Schneider, Counting Crows, Pearl Jam, Billy Joel, Black Crows, Foo Fighters, Cheap Trick, etc., etc., Yet, I don’t follow much of today’s pop “music” icons so you’re probably dead-on with today’s music.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:09:28pm
Trump’s official campaign spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, took to Twitter to refer to President Obama as being the “head Negro in charge” while lamenting that the United States needs a “pure breed” President instead. When she was later given a chance to walk those comments back, she instead doubled down on them and referred to Obama as a “half breed.” Again, this woman is the top spokesperson for the entire Donald Trump campaign, and not some errant staffer. It’s not the first time this week that Trump and company have gone off the racist rails.

I think she finally deleted them.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:11:26pm

re: #91 freetoken

“HNIC” is so friggin’ racist. How can his sleazy campaign find a new low to sink to every day? Unreal.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:12:06pm
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Alephnaught  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:12:14pm

re: #72 Aunty Entity Dragon

A comedic favorite from Burns…To a Louse (!)

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Video

That’s class. Even more so when you consider that this is Burns in 1786, doing a skit on his own poem of the year before. (“To a Mouse”, as in “Of Mice and Men” fame.)

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:13:08pm

re: #86 WhatEVs

OT, but #ImSoOld I remember when live music was better than studio.

I happened to turn on a Katy Perry concert just now and, can I just say, this gal cannot sing.

I saw her one year on the Grammy’s and thought it must be an anomaly…she was having an off night. But this is a concert. And she cannot sing. And she’s doing it for 40 or 50k people.

I am confused.

Here you go.

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats Live at Twist and Shout 6. “S.O.B.”

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:13:17pm

The Butthurt begins==>

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:13:48pm

re: #57 jaunte

Gov. Abbott has to be so furious he’s probably jumping out of his wheelchair.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:15:21pm

Butthurt==>

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:16:05pm

re: #95 Kragar

Here you go.

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Video

The guy on the far right looks just like my nephew! And they sound far better than Katy Perry.

Thanks!

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:16:21pm

I just watched Donald Trump win the Iowa caucus: Inside the one rally that sealed the deal

When Chuck Grassley spoke at a Trump rally, the calculus changed. There hasn’t been this much energy since Obama 08

If you don’t live in Iowa, you may not know what a political force Grassley is and what his presence on Saturday means for Trump. Grassley has served in the Senate since 1981. In his last election he won 64% of the vote, and his approval ratings hover near that number. He’s won re-election term after term, brushing Democratic challengers off like a piece of lint. One election year he received 70% of the vote, and in other years he came close. Just last week Grassley broke the record on not missing a vote in the U.S. Senate; 22 years, six months, and six days. He has voted 7,520 times without missing one. The last time he missed a vote was when he was touring the midwest in 1993 with President Bill Clinton during a disastrous flooding season. Since he took office in 1981 he tours all 99 counties in the state when the Senate is out of session. This is called the “full Grassley” and Republican caucus candidates try to emulate it. Sure, some of the big media likes to make fun of Grassley, his tweets, some things he says, and even his clothes. But we don’t care. He’s our Chuck Grassley. He’s one of us, and we all know and respect him and we don’t care what anyone else says. I have no doubt that Grassley has spoken with and shook hands with tens of thousands of Iowans or more. What he thinks and says means something to us.

Well, I guess we’ll see a week from now.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:16:36pm

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

Grasping at straws.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:17:36pm
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Sionainn  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:19:58pm

Oh, I’ll bet he didn’t see that coming! Bwahahahaha! My day is complete!

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:20:26pm

Now begins the mental pretzeling as wingnuts try to go against months of confidence in the decisions of grand juries to claim that this one was a farce and the district attorney deliberately steered them into a politically partisan indictment.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:20:42pm

re: #102 jaunte

When the judge is the son of the county sheriff, it’s safe to say that criminal defense lawyers aren’t going to have the most optimistic feelings heading into court.

Same can be said for any court in TX. Guy could be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but TX is hard on the defense.

I used to read this blog (an attorney in Harris County) all the time. He’s kinda moved on to bigger and better but it was always fascinating to read his posts (and the attorney’s responding in comments). Really gave insight into law and order in TX.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:20:43pm
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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:21:20pm
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ninja cat  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:21:46pm

One of my favorite writers, Tad Williams, just posted this LGF thread on his FB timeline.

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BeachDem  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:21:59pm

re: #66 Lidane

The DA in Harris County is a Republican. That’s what makes the irony of these indictments so much sweeter.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:22:40pm

more butthurt. This from the president and CEO of NRB (National Religious Broadcasters):

SATAN!!!

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:23:01pm
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KGxvi  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:23:29pm

re: #66 Lidane

The DA in Harris County is a Republican. That’s what makes the irony of these indictments so much sweeter.

RINO!!!111!

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:23:55pm

Nearly a dozen states and at least one Congressional committee have utterly failed to find wrongdoing on the part of PP, but every wingnut from here to Azerbaijan will continue to insist that the case against PP is airtight and the criminal indictments could only be held up by a grand liberal conspiracy.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:26:19pm

re: #111 Charles Johnson

Sean Davis is just amazingly dishonest. More than anybody he paints a picture of someone who knows better but just keeps cynically spouting bullshit to maintain his position at the wingnut welfare trough.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:26:57pm

Greg Abbott:

“The Health and Human Service Commission’s Inspector General and the Attorney General’s office have an ongoing investigation into Planned Parenthood’s actions,” said Governor Abbott. “Nothing about today’s announcement in Harris County impacts the state’s ongoing investigation. The State of Texas will continue to protect life, and I will continue to support legislation prohibiting the sale or transfer of fetal tissue.”
gov.texas.gov

Uh huh, sure.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:27:59pm

We’ll this how this one plays out too:

Donald Trump suggests he may skip Fox debate if Megyn Kelly isn’t fair

Donald Trump said he would consider skipping this Thursday’s Republican primary debate if he doesn’t get fair treatment from Fox anchor Megyn Kelly — an apparent attempt to influence moderators at the final GOP debate before Iowa.

In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday, Trump continued to badmouth the Fox News host who had challenged him during the first Republican showdown last August.

“I don’t like her. She doesn’t treat me fairly. I’m not a big fan of hers at all,” Trump said.

[…]

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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:29:06pm

I just got back from the 18th century. City-wide (OK, town-wide) power outage. Whew.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:29:52pm

re: #114 goddamnedfrank

Sean Davis is just amazingly dishonest. More than anybody he paints a picture of someone who knows better but just keeps cynically spouting bullshit to maintain his position at the wingnut welfare trough.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:30:17pm

re: #117 wrenchwench

Welcome back to the 21st century.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:30:30pm

Every state that has investigated Planned Parenthood has found zero evidence of criminality. No evidence that they broke federal laws relating to fetal tissue donations or anything else for that matter.

In fact, they’ve got a perfect record on that.

The same can’t be said of CMP and Daleidin, who are facing indictments not only in Texas (TEXAS!?!) but are under investigation elsewhere (CA), for breaking multiple state and federal laws.

Given that those forced birth/anti-choice extremists engaged in these bogus videos in multiple states, they’re facing the possibility of multiple charges/indictments in multiple states.

The extremists who continue claiming that there were illegal acts caught on tape were right. The video did show illegality. Only problem for them is that CMP was doing the illegality, and Planned Parenthood was not.

That wont stop fact-free diatribes from right wingers claiming this was a setup. The TX GOP demanded prosecutors in the state investigate the case.

They did. And found no wrongdoing by PP. They found, however, CMP did.

And it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of extremists.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:30:39pm

re: #28 FormerDirtDart

Sinec they are big into Admiralty Law
Yosemite Sam in Naval garb

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They believe that any court which flies a gold fringed US flag is a court of admiralty law, and as long as they refuse to cross the bar and enter into the court’s jurisdiction they retain all of their rights as sovereign citizens, which means to them that any law passed in the last 150 years or so doesn’t apply to them. Crazy, I know.

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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:31:03pm

re: #119 PhillyPretzel

Welcome back to the 21st century.

Thank you. Do people still ride bikes?

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:32:01pm

re: #122 wrenchwench

Oh yes. :)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:32:30pm
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goddamnedfrank  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:32:40pm

Herp de derp de doo ….

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:33:24pm

Now comes the part where Texas magically morphs into a bastion of GODLESS LIBRULISME!!11

HA-ha! /Nelson Muntz

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:33:43pm

re: #116 freetoken

We’ll this how this one plays out too:

Donald Trump suggests he may skip Fox debate if Megyn Kelly isn’t fair

Walk off. Please, please walk off. Do it. You know you want to. Walk off. Please, please, please.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:34:13pm

hahahaaaa

Facebook Post

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:34:37pm

re: #125 goddamnedfrank

You have to read four whole paragraphs in to get the info…

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:34:52pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahaaaa

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In a just regime, breaking the law to expose lawbreaking is still a crime.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:35:10pm

Erick son of Erick is pimping another ad by Cruz:

New Ted Cruz Ad Attacks Donald Trump for New York Values

But it’s a very stupid commercial.

Cruz takes a sound bit of Trump that is supposed to be Trump saying Iowans are stupid… but the video shows that Trump was in Fort Dodge, Iowa giving that talk… and cuts out Trump mid sentence.

TV Ad: New York Values

This is an extremely pathetic attempt at sound-bite cherry-picking.

But Erick son of Erick sez “This could leave a mark. “

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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:35:45pm

re: #129 jaunte

You have to read four whole paragraphs in to get the info…

Do you have a link to the correct paragraph?

/

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EPR-radar  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:35:52pm

re: #121 Big Beautiful Door

They believe that any court which flies a gold fringed US flag is a court of admiralty law, and as long as they refuse to cross the bar and enter into the court’s jurisdiction they retain all of their rights as sovereign citizens, which means to them that any law passed in the last 150 years or so doesn’t apply to them. Crazy, I know.

Sovereign citizens don’t think laws apply to them. They see the law only as a club to use against others.

Everything else is just details fabricated to support the underlying nutty thesis.

The 150 years there is significant, since sovereign citizen garbage is one of the toxic by-products left behind by the Confederacy.

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:36:19pm

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That will be the new angle, I’m predicting it now. They’ll declare that the failure to indict PP is not evidence that no crime was committed, but that the laws are too “weak” to address the “crimes” that the videos “exposed.”

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:36:28pm

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:36:36pm

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sounds like ol’ Davy boy best not catch any flights that hub inside of Texas.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:36:39pm

re: #106 goddamnedfrank

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This kind of dishonesty—pedestrian for them by now—is why they will never wrap their heads around the criminality of what Deleiden et al did.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:36:39pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:38:23pm

ummm…no dear, SCOTUS did no such thing.

Lord these people are stupid.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:38:51pm

re: #134 Targetpractice

That will be the new angle, I’m predicting it now. They’ll declare that the failure to indict PP is not evidence that no crime was committed, but that the laws are too “weak” to address the “crimes” that the videos “exposed.”

They beat you by 36 minutes. See my 135. :-)

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ausador  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:38:53pm

Make America great commit war crimes again…

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:39:00pm
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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:39:40pm

re: #135 WhatEVs

“Weak laws when it comes to fetal tissue”

*giggle* WTF does that even mean? ME FAIL MAKING SENSE? THATS UNPOSSIBLE

So many Simpsons memes are applicable to today’s news….

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Lidane  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:40:18pm

The Freeper meltdowns are ongoing:

Pure, political prosecution. Nobody should dare question the left.
—

Like a communist dictatorship.
—

TX is a lot more liberal than people think!
—

City prosecutors in Texas are way more liberal than people think.
There need to be protests at these offices.
It is pure anti conservative thought police.
—

Sounds like the DA would benefit from a visit by Preston Brooks…
—

Houston, like most large urban cities is Democrat, former Mayor was homosexual and the Black Democrat guy beat the White Republican guy for new Mayor.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:40:24pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:40:31pm
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BeachDem  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:41:22pm

re: #121 Big Beautiful Door

They believe that any court which flies a gold fringed US flag is a court of admiralty law, and as long as they refuse to cross the bar and enter into the court’s jurisdiction they retain all of their rights as sovereign citizens, which means to them that any law passed in the last 150 years or so doesn’t apply to them. Crazy, I know.

I think this is an apt description:

But as they expand their ranks, the militia draws more supporters who have a tenuous grasp on the gravity of the situation — as well as reality.

One pair who have been regulars at the camp spoke as if the revolution has already begun, but it was hard to separate fact from fiction from fantasy from delusion.

rawstory.com

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EPR-radar  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:41:36pm

re: #141 ausador

So Trump’s strategy for dealing with Cruz’ rise in the polls has become clear. Increase the violence and racism in his speeches.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:41:39pm

re: #144 Lidane

The Freeper meltdowns are ongoing:

TX is a lot more liberal than people think!

Hoping.

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:41:43pm

re: #146 Charles Johnson

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Chucky must have shat a brick when he saw the story about the indictment.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:41:47pm

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

The stupidity is stunning.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:42:14pm

#tcot is vewwy vewwy quiet about this, but they’ll explode in choreographed rage just as soon as they get their talking points.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:42:34pm

re: #141 ausador

He might have gone to Fordham and Wharton but he does not know Sun Tzu.

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:43:00pm

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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The stupidity is stunning.

Uh, except there was no evidence that PP was offering to sell, no matter how they spin the whole thing. The reality is that Daleiden and his co-conspirators tried every angle they could to catch these doctors offering to sell and failed to get any bites.

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Skip Intro  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:43:04pm

re: #148 EPR-radar

So Trump’s strategy for dealing with Cruz’ rise in the polls has become clear. Increase the violence and racism in his speeches.

It hasn’t failed yet. The delta minuses who follow him live for this.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:43:05pm

re: #153 PhillyPretzel

He might have gone to Fordham and Wharton but he does not know Sun Tzu.

Is Sun Tzu the one that built the 13,000 mile wall?

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Mike Lamb  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:43:23pm

re: #106 goddamnedfrank

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They also don’t understand how grand jury indictments work.

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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:43:49pm
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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:44:02pm

re: #145 goddamnedfrank

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PERSACEWSHUN!!! LIBURSL TAKING OVER THE COURTS!! ACDTIVIST DA!!! A VICTURY FOR SAYTIN!!

On a serious note, does this mean DD’s attorney will have to work with him on the CMP case through a phone, divided by a glass window, at the County lock-up?

(obviously he’d post bond and be free to go about his business but it’s a fun image)

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:44:07pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

So Le Furby au Rage crawls out from his hovel and tries to have his buddy’s back. Methinks he needs to worry about his so-called plan against Gawker.

And he has this quaint notion that regimes are ‘just’. Curious his use of the term ‘regime’.

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BeachDem  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:44:50pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahaaaa

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Um, so he thinks it’s a good thing that the fraudster has been indicted? So he’s applauding the grand jury? I haz a confused.
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:45:04pm

re: #156 freetoken

No. An emperor who did not listen to Sun Tzu built the wall. The wall was compromised by those who bribed their way around it.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:45:06pm

Yes, there are people stupid enough to believe Erick Erickson:

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:45:06pm

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

The stupidity is stunning.

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EPR-radar  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:45:14pm

re: #154 Targetpractice

Uh, except there was no evidence that PP was offering to sell, no matter how they spin the whole thing. The reality is that Daleiden and his co-conspirators tried every angle they could to catch these doctors offering to sell and failed to get any bites.

Wouldn’t it be funny if the illegality of CMP’s attempt to purchase came about because of wingnut-inspired changes to the TX criminal code?

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451_Montag  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:45:30pm

re: #49 Targetpractice

Actually wouldn’t bother me as long it included a long televised statement where the necrotic pustule had to read out a statement admitting that everything he said was a lie to slander PP and he did it on purpose knowing it was fake.

Jail punishes him, the statement makes restitution

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:45:41pm

OT: someone on my FB timeline about Michigan and Flint crisis: “Can we just stop calling these people “conservatives”? It’s like calling switchblade muggers ‘surgeons.’”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:46:07pm
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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:47:10pm

So, I ask again - will this indictment of Daleiden make it onto the debate this week?

What if the RNC gets their way and maneuvers to get Fiorina on stage, and Fiorina starts in about the videos. Will anyone correct her?

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EPR-radar  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:48:08pm

re: #169 freetoken

So, I ask again - will this indictment of Daleiden make it onto the debate this week?

What if the RNC gets their way and maneuvers to get Fiorina on stage, and Fiorina starts in about the videos. Will anyone correct her?

I can’t see this happening. Truth is to the GOP as sunlight is to a vampire.

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Skip Intro  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:48:29pm

re: #169 freetoken

So, I ask again - will this indictment of Daleiden make it onto the debate this week?

What if the RNC gets their way and maneuvers to get Fiorina on stage, and Fiorina starts in about the videos. Will anyone correct her?

No and no. It’s Fox, after all. This doesn’t fit their agenda.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:48:36pm

re: #66 Lidane

The DA in Harris County is a Republican. That’s what makes the irony of these indictments so much sweeter.

A Republican with integrity, how refreshing.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:49:24pm

I think it’s tailor made for juicy spin, actually. They just have to omit objective reality and selectively apply the rule of law, that’s all. IOW, GOP SOP.

Look for the narrative about how DD is a poor persecuted soldier for THE TRUTH and he’s been RAILROADED BY LIBURL LAWYERS and WE WILL FIGHT TO STOP BABBY PARTS.

Reality ain’t shit to these people. It’s whatever they can sell.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:49:31pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:49:42pm

re: #122 wrenchwench

Thank you. Do people still ride bikes?

I and all the folks I passed who passed me on Cañada Road yesterday still do

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:51:54pm

re: #79 Shimshon

To the American Taliban that means the DA failed the purity test and is now a liberal. This is how they explain the failures of the W. Bush administration, everyone involved is was liberal. Wish I were joking.

Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:52:36pm

I’m going to mute this egg, if anybody else here want’s to find out what the fuck they’re talking about that’s on them.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:53:20pm

re: #82 freetoken

Rubbing salt in the wound (which is really a wound quite yet):

How Nate Silver Missed Donald Trump

Of course, all the polls to date could just be anomalies. Or maybe Trump himself is an anomaly, some unique super-postion of societal trends that can only happen once.

Like the Mule in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:54:30pm

Donald Trump and the GOP’s demographic trap

Donald Trump and the GOP’s demographic trap

As Timothy Carney details in a fascinating report today, Trump’s strategy appears premised on the idea that his mix of populism, protectionism, immigration restrictionism, and American-greatness nationalism is the secret to appealing to the mostly downscale white voters who stayed home in 2012. “Trump, it seems, has found the missing white voter,” Carney writes.

But if this is true, the question then becomes whether doing what it takes to find and activate this “missing white voter” could prove demographically counter-productive for the GOP — hence, the demographic trap.

National media are slowly, very slowly, edging to calling Trump out for his racist whistles.

it’s still going to take them some time to flat out state what Trump is.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:55:13pm

re: #177 goddamnedfrank

I’m going to mute this egg, if anybody else here want’s to find out what the fuck they’re talking about that’s on them.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:56:19pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:56:27pm

re: #178 Big Beautiful Door

Ok, had to Google that one as it didn’t ring a bell.

I think Trump does act inside the emotions of his listeners, but then all politicians do that.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:57:04pm

re: #160 Eric The Fruit Bat

So Le Furby au Rage crawls out from his hovel and tries to have his buddy’s back. Methinks he needs to worry about his so-called plan against Gawker.

And he has this quaint notion that regimes are ‘just’. Curious his use of the term ‘regime’.

Curious his use of the term ‘just’.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:58:04pm

re: #180 WhatEVs

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Of course, he’s just pissed off at the outcome. I was thinking too hard, assuming that “another” meant there was some other case I should know about.

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EPR-radar  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:59:19pm

re: #178 Big Beautiful Door

I do think Trumpism is a one-time event. For decades before Trump, Republicans ran on dog-whistle appeals to racists to get them to vote their resentments. Trump has dispensed with the dog whistles. Future Republican campaigns aren’t going to be able to return to dog whistling, assuming Trump doesn’t crater instantly as soon as real votes start being cast.

This is the kind of thing that 538’s modeling can’t capture.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:59:52pm

re: #184 goddamnedfrank

Of course, he’s just pissed off at the outcome. I was thinking too hard, assuming that “another” meant there was some other case I should know about.

Could be another case…or not. Like you said, pissed about the outcome.

My take: suck it.

Honestly, if TX can do this… I hope that PP takes all these people, including the ex-board member for every penny they have.

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EPR-radar  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:00:31pm

re: #179 freetoken

As I recall, the ‘missing white voters in 2012’ narrative was debunked at RedState (of all places).

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:00:37pm

re: #145 goddamnedfrank

I remember watching that live.

re: #175 Blind Frog Belly White

I and all the folks I passed who passed me on Cañada Road yesterday still do

We drove by one end of that yesterday, hauling the trailer back home from a night over on the coast.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:02:04pm

re: #134 Targetpractice

That will be the new angle, I’m predicting it now. They’ll declare that the failure to indict PP is not evidence that no crime was committed, but that the laws are too “weak” to address the “crimes” that the videos “exposed.”

Except they indicted Daleiden using those laws, so there’s that.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:02:35pm

re: #188 klys (maker of Silmarils)

We drove by one end of that yesterday, hauling the trailer back home from a night over on the coast.

I’m gonna assume the 92 end, because bringing a trailer down 84 would be nuts.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:02:35pm

Chuck Johnson has to feel like his house of cards is in danger of collapsing right now. He thought he was going to be a hero by riding along on Daleiden’s coattails. Instead he’s in serious legal trouble, and it’s very likely going to get worse. What a dope.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:02:49pm

Daily Caller attacks John Lewis for saying the truth about Trump:

John Lewis Again Compares Trump To George Wallace

Gee, I wonder which way the comments are going to go?

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:03:06pm
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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:04:12pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:04:39pm

re: #192 freetoken

Daily Caller attacks John Lewis for saying the truth about Trump:

John Lewis Again Compares Trump To George Wallace

Gee, I wonder which way the comments are going to go?

Breitbart’s response? “You mean George Wallace the DEMOCRAT?” Because where the political parties were in 1968 is clearly still true 48 years later….

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:05:45pm

re: #185 EPR-radar

I do think Trumpism is a one-time event. For decades before Trump, Republicans ran on dog-whistle appeals to racists to get them to vote their resentments. Trump has dispensed with the dog whistles. Future Republican campaigns aren’t going to be able to return to dog whistling, assuming Trump doesn’t crater instantly as soon as real votes start being cast.

This is the kind of thing that 538’s modeling can’t capture.

Modeling is also based on understanding how a system reacts to various inputs, actions and events. The problem is that Trump is so many SD’s away from anything that was considered a ‘norm’ that I really think the model couldn’t handle it.

The fact that the GOP is starting to view Trump as an ‘acceptable option’ just shows how far the gyros have tumbled.

I do agree, if he gets the nomination (and my gut feeling is that I’d need about 2-1 odds to bet on it), you know that he’s going to come crashing to earth at some point, and the GOP will only have themselves to blame.

I will be snickering quietly in the corner when that happens.

RBS

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:05:51pm

re: #193 WhatEVs

“Tampering with a governmental record” is a 2nd degree felony, so the secret videographers are facing up to 20 years in prison.

Their crack pro bono RW legal champions should have warned them about that.

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Skip Intro  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:06:00pm

It’s getting really ugly out there.

Bundys escalating showdown with feds — as support dwindles and lone wolves come looking for trouble

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Mike Lamb  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:06:21pm

re: #191 Charles Johnson

Chuck Johnson has to feel like his house of cards is in danger of collapsing right now. He thought he was going to be a hero by riding along on Daleiden’s coattails. Instead he’s in serious legal trouble, and it’s very likely going to get worse. What a dope.

Objection: assumes facts not in evidence.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:06:22pm

Evening Lizardim.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:06:23pm

For your viewing pleasure:

Donald Trump LIVE Rally in Farmington, NH (1-25-16)

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:06:44pm

Hmmm…sidling up to extremists isn’t a good approach to sherriffin’ job security.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:07:05pm

re: #191 Charles Johnson

Chuck Johnson has to feel like his house of cards is in danger of collapsing right now. He thought he was going to be a hero by riding along on Daleiden’s coattails. Instead he’s in serious legal trouble, and it’s very likely going to get worse. What a dope.

I imagine our beloved rage furby is drinking very heavily right now.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:07:39pm

re: #169 freetoken

So, I ask again - will this indictment of Daleiden make it onto the debate this week?

What if the RNC gets their way and maneuvers to get Fiorina on stage, and Fiorina starts in about the videos. Will anyone correct her?

No and no.

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:07:48pm

What I keep noticing is the wingnuts aren’t even trying anymore to deny that Daleiden and his co-conspirators broke the law, but instead trying to argue that breaking the law is not illegal if you expose other people breaking the law. It’s like saying that my robbing a bank is legal if it leads to evidence that the bank managers are engaged in embezzlement.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:08:07pm

re: #197 Decatur Deb

Their crack pro bono RW legal champions should have warned them about that.

They figured that O’Keefe got away with it for so long, they would too.

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Skip Intro  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:08:15pm

re: #203 thedopefishlives

I imagine our beloved rage furby is drinking very heavily right now.

Buying guns with the HAW’s money is more likely.

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Skip Intro  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:08:52pm

re: #207 freetoken

Let us know if he tells the crowd to kill somebody.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:08:56pm

re: #208 Skip Intro

Buying guns with the HAW’s money is more likely.

Or both.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:09:32pm
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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:10:44pm

re: #211 WhatEVs

The other sheriffs don’t seem to like this.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:10:58pm

re: #211 WhatEVs

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Sounds like one of them soft-on-crime liberals.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:11:04pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:11:19pm

re: #211 WhatEVs

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Yeah, fuck that noise, we do not negotiate with terrorists. They want leniency, then it can be a few years off the decades-long terms they’re looking at for violating multiple federal laws.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:11:27pm
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Stanley Sea  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:11:37pm

re: #207 freetoken

better link:

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We happily leave this job to you.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:11:40pm

re: #203 thedopefishlives

I imagine our beloved rage furby is drinking very heavily right now.

I think you all seriously overestimate his capacity for feeling shame, worry, or self-reflection. I’ll say it because I like to say it: He’d laugh all the way to the noose, as long as he got to spit on the crowd.

He’s probably drinking, yes, but he’s working on a grift right now. He’s not a material party to breaking Texas law as far as we know, unless they find something in the CMP case that links him to TX, maybe?

Then again, what *was* he doing down here a while back? He was in DFW for something last year or then-abouts.

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gocart mozart  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:13:10pm

re: #195 Blind Frog Belly White

Southern Yankee • 18 minutes ago

Lewis is a liar and an obvious racist. At one point in his life he may have been a good man but that is long ago. At this point any credibility he may have had is gone I would not even spit upon him if I came across him on fire. Oh wait he would still accuse me of spitting on him.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:13:15pm

re: #190 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m gonna assume the 92 end, because bringing a trailer down 84 would be nuts.

Yes, although I wouldn’t say that it is completely out of the question.

We are kind of nuts. (We dropped the trailer off at home and went down to Pinnacles, just because.)

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:13:47pm

“We don’t win anymore” - this is his fundamental message

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:14:18pm

re: #196 Reality Based Steve

Modeling is also based on understanding how a system reacts to various inputs, actions and events. The problem is that Trump is so many SD’s away from anything that was considered a ‘norm’ that I really think the model couldn’t handle it.

The fact that the GOP is starting to view Trump as an ‘acceptable option’ just shows how far the gyros have tumbled.

I do agree, if he gets the nomination (and my gut feeling is that I’d need about 2-1 odds to bet on it), you know that he’s going to come crashing to earth at some point, and the GOP will only have themselves to blame.

I will be snickering quietly in the corner when that happens.

RBS

We’ll see what happens in a week. Right now anything’s possible. Trump’s army could come out in force, defeat Cruz in Iowa, and launch Trump into a string of victories which wins him the nomination. Or maybe his voters don’t show up, he finishes well behind Cruz, and all the air goes out of his campaign. Its such fun!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:14:18pm

re: #201 freetoken

For your viewing pleasure:

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Can’t I just stick knitting needles in my eyes?

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:14:34pm

re: #215 Targetpractice

Yeah, fuck that noise, we do not negotiate with terrorists. They want leniency, then it can be a few years off the decades-long terms they’re looking at for violating multiple federal laws.

Amen to that!

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:14:50pm

Breitbart is dead silent about this news so far.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:15:03pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:15:09pm

U MAD BRO

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:15:44pm

re: #225 Charles Johnson

That is because they do not know how to spin it so that it looks like it is PP’s fault.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:15:59pm

re: #225 Charles Johnson

Breitbart is dead silent about this news so far.

I stopped reading after the third word.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:16:01pm

re: #225 Charles Johnson

Breitbart is dead silent about this news so far.

They’re probably working on the talking points behind the scenes. Once they get it figured out to make this Obama’s fault, they’ll speak up.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:16:17pm
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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:16:21pm

“Ted Cruz, the Canadian…”

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:16:39pm

I worry for the kids, but Ammon Bundy’s shit is better than anything on cable. I hope they’re picked up for a second season.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:17:22pm

PATHETIC

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:17:32pm
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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:17:37pm

re: #231 goddamnedfrank

*cough cough* —> re: #214 Dr. Matt

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:17:54pm

re: #205 Targetpractice

What I keep noticing is the wingnuts aren’t even trying anymore to deny that Daleiden and his co-conspirators broke the law, but instead trying to argue that breaking the law is not illegal if you expose other people breaking the law. It’s like saying that my robbing a bank is legal if it leads to evidence that the bank managers are engaged in embezzlement.

Funny how they seem to be glossing over the whole ‘not indicting Planned Parenthood’ aspect.

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Jenner7  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:19:20pm

Wow, Trump was on time for once…

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:19:39pm

re: #236 Dr. Matt

*cough cough* —>

LOL, nobody reads the thread anymore.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:20:22pm

re: #239 goddamnedfrank

LOL, nobody reads the thread anymore.

HA! :)

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:20:45pm

Ben Shapiro hasn’t said anything about the Daleiden indictment. I suppose his face is still pressed against Milo’s ass.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:20:59pm
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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:21:12pm

re: #227 The Vicious Babushka

U MAD BRO

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:21:29pm

re: #234 The Vicious Babushka

PATHETIC

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The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
Commenting on the ‘Negro Project’ in a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, December 10, 1939.[1] - Sanger manuscripts, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

Everytime somebody posts that highly mined and deceptive quote, I simply post the truth back to them. These people make me so freaking sick.

RBS

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Jenner7  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:21:52pm

Right wing conspiracy is that one of the prosecutors was on PP Board, follow it with a link to story. IN the story, it says he/she revealed that and they had nothing to do with investigation.

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majii  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:21:59pm

re: #192 freetoken

I already know how the comments will go—-Rep. Lewis will be savaged and labeled a racist for saying what we all know is true. I live in GA. I remember when Paula Deene was accused of racism. A poll was taken and poll participants were asked who they admired most, Deene or MLK. MLK was less revered than Deene here in GA, MLK’s birthplace. SMDH.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:22:18pm

re: #244 Reality Based Steve

Everytime somebody posts that highly mined quote and deceptive quote, I simply post the truth back to them. These people make me so freaking sick.

RBS

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:22:19pm

re: #221 freetoken

“We don’t win anymore” - this is his fundamental message

“The government is making US the N*ggers now!” - the fundamental psychological thrust of Trumpism.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:22:21pm

re: #244 Reality Based Steve

Everytime somebody posts that highly mined quote and deceptive quote, I simply post the truth back to them. These people make me so freaking sick.

RBS

Lying for Jesus.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:23:40pm

And then there’s this shit…..

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:24:27pm

Erick Erickson retweeted

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:24:34pm

re: #246 majii

I already know how the comments will go—-Rep. Lewis will be savaged and labeled a racist for saying what we all know is true. I live in GA. I remember when Paula Deene was accused of racism. A poll was taken and poll participants were asked who they admired most, Deene or MLK. MLK was less revered than Deene here in GA, MLK’s birthplace. SMDH.

Sorry, but Dr. King’s Ooey Gooey Butter Cake was simply not up to Paula’s.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:25:07pm

… all old material so far…

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:25:14pm

re: #250 Dr. Matt

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:25:37pm

re: #251 The Vicious Babushka

Erick Erickson retweeted

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Not said: And all those who thought grand juries the final word on the validity of charges now think grand juries are a joke.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:25:45pm

re: #251 The Vicious Babushka

Too easy….

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:25:49pm

re: #191 Charles Johnson

Chuck Johnson has to feel like his house of cards is in danger of collapsing right now. He thought he was going to be a hero by riding along on Daleiden’s coattails. Instead he’s in serious legal trouble, and it’s very likely going to get worse. What a dope.

If I were a friend or relative to Chucky, I’d be trying to stage an intervention to stop him from doing even more damage to his future, but he’s probably burned all those bridges. He’s going to be in a world of hurt from here on out.

And for him, good news will come in the form of not being indicted. But his legal bills will continue climbing with no way to repay any of them.

Screwed isn’t a harsh enough term for his situation, but he’s probably thinking that he’s got the world exactly where he wants it. #winning.

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:26:36pm

re: #252 Decatur Deb

Sorry, but Dr. King’s Ooey Gooey Butter Cake was simply not up to Paula’s.

MLK just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Paula Dean had Deep Fried Butter.

RBS

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:27:29pm

“Glenn Beck… he’s a weird dude… cries all the time…”

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:28:10pm

quoting Ibendahl again…

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:28:49pm

re: #257 lawhawk

If I were a friend or relative to Chucky, I’d be trying to stage an intervention to stop him from doing even more damage to his future, but he’s probably burned all those bridges. He’s going to be in a world of hurt from here on out.

And for him, good news will come in the form of not being indicted. But his legal bills will continue climbing with no way to repay any of them.

Screwed isn’t a harsh enough term for his situation, but he’s probably thinking that he’s got the world exactly where he wants it. #winning.

How long before he starts researching crowd sourcing begging for info on the DA?

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:29:44pm

re: #152 The Vicious Babushka

#tcot is vewwy vewwy quiet about this, but they’ll explode in choreographed rage just as soon as they get their talking points.

Nothing from Dana MAHGUNZ…yet.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:30:19pm

HURR HURR LIBRULS IS TEH ANTI-CHOICE!!!!!! CONMSERVATIFS IS TEH PRO CHOIS!!!!!!!!

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:31:27pm

re: #257 lawhawk

If I were a friend or relative to Chucky, I’d be trying to stage an intervention to stop him from doing even more damage to his future, but he’s probably burned all those bridges. He’s going to be in a world of hurt from here on out.
.

His public record and social media history has made him permanently unemployable. He hasn’t hit 30 years of age yet, and his life is basically over. He’ll always be a nobody and will never amount to anything. By every and all definitions, he’s a loser.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:31:48pm

re: #261 Reality Based Steve

How long before he starts researching crowd sourcing begging for info on the DA?

“I have information that will bring down Hillary Clinton Jeb Bush that DA. Just waiting for $50,000 $10,000 a warm meal and a bed, and a clean floor to shit on before I publish.”

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:31:53pm

re: #264 Dr. Matt

He has a future in crime.

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:32:07pm
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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:32:13pm

By which I mean politics and political punditry.

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:32:26pm

re: #266 freetoken

He has a future in crime.

Not based on his track record to date he doesn’t.

RBS

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thedopefishlives  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:32:48pm

re: #264 Dr. Matt

His public record and social media history has made him permanently unemployable. He hasn’t hit 30 years of age yet, and his life is basically over. He’ll always be a nobody and will never amount to anything. By every and all definitions, he’s a loser.

Yeah, but he’s got a Hot Asian Wife and thousands of sycophants Facebook followers, so obviously he’s killin’ it.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:32:51pm

re: #266 freetoken

He has a future in crime.

He’s young. The US Army offers fun, travel and adventure.

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:33:28pm

50 bucks donated to PP says a gofundme account is started for Daleiden before 7:00 CST.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:33:42pm

So far all the “talking points” on #tcot are to ignore the facts and pretend that CMP is the winner

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:34:13pm

re: #271 Decatur Deb

He’s young. The US Army offers fun, travel and adventure.

I’m afraid he’s already all that he can be.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:34:24pm

re: #272 Billy Batts

50 bucks donated to PP says a gofundme account is started for Daleiden before 7:00 CST.

No bet. However, we could start an over/under pool on how long it’ll take for said account to appear, as well as how long it’ll take GoFundMe to take it down.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:34:41pm

re: #269 Reality Based Steve

Not based on his track record to date he doesn’t.

RBS

*rim shot*

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:35:01pm

I hate this evil bitch.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:35:18pm

re: #274 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m afraid he’s already all that he can be.

With his IQ he could retire as a 2LT.

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:35:54pm

re: #268 freetoken

By which I mean politics and political punditry.

He’s burned all those bridges. I have a feeling that anybody with even a lick of animal cunning on the right view him much like Corey and Trevor on Trailer Park Boys. Too stupid to trust with anything, but good for taking the fall.

RBS

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:36:02pm

re: #263 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR LIBRULS IS TEH ANTI-CHOICE!!!!!! CONMSERVATIFS IS TEH PRO CHOIS!!!!!!!!

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“School choice” goes as far as saying that people should be cut a check, which will be an arbitrary sum that most private schools will quickly raise their rates above to avoiding allowing most voucher-holders in, but charter schools (read: diploma mills) will be quick to snap up. The real school choice, improving the schools that need help rather than funneling most of the educational budget into richer neighborhoods, is never on the menu. Nor is cutting a big enough check that poorer families can afford to actually move to neighborhoods that surround those schools they want their child to attend.

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:37:03pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:37:18pm

re: #264 Dr. Matt

His public record and social media history has made him permanently unemployable. He hasn’t hit 30 years of age yet, and his life is basically over. He’ll always be a nobody and will never amount to anything. By every and all definitions, he’s a loser.

Now, now. The Older Boy says Safeway’s hiring. Maybe he can be a Courtesy Clerk. If The Older Boy can do the job, with his ASD, his Social Anxiety, and his Premature Curmudgeon Syndrome, perhaps Chuckie can do it, too.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:37:28pm

re: #272 Billy Batts

50 bucks donated to PP says a gofundme account is started for Daleiden before 7:00 CST.

And gofundme will close it rapidly, cause they don’t support criminals anymore.

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Jenner7  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:37:48pm
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Reality Based Steve  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:37:52pm

re: #280 Targetpractice

“School choice” goes as far as saying that people should be cut a check, which will be an arbitrary sum that most private schools will quickly raise their rates above to avoiding allowing most voucher-holders in, but charter schools (read: diploma mills) will be quick to snap up. The real school choice, improving the schools that need help rather than funneling most of the educational budget into richer neighborhoods, is never on the menu. Nor is cutting a big enough check that poorer families can afford to actually move to neighborhoods that surround those schools they want their child to attend.

Caddyshack- The World Need Ditch Diggers, Too

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:38:56pm

re: #277 Billy Batts

I hate this evil bitch.

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I SAWS THE VIDEO OF TEH BABBY BEING CUT UP1!1!1!!!

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:39:41pm

My wife is home. I’m so happy.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:39:59pm

re: #287 darthstar

My wife is home. I’m so happy.

Just don’t tell your girlfriend.

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:40:12pm

re: #285 Reality Based Steve

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“FORE!”
(golf ball hits dude in the nuts)
“I shoulda yelled two!!!”

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Jenner7  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:40:45pm

Trump really needs to lay off the tan spray…

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:43:55pm
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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:44:09pm

“Brussels… Paris… they’re like different cities now”

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:45:07pm

re: #291 Charles Johnson

Right. Harris county is totally controlled by Hispanic people.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:45:28pm

Okay, Maybe Ann Coulter isn’t 42% Hispanic, but I just said it on the Internet and based on the behavior of her followers, at least 28% of them will believe it…and that’s enough to start a shit storm.

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:45:36pm

re: #291 Charles Johnson

The whole County was on the and jury.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:45:45pm

re: #279 Reality Based Steve

He’s burned all those bridges. I have a feeling that anybody with even a lick of animal cunning on the right view him much like Corey and Trevor on Trailer Park Boys. Too stupid to trust with anything, but good for taking the fall.

RBS

“Chuckie, smokes. Let’s go.”

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BeachDem  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:46:08pm

re: #219 gocart mozart

Calling John Lewis a racist. Sigh.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:46:38pm

“Sharia Law” … in Germany

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:46:59pm

re: #291 Charles Johnson

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Screw the dog whistle, give me the air raid siren

RBS

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:47:03pm
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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:47:14pm

refugees as “Trojan horses”…

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Jenner7  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:47:26pm

“I’m watching law experts…”

Trump, Law and Order doesn’t count.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:47:38pm

Germany… crime… rape…

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:47:40pm

re: #291 Charles Johnson

A lot more than 31% of white folks live in Harris County.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:48:10pm

re: #291 Charles Johnson

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:48:32pm
As of the 2010 Census, the population of the county was 4,092,459, White Americans made up 56.6% of Harris County’s population; non-Hispanic whites represented 33.0% of the population. Black Americans made up 18.9% of the population. Native Americans made up 0.7% of Harris County’s population. Asian Americans made up 6.2% of the population (2.0% Vietnamese, 1.2% Indian, 1.1% Chinese, 0.6% Filipino, 0.3% Korean, 0.1% Japanese, 1.0% Other). Pacific Islander Americans made up just 0.1% of the population. Individuals from other races made up 14.3% of the population; people from two or more races made up 3.2% of the county’s population. Hispanics and Latinos (of any race) made up 40.8% of Harris County’s population. As of the 2010 census, there were about 6.2 same-sex couples per 1,000 households in the county.[8]
en.wikipedia.org
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ausador  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:48:34pm

#HereForHarney
Good short, no vocals just music (1:10)

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:49:22pm

Check out the people responding to Ann Coulter’s asinine tweet:

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BeachDem  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:49:22pm

re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Who did the Herald endorse? That will make more of an impact with wingnuts.

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retired cynic  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:50:05pm

re: #307 ausador

Just a funny: A comment on another blog (talking about the militia jerks in Oregon, but I can see plenty of other uses) referred to them as WalMartyrs.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:50:11pm

Coulter’s correlation causation of the night.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:50:16pm

re: #280 Targetpractice

“School choice” goes as far as saying that people should be cut a check, which will be an arbitrary sum that most private schools will quickly raise their rates above to avoiding allowing most voucher-holders in, but charter schools (read: diploma mills) will be quick to snap up. The real school choice, improving the schools that need help rather than funneling most of the educational budget into richer neighborhoods, is never on the menu. Nor is cutting a big enough check that poorer families can afford to actually move to neighborhoods that surround those schools they want their child to attend.

“School choice” just like “Right to Work” is a bogus slogan for giving sweet, sweet gubmit moneys to Jesus Bible School.

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Brian J.  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:50:29pm

re: #304 Billy Batts

A lot more than 31% of white folks live in Harris County.

Anderson was re-elected in 2014 by a 53-47% margin, compared to 52-48% in 2012. Harris County generally is pretty closely divided these days (Obama won the Pres race in 2012 by less than 1,000 votes, while Abbott nipped Davis 51-47).

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:51:03pm

… another lecture on eminent domain…

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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:51:04pm

re: #291 Charles Johnson

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:51:31pm

re: #291 Charles Johnson

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Hispanics are generally more anti-abortion than the population generally, so that doesn’t even make sense.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:51:52pm
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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:51:58pm

I lived in Harris County for 10 years. Despite having a lesbian mayor, it’s hardly a liberal mecca.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:51:59pm

re: #302 Jenner7

“I’m watching law experts…”

Trump, Law and Order doesn’t count.

He stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. That and his Twitter law degree means he knows yuge law skills.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:52:07pm

re: #316 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s all she’s got.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:52:43pm

re: #264 Dr. Matt

His public record and social media history has made him permanently unemployable. He hasn’t hit 30 years of age yet, and his life is basically over. He’ll always be a nobody and will never amount to anything. By every and all definitions, he’s a loser.

Sitcom idea: Milo, Chucksie, and little Benji Baratheon join the Navy… The Captain of their ship is played by Rosie O’Donnell.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:53:15pm

re: #308 Charles Johnson

Check out the people responding to Ann Coulter’s asinine tweet:

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They’re always mistaking her for one of the Prussian Blue kids.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:53:26pm

But somehow Houston Hispanics made the difference.

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:54:01pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:54:09pm

re: #309 BeachDem

Who did the Herald endorse? That will make more of an impact with wingnuts.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:54:48pm

To the racist white bitch: Hispanic is not a race. There are white Hispanics. You fail at math, you fail at life, and I really couldn’t care less if you died in a fire.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:55:03pm

re: #308 Charles Johnson

Check out the people responding to Ann Coulter’s asinine tweet:

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:55:51pm

re: #35 Aunty Entity Dragon

More fun with Dreher. He’s on a roll today blaming teh librul college students for everything.

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Trump will be easily beaten by Secretary Clinton so well done Liberal College Students!!

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:56:04pm

Sloppy.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:56:30pm

re: #324 Billy Batts

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:57:08pm

re: #321 Pawn of the Oppressor

Sitcom idea: Milo, Chucksie, and little Benji Baratheon join the Navy… The Captain of their ship is played by Rosie O’Donnell.

Working title: “Sodomy, Rum and the Lash”

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:57:18pm

Finally heard back from the doctor, my procedure is covered 100%

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Brian J.  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:57:22pm

re: #328 Patricia Kayden

Trump will be easily beaten by Secretary Clinton so well done Liberal College Students!!

Sadly, I suspect most of the Liberal College Students are Sandbaggers at the moment.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:57:33pm

re: #329 jaunte

They probably think he’s from Perth.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:57:49pm

“MacArthur”… “Patton”…

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Billy Batts  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:58:19pm

re: #332 Kragar

Finally heard back from the doctor, my procedure is covered 100%

Single-payer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:59:07pm

serious government snarkage:

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:00:03pm
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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:00:06pm

Reminder (a tweet from December 2015):

Anyone who paid any attention to these videos knew, or should have known, that the only criminality caught on those videos was in the actions of Daleiden and his coconspirators.

Today? We see proof that the justice system in Texas of all places understands the issues as well.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:00:23pm

re: #316 Blind Frog Belly White

Hispanics are generally more anti-abortion than the population generally, so that doesn’t even make sense.

You’re right about that. It’s interesting how Republicans ignore facts to push their viewpoints.

latinpost.com

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:00:23pm
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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:00:59pm

Well, that’s another hour of my life I won’t get back again.

Nothing new. Unlike the Iowa speeches, nothing to really make a headline.

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JP Chgo  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:01:07pm

re: #48 ausador

More Justice karma…

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… that happened in 2008: nydailynews.com

I guess if justice happened only once, people feel the need to relive it from time to time. //

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:01:37pm

“In other news, crime is crime.”

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:01:51pm

re: #326 thedopefishlives

I’d tell her to go find a fence post that cared, but that would offend fence posts.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:02:29pm

My friend’s kid won an orange dragon at a carnival…she named it “Burny Cinders”

I have awesome friends.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:02:36pm

re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth

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gocart mozart  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:03:01pm

re: #305 Dr. Matt

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:03:11pm

i hear trump has One Weird Trick to make our country great again

all you have to do is click on the link

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:03:39pm
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Skip Intro  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:03:51pm

re: #329 jaunte

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Sloppy.

Can CNN be any more like Fox? Do they need more blondes?

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thedopefishlives  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:03:52pm

re: #345 Eric The Fruit Bat

I’d tell her to go find a fence post that cared, but that would offend fence posts.

Who, as a collective, are smarter than Ann Coulter.

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BeachDem  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:05:27pm

Yay—finally somebody turning over the rock that John “the serious sane one” Kasich hides under.

Charles P. Pierce (with some love for plunderbund.com, which has been covering the horro of Kasich forever)

Plunderbund, a progressive blog covering Ohio politics, has been all over a story about how Ohio’s former school choice director, whose wife now manages Kasich’s presidential campaign, fudged the data he reported to the U.S. Department of Education in order to make Ohio’s charter system appear to be in compliance with the governor’s stated goals. While the story was restricted to the scurvy blog community, it could be safely ignored. But now the mainstream Ohio press is digging into it as well.

esquire.com

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:07:45pm

re: #352 thedopefishlives

Who, as a collective, are smarter than Ann Coulter.

I think any single one of them could give her a run for the money.

RBS

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:07:50pm

I just read her bio. It’s more interesting than I expected.

It’s depressing how she’s had so many opportunities, and still basically ended up as a horrible trolling beast in human form. I guess she loves the money and attention that comes from being shitty to people professionally.

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:08:39pm

re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:08:54pm

i tweeted coulter

@AnnCoulter it seems to me that you have some opinion about “hispanics”. perhaps you’d like to tell us what it is

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:11:07pm
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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:11:33pm

Ken Cuccinelli still going on about “selling baby parts” on Chris Hayes’ show.

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Skip Intro  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:11:39pm

Here’s a link to some of Ann Coulter’s greatest hits regarding Hispanics.

huffingtonpost.com

Coulter, of course, just loves her some Trump.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:11:41pm

I could never have made that up if I tried for a hundred years.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:12:25pm
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Reality Based Steve  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:12:38pm

re: #358 freetoken

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LOL_WUT?????

RBS

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Timothy Watson  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:13:38pm

re: #363 Reality Based Steve

LOL_WUT?????

RBS

It’s satire, done by one of the guys at @popehat.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:14:00pm

re: #359 jaunte

Ken Cuccinelli still going on about “selling baby parts” on Chris Hayes’ show.

Chris could hardly keep it in when the Cuch started spinning.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:14:17pm

Somebody is hurting real bad in their diaper area==>
Here is a tube of desitin for you.

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:14:26pm
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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:14:47pm

re: #358 freetoken

That account is either fake, or the lamest propaganda outlet ever.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:15:02pm

This looks real, blue check and all, showing on Memeorandum

Facebook Post

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:15:45pm

In which NRO’s Kevin Williamson asserts that Trump supporters are illiterate idiots:

Translating ‘Make America Great Again’ into English

This is the full flower of post-literate politics.

This wingnut-on-wingnut action is coming hot and heavy now.

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ObserverArt  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:16:10pm

Damn, the threads are fast today. No way to read and catch up.

Just wanted to say with this Texas judgement against Daleiden it is nice to see that the law was followed. Followed as far as I can tell. Maybe they could have had more to hold against Center for Medical Process…to help paint that organization in a criminal manner.

I always have a hope that no matter what party someone is from they will follow the law. When someone takes office, the law is already there. No need for anything but following it and previous case precedent.

For a good portion of my like that has pretty much been the case. Since the slanting to the right with the Supreme Court my faith in the law being followed has been seriously challenged. The biggest challenge seems to come from the fundamental religious groups. My take…that is against the law. Read the damn Constitution.

So, it was good to see that a Republican prosecutor is following the law and not his party politics.

Let’s hope it stays that way. But it is Texas.

And slow down. I can’t read this fast…

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:17:13pm

re: #370 freetoken

In which NRO’s Kevin Williamson asserts that Trump supporters are illiterate idiots:

Translating ‘Make America Great Again’ into English

This wingnut-on-wingnut action is coming hot and heavy now.

I guess Trump doesn’t threaten to murder women who choose to get abortions enough for Kevo’s liking.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:17:18pm

re: #369 Decatur Deb

Their minds… So tiny, so cramped. It must be hell in there.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:17:40pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:17:42pm

re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Just like Hitler! // Oh wait.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:18:02pm
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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:18:13pm
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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:18:34pm

re: #372 HappyWarrior

No, but he thinks Trump supporters are really, really stupid:

Donald Trump is the face of that insalubrious relationship, a lifelong crony capitalist who brags about buying political favors. But his enthusiasts, devoid as they are of a literate politics capable of thinking about all three sides of a triangle at the same time, take a kind of homeopathic view of Trump, believing that they can dispatch a crony capitalist to undo crony capitalism in the same way that New Age healers believe that a little bit of diluted poison chases away similar toxins. […]

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:19:24pm

re: #359 jaunte

Ken Cuccinelli still going on about “selling baby parts” on Chris Hayes’ show.

You know, I am still not a huge Terry Mac fan but every day that passes, I thank the Virginia electorate for not giving that raging bigoted lunatic the governor’s mansion and not only that but denying his shitstain of a party the Lt Governor and AG’s office as well.

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Brian J.  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:19:56pm

re: #378 freetoken

No, but he thinks Trump supporters are really, really stupid:

Which is not inaccurate, just imprecise.

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:20:42pm

re: #369 Decatur Deb

This looks real, blue check and all, showing on Memeorandum

Rick Santorum
6 hrs *
I need to get this off my chest.
I can’t stand the media.

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Dear Rick.

You are currently polling at 1% in Iowa. With the MOE factored in, you could actually have negative support. That’s why we aren’t paying any attention to you.

The Media.
p.s. Your sweater vests were a stupid idea too.

RBS

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:20:42pm

re: #378 freetoken

No, but he thinks Trump supporters are really, really stupid:

Doesn’t surprise me. NRO always have been snobs looking down on the rank and file of the conservative movement. Not surprised that Williamson is no exception.I mean Make America Great Again is a stupid slogan but it’s not any dumber than anything Williamson and the racist assholes at NRO have pimped out.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:20:44pm

Speaking of horrible garbage human beings, is this the same Matt Walsh who makes fun of poor people why yes it is!

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:21:19pm

LOLWUT

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:21:35pm

re: #381 Reality Based Steve

Dear Rick.

You are currently polling at 1% in Iowa. With the MOE factored in, you could actually have negative support. That’s why we aren’t paying any attention to you.

The Media.
p.s. Your sweater vests were a stupid idea too.

RBS

Dear Rick,
How does it feel to finishing second behind a hack like Romney to doing worse than Mike Gravel?

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:24:00pm

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:24:01pm

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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“Rubbers” Bush and Grandpa Bush, formerly of the board chairs of PP had no comment. PP does support the Democratic Party but maybe that’s because the Democratic Party doesn’t treat people who use birth control like murderers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:24:50pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:25:05pm
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b.d.  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:25:33pm

The Liberal Mecca of Harris County.

You don’t hear that every day.

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ObserverArt  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:25:39pm

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

Jonathon @MericanDude

Planned Parenthood is obviously part of the democrat establishment and fine with murder whether it’s in the womb or #Benghazi. #tcot
8:20 PM - 25 Jan 2016

But only after we don’t pay taxes because we have the IRS in our pockets. And only after we help hide all of Hillary’s secure emails, and sold all the Solyndra solar film!

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:26:00pm

I think NRO fears Trump because he doesn’t kiss their ass. That’s the real reason why they fear him. IT’s not that he’s a bigot. NRO has shown that they’re not afraid to hire bigots but they have from the time of WFB loved having their ass kissed and beign told what a bunch of intellectual conservatives they are. Fact is NR was a cesspool when WFB was still alive and it still is under Jonah Goldberg and Rich Lowry.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:26:35pm

re: #389 Charles Johnson

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Someone sounds really bitter.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:27:06pm

re: #390 b.d.

The Liberal Mecca of Harris County.

You don’t hear that every day.

Houston total liberal fiefdom. //

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Timothy Watson  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:27:30pm

re: #389 Charles Johnson

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Coming from the people who have no problem with a DA manipulating a grand jury to get a cop off for shooting an unarmed person.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:27:58pm

I am savoring this news. Has there ever been a more spectacular example of being “hoisted by ones own petard”? I certainly can’t think of one.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:28:09pm

re: #395 Timothy Watson

Coming from the people who have no problem with a DA manipulating a grand jury to get a cop off for shooting an unarmed person.

No kidding. Fuckers have some nerve crying about grand juries.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:29:19pm
“…Houston shows us the bipolarization of Texan metro areas; it’s the largest city in the state and the fourth-largest in the U.S. It’s in Harris County, which is the only county in Texas that had more than 1 million voters in the 2012 presidential election. Still, despite that massive electorate, the county as a whole lacks a clear political lean. In 2012, Obama won 49.39 percent of the vote, and Romney won 49.31 percent.

But that narrow margin is deceptive. Sure, Harris remains evenly split, but a closer look at Houston itself demonstrates that its political leanings — at least on a neighborhood level — tend to be bipolar; its suburbs lean right while the urban core leans left. This is not unusual by any means, but it’s an effect that’s not only constant statewide, it’s also Texas’s most important electoral phenomenon going forward. As the state becomes increasingly city-oriented, its elections will increasingly come down to urban and suburban voters. And if Houston serves as a guide, these two groups currently have different tastes in politicians.”
fivethirtyeight.com

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EPR-radar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:30:09pm

re: #370 freetoken

In which NRO’s Kevin Williamson asserts that Trump supporters are illiterate idiots:

Translating ‘Make America Great Again’ into English

This wingnut-on-wingnut action is coming hot and heavy now.

Williamson is pussy-footing around the main issue here. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” translates into English just fine:

Make America White Again.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:30:42pm

Of course the GOP will continue to lie and demonize PP. Jim Jordan and the rest of the clowns on the committe that harassed Ms. Richards, tehre’s a special place for fuckers like them who tried to ruin the reputation of a woman who works for an organization that does so much for women’s health especially poor women but I guess that’s the problem. Can’t be helping people if you’re a Republican. Unless they’re rich white heterosexual Christians.

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Tigger2  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:31:01pm

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:31:18pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:31:24pm

re: #399 EPR-radar

Williamson is pussy-footing around the main issue here. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” translates into English just fine:

Make America White Again.

It’s something that a lot of Williamson’s former and perhaps current coworkers agree on but they’re better than Trump supporters see because they’re rich.

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b.d.  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:33:22pm

Texas Values.

//

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:34:51pm

re: #388 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I do always love how, caught making shit up, wingnuts immediately cry that they’re members of the press and so are protected from prosecution for their lies.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:34:52pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:34:56pm

DANA GUNZ HAS SPOKEN!!!!

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EPR-radar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:34:57pm

re: #403 HappyWarrior

It’s something that a lot of Williamson’s former and perhaps current coworkers agree on but they’re better than Trump supporters see because they’re rich.

The NR crypto-fascists have only two problems with Trump.

1) He’s not a member of, or controlled by, the Republican establishment.

2) Trump is too open about the racism etc. and it’s going to be ever so difficult to get the GOP base to accept Establishment pink slime after having dined on fine red meat provided by Trump.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:35:54pm
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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:36:25pm

re: #389 Charles Johnson

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:36:51pm

re: #402 Kragar

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The people who have spent months telling us that grand juries are the final word on the validity of a criminal case and that a DA showing obvious bias does not invalidate a jury’s failure to indict…are going to yell and scream about how the grand jury system is rigged and DAs steer them wherever they want them to go.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:37:08pm

Figuring out the motivation for a Republican DA to steer the grand jury in this direction is going to take some time to gin up.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:37:18pm

re: #364 Timothy Watson

Problem is, North Korea is so damn insane, it is firmly in Poe Territory.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:37:28pm

re: #404 b.d.

Texas Values.

//

Enter Sarah Palin to explain that Houston isn’t *real* Texas. I hear it’s full of commie/muslim/yankee furriners.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:37:45pm

Now let’s get an arrest warrant for CCJ.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:37:49pm

re: #332 Kragar

Aog7UHqWN8DdZdlTLoP2Jt+xprTCpV8f

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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:38:05pm

re: #409 The Vicious Babushka

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ObserverArt  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:38:05pm

re: #389 Charles Johnson

David E Y Sarna @DSarna

@AnnCoulter @fawfulfan @Green_Footballs We all know that grand jury system is a kangaroo court. Jurors do DA’s bidding most of the time

Charles, let David know “we” know all too well about those Grand Juries doing the DAs bidding. You might remind him of cases like Ferguson and Cleveland police shootings.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:38:17pm

re: #409 The Vicious Babushka

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:38:26pm

re: #409 The Vicious Babushka

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:39:21pm

re: #416 Not a Sparkly Vampire

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Family history of some stuff I need to get check out.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:39:34pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:40:09pm

re: #409 The Vicious Babushka

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It’s amazing how many wingnuts are “journalists” these days, isn’t it?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:40:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:40:42pm

welp…

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:41:30pm

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, sound about right for Philly, home of attacking Santa.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:41:39pm

re: #421 Kragar

Family history of some stuff I need to get check out.

Best of luck.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:41:44pm

re: #409 The Vicious Babushka

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This kind of statement in the introductory paragraph basically means that the student is starting with a B until I read the rest of the paper.

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:42:12pm

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp…

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Well, they did give fair warning…

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:42:29pm

re: #422 darthstar

Reminder:

It’s a stone’s throw from O’Keefe to Daleiden, courtesy of Lila Rose. And Chucky Johnson.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:42:36pm

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp…

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Having helped my neighbor dig out his car, I can totally understand the sentiment.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:42:59pm

re: #409 The Vicious Babushka

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And then there’s dumbshits like you, who are truly accused and incarcerated for revealing something inconsequential.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:43:58pm

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, people take their spots very seriously in some parts of snow country. It’s illegal to reserve spots but doesn’t stop them from trying.

There’s some courtesy involved.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:44:28pm

re: #432 thedopefishlives

And then there’s dumbshits like you, who are truly accused and incarcerated for revealing something inconsequential making shit up and then claim to be “revealing truth”.

FTFY

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:45:02pm
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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:45:05pm

I guess they’re going to stop using refined petroleum products, right now.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:45:33pm

re: #436 jaunte

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I guess they’re going to stop using refined petroleum products, right now.

Hahaha, no.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:45:42pm

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yes. That happens in Philly. My neighbor used a couple of chairs to mark “his” spot. Thank heaven I do not drive.

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Kragar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:45:57pm

re: #435 Backwoods_Sleuth

Burn the mother fucker down.

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gocart mozart  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:46:06pm

Good job Obama, long overdue.

washingtonpost.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:46:17pm

Oh the pain. Send this crybaby a case of desitin.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:46:37pm

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp…

[Embedded content]

City of brotherly love.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:46:40pm

re: #433 lawhawk

Yeah, people take their spots very seriously in some parts of snow country. It’s illegal to reserve spots but doesn’t stop them from trying.

There’s some courtesy involved.

I suppose, when you don’t have a driveway to park in, it’s a horse of a different color.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:48:54pm

re: #321 Pawn of the Oppressor

Sitcom idea: Milo, Chucksie, and little Benji Baratheon join the Navy… The Captain of their ship is played by Rosie O’Donnell.

I can see it now—Mc DORK’s Navy…

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:48:56pm

re: #436 jaunte

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I guess they’re going to stop using refined petroleum products, right now.

Man Ted Cruz’s fucked if the Texas boycott goes through.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:49:06pm

re: #443 thedopefishlives

My neighbor has a driveway. He wants to park in the street. I would keep mine in the driveway.

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gocart mozart  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:49:14pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:49:14pm

re: #374 Charles Johnson

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I’m celebrating!! And laughing. And doing random fist pumps into the air. Walsh can kiss my behind with his idiot self. You know his side would be whooping it up if PP was indicted instead. His sourness is duly noted.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:49:52pm

Good God, have they got #jesuisdavid started now??

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:50:09pm

Is there a forum for the Democratic candidates on CNN tonight?

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:50:20pm

re: #409 The Vicious Babushka

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Oh fuck off Jimmy, you’re lucky not to be in jail for the pathetic shit you do. You’re not an activist. You’re a douchebag who ruins people’s livelihoods for rich right wing assholes who are upset that poor people and minorities aren’t being treated like shit.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:50:55pm

re: #436 jaunte

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I guess they’re going to stop using refined petroleum products, right now.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:52:26pm

Apparently so.

I wouldn’t even have known if a CNN RSS feed didn’t just catch my eye.

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Brian J.  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:52:27pm

re: #450 freetoken

Is there a forum for the Democratic candidates on CNN tonight?

Yep, starts in about eight minutes. You can watch the pregame if you need a nap.

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Tigger2  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:52:46pm
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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:53:21pm

re: #454 Brian J.

Something is definitely wrong with the DNC if they don’t have plenty of headlines pointing people to this.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:53:41pm

I was looking for Trump news and stumbled across this forum.

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PeterWolf  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:53:56pm

Watching the comments scrolling by on the Fox article on this, is like watching a live stream of rabid, insane, hatred.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:54:31pm

re: #347 lawhawk

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So a man who shut down a bridge to screw a political opponent is a man we would want leading the most powerful nation on earth? Really? Sigh.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:54:35pm

re: #455 Tigger2

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I’m not surprised. I think there’s a lot of loud Sanders supporters who are throwing the tantrum but the majority I think are mature enough to realize what’s at stake.

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Tigger2  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:55:35pm

re: #460 HappyWarrior

I’m not surprised. I think there’s a lot of loud Sanders supporters who are throwing the tantrum but the majority I think are mature enough to realize what’s at stake.

yep

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gocart mozart  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:59:01pm

The airing of grievances continues.

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:59:18pm

This is sounding like an old-school Batman super villain is at large
Previously $90K worth of Parmesan cheese was pilfered in Marshfield, WI.
On Friday a trailer with $70K of cheese products went missing in Germantown, WI. The empty trailer was recovered.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:01:35pm

re: #463 FormerDirtDart

This is sounding like an old-school Batman super villain is at large
Previously $90K worth of Parmesan cheese was pilfered in Marshfield, WI.
On Friday a trailer with $70K of cheese products went missing in Germantown, WI. The empty trailer was recovered.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:05:25pm

re: #462 gocart mozart

The airing of grievances continues.

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Fortitudine  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:27:05pm

re: #7 Whack-A-Mole

This news has vastly improved an otherwise miserable day for me. Quite pleased to see these fools indicted.

Well, it wasn’t a miserable day, but I was pretty chirpy when I saw this. I’m almost afraid it’s too good to be true.


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